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is tnelr religion, Wnlcn Is 0eDN icOfRHip. lney
have no notion whatever of Supreme God
the Creator and Ruler of the Universe. To q
very slight extent they acknowledge some of
the Hindu deties, but only those that resemble
the peculiar objects of their own worship; and
they themselves are not IIindus by birth, caste
or religion. Their creed is, that the spirits of
men after death continue to exist, and possess
the power of inacting all kinds of evil on the
living. Whatever may have been the sex or
caste Of the human beings whose frames these
spirits animated on earth, the same is retained
by them when disembodied; but in this one
point they all agrcc-a mcasureless malignity,
and capacity for originating mischief Bless
ings are never prayed for from these spirits
their compassionate or tender feelings are never
appealed to; they are, in short, fends, and the
utmost that can be hoped FOR from them Is, that
their malice may he appeased, so far at least rs
to pass over those who reverence them, and Sc
lect other victims. They blast the crops, with
hold rain, spread murrain among the cattle,
ride on the storm, and aiiliot men with diseases,
especially with sun-strokes, madness and epi-
lepsy. They dwell in waste places, in the
densest forcstJ, and among ruins. No temples
are erected to them, but the whole Shanar cOun-
try is covered with mud pyramids, pastered
and whitcwashcd, and with figure of devil
inclinated in front, set up to mark the spots
where the people assembled for the worship Of
these revolving dcities. Sometimes n thNtched
shed, open in front, is substituted for the pyra-
MIDI but both alike arc called "pe-kovel,"
devils housc.) Some Of the figures represent
"Bhadrakal," the Hecato of the Hindus; 9TH
crs have buffalo heads; but most commonly the
pictures are those of hags devouring children.
In one village the spirit of an English officer,
named Pole, was the presiding fiend. .,
AN EDITOR MEETS 4 pRIYcE.-The editor
of the Utica Herald, who il now abroad, writing
from Tunis under date Jany 9th, narrates an
int hn hos lv ho1 wit nf hn
Royal Princes of England:
"While was examining these vast relics of
the past, my meditations were disturbed by the
arrival of young Prince Alfred of England, and
a lot of rolicking lieutenants and midshipmen,
whose ship was lying at anchor in the Bay Of
Tunis. Travel is great leveer, and sub
timely cOndescendea to treat this beardless
sprig of royalty with just as much respect as il
he hadn't been mere second son of q Queen
or L an honorary member of the John Browns
Tract fishing Association. AS happened to
know good deal more about the ruins of Car
thage than either his Royal Highness or any
of his companions, played the part of cice-
rome for the party. As l may not have occa
sion to refer to him or his again, l may STATE
that Prince Alfred is quite pretty boy, smal
and frail for his age, which is fifteen, and appa
rently modest and intelligent lie had lots o.
questions to ask about America, and said h,
would like hugely to visit it. WhereupOn
eeption of Distinguished Strangers and pledged
him a salute of 30 guns from the gallan
Forty -ffth,' besides an enrolment in the ranks
Of the Walton Fishing Club, should he visit us
am told by one Of his brother officers that h
is really popular among his shipmates, and il
not particularly disposed to take advantage o
his station. The other day he called one of tn,
mates IAN old fool for which piece of impu
dence he got box on the ear that sent hin
reeling and bubbcring to his cabin. He com
planned to his serpdRt, (who is n major of higl
standing in the army, but no notice was taker
Of the matter"
LIMITS OF DIvORcE.-It is not very long ago
writes the New York Times, if veracious rumoi
is entitled to credit, that lady in one of the
Western States applied to facile Legislature
for separation from her husband, on the very
reasonable ground that that gentleman had
"cold feet" Such plea as this is sufficiently
absurd, but it is scarcely more so than demand
ing divorce because of harsh word spoken
in the course Of an acknowledged family dis
pute. By-and-by we shall hear of suits on
the ground Of husbands refusal to pass the
salt, or a wfe's neglect to put sufficient milk
and sugar into the csffee. A creaking pair OF
boots might also be found to interfere so fright
fully with the domestic felicity of nervous
lady as to furnish her with ample pretext for nj
application to tho Legislature for freedom from
coniugal restraint Nor would it be surprising
to find acold in the female head set up as by tn
gentleman as sufficient reason to claim reloas
from the thralldom Of matrimOny. 4
An old French proverb says that "foul liner
should be washed at home" and we reall,
think it would be better for public morals, ant
less of bore to the general reader, if sucl
nonsensical and trihing family matters fur
nsh subjects for divorce cases nova days
were kept within the families which have suHi
cient leisure and sufficient folly to create ant
nurse them into life.
A NICE You've MANA correspondent 0
one Of the London papers gives q graphic rep
resentation of one of the princes of WOngsa, il
Siam, which, we have no doubt, will be reaC
with deep interest by those Of our lady reader
who are skilled judges of horse flesh:
His overgrown cheeks hang in great rolls, til
they are lost in the huge mountains of blubbe
which hide his shoulders; and, rs for his body
it must measure three yards round. His un
wieldy body, his merry, false and boastful dis
position, and his meanness in money matters
have given him among Europeans the name o
the Siamese Fastaff. lie is q merry fellow
always making jokes, and leading in the laugh
lie laughs all over-rolling about, and heavinl
his huge body in such an alarming way, ant
giving utterance to such strange sounds thu
while, that the first idea of the uninitiated is I,
send for doctor, but as he recovers, and they
watch all tho disturbed creases of fat subsilinl
into qulet, the laugh that ne mas done with ii
taken up by the spectators.
The HIGHEsT SOPRANO NoTE.--A discussion
is going on in the English papers as to th,
highest note reached by any soprano singer
Jenny Lind can sing to + in alt; MADAME
Faure and Viardot Garcia to ID sharp, while
friend Of Madame Gassier AYERS that that lad,
sings up to in alt. II this be SO, MADAME
G. bears away the palm from her competitors
La Grange has sung up to F, and probably car
do f sharp. At the time when Haydn com
posed the "Creation," the sustained G for th
soprano in the air, "Thy marvellous works,
was deemed something astonishing. In Yer
dis music ID fat or sharp very often occurs
and in the fnales of concerted pieces where
fat or d is the concluding note, many singer
are fond Of taking the octave.
Autographs may be classified and character
ized thus: Those of merchants are cents -iblt
those Of authors, dotor-ousj those of doctors
bilious; those of lawyers, feeble; those O
painters, or-ful; those Of clergymen, study ed
and those Of editors, sdncium- -Onious. E.
There is defer-ential air about the letter
received by our merchants from their Wester
debtors.