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SOME eloquent scholar, defending the
study of Greek and Roman literature, says
it was the ark in which the worlds civil
ization was preserved during the delugs
Of barbarism.
An author Of love story, in describ-
ing his heroine, says: "Innocencc dwells
in the dark clusters of her hair A wag-
glsh editor suggests that fne tooth
comb would bring it out.
For half century, it is said, no boat
or ship has passed Mount Vernon, where
lies the ilIustrious dead, without tolling
the bell while passing the sacred shades.
"Tis the Mecca Of the States"
Mr.. Mason, our Minister to France,
the same who was rebuked for putting hiA
arm around the back of the Empress's
chair, requests leave it is said, to remain
in Paris until he can pay his debts there
out Of his salary.
A fashionable city lady, whilst in the
country, a short time sine Inquired
What are those animals with powder
horns growing out of their ears?" az
though it were not genteel for female
to know COW!
One of the sex writes rather spicly,
" that though few American ladies live
in idleness, or worse than idleness, the
majority as yet work themselves into
early graves, giving men an opportunity
to try two or three in the course of their
own vigorous lives -
No DOUBT OF IT.--1he Richmond
Enquirer makes an open breast and do
clares: "For our own part, We have No
hesitation IN expressing the opinion that
every governor who has been sent t.
Kansas has been instructed to act always
with especial partiality to the South"
LEARNING and knowing are two things.
Didn't you know the earth is round p
inquired 3 teacher of a wondering little
girl, who had been through and through
the Geography, like needle through
seam; Why, no, said she, 4 learned it
great while ago, but never kasss it
I'LL now!
y gentleman once conversing in the
society OF company of ladies and criti-
eicing rather severely the want of per-
sonal beauty in other ladies of their as-
quaintance, remarked
"They are the ugliest women know"
an III j
ness. added present company always ex-
cepted."
IMPORTANT FROM Mr.. DALLAs.-Tu
a letter from London, published in The
South Carolinian, occurs the following
tribute to the present representative Of
this country at the Court Of St. James:
1T gives me real pleasure to know
that 1Ir. Dallas repudiates him Senator
Sumner) utterly. | assert this on my
own knowledge"
LIGHTS AND SEDDDows OF PoLITr.
CAL LIPE.-On last Saturday Judge
Conrad sentenced man named Rump to
prison for two years and eight months,
for the perpetration Of frauds By which
James Buchanan was elected to tho
Presidency last Fall Mr. Buchanan now
occupies the White House at Washington,
and Rump is domiciled in the cell at
Moyamensing,-Phila. Bulletin, Ang. "a.
"DAD, if was to see duck on thu
wing and was to shoot it, would you LEX
me?'
'Oh no, my son. it shows you are
good marksman, and | would feel proud
Of you"
"Well then, dad, Ipeppered our OLD
drake IS he was flying over the fence to-
day, and it would have done you good TO
see him drop
II is estimated that the production Of
wheat this year in the West, will be 20,
100000 bushels greater than it was in
1850, which shows an advance IN proper
ton of about hfty-fve per cent Popu-
lation has increased about thirty FIVE per
cent, which will allow about twenty per
cent. more for export than in 1S50.--
The increase of the corn crop is only
about equal to the increase of population.
NATURE OF THE SUs.-The most re-
cent observations confirm the supposition
that the Sun is a black, Opaque body,
with luminous and incandescent atmos-
phere, through which the solar body is
often seen in black spots, frequently Of
enormous dimensions. A single spot,
seen with the naked eye in the year l643,
was II 900 miles in diameter. Sir John
/. Herschel, in 1887, witnessed cluster Of
spots including an area of 3,4So,0o0
miles. The diameter Of the sun is TO,
500 geographical miles, or 1l2 times that
of the earth; its volume is 1907, l24
times that of the earth, and GOO times
that of ali the planets; and its mass il
l59,o5l times greater than the earth's,
and T38 tiaes greater than all the
ri,nets.