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Miscellaneous
BLUE-EYED MARY.
Come, tell me blue-eyed stranger,
Ah! whither dost thou roam,
Through this wide world a ranger?
. Hast thou no friends, no home?
They call'd me blue-eyed Mary,
When friends and fortune smiled;
But ah! how fortunes vary
I now am sorrow's child.
Young William was my lover,
I thought our heai-ts were join'd;
But ah ! he's proved a rover,
And Mary's left behind.
With these boqucts of posies
I wander through the streets,
And cry, "Who'll buy Yny roses?"
But no kind voice me greets.
Come here 111 buy thy flowers
To case thy hapless lot
All wet with morning showers
I'll buy forget me not.
Kind Sir, then take these roses,
They're fading like my youth
But never, like these posies,
Shall wither Mary's truth.
Then gazed at her the stranger,
And clasp'd her to his breast
No more I'll be a ranger;
For William now is blest.
This kiss was known to Mary
She then in rapture smiled,
And said, "How fortunes vary
No more I'm sorrow's child."
THE STAR OF EVE.
Tell us, thou glorious Star of Eve,
What sees thine eye!
Wherever human hearts can heave
Man's misery!
.Life, but a lengthened chain;
Youth, weary, wild and vain j
Age, on a bed of pain,
Longing to die:
Yet there's a rest
Where earthly agonies
Awake no sighs
In the cold breast.
Tell us, thou glorious Star of Eve,
Sees not thine eye,
Some spot, where hearts no longer heave,
In thine own sky?
Where all life's wrongs are o'er,
Where anguish weeps no more,
Where injured spirits soar
Never to die?
QUE RE.
Minerva elected, I pray tell me true,
Were men not to woo women, what women',
would do?
ANSWER Ry a Young Lady.
Were men not to woo us, you ask what we'd:
do? j
Zounds! I'll tell you though I blush red as'
rubies,. i
You should find we would woo, and better
than you,
For we'd take no denial vc boobies.
Pcligious Societies. The city
(says the New-York EveningPost)
jjs at present thronged with v isitors
from nearly all parts of the Union,
'who have come to attend the an
niversaries of several societies
principally of a religious nature.
The Sunday School Union ce
lebrated its anniversary on Tues
day, 8th May. A procession ofl
about 000 children Irom this city
and Brooklyn was formed at the
Park, which proceeded to the Cas
tle Garden, were religious exer
cises were had and addresses
"were made by several of the Cler
gy. In the evening the Society
assembled at the Middle Dutch
Church. Here the Annual Re
port was read, from which it ap
peared that instruction is now giv
en in 62 schools belonging to the
Society, the first of which was es
tablished in 181G. The whole
number of male scholars at pre
sent is 4715, and that of female
scholars 2081 making G79G in
the whole: The number of teach
ers is iuu5. The Schools pos
sess 24 libraries, containing G&00
volumes.
The Anniversary of the Ame
rican Tract Society took place on
Wednesday, 9th May, at the Mid
dle Dutch Church. During the
year ending May 1 this Society
have printed 15,056,001 tracts,
comprising 35,808,500 pages.
1 he receipts ot the Society tor the
past year amount to upwards of
oU,U00, being more than three
times the income of the preced
ing year.
On the same day in the even
ing, the hrst anniversary ot the
American Home Missionary So
ciety took place at the Brick
Church in Beekman street. This
Society it seems has assumed the
responsibilities of the United Do
mestic Missionary Society, and
has undertaken to fulfil its en
gagements 195 congregations
have been aided during the past
year, and 168 ministers are em
ployed, of which 135 arc settled
or employed in single congrega
tions, and the others divide their
services between two or more con
gregations. More than 820,000
have been received the post year,
ana nearly $ 14,000 expended.
The anniversary of the Ameri
can Bible Society was held on
Thursday, 10th May, at the Mid
dle Dutch Church. Letters were
read from several persons one
of them from the President of the:
United States apologizing fori
uieir inability to attend. The
Annual Report was read, by which
it appears that the receipts of the
Society during the year ending
1st May, amounted to SG4,7G4 Uv
which is $11,774 19, more than!
those of the preceding year. Of
the whole amount, 35,3G6 29,
were received in navmcnt of Bi
bles and Testaments," 19,282 82,
as free donations, 84,225, as sub
scriptions to pay the debt on the
Society's House, and 82,970, as
permanent loans. The amount
of expenditures is 8GG,522 33.
Columbia College. The af
fairs of this Institution, in the Dis-:
trict of Columbia, appear to be in
a state of complete derangement.
lllC r rofesxnrs hnvo msio-nodl
their situations, and the Students
have for the present been dis
missed. A vacation of the Col
lege look place on the 1st May,
and will continue till the second
Wednesday in September next,
by which lime it is expected such
arrangements will be made with
the creditors of the College, as
will enable the Trustees to cause
its exercises to be resumed.
Thus on one side of the barn the
astounded and confounded cler
gyman hung, but on the other side
hung his wife, high and dry, in
majesty sublime, dingling and
dangling at the end of the rope.
At that moment, however, a gen
tleman, luckily passing by, deliv
ered them from their perilous situation.
Purging by Steam. Under this
imposing head, the Macon (Geo.)
Telegraph, tells us, a machine has
been invented for making Lee's
Pills by steam, and by means of
which live pecks can be manufac
tured in a minute.
Combustion. Trotter relates
ten cases of a combustion of the
human body from the use of ar
dent spirits, all which are attend
ed by proofs sufficient to authen
ticate any possible event. One
of the cases is stated in the fol
lowing language:
"It is the case of a woman eigh
ty years of age, exceedingly mea-
i(tii HIillIlV UUUIIll uui
ardent spirits for several years.
She was sitting in her elbow chair,
while her waiting maid went out
of the room for a few moments.
On her reiurn, seeing her mistress
on fire, she immediately gave the
alarm, and some people coming
to her assistance, one of them en
deavored to extinguish the flames
with his hands, but they adhered
to them as if they had been dip
ped in brandy or oil on lire.
Water was brought and thrown
on the lady in abundance, vet the
lire appeared more violent, and
was not extinguished, till the
whole body had been consumed.
The lady was in the same place in
which she sat every day; there was
no extraordinary lire and she had
not fallen."
A Dangerous Adventure. Not
long since, a reverend clergyman
in Vermont, being apprehensive
that the accumulated weight of
snow upon the roof of his barn
might do some damage, was re
solved to prevent it by seasonably
shovelling it oft'. He therefore
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ascended it, having lirst, for fear
the snow might all slide oft at
once, and himself with it, fasten
ed to his waist one end of a rope,
and given the other to his wife.
He went to work, but fearing still
for his safety, "my dear," said he,
"tic the rope around your waist:"
no sooner had she done this, than
off went the snow, poor minister
and all, and up went his wife.
A Good One Mr. Tracy, of
Connecticut, and Mr. Macon, of
North-Carolina, being in Con
gress together, a drove of mules
and asses was driven past their
lodgings. Macon, standing at the
window, says, "Tracy, there goes
some of your constituents; where
are tlicy bound, think ye!" "Oh,
to North-Carolina, to be sure,"
replies Tracy, "to be schoolmasters."
small beer, or a caterpillai.
several dozen eyes in his belly
hastening over the bread and buf
ter. All nature is alive and seci
to be gathering her entomolorrjJ
hosts to eat you up as you up
standing, cut off your coat, wai
coat, and breeches. Such are the
tropics. All this reconciles us f
our dews, fogs, vapor and drizzll!
to our apothecaries rushing
about with gargles and tincture'
to our British constitutional
coughs, sore throats, and swelled
faces. Ed inburg Jlcvicic.
Love at first sight. If there b
any such thing on earth as love at
first sight, it is the love of a bank
note, whether white, spotless ainj
unprofaned by indorsement, crisp,
pure, and immaculate in silver
papery intact innocence, as it
comes like a snow-drop from the
parent bank; or dirty, blurred and
blotted, scribbled, sleazy, grca
thickened, frowsy, and thumbed,
as it comes from the fond and re
luctant hands of doating men.
These are the friends it always
glads us to meet; these are tho
friends it always grieves us to
part with
A Tropical Climate Insects
are the curse of tropical climates.
The vete rouge lays the founda
tion of a tremendous ulcer. In a
moment you are covered with
ticks. Chigoes bury themselves
in your flesh, and hatch a large
colony of young chigoes in a few
hours they will not live together,
but every chigoe sets up a sepa
rate ulcer, and has his own pri
vate pus. Flies get entry into
your mouth, into your eyes, into
your nose. you eat flies, drink
Hies, and breathe flies. Lizards,
cockatrices, and snakes, get into
the bed ants eat the books
scorpions sting you on the foot
every thing stings, bites, or bruises
every second of your existence
you are wounded by some piece
of animal life, that nobody has
ever seen before, except Swam
mcrdam and Mariam. An insect
with eleven legs is swimming in
your tea-cup a non-descrint with
nine wings is struggling in tho
Catching Ideas. At a public
meeting the other day, a person
remarked of another, that he "had
caught an idea." This catching
of ideas is one of those queer
mental phenomena, for which the
learned in cranioscopy find it mat
velously difficult to account. In
deed, all phrenological writers
concur in placing this faculty ani
on inextricable perplexities of
their favorite science. Some phi
losophers affirm, and some deny,
that ideas are inherent; but thcro
is no longer a doubt that they may
be caught and like Scotchmen,
to be useful, they should be caught
young. There are various modes
of catching some matters, such
as the small pox, and the itch for
talking, are taken by infection;
others, such as pickerel and po
pularity, are caught with bait.
Ideas, however, can be legitimate
ly secured only by studying Burke,
and Curran, and Philips, ami
Sheridan commit to memory a
few passages from their speeches,
and you may declaim with won
derful fluency pouring forth such
cataracts of "ideas, as to outstrip
and overwhelm the understand
ings of all who attempt even ti
guess at your meaning.
Philosophical. Light goes a
bout thirteen miliuns of miles in
a minute. Sound moves sixty
thousand feet in a minute. A
strong wind goes twenty feet in a
second. When a cannon is tired,
if we are distant a mile, vc hca
the report twenty-four seconds
after we see the Hash. The near
est of the stars is live thousand
times more distant from us than
the sun; its distance then is seven'
ty-seven billions, four hundred
millions of miles. Were a can
non to be fired from a star, u
would require five millions, lour
hundred thousand years for lI)C
report to reach us.
To flatter a good man is need
less; a bad one, an insult.
We may be as good as we please
if we please to be good.