THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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OUR SENTIMENTS. 



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This longing after beauty, 



This sighing after curls — 

 This chasing after Fashion, 



Wherever fashion whirls — 

 [And all that sort of thing.] 



May do for those who like them — 



For those devoid of taste — 

 For those who barter diamonds off 



For diamonds made of paste, 

 [And all other blockheads.] 



But to a Wife who truly loves — 



Who'd be what she appears — 

 Who'd spread a sunshine round the man 



Who keeps away her tears, 

 [And brings the " taters " home.] 



We'd whisper softly in her ear — 



We'd grave it on her heart — 

 That knowing how to fry a stake 



Beats Sentiment and Art 

 [Con-sid-er-a-ble.] 



Woman's Courage and Devotion. — DuriEg the whole 

 ;ord Dundonald's arduous services and romantic ad- 

 jures in South America, Lady Dundonald accom- 

 ied him, to soothe his anxieties, to sustain his hopes, 

 miniate his exertions, to share his dangers. One 

 it, while he was in command of the Chilian fleet, 

 ship got becalmed under a battery, from which he was 

 iled with red hot shot. His men were seized with a 

 c and deserted their guns. If the fire from the shore 

 not returned, it would speedily become steady, sus- 

 ad and fatal. He went down in the cabin where she 

 " If a woman sets them the example, they will be 

 med of their fear; it is our only chance." She arose 

 followed him upon deck. The first object that met 

 ;ye was the battery, with its flaming furnaces — round 

 rk figures were moving, looking more like incarnate 

 s than men. A glance at her husband's features, and 

 terrible " calmness reassured her. She took a match 

 red a gun when he had pointed it. The effect on the 

 was electrical ; they returned to their posts with a 

 t, and the battery was speedily silenced. 



Awful Comparison. — Sir William Brown, a pom- 

 sort of a man, being at a parish meeting, made some 

 9sals which were objected to by a farmer. " Sir, do 

 enow that I have been to two universities ?" " Well, 

 said the farmer, '-what of that? I had a calf that 

 d two cows, and the observation I made was, the 

 he sucked the greater calf he grew." Sir William 

 I heard the last of that. 



celebrated physician one day advised Voltaire to 

 up coffee, having just found out, he said, that it was 

 ,v poison. " It must be very slow indeed," replied 

 French poet, "for I have been using it over sixty 

 \, and am still alive." 



e is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but 

 Itle things, in which smiles and kindness, and small 



ations given habitually are what win and preserve 

 leart, and secure comfort. 



t not the stream of your life be a murmuring stream. 



Sometime since a lady of rather inquisitive character 

 was visiting our country seat. Among other places, she 

 visited the jail. She would ask the different prisoners for 

 what crime they were put in there. It went of well 

 enough till she came to a rather hard looking specimen 

 of humanity, whom she asked, "What are you here for?" 

 "For stealing a horse." "Are you not sorry for it?" 

 " Yes." " Won't you try and do better another time ?" 

 "Yes; I'll steal two." 



Muggins was passing up-street one day, with a friend, 

 when he observed a poor dog, that had been killed, lying 

 in the gutter. Muggins paused, gazed intently at the de- 

 funct animal, and at last said : " Here is another ship- 

 wreck." "Shipwreck! where?" "There's a bark that's 

 lost forever." His companion growled, and passed on. 



Mr. Peabodt, the American banker of London, has re- 

 solved on erecting a number of houses for the working 

 classes, who, through innumerable improvements in the 

 metropolis, have been rendered almost homeless. For 

 this purpose he is to give $500,000, and also undertakes 

 to pay the first year's interest of the money — $25,000. 



Small wits are great talkers, as empty barrels and 

 shallow streams make the moist noise. It has been said 

 that the smaller the calibre of the mind, the greater the 

 bore of a perpetually open mouth. "I talk a good deal, 

 but I talk well," said one of these men to Cardinal Riche- 

 lieu. "Half of that is true," said the Cardinal. 



Puzzle. — Edward told Willie that he would sit on three 

 separate seats in the parlor, where they were both by 

 themselves ; every seat he sat down in he would get up 

 out of it, and give Willie an opportunity to sit in each 

 vacant seat, but that Willie would not be able to sit but 

 in two out of the three. How did he do it ? 



How Kind ! — The following notice was posted, in 1860, 

 on the estate of a noble Marquis in Kent : " Notice is 

 hereby given that the Marquis of Camden (on account of 

 the backwardness of the season) will not shoot himself 

 nor any of his tenants till after the sixteenth of Sep- 

 tember." 



While we are coldly discussing a man's career, sneer- 

 ing at his mistakes, blaming his rashness, libelling his 

 opinions— that man, in solitude, is perhaps shedding hot 

 tears, because strength and patience are failing him to 

 speak the difficult word and do the difficult deed. 



Improvement in Churns. — The ordinary mode of 

 churning butter in Chili is to put the milk in a skin — 

 usually a dog's skin — tie it on a donkey ; mount a boy on 

 him with rowels to his spurs about the length of the ani- 

 mal's ears, and then run him four mile heats. 



Punch says you know a gentleman by his gait — a black- 

 guard by his Billingsgate. Why shouldn't a man be 

 known by his gate?— the country people always say that 

 a good farmer may be known by his fences, just as a vil- 

 lain is by his of -fences. 



Wht is a miser like seasoned timber? Because he 

 never gives. 



