The Sierra citizen., 1859-12-31

their brains any such topc-seeing that the poets
who are better Judges have often found that flowers
, women are mutually Illustrative of each other
There many varieties of flowers just there are
OF women some flowers beautiful merely to the eye
and exhae no fragrance to the so also, there
some women of great personal beauty, around whom
there is no aroma of virtue sentiment Other flowers
are exceedingly beautiful and have delicious fragrance
too, reminding of those whose exterior
oveness seems to be the natural reflection of the vr
tues that bejewel their hearts, Other flowers again.
not at all beautiful to the eye and vet they are full
OF the most exquisite olor. These remind of those
women of external planness whose minds adorned
with the gems of thought and sentiment, and whose
hearts the homes of all those grace elegancies
that live ong after beauty of form and color has
become dim and passed away. Thus we might run
through the whole catalogue of flowers and find for them
the most striking resemblance the varieties of
kind.
Woman originally placed in the garden, and the
garden now seems to be the most appropriate place for
her, She is always to advantage when she is seen
extending encouragement to plants that backward
and directing the course which the most aspiring shall
pursue How sweetly she attends the scky plant which
droops its head beneath the MONDAY ervors and while
she gives it the sweet persuasion sticks and props and
cup of cold water it grateful for her genial at
tention and seems to try to look fresh and cheerful
more She scratches and oosens the earth around
the ste and takes therefom every weed and blade of
grass that would suck up its darling life blood. Then,
again, how deXterousy she teaches the climbing plants;
how deicatey she assists them in their upward efforts
until step by step they the upward round of am
bltons ladder. What taste she exhibits in the
rangement of her plants. She may have group here
and a group there but she more frequently rejoces in
combinations of starry eyed Beauties in which all the
coors of the rainbow shall be successvely displayed
1t is true that cold booded economists would say
that lovely woman thus employed in making her home
beautiful wastes her time, but the sulky fellow might
with as much reason that employed in de-
veoping and refining the highest sentiment her ma
ure, is wasting her time Such employment of time is,
In the nobest sense profitable and only she wastes her
time, who neglects the identifying of her home in
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the locker.-L0uiSvUe Journal.
MYSTERIES OF THE NIGHT.-There is nothing very odd
in nv feeling nervous when happen to lie awake and
get listening for sounds Just keep your eyes open at
any time after midnight What horrd, strange, suggest
i've, unaccountabe noises you will hear The stiffness
of the night is vulgar All the dead things
to be alive. Crack That's the old chest of drawers;
you hear it crack in the daytime Crack! There's
door ajar you know you shut them all. Where
that latch be that rattles 500 Is anybody trying it soft
ly 4? worse than anybody, is? (Cod shver.) Then a
sudden gust that jars all the windows; very strange-
there does not to be any wind about that it belongs
to. When it stops, you hear the laboring in the
powdery beams overhead Then steps outside-a stray
animal no doubt All right-but gentle moisture
breaks out all and then something like whs
tie cryanothef gust of wind perhaps that accounts
for the rustng that Just make your heart turn and
tumble about that it felt like live rat under
your ribs than part of your body then crash of
something that had fallen-blown over, very like
Paes aoster q IN Cells! for yon damp and cold,
death watch is frightened and has stopped ticking.
No-night is an awful time for strange noises and Sc
cret dongs. Who dreamed till of sleepess
neighbOrs told of it, of that walpurg gathering of
birds and beasts of prey-oXes and owls and and
eagles, that come from all the country moonsIiny
nights to crush the CLAIMS and muscles and pick the eyes
of dead fishes that the so'm had thrown up? Our old
mother Nature has pleasant and CHEEKY for
when she comes to in her dress of blue and gold
over the eastern hilltops but when she follows up
stairs to beds in her suit of black velvet and dia
mOnd every crack of her sandals and every whisper of
her lips is full of mystery and fear-atantic Monthly
FOLLY OF PRIDE.-Take quiet, sober moment of
life, add together the two ideas of pride and Be-
hold him, creature of span, stalking through infinite
space in all the grandeur of ideness Perched
speck of the universe every wind of heaven strikes into
his blood the GOODNESS of death his soul floats from his
body like melody from the string day and night, like
dust the Wheel he is rolled in the heavens through
labyrinth of worlds, and all creations of God fam
ing above and beneath Is this creature to make for
himself of glory, to deny his own flesh. to mock
his fellow, sprung from that dust to which both will re-
turn Does the proud not err? Does he not die?
When he reasons is he not often stopped by difficulties!
When he acts, is he tempted by pleasure When
he lives is be free from pain When he dies can he
escape the grave? Pride is the heritage of
humility should dwell with fray and atone for ignor
ance, error and imperfection.- Sidney Smith,
ASTRONOMICAL CLock,-Ther is in the town of Nam
tucket, Mass. astronomical clock made by Hon Walter
Folger when he only twenty two years of age The
and completed in his mind before he commenced TO put
it together 1t keeps the correct date of the year, and
the figures change the year changes The and the
moon represented by balls appear to rise and set the
face of the clock, with all their variations and phases
in the heavens 1t also indicates the suns place in the
ecliptic Keeps account of the motion of the moons
nodes around the ecptic the suns and moons declina
on The wheel that keeps the date Of the yeal revolves
around in hundred years 1t remains still
years. and after that time starts regularly notch.
This clock considered, by those who have witnessed
it's performance to be of the greatest specimens of
mechanical ingenuity in the country, requiring not only
mechanical skill, but perfect knowledge of astronomy.
When the inventor died few years since, it
down. and could be found to adjust the parts.
One of his sons, clockmaker by trade, studied upon it
for two years, and after making vast amount of math
ematical calculations finally regulated its motions,
that its pendulum swings in its regular The
inventor also, when fifty four years of age constructed
rejecting telescope, by which he enabled to dscov
spots the planet Venus. Mr. Folger attend
ed school but few months to learn the rudiments of
learning, but be possessed superior natural abilities,
mind that thrsted for information, and pow
ers of application and perseverance A scientific
who is conversant with the leading minds of tt
try in speaking of him, said he the greatest mahe
matician he ever
SOMETHING WORTH KNowING.-Under this head the
Cincinnati Commercial says: A day or two since
workman, descending vel! which had been excayated
became insensble light let down, and as imme-
diatey extinguished from the cause, when one OF
bis proposed to descend to his assistance put
was prevented by the orean who wisely remarked nat
one man could he rescued more easily than couple
AS speedily as possible he procured quantity OF un-
Stacked me which he cast into the pitt and then dashed
down pail of water The good effect was evident IN q
hpfof r,,D ~ fho Uaa III.