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Royal Agricultural Society's

INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

N EXHIBITION OF DOMESTIV MANUFACTURES A and Agricultural Productions w ill be held on Weoversoay,

20th Gerowse, [86L, whea the tullowing Premiums will be

distributed, viz :— For the best 10 yards of Cloth, of Island wool,

spun, Wore, dyed and dressed ou the lsned. £170 0

For the best 10 yards wool prey Homespun,

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, October 21, 1861.

| Piterature.

LOL LLL Ll tel et

a ee et ee te - rey mw MY DAUGILTER. And thou art dead! aid thou wert dear to me, | The treasured vlol of my fondest love ; Th: a who didst seom a seraph on my knee, ‘That sleeping direan:‘d of cloudy beds above ; Unconscious of the earth that cradled thee,

milled and full dressed, 110 @ But ouly resting like a wearied dove,

Best 10 yards do., milled, dyed and finished, ree ¢ That for a moment, lighting on the green, :

10 “dv. fancy mixture, do., 1 0 Just coos and looks around, then never more is seen. 10 do. Shepherd's plaid, lilo 0 bh

10 do. twilled Fiannel, 010 0 And thou art dead! and one soft lock of hair

10 dv. women's wear, viv 0 Is all [ now can to may bosom press ; ;

lo dv. wool and cotton do., 010 0 And many a night [‘ve sat in mute despair,

Best pair of Horse Rugs, milled, not less than 2 And gazed through tears upon that braided tress ; wards square, 6 © And tried to blend death with a thing so fair, Hearth ug, made of woollen yarn, VU lo 0 But tried in vain; the grave’s lone drearioess

do. made of rags, O0lv @! With it would mingle not, nor can I now Weollen fancy plaid Siawl, 0 Li) ) Gaze on that luck ard death—it conjures up thy brow. do. Shepherd's plaid do., v0 160 0 de. net Shawl, 0lv 0 But O, the night thou diedst [ can recall! Best woollen long Shaw! or Scarf, ve la 4g Thy mother on my shoulder leancd to weep ; 10 yards of Carpeting, lao vw Her grief-bent shadow fell upon the wall : 10 yards of checked Flannel, for shirts, lle 0 And when death came, so noiseless did he creep,

6 shirts, ready made (all wool or half wool), 0 G @

Pair of thick Knit woollen Stockmge, for

That we heard not his muffled footsteps glide ; B'en I who held thee deemed thou didst but sleep

overalls, 0 5 0 Thy slow pulse ceased ; but no one could tell when ; 3 pairs woollen Socks, 0 5 W Lt ever silence listened breathless, 1t was then. 3 de. woollen Gloves, @ §:@ 3 do. wollen Mittens, 05 0 There thou didst lie, a sinless child at rest, Linen Table Cloth, Qlv 0 Hushed as the march of starry-studded night ; 6 yards Linen Towelling, 010 0 Mute as the dew closed in the rose’s breast ; 3 linen Sacks, capable of holding4 bush.each, U 10 0) Silent as darkness stealing o’er the light; Bonnet, made of grass plait, -.- 0 10 0 Cold as a statue in pale marble drest ; Hat, du. dv., @ § @ Still as a rainbow fading from the sight; Best wooden hand Rake, 0 3 9 Calm as a haleyon, that upon the deep Piteh Fork, @ 490 Folds slowly its white wings and teurless falls asleep. Dung Fork —4 prongs, Se. §,,6 Villow Baskets, 0.5 @] And I have thought of lands beyond the grave, Indian Baskets, 4 bushel, eo 2 Of ever-verdant fields where angels roam ; Wooden Shovel, 03: 0 Of stream-bathed banks, where flowers eternal wave ; Narrow Axe, 9 O| Of Music rolling from the ethereal dome

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.

Of the blue floor which stars resplendent pave : j Then have | turned to view thine earthly home, —

Best tub of Butter, aut less than 30 lbs. weight, 010 0 Now desolate !—O may I'be forgiven od de do du vu If selfish love alone Lat made ne sigh for heaven! Beat Cheese, not lees than 20 lbs. weigist, 010 0 ‘ 2 de de : le Os 9% And lt have heard thy voice in the low wind, Best half duseu Sweae Turnips, 0930 And caught thine aecents in the gurgling stream ; de Carrots ior the table, o 3 0 And in the whistling grass where I reclined, do Rov # Blood Beet, 0 — 0 And in old woods wivere 1 was wont to dream ; 40 Roots of Mangold Waurtzel, ¥ : 0} L've seen thy face in cloads, and thy locks twined de Roots of Parsuips, v = 0} in the lugse stlver of their skirts did seem ; do hare vi Indian Cera, 0 : 0 Bee, bird or blossora, flower, a leaf, a sound,— deo aaadon 3 : There have been muuds uf miad, when thou in these wert de Apples, ' tound. PoULTer. Best pair (male and female) Dorking Fuwle, not When the husbed fvotfull of the voiceless night mure than one year vid (alive), 05 0 Pressed the dim clouds and stole down from the sky, do Cochin China, do, 7 2 In the dull eplendour of the stars’ faint light ¢o Turkeys, do, 0 5 0 Math thy fair furm in silence glided by, do Geese, do, GS & ¢ Or motioniess hung o'er the mind's far sight, de Ducks, do, 0 5 0 When dark-wiaged sleep sat brooding on the eye ;

GP Di-eretionary Prewiums will be awarded for such ar-— ticles as may be considered worthy by the Commitice, although |

net voumerated in the lint.

Al articles must be strictly the nvanufaciure of pers ns} residing yn the Islaud,and all articles for cum petition, except | ing live Stock, muct be sent im to the Secretary on or belure | Pv acct. wn Munday the 28th Uctuber, otherwise they will |

be excluded.

&F The Exhibition will be open to the public at 12 o'clock.

By Order, J. D. HASZARD, Sec’y. Committee oom, Sep. 9, 1861.

GRAIN SHOW.

FHVE ANNUAL SUUW OF GRAIN, UNDER THE djreetion vf the Committee of the RoraL AGaicryircr at Secszry, will be beld in the Temperance Hall, Charluttetowan,

on Wednesday. 30th Ucronyn, I561, (the sume day on which the Industrial Exhibition is to take place,) when the folluw- tog Premiame will be awarded :—

Best W heat, £110 0 2a = 6f& eg Best two-rowed Barley, 110 9 2d do du ..© 2 Best four-ruwed Barley, lilo 0 od do do 1 0 9 Best black Oate, 110 0 24 do 2.8 Best sample Red Clover Seed, not lees

than 50 lbs., 110 0 Best sample White Clover Seed, not

lews than 50 ibe., 1 oO Besteample Timothy Seed, 2 bushels, 1 0 0

REGULATIONS. The Grain and Clover Seel to be the growth of the Island ia the year IS61.

Bach sack of grain must contain not less than 3 bushels.

No price will be awarded without competition of three samples cach, of firet and second quality.

Competitors must be members uf the Society.

To visions, my lost child, I've tried to press thee, thee.

The spring brings to my mind thy growing charms— The summer, what thou wouldst have been in bloom— The autumn all thy love to aged arms— The dreary winter onty brings thy tomb: ; And the loud wind my throbbing heart alarms, Aud shaduwy furws fled in the gathering gloom ;— But these are fancies fuating through the brain,

And catching shapes from thee which they too well retain. '

KISSING.

Man i# the only animal that knows how to kisa, Doge lick their masers and bears their tegged cube, cats their kittens m

)plsce of nursery baths and Turkish towels, oonkeys rb no-e:, |

‘pared for such an emergency. And did not the people of Cos, {when they found Psyche sleeping among the buterflies and | 1 DY) :

f So at

roses, treat her as Venus “by kissing her right hand? jleast says Apuleius, that most original and delightfal of etory-| jtellers. Even atthis present day the Mahowetans kiss the | 1 ground in the direction of Mecca. | Vhe early Christians had their religious kiss, Ike all the! frest. Aw the initiated into the Kleusiman mysteries kissed each | other in token of brotherhood and equal knowledge, so did the | | firat disciples in their Agapes, or Love Feasts. But, in 397, the Council of Carthage thought fit to furdid all religious Kissing | | between the sexes, notwithstanding Saint Peter’s exhortation, | “Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity.’ It also forbad | fall lving on couches at auixed meals; aud foally broke up the | | ugapes altogether, as of a somewhat too dangerous tendency for | ordinary humanity. Several Jater sects have, at Various tines, | sought to bring back the institution of the kivs of peace; but

edifying to the young, it bas generally been found necessary 10 | prohibit the use and continuance of the same, and to go back | to less godly forms of salutation. In Russia, and wherever” | the Greek Church prevatie, all persons k 84 each other ou Kas- | ter day ; that being their great festival and day of rejoicing ; | as Christmas is with us, and the Jour de An with the Preneh “Christ is risen.” they eay, as they kiss each other ou the cheek | —great hairy moujks, flar-faced peasait Women, slim pobdios, | jand high-bred ladies indiscriminately. Formerly theayomen | kissed each other at table immediately afier the prefatial glass of brandy or vodki had been served ; but that pretty custow | has now gone ou’. The B.ble ts full of sweet and tender kissing passages, with ; Some terrible and treacherous intervening ; for the old Jews, | when tuey could pot get their ends by fair biows, did not scruple to emp oy lying kisses and false caresses. How innocent and | beau'iful and pathetic is the kiss which Jacob gives to Rachel | hy the well, when, weary, weeping, and fuotsore, he finds bin | | self among his mother’s kindred, and kisses the young girl who | afterwards becomes his wife and the mother of his chosen son! | Che kiss preceding this was eminently tragic—the kiss with ; Which he received his bliad old father’s blessing, and robbed | Msau for the second ume of his birthright. When Esau came jm from his huntieg, and“cried out with a great and exceeding | bitter cry,” when be learnt his brother's treachery, we find no| kiss seating his paler blessing. That had gone with the “ dew. of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plen'y of corn and wine,’’ to the clever, crafty Jacob; to poor Esau was left only the dew of heaven, and the doubtful living by the sword, with jhe future hope of breaking his brother’s hated yoke from olf } his neck; but no kiss, and wo blessing. Yet God had given to | Esau the greater biesamng of a generous nature: a nature | which knew neither guile nor malice, which never quailed for | fear, and never jied fur gain. Years afier, when the two | | brothers met, Jucod ** bows timee!fto the ground seven tines,

though very p easant tothe feelings, and doubtless exceedingly | ,

be stayed from writing, so bew) ching is tue marvellous music and grace uf those lines : Take, oh take thuse lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But wy kisses bring again, Bring again, Seals of love, but seal’d in vain, Seal’ in vain!

But think of Titania’s, when she ‘kisses the fair large ears of her gentle joy ,’’ while, farther on, come the quaint kisses of Pyramus and Thisbe, given through the ehioks of Tinker Snout’s fingers—the fingers which were made to

present a wall,

And such a wall as I would have you think,

That had in it a eranny'd hole or chink, It would be lengthy work to pick out all the “ kissing com- fits” fram Shakespeare. In his tune, maidens were not shy nor Wives reserved. and things were done and talked of in the choicest company which it would be now impossible to allude to. English civilization was then far behind the old Roman

| umes of nicety and refinement, when a man would a8 soon think of kossing his wite inthe presence of his daughters, as we should

how think of performing the same grace in an open railway-car- nage. ‘The Romans were very strict; and only near blood relations might kiss the women of the family at all. And then, iot-fertoveor friendship, butto find ont $f they bad been drink-

ing wine in the master’s absenee. ‘The Greeks did more than |

this; they made their wives eat onions whenevet iiey were gomny from home, so that they might be sure no ponchers wou!d trench on their preserves,

England in Shakespeare's time, therefore, had gone back sadly from these earlier days of reticence. Long afier the custom had been abandoned abroad, it remained in full force here. In “ Notes and Querivs” of September 9, 1854, will be found curious extrac: from the Life of Wolsey by Cavendish, He Biys:

* “TL being ina fair great dining chamber” (in a castle belonging to M. Crequi, a French nobleman), “I attendéd my lady’s coming; and

alter she came hither out of ber own chamber, she received me most |

gently, like one of noble estate, haying a train of twelve gendlewomen. And when she, with her train,came ali out, she said to me, ‘Forasmuch,’ quoth she, ‘as ye be an Englisbinan, whose custom is in your courtry to kiss all ladies and gentlewomen, without offence, and although it be not so herein this realm, yet will | be so beid as to kiss you, and shall all my maids.’ By means whereof I kissed my lady and al! her women.” Bulstrode Whitelock, st the court of Christina of Sweden, was honoured in the same manner. It was May-day, and White- lock had mide a.feie for the qneen, which she was graciously pleased to attend ; when, after the ‘little collation,’’ as he calls it, she, being full of pleasantness and eaiety of spirits, among gther frolics commanded bim to teach her ladies the English

; Until he came near bis brother:’? he had cause for fear and mode of salutation; which, after some pretty defences, their

| humiliation enouglf; fut Esau “ reo to meet him, and embraced /hiun, aud fell on his neck, and kissed him;*’ and that kiss. ) showed what kind of heart was inthe brave impetuous hunter. |; Se, too, Joseph kisses his brethren when he makes himself | Known to then; and here again the k.ss 16 one of the generous forgiving and noble self-suppression, vot Cniy of ordinary salu- j tation; still it was the ordinary manner of salutation, for when

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lips obeyed, and Whitelock most readily.” Lucky fellow!

But ifthe English kept longer tothe practice than the foreign. |

er, they owed it to him originally, for Collet says—still the same authority— The pleasant practice of kissing was utter!y un- practised and nuknown m ingland tii the fur Prineess Rouix (Rowen), the daughter of King Hengist of Frieziand, pressed ,the beaker with her lipkens, and saluted the amorous Vortigern

| Jethro brought Zipporah and her two sons back to Moses, | with a husjen’? (little kise),

** Moses went out to mee: his father-in law, and did obeisance |

and kissed im; and they asked each other of their welfare, jand they came into the tent.’’

When James the First of Scotland met Anne of Denmark, he was going to kiss her after the English fashion ; but Anne did

And many years latér we not approve of such familiar doings, and repulsed tim. Yer,

| tind David kiasing the old prophet Baiziliat, as ve biessed lun | afier he had sowe private tilk with her aside, she became more

faud eent him away, | ‘Thenext kiss to this—of David's to Barzillai~is of a very

| the type of all treachery, is the most treacherous and culd-biood- }ed of any ou record,

“When they were at the great stone which isin Gideon, Amasa went befure them. And Joab’s garment that he had put oa was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a aword fastened upon his loins ip

| the sheath thereof; and as he weat fortii it fell eut. | * And Joab suid to Amasa, Art thogin health, my brother? And | Joab took Amasa ly the beard, with the right band, to kiss him.

* But Awasa took po heed to the sword that was in Joab’s band: so

(he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his b pwels tu the ground, and struck hum aot ugain; and he died.”

, Very beauufal is the kise of peace which David gives to

| Abealom—that wayward favourite who was for ever paying

|} back his fatwver’s love aod mercy with rebellion and violence,

‘ond who, four verses efter tnat forgiving kise, gets the favour

| of Israel by an-act of treacherous condescension :

| “* And it was so, that when any mancame nigh unto him tp do him

cows sod horses fondle each other’s heads and necks, love-| an obeisance, he put furti his hand and took him, and kissed bim ” |

| heaps of briiuiant down, of chirruo them together in very sweet

jand loving guise; 60 du pigeons and stock doves, and perhaps | some otters; but none of these creaiures kiss. Even low-class | jeavaves do not kiss like civilised men: 60 that we may teke ‘this habit and func ion ta be actual evidence of intellect and,| lcwilastion; which isa plessant ideg at any rate. | Kisses have generally been made matterswof ceremony and | ‘stave symbol, as well as those dearer expressions of feelings which require no settled ceremonial. To kiss the forehead is) the rastinetive sign of elderly good will; and whenever fathers | igive any blessing at all, they seal it with @ kiss upon the fore-| i nead of the emi:.. Kissing the shoulders is, tu geome places, | ie sign uf inferiority ; not always, thuogh, when ihe shoulders | are fair aud round: | —— wough white } For Venus’ pearly bite, | as Keata saya. | Kissing ive foot is a sign of inferiority ; 80 of the hand, but} most of all the ground, which is even baser than the foot, and | vets its special halluwing from the mere passage of the adored. | The Poles, Bohemians, and Russians, catching the ugty trick | | from the Asiatice. kiss the ground before the stick ard the su-

| dieds nesting clue on the same perch, dive rory bills mito puffy |

No wonder that he * stole the hearte of the men of darael!**

| Who, indeed, could have been proof against the seducuious of

a young prince, beautiful as a god aad tamiliarly loving as 4 woman? lad not Joab, the wild, fierce captain, preferred bis

amenable, and suffered hun to kiss ber im the presence of the whole court The proud and pompous Constable of Castile was

And in long restless dreams my lips huve moved to bless different class; and, excepting that Ose winch has become | glad to kiss her lovely maids of honour, with whom there does | The cus- | perior abont their construction,

not seem to hive been any overwhelming difficulty.

For who would kies Aspasia herself | ; with the flavour of gache clinging round her d.|eate mouth?

New NSeries.---No, 41:

pfove uninieresting at the presenttime. From the moment the party fromthe Island Jeft the Westmorland, the dificulty of procuring accommodations commenced. At Shediac the major | part of the excurstonists proceeded to the * Weldon House,” and having entered their names on the books, concluded the

ij had secured lodgings for the night ; but, after lounging Pt the halls until ebout halfpast nine o'clock, the proprietor of the |house mace his appesrance, and informed us that his apart. jments bad been bespoken scine time previous—that he had re. iceived telegrams from the Hon, Vhis.and Squire That requesting hun to keep lodgings for them, and that it was utterly impoe- | sible for him to accommodate us. Accordingly at ten o'clock at night we touk our luggage and departed in eearch of other quariers, and atter considerable hunting, myself and four othera ivund ourselves ensconzed in so.ne obscure house. How the jrest of the party who had to leave fured, they can themselves jtell best. We started in the morning train—which was dense! crowded—and urrived at Sussex Vale about IL o'clock. x large number were present fron the surrounding country, and the train from St. John arriving shortly afier, added consider- j ably 'o the throng. flow these were to be accommodated wag / 4 question more palpable to my mind than easily answered ; but /man, being naturally selfish, it” troubled me litte how otnera fared provided | succeeded in securing shelter for myself. 1 first applied to the owner of a private dwelling —or rather a | shanty--hard by the railway station; and this individual had the modesty to ask on/y two dollars and a half a day for board and lodging—which ts equivalent to 15<. of our money. The truth of the old adage of going farther and faring Worse, was not realized In my case, for after considerable bantering and ‘hunting, | ebiained board and lodging at the rate of one dollar a day; and even theh~4. Was doomed to sleep with 14 or 20 others im the same chamber. ‘figeing attended to the wants of ithe mnoer man, { next proceeded to thax hibition Building. Before obiatning admission thereto, L had firatto obtai® 9 Licket,, for which I had to pay a quarter dollar. Nor was it an easy matter to obiain one. At each corner of the front of the build- ing offices were fiited up in which to sell tickets + but as only two persons could be a‘tended to at once, and as every one was ina hurry to get in, a faint idea of the delay and confusion may ve formed, particularly as there were two kinds of tickets —the one costing a duilar, which admitted one to the Exhibition bulding and the cattle show, &., during the week: the other held good for the time you were in the building during ove da whether that were 5 minutes or 5 hours, and cust as | said _ fore, a quarter dollar. Once inside the building, however the adusssion fee, the trouble or delay never enters the head. Here isto be seen, both inthe vegetable and mineral worlds in agriculture, mechanics, and fine arts, sufficient te atiract the jatteation and call fur praise. Stuffed moose, raccoons, and 'pellicacs, appear to tive and move, as if animated by the |vital spark. ‘There are several bee-hives on exhibition, the cones party filled with luscious honey. The collection of Traits, such as app'es, plums and peaches, was really splendid jand from their size and sppearance made the mouth acer, Squashes, pumpkins, and cucumbers of enormous size stared one in the tace, and called forth the reflection that either un- usual care and attention had been bestowed upon their culture or that the soil of New Brunswick is admirably adapted to their growth. The specimens of potatoes, turpips, onions, wheat and oats, Were very fine; but f aim not aware that they could _not be equalled or even excelled in this Island. Some large ‘cheeses and several! crocks of butter appeared to attract con- | siderable attention, and called forth the praises of visitors. The | homespun cloth on exhibition was very poor, and not at all te | be compared to that manufactured in this Colony. There was a large assortment of boots and shoes, as well as cabinet work _—Svfas, lounges, tables, chairs, &c., and also carriages and “waggous, but there was nothing very remarkable or very su- Tbe assoriment of cutlery and

)tom was much reprobared by the Roundheads and al) the Puri- | edged tools, particulaily those from the establishment of H. B.

‘an party. Hear what good old John Bunyan says agaist it ; and surely his words might have been quoted as full of sense and justice, in such times as the old-fashioned canvassing for elecuons, when ail the pretty women were kissed —or even now, wien under the misietoe, the poor ugly ones are not kissed : “Tbe common salutation of women I abhor; it is odious to me in whow- soever [ see it. When I have seen good men salute these women that they have visited, and that have visited them, I have wade my objec- sions against it; and when they have answered that it was but a piece of civility, ] nave told them that it was not a comely sight. Some, in- deed, have urged the holy kiss; but then I have asked them why they diave made balks? why they did salute the most handsome and left the il-tavored ones go.” W by, indeed ? rous than Bunyaa’s friends, donot do ; they make no balks of even the i\|-favoured.

Beautiful and sad ere many of the kisses scattered about |

literature and hestory, There was the kiss of the Troubadour Ganffre Rudel, prince of Blaye, who fell in love with the

Countess of Tripoli only by report, and pined away so sorely |

‘That is just what the Mormons, more gene- |

'for love aod yearning that his heart went from him, and his

Speliford, was very good, and in the opinion of competent Judges equal to those manufactured in the neighbouring Re- public. The gallery of fine arts attracted the greatesi attention particularly from the fair sex, whose admiring gaze ever and /anon rested on the fearures of a full-length portran of Her Gra- ‘cious Majesty Queen Victoria aad H.R. H. the Prince of |Wales. Some beaunful specimens of wax work graced this ;partof the building ; and stuffed birds in Variety. But as it would take ioo much time and occupy too much spsce to par- ticularize ali the articles exhibited, 1 will brie fly sinte, that I was disappoin'ed at the Exmibiion. There appeared, in the first instance, to be no order in the arrangement ; and when a | person wished to ascertain in what particular locality certain articles of produce were raised,or certain articles manufactured, it was simply impossible to do so. Jn the next place, alihough the articles in the different departinents were excellent, they were not of that superior order nor varied extent to be expected irom so old and large a Province as New Bron-wick, Indeed, I think 1 may safely aver that our own little Island would com- pare favourably with the sister Province im the majority of

| dersiand the exireme cond scension of this familiar kiss, by |

allegiance to obedience, and Joyaliy to love, Adsalom might have kissed his father’s kingdom away from bin. We can un- the different manners of even the private friends of the vrinces. Were not David and Jonathan friends and brothers in affection ? |

“T am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very piecasant hast thou been unto me; thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of woman.’’

Yet when David met Jonathan in the field whither he friend bad come to Save his wife, he did himthe homage of an mferior, and such as a simple soidier might pay the king’s son:

“ IIe fell on his face on the grouud, and bowed himself three times.’’ Afterwards comes the friend :

“And they kissed one another, and wept with one another, until David exceeded.”

But sometimes the kisa may be where there is least affection. In that matchless idyl, Rath, it is Orpab who kisses her mother-

Grain intended for competition, and sent by parties rosiding pertor,and are sufficiently honoured in the permission 80 to abase in-law, and leaves hee; but Ruth, who does not kiss—at least |

#t a distfince from Chariottetown, will be received and taken care of by the Secretary at any time prior to the Show. By order, JAMES D HASZARD,

See'y & Treas. R. A. Society. |

Committee Room, Sept. 9, 1801.

“INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

HE Commissioners are desirous of procuring samples of & the following articles, to be furwarded to the Interna- Wena! Exhibition, to be he'd in London in 1862 :—

Graia and Swede, incleding Wheat, Barley, Oats,

Buckwheat, Clover, Timothy, Flax and Turnip Seeds,

Vetches, Peas, Beans, and cars of Indian Corn,

, Vatmeal, and Pearl Barley,

Purniters and Cabinet work,

Carriages, Sleigha and Harness,

Samples of inland grown woods,

ner of the various kinds,

Agricultural f= plements,

Model Threshing Machine,

Boots and Shoes,

Preserved Fruits, Meate and Fish,

llewpand Flax,

and Building Stone,

Maple Sugar and Honey in the comb,

Ship's W heels, Biocks, &e., ke.,

lias, Bacons, aud pickled Pork and Beef,

Dyed and dressed Skins and Furs.

themselves, [3 it tuo gguch to way that they wi ] never come to | | good while that debasing trick remains a8 40 institution among | | them ? It is curious to trace the gradual change of certain customs, | which, beginning in simple cantly respeet, end tn slavish) selfabasement. The habs of k ssing the ground, of foot, is) lene vf them. Among the early Romans the higher gyagistrates | | gave their hands to be kased; and, under the first emperors, ithe monarch did the same. Hut thie waa soon thought too fae | miliar to be an act of true homage; so, only the supe rior officers | kowsed the hands ; winle the mmferior were to be content in touch- ing the reyal robe, or their own hands, a3 not worthy to be per- | mitted to wearer participation S.uwetunes the emperor kissed the mouth and eyes of thoee whom he wished to gladden with. most signal honvur; but this was avery rare privilege; and | persons whom he wished to disyrace he kissed with marked | ‘culdness. Agricela complained that when he retarned frou | | overcoming the stubborn Sixuns, Domitian gave him a ‘cold | i kiss,” and feft him standing in the crowd unnoticed. The cold | Kise hae long since passed away, bat the complaint remains, and | owe would have liked Agricoia betier if he had never made it. | | la process of time the Roman emperors, not content with having | their bands kissed by wen kneeling, demanded to be treated | like the gode, and to be kissed on the feet; later, to have even | | the ground k ssed before thea, Diocletian was the first to com- ‘mand this manver of salutation, and his successury were not |

| slow to follow his example.

, : | Kissing the sovereigu’s Ganda at court presentations is also jonly acompromine, beginning from the same foundations, Even

jtrayed, by a caress.

not then—cleaves uuto her.

“Tntreat me not to leave thee, orto return from following after | thee; for whither thou goest I will go; and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: |

** Where thou diest will I die, and there will [ be buried; the Lord do so for me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.”

No need there of the mera act of kissing when each word was full af the tenderest caress, and every accent a kiss from heart to heart! Orpah’s kiss had not half the love of Ruth’s | yearning worcs; and sentunent, usually so prodigal of symbols, conteuted tsell there with simple speech, while the colder love took on itself the warmer utterance.

There is in one kiss in the New Testament full of pathos | and divine meaning. ‘This is the kisé which Mary Magdalene gives when she washes Ue laved feet with her tears, and wipes them with ber hay. And here is that most terrible kiss of ail —the kiss in the garden cf Gethsemane which meant betrayal —the “* Hail, Master!’ which meant death. But this was a) kgs scarcely to be spoken of in an article lke the present | There are some things before wnich we must simply veil our heads end pass on,

Secu ar history has also its kisses of treachery. When the conspirators went towards Cesarto stab him, they made nei they would salute lim sccording to the custom; but the kiss they gave him was atwo-edged sword, und their homage, death Cwsar sank at the foot of Pompey's statue deceived, if not be- So Othello kisses Desdemopa before be

sinvthers her : —— When I have plucked thy rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither: 1’ smell it oo the tree.

things exhibited . ‘life was dead wihin inm. He took ship and sailed over the * ubiteds particularly ia the products of the soil 3 and

lips upen his.

waves to see her: and she, touched by his devotion, went down into the shipas it lay in the bay of Tripoli wih Ganffre nigh unto death on board. and kissed him, the poet’s love Jeapt up into its last flime: he gave her one long look, blessed her, and then died—with her The lady went into a convent.

Theo there was the precious kiss which Margarida, wife of Raimon de Roussilion, yave her lover the Troubadour Geiliem de Cabestanth, when * she stretched out her arms, aad aweetly eimbraced him in the lone chamber.’? Al! that kiss was dear-

ly purchased! for Raimon, coming to the knowledge of all it | }meant, gave Margarida her lover's heart to eat, disguised asa |

savoury morsel. When he told her what she done, she, saying

that “if she had eaten so sweet a morsel, would eat nothing |

more,’’ dashed herself from the window into the casile yard : and suv died in great pain—but more happily than if she had lived. And there was Francesca’s kiss, so sweet and yet so

sad, guilty and so pure, when, ‘trembling all over,’? Paolo | And there |

ki-sed her—and they read no more for that day. was the kiss which Marie Stuart gave the sleeping poet, Alain Chartier, and before all the court, too; and thut other kiss—or rather, many kisses—given by Marguerite de Valois to Cement Marot, of which this poet makes such tender, boastful account, prefiguring Leigh Hunt's assertion, that

Stolen sweets are always sweeter,

Stolen kisses much completer.

One of the strangest kisses on record is that (which I firmly believe in) told im the *Arabiaa Nights,” Bagdad, who goes to purchase a rich stuff, is asked for only a kiss in return.

but a kiss on her fair cheek. So, holding her veil (hat the pass-

ers-by may see nothing, she offers her cheek to the young mer- |

chant’s kiss ; and the wretch bites it savavely through instead. But all the ** Arabian Nights” kisses are as strarge and wid and fetterless as the emotions they express. We in this colder North, can hardly undersiand the state of mind and manners detailed therein.

Sweet and lovely is the maiden’s kiss in Paradise and the Peri—‘* the last long kiss which she expired in giving ;’’ Jul! of beauty and poetic fancy was Diana’s kiss, when she sjole down from heaven to the sleeping shepterd-boy, lying like a lily on the sumuitaf Mouat ida; mournful the kisses of Hero and Leander; hervic those * kisses thrice’’ the laidiy beast who starts up a comely maiden; revolting the

'k sses given by the devil to the wiches in the sabbaths 5 very

pleasant the sugar kisses which young boys and girls delight i yiving to each other wih a crack, Butof all the pleasant,

As she went to him, and took his hand, |

when the Lady of |

No money will buy it; no honours; nothing |

given by the knight to |

above articles are in addition to those advertised for by | Chariemayzne and tis sons requ.red this degrading service from the 2. A. Society, and must all be the growth and produce of | their courtiers, and had their teet kissed and kneli to, Ike so | But the “ balmy breath’? that alinost did

the Island, a8 far as practicable lynany popes or gods. Weeth us tha ceremony has evaporated | ~penpeamnde Commissioners intend parchasing a considerable por- in‘o a bow or a name; io Pruseia it isof exceeding rare oecur- | Justice to break her sword, tiow of the wbure erticies. | rence to kiss hands at court at all; while in Spaio, the kisses | failed just tothe extentof that * ulmost.’’ Neither innocence

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jae as exactly ruled as the depth of the visiting ca-d in China, |

‘or the manner of giving oneself * happy despaich”’

When the Czar dies, his corpse is affectionaiely kissed; and j the same custom i observed with the Jews, Whena Jew ix dying his nearest relative kisser li to receive his latest breath ; ‘he w kiesed when dead, asa farewell ; and again, when car- ‘ried to the grave; even though seven or eight days may have ‘passed. ‘Thus we read:

' When Jacob had made an ond of commanding his sons, he gather- ‘ed up his feet into the bed, add yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people,” , :

«And Juseph fell upon his father’s face and wept over hiw, and kissed ' him.” | Kissing, which meane ia the Hebrew simply adoration, or “touching with the mouth,”’ was always one of the essential parts of heathen religion, without which was no possibility of evher piety or virive, and people were branded as «theists who ‘neglected to kiss their hands, or the statues of the gode, when ‘they entered a temple. lodeed, the feet and knees of the gods | were quite worn away by the constant touch of the worshipping | lyps: as is the case now with ceriam saints and shrines abroad.

‘This custom stood the brave Demosthenes in good stead ; for, | whea he was the prisoner of Ap ipater and wae teken by the

soldiers into the (canple, he raised tis hand to hie mouth, as if i‘ worship. ‘The evidiers tavugat it Was ao act of adorativn { He did not mean to sa-

jute the gods, but to take the poison which he bad long ago pre

in Japan. |

i nor love; neither kisses nor regret-, could calm the furious | | basure all aflame with jeslousy and hate ; and Othello’s farewell i kisses, tender and hearibruken aw they were—the slarining | | grasp of a man who loves even while be siays—had no inagic | | im thena to redeem poor Desdemoana’e life. Shakespeare lis countiess kisgeés of all complexions. ‘There |

is the kiss of Petruchio, when

——he took the bride about the neck,

And kissed ber lips with such a clamorous smack,

That at the parting, ali the church did echo. And there i# that grand kss of Corolanus,

Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge,

which contains such a world of character and passion, and in- tensily in its flerceness and love; dwarfieg into mere inapity Byron's celebrated wish—

That womanhood had but one rosy mouth,

Jo kiss them all at once from North to South, And there is Romeo’s kiss in the vault ; and Anthony’s dying kiss, 89 tender and so sad—