Smyrna times., 1857-07-22
S Straps--Oarietp,


0T flynn 67l in the Methodist Hymn Book,
is the last hing dictated by Charles Wesley
The lines were taken down by his wife short
time before he died
"ln age and feebleness extreme,
Who shall a hapless worm redeem II
Jesus my only hope though art. 'i-
Strength of my failing flesh and heart,
o might catch one smile from thee,
And drop into Eternity!'
THE TRUE RoAD TO HAPPINEss-It is rule.
we believe, that will be found to have few ex-
ceptlons, that the sum tai Of our happiness ia
very nearly in the ratio of our uneiulness.
The late DR.. Noah Webster, author of the
b" American Dictionary," and numerous other
important works, when he came to die, in the
eighty fifth year of his age, spoke of his long
life as ous of uniform enjoyment, because filled
up at every stage with active labor for some USE
ful end. a.s
1t is difficult to conceive how a person can be
otherwise than happy who is always engaged in
useful avocatlon. Aud it is just as difficult TO
imagine how one can be OtherW ise than unhap-
py whose life is spent in useless idleness or in
JurIous dissipation.
" John B. Cough delivered his 63d Tenn
perance lecture in Worcester, which was biI
farewell address in America, on Thursday eye-
nlng. Ii was sixteen years since in that same
city of Worcester, he had been induced TO take
the pledge, which has been the means of liftInp
him from the deepest degradation and wretch.
edness to an honorable position in society--of
giving health for sickness, and happiness and
Joy for the most terrible woes. He is now en-.
gagged by The London League and Edinburg
Temperance League, to deliver four lectures.
a week for three years, or six hundred lectures.
Eight months OF each year are to be spent in
lecturing in England and four in Scotland
OF The publishers of DR.. Kane's Arctic Ex.
pedilioD have paid upwards of 100000 TO the
estate of the deceased author, copyright money
Tor nine months sales OF the work, and that the
continued demand for that work will soon make
this sum reach 100000. This is princeIy re-
enumeration, the largest, probably, ever paid 10
any author III 50 short time.
0CT In 1850 a gallows and whipping. post
stood near Potter's tavern, in Cambridge, which
gave rise to the following: 'a'
"Cambrdge is famous town, " $3.50
Both for wit and knowledge: na[
Some they whip and some they hang, E
And some they send to college," .l NJ
Ct.T' The largest chain in the world is that
about to be used in the operation of raising the
ships sunk at Sevastopol. 1t is 200 yards long,
and each link weighs 800 pounds. 1t was manu-
factured at Reading, Pa. The value Ofthe ma
terials TO be furnished by the Russian Govern
ment, to be used ia raising the feet, will be
about million and half of dollars.
OF a paper, in announcing the opening. of
a new cemetery, says: "Mr. had the
pleasure of being first buried there" e'.A
0E5- Madam de Genlis says somebody. re-
proved her librarian for putting books written
by male and female authors upon the same
shelf "Never do 1t " said she, without put.
ting a prayer book between them"
6J-A gentleman advertising fora wife saws:
/" Il would be well il the lady were possessed of
u competence sufficient to secure her against
excessive grief, in case of an accident occorinc
10 her companion"
or Nothing is more favorable to love than
a little discord--as the frost makes the grapes
tender and richer.
Or Dabster reduces everything to mathe-
matics lie got married because kissing saves
fifty per cent on his sugar tax Old bachelors
will please take notice. & s.la .s.s8lnI
or The original locomotive used in England
twenty-five years ago, now stands very appro-
priately on pedestal in front Of the Darling
ton railway station.