Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-03-12
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Flowers

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Flowers.
Flowers, of all created things, are the
most innocently simple, and most superbly
complex, playthings for childhood, orna--
.ments Of the grave, and companions of the
cold corpse Flowers, beloved by the won
dering idiot, aud studied by the thinking
man Of science; flowers that INCREASINGLY
expand to Heaven their grateful, and to
man their cheerful looks, partners Of hu
man joy-soothers Of human suffering
fit emblcms Of the yictor's triumphs-of the
young brides bushes; welcome to the
crowded halls, and graceful upon solitary
graves. Flowers adorn the volume Of ma
ture; what the expression "God is love, ;"
is in the volume Of revelation. What a
desolate place would be world without a
flower! 1t would be face withouta smile.
| a feast without welcome. Are not flow
ers the stars Of the earth and are not our
stars the flowers Of heaven? One cannot
look closely at the, structure of flower
without loving it. They are the means and
ministration Of mans love to his fellow
creatures; for they first. awaken in his
mind sense Of the beautiful and good
The very inutilty of flowers is their excel
lent and great beauty, for they lead US to
thoughts Of generosity and moral beauty.
detached from and superior to all selfish:
ness s; 50 that they are pretty lessons in ma
lures. book Of instruction, teaching man
that he liyetL not by bread alone, but that
he hath another than animal life. ~
INSTRUMENT FOR OBSERVING THE Sun
Mr. Dawes, the English astronomer, has
invented a peculiar contrivance, BY means
| of which he has been enabled to scrutinize,
under high magnifying power, minute por-
( lions Of the solar disc. He places metallic
screen, pierced with . very small hole, in
the focus of the telescope, where the image
Of the sun is formed A small portion only
Of the imageis thus allowed to pass through,
so that it may be examined by the eye
piece without mountaineering the observer
by heat or glare. BY this arrangement,
Mr.. Dawes has observed peculiarities in the
suns surface which are discernible in no
other way. Before these observations, the
lark spots seen on the suns surface were
supposed to be portions of the solid body Of
sun, laid bare to our view by those i'm
mense fluctuations in the luminous regions
Of its atmosphere to which it appears to be
1 subject. 1t now appears that these dark
portions are only an additional and inferior
stratum Of a very feeble luminous portion Of
the suns atmosphere.
REMARKABLE.-Abo bout "a months ago, a
declivitous slope, on the margin Of the
James Rriver, near the Petersburg Rail
road bridge, was made the place of depos-
ire for the cinders from the Tredegar
Works, at the instance Of the owner Of the
property, Mr. JAS f. Thomas, who desired
to improve it The deposite was confined
from time to time, until large level sur
face was formed, and then it was discon-
tinued in consequence Of the discovery that
the sub strata OF cinders originally deposit
ed had ignited. The whole mass several
feet below the surface, says the Wing, is
now on fire, and has been for several
months, causing settling Of that part
nearest the river. Very little smoke is
nitted from this subterraneous combus-
ton, but the surface is very hot, and in
many places is cracked with assures The
fact that this fire has been progressing for
80 long time, in the manner described, is
certainly little extraordinary.
CORRECT SpEAK1NG-W advise all young
people to acquire in early life the habit Of
good language, both in speaking and writ
ting, and to abandon, as early as possible,
any use of slang words and phrases. The
longer they live, the more difficult the ac-
QUESTION of such language will be; and if
the golden age Of youth the proper season
for the acquisition of language, be passed
IN its abuse, unfortunate victim Of neglect
education is very probably doomed to talk
slang for life. Money is not necessary to
procure this education Every man has it
[ in bis power. He has merely to use the
language which be reads, instead of slang
which be hears-to form bis taste from the
best speakers and poets Of the country-to
treasure up choice phrases in his memory,
and to habituate himself to their use-avoid-
ing, at the same time, that pedantic precis-
ion which shows rather the weakness OF a
vain ambition than the polish Of an educat
ed mind. Home journal.
A TOUCHING INcIDENT One of the sad
dest stories we ever read, was that Of lit
tie child in Switzerland, pet boy, inst al
yours is reader, whom his mother one
bright morning, dressed in beautiful jack.
ct, all shining with guilt buttons, and gay
as mothers love could make it, and then
permitted him to 60 out to play He had
scarcely stepped from the door Of the Swiss
cottage, when an enormous eagle snatched
him from the earth and bore him high up a.
.nong the mountains, and yet within sigh
Of the house of which he had been the JOY
There he was killed and devoured, the place
being point which was mace essible to maj
SO that no relief could be afforded. In de
stroying the child the eagle 50 placed BIZ
gray jacket in the nest that the sun woult
Shine upon its lovely trimmings and orna
ments. For years it was visible from tn
lowlands long after the eagle had abandon
ed the nest What sight it must have beef
to the parents Of the victim.
A QUEER PApER.-A traveller in Nor
way, writing to the Boston Recorder, give
an account Of the northermost paper in TIL
world, the Tromsoe Times. It is printe,
, at Tromsoe, little Island village. Of abou
: OQA ;aha hitants on the coast If Norway