Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-02-17

Now supposing we were to allow poor
Adam IL hours daily for rest, eating and
sleeping, he would need 1904 years, &c
days, 10 hours and 40 minutes -InUest'.
gator.
Budget of Entertaining Miscellany.
GOOD NIGHT.
Good night have to say good night
To such host of peerless things
! Good night unto That fragile hand,
All queenly with its weight of rings
Good night to fond uplifted eyes,
Good night 10 chestnut braids Of hair
Good night unto the perfect mouth,
And all the sweetness nestled there
The snowy hands detain me, then
I'll have to say good night again
But there will come time, my love,
When il read my stars Alright,
shall not linger by the porch
With my adieus. Till then good night!
You wish the time were now And /,
You do not blush to wish it so.
You would have blushed yourself to death
To own so much year ago
What both those snowy hands ah then,
III have to say good night again.
T. B. ALDRIoH
Look not mournfully into the past-it
canno. return; wisely improve the present
it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy
future without fear, and with manly
hcart.-LoNaTELLow.
CERTAIN SUPERsTITIoNs--HoU Fatal
TO LIFE.-From certain statistical table;
that have been drawn up it would appear
that some hours are more fatal to life than
Others. The following conclusions are
drawn up from the hour of death in 1850
instances, of all ages, in mixed popula.
tion in every respect, the deaths occurring
during period of several years Ii the
death of 1880 persons had occurred in
differently at an hour during the twenty
four, 100 would have occurred at each
hour. But this was no means the case
There are two hours in which the popula-
ton was unmistakably below this-name.
ly, from midnight to one O'Clock, when
the deaths were SO per cent below tho
average, and from noon to one O'Clock,
when they were 81 per cent below the
average. The greatest number of deaths
occurs from five to six A. NJ, when the
excess is 40 per cent another hour oi
excess is that nine to ten O'Clock in the
morning, about l74 per cent above,
From ten A. M. to three P, NJ the deaths
are less numerous.
ON MISS ANNA BREAD.
While bellies their lovely graces spread,
And foIs around the'n autter,
I'll be content with Anna Bread,
And won't have any but her.
ABDUCTION BY AN OURANe OuTANa
"A recent traveller in Borneo relates an
abduction case, which exceeds in novelty
anything that has occurred among the fast
population of our large cities. A mon
strous female ourang outang, taking fancy
to poor Muret gentleman whom she saw
bathing, dragged him by force to a tree,
which she compelled him to climb, lodged
him in warm nest, watched him with
feminine Jealousy, fed him with fruit and
palm cabbage, and forced him to travel
from one branch to another instead Of
treading on the ground. the tale is
tragedy-for the ungrateful Muret not
only ran away at the first opportunity, but
afterwards shot the forest syren with a
poisoned arrow.
The wisest man may be wiser to-day
than he was yesterday, and tomorrow
than he is to-day. Total freedom from
change would imply total freedom from
error but this is the prerogative Of
0mniscence alone.
CULT1vATE MIRTH.-Mirth should be
cultivated as fine art, for it is altogether
a fine thing. Who ever knew mirthful
man to be a really bad one? On the
contrary, is not he, nine times out of ten
generous, humane, and good? To bt
sure he is. Mirth is great thing. II
smooths the rough places of life, makes
the disposition sweet and rosy, scatters
sunshine and flowers wherever we go
gives the world a round, jolly countenance
makes all the girls pretty, and mankinC
the best Of families. We go in for mirth
Frame your mind to mir,h and merrmsnt;
Which bars thousand harms, and lenglbens life.
A CHINESE CUsToM.--I have frequent
" met sedan chairs carrying the bride
home to her husband, and had auriculai
demonstration of their curious rule, tina
she should weep and lament on the frs
half of her journey--that from her father
house; and that she should laugh and re.
ioice on the half to her new home. An,
other custom is. that the marriage chair i
locked by her father and mother, and tn,
key is handed over to one of the brides
men, who give it to the bridegroom OIL
reaching the house. After the poor lad,
is brought into her husbands home, sh
has to undergo the openly-expressed criti
cism of his relatives, an opportunity o
which the female portion sometimes make
cruel use-"ISi1 weeks in 1oper," ii
BidcktOood'S Mogasine.
A NEW MAN.
Leave ancestry behind,
Despse heraldic art;
Thy father be thy mind,
Thy mother he thy heart
Dead names concern not thee,
Bid foreign titles wait;
Thy deAds thy pedigree,
Thy hopes thy rieh estate
A gentleman whose house was repair
ing, went one day to see how the job wa
getting on, and observing quantity G
nails lying about, said to the carpenter
"Why don't you take care of these nails
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