Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-18
EVENING STAR.
THE TREE OF LIFE.


Life which was set IN Paradise, and the Cross on
which hung the Saviour of the World are almost
tity has clothed itself in innumersbIe forms. They
constitute, indeed one of the richest portions Of
mythology Of the Christian Church. We rive I'VE
Trench's translation from the German of Rucfert.
of one of the most beautiful of those asgoricai
When Adams latest breath was nearly gone
To Paradise the patriarch sent his SON
A branch to fetch from the tree of life.
Hoping 10 taste OF 1t ere life was done.
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HIS fathers spirit was already flown.
Then planted they the twig on Adams grave.
AND II was tended still from son to son.
|. grew While Joseph il the dungeon lay.
III grew while Israel did in Egypt groan.
SsSse. Pedors gave the blossoms si; of the tree.
men David harping sat upon his throne.
Dry wa, the tree, when from from the ways of God
Went errins in his wisdom Solomon.
When David's stock should give another Son.
Faith saw in spirit this. .ss While i. : she sat
Mourning beside the floods OF BABY Ion.
And when the eternal g6tnins flashed from heaven
The tree asundsr burst with jubilant tone.
The Wood of Passion should from thence Be won
The blind world fashioned out of it the cross,
And lis salvation nailed with scOrn thereon,
Then bore the tree OF life ensanguined fruit.
Which, whose tasteth, life shall be his loan.
XIV.
Oh look, oh look, how grows the tree Of life
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May the ,chols world beneath its shadow rest,
HaU mas ITS shelter there already won.
II The Rev Sebastian Streeter, whose 18th
Birthday occurred on the 18th instant which was
also the 50th anniversary of his wedding day, in
formed the Boston Transcript that the whole
number OF marriages solemnized by him in Bos-
ton is four thousand one hundred and Si1ty-nine
FINED.-Rev. Mr.. Van Meter, of New York,
who has been so instrumental in finding homes
Tor the friendless, was complained of in illinois,
ana nned oy the court in the sum of 500, on the
charge Of bringing paupers into that state. The
case Is appealed, and another trial will be had
II 90 Shall / help you to some of the tomat-
tnsseS ~ inquired young exquisite of venera-
bic physician as he sat opposite to him at one of
our hotel tables.
'No, sir, thank you" replied the learned sa-
van, but III trouble you for some of the potatus-
ses, If you please
ID An immense mass of pure copper, valued
$l5OO0O, has recently been taken from one Of the
Lake Superior mines. 1t is forty-fve feet in
length, and in the thickest part much as eight
or nine feet in thickness II IL Is as pure as il ap-
pears TO be, il contains, probably, more than 500
tons OF metal and II is certainly worth as IL lies
more than $50 COZ.
"A SOLEMN FACT THE Southern Cultiyator
says:
alt is a solemn fact that not one marriapesble
slIi IN twenty can make really good cup Of cof-
A fact so serious as this shouId immediately en-
Of AL fba
ShOalda'tit,
=" j. Manning is Buffalonian who drinks
like horse" and don't support his family. He
mas s9uandered In liquor fortune Of some
Su,oO within the last ten wears and his family
Were living in the most squalld misery when on
wednesday two benevolent ladies procured his
arrest and Imprisonment in the workhouse, while
ne took his children in their care
II Judge Geo s. Yerger, Of Mississinni. has
accepted the Presidency OF the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company. The directors have resolved
to issue twelve million dollars Of stock, for which
inscriptions are opened at New Orleans The
nrst installrnent of IS per share Ia. been called
In, equal 10 500, coo. This road was formerly
called the Texas Western Railroad Company
Ten miles Ct the road have been graded and Joss.
tied.
W A public meeting of the inhabitants of To-
ronto has been held for the purpose OF taking into
consideration the propriety of petitiouing Her
MAJESTY TO hx the seat OF government In Toronto
permanently, or, in the event Of Her Majesty not
SO fixing il, that the system of alternate Parlia-
ments at Toronto and Quebec NAV be Continued
until the working Of the union may be more fully
tested.
Usage ORANGE HEDSE.-A gentleman In JEFF
ferson county, Va. writes: 81 am more and more
Pleased with the Usage Orange as a hedge plant
my experience fully satisfies me that IL Is ehean
est most durable and safest barrier We can ma
being impenefrable to man or beast I have now
about One-halfa mile, and shall yearly continue
TO increase II. II is highly ornamental as well as
useful
INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS. = Experiments
have been made before the London Society of RI
on new article resembling guace, belonging TO
the class serpentania, famed for being the anti
dote to the poison Of the rattlesnake. But a rab-
bit, exposed 10 the bite Of a pud- adder died
quickly of commissions, although eight or nine
drachms of an infusion Of the root Were given by
the operator to the timid little creature before be-
ing exposed in the cage, and more Immediately
after the sting was inflicted on one of the hind
legs, which became quickly paralyzed
II The construction of the towers for the sus
progressing. The towers are eighty-six by
thirty-two feet at the base, will be two hundred
and thirty feet high, and one thousand and siY
feet apart The cables will be anchored three
hundred feet back on each side Of the river pass
over the tops OF the towers. and thus be made to
sustain the weight of the bridge The entire
span Will be six hundred and six feet
VI Some French gentlemen from Louisiana.
largely engaged In sugar planting in that State
have purchased a tract OF land in the neiyhbor-
hood OF Tacusa, on the line of the Illinois Central
hailrald, In Illinois, where they will oryanize a
colony Of French residents who are now On Their
way from Canada. ARRANGEMENTS are made for
Inc erection OF stores, hotels, mills, warehouses
and dwellings; and il Is pected that large and
nourishing colony will be firmly located the pres.
ent season.
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