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THE POWER OF MAGNETISM.

Eugene Guizot gives us an incident in
Partisan life which he regards as romantic,
and which is at least amusing.
The scene is laid in the pavilion attached
to country house in the neighborhood of
the great city, the time few minutes be-
fore IL P. NJ. Mons. Armand awaits with
patience Madame x, with whom he has
arranged an interview at that hour, quite
inaocently; but quite secret.
Close to the appointed time Mons Armand
hears footsteps. Is it the lady? The door
opens He stands stupifed in the presence
.of her husband. Mons. X. has returned
from Paris, and, deeming it too late to a.
'wiiken the sleepers of the house, comes to
share the room of his friend in the pavilion.
The conversation between the lover and
the husband is amusing, and as the hour
approaches, the perplexity of the former in
creases. His agitation leads him to the
most inconsistent remarks and the most in
explicable questions.
'.N hat is the matter with you ?" asks the
husband.
Nothing at ALL"
II dlscompose you; how strangely you
look, Have [ interrupted something seri-
Gus p
The lover stands, his hand pressed upon
a little table, weak and nervous with agita-
ton.
''Ahn' exclaims the husband; II see
you were about to try an experiment in ta-
bic turning p
The suggestion saved the lover. Grad
ually recovering, he admits the fact. The
whole public was then in a rage of table
turning, and the most marvellous effects
were attributed to the mysterious process.
Eyes" exclaims Mons Armand ;" I ad-
NIT it. You smile at me- You doubt -
Shall explain to you, by an exhibition of
true science, one of those miracles of mag
netism of which I speak? Will you deny
the evidence of facts"
''No; [ ask only actual proof"
s'1ou shall have it. My will can ira
verse space and overcome distance. Name
some one at the chateau, and will summon
HIM here in a moment. Shall it be your
aunt p
ooh, no! She is too old, and the expe-
riment would ruin u.s." ..
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agrlrultural.
CULTURE OF THE RASPBERRY.

The following article written by Daniel
Hughes, of Haverstraw, n. Y. contains the
best and latest information on the culture
and kinds of this excellent and valuable
fruit, that we have lately met with, and we
commend it to the attention of our readers
From given amount of money, the
Raspberry will, [ think, return larger a.
mount of enjoyment and profit than any 9th
cr fruit-the grape even not excepted. The
raspberry season is looked forward to with
the same earnest longing; both are delight
full portions of the circle of the year; the
refreshment which characterizes the grape
is possessed in even higher degree by some
of the fine varieties of the raspberry, such as
Knevett's Giant, Rivers Monthly, and pre-
eminently by Brinckle's Orange, which is
undoubtedly the finest in cultivation.
Raspberries may be grown in almost eve
ry variety of fertile soil with nearly equal
productiveness, but with greatly varied lux
uriance, two constant requisites being al
ways maintained- depth and richness the
soil. The ground should be worked at least
to the depth of eighteen inches, unless it is
very retentive of moisture, or the subsoll
very Obstinate in which cases water will ac-
cumulate at the roots, and cannot be dis
posed of at much less depth SO that the fl
bres may avoid the danger of being winter
killed, or death from being laden with wa
ter in summer I have grown them with
great success on reclaimed old swamp, and
on very open sandy loam, as well as on al
most every intermediate of soil Those on
reclaimed swamp grew, for the most part
rampantly as regards the plants, but did not
produce the best berries, nor the best plants,
from which to form a new field; the best
fruit was uniformly from light upland.
In manuring for the raspberry, a deep al
luvial soil rich in vegetable mould, will re-
quire light dressing of well-rotted stable
manure, with top dressing CLASHES imme
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some writer's of the present day, that I am
really sorry for them. [ mean, for the
words It is a favcrite fancy of mine, that
perhaps in the next world the use of words
may be dispensed with, that cur thoughts
may stream into each others minds without
any verbal communication.
DR.. Parr had a great deal of sensibility.
When read to him, in Lncoln's Inn Fields,
the account of O'Coigly's death, the tears
rolled down his checks.
One day, Macintosh having vexed him
by calling O'Coigly "a rascal Parr imme-
diately rejoined. Eyes, Jamie, he was a bad
man, but he night have been worse he
was an Irishman, but he might have been
a Scotchman; he was a priest, but he might
have been a lawyer: he was republican,
but he might have been an apostate."
To all letters soliciting his transcription
to any thing, Erskine had regular form of
reply, viz. g Sir, feel much honored by
your application to me, and beg to sub
scribe''-here the reader had to turn over
the -s'myself your very obt servant, .
&C.
Dunning (afterward Lord Ashburton) was
''stating the law to a jury at Guildhall,
when Mansfield interrupted him by saying,
eff that be law, TIL 90 home and burn my
books. . My Lord. replied Dunning, "You
had better 90 home and read them"
John Hunter believed that when there
was only one daughter and several sons in
family, the daughter was always of mas
culinc disposition and that when a family
consisted OF several daughters and only one
son, the son was always ciIeminate. Payne
Knight used to say that Homer seems to
have entertained the same idea; for in the
Had we find that Dolon, who proves to be
such a coward, was an only son, and had
several sisters.
There was one Do!on in the camp Of Troy
Son of Eumedes, herald Of the gods,
Who with five daughters had no son beside -
Cowper's Had, b. x.l
Romney, the painter, used to say that the
Grecian architecture was the invention Of
glorious men, but the Gothic that of gods.
Sheridan did not display his admirable
powers in company till he had been warmed
by wine. During the earlier part of dinner
he was generally heavy and silent: and [
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-04-03

TIE FIRST MARR1AGE-Adom's We'd
ding.-An English journal the Britannia,
has an amusing article under the head of
Adams Wedding" The editor says that
he likes short courtships, and in this Adam
acted like a sensible mamie fell asleep a
bachelor, and awobe to find himself a mar
ried man. He appears to have popped the
question" Immediately after meeting Ma'am-
selle Eve; and she, without Irritation or
shyness gave him kiss and herself. OF
that first kiss in the world we have had,
however, our own thoughts, and sometimes
in poetical mood have wished we were the
man that did it. But the deed is or was
done the chance was Adams and he I'M
proved it. We like the notion of getting
married in a garden it is in good taste
We like private wedding, and Adams was
strictly private. No envious beaux were
there, no croaking old maids, no chatterng
aunts and grumbling grandmothers; The
birds of heaven were minstrels and the glad
sky shed its light upon the scene.
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Mons. Armand with an air of intense
leans on the table and inwardly
cxerts his magnetic will.
In few moments Madame X enters and
perccives her husband, stands mute, pale,
with dilated eyes and out stretched arms,
and an air of stupor wholly unaffected"
"Prodigious p exclaims the husband.
"Hush, silence" says the magnetiser.-
:'Do not awake her. Do you at last admit
the power of magnetism? Do you acknowl-
edge the mystery Of somnambulism and the
magnetic currents p
Il am indeed convinced" murmured the
astonished husband.
Fearful of awakening the somnambulist,
the magnetism forbids the husband to speak
or to approach, and with a few words and
gestures willed her departure, and the sleep
inc medium walks off,
All learned lesson by the experiment,
and the husband was thereafter firm be-
| lever in animal magnetism.
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[ never could ike 1t. | delight IN Cow
per's Homer; I have read it again and
again.*
sThomas Campbell once told me how
greatly he admired Cowper's Homer; he.
said that he used to read it to his wife, who
was moved even to tears by some passages
Of It'd.
Sir George Beaumont once met Quin at
very small dinner party. There was a de-
licious pudding, which the master Of the
house, pushing the dish toward Quin, beg
ged him to taste. A gentleman had just
before helped himself to an immense piece
of it. "Pray,o said Quin, looking first at
the gentleman's plate and then at the dish,
(Which IS the pudding!".
Sir George Beaumont, when young man,
was one day in the Mount Ga famous coffee
house in Mount street, Grosvenor S1uare)
with Harvey Aston Various persons were
seated at different tables. Among others
present, there was an Irishman who was
very celebrated as a duellist, having killed
at least half-a-dozen antagonists. Aston,
talking to some of his acquaintance, swore
that he would make the duellist stand bare
footed before them. ':You had better take
care what you say" they replied; che has
his eye upon you "No natter rejoined
Aston Il declare again that he shall stant
barefooted before you, if you will make VI
among you purse of fifty guineas.'' They
did so. Aston then said in a loud voice
Il have been in ireland, and am well ac
quainted with the natives The Irishmar
was all ear. Aston went on, ''The Irish
being born in bogs, are every one Of then
web-footed; [ know it for fact ''Sir,
roared the duellist, starting up from his ta
BILE, cit is false" Aston persisted in hi
assertion. 'sSir," cried the other, II wa
born in Ireland and l will prove to yo'
that it is falsehood'' So saying, in grea
haste he pulled off his shoes and stockings
and displayed his bare feet. The joke end
ed in Aston's sharing the purse between tn
Irishman and himself, giving the formc
thirty guineas, and keeping twenty. ST
George assured me that this was tru
story.
Gray somewhere says that monosyllable
should be avoided in poetry, but there ar
many lines consisting only Of monosyllable
which could not possibly be improved. Fc
instance, in Shakspeare's Romeo and Julie
'sThou canst not speak of what thou dost not feel
And in Pope's Eloisa to Abelard,-
"Pant on thy lip, and to thy heart be prest
Give all thou canst, and let me dream the rest.
During my youth umbrellas were far frol
common. AT that time every gentleman
family had one unbrel?a,-a hugh thing
made of coarse cotton, (which used to /
taken out with the carriage, and which,
there was rain, the footman held over tt
ladies' heads, as they entered, or alighte
from, the carriage.
Words are so twisted and tortured
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l0 L '.SsN
TIE UNITED STATES. Few readers can
be aware, until they have occasion to test
the fact, how much labor Of research is Of
ten saved by such table as the following
the work of one who now is in his grave
If 'shistory is poetry as enc who is true
poet himself forcibly remarks, then here is
poetry personifed.-Ho1Tcr.
1907 Virginia first settled by the English.
1911 New York first settled by the Dutch.
1920 Massachusetts, settled by the Puritans.
1923 New Hampshire settled by Puritans.
1924 New Jersey settled by the Dutch.
1927 Delaware settled by Swedes and Fins.
1875 Maryland settled by Irish Catholics.
1875 Connecticut settled by Puritans.
1886 Rhode Island settled by Roger VIII
liams.
1850 North Carolina settled by the English.
1910 South Carolina settled by the Hugue-
| nOts.
1852 Pennsylvania settled by VIM. Penn
1873 Georgia settled by Gen. Oglethrope
1871 Vermont admitted into the Union.
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''Oh, ever thus from childhood 8 hour
When hain't got an un,berei." f'

"Gibbon wrote the Rise and Fall Of the
Roman Empire:" pronounce Rise the noun
so as to rhyme with price,: Rise, the verb,
rhymes with prize.
'sThe combination of letters ough is pro-
nounced in eight different ways, as follows:
1. Though, in which it is pronounced O.; 2.
Through, pronounced 90; 3. Plough, or; 4.
Sought, are; 5. Cough, of: 6. Rough, H;;7.
Borough, ugh; 8. Lough, OH. The follow
ing sentence, which is of doubtful author
ship, affords an example of each Of these
eight modes of pronunciation: II put CD
dough CO. enough in the (5) trough near the
60 slough, by the (S) Tough, to last the
ducks that I (4) bought at the CD borough
(2) through the day."
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31nttrU*
From the Home Journal.

From the Home Journal
MY LADY WATTS FOR ME.
Suggested By Popular German Melody.
BY GEORGE P. MORRIS.
My lady waits !-Tis now the hour
When morn unbars her gate -
My vessel glides beneath the tower
Where now my lady waits.
Her signal f1utters from the wall,
Above the friendly sea
! live but to obey her call!
My lady waits for me.
NV lady waits-for me she waits,
While morning opens her golden gates.
My lady waits no fairer flower
Fer deck d the floral grove.
Than she, the pride Of hall and bower,
The lady Of my love!
The eastern hills are feck d with light,
And land breeze curls the seal
By love and truth sustained, for flight,
My lady waits for me.
My lady waits-for NE she waits,
While morning opens her golden gates.
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man who wrote so much nonsense

temperate man who wrote so much nonsense
as Swift did"
Fox used to read Homer through once
every year. On my asking him, (which
poem had you rather have written, the Iliad
or the Odyssey?' he answered, Il know
which [ had rather read" (meaning the
Odyssey.)
The letters I receive from the people, OF
both sexes-(peoplc whom [ never heard
off, asking me for money, either as a gift
OF as a loan, are really innumerable. Here's
one from student at Durham, requesting
me to led him 900, chow modest to stop
short of the hundred y [ lately had a beg
ging epistle from q lady who assured me
that she used formerl y to take evening walks
with me in the Park Of course, | did not
answer it; and day or two after, had a
second letter from her, beginning t'Unkind
onen'
Sir Robert Peel, in one of his communi-
cative moods told me that, when he was a
boy, his father used to say to him. 'sBob,
you dog, if you are not prime minister some
day, I'll disinherit you" [ mentioned this
Ito Sir Roberts sister, Mrs. Dawson, who
assured me that she had often heard her ia
Ither use these very words
1t is curious how fashion changes pro-
.nunciation. In my youth everybody said
'Lonnon," not London Fox said Lonnon
to the last and SO did Grove The fash
ionable pronunciation Of several words is to
me at least very offensive: contemplate
is bad enough but ''balcony" makes me
sick.
Madame de Stael one day said to me,
How sorry | am for Campbell his pov-
Ierty so unsettles his mind, that he cannot
write" I replied, 'sWhy does he not t4ke
the situation of clerk he could then com
pose verses during his leisure hours. y
This answer was reckoned very cruel both
by Madame de Stael and Macintosh but
there was really kindness as well as truth
lin it. When literature is the sole bu-
siness of life it becomes a drudgery; when
we are able to resort to it only at certain
hours, it is charming relaxation. In my
earlier years [ was bankers clerk, oblig-
ed to be at the desk every day from ten till
five o'clock, and | never shall forget the de-
light with which, on returning home, / used
to read and write dIIrinp the evnnino
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Mlsrellauf0us.

TABLE TALK OF SAMUEL ROGERS.
The following interesting extracts are
from the forthcoming edition of Mr.. Dyce's
''Table talk Of Samuel Rogers:
People are now so fond of tie obscure in
poetry, that they can perceive no deep think
ing in that darling man Pope, because he
always expresses himself with such admir-
able clearness.
My father used torecommend Pope's Ho-
10. I.,4 Ill
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was foundering in the midst of the turbid
waters of the Mississippi.
Every passenger on the boat had by this
time collected on the guards, and the crest
fallen hero as he was sneaking off towards
the boat, was thus accosted by his conquer
or.
1 say, you, next time you come around
here drilling of keyholes. don't forget your
old acquaintances n'
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FIVE HUNDRED MISTAKES CORRECTED

FIVE HUNDRED MISTAKES CORRECTED.
Give hundred mistakes corrected" is the
title of a little volume published by Daniel
Burgess Of n. Y, and which undertakes to
point out many of the inaccuracies, which
are daily perpetrated in writing and speak
ing. We make few selections
eco and fetch me my riding -whip;' say,
bring Fetch means to go and bring 90
and fetch is repetition.
"7o leore and to gut are often used as
synonymous terms, though improperly; to
leare implies design of returning soon-to
qutt, an absence Of a long time, or forever
as, In Shakespeare -
s'-the very rats
lnstinctively had quit it.''-Tempest, i.e.
II shall zeore my house for month be-
fore next Autumn; but I shall not be
obliged to gut it until after Christmas =
''lsaac Newton i,erentcd the law of gray
itation;' say, discorered. s'Galileo dis
corered the telescope;'' say, inrented.
''To hear and to listen have each distinct
degrees of meaning. TO hear implies no
effort or particular attention To listen i'm
plies some eagerness to hear. An old pro-
verb says, ''They that listen seldom heo,
any good Of themselves"
"Oug1t and should both express obliga-
ton, but the latter is not so binding as the
former. "Children ought to love their pa
rents, and should be neat in their appear
ance."
"A1one and only are often misapplied. -
che only could do it, means that no other
but himself could do it; ':he alone could do
it, should mean that he, without the assis-
tance of others, could do it.
Lend me your umbreH" say, umbpNa.
The former pronunciation, however, is allow
ed by poetic license, as in the following, a.
dapted from Thomas Moore:
''Oh, ever thus from childbood's hour,
When | hahn 4 got an atDlberefL'' -
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Franconia is vigorous grower and rath-
er more hardy than either Of the above,
with large, dark colored fruit, bearing car
riage nearly as we'll as the Antwerp; it is
late bearer, of high favor, and especially
excellent for cooking.
Knevett's Giant is truly gigantic, excel
lent for the desert, and for preserving
Rivers new large fruited Monthly had been
disappointment till determined to thin
out offsets and let no more grow than were
required for fruiting, and that had the de-
sired effect and it has proved the mostpro
ductive that l have cultivated, more than
twofold of the II. r. Antwerp.
The Yellow Antwerp is very good va
riety, but it's berries are so much softer than
Hudson River, that it is not grown for mar
ket. As Elliot remarks in his Fruit Groac-
crs Guide, cit will soon give place to
Brenckle's Orange and Col. Wilder, which
are far better varieties"
Mays Antwerp is an excellent productive
variety, but less hardy than the above, and
of much less vigorous growth. Ohio Ever
bearing, by those who like the black-cap
variety, will be greatly priced, bearing as
it does profuse clusters, Catawissa has much
the habit of the last, but the fruit hitherto
has not been compared to it in flavor.
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LORD NELSON AND LORD NoRBuRr'-It
was once our lot to hear celebrated barris-
ter of the Irish Court, who had been, a
short time before horsewhipped at the foot
Of Nelson's Pillar, in Sackville street, so Sc
verely as to be carried home bleeding with
the severity of the punishment, eross-exam-
inc a man who had indicted another for an
assault.
"Pray sir said the counsel, with the un-
usual barristerial insolence, ''you were we'll
beaten, were you not p
eyes, sir said the man, "quite as we'll
as you were at the foot of Nelson's Pillar"
The counsel turned pale with rage and
modification, and turning to Lord Norbury:
ssMy Lord" said he, Il appeal for pro-
lection of the Court against this imperti-
nence."
1.-The Court" said Lord Norbury, "csn
never refuse it's protection to any one who
has bled under the immortal Nelson"
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"What is backbiter p asked the par
son of his Sunday School. This was a po-
ser till little urchin answered, "Be it a
HeG 9"
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Growing SHARp-The Steubenville O.
MON says:
Eternal vigilcnce is the price of liberty
the price of the Union is only two cents.
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What is that causes a cold, cures cold
and pays the doctor? A draft,
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"Father," said cobler's lad, as he was
pegging away at an old shoe, ''they say
trout bite good now ''Well, well, re-
piled the old gentleman, "you stick to your
work. and then ,cont bite gou"