The Oxford intelligencer., 1861-04-17


the linen must be sheet iron.
To PREVENT DomRsrrcs BREAKING Anything.
Keep cat in the house, and you will never
hear Of anything being broken by the servants.
IT is not uncommon for Spanish ladies' to pos
sess hundred fans. They collect and hoard
them, as German collects pipes, as geologist
hunts after specimens.
USEFUL knowledge can have no enemies ex-
ccpt the ignorant; it cherishes youth, delights
the aged, is an ornament in prosperity, and
yields comfort in adversely.
fr is Just saying of an old writer that men,
like books begin and end with blank leaves
infancy and senility and we may add that there
is oftentimcs nothing better between the two.
Tue following beautiful lines are from the pen
Of Charles Chauncey Burr who has very few
equals in adroitly turning compliment to the
ladics:-
Ny sweet lady fell asleep
Upon a bank of flowers,
Where the dewF odors keep
Their sweets with morning showers.
The honey-bce comes there and sips,
And oft this doubt discoscs-
care the roses there her lips?
Or arc her lips the roscs:'
for living in the midst of bad men, just as roses
and violets are said to spring more fragrant near
garlic and onions, the latter imbbng all the i'll
odor Of the earth.
A Scotch girl, named Barbara Crawford has
been found in one of the islands in Torres
Straits She was the only person saved from
wreck, and had been kindly used by the natives,
among whom she lived five years.
Ill MANNERS Pride, ill-nature and want of
sense are the three great sources of ill-manners;
without some one of these defects, no man will
behave himself i'll for want of experience.
TEARs-Thcrc il a sacredncss in tears They
are not the mark of weakness, but of powcr!-
They are the messengers Of overwhelming grief
Of deep contrtion, and of unspeakablc love.
We never respect persons who aim simply to
amuse US There is vast difference between
those we call amusing men and those we demon
mate entertaining; we laugh with the former
and reflect with the latter.
Derry is the little blue sky over every heart
and sotil--ovCr every lfe-large enough for a
star to look between the clouds, and for the
skyl9rk Happiness to rise hcavcnward through
and sing in.
By the last news from Japan we learn that
town of ten thousand inhabitants, situated
some two hundred miles from Kanagawa was
entirely swallowed up by an earthquake, few
months since.
Ak Irishman, referring 10 the sudden death
Of a relative was asked il he lived high
"Wcll. ! can't say he did" said Terrence,
'but he died high-likc the United States Bank,
he was suspended"
FoRcE or ITABIT.-Tt has been told Of the late
Mr.. Peter Moore, and was actually true Of Sec
rotary Scraggs who began life as footman,
that in the days OF his opulcnce he once handed
some ladies into their carriage, and then from
the mere force of habit, gotup behind.
He who is passionate and hasty, is generally
honest 1t is your old, assembling hypscrite
Of whom you should beware. There is no de-
ccption in a bulldog II is only the cur Chat
sncaks up and bites you when your back is
turned
Manners arc the shadows of virtlics-the
momentary display of those qualities which our
fellow creatures love and respect If we strive
to become, then, what VIC strive TO appear, man.
ners may often be rendered useful guides in the
performance Of our duties.
IT is no small commentator to manage a lit
Tie well. lie is good WAGNER who can turn
in little room. To live well in abundance is
the praise Of the estate, not of the person. We
should study more to give good account of
little than how to make il more
IGNoRAScE-Never be ashamed of confcssing
your ignorance, for the wisest man upon earth
is ignorant Of many things, insomuch that what
he knows is mere nothing in comparison with
what he does not know. There cannot be a
greater folly in the world than to suppose that
we know everything.
Anephcw of Mr.. Baggcs, in explaining the
mysteries of tca-kcttle, describes the benefits
of the application Of steam to useful purposes
For all Of which" remarked Mr. Bagges, I've
have principally to thank-what was his namcy"
WATT was his name, | believe, uncle" replied
the boy.
MARCH or ISTELLEcT.-A beegar, some time
ago, applied for aims at the door Of a partisan
Of the AntisBegging Society. After in vain de-
failing his manifold sorrows, the inexorable gen
tleman pcrcmptorily dismissed him. go away"
said he; Ego, we Gamma gle We naething." "You
might, at least" replied the mendcant, with an
air Of great dignity and archness, shave refused
me dramatically"
Az ignorant Dutchnlan passing number Of
railroad tracks in the course of a days Journey.
and never having seen any before, was non
plusscd to account for their use. At length,
after examining one Of them for about twenty
five minutes, and scratching his head, he ejacu-
lated, icy mustn't be iron clamps, to keep der
ertquakes from breaking up der road"
FoR some time past, Il has been found that
there were great advantages in floating the mag
netic indcx-card Of a ships compass ON liquid
instead Of supporting It on pivot. It has now
been proposed by N. Santi, a manufacturer at
Marseiies, 70 employ glyccrine for this purpose
This succeeds admirably; the great oscillations
caused in the compass-card by the vibration Of
the screw in steamers arc almost entirely check
cd by the density and viscOsity Of this liquid
PAEsoS Green was IN The habit sometimes of
drawing upon box Of sermons bequeathed him
by his father, who was also minister, and upon
one occasion got hold Of sermon, by mistake,