... bought a slave from a plantation in Kentucky; the man was a first, rate mechanic and blacksmith, and his master parted with him because he was hard up, with the Proviso that his wife, to whom he was much attached should not be separated from him. The sum ...

... place be near, strives, by various evoln' gions, to free himself from his merciless adverzarv. But the king bird is not easily dismounted. He teases the eagle incessantly, sweeps upon him from right t% left, rhses, that he may descend on his back with the ...

... latal change some time befere any observer of str own species could discover that the spirit of its maes tsr had passed from this world. Many stories have been told of Bauh instinctive sense, but it has never before, we believe, been established on such ...

... reptiles, which they scrupulously avoid in- juring, under an apprehension of experiencing retalia- tion, either from that identical reptile or from some other of its species, at a future time. The only ser- pent which I saw was a small one, between three and ...

... adopts towards ladies The weak and sichly empress he treats with compasionate aflection: - we can find no better word. When from indisposition she is confined to her apartment, he frequently visits her there; and the newspapers, whish are always loud in ...

... he has heard an hour or so aeo from Vienna of a great victory just gaiued by the Turks. \ffT are witness to a series of conversa- tions carried on with all corners of the island, and be- tvween the metropolis of the world and every capital of northern ...

... at the endof hi; das' work? Ee. waso pale thathemight have Ghost to Hamlet in broad sunliglht. He was a cib deaf on one side from threfrq usent me of the ha se0,pe; one of his fingers was sore'froin PmrCue-ir, his eyds were. wearied; h is back arhel intcruQ ...

... praise from wisdom's tongue, May, in time, be as enduring As the strains which Homer sung. J. IL C0asasXTsL VIEW FROM A MouNTArN SueMmi.-The author of a Journey from New York to Nineveh gives the fol- lowing word-picture of the prospect from the top ...

... with my eggs, I determined to watch the pro cess of lowering them from the shelf on which they were kept. Having concealed InTyself, I soon saw c rat mount the shelf, nearly three feet from the ground, take an egg between his claws, andlbreak a1 one end ...

... . THE SORAPlBOOK OLUMN. MlEMORIAULS Os' Ann'ass Lracoca.-Tche cetattery is about two miles from the pleasant little tows (Springfield). It is a bit of hilly forest. land, almont in itd orlginal wild condition, with rocks and tree of various aye and size ...

... perhaps by natare. When the Koran and Mecca shall have disappeared from Arabia, then, and then only, can we seriously expect to see the Arab assume that place in the ranks of civilisation from which ahonomet and his book have, more than any other individual ...

... are left to the nation, anid Engiand'o proud soris Will wipe from her ansalo the shams of the past, Whon the dying request et her Xelson was spurned, Anad /sis daughter alone on the wide world seas cast Lot his prayer yet hobroad for the fatherless vnow ...