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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



isttllMtt^u, 



The Jasmine.— "We are told that a Duke of Tuscany 

 was the first possessor of this pretty shrub in Europe; 

 and he was so jealously fearful lest others should ^njoy 

 what he alone wished to possess, that strict injunctions 

 were given to his gardener not to give a slip— not so 

 much as a single flower— to any person. To this com- 

 mand the gardener would have been faithful, had not love 

 wounded him by the sparkling eye of a fair but portion- 

 less peasant, whose want of a little dowry, and his pov- 

 erty, alone kept them from the hymenial altar. On the 

 birth-day of his mistress he presented her with a nose- 

 gay, and to render the boquet more acceptable, orna- 

 mented it with a branch of jasmine. The povera Jiglia, 

 wishing to preserve the bloom of this new flower, put it 

 into fresh earth, and the branch remained green all the 

 the year. In the following spring it grew, and was cov- 

 ered with flowers. It flourished and multiplied so much 

 under the-fair nymph's cultivation, that she was able to 

 amass a little fortune from the sale of the precious gift 

 which love had made her; when, with a sprig of jasmine 

 in her breast, she bestowed her hand and wealth on the 

 happy gardener of her heart. And the Tuscan girls, to 

 this day, preserve the remembrance of this adventure, by 

 invariably wearing a nosegay of jasmine on their wed- 

 ding-day; and they have a proverb which says, a young 

 girl worthy of wearing this nosegay is rich enough to 

 make the fortune of a good husband.— iVbias and Queries. 



EXTEAOEDIKART FeENCH TELEGRAPHIC INVENTION.— The 



Abbe Caselli's recent invention, the pan-telegraph, is 

 described as one of the greatest scientific wonders of the 

 present day. A dispatch written at Paris is reproduced 

 at Marseilles without the assistance of any clerk, with 

 the most rigorous fidelity, as is also a portrait sketch, or 

 drawing of any kind. The Empress has had her likeness 

 telegraphed to some friends in the provinces, and recently 

 the inventor telegraphed a painting of a full-blown rose 

 from the Observatory to the Bureau of the Telegraphic 

 Administration. The petals were of a beautiful pink 

 color, and the leaves of an equally good green— in short, 

 were exactly like the tints of the original. Rossini also 

 telegraphed to Marseilles by this apparatus a melody 

 which he improvised in honor of the inventor. 



A Valuable Eock;et.— Among the many curious modes 

 of making money in Australia, none, I think, surpasses 

 the following: A surgeon told me that he weot one day 

 into the tent of a brother medicus, on the Bendigo, just 

 as a patient was going out. "I have been stopping a 

 tooth," said the surgeon. "Do you get good cement 

 here?" inquired my friend. "Admirable!" replied the 

 surgeon. " I saw an old gutta-percha bucket selling in a 

 lot of old tools one day at an auction. I bought the lot 

 for the sake of the bucket, which cost me five shillings. 

 I have already stopped some hundreds of teeth with the 

 guttapercha at a guinea each, and shall, no doubt, stop 

 thousands with it before the old bucket is used up. It is 

 » fortune to me. My name is up for an unrivaled dentist, 

 and they come to me from far and near." 



The Progress of Education. — At the hearing of aj 

 cent case before the English local magistrates, a cerlifioe 

 was handed up to the bench, on behalf of one of t 

 prisoners, of which the following is a verbatim copy 



May 23 | 



To Tour JToTwur 



this is to Certify that A F has been A schol 



for upwards four Years of Mine and Duering that ti 

 has conducted himself While Under My Care with tl 

 Steddy and ludusterious Sperit that becomes A Boy 

 his and from the information that I have received and i 

 Experiance of his past Charrecter I cinceraly Belive b 

 innocent of the Charge brought before You. 

 I ramaiu Yours 



Henerv 



2 k Chool 



Drummager of the 



Lancishire 



Airtillery Volunte* 



Notwithstanding that "Henery" "cincerally" " 

 lived" in the "inocence" of his "Steddy and Indust* 

 ous" "schoUer," the boy pleaded guilty to the cha; 

 against him. 



QoEEN OF Scot's Prater. — Messrs. Editors : I send ] 



a translation of the prayer of the Queen of Scotts, wb 



I think is equally cor^pct and more poetical than any 3 



have lately published. w. l. c 



"Oh God of my fathers 

 My hope i« in Thee; 

 Jesus my dearest, 

 Now liberate me. 

 In fetters snd chains 

 In sorrows and pains, 

 My desire is to Thee. 

 Deep feeling 

 Appealing, 



And reverently kneeling, 

 I adore, I implore, 

 Thou wouldst liberate me." 



[ CongregaUonaU* 



Grammatical Joking. — "What is the reason of a bl 

 leaving a blue mark after it?" asked an inquiring yo« 

 man of a medical student. " It's easily accounted fo 

 was the reply; "for you know ihtX hlow ix^ the perf 



makes blew" 



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"I can't reconcile diflFerences," said Septimus Hardi 

 "For instance, there is nothing more regular in. 

 coming round than dinner-time — and nothing less c 

 tain than dinner." 



"Sam, why don't you talk to massa and tell him to 

 up treasures in heaven?" "What for? What de 1 

 of laying up treasures dere, where he never see 

 again ? " 



Why are photographers the most uncivil of all trad 

 people? Because when we make application for a c< 



of our portrait they always reply with a negativew 



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CuRRAK was onco asked by one of his brother judj 

 " Do you see anything ridiculous in this wig ? " " Nothi 

 but the head," was the reply. 



"What church do you attend, Mrs. Partington 

 Oh ! any paradox church where the Gospel is dispeni 

 with ! " 



If there is "many a slip 'twist the cup and the li 

 will drinking out of the saucer insure freedom from si 

 mishap ? 



