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The Tools of Animals.

The tongue oi a hntnming. bird is very et
foas. !; has nc tubes alongside of each
other. like the two barrels of 4 double,bar
rel gun. At the tip of the tongue these
tubes are little separated, and their ends
are shaped like Spoons. The honey il
spooned up, as we may soy, and then il is
drawn into the mouth through the long
tubes Of tie tongue.
But the bird uses its tongue in another
way IL catches insects with it, for it lives
on these as well us on honey Ii does il in
lh's way-the two spoons grasp the inscc;
like pair of longs. and the tongne, bend
ing, puts 1t into the birds mouth. The
tongue, then, of the humming bird is not
merely one instrument. bur il contains Seve.
ral Instruments tugether-- two pumps, two
spo ms, and pair of tongs
The tongue of the cat is singular in.
strument IL is her curry,comb For this
purpose 1t is rough, as yon will find il you
1t. When she cleans herself so indus
triously, she gets off the dirt, and smooths
her coat just as tue ostler cleans and s,nooths
the horses coat with the curry,comb Her
head she cannot get at With her tongue, and
so she has to make her porepaws answer the
purpose instead.
There is one bird that lives chiefly on oys-
ters. Il has bill, therefore, with which ii
opens an oyster as skiIfully as au oyster
man can with his oyster.knife
Some birds can sew very well with theii
bills and feet. There is one bird that sews
so well it is called the tailor bird. Its nest
is hid in leaves which it sews together. IL
does this with thread which il makes il
self 1t gets cotton from The cotton plaat
and with its long delicate hiIl and little feet
spins II into thread. 1t then pierces the
holes through the leaves with its bill, and
passing the thread through the holes, sews
them together. believe that in getting
the thread through the holes its uses botl it's
bills and its feet.
There is another strange bird, which has
no wings. 1t has very long bill, which i,
uses in gathering its food, which consists of
snails, insects, and worms lie uses his bill
in another way. He often in resting. places
the tip of his bill on the ground, and TINS
makes the same Use of his bill that the old
man does of his cane, when he stauds lean
ing upon it.
There is a fish that has a singular instru
ment. IL is u squirt.g gun for shooting in
sects. IL can shoot them not only when
they are still, but when they are flying 1t
watches them as they are flying over the
water, and hits one Of them whenever it can
get the chance, with a fine stream of water
from its little gun. The insect, stunned
with the blow, falls into the water, and tue
fish eats it.,
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EVERY art is best taught by example :;
good deeds are productive of good friends,
COMMON sense and substantial homespun
garments are not much used in these days.
KEEP your temper in disputes. The cool
hammer fashions the red hot iron in any .
shape needed.
Few things are necessary for the wants of
this life; but il takes an indefinite number
t. satisfy the demands of opinion.
HAPPINESS is perfume that one cannot
shed over another without few drops fall
ing on ones self.
He submits himself to be seen througha
microscope, who suffers himself to be caught
in a passion.
GREAT men lose somewhat of their great.
ness, by being near us; ordinary men gain
much.
A LOVING couple up country have a pipo
with two handles, so that they can both
smoke together.
The good heart, the tender feeling, and
The pleasant disposition, make smiles, love,
cheerfulness and sunshine everywhere.
Be gentle! Harsh words are like hail
stones 10 summer, which If melted, would
fertilize the tender plants they batter down.
THERE is nearly as much ability requisite
to know how TO make use Of good advice,
as TO know how 10 act for ones self.
Or all the projects of reformers and en-
thusiasts, no one has done so much TO en-
large The sphere of woman, in practical
way, as--Iloops.
a WRITER in BIaekwood says that every
man who is not a monster rinaihemalicEan or
a mad philosopher, is the slave of some wo.
man or other.
A FREsGH wit said Of a man who was
exceedingly fat, that nature only made him
to show how far The human skin would
stretch without breaking,
To TsLL Coon Eeds.--If yon desire to
be certain that your eggs are good and fresh,
put tlle,n In water IL the butts turn up they
are not fresh. Ihis IS an infalibs rnle, 10
distinguish a good egg from bad one.
y Farrxpsnrr. .-7Trae f,iendship. likestrae
love, it Is said, can everforget. When the
agt,cle il pnre. doubtless this ia be casc.--r
There have been s,isnd~hips whicl, have SIR
.yived iie tomb.
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Our Country's Greatness

The greatest cataract in the world is the
Falls of Niagara, where the waters, aceumu-
lated from the great upper lakes, forming a
river threcquarters Of mile in width, are
suddenly contracted and plunged over the
rocks in two columns, to the depths Of one
hundred and sixty feet
The greatest cave in the world is the
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, where one can
make voyage on the waves of subterra.
mean river, aud catch fish without eyes.
The GREATEST river in the world is the Mis-
sissippi, four thousand one hundred miles in
length. Its name is derived from an Indian
word, meaning the Father of Waters"
The largest valley IN the world is the val.
ley of the Mississippi. 1t contains five hun.
dred thousand square miles, and is one o!
the most prolific regions on the globe.
The largest lake in the world is Lake Su-
perior, four hundred and thirty miles long.
The greatest natural bridge in the world
is that over Cedar Creek, in Virginia. Ii
extends across chasm eighty feet in width,
and two hundred and fifty feet deep, at the
bottom Of which creek flows.
The greatest solid mass of iron in the
world Is the iron mountain of Missouri 1t
is three hundred and fifty feet high, and
TWO miles in circuit.
The longest railroad in the world is the
Central Railroad of Illinois, which is seven
hundred and thirty one, miles long-and
cost fifteen millions Of dollars.
The greatest number of miles Of railroad.
in proportion 70 its surface, Of any country
IN the world, Is in Massachusetts, which has
ever one mile 10 essfJ square E;i!e Of is
area
The greatest number Of clocks rnanoflc,
.tured in the world. is turned out by the
small Stats Of Connecticut.
The largest nnmber Of @halesI3ps In the
world are sent ont by Nantucket and New
Bedford.
The greatest grain port in the world i
Chicago
The largest aqueduct in the world is the
Croton aqueduct 10 New York. Ii Is forty
and q half miles long. and cost twelve and
a half millions os dollars.
s a
IS. 80 - !, - IL s.,x = - Il. Il
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5tlrrffh 1AurtrlJ.
Kitty Glide.

Kitty Glide.
oh, who has not seen Kitty Clide9
She lives at the foot of the hill,
In sly nit,le nook,
by the babbling brook
That carries her fathers old mill
Oh. who does know Kitty Glide?
That sunny-eyed, rosy-cheeked lass,
With asweet-dimpled chin,
That looks roguish as sin,
With always smile as you pass
Sweet Kitty-dear Kitty
NV own sweet Kitty Glide;
In sly little nook,
BY the clear babbling brook,
Lives my own sweet Kitty Glide.
With basket to put in her fish,
Every morning with a line and a hook,
This sweet little lass,
Through the tall heavy grass,
Steals along the clear running brook !;
She throws her line into the stream,
And ,ips it along the brook side;
Oh. how do wish
That was fish, IL
To be caught by sweet Kitty Glide.
- Sweet Kitty Kitty, DC.
How | wish that [ was bee,
I'd not gather honey from flowers,
But would steal dear sip
From Kitty's sweet lip,
And make my own hive in the bowers
Or, if | was some little bird,
would not build my nest in the air,
But would keep close 10y the side
sOfswect Kitty Glide,
And sleep in her soft silken hair,
Sweet Kitty-dear Kitty, &c.
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NUMBER

TALL, stiff shirt cnHur, ately saved q
mans life in an = affair of bnnor.' IN SanS
| francisco. The; parties were Ftenclmcn--s
the weapons dpelGng pistols, aud distance
fifteen PAGES. The seconds measured The
ground. the parties We Q. Stationed, and flie
word given. 4 AT the word !. fite, y they both
LET 60. The ball Of one gtazed the :cliee k,of
the other and glanced Oh, against a stiff and !
highly glazed shirt collar, which lobably
saved bis life. The other bah went skyward,
IN search Of The comet The rarties were
anxious to fight il ont, tat they. were pro-
vented by their seconds, Wbo adjusted The
difficulty. = ~ ., w.
a soHooLMAsrRk. after giving one of his
pupils. a sound drubbipg for sYeaking bad
gramn,er, sent him 70 the end Of the room
TO inform another boy that lie wished to
speak TO him, promising 10 repeat tie dose
If he spoke to him ungrammatically. The
youngster, being quite satisfied with what
he had got, determined TO be exact, and
thus addressed his fellow pupil: = Al com.
mon substantive of the inasculine gender,
singular number, nominatiyc case, and in an
angry mood, that sits peiched upon the en-
nence At the other end Of tile room, wishes
TO arliculate q few SENTENCES 10 you IN the
present tense,
ARREsrEpA A man, calling himself Muir
ray, was arrested by Mr. g. w. b. Boggs,
near Pickensvillc, on Wednesday last, chare -4
ed with being a fugitive from justice. AZ
ter his arrest, he stated that his real name
was Revel. He is charged with the MUIR
der of 4 man named Henry, in Henderson
county, N. c., and has been committed to
the common jail Of the district to await the
requisition ofthe Governor of North Carroll
ma Pickens Courier.
--..s --l----- s1FHs n
ONE EACH I'VE read in the Norman
die: most extraordinary fact has just =
occurred in the neighborhood of Couteville.
The daughter Of a fisherman, Marie c.,
who married, about year ago, John D.,
negro sailor, native Of an English colony,
has just given birth to twins, girl and a
boy. The former is white, like the mother,
and the latter black, like the faiher.n
LADIES should have but one given name.
and when they are married should retain 3
their maiden name as amiddle name. This
is practice among the Society Of Friends,
and, were it generally adopted, il would have
many advantages We should know at
once, on seeing lady's name, whether she
WAS married or single; aud il the former,
what the name of her family was.
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lpIors.- Idiocy is arrested development.
There is, in all cases, deficiency Of brain. a
low physical organization. The humane
aud accomplished DR.. Wilbur says, that ont
Of a class Of twenty pupils only three could
conpt ten. Their almost universal fault was
glu,tony. Their great want is the want of
attentions. Many cannot talk: it often re
qGires Two or three years to enable them to
inter single word distinctly. In almost
all cases home treatment only confirms the
maIady. In three hundred and fifty.nine
cTses, all but four originated in parents who
Lad Brought on some confirmed disease by
the violation of The laws of nature In eye-
ny instance, the four excepted, either one or
both parents were either unhealthy, scrofu
loes, disposed TO insanity, indulged in ani'
NAL eScesses. or had married blood relations.
Let every reader commit to memory these
causes, for 10 have an idiot child, how terri
ble the intliciionj More than one.fourth of
three huudred and fifty.nine idiots were the
children Of drunkards; one out of every
twenty was the clild of she marriage OF
! near relations in one such family five child
ren out Of eight were idiotic. II, then,
Z health, tempcrance, and chastity are not du-
8 ties, then are we irresponble.
Hsirs Journal Of Health.
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GREENvIILE SOUTH THURSDAY MORNINGS AUGUST 90

L
There is a vast dea! Of q certain kind o
originality about negro composition. Take
this example of an illustration. lately used
BY a colored exhorier at an evening confer
ence meetngi in the lower part of Pbiladel.
phia: MY bredrcn, God bless your souls,
'ligion is like the Schuylill riber. In the
spring come the fresh, and lie bling in The
The old logs, slabs, and stick dat hab been
hin' on de bank, aud carrying dem downiil
the current, Bimeby de water go down;
den n log cotcli here on dis island den, a
slab get cotclled on de shore. and de sticks
On de bushes; and dere dey lie, wid'fin' and
dryin' I'LL comes 'nod,er fresh .Jist so
dere come 'vival 'ligion; dis old sinner
brought in, dat old backslider brought back;
am ali the folks seem comin'--and mighty
good times. But bredren, God bless your
souls, bimeby 'vival's gene; den dis ole sin
ner is stuck on his ole sin, deu dat backslid
er is cotched where he was aforc, on JUS
such rock: den one arter anoder got III
gion lies long dc shore, and dere dey lie till
nodder 'vival. Beloved bredren, Ged bless
your souls, get deep in de currentm How
many divine has waded through the logi
cal divisions" of discourse which has
not in its whole compass, SO fofciblc an IL
lusuation as this
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A TRun WoMAS.---A Young British Off
Ger, who was muiiated and disfigured in
battle. requested . comra,le 70 write 70 liis
sbetrotbed 'iu England and release her from
The briaal engagement. Her answer was
worthy Of a true woman - Tell hin, IL
rl,ere Is enough Of his bs.dy len 10 contains
DIS soul, shall hold him TO his engage
sfnent.p
UwrLEAsASr-ra iiystrafe appetite and
nothing TO eat. Qoito as'agreeable plenty
% cat aud no appetite.
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CUNNING OF Fox.--A gamekeeper on
an estate near Lochaine, who had been am
noyed by the depredations of foxes, discover.
ed kennel in n glen at the side of small
loch. While watching one evening for the
appearance Of the tenants, he observed
brace of wild ducks floating on the loch in
n little while fox was seen approaching
the water side with cautions steps; on reach.
ing it he picked up burch of heather and
placed it IN his mouth, so rs 10 cover his
head then. slipping into the water, and i'm,
mersing all but his nose, he floated slowly
and quietly down to where the birds were
quacking with delight in fancied security,
seeing nothing near them but a bunch OF
weeds. In due time he ueared the ducks,
dropped The ssiss:issr, and ss;ael one s.f
them, with which he returned 20 the loch.
side. and was making off 10 his young with
The ptize when the keeper, who had noted
all his movements. closed ihem by the dis.
cliafge Of his double barrel.
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TIE Despise not thy mother
when she is old. Age may wear and waste
mothers beauty, strength, limbs, senses,
and estate but her relation as mother is as
the sun when it goes forth in his might, for
il is always in the meridian. and knoweih
no evening, The person may be gray head
ed, but her mo.herIy relation is ever in lis
flourish. IL may be autumn. yea, winter.
with woman, but with the mother, as
mother, it is always spring.
Alas. how little do we appreciate moth
eras tenderness while livingi How needless
are weinail heranxie;ies and kindness But,
when she is dead and gone--when the cares
and coldness of the world come whitening to
our beart---when we experience how hard il
Is 10 iId {. 10 SIN path Eo,T .sss Us
for ourselves--how few will befriend us In
misfortnne3 Then il is that we think of
the mother we have lost.
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WoMAE's ToNoue.--An Indian Chief
being asked his opinion Of a cask of Madei,
ra wine, presented TO him byfan officer, said
he thought the juice extracted from womep's
tongues and hons hearts for when he
drank a bottle Of is. he could talk forever,
and fight tie devil.
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How THE BEAR GAME TO HAVE SHoRr
TAIL.--A Norwegian fable satisfactorily ac.
comets Tor The short tail Of the bear. The
bear, it seems, was once met by fox who
carried a load of fish, and who, in answer to
the. question how he had obtained them. re-.
piled that he had caught them by angling.
The bear expires Ell desire to know an art
so useful, when the fox informed him that
he had Only 10 make hole in the ice and
Insert his tail. q. You must stop long
enough aud not mind IL il hurt you a little,S
said the friendly adviser, !. for q sensation Of
pam IS . sure sign that You have bite.
The longer The time, the more the fish.
Nevertleless. when yon have good strong
bite, be sure to pull ouL' Tie creduloGs
bear followed The Instructions, and kept his
Gail IN the boIe lid II was frozen tast..--
Wien lie pulled. The end Of the tail came
! or and heacs tIie sbostness of the append
age az the present. day
y 8 q + 4 Isfuef,,s 3fu0os;l he. a
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EFFECT OF THE ABSENCE OF Sun AND
AiR.-Dr. Moore. the eloquent and amiable
author of The use OF the BODY in relation
10 the mind" says :adpole confined in
darkness would never become frog, and
an infant being deprived of light, will only
grow into q shapeiess idiot, instead of n
beauteous and reasonable thing. Hence, in
the deep dark gorges and ravines of the
Swiss Valois, where the direct sunshine new
er reaches, the hideous prevalence of idiocy
startles the traveller. II is strange, mel
ancboly idiocy. Many citizens are incapa
ble of any a,ticulate speech some are deaf :;
some are blind; some labor under all the
privalions, and ali are misshapen in almost
every part of the body. believe there is
in all places, a marked difference in the
healthiness of houses, according to their as
pect with regard to the sun, and that those
are decidedly the heathiest ceteries parihus,
in which all the rooms are, during some
part of the day, fully exposed 10 direct light
1t is a well known fact that epidemics at
tack inhabitants on the shady side of the
street, and except those on the opposite side
and even in epidemics, such rs ague, the
morbid influence is often thus partial in Us
action"
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TuINK BEFoRE You SrEND.-Do you re.
ally need The article 1t is probably pet.
ty trile in dress, in furniture; but what sol.
id benefit would it be 10 you9 Or is i.
some luxury for the table, that you can as
well do withoutl Think, therefore, before
you spend your money. Or you need a new
carpet, new sofa, new chairs, new betstead,
new dress, you are tempted 10 buv some
thing a little handsomer than yea had in.
tended and while you hesitate, the dealer
says to you, " It's only a tritle more. and
see how far prettier it is" But, before yon
purchase, stop to think. Will you be the
better year hence, much less in old age,
for having squandered money? Is it not
wiser to LAY by something for rainy
day ." All these Injuries crafty you only
for moment; you soon tire of them :;
and their only permanent effect is to con.
sumo your means. 1t is by such little ex-
travagances, not much separately, but ruin
Gus in the aggregate, that the great major
ity of families are kept comparatively poor
The first lesson 10 learn is TO deny Yourself
useless expenses; aud the first step towards
learning tlis lesson is, think before you
spend.
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Ripples on the Sea Of Reading.

EVERY art is best taught by example; !;
good deeds are productive of good friends,
COMMON sense and substantial homespun
garments are not much used in these days.
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d EST N w S

The Court stood 9 in favor of the
constitutionality ofthe bill, to against
The disssting Judges being Messrs
Brown and Comstock. IL
JuIge Brown also delivered an opin.
ion. He dissens from the opinion
which declares constitutional, and rec.
ognizes the division Of the cities and
counties as then existing, and saws
although thcir limits can be altered OF
modified by agreement, and cities can
be consolidated, yet the legislature has
no power to join cities and counties
into one district for the purpose Of
police or any other local governments.
Lie declares that by article 10, Sec.
2, the Constitutional method Of ap.
pointing city and county officers is dis
tinctly vt forth, and he maintains that
as regards the police and city officers
the Court must either construe the
Constitution 20 that local rights and
privileges exyressly mentioned, and
never till BOW qusst;ossd, shall remsin
to be exercised and enjoyed by the To-
cal community, or elso sanction con.
stitntion which may, and indirectly
can hardly fail to exclude them alto
gether. The Judgment Of the Tupreme
Court should therefore be reversed.
Judge Comstock concurs in the opin.
ion of Judge Brown.