The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-10-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

from the curve of the smooth shaven chin 70
the CLEAN of the gold spectacles that sit astride
his nose--beams with exhaustless good humor.
About five P. NJ. is his hour. when you can
generally see him heading as if homeward, and
carrying thitherwsrd a brown-psper-envelope
parcel. From long familiarity with this feature
Of his personality, we had come to designate
his otherwise anonymousness, as "the man
with the bundle"
1t may have been imagination on our part !;
but, as we met him the other cold afternoon,
his face seemed so absolutely radiant with the
heat OF genial benevolence, that we thought the
thermometer at the corner of Milk street went
up two degrees as he passed. We determined
to make an effort to know more about him.
To-day our desire was gratifed. Turning
into Marsh's, to purchase the goosequilI now
between our fngen--we can't abide mineral
pens-who should be standing at the counter,
closing, at the same instant, the lid Of mag,
ni6cent writing-cass and bargain for its pur-
chase, but our radiant faced friend
"To what address shall we send this 7" said
the clerk, with tone indicating extreme re-
spect.
Nowhere" responded the purchaser; al
always carry my own bundles"
"Yes, sir, but this is heavy, and it will be
pleasure to US to send it."
Young man." replied the other, always
love to take something home at night, to show
my wife and children that have not forgotten
them while at my business, and l wouldn't give
| pin to make anybody present without car
ried it into the house myself / want to see
EN- take it. Besides, sir, never allow any,
body to be bothered by sending things home
for me, that can carry myself l began life
BY Juggling about parcels as dry goods mans
| boy, and many's the weary mile of sidewalk I've
trudged, to carry yard of ribbon or paper
of pins to somebody, too proud or too lazy to
carry it for themselves. l haven't forgot my
old thoughts, and, what's more, though times
have changed with me since then, amt
ashamed to be seen in the streets with a bun.
| de-"
| "Yes, sir, but this is heavy"
| mo matter, I'm strong;" and out he went
with such glow in his face, that one could
imagine it lighted up the now dim sidewalk,
rods ahead, as a locomotive burner Eliminates
it's trace.
Another well-known street face passed him
In the door, coming in. Purchasing Congress
knife, the new conner said, in sharp and die.
tatorial tone, "Send it to my house mo. fifteen
hundred and something, Washington street)
| Immediately; shall want it as soon as get
| home"
"Two different men," suggested we, as the
CLERK clOeeu Tue uOCr alter MIN.
"Very," was the reply. "The man with the
bundle is Mr.. -, the honest owner of hun.
dreds of Thousands, and there never was sub.
scription paper yet, that didn't get his name for
something handsome. The other man failed
last week-aT there was of him to fail-and
isn't worth his salt, but he had rather take the
commercial disgrace Of failure, at any time,
than the social disgrace of being seen in the
streets with bundle"
Two different men, indeed We shall take
of our hat the next time we meet MIR. -
on the sidesslk. Long may he live, and carry
bundles to make people happy Congregations
olist.
QUEER DIET FOR OLD GEYrLEMEN.-The
first time l caught sight of milk in a Chinese
| street, it was in the hands of female carving
a cup of what l thought to be the genuine un,
chalked article.
Excuse me, but what is that?" said /.
=" 1t is milk" she replied.
"What mik-cows or goats ?"
"Woman's milk, SIR"
"Woman's milk for what use ?"
1t has been bought for an aged ueighbor"
And what's the price of that cupfull?"
about eighty cash"
Subsequently, discovered that It was not
unusual for nursing women to sell their own
second babyhood, the nurses drawing their own
milk to vend it at I'd. or Sd. q cup.-Milne's
Life in China.
One of Henry Fox's jokes was that PLAYED
off on the late Mrs. -, who had a great
fondness for making the acquaintance of for
egners. He first forged letter of RECON-
mendation to her in favor of German noble
man, the Baron Won Seidlitz Powdertz, whose
card was left at her door, and for whom din
ner was Immediately planned by Mrs. -
and an invitation sent in form. After waiting
a considerable time, no Baron appearing, the
dinner was served and during the second
course, a note was brought to the lady of the
house, with excuses from the Baron who was
Unexpectedly prevented from coming by the
sudden death of his aunt, the Duchess rOn
Epson Sdltz, which she read out to the com
pany, without any suspicion of the joke, and tc
the entertainment of her guests, among whom
was the facetious author.
Cons PURPOSES IN ALL THINGs.-We know
not the eternal purposes Of God. We look al
the immediate and transient result, not at the
ultimate and permanent. Thus, the mariner
cannot come to port by reason of the storm and
rocks which obstruct his course; he thinks the
weather imperfect, the world not well made
and you often hear men say, " How beautiful the
world would be, if there were 20 storms, no hur
ricanes, no thunder and lightning!" While
if we could overlook the cosmic forces which
make up the material world, we should see that
every storm and every rock was needful and
the world would not be perfect, and accomplish
its function, had not each been Just in its prop
er time and place. An oak tree in the woods
appears quite imperfect The leaves are coiled
up and spoiled by the leaf roller cut to pieces
by the tailorbeetle eaten by the ag.mouth
and the polyphemus, the slug caterpillar and
her numerous kindred the twigs are sucked
by the white-lined chopper, or cut off by the
oak.pruner; the horn-bug, the curculio, and
the timber.beetle, eat up its wood the CAD fy
punctures leaf and bark, converting the forces
of the tree to that insects use the grub lives
in the young acorn; fy.catchers are on Its
leaves the spider weaves his web from twig to
twig; caterpillars of various denominations
gnaw its tender shoots the creeper and the
woodpecker bore through the bark squirrels
striped, flying, red, and gray-have gnawed
into its limbs, and made their nests the toad
has hole in a flaw of its base; the fox has
cut asunder its fbrous roots in digging his bur.
row the bear dwells in its trunk which worms
emmets, bees, and countless insects, have help.
ed to hollow; ice and the winds of winter have
broken off full many Dough. How imperfect
and incomplete the oak tree looks, so broken,
crooked, dragged, gnarled, and grim The car
penter cannot get beam, the millwright a
shaft, or the ship-builder cold knee for his
purposes even the common woodman spares
that tree as not worth telling. 1t only cumbers
the ground. But it has served its complicated
purpose, given board and lodging for all these
creatures, from the ephemeral fly, enjoying his
transient summer, to the brawny bear, for
many winter alternating in its trunk. 1t has