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enemy, Sam, and four other grinning boys 

 in their best apparel, five huge slices of 

 bridecake. 



The fact was clear. Jem Tyler and Miss 

 Philly were married, 



OUR NOTE-BOOK ; 



ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 



" A wise man "will always note down whatever strikes 

 him as being 1 worthy of observation. It may, at a future 

 time, benefit or amuse others as well as himself." — Fitz- 

 osborne. 



Brother and Sister. — As fathers love their 

 daughters better than sons, and mothers love 

 their sons better than daughters, so do sisters 

 feel towards brothers a more constant sentiment 

 of attachment than towards each other. None of 

 the little vanities, heart-burnings, and jealousies, 

 that, alas for poor human nature! are but too 

 apt to spring up in female hearts, can (or, at all 

 events, should) arise between brother and sister ; 

 each is proud of the success of the other, because 

 it cannot interfere with self — nay, on the contrary, 

 is nattering to self. Hence, if there be a bond of 

 family union more free from the selfish blots that 

 interrupt all others, it is that which exists between 

 an affectionate sister and brother. — Lady 

 Blessington. 



Love's Sorrow. — Pride may be called in as a 

 useful auxiliary to assist a woman to bear up 

 against the inconstancy or the injustice of her 

 lover, but few can withstand his sorrow; for no 

 weapon in the whole armory of love is so danger- 

 ous to a female breast. 



Phrenological Development no Excuse 

 for Crime. — One of the most extraordinary 

 cases ever brought before a criminal court, has 

 just been tried by the Court of Assizes of the Ile- 

 et-Vilaine. The prisoner was a female, named 

 Helene Jegado, who for several years past has 

 been a servant in different families of the depart- 

 ment. She stood at the bar, charged with several 

 thefts committed in and since the year 1846, and 

 seven murders by arsenic in 1850; but the 

 evidence showed that, although seven cases had 

 been selected as more recent, and therefore more 

 easy of proof, not less than 43 persons had been 

 poisoned by her with arsenic ! The victims were 

 either her masters or mistresses, or fellow-servants, 

 who had incurred her hatred. In some cases, no 

 motive of interest or hatred could be assigned. 

 The prisoner appeared to have been actuated by 

 a thirst for destruction, and to have taken pleasure 

 in witnessing the agonies of her victims. She 

 was at once found " guilty." The only defence 

 set up for her was founded on phrenological prin- 

 ciples. It was contended that the organs of 

 hypocrisy and destructiveness were developed to a 

 degree which overpowered the moral faculties and 

 that although it would be unsafe to leave her at 

 large, she ought not to be condemned to capital 

 punishment; the peculiarity of her organisation 

 rendering her rather an object of pity. This 

 defence failed entirely, and the jury having 

 delivered a verdict, without extenuating circum- 

 stances, the court condemned her to death. 



Galignani's Messenger. 



Father and Son. — It is the most beautiful 

 object the eyes of man can behold, to see a man 

 of worth and his son live in an entire unreserved 

 correspondence. The mutual kindness and 

 affection between them, give an inexpressible sat- 

 isfaction to all who know them. It is a sublime 

 pleasure which increases by participation. It is 

 as sacred as friendship, as pleasurable as love, 

 and as joyful as religion. This state of mind 

 does not only dissipate sorrow, which would be 

 extreme without it, but enlarges pleasures, which 

 would otherwise be contemptible. The most 

 indifferent thing has its force and beauty when it 

 is spoken by a kind father, and an insignificant 

 trifle has its weight when offered by a dutiful 

 child. I know not how to express it, but I think 

 I may call it a transplanted self-love. All the 

 enjoyments and sufferings which a man meets 

 with, are regarded only as they concern him in 

 the relation he has to another. A man's very 

 honor receives a new value to him, when be thinks 

 that when he is in his grave, it will be ftad in 

 remembrance that such an act was done by such 

 an one's father. Such considerations sweeten the 

 old man's evening, and his soliloquy delights 

 him when he can say to himself. " No man can 

 tell my child his father was either unmerciful or 

 unjust; my son shall meet many a man who 

 shall say to him, ' I was obliged to thy father, and 

 be my child a friend to his child for ever.' "— 

 Spectator. 



Tenacity of Life in the Polypi. — Among 

 the lower animals, this faculty is the most re- 

 markable in the polypi ; they may be pounded 

 in a mortar, split up, turned inside out like a 

 glove, and divided into parts, without injury to 

 life ; fire alone is fatal to them. It is now about 

 a hundred years since Trembley made us ac- 

 quainted with these animals, and first discovered 

 their indestructibility. It has subsequently been 

 taken up by other natural historians, who have 

 followed up these experiments, and have even 

 gone so far as to produce monsters by grafting. 

 If they be turned inside out, they attempt to 

 replace themselves, and if unsuccessfully, the 

 outer surface assumes the properties and 

 powers of the inner, and the reverse. If 

 the effort be partially successful only, the part 

 turned back disappears in twenty- four hours, and 

 that part of the body embraces it in such a 

 manner, that the arms which projected behind 

 are now fixed in the centre of the body; the 

 original opening also disappears, and in the room 

 of feelers a new mouth is formed to which new 

 feelers attach themselves, and this new mouth 

 feeds immediately. The healed extremity elon- 

 gates itself into a tail, of which the animal has 

 now two. If two polypi be passed into one 

 another like tubes, and pierced through with a 

 bristle, the inner one works its way through the 

 other, and comes forth again in a few days; in 

 some instances, however, they grow together, 

 and then a double row of feelers surround the 

 mouth. If they be mutilated, the divided parts 

 grow together again, and even pieces of two 

 separate individuals will unite into one. 



Elegant Motto. — "Horas non numero nisi 

 serenas." — Motto on a sun-dial at Venice. 



