Smyrna times., 1858-10-14

not elevated his mind above that of others hi
Judgments are not more penetrating-his re
marks not more delicate, nor his actions more
beautiful than those of others. 1t is who'll,
dlnerent with the wise pan: he moves fal
ABOVE the common level-he observes every
thing from different point of view in his en-
ployments there is always an aim, in his view:
always freedom, and all with him is above the
common level.-JeGn Paul Richter.
Folly of Atheism.
had rather believe all the fables in the lie.
gend, the Talmud, and the Koran, than that this
universal frame is without a mind. God never
wrough: miracles TO convince Atheists, because
His ordinary works are sufficient to convince
Them. 1t is true, that little philosophy inci.
meth mems minds to Atheism but depth in phi
losophy bringeth them back 10 religion: for
while the mind of man looketh upon second
causes scattered, it may sometimes rest on
them, and go no further, but when it beholdeth
the chain of them confederate aud linked toge-
ther' 1t must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Lord Bacon.
Term of Life.
The English people exercise a degree Of care
and vigilance in the collection of statistical
facts touching life, health and disease that giyes
them and the world very important and striking
conclusions. To the calculations of longevity
made IN the usual manner of insurance compa.
MES, they add the fact of inlemperance, and
then show the difference in figures. thus:-
: Three hundred and tif1y-seven Incorporate
persons die for every one hundred and ten OF
temperate habits. AT twenty years Of age an
intemPerate man may expect to live fifteen
and half years longer, while temperate ma n
Of the same age may expect TO live forty. .four
years longer At thirty an incorporate man
Will probably live fourteeen years longer;
temperate man, thirty years longer. At forty
~ Intemperate man will ordinarily live twelve
years years longer, while temperate man will
I'VE twenty nine years longer"
OF Boy
a letter to the Lancaster Times gives an ac-
count OF the singular phenomenon which has
leen alluded to in the newspap pers-that of
lower growing from human flesh. Ii appears
nat certain child in Lancaster, at two wears
If age, became afflicted with the hin disease.
md fingered on aud grew. having attained Ia
'he age of fourteen years at the time of his
ieath, few weeks since. During a period OF
llne months previous TO his death, numerous
ibscesecs were formed, and the lad was nearly
reduced TO skeleton. A day or two previous
10 his death, during the night, double stem
md two flowers grew from the calf of ene OF
MS legs, little below the knee JOINT, the limb
Deing apparently much swollen. The writer
states that {" hundreds Of seeds were found in
he room after the boys death, similar to those
If the passion flower" and that call say the
flower resembles the passion rose" The at
tending physician, Dir. Iiawiey, deemed it so
as 10 require other witnesses to tes-
Ity TO the fact, and he accordingly called in Dr..
stevens, the Rev. Mr.. Walker, and others
This flower (tungus) grew in one night 10 the
height of three aud half inches, and has since
been sent on TO this city. where il is undergoing
a thorough investigator, and will be nc doubt
Autographed and described by those having
good opportunity to enter into the minutiG.
The Snore- onicon.
Music to go to sleep by, has been wisely sug-
gested by Nature-as is Naure's way of half.
doing things. We see the hint taken and car
ried out, in the following paragraph:
The latest novelty from Germany is mu-
slcal bed, which receives The weary body and
'laps it into Elysium.' 1t is an
invention of mechanic in Bohemia, and is so
constructed that by means of hidden mechan-
ism, pressure upon the bed causes soft and
gentle air of Auber 10 be played, which con.
tlnues long enough to lull the most we keful to
sleep. At the head is clock, the hand of
which being placed at the hour the sleeper
wishes TO rise, when the time arrives the bed
plays a march of Sponteni, with drums and
cymbals, and, in short, with noise enough to
rouse the seven sieepers".
Getting Tight turned to account.
NJ Jacowsli, practitioner of Paris, has re-
yived the practice of compression as a means of
preventing pain; aud in this way several in.
stances of entirely painless extraction of teeth
have been effected. The compressor he en-
ploys consists of two pads, connected by steel
spring, much like hernial truss. The spring
is passed around the read, and pads are applied
either within the meatuS auditoriuS on each
side, or behind the rami of the jaw, in front Of
the ears" r.HH fN
The New Fruit Gatherer. s,sras
An ingenious invention has been introduced
superior to any similar contriyance for plucking
fruif A tainted rod IpnOfhenad Mt ntaaaora