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the heart ached to hear him. Then again his fit
assumed another form, and he ran about the room
jumping over chairs and calling to us to see him
-walk upon the ceiling. Then he raved for liquor,
(•creamed aloud, cursed the world and his own existence,
demanded brandy with wild and furious
gesticulation, and again sunk into grief and tears,
complaining that all the world was leagued
against him, and even devils were employed to
persecute him.
Suddenly he fell into a sort of waking trance
He was lifted on the bed, and there he lay, grasp-
Ing at the air, with such horrible contortions of
coutenance as made our flesh creep upon our bones.
The unfortunate wretch has recovered, as our
{T*iend,lhe physician, declared danger to be past
•whhe we left him, but who may form a conception
o£the naguish endured during that horrid paroxysm
? Years of the severest trials and misforfanes
should be considered luxurious ease in cointoarison
with one hour of such frightful torment of
soul and body. If the condition of eternally condemned
spirits maybe revealed to mortal comprehension,
surely the miserable victims of this malady
experience some foretaste of the sinner's
doom.
Early Marriages.
Great as may be the inconvenienee attending
early marriages, they are not to be compared to
those attending long engagements. The position
of both parties is, in a manner, the reverse of that
which they will respectively occupy in after life.
*Fhe lady commands, the gentleman obeys; and
when this state of things has existed for any length
of time, it is no. easy matter to restore them again
to their natural state, for although no woman of
sense, who respects her husband and herself, will
ever wish to domineer, and no man of sense will
•ubmit to it* and yet the precise limits to which authority
may fairly be extended on the one hand,
end obedience expected on the other, are so illy
defined that it requires often great tact and management
to adjust the balance; and this difficulty
is naturally increased when the parties have been
for a long time playing directly the contrary parts.
Xiovers, too, are naturally living in a complete
Atate of deception and hypocrisy, in most cases
jprobably quite unintentionally; but where there
exists a strong desire to please, there must also
necessarily exist a strong desire to keep one's
jfaults in the back ground, and exhibit only the
tnost pleasing parts of one's character. Half the
.unhappiness that exists in married life, is, I beiieve,
to be attributed to the discoveries that are
Constantly making of the great difference of dispositions
before and after marriage. Then come
accusations of deception—very unfairly, as before
said, the fraud was an involuntary one, and
inherent in human nature; accusations are followed
by recriminations and all the misery and bitterness
of married life, merely because the lovers
expected to marry angles, and found out that they
nave married human beings like themselves.—Sir
F. Vincent's Afundel.
HIGHLY CONCENTRATED TALKING.—'Waitaw,*
said a superlative swell at one of our hotels, { waitaw,
bring me the nutrative vegetables.'
* The wha J sa,' said the waiter.
* The nutrative vegetables,' fellow.
* Hav'nt got a single drop of that brand left in
the cellar, sa,' said the waiter, not wishing to show
Jiis ignorance, and believing that it was some rare
wine that was called for—' excellent Larose, tho'
sa, and some very fine sparkling hock; bring you
• bottle?'
; «Waitaw,' said the exquisite, in a drawling tone,
•Svaitaw, you are excessively fsrriornnt—you awe
^—you awe an unfinished idea of vulgarity. Bring
me the po-ta-toes, fcl-low.'
* Sa'tainly, sa,' staid the remover of greasy dishes,
slurring his tongue over every wofU,' sa'tinly,
«a—didn't understand you when you spoke French.
Away he flew, and in a moment a plate of potatoes
was placed before the lackadaisical dandy.
A SOLEMN THOUGHT.—The New York Sunday
Mercury contains the following remarkable sentence
in one ot\the sermons of the amiable Mr.
j>ow. " Oh, it almost makes me spring aleak
erouud the heart, when I reflect upon bow soon
ve shall all be trampled upon by the foot of posterity,
how soon they shall scamper over the sodded
roofs of our silent mansions, while we sleep
On forever in the iron bound slumbers o[ corporeal
abscattcration."'
fityle is the gossamer on which the seeds of
inUb float through the world.
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THE GEM AND LADIES* AMULET
Etabing.
FOR THE GEM AND AMULET.
THE BIBLE.
"Of all the books in the world," said the pious
Wesley, "give me the Bible;" and this is,the language
of every individual who /fears God and is
endeavoring to "work out his salvation through
fear and trembling." It is said to be Heaven's
second best gift to man; and truly it is. Were
the Bible to be taken from us, and the knowledge
we now possess of its doctrines and precepts to
be erased from our memory, how very soon would
the " fine gold become dim," and the " crown fall
from our heads !" Left without a knowledge of
our Creator, of ourselves, or of good and and evil,
we would be rocked on life's tempestuous sea,
without a knowledge of the port to wjiich we are
advancing, or of the dangerous rocks and quicksands
that lay in our course.
It is a knowledge of the Bible that has raised
us as a nation to the proud eminence on which we
now stand—the beacon light of the world. Of
the nations that have not the Bible, politically it
may be said, they yet " sit in the region and shadow
of death;" and as it regards religion, much
more so. The Bible enlightens the mind of man
—sets his mind at rest in regard to what is to be
hereafter—marks out the road to certain happiness
in this life, and to eternal happiness in the world
to come. " Of all books in the world, give me
the Bible.^ DISCIPLUS.
THE JEWESSES.
Fontanes asked Chateubriand " if he could assign
a reason why the women of the Jewish race
were so much handsomer than the men ?" To
which Chateaubriand gave the following poetical
and Christian one:—"The Jewesses,""he said,
"have escaped the curse which alighted upon
their fathers, husbands and sons. Not a Jewess
was to be seen among the crowd of priests and
rabble who insulted the Son of God, scourged him,
crowned him with thorns and subjected him to the
ignominy and the agony of the cross. The women
of Judea believed in the Savior, and assisted
and soothed him under afflictions. A woman of
Bethany poured on his head precious ointment,
which she kept in a vase of alabaster. The sinner
anointed his feet with perfumed oil, and wiped
them with her hair. Christ on his part extended
his mercy to the Jewesses. He raised from the
dead the son of the widow of Nain, and Martha's
brother Lazarus. He cured Simon's mother-inlaw,
and the woman who touched the hem of his
garment. To the Samaritan woman he was a
spring of livinsr water, and a compassionate judge
to the woman in adultery. The daughters of Jerusalem
wept over him—the holy women accompanied
him to Calvary, brought balm and spices,
and weeping sought him in the sepulchre. "Woman
why weepest thou 7" His first appearance
after his resurrection was to Mary Magdalene. '
He said to her, " Mary." At the sound of his
voice Mary Magdalene's eyes were opened, and
she answered " Master." The reflection of some
beautiful ray must have rested on the brow of the
Jewess."
SELECT SENTENCES*
Four things we can never take the full dimensions
of, namely, the evil of sin, the deceitfulness
of the heart, the love of Christ, and the perfections
of God.
He that will not bear Christ's reproach, shall
bear his own; which will be infinitely worse.
Particularly avoid three sorts of persons, namely,
apostates, angry men, and those who are given
to change.
Be not venturesome in exposing thyself to needless
dangers; for he that courts perils, shall die
the devil's martyr.
The Dutch proverb saith, "Stealing never makes
a man rich, alms never makes a man poor, and
prayer never hinders a man's business."
God loves the poorest saint on earth incomparably
better than any angel in heaven loves God.
An ungrateful man is the devil's lodging house,
supported with five pillars, namely:—ignorance,
pride, discontent, covetousaess and envy.
THE THCE STAR.—The is one star that will
never disappoint the'frope it awakens ; its ray »
never dimmed and it knows no going down—lU
cheering light streams on through ages of tempest
and change—earth may be darkened, systems
convulsed, planets shaken from their spehres, but
this star will pour its steady, undiiuinished light.
The eye that is turned to it will gladden in its
tears ; the countenance that it lights, sorrow caa
never wholly overcast, the footstep that falls in it*
radiance finds no gloom even at the portal of the
grave. It is the star—
" First in night'i diadem—
The «Ur, the itarof Bethlehem.
Young friends, let us advise you to be careful ia
the choice of a wife; do not marry a fool, unless
you wish to beget for yourself trouble and shame.
Money, nor beauty, nor respectable connections,
will compensate for the mortification and misery
pf a silly wife.
A man with a large family was complaining of
the difficulty of maintaining all. " But you have
sons big enough to earn something and help you
now," said a friend. « The difficulty is, they aro
TOO big to work," was the answer.
PRETTY PAIR.—An Ohio editor, in recording
the career of a mad dog, says: " We are grieved
to say that the rabid animal, before it could be
killed, seriously bit Dr. Hang and several other
dogs."
MEN IN OFFICE SHOULD 1 BE MEN OF BUSINESS*
—He who is too indolent or too careless to attend
properly to his own business, ought not to be entrusted
with that of the public.
"Jim, I have heard tell of a man eating all
witliin a circle of six feet, but I swanny if I can't
eat the whole length of this table, and one of them
ere fat waiters to boot, and then git up hungry."
The Pic says there is no truth in the assertion
that a man in a nightmare the other evening got
his toes entangled in his eye-brows, and in a fa
rious effort to get them loose, jerked his head offH
Teachers may cultivate the child's intellect and
improve the mind; but the things said and done
at home are the busy agents in forming the child's
character.
" My divinity!" cried a gentleman to his wife,
"He docs right to call her so," whisppred a good
natured friend, "for to my knowledge she has
nothing human about her."
A gentleman who had just recovered from a sevefe
sickness, remarked that he lelt very weak.
"No matter how weejc you are," said the Major,
"if you're fortnight enough to get well."
ADVICE.—Young men, if you go on a sleigh
,ride, be sure that you have belles in your sleigh
as well as bells on the horses. Samivel Vdler
says that" snch belles are werry musical."
Two table spoonfuls of Mrs. Squibbs' " Yeast
Powders " given to a lazy jackass will make him
work " like a horse," for twenty-four hours.
We paint our lives in fresco. The soft and 4usile
plaster of the moment hardens under every
stroke of the brush into eternal rock.
An Irishmrn, describing the death of a friend,
who fell into Mount Vesuvius, observed, "Poor
fellow, he died in taking too much of the crater."
SOLITUDE.—Those beings only are fit for solitude,
who like nobody, are like nobody, and are
liked by nobody.
"Letall the ends thou aim'st at be thy country
s, as the fellow said when he was pushing it
for Texas.
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" Am I notjfi»ndly thine own ?" as the fly said
to the spider.
"Twas wrung from me," as the chicken said
when he lost his head.
"I'mfor change" as the loafer said when ho
stole the bag of specie.
^Pete, are you into them sweetmeats agin ?»'
No marm, them sweetmeats is into me."
The whispers of malevolence have dqne more,
mischief than famine or the sword.
The spirit of poesy is the morning light which
makes the statue of Memnon sound!
Experience is the most eloquent of preacher*
but she seldom has a large congregation.
NONSENSE—Any thing you can't understand.
There are no greater chameleons than word*.