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uvwayupcna, ul'vnu, vuv- . ‘ I lest several months, if not years, out of my younger life by being compelled to go three times around aharn instead of [twice. to do my morning and evening chores. it is this mean. small slavery, everlastingly repeated. which will drag a man down to In agiculiural Gradgrind, and make him a. tart-horse. By all means fasten the hinge on the gate as soon as you see it is loose ; but do not 20 four times to the hoe-pen with two bucketfuls of slop each time, when it could be taken at one trip in a barrel on wheels. But even the barrel will freeze in the winter and rcquire much breaking on ice and thawing of sl ,rp over the fire. It a great waste of time to allow this to happen. In the coldest weath- er hogs will be grateful for warm slop, and will do enough better on it to pay for the labor of preparing it. In fact, I never could induce swine to eat wheat bran to any amount unless it was scalded ; and bran is the most available divisor of corn and laxa- tive for t e digestive- organs that the aver» age far has at command. I think it is the principle reason why most farmers con- demn brain. saying they can not force their hogs to eat it, because they offer it to them raw. A warm bran mash is also very accept- able to the cows and horses in winter. Now, most of the slop thrown out from the kitchen is fit only to be poured on the gound in the garden, and this ought to done to prevent it from Seeping down and contaminating the well. This part of the slop should be thrown in the barrel on wheels, to be rolled away when n'eccessary ; and it does not much matter if this gets frozen 3 little. The richer slop should not allowed to freeze, as it takes so long to thaw it out. The barrel containing it may be set in a large box, surrounded with saw- dust or chafi” and thickly covered with old carpets or something similar. Just across the alley from 'myhog-pen there is an out- house containing a steamer, in which a bran mash can he quickly heated up, or a mess (f pumpkin boiled or small potatOes, cooked, as the case may be. With this the house-slop can be mixed. makinga mess not too hot. just about the right temperature.â€" EOhio Farmer. It is betth to spend food liberally now md so prevent loss of condition than to lav- ish it in the spring in the vain endeavor to bring up poor animals and regain What is lost. .yvu. , utv .... every day. Small jobs, of irregular cccur- lance, usually deferred to a. wet day or odd spells of time, such as the mending of gates, or fences, the nailing on of a. board, (1120., are not properly chores, but come under the heading of what awestern man would denominate ‘ ‘ tinkering. ” A certain amount of choriug is insepara- ble from every well kept farm. As a gener- I.l thing, chores denote an advancing civili- zation ; but the farmer should strenuously resists. too great absorption 0‘ his time in this small puddering. and assert for himself fime and freedom for better work with ” Stripping” the cow of the last milk in the udder is better than to allow her to re- tain a portion. She remains in service long. er, while the last milk is said to be the richest. It frequently happens that a cow dries ofi' sooner when not completely milked than would have been the case had it been stripped. The nearer the grapes are to the grbuud the nearer they are to the rot spores, and a free circulation of air is a partial preven- five. Sheep manure @13th from ninety to ninety-five per :cent. of 'the' plant food con- tained in the rations consumed bv’ the'sheep. It is, therefore, a very rich fertilizer, as ex penence has shown. It is especially rich in nitrogen in‘ an alvailable form, and'for that reason is excellent for use as a. starter in the kill for corn and potatoes. .horefi are those small jobs or feeding. chopping wood, building fires, etc., which recur, at Inteyvnlg goertain yumber of times ,1,_ ‘ “.0. Rye straw cut and moistened and mixed with bran and cornmeal makes excellent feed for horses when hay is scarce; or it may be mixed half-and-half with hay, even when this is plenty. Aborse naturally morose, gloomy, stub- born, or vicious. produces foals of the same dispositior, and should therefore never be used for breeding purposes, no matter how handsome he may be. - Wintering hogs in straw stacks, from the warm nests of which they must come into the intense cold of mid-winter for food. is not and never will be a. syeedy .or economi- cal method of poxk-pm'king. It in my impression that a farm without a hay would very soon come to grief. What 0. boy does is the life of a farm. He is the tactotum, always in demand, and always expected to do the thousand and one thin!!! that nobody elm will do. Upon him falls the odds and ends, the most diificult things. After everybody else is through he is to finish up. His work is like a woman’sâ€" neygpapers, books, etc. finish up. His work is like; woman’s-â€" tnally waiting on others. Everybody ows how much easier it is to cook a good dinner than to wash the dishes afterwards. Consider what a. boy on a farm is required to (loâ€"things that must be done, or life would actually stop. It is understood in the first place, that he is to do all the errands, to go to the store, to the post office, and to carry all sorts of messages. If he had as many legs as rthe centipede, they would tire before night. He is thel one who spreads the grass as the men out it ; he stows it away in the barn ; he rides the horse to cultivate the éorn up and down the hot, weary rows ; he picks up the pota- toes when they are due :he brings wood and water and splits hindling:he gets up the horse and turns out the horse. Whether he is in the house or out of the house, there is always something to do. Just before athool in the Winter he shovels paths ; in the summer he turns the grindstone. And yet, with his mind full of schemes of what he would like to do, and his hands full of occupation, he is an idle boy who has noth- ing to busy himself with but schools and chores. He would gladly do all the work if some body else Would do all the chores. he thinks ; and yet. I doubt if any boyZever amounted to anything in the world, or was of much use as a man who did not enjoy the advantages of a liberal education in the way of choresâ€"Charles Dudley Warner. Nous AND SUGGESTIONS. A Boy on a Farm. Dome CHORES. FARM. A deep sense of the dangers of land mon- opoly to our republiran institutions, and to the welfare of the country, led, I doubt not, to the request that I should speak on that subject on this occasion, and give my opin- ion as to the wisest, simplest, and most practical solution of the land question for the people of the United States. In a. few words my opinion is : 1. In the first place, no revolutionary method is necessary or should be proposed. Whatever is done should conform to the theory of our system, which is, progress under law ;â€"peaceful revolution, by fram- ing wiser laws, and nether constitutions, in order to conform to a more enlightened pub- lic judgment. 2. 1n the second place, no confiscation of any property, real or personal, of any person, is necessary at all, or should be proposed. Whatever law is en- acted bearing upon the land question should recognize that among the foundations of hu- man liberty, none are more important than that portion of the Bill of Rights which denies the right of the government to take away any man’s property, even for public use, without just compensation; and this ap- plies to property in land as well as to all P’9PEEW- . _ At: a. Baptist Congress recently held in Indianapolis Fix-Senator Doolittle gave an address on this g1h_jegt._ . . ;.‘ He then passed rapidly to the fundal syS» nem of the dark ages, which followed the overthrow of the Roman empire by the Teu- tonic lords of Germany ; and which gives shape to a. great extent to the land tenures of Europe down to this day, He then pass ed to the land question in England, and the land question in Ireland, as the most vim. and paramount of all questions at this time. He then came to that great question, as one of transcedendant importance in our own country, in the view of all who would main min our Republican iystitutions. This part of his address is too important to attempt. a synopsis. It is too brief and too concise for abridgement. It must speak for itself, as follows : Mr. Doolittle, in brief words, spoke of the “ Land Question,” as it; Was met and answer- ed by the great law-givers of the Hebrew, Greek and Roman civilizmtions. He shewed in What manner they sought to guard their people against the evils of land monopoly. The laws of Moses provided for the division of lands, first, among the twelve tribes ; and, second, the division of the lands of the tribes equally among the families of the tribe. Moses especially provided (except Within walled cities‘, that no sale, lease or mortgage of the land could be made to ex tend beyond the year of jubilee ;â€"which come once in ‘iity years. ‘ ; 1 During all that time a. right of redemption was always reserved to the family. But whether redeemed or not, the jubilee of it. self restored every man to his possessions It proclaimed anew “liberty throughout all the land.” In the ancient republics of Greece and Rome, their law-givers made an equal partition of lands and fixed a. limit upon the amount of land which any one cit- izen could hold, as the very basis upon which alone a. republic can be maintained. \Vhen all these limits were broken down. and immense domains were held by the rich and cultivated by slaves, the republics per.- ished. The empire came, one military mas- ter. all the rest slaves. It is only in a. free, separate and indepen- dent home that he becomes a full man. There alone is he prophet, priest and king. There alone is every wife a queen. Andthere alone are the children reared up to manhood and to womanhood, who are themselves to be the future republic. Among the greatest of the blessings of that promised happy state, when the reign of universal peace on earth and good will to men shall come, is that every man shall have his own home- stead ; shall “ sit down under his own vine and fig tree, with none to molest or make afraid." 4. The idea that all taxes should be ab ol- ished, except direct taxes upon land to support the federal, state and municipal governments. would result; in great injustice 2mg inequality. . 3. The idea of some, that a law or con- stitution may declare privete property in land void, or confiscate its value, by tax- ing that alone, can never find support in renson ; nor, can it; ever receive the prac- tical support of a civilized people ; because the strongest natural instinct, and most earnest desire of every man is to assume all the duties of manhood ;~â€"to found a, family, to have a. home for his wife and children ; and to crown all, to have a. home- stead of his own, in which to live and rear up that family. It is as natural for man to seek and to have his own home as that a. bird should seek and have its own nest. Besidés, it'would require fundamental or radical changes in the federal constitution, and in the constitutions of all the statesâ€" such radical changes as could hardly be brought about in a. century. 5. But what then should be done to pre- vent the future growth of land monopoly 1’ and what should be done to relieve us from the evils of such land monopoly as already exists ‘3 The answer is very simple : “ Pre- vent its future growth ; and what now exists wig disappear _of in elf]: \Vhat would be the proper limit for ag- ricultural holdings, tor holdings in villages, and for holdings in cities, would be fixed upon by the legislature of the state at these stated periods, and each state would deter- mine for itself. This would act, not upon present, but upon future acquisitions only. It would take from no man any portion of his property. It would only prevent in future the growth of, land monopoly. What To prevent its growth in. the territories, no amendment to the constitution is neces- sary. Congress has full power now. But to prevent it in the states, an amendment to their constitution, I suppose, would be necessary. Such amendment should pro- vide that the legislature, at stated periods, say once every twenty years, or more, for every new generation, should fix a. limit to the mount of agricultural land, the amount of land in villages, and the amount of land in cities, which any one person could there- after take. hold or acquire, by gift, grant, purchase, devise or inheritance, with power to enforce it 13),: appropriate legislation. the legislatfire of each state, in view of it: population, soil and climate, would regard as a proper limitation upon farms, upon villages, and upon city property. would be controlled by the enlightened judgment of the people of the state represented. B-ut, â€"it may be said, tfiis would give the legislature power to prevent the rich man from controlling his property after his death, and making his children alanded aristocracy. That is true. He would not be able to de- Dangers of Land Monopoly. Bub M intir‘nateiy cornected with this sub- ject, after thus fixing a system of land ‘limitation which would prevent the monopo- iy of land by thn few nnd would thereby give to every honest frugal, and industrious man, who has capacity to govvm himself, an opportunity to become a. Iandhoider, and to purchase and pay for a. homestead for his family, I would go a. step further. In order to favor and induce. and to some thenb to aid him to do so, I would favor 9.130 a. fur- ther amendment to thp constitutions of the several states, which besides exempting: homesteads from forced sale for debt should vise to any one limd in excess of the limit- ation. But that does not take away his property. Itia death which takes him and severe him from the control of his property. Adead Iran has no right to control Lis property, beyond what the law especially gives him. There is nothing in the Bill of Rights or Declaration of Independence which givesto a. dead mon the right to control his property in this world afrer he leaves it. The earlh belongs to the livino‘, not to the dead, and the law is to rovir e for the living and not for the dew. Our ancestors declared againstihe law of pri- mogeniture which exists in England. in order that grewt estates might lie sub divided by death. This proposed law of land limit- ation upon gifts and inheritances is in the same direction. It looks to the same end,â€" the prevention of land monopoly and land aristocracy ; and this should apply to citi- zens as well as to aliens Some men now-s.- days think themselven very brave and very patriotic in denouncing a. foreign-landed aristocracy ;while a. home landed arietocracy is equallyddnngerous to the republic ; per- haps even more so. Such. in brief, is my opinion of a true. wise, and pruntical mode of securing ourselves against the danger of land monopoly. also, within certain limits, t-x: mph that homealead and necessary furniture from all taxation whutrvcr; and, further, 111M: in assessment of all farms and hnmenfeada. only their value over and above the amount fixed for homestead exemption from taxation, should be assessed a". all. And, what is equally important. the con- atitution of each state should provide that every householder, and head ofa family whoI should live with and support his family in“ such separate homestead for such time as: the legislature shall prescribe. in additioni to the one vote, to which he is now entitled: at any election. should have an additional ‘ vote to represent his family ; so that every such permanent householder occupying a. homestead, aha.“ have two votesâ€"one to re- present his family and household. This is‘ in. most important matter, which I have dis-‘ cussed elsewhere, but cannot now enlarge upon. Nothing, however, can be more cer- tain than that the man‘ who takes upon him- selfthe reap nsibility, of founding and rear- ing a. family, has a double responsibility, compared with the single and unmarried man, and should have a. double vote. Should either of the present political parties, or better still, if both of them should take hold of these questions, of land limita- tion, homestead (xemption from taxes, as well as from forced sale or debt, and home- stead sufl‘rage, there is no doubt, after a fair discussion. they Would command the judg- ment and support of the great majority of thoughtful Americans. They certainly would prevent all future land monopoly. In the course of one generation, those estates now existing which tend to build up landed aristocracy, would quietly disappear under the operation of natural laws. The house~ hold and homestead sufirege would place the voting power in our Republic Where it was in the beginning. and where it should forever remainâ€"not in the floating vote of homeless. houseless, unmarried men. crowd- ed in great cities and towns, but in those men who are the “ heads of families" and who reside and preside in the millions of happv, free and independent homes all over this broad land. No better measure can be conceived to allay all the causes, and all the elements of that unrest,discontent, anarchy, and cor- ruption which exists in the larger cities. If they did not disappear altogether, they would certainly be ren‘ered harmless for generations to come. The Chinese, it is said, are showing them-E selves a little more friendly to railroads than they have in the past. Consequently the English, and others who make rails and machinery, have some hope that a market will be opened before long in the great CeI-l estial Empire for their wares. That this would mean a. business of enormous propor- } tions, may be seen from the fact that the populations of all the railway-using nations do not amount to much more than half that of the ChineseEmpir-e. _ I To show how hostile John Chinaman has been to railroad building, the history of one experimental line may be quoted. It was a road of two-feet gusge. constructed from Shan hai to VVoosung, a. distance of nine and a halgmiles. Much trouble was had in put. chasing the right of way, as the Chinese are superstitious about permitting traveling over the graves of their ancestors. It was found necessary to pay off two hundred and thirty-seven different proprietors, for the people all along the line began to discover graves of ancestors as soon as the road was projected. One thrifty proprietor insisted that he had five mothers-in-law interred in a small strip which was needed. But the railway was completed at last, and ran with great success for fifteen months. Finallv the Imperial Government raised an objection to having railway property owned by foreigners. They. however, offered to purchase this line, and did so. Then they turned about and sold it to the Governor of Formosa, pulled up the rails and packed the entire plant for shipment. The material was handsomely insured and shipped to Formosa. Meanwhile the Wily Viceroy had removed the Governor of Formosa from his post. So there was nobody to receive the material ; the ships went to wreck, and the locomotives were tumbled into the mud of Formosa, Where they remain to this day. i That is a fair sample of Chinese enterprise. Most riders would consider a. run of 70 miles over rough roads for two consecutive days rather punishing, especially at this time of )ear. A lady of our acquaintance lately accomplished this distance, and with- out considering it anything remarkable, or beingfatiguedeither. Startingfrom beyond Oldcastle she rode to Dalkey, and next day went on to a. friend’s residence. situated be- tween \Vexford and Gorey, and returned to town some days later. She was alone during the entire journey.â€"[1rish Cyclist. Chinese Enterprise. Tm: BAD EFFECTS or WORRY. A person who constantly frets and worries is never in good health. In some cases a disposition to worry is the result of disease. and is a. symptom of dixordered brain and nerves, or the result of some p113 sicul dis- ability or reflex irritation. In other cases it muy be the result of an hereditary tendency or of vicious habits formed in early life ; in either case it is certain to produce a diseased state of the body. So we may say winh truth that a person who always frets and worries is a. diseased person. The Alienisl‘: and Neurologist makes the follgwing excellent remarks upon this sub. ject, which We fully endorse: “People fall into the habit of worrying about these little mishaps that of necessity come up in the life ofevery one; and the habit once formed is a. difficult one to overcome. Worry, above all things, consumes vitality, and dissrranges the harmonious working of the functions. It leads to loss of appetite, to sleepless nights, to irritable nerves, to imparied nutrition. It robs the dispo: ition of attractive qualities. it lessens the mental vigor, and it not infrequently is a tether in the production of nervous disorder. Sensi- tive people, those who are easily wounded and discouraged. are most apt to worry when affairs izo wrong, and yet they arejust the ones whom worry will harm the most, and who will lose most in life by indulging in it. Trials and reverses may destroy the oversensitive or the weak, unless such per- sons prepzsre for them !'.y the cultivation of patience and courage. Those, however, who are not fretted and depressed by the small mishaps and adversities of life, are the bet- ter for encountering thum. for they are 0. part of the necessary an! kindly discipline of experience that helps us to build up char- ,L_.__ nun; ability or rrvfl nwy be the re 02‘ of vicious either case it state of the truth that a. hath-high; htrengthenh it as the Morin that bends the vigorous tree strengthens and con solidates its health fiber. " A medical journal gives the following cure for whooping-cough, which is said to be most efl‘ectual. The method consists in fumigating with sulphur the sleeping-room, as well as any other mom used by the pa.» tient, to ether with his bedding, clothes, toys, an everything which he uses. The sulphur is simply burned in the apartments, while the clothes are hung up in any con- venient manner. and the rooms remained closed. and subject to the fumes for about five hours. Everything is then well aired, and the rooms are once more ready for the occupation of the sufferer. 1. Bathe the feet in hot water, and drink a. pint; of hot lemonade. Then sponge with salt water and remain in a. warm room. 2. Bathe the face in very hot water every five minutes for an hour. 3. Snuff up the nostrils hot salt water every three hours. 4. Inhale ammonia or menthol.- 5. Take four hours’ active exercise in the open air. .. .. . a n ‘v Summer colds are the worst of all colds oftentimes; as it is then very difficult to protect one’s self properly. A ten grain dose of quinine will usually break up a cold in the beginning. Anything that will set the blood actively in circulation will do it, whether it be drugs or the use of a buck- saw.â€"[Medicul News. Ben Jonson livei in the time when poets were not only expected to write all sorts of rhynes for pay, but were generally very glad to gel: such jobs as composing epitaphs for rich men’s tombstones. and versified compliments for popular coffee-houses. No doubt, if Longfellow had lived in that day, he would not have had N‘casion to be angry with the nan Who shot ld have called upon him, as a. certain salve peddler once did, with a. request to write apoem in praise of his salve, which he would have printed on slips and circulated in advance, to adver. tise his Wares. But even Ben Jonson was sometimes put to his wits’ end to get up rhymes in praise of his rich pntrons. He was once requested by a. young man to write the epitaph of a. man who had died and left him, the young man, a large estate. The poet wanted to know what the dead man had doneâ€"what he was remarkable for. “ \Vell," said the young man, ” I can’t say tihptpe ever did anything.” 1‘Did he ever give shay Emmy in char- ity 7” A “ N-no,” said the young man: “ not that I ever heard of.” H No.» “ Just lived, and kept his money, and died in the same place, eh ‘3" “ That was about all." “ How old was he when he died '3" “ Forty-six,” said the young man.” “ Well, that’s something. I suppose there must be an epitaph. Let me see.” Jonson paused and wrote a. moment. “ How will this servo 1’” he asked. The young man took the bit of paper on which Jonson had written : The facts about the punishment of a Mounted policemen for declining to polish his oflieer’s bouts are thus given by the North-“lest press :â€"~“ An officer In ‘K‘ division was, by some means or other, left without that verynecessarv adjunct to an officer‘s life, a servant. On each particu- lar morning, when the fatigue party had fallen in, one man was detailed to work at the said oflicer‘s house. On the day in ues- tion. the officer asked the constable to b ack- en his boots. The latter seems to have been a. man of considerable spirit, and refused to ‘ do so. He was thereupon placed under arrest, taken before the commanding officer, and sentenced to six months with hard labor for disobedience of orders.” The conduct of the oflicer seems to have been arbitrary. Policemen are paid by the country to per- form police duty and not to be servants to the officers. It is stated that under Colonel French no officer could compel a. constable tobe his servant, and that {or whatever pelsonal or unoflicial service a constable performed he had to be paid by the officer employing. This was a reasonable rule. If constables can now be imprisoned for six months for refusing to work gratuitously, it is easy to unders'tand why thvere is dissa't isfaction in the force. “ Was he reputed to have done any kind FIVE VVAYS TO STOP on CUBE A COLD. “ Here lies 3.1mm was born and cried, Told six and forty years, and died 1’ CURE FOR VVnooPINo Coven. The Whole Story. HEALTH. veyn_rs ?" “ Yesâ€"been shakin‘ my house ’round summer. First some men come along in buggy, set up some long, slim. barber-pole- 10Lkin‘ sticks, stuck ups threelegged du- ful n11, humped i. down and squinted through it, 2111' then says they : ‘ Old hose, you got to move your house ‘bout four rods. ’cause we're going to lav the track of the Dakota End Gum-Weed Fork railroad right through ere 1’” We were driving past a Dakota settlerza house, when he came out and said :â€" “ Surveying’ ’nothex‘ railroad ?” “ No.” “Ain‘t? I sw’nr Itold the old women we got: to move the house again.” __k y 1 ‘3 \ (Ill (1mm have to move again '3" “ Yes, but I (lid. Next mornin’ ’fore we was up ’long come a. committee from town an’ mmlemned the home an’ ordered me to move it inside of ten minutes to make room for the Great Dakota. an’ North Pole Route We hooked up an’ was anakin’ it along while my wife got breakfast, when down come a big fat man with half a dozen double chains an’ begun givin’ me hail Columbia for driv‘ in’ ’crost the right 0' way of the Great Da- kota and Oshkosh Road, 311’ while I was poundin’ the oxen the sheriff threatened to arrest me for obstructin’ the depot grounds of the Great Dakota. Open-Air Blizzard Line. I jea‘ managed to git my house off onto a. piece 0’ Gover’ment land an’ then set an' watched the Furveyors comin’ on the run for the next week.” “ Didn’t any of the mule build ?” “ Oh, no, no ; they tell me down town that they all got: their stocks sold to Eastern speculators, so there ain’t no need 0’ buildhi’. Whew, but: you orter see the little pine stakes stuck in my place; you can’t walk ’crost it in the night ‘thout fallin’ down faster’n you can get up 1” The Lion in the British coat of arms was the sy mbol of Duke Rollo of Normandy, and, came in with William the Conqueror. On the other side was formerly the red d on of Wales, placed there by Henry VII. that J tunes the II substituted the unicorn, horn the Royal arms. of Scotland. WHY THEY CAME T0 CHURCH. When Fenclon was almoner to Louis XIV, His Majesty was astonished to find one Suns dav, instead of a numerous congregatior, only him and the priest. “ “'hnt is t} a reason of this ‘2” asked the King. “ I can d it to be given out, Sire,” replied Fenelon, “ that Your Majesty did not attend chapel to-day, that you may know who came ‘to worship God, and who to flatter the. king“ LL‘IOOLX’S CAR. There is still running in good condition on the Auburn branch of the New York Central Railroad the car in which Abraham Lincoln rode from Buffalo to Albany on v his way to VVsshington for his first inauguraâ€" tion. The ceiling is decorated with the national flag, and at one end is a. portrait of Lincoln and at the other one of Washington. The car, now known as No, 540, was new in February, 1861, and was decorated for the purpose of carrying the President. A NUISANCE WORTH MILLIONS. The Pittsburg 1 ames has the following story of an early discovery ofrnatural gas in that region. audits reception by an nnap. preciative public. In 1827 there lived in Washington county, Pa... a farmer by the name of McCook. McCook‘s farm was situated on the old National pike, eight or ten miles out of Brownsville. In attempt- ing to dig a. well a short distance back from the pike he struck a large flow of natural gas. This by accident became ignited, and the flame it gave forth scared the horses passing on the pike, and many runaways occurred. This went on for some time, un. til the authorities in that section passed an ordinance stigmatizing it as a nuisance, and compellin McCook to suppress it as such, which he_ id. Thus what the citizens of Pitts- burg now consider the greatest discovery of the nineteenth century, over half a. can-airy ego the citizens of Washington county con- sidered the greatest nuisance. JOANNA sonrnoon‘s ems. Among a large number of original papers relatin to this robsny self-deluded women some 0 the 0d est are those which describe the gifts made to her by her followers in anticipation of the promised birth. The value of these amounted, according to the calculations of some, to several thousand pounds; but of all, the most conspicuous must have been the superb crib. of which an illustration was published at the time. It was actually exhibited for some days at the ‘ Warehouse of an eminent upholsterer in Aldersgatc Street, and inspected by “hun- dreds of genteel persons of both sexes.” 0n the rim of the canopy was inscribed the words, “ AFree-\\'ill Olfering by Faith to ‘ the Promised Seed.“ Whether Joanne. was a hysterical enthusiast or an artful impostor, s re must have n. ale a pretty good thinébf her malady from first to lost. In a. broadside published in 1814, dedicated “ to Ice Gobbes mouches Anglois,” we Were informed that it is ccmputcd that the number of persons who received seals up to 1808 amounted to up- ward of 6,400. Each of these considered that soul as a plssport to heaven. The scale i ing was stopped, for some unknown reason, minus. The price of the seal “as originally ka guinea, and u as subscquently reduced to rs. High (very English) :â€"â€"“ Bridget, see if the brougham (broom) is at the door '3 Bridgetâ€"“AW what would ye be wantin’ wid the broom, mum '2” Mrs. H.â€"“ I am going out to ride.” Btidgetâ€" Och, murnher, it’s a witch she is, to be ridin’ out on a broom ! I’ll be after lavin’ at once for ser« vice wid a. dacent family.” Lifi’t? I sw’ur Itold the old woman >5 to move the house again.” Had trouble with the railroad sag; HISTORICAL. TH E BRITIS H LION. In the Way.