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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1855. No. 14.

oiiaiiaiah —_ = ne —_ — sacieaae eo i ETT ———— — — _—_———— = ee <a aman 2 are emcee em ar 1 A i SC | | ancous through the interest of some great man got them admitted | sure to meet with a warm reception, and are expected to re- | the carpenter with his rule, and the mason in setting up tall ‘ ° |into some Government office as copying clerks, where they | main just as long as it may suit your own conyenience.’’— | columns; he surpasses the lawyer and doctor in attending to : Sw nnn | receive a rank after a certain number of years, and become | Blackwood for September. | his cese, and beats the parson in the management of the Devil.’ ‘

| a : - ee Ste Childaan, 00. whe de nen) War.—* Now look salle,” said iderrita ‘* and contemplate mye | — wi = one pun aioe a wretched existence, | imag pape i ge” mo age looking thing is Law anv Jvstice.—Nelson, before going into action, used Y prospect of advancement, upon a miserable) war! Yes, dress it as you may, dress it and feather it, aah it | to tell his captains that, as amid the smoke of the war thera

pittance, unless they have great abilities for plunder, when, | with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it—what | WS teat liability to mistake, and it was almost impossible to by dint of acceptit.g bribes, they get a small sum together. | is it, nine cases out of ten, but murder inuniform? Cain tak- | 8°¢ the signals, he would give them one universal order for amen is no sum so small that they will not accept. You may ing the sergeant’s shilling! Yet, O man of war! at this very | their guidance, to — all lesser ones were to be subjected , even offer them arti:ka of wearing apparel—-anything ; and | moment you are not the feathered thing you were ; and this that is, the captain who ee eee alongside the enemy's | this latter is too frequently done when the poor suitor has little tube, the goose-quill, has sent its silent shores into your | re) Pe RE: POR PP re Sey et

acthipg.more to offer. 1 myself have ci | huge anatomy : and the corroding ink, even while you look at | 8 . pool ney sack omall prgnaed (7 and think it shines so brightly, is eating with a toeth of'| as fourpence and sixpence for trifling services which they)?” _ 5 | have seemed reluctant to perform, which has always had pn Ante: Fee SPT the desired effect of accelerating their movements, and saved /me the ennui of waiting half-an-hour for them to perform | 4), their duty.” What a picture does this afford us of a class of |

WORDS OF KINDNESS,

BY CAROLINE HOWE.

There was a little word, A word of kindness born, That like the carol of a bird Rang out upon the morn ; And in a spirit sad and lone, Awoke a soft and answering tone. Those words, so few and slight, Were freighted with a power To pierce the darkness, as at night hen gloom enwraps the hour, Meekly, yet radiant, from afar Shines down the silver gleaming star,

MEAN HEIGHT oF THE ATLANTIC AND Pactric Ockan.—The Panama Star says :—On the authority of Col. Lloydand Capt. Falmer, who, in 1827, by order of Bolivar, made a series of A Homs.—if we were to tell numbers of our friends that/ levels from Panama to Chagres, it has been very generally be- ey don’t know what a ‘ home”’ is, they would grow some- lieved that there existed a difference of mean level between the

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,nobility! The nobleman who accepts of an old coat to for- , ward & poor man’s petition! or whe pockets fourpence to ex- pedite aricher man’s passport!

0 what a light they gave To cheer the desert way, As flowers will bloom above a grave To boautify decay ; Blest, though the blessing they impart, As heart is blest the blessing heart. or cies _ | smaller proprietors, from leading a solitary life, get into habits

what indignant—perhaps use hard words. And yet it may | Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and many ingenious theories have be remarked that the number of persons who know what a| been devised to account for this (supposed) fact, and elaborate genuine home is, by experience, is surprisingly few. One man | deductions in favour and against the practicability of a ship

Bat if these noble per+ in goed circumstances will tell us that he has a fine house ef canal have been drawn therefrom. The difference of the mean sonages are thus contemptible in their public capacity, how his own, in which every comfort and convenience are permed. | height of the two oceans were stated to be 3-52 feet—the Paci- 'do they demean themselves in private life? Hear what the | He has a wife and children there also, and they give

(writer in Blacktoood says upon that point :—* Some of the |

nished and enlivened to every other place in the world? Does! ceries of careful tidal observations taken here, and in Aspin- 3 ] P

J ife tothe | fic Panama, being that much higher than the Atlantic, at place. Very true. But does he prefer that home, thus fur-|Chagres. It has been lately decided by Col. Totten, after a

he sigh when the hour for leaving comes, and smile when he

wall (Navy Bay), and connected by accurate levels along the

The summer birds may wake | of beastly intoxication, in which they consume days and nights, | is permitted to return? Does he love to sit by the cheerful | line of railroad, that the mean height of the two oceans is ex- Their songs amid the leayes, while their property goes to ruin. [have even known in- fire and fondle the children, entering into all their little dis- | actly the same, although, owing to the difference in the rise of And zephyrs into music broak stances where they have kept casks of spirits in their bed-| putes with a curicus interest? Does he take particular note of | tide at both places, there are of course times when one of the Upon the summer waves— meme and been in the habit of crawling on all fours from the birds in the cage, and the cat near the fire? If not, he ‘oceans is higher or lower than the other, but the mean /evei,

Tut sweeter far than winds or birds i tha . sel a : dsi has no home, in the dearest sense of the word. If his mind is| that is to say, their height at half-tide, is now proven to be ox- : To lonely hearts are gentle words, oe = erereyet ond gira. ie ee — bed - altogether absorbed in the dusty ways of business—if he hur- | actly thé same, There is no doubt that Colone Lloyd's error : : | dee till the shall he mindini Gcbtble g the . f ’ ries from the house in the morning, and is loth to return at | arose from imperfection in his instruments, and the difficulty : If ye have learned their power, a th y y to take another slight re resh- /night—if, while he is at home, ‘he continues to think of the | he labored under in taking a large number of observations, in O give them forth like balm, ‘ment in the same manner. This must seem very much like | journal and the ledger and repulse the advance of the prattling | which mistakes are peculiarly liable to oceur. i If ye have not, go forth this hour, | exaggeratien ; but I can assure my readers that I advance /children, he has no home; he only has a place where he ledges capita As And try their mystic charm ; _ nothing but the pure truth, and what fell under my own , and takes his meals. ( joy shall e os. e en" control | personal observation.” Ah! happy is he who knows and appreciates the full bliss TIME OF INVENTIONS. ’ The counter-signal of a soul. — i i ; ;. | Of home ; whose heart is warmed and harmonized by its cheer- ; Speaking of the relationship between the nobles and their | ful i wg ° fe th eee else Glass windows were first used in ......... 1189 y a, ea ale aed ge : ul influence, and who feels how superior in purity of pleasure . 0 sre | serfs, this writer tells us that the corporal punishment of | : : Aa: : } 246 *. . 1 OIE ak HY OF | are all its enjoyments to the turmoil-delight of out door life. Chimneys in houses, ....... Fe deseseeses 1246 RUSSIA AND HER PEOPLE. serfs is very common—in fact of hourly occurrence, and very} Thrice happy is such a man. He has discovered the only Lead pipes for conveying water,.......... 1220 % / a ; heal ie | often arbitrarily administered, though, according to law, no | paradise this world can afford. It is only such a man who Tallow candles for lights,..........+...+5 1290 F _“ The prevailing passion of tue Russian nation,” says the | proprietor of serfs can give more than fifteen blows with a can have a deep and sincere pity for the unfortunate creatares, Spectacles invented by an Italian, ........ 1290 5 historian Alison, “is the love of conquest ; and this ardent stick at one time; but this limitation is never attended to, | Who are hopeless. He regards them as being cut off from the Paper first made from linen,.............. 1302 ; desire is the unseen spring which impels their accumulated because the peasant can get no possible redress, as the very | best influence of the earth, and exposed to the action of all the ae cloth first a in England,...... ro # force in ceaseless advance over all the adjoining states. Do- manto whom he ought to apply in such a case is often a/ 2#tker waves of life. He ‘eels keenly for him who has no fire- EE OF PRINTING’ ID OH COLORS, - w5 5 + 00's ov 00's 410 . 3 ; i re erlooked in the’ : int Pp ays ” %' side—no dear ones to welcome him with smiles, and prattle Printing invented... ...6+.ee eee eeeeees 1447 . F mestic grievances, how great sovver, are overiooked in the guest at his master s table, and known to be in his vay.” Ini C ; os, \ p e Watehan lei Dn 7 a i forei andiseme In the est of the oh Gd oe ite pay (over the histery of the day —no tongue to sooth him when atches made In Germany, .......++++++ 1470 5 thirst for foreign aggrancisement. in te conquest of the) the matter of flagellation 2 distinction appears to be drawn! heavy cares have troubled the mind and rendered his heart Variation of the compass noticed,......... 1543 | world the people hope to find a compensation, and more than between domestic servants and peasant serfs—all the servants | sore * @ maatl' ié mow alow to overthrow’ iw aste of ‘benevolence. | Pins used in England,..........++++.+++5 1510 a compensation, for ait the evils of their interior administration. ' of a nobleman’s household not being necessarily serfs. | A good home is the source of the fountain of charity in the | Circulation of human blood discovered by Every Russiat is inspire! with the conviction that his country; “When a servant, however, happens to be a serf and jg) heart. , HATvey yess cree eet e neces eeeecenees 1619 is one day to conquer the world; and the universal belief of | guilty of anything that may appear to his master against the), Our advice to those who have no homes, such as we have! we. aie ape bu dibewoedece — this result is one of the chief causes of the rapid strides which | ryles of his h he poli : | described above is, to get them as soon as possible. They can ee ee ene Oho K 64 ne ji F rules of his house, the police are sent for, and the delinquent | es . oa) ates First cotton planted in the U.S 1769 g Russia of late years h: de towards it realizati The | ix : : . c never be contented and substantial citizens, nor thoroughly wouter a «- apt nla suing = s issia of iate years Ras ma ! gation. is walked off to receive a good flogging—not with the knout, | h il th : 1 & i Steam engine improved by Watt,......... 1767 S in Russia is impressed with the belief that! h lat oliaht it « tie ; * happy men, until they follow this counsel. Get homes. Fill : > . , — 5 Meanest peasant in P nt _ however, but simply with a bunch of rods like a schoolboy ; | them with the objects of love and endearment, and sek there Steam cotton mill erected,................ 1785 his evuntry is destined to subdue the world. or he is put into solitary confinement, according to the request | for the pure delights whieh the world besides cannot affvrd. Stereotype printing, in Scotland,.......... 1785 % ? Such is the nation ya which the ng Powers of | of his master, no inquiry whatever being made as to why he | Gibideaay — an by Manpeny ahiposaie divn = Jurope are now at war. we centuries ago this nation was j is i i : ; } st Sabpath oot in BANG, seen enees ‘ 352 P ‘ ’ a ad “ sg0 : a ree} te punished, if the order for punishment be accompanied by| Wor 4 Love ror NATERIT mistorY Cav po.—I miny seom Madibntbenee lense ae eee 1839 scareeiy Known beyond the borders of the bieak region Which! the present of a rouble to the lice offic M ’ ; “sige > : ‘ rer es > one — : > police oficer, Men are | to exaggerate the advantages of such gtudies ; but the question Daugerreotype process invented,.......... 1839 . it inhabited on the eastern confines of Europe, How is it) punished in, this way by ‘mistake, and no notice taken of it. after all is one of experience; and I have had experience 7 . alia ae 4

that 1t has now become so formidable as to threaten the peace [he men themselves do not consider it as any disgrace to be enough and to spare that what I say is truc. I have seen the ; and liberties of the whole world? Tne path by which Russia flogged, and they even boast of how much they can support.” Fawen Frags offierce passions and uncontrollable daring expend | Drath ano Rowance.—The Coroner held an inquest yestor- has attained to hor present greatness and power has beenone _—_As regards religion, we are told that “ the serfs in general | eee Fee energy which me aN daily to plange him day bv me cr d a Joseph vie ree by — we of ceaseless aggression and rapine. Since the'time of Peter) have very limited ideas on that subject, as they, for the | Mt? recklessness, if not into sin, upon hunting out and collect. | mentioned yesterday morning. hin the “Inquest come interest- the Great her repacious sword has searcely ever been sheathed. | greater part, can neither read nor write ; they go a shee | ing, through rock and bog, snow and tempest, every bird and | mg facts were ieedenaa which we were unacquainted with

‘egg of the neighbouring forest. I have seen the cultivated | previously, and which lend a most romantic interest to the

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Possessing herself in the first instanes of Livonia, and of the where they repeat with great devotion, a certain number of part where Cronstadt and St Petersburg now stand, she next) Aves and Paternosters in their own language, or rather Sla- extended her borders to the Crimea and the Sea of Azoff. | yonic, and cross themselves while the priest is celebrating mass, Vast acquisitions from Tartary, larger than the whole German which is done with more or less pomp according to the Empire, then spread her dominion over Central Asia. In’ occasion, or the riches of the church. If you ask a peasant 1783 her sway was spread over the Crimea, and the vast where is God? he will generally point to the corner of the plains between the Black Sea and the Caspian, as far as the room where there are ee one or more coarse, badly foot of the Caucasus. We then find her advancing towards executed paintings, representing some of their saints, and and occupying the now flourishing harbour of Odessa. The) which he is firmly persuaded are so many Gods. I have even iufamous spoliation of 1793 gave her Lithuania. In 1794 known some of them who, when thev are about to commit a her frontier extended to the Vistula, and the provinces em- sin, will eover carefully their images, that God may uot sce bracing nearly half of the whole kingdom of Poland. In| what they are about.” .

1809 she acquired the whole of Finland. as farasthe headof Are these the people who are to becem? the dominant race the Gulf of Bothnia. In 1812 hersoutherm frontier reached of Kurope? Never, whilst freedom and civilization have a the Pruth, including the mouths of the Danube. After the | sword to draw. .

late war she was aliowed the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. Her | ° frontier in this direction was brought to within 180 miles of } Corruption of Russtan Nostss.—In an article entitled Berlin and Vienna. Between 1500 and 1814 the Muscovite | «« Life in the Interior of Russia,”’ by the same ‘ Eye-witness”’ eagles were carried over the Caucasus into the beautiful pro- whose deeply interesting paper on the ‘ Internal Sufferings of vince of Georgia. In 1828 Erivan and Ararat were within Russia during the present War’’ in Blackwood for last month, her grasp; am] the Araxes became the frontier of her Asiatic, there is, in the current number, the following graphic sketch : dominions. Russia's provinces now almost encircle the Black | 7~ mone, eet nobles ae a right to possess serfs, though it s d her treaty with Turkey, called the Treaty of Unkiar| ©°°* ngt Slaw shat all nobles possess them, for there is ¢ wy 302, O86 DOF y J» ; large class of poor nobles in Russia who possess nothing, never Skelese, which she forced upon the latter Power, upon the! qiq possess anything—and these are the most miserable of all oveasion of sending troops to protect Constantinople against! the others ; for they are nothing—neither peasants nor gentle-

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the victorious troops of Mehemet Ali—this treaty secured the men. It will naturally be asked how they became possessed |

Euxine as a Russian Jake, by exeluding all foreign vessels of of eet pos ? -o a os most z ann sees war. clerks of churches, &c., whose fathers or friends have taught re ho weds al |} them to read and write, and through the interest of some great —_ asa ee yh : 7 pore ye oe oe years. UP man got them admitted into some aetna office as neaion to 1542, lhussia rubbed Swe: aA. Of OPER? OF Ee ominlows. | clerks, where they receive a rank after a certain number of oO Poluad she took the lion's share, equal in extent to the’ years, and become nobles, and of course their children too, Austrian Empi She has seized upon the provinces of Who do as their fathers have done before them — leading a Fauropean Stat extent equal to Prussia, exclusive of wretched existence without any prospect of advancement, upon the Rhenish provinces. She has dospniled Asiatie Tarkey of a miserable pittance, unless they have great abilities for plun- an extent equal to the German small States, Rhenisk Prussia, der, when, by dint of accepting bribes, they get a small sum

Holland, and Belgium. She has robbed Persia of a large ‘2° ther... There is no sum so small that they will not accept; | 6... per émt., they would suppose the person who made the |

province, cual in sae to Ragland: aud, lastly, she has eo-| 28 2 reno gm article of wearing pparelanything c upon and taken from Tartary a territory equal to nothing more to offer. I myself have given such small sums European Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Spain combined. as 4d. and 6d. for tritting sceviees which they have seemed re-

Not satisfied with these nefarious acquisitions, she has now juctant to perform, which has always had the desired effect of plunged herself into a war with the most civilised natioas of accelerating their moyements,and saved me the ennui of waiting Europe, in the desperate hope of further extending her empire ' half-an-hour for them to perform their duty. Some, again, of to the shores of the Bosphorus, and of planting the throne of this class, live by going from house to house in the country.

|man, craving for travel and for success in life, pent up in the dradgery of London work, and yet keeping his spirit calm, and perhaps his morals all the more righteous, by spending,

over his microscope, evenings which would too probably have

affair. Karly in June last, Mr. Hill's wife died in childbed, and the mother and child were buried in a lot in the German Protestant graveyard, Daily since them he has visited the |gtaye, often spending hours there. He had enclosed the lot

sradaally been wasted at the theatre. I have seen the young | with a fence and profusely ornamented it with flowers. On

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ndon beauty, amid all the excitement and temptation of | Saturday morning he visited it for the last time, and after luxury and flattery, with her heart pure, and her mind occu. | tracing on the tombstone an inscription with a pencil, laid down pied in a boudoir full of shells and fossils, flowers and sea- | upon the grave and blew his brains out with a pistol. The in- weeds, and keeping herself unspotted from the world, by eon- | S<ription was in German, of which the following is a transla- sidering the lilies of the field, how they grow. And therefore | Hon :— . it is that [hail with thankfulness every fresh book of natu-| ‘‘ How soon are the ties of love rent asunder ? ral history, as a fresh boon to the young, anda fresh help to| ‘* Dearest, how fondly have I loved thee ! ‘those who have to educate them. ‘* 1 lost my all—you may know now that I love her still. ‘« My heart is too sad—therefore, oh! death! fulfil my fat», rs 2 ee . |and soon unite me to her, and to love’s eternal rest. |. A Recerrt ror Happrvess.—When you rise in the morning} «| depart from the sweet habit of existence. | form @ resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow-) « Jt js at the grave alone man learns the true yalue of love."’ jereature. It is easily done; trifies in themselves light as air! os, Zouis Democrat. , Will do it, at least for the twenty-four hours. By the most simple arithmetical sum, look at the result ; you send one per- 'son, only one, happily through the day ; thatis three hundred{ Tyr Grass axp tre Matxe Law.—Quaker young ladies in /and sixty-five in the course of the year; and supposing you | the Maine Law States, it is said, still continue to kiss the lips | live forty years only after you commence that course of medi- | of the young temperance men to see if they have been tamper- cine, you have made 14,600 human beings happy, at all events | ing with liquor. Just imagine a beautiful young girl approach- for atime. Now, worthy reader, is this not simple? It is too ing you, young temperance man, with all the dignity ue ex- short for a sermon, too homely for ethics, and too easily ac-| ecutive officer, and the innocence of a dove, with the charge ; ‘complished for you to say, ‘I would if [ could.”"—Sydney | —« Mr. , the ladies believe you are in the habit of tam- Smith. pering with liquor, and they have appointed me to examine — you according to our established role ;—are you willing?’’ Tae Crepit System In REFERENCE TO Newsparers.—In no You nod acquiescence. She gently steps close to you, lays department of human industry is credit so universal, so un- j her soft white arm around your neck, dashes back her raven | Teasonable, so unjast and oppressive, as in connexion with the curls, raises her sylph-like form upon her tip-toes, her round publication of Newspapers. No farmer, mechanic, manufac- snowy, heaving bosom against your own, and with her angelic turer, or merchant, would for a moment think of giving credit features, lit up with a smile as sweet as heaven, places her on their productions or goods as Printers are generally required rich, rosy, pouty, sweet, sugar, molasses, butter, eggs. straw- or expected todo. Were either of the former to be urged to | berry, honeysuckle, lily, baby - jumper, rosebud, cream, tart,

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credit entire strangers scattered over a surface of many hundred | apple-pie, peach-pudding, apple-dumpling, ginger bread, nec- 'milés, sams varying from $2 to $20 for one or five years, and | tar lips against yours, and—(Oh! Jerusalem ! hold us!) buss- 'then to send collectors to traverse the whole country to collect}es you, by crackey!! Hurrah for the gals and the Maino | the outstanding debts, at a cost of at least twenty, or twenty-| Law, and death to all opposition—American paper.

t+ aoe? Suggestion was a fool, or that he supposed they were insane. ‘ I Yet ouch is the position of the a Proprietor, and this} A Savacr.— A man was taken before the Pel ot ‘is not the exception but the rule! His business is principally | Sailford, for a brutal assault. It a ss = Sect that of this kind—advance payments being the exception. The he had thrown down another man, and whilst both were on losses not only incident to the collection of debts but by deaths, | the ground he had worried his antagonist much as a dog would removals, failures and dishonesty, are necessarily great, and | have done, biting a piece from his cheek. all have a tendency to cripple and destroy the Press—more ticularly that which is really free and independent—the

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' Curyest Barsers.—The barbers in towns of China go about

: : : | They stay at a house till the master tired of them ; then her Czars amidst the ruined mosques of Constantinople. | be sends them to his nearest neighbour, who does the like.’’—

Bat whilst Rassia has thus grown sping, great, and oan September. insolent—wnhilst she has thus abeorbed within herelf a ter-! mieten : ilk |

: : z | ritory equal in extent to all the rest of Europe—-what is the | Hosprratity or tre Rvsstays.—* The Russians in general |

aciusi condition of the people over whom her barbarous SWaY are very hospitable; and in the country, where they lead a is imposed! We are told -that her population amounts in | very s0 mary monotonous life, are glad to see any on who the gross to something like 70,000,000. In what condition can ure them a little variety, as they have no sources of | do they live? The las: namber of Blackwood contains a amusement whatever except shooting or coursing ; but when a paper written by an Euglishman, long resident in Russia, man is not a sportsman, even these fail him, for books are Which gives us a curious and most valuable insight into the sain os very leaneat ins not ae ee Srealie iMterior life of the Russian people. We select a few i¢ the extreme sever! censure e , a really the purpose of showing what Russian life really is. | food work is a pao a es In the first told that “gone but nobles have |) a Country . oo ‘But T the ri place we are ; who ean give them a little news, be it ever so stale. But Tight to possess serfs, though it does not follow that a!! must give the Russians their due : they are, from the highest nobles possess them, for there is a very large class of poor to the lowest, very hospitable ; a general invitation there al- nobles in Russia who possess nothing, never did possess any Wiys means, in town, that you are expected to drop in two or thing, auf are never likely to possess anything—and these three times a-week about dinner-time, and without being are the most miserable of all the others; for they are nothing ;) asked, take your seat at the table like one of the family. If, neither peasants “ti ootumliy be aakediar nt decline staying, they will feel quite hurt ; even the very | nor gentlemen. . It will naturally servants will press you to remain and take dinner with the how they became possessed of their nobility? Tuey are for; family. When you are asked to go to the country, you are the most part sons of ambitious clerks of churches, &c., whose | never expected to give any previous notice of intended fathers or friends have taught them to read and write, and visit, but to go et any time you feel inclined ; and-you are

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that dees not depend upon sectarian support, bat which relies upon the support of the friends of liberty and truth among all parties. The Newspaper Credit System is as irrational as it is un- unjust. There can be no security for a free and independent Press withoat free and independent pecuniary support, nor can any one, in this period of prosperity and cheap journals, assign any

ood reason for not paying their Newspaper always inadyance.

he wages of a common labourer, for one or two days, wil! pay his paper for the year—why, then, should substantial farmers,

ringing bells to get customers. They carry with them a stool,

'a basin, a towel, and a pot containing fire. When any person

‘calls them, they run to him, and planting their stool in a con- venient place in the street, shave the head, clean the ears,

merchants and mechanics neglect a duty soobvious and import-_

ant? The payment of $2 each by 5,000 subscribers, can give |

ineonvenience to no one ; bat the want of $10,000 by the Pro- prietor of a news paper, whose workmen's wages, paper, &e., make a constant drain upon his means, is a serious, if not a ruinous inconyenience. Any paper of established character deemed worthy of meer should invariably be paid for in ad- vance ; and we hope the day is not remote when every news- paper of any standiag will refuse to issue a single number to subscribers unless pre-paid.

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held in Lowell, the following sentiment was proposed, and most seven children.”” At the same time i :—* The Printer — the his admiration of E farmer with his - Hoe,’ turned proudly rou

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dress the eyebrows, and brush the shoulders ; all for the value of little more than a halfpenny. They then ring the bell again, and start in pursuit of another customer. What would our English barbers say to this custom ?

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MeNutt and Brown running opposite ways round a corner, struck each other. ‘‘Ohb, dear,’ said McNutt, “ how you

made my headring! ‘+ That’sa sign it’s hollow,’’ said Brown.

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* Don’t yours ring?’ said MeNutt. ‘‘No.’’ ‘“ That's a sign it’s cracked.”’

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A good anecdote is current about the first interview Loa ad re-

Eugenia remarked that the

‘queen, making every allowance for the Guelph features, was A toast py a Prrvrer.—At the Franklin Festival, recently | not at all handsome ; but Napoleon replied sternly, ‘* She has

ince Albert expressed ia’s beauty to the queen, and Victoria , saying, «« She has no children !

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