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HISTORY OF THE VERBENA, This
plant, which is now the delight of eve
ry garden, is Of comparatively recent
introduction. The first specimen
brought into this country was the va.
riety known as the Verbenu Molindress
a scarlet flower Mr.. Thomas Hogg,
a Florist in New York must have the
honor Of its introduction, in the year
1882. Five years after, another sort
was brought out, Verbena Tweediana,
by Mr.. Thorburn Of New York. and his
nurseryman of Philadelphia, probably
Mr.. BUST. This had great popular
ity, and was rapidly sold at three dol
lars plant. In the year 1888, Mr..
Eyre brought out a paper Of Verbena
seed to the United States from Buenos
Ayres, out Of which were raised seve-
raj new varieties, white, rose, pink and
purple. These were extensively propa-
gated from cuttings, and enjoyed
wide sale here in England. Other cit
les besides Philadelphia, and soon,
Boston, New York, Baltimore, pro-
duced their novelties.
The first striped variety produced
in this country was Striped Eclipse,
which is even now hardly eclipsed by
any Of the newer favorites After this,
came Madam Lemonnier, then Imper-
trice Elizabeth, and then Sarah and
others; and the end is not yet.
In the production of new varieties,
an important point to be aimed at is,
the getting of sorts with conspicuous
eyes, white or crimson ssThe flower, !"
says our authority in this article,
must be large, round, no indentation,
twists or fringes. The truss in the
form OF a corymb, is most esteemed,
and for bedding purposes an ample
foliage. F" 10 this may add, that the
flowers Of the truss should all expand
together, making a complete circle of
bloom at once.
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Answer next week.
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Queer Employment,

We heard pretty good story the
other day, where an honest faced Hoos-
Ter went into fancy store in Cincin-
natl in hunt Of a situation.
The proprietor or head clerk, was
sitting in the counting with his
feet elevated, contemplating humanity
through the softening influence of
cigar smoke.
Our Hoosier friend addressed him
modestly as follows:
Do you want to hire a hand about
your establishment |"
The clerk looked up indifferently, but
seeing his customer, concluded to have
little fun out Of him, so he answered
very briskly, at the same time pulling
out large and costly handkerchief,
and blowing his nose on it.
eyes, sir; what sort of situation
do you want ?"
Well, I'm not particular I'm out
of work, and almost anything will do
me for while. =
Yes, / can give you situation if
it will suit you. +"
What ID it ! What's to be done,
and what do you give?
Well, I want hands to chew rags
into paper, and if you are willing to
set in you may begin at once 2
Good as wheat Hand over your
rags.
"Here, take this handkerchief and
commence with It,"
The Hoosier saw the 'seH, and
quietly putting the handkerchief into
his pocket remarked as he turned to go
out:
"When I get It chawed stranger,
I'll fetch 1t back!
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Oliver Wendell Holmes sent two
poetical letters to the Post Office .
Of an Episcopal Fair at Pittsfeld. In
one of them the first stanza was;
Fair lady, whosoa'er thou art,
Turn this poor leaf with tenderest
care,
Ambush, 0 hush, thy breathing
heart
The ONE thou lowest will be there. z
On turning the poor leafs there
wasfound a one dollar bill with some
verses, beginning -
Fair lady, lift thine eyes and tell
If this is not a truthful letter,
This is the one CD thou lowest well,
And nought l0) can make thee love
it better. (l0)n
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Among the scions of the house of
Bonaparte is q son of old Luoien, the
Prince de Canine The young man is
priest Of the Catholic Church, and,
being the personal protege " and ia
vorite relative Of his imperial cousin
at Paris, has seen himself raised from
one clerical dignity to another, till at
last the influential post of private sec
rotary and almoner to Pho Mono had
been accorded to him Nothing else
stands between him and the purple Of
the cardinal but the fact that he is not
yet thirty. It is thought, however,
that the law may be varied to suit the
case, and that on the decease of Pic TX,
he may be made Pope through the in
huence of Napolean III.
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THE LIFE OF A PRINTER. Printers,
1t is said, die at an early age. This is
doubtless caused by the noxious efflu-
via rising from the types, want of ex-
ercise, constant employment, and the
late hours to which their work is pro-
longed. There is no other class of hu-
man beings whose privileges are so
few, whose labor is so continuous.
whose wages are SO inadeqate, as print
ers. fla TYPO" be a man of family,
he is debarred of the privileges Of en-
joying their society at all times, because
his hours of labor are almost endless,
and his moments of leisure so few that
they must be spent to recruit his ex-
hausted energies, and prepare him for
the renewal of his tolls, Poor fellow |
he knows nothing Of sociability, and is
shut out from the world as a convict
IN prison cell. Truly he is in the
world, but knows not of it. Toll
toiL-toil, by night and by day, is his
fate, until premature old age ends his
existence. For the advancement of
science, morality, and virtue, the
chords of his heart are severed one by
one, and when his life is run, and time
TO him is no more, he goes down to the
grave uncared for and unknown,
though his existence has been sacrif-
ed for the benefit of his race.
When we hear mechanics cry out
against oppression, and demanding GER
tain hours for labor and for rest, we
cannot but reflect upon the situation
Of our own craft (; how every moment
of their lives is forced into service to
earn a bare subsistence, how uncom-
plainingly they devote themselves to
the good of that same public, who wear
them as loose garment to be donned
when convenient, and dotted when no
longer needed.
Printers are universally poor men
and for two reasons. The first is
they rarely ever receive fair compen-
sation for their services. And the
second is-that Injured to continual
suffering. privation and toll, their purse
strings are ever united at the bidding
of charity, ana the hard earned dimes
are freely distributed for the relief of
their fellow men. Thus it is
that they live poor, and if suitable
reward does not await them after death,
sad indeed must be the beginning, the
existence, and the end, of poor typos.
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Dates Worth Remembering.

+ 1880, Glass windows first used for
light.
1885. Chimneys first put to houses.
1855. Lead pipes for carrying water.
1890. Tallow candles for lights.
1899. Spectacles invented, by an
italian.
1902. Paper first made from linen.
1341. Wooden cloth first made in
England.
l410. Art of painting in oil
1440. Art of printing from movea-
BILE types.
1477. Watches first made in Germa-
ny.
1910. Variations in the compass
first noticed.
1543. Pins first used, in England.
1890. Telescope invented, by Porta
and Jansen.
1890. Jupiter's satellites discovered
by Jansen.
1901. Tea first brought to Europe
from China.
1908. Theatre erected in England
by Shakespeare.
1910. Thermometer invented, by
Sanctorius.
1919 Circulation of blood discover
ed by Harry.
1925. Bricks first made of any re-
quired size.
1925. Printing in colors invented.
1929 Newspaper first established,
1880. Shoe buckles first made.
1885 Wine made from grapes, in
England.
1899 Pendulum clocks invented.
1641. Coffee brought to England.
1641 Sugar cane cultivated, in the
West Indies.
1913. Barometer invented, by Tor,
ricelli, in Italy.
1916. Air guns invented.
1649. Steam engine invented.
1850. Bread first made with yeast.
1859. Cotton first planted in the
United States.
1853. Fire engine invented.
1856. Steam engine improved, by
Watt.
1885. stereotyping invented, in
Scotland.
1888 Animal magnetism discovered,
by Mesmer
1882. Telegraph invented, by Hen
ry.
1889. Daguerreotype made, by Da-
guerre, in France.
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IFoR THE PREss,I
Charade.

I've travelled many weary mile,
Ger deserts drear and oceans grand,
Z Ger Asia's wastes, o'er Europe's plains,
And DER Columbia's happy land
But now my strength is almost spent,
My past transgressions pray forgive,
living, lived that man might die,
| dying, die that men may live,
Answer next week.
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A popular writer says it is not the
drinking, but the getting sober, that
is SO terrible in . drunkard's life
10 which Prentice adds; some persons,
influenced by this imbortant consider
alton, seem to have deliberately resolved
never to get sober.
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PRoF. BUoKHAM, at the Vermont
Teachers Convention, convulsed the
audience by relating an aneebote. He
said that at the first district school he
ever taught, he announced one day
that on the following Monday he
would commence a parsing class. A
bright-eyed little girl one of the pu-
pills, ran home and burst into her
mothers parlor, where sewing society
was in session, and with uplifted hands
cried, !" O. mother, Mr.. Buckham is
going to have sparkling class ~
The sewing society was delighted to
hear it.
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NUMBER OF WORDS USED. From a
report of one of Hon. George P. Mar
shes lectures on the English language,
we take the following extracts
The number of good English words
found in use by good writers could
hardly fall short Of one hundred thous-
and. But we know these mainly as
we know Greek, as book words, and
not as the language of speech Even
if a man was able on extraordinary oc-
casions to bring into use in wordy bat
tie half of that number, he generally
contented himself with far fewer
Each individual used in his daily life a
repertory of words to some extent pc
culiar to himself-one which would
furnish key to his private history.
Few scholars used as many as ten
thousand English words; ordinary peo-
pie not more than three thousand.
In all Shakespeare there was not more
than fifteen thousand words; in all
Milton, eight thousand. Of the Egyp-
tian hieroglyphics there were but
eight hundred, and it was said that
the vocabulary of the italian opera
was scarcely greater. We each found
a very limited vocabulary enough for
our purposes. One man would say
a thoughtful heart another CRATE
full spirit /; one fancy another imagi-
nation ; one described his friend as OF
a sanguine temperament another as
OF hopeful disposition one man be-
gan to build, another commenced build
| ing; each had his own words and
stuck to them. A man of controlled
passions used plain words, while pas
sionate man used many intensives.
Loose thinkers contented themselves
with general applications for large
Glasses of ideas, while logical thinkers
used more and more specific words. -
The arts demanded more new words
then anything else.
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A New England writer, speaking of
the characteristics Of different races of
people, says that it has been found
that negroes can be better trusted than
white men not to betray secrets We
suppose this is upon the principle that
they always keep dark, =
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gahbath Sending.
iron THE PREss.l
Ginning of the Sabbath Bells,
BY HARVEY HAvELASp.

All! thou holy Sabbath bells,
To this heart strange story tells.
When /, mere youngling boy,
Little knowing of but joy;
Thinking that the world in view
Was the world in extent too
Never dreaming that outside
There, impePd, a mortal tide -
Needing little else than God
And parents kindly word
Ever feeling peace and rest,
Faith akin to being blest--
Weed thy gentle melody
And won pure felicity.
In my innocence of youth.
Erst told lie, in sooth--
Living an unclouded day,
Nor DISTURBED by darksome ray
Summon'd by thy holy strain,
And hope of future gain,
Ere the sun would kiss the morn,
would HE across the lawn
10 the village church repair
To mingle with the cody there.
There, in joyousness have
Long'd to lay me down and die.
Then, sweet bells, thy minstrels9
Was an all in all to me.
Now that innocence has flown,
Like flower rudely blown,
And melancholy turn
Wanes me to an early urn,
Thy sweet music Sabbath morn,
Breathes to me an air forlorn.
Yet, at times my heart doth bound
AS of old, at thy sweet sound
But an instant, then apace
Droopeth to its dreary place.
Then to childhood's hour turn I,
When I long'd that might die,
And in momentary gloom
Wish that it had been my doom.
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A golden GUTTER. The journal de
Constantihople gives an. account Of a
curious religious ceremony which has
just taken place in that city. II is
the reception by the Sultan Of the
golpen gutter in which is collected the
rain that falls at Mecca, and which
thenceforward is considered by the
Mussulmen as holy water. This gut
ter has been carried from Mecca, and
received by the Sultan with pompous
ceremonies It has been placed in the
old palace at Constantinople, where
the arms, flags, and other memorials of
Mohammed are carefully preserved
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True modesty is a flower whose
grateful odor endures for ages. False
modesty is a weed as poisonous as
stramoniqm, and as deadly, in its ul-
innate ELECTS, as the prnssic acid dis
titled from the green and pretty leaves
of the peach tree.
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Answers.

Answertolast weeks epigma-Alex-
ander Van Humboldt.
Answer to last weeks Anagrams-
1st. New Hope.
I'd. Cambden.
Sd. Peoria.
4th. Easton.
5th. Milton.
9Th. Moravia.
18th. Bethel.
9Th, Derby.
Answer to last weeks puzzle-11,
GAP, 365, TAT, eO1, SS2, 6ll,542,776,
11s, 846, &c., O6, s48, SO4, O47, 2eO, a73,
761, 1926, 100, s42, 285, 1872, a5l, 500, 400,
8s4, 4O5, se2, All, 692, 1876 years, 8 mo-,
2weeks, 5 days, is hours, and 40 min
utes.
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Mr.. Williams, an English Missionary
gives an account of a grand marriage
feast given by chief of the FIJI Is
lands, at the marriage of his daughter,
at which the good cheer had to be es-
timated by yards and hundred weights,
rather than by dishes. There was a
wall Of fish five feet high and twenty
yards in length, beside turtles and pigs,
and vegetables in proportion. -One
dish at the same feast was ten feet
long, four feet wide, and three fee,
deep, spread over with green leaves, on
which were placed roast pigs and tyr.
ties
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A man was saving wood one day,
and his saw being very dull, he became
angry, and throwing it down upon the
ground, exclaimed OF all the saws |
ever saw saw [ never saw a saw saw
like this saw saws.
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b. B. BLACKWELL, EDITOR.

" Wall, for my part" sed Jane Ma
ria Peasley, who is the crossest ole
made in the wurln, 81 think yu ak
like pack Of fules."
Sez /, Mis- Peasely, air YOU pa,
runt."
SEE she, "No, | ante"
| SEE I, g Mis- Peasely, yu never will
bee."
She left.
We sot their talkin & farfn until
"the switchin hour of mite when grave
yards yawng and Josts trupe 4th," as
old Bill Shakspire aptlee observes in
his dramy of John Sheppard, esq.,. or
the Morul House Breaker, when we
broke up and disbursed,
Muthr & childrun is a doin we'll, &
as Resolushins is the order of the day,
| feel obleeged if yule insert the foller-
in -
WHEREAS, 2 episodes has happened
up to the undersined's house, which is
TWINS; & WHEREAS, I like this stile,
SADIE Twins bein Of the main perswa-
shun, and both boys, there4 B it
RESOLVED, That to them naburs who
did the fare thing by said episodes my
hart felt thanks is doc.
Resolved, That I do most heartily
thank Engine Ko. No, II, who under
the impreshun frum the fuss at my
house on that hauspishus mite that there
was konfagrashun goin on, cum gal
yiently to the spot, but kindly refrain.
ed from squirtin.
ResQgved, That frum the Bottom of
my Sole do [ thank the Baldinsville
brass band fur given up the ide of
Sarannadin me, both on that crate
mite and sense.
RESOLVED, That my thanks is doc
several members Nv the Baldinsville
meeting house, who fur 2 hole dase
haint kalled me a sinful skoffer or ins
treetid me to mend my wlckid vase,
and jine SADIE meeting house to onct.
ResoLued, That my buzzum teams
with meny kind emoshuns lords the full
lering individoouls, to whit namelee -
Mis- Square Bax ter, who Generous
ly refoozed 2 take a sent fur a bottle
NV campfire; lawyer Perkenses wife
who rit sum versus on the Eppisodes
the editor of the Baldinsville Bugle Of
Liberty who nobly assisted me in wal
1upin my Kangaroo, which sagashus
little cuss disturbed the eppisodes by
his eutragus skreechins & kikkins up j
Mis- Hirum Doolittle who kindly fur
nisht sum cold vittils at a tryin time
when it wasn't konyenient to kook Wit
tils at my house; & the Peaseleys,
Parsunes & Watsuntes fur thare many
ak w kindness.
Trooly youres,
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1t is customary in some parts Of the
country, either upon railroads or steam
boats, to exact only half fare from
ministers Of the different churches.
One pleasant day Captain S.
stood upon the upper deck Of his steam
er tolling the last bell previous to her
departure, when he was accosted by a
erious looking individual in the fol
lowing terms
Are you Captain S..
i am, sir, said the Captain, with q
turn Of the head and quizzical glance.
What is the regular fare to Mobile?'
Two dollars and a half.
Well Captain, | am a Methodist
preacher, What will you charge me z
Apparently in a deep study, Tor a
moment the Captain seemed to take
the measure Of our clerical friend, and
replied in his peculiar tone:
Well, guess we shant charge you
cent more than anybody else, ;
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A man, giving his name as Mcdonald,
was arrested in Washington, on
Friday, on suspicion of having been
one Of Browns party at Harper's
Ferry.
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EXCELLENT RULES. Il. To hear as
little as possible Of what is to the pre-
jpdice of others.
2. To believe nothing Of the kind
till / am absolutely forced to it.
8. Always to believe that, if the
other side were heard, q very different
account would be given Of the matter.
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Conundrunls.

Why is a woman in love like man
of profound knowledge /? Because she
understands the arts and sighences.
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When q man has no design but to
speake plain truth, he may say
great deal in q very narrow compass.
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Why is anything reconsidered ac-
counted profitable Z" Because it is
considered again.
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An Irish pedagougue recently in
formed bis pupils that the feminine
gender should be applied to all ships
and vessels afoat, except mail steam
ers and menrof-war,
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The population Of the United States
increases one million . year, or two
thousand every day;
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WHAT THEY ARE NOVA young
chuck nowadays, is curiQusly COM
pound he has a beaver on his head,
goatee on his chin, kids on his hands,
calves on his legs, and doe-skin also J
casts sleeps eyes and is looked upon
by his dee ting duck as deer at any
price.
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ITUUIy yUures,
-ARTEMUS WARD.

THE ERUPTION OF VEsUvIUs.
The mount is in astate of eruption, lava
having now reached a point three
miles from the crater. The present
mouth was opened Is months ago, by
violent earthquake, the cinders from
which were carried as far as Constan-
tinople-another proof of the great
eastern current. The lava now issues
from the base of the cone, lava now
passes down the valley below Piano
Dele, Ginestre, and falls into the great
ravine known as the Sasse- Grande,
$50 feet deep by 1000 feet broad,
which is now completely filled. Be-
low this it cuts across the carriage
road in three places, destroys about
twenty houses and some olive grounds
and vineyards, and is now near the
Cemetery of Portiee whose inhabitants
are full of apprehension. 1t is estima-
ted that $4,000, 900 cubic yards of
lava have issued from the crater dur
ing this eruption. The temperature
Of the lava, is 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
The gnides have provided themselves
with moulds in which they cast medal
lion heads of the King and Queen of
Naples, Louis Napoleon, Queen Vic
toria, Victor. Emanuel, Czar Alexan-
der, and even Mazzini, Murat and
| Garabaldi.
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RECOVERY OF REVOLUTIONARY REL
ICs AT the foot of the Totowa Hills,
near Paterson, n j., are the remains
of camp, occupied by the American
troops during the winter of 1778-9,
and consisting of numerous piles of
stones in three or four rows which ap~
pear to have extended for a mile in
length. At different times, ashes,
bones and other relics have been dis
covered near these old camp-fres.
A few days since Mr.. Geo. Petrie,
whose farm crosses the ground, on
opening one of these piles of stones,
discovered an iron chain, stirrup and
other articles, which had evidently
lain on deposite for over eighty years,
The locality is about d mile above the
Great Falls, and will repay visit to
all who love to dwell upon the priva-
tions and tripmphs of our Revolution.
On rock adjoining the Falls are the
letters, &c, W., l779," believed te
have been cut by the Father of his
Country at the time Of the sojourr
there.