The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1858-04-09
Periodical Literature,


The New York Excelsior thus defines
Periodical Literature:
'ris a type Of many Of the most beau
tiful things and events in nature; or say,
rather, that they arc types Of IL, both the
flowers aud the stars.. As 10 flowers, they
are the prettiest periodicals ever publish
ed in folie; the leaves are Wire-wovo and
hot. pressed by Natures self their oircu.
lation is wide over all the land from cas-
Tie to cottage they arc regdlaly taken in;
As old age bends over them, his breath is
renewed; and you see childhood poring
over them, pressed close to It's very bo.
som.
The flowers are the periodicals Of the
earth, The stars are those Of heaven. Yes
tho grea. periodical press of heaven is un
ceasingly at work, night sud day; and
though even it has been taxed, aud rs
emanations confined, still their circulation
is incalculable; nor have we yet heard
that judges intend instituling any prose-
cution against il. It's yet free, the only
FREQ power all over the wotld. IT'S in
deed like the air we breathe; if we have
il not, we diel
Look, then, at all our paper periodicals.
with pleasure, for the sake of the flowers
and the stars. Suppose them all extinct,
and life would be like nowerless earth,
a starless heaven. We should soon for
get the seasons themselves, the days Of
the week, the weeks Of tho month aud the
months Of the year, and the years Of the
century, and the centuries Of all time, and
all time itself flowing away on into etern-
ity. The periodicals of external nature
would soon all loose their meaning, were
there no longer Sny perio licals Of the
soul. These are the lights and shadows
Of life, merely dancing or grayely steal
ing over the dial remembrances Of the
past. teachers Of the present, prophets Of
the future hours. We should suspect
him Of bad. black heHrt, who loved not
the periodical literature Of earth and sky,
who would not weep to Gee one Of Us
flowers wither, one Of its stars fall. one
beauty to die on lbs humble bed, ono glo-
~ drop from its lofty sphere.
VINO Is AFRAID OF Lion2-Dr. Lv'
iugston says, when the breeding impulse
is upon these animals, and a man happenl
TO pass 10 windward Of them, both lion
and lioness will rush at HIM; but undel
ordinary circumstances the lion is COW
ardly animal, and never attacks man ex
cept stealthiiy. unless wounded A yerJ
curious peculiarity about him is, that q
the very last he will not make al att6cl
where he sees anything TO produce thl
suspection Of a trap. A horse belonging
TO Captlin Codringtou ran away. bui wa
stopped by the bride catchinga stump
He remained a prisoner during two days
and when he was found the whole spao
around was marked by the footprints o
4 lions, which had evidently been afraid Z
attack the halteYed horse from The Tea
that the whole thing " as a SPARE. II
, 4 common belief (says DR.. L, that ia
1 lion when he has once tasted human hest
! prefers il to any other. but the real stat
a Of the case is that q man eater IS alway
, an old lion, who has grown too in6fm
/ catch game; he resorts 10 villages for th
sake Of the goats, and il a woman or chill
! happens to 60 out they fall a prey too
4 This being his only source Of spbsistene'
! he OF course continues it until the wills
a gers dispatch him-a work Of little din
n oulty.
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