... humour. It is said that Web- ster has engaged Mr. Macready at a weekly salary of 100, if he performs only four nights, and X1i0 if six nights. Mr. Farrcn is likewise engaged at this theatre at a verv large sa. lary; but smiles seem not to be so dear as ...

... pootrp. A NIGHT THOUGHT. Tole stars arc in the silenit sky_ The night is calm and fair; 0 Lord, to heavess I lift mice eye, And read thy glory there. Those orbsh 80 beaultifl, that roll In spleodour o'er my head; They seem to melt isto my soul, And holy ...

... softly creep the winds which stirr'd the Or oxntheir pinions lull'd to slesp, thus dream the hours away; When through the sky the night-bird wings his long and darken'd And feeds upon the earth-horn things, te victims ef his force;- ~There is an holy, hallow'd ...

... brain is mi weight of dulness; Oh, amother, I an sickl ! These long, long nights of watching Are killitig you outrli< The eveningt dews are catching, v And you're out every night. Why does that Ihorricd grrutbler, t Old Inkpeli, wore you so? Toni (Ile/c ...

... MY MOTHER, ON HER, BIRTH DAY. BY MaS. It. S. NInians. Dear Mother I when the early dawn I Steals slowly up the eastern sky_ When night's dark curtains are withdrawn By airy fingers from on high- I softly bend an humble knee, And, as I pray for thine and ...

... invigorate the w body, in the fresh night air of August, or else to A tell the tale of love and seek its return, under the te broad green foliage of the trees, or the twinkling y eyes of the deep blue sky of night. it As surely as the hurried music ...

... tack in tule sky all night, i ;must surely be the children of-the' sutars; enti. they would alt La. be grieved to see their playmates, the children of nienl, no et more. ?? was one clear shining star that used- to-acome out in sa the sky before the rest ...

... and tinted wvith yellow ;or, if tinged with red, as at seuset, usually seen in an atmosphere of pale yellow. The indigo sky of night has its silver moon, and is studded with golden stars, while the black clouds are ever fringed VAth silvery white. When ...

... her shadow like a moth. The following is a somewhat florid description of the sky at night:- Yonder opo's the vesper's eye, From its silken lids of blue, Like a lily in the sky, Sparkling in the pearly dew. Msrs from yonder bastion glows, Where it shineth ...

... lakes contain ons part water and two parts fish. The only drawback on this industrial conveniency is the darkness of itS sky. The night and day are too nearly of a colour. It strains the eyes to read and to write. Add the coal smoke. In the maanfac. turing ...

... ??Jat6 votirg. TIHE IVORY GATE. WVuIrE loved by poet and painter The sunrise fills the sky, When night's gold urns grow fainter, And in depths or aiiber die; WXhen the ituoon-breOzO stirs the curtainl Bearing an2 odorous freight, Then visions strange ...

... WmiS:- - Aiter, candenti porfects iultena elephaimoo We fals ad ionlum minttunttecoknntA Ms' The a jinriae fills', th-e sky; When-night's gold urns grow fadnter, IIIL iA :Andain depth of ' )anie i- When the morn-breea.e stirs the ourtaln,' h a -Then vicious ...