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not think it possible it, should give 

 offence. I think psalms, written 

 with great and noble simplicity, 

 and sung in the same manner, 

 friendly to devotion ; and it is al- 

 most an offence to call in the aid 

 of insensible and inanimate things 

 to praise the Giver of life and rea- 

 son. A. psalm, decently sung by 

 the congregation, always excites 

 my devotion more than the organ. 

 I would employ musical instru- 

 ments in a pagan temple, but only 

 the voice of man in a Christian 

 church. (Lady M. W. Montagu to 

 Dr. Beattie.) 



PROFESSOR HORSFORD'S MONUMENT 



EXPERIMENT. 



It is wonderful (says an American 

 journal) to think that the Bunker 

 Hill Monument is bending like a 

 bow backward and forward every 

 day by the influence of the sun ! 

 As the sun during mid-day shines 

 on the south side of it, that side 

 expands, becomes longer than the 

 north side, and the consequence is 

 that it bends over towards the 

 north. The same must be true of 

 all other tall monuments, and also 

 of tall chimneys for some of the 

 latter are 500 feet high. This 

 movement is not simply from the 

 south towards the north as at mid- 

 day, but in the morning it must be 

 westerly at noon northerly, ami 

 in the evening easterly. These re- 

 sults have been unexpectedly ascer- 

 tained by Professor Hereford with 

 his pendulum. And thus it has 

 ever been in scientific pursuits, 

 while searching carefully after one 

 object, another is unexpectedly 

 found. Herschel, for instance, in 

 trying to find the parallax of the 

 fixed stars was astonished to find 

 them whirling by twos, threes, and 

 fours, around each other. The 

 Boston Cabinet thus informs us : 

 "We learn from good authority 

 that Professor Horsford meets with 



an unexpected difficulty, in making 

 successful experiments, in reference 

 to the rotation of the earth, on 

 Bunker Hill Monument. The 

 difficulty, not insuperable, is found 

 in the influences of sun light and 

 heat, in changing the centre of 

 gravity in the monument. The 

 stones in the structure follow the 

 universal law of expansion under 

 the influence of the sun, and hence 

 the Monument, during a bright 

 day, is based northward to about 

 three-fourths of an inch, so changing 

 the centre of gravity and the point 

 of oscillation that distance. This 

 natural and curious fact compels 

 the Professor to change the point 

 from which the long pendulum is 

 suspended once or twice each day, 

 more or less according to the length 

 and intenseness of the heat of the 

 day." 



TOBACCO. 



A tobacco-seller is the only man 

 that finds good in it, which others 

 brag of, but do not ; for it is meat, 

 drink, and clothes to him. No man 

 opens his ware with greater seri- 

 ousness, or challenges your judg- 

 ment more in the approbation. 

 His shop is the rendezvous of spit- 

 ting, where men dialogue with their 

 noses, and their communication is 

 smoke. It is the place only where 

 Spain is commended, andpreferred 

 before England itself. He should 

 be well experienced in the world, 

 for ho has daily trial of men's 

 nostrils, and none is better ac- 

 quainted with humours. He is the 

 piecing commonly of some other 

 trade, which is bad to his tobacco, 

 nud that to his wife, which is the 

 II.uiK! that follows his smoke. 

 (Bishop Earle.) 



RESOLUTION OF A DISAPPOINTED 

 FRIEND-HUNTER. 



If I be destined to rnako any 

 progress iii the world, it will be by 



