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in admirable style, now witty aad now beauti¬ 
ful, for upwards of five minutes. Ex-President 
Fillmore was appointed to prepare an inscrip¬ 
tion for the gold cup ; a task which he accom¬ 
plished with his accustomed good taste; and 
Mr. Rockwell was appointed to purchase the 
cup. 
Thus ended one of the pleasantest little epi¬ 
sodes of the great excursion—one that must be 
always remembered with pleasure by those who 
witnessed it, and especially by the parents of 
the child who so early in life won so solid a 
mark of the approbation of his seniors.— One 
op the Spectators, in Boston Transcript. 
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A DUTCHMAN ABROAD. 
“ Hello, friend, can you tell me the way to 
Reading?” inquired aDown-easter the other day 
of a Pennsylvania Dutchman, whom he found 
hard at work beside the road a few miles from 
Reading. 
“ 0, yaw, I could tell you so besser as any 
body. You must first turn de barn round, de 
pritch over and brook up stream, den de first 
house you come to ish my proder Hans big 
barn; dat ish de biggest barn dere ish on dish 
road; it is eighteen feet von way, and eighteen 
feet back again. My proder Hans thought to 
thatch it mit shingles, but he sold dem, and 
den he shingled it mit straw, and clapboard it 
mit rails; after you go by my proder Han’s big 
barn, de next house you come to ish a hay stack 
of cornstalks, bilt of straw, but you must not 
stop dere tos. Den you goes along till you 
come to tree roads and den you kit lost. Den 
you musht kit over de fence into a great pig pen 
mit no fence around it. Den you take de road 
upon your right shoulder, and go down as far 
as de pritch, den you turn right again. Yen 
you ish cornin’ back, you come by a house 
dat stands right back along side of a little 
yaller tog. He runs out and says, pow, wow 
wow, he duz, and bits a little piece out of your 
leg, den he runs and shumps into an empty pig¬ 
pen dat has four sheep in it. Den you look 
way up on de hill down in the swamp dere, and 
sees a plue white house painted red, mit two 
front doors on de back side; well, tere ish vere 
my proder Hans live, and he would tell you so 
besser as I could. I don’t know.” 
“Wall, I swow, by hokee, mister, you are 
about as mellergent as aynt Jeremy; but I 
reckon as how you don’t know her, though 
she’s dumb. But I say yeou, why don’t you 
dig out them paskey weeds, hey?” 
“ 0, dear me, I hash had very bad luck. Yon 
or two days next week mine proder Hans 
pumpkins broke into pig patch, and ven I drove 
them home, every little pumpkin in de field 
catch up von little piece of pig in its mouth, and 
den der run through the tayful as if der fence 
was after dem, and a post stumbled over me, 
and I’m almost kilt, I am.” 
“ Whew ! Dew tell.” 
“Den I tinks as how I must take me a vrow, 
so I goes to Reading, and tells Kottereen if she 
would take me for worse or besser, and she says 
yaw. So I takes him home, and eats seven 
quarts sour krout, and went to bed well enough, 
but de morning she shrump up tead! She was 
a very heavy loss; she weigh more as dree 
hundred and seventy pounds. Den my little 
boy take sick and tied. 0! I’d rather give up 
tree shillings cash to have dat happen, he was 
so fat as butter. Den my hens came mit dere 
ears split, and hogs all come home mit nine of 
dem missin.” 
CIVILITY IS A FORTUNE. 
Civility is a fortune in itself, for a courteous 
man always succeeds in life, and that even when 
persons of ability sometimes fail. The famous 
Duke of Marlborough is a case in point. It was 
said of him by one contemporary, that his agree¬ 
able manners often converted an enemy into a 
friend ; and, by another, that it was more pleas¬ 
ing to be denied a favor by his Grace than to 
receive one from other men. The gracious 
manners of Charles James Fox preserved him 
from personal dislike, even at a time when he 
was politically the most unpopular man in the 
kingdom. The history of our own country is 
full of examples of success obtained by civility. 
The experience of every man furnishes, if we 
but recall the past, frequent instances where 
conciliatory manners have made the fortunes of 
physicians, lawyers, divines, politicians, mer¬ 
chants, and indeed, individuals of all pursuits. 
In being introduced to a stranger, his affability, 
or the reverse, creates instantaneously a prepos¬ 
session in his behalf, or awakens unconsciously 
a prejudice against him. To men, civility is in 
fact, what beauty is to woman; it is a general 
passport to favor, a letter of recommendation 
written in a language that every stranger un¬ 
derstands. The best of men have often injured 
themselves by irritability and consequent rude¬ 
ness, as the greatest scoundrels have frequently 
succeeded by their plausible manners. Of two 
men, equal in all other respects, the courteous 
one has twice the chance for fortune.— Phila¬ 
delphia Ledger. 
Summer Snowballs. —Simmer half a pound 
of rice until it is tender, then strain it. Take 
five or six apples, of middling size, pare them, 
and take out the core with a small knife or ap¬ 
ple scoop, but do not cut them into sections. 
Into the hollow made by cutting out the core, 
put sugar and a little allspice. Divide the rice 
into a portion for each apple, and with the hand 
lay each portion equally over an apple, and tie 
them separately in a small cloth, and boil an 
hour. These dumplings, or snowballs, may be 
served with sweet sauce, or eaten with simple 
sugar or treacle. 
Influence of a Newspaper. — A school 
teacher who had been engaged a long time in 
his profession, and was witnessing the influence 
of a newspaper upon the minds of a family of 
children, writes to the editor of the Ogdenshurg 
Sentinel —I have found that those scholars, of 
both sexes and all ages, who have had access to 
newspapers at home, when compared to those 
who have not, are better readers, excellent in 
pronunciation and emphasis, and consequently 
read more understandingly, better spellers, and 
define words with ease and accuracy. They 
obtain a practical knowledge of geography in 
almost half the time it requires others; as the 
newspaper has made them acquainted with the 
location of the important places, nations, their 
government, and doings on the globe. They 
are better grammarians, for having become so 
familiar with every variety of style in the news¬ 
paper, from the common-place advertisement to 
the finished and classical oration of the states¬ 
man, they more readily comprehend the mean¬ 
ing of the text. They write better compositions, 
using better language, containing more thoughts 
more clearly and connectedly expressed. Tnose 
young men who have for years been readers of 
the newspapers are always taking the lead in 
the debating society, exhibiting a more extensive 
knowledge upon a greater variety of subjects, 
and expressing their views with greater fluency, 
calmness, and correctness in the use of lan¬ 
guage. 
An agreeable Customer. —“ Stranger, I 
want to leave my dog in this ’ere office till the 
boat starts. I’m afraid somebody will steal 
him.” 
“You can’t do it—take him out,” said the 
clerk. 
“Well stranger, that’s cruel; but you are 
both dispositioned alike—and then he’s company 
for you.” 
“ Take him out!” 
“ Well stranger I don’t think you’re honest, 
so you wan’t watching, here Dragon, sit down 
and watch that fellow sharp, do you hear, sharp! ” 
And turning on his heel he said : 
“If he’s troublesome—put him out.” 
The dog lay there until the boat started, 
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watching every movement of the clerk, who 
gave him the better- half of the office. 
Influence of Family Worship. —The late 
Dr. Hyde, of Lee, one of the most eminent 
ministers of his day, in a letter to a son, thus 
speaks of the influence of family prayer, in pro¬ 
moting filial subordination: “ It was my duty 
to impress on the minds of my children a spirit 
of subordination, and to be known as the head 
of the family. I never kept a rod in my house, 
yet I have my children obey me. I presume 
you have no recollection of my ever correcting 
you; but you were taught to mind me early, 
before you had numbered two years. In guid¬ 
ing my children, I was greatly assisted by the 
daily return of the morning and evening sacri¬ 
fice, which you never knew me to omit. In 
this service you ought to engage if you mean to 
have a well-regulated family.” 
A Poor Man’s Wish.—I asked a student 
what three things, he most wished for, and he 
said: 
“ Give me health, books, and quiet, and I ask 
for nothing more.” 
I asked a miser, and he said, “ Money—mo¬ 
ney ?” 
I asked a drunkard, and he loudly cried for 
strong drink. 
I asked the multitude around me, and they 
lifted up a confused cry in which I heard the 
words, “Wealth, fame, and pleasure." 
I asked a poor man, who had long borne the 
character of an experienced Christian; he re¬ 
plied that all his wishes could be met in Christ. 
He spoke seriously, and I asked him to explain. 
He said: 
“ I greatly desire these three things—first, 
that I may be found in Christ; secondly, that 
I may be like Christ; thirdly, that I may be 
with Christ.” 
I have thought much of his answer, and the 
more I think of it the wiser it seems. 
A New-York Harb Shell. —The Pough¬ 
keepsie Daily Press says : As a dusky-looking 
colored child, about forty years of age, and from 
the country, was passing under the scaffolding 
of the building now being erected on the corner 
of Main and Catharine streets, the other day, a 
brick came down, struck upon his head, and 
broke in two. He was stunned for a moment, 
but soon recovered sufficiently to get off the 
following, and leave those who had gathered 
around him in a roar of laughter : 
“ I say, you white man up dar, if you don’t 
want your bricks broke, jes keep ’em off my 
head.” 
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Young Women. —Very young ladies cannot 
be said to have any conversation. Experience, 
knowledge of society, acquirements gradually 
and imperceptible accumulated, are requisite 
before a person can be properly said to con¬ 
verse. The female character is, from its attri¬ 
butes, peculiarly under the control of circum¬ 
stances, and the influence of other and of 
stronger natures. There cannot be a more mo¬ 
mentous condition than that of a young woman 
under twenty. A fool may win her admira¬ 
tion ; and her character becomes, for a time at 
least, frivolous. Many a noble spirit in woman 
has been checked by an ill-placed first affection; 
but if she be fortunate enough to place an early 
dependence upon a worthy object, the tenor of 
her life is determined. It is observable that in 
youth woman cannot understand friendship to¬ 
wards men. Girls never stop at that point. 
There is always a tinge of love in their senti¬ 
ments towards intimate associates of the other 
sex. Hence the dangerous ascendancy ac¬ 
quired by their male instructors, and by other 
less attractive and less meritorious individuals, 
over women who have been even delicately nur¬ 
tured. 
