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AMEBXCAN AGBICUL TUBIST, 
add lustre to their official positions, but set an 
example which “Young America” would do 
well to imitate. 
SQUIRRELS IN THE WOOD. 
There are few things more pleasing than to 
lie upon the grass on a sunny day in summer, 
and watch the squirrels in the trees above you. 
Peering up, you will espy, on one of the tree 
stems, a little brown monkeyfied-looking rat, 
with a sort of rabbit’s head, and a foxy tail as 
long as his body, and curling over it, and ecce 
my lord squirrel! Down he comes, leaping 
from branch to branch, clawing, racing so fast, 
so fast! and now he reaches the turf, and sits 
up on his hind legs, and looks this way and 
that, and listens. Do not move, or he is off; 
do not wink so much as an eyelid. “All right?” 
his merry brown eye seems to ask. Yes, all 
right, for a nut drops from between his teeth 
into his forepaws, and giving his mighty conse¬ 
quential tail an extra curl, he makes ready for 
breakfast. That is another sight—the way in 
which a squirrel deals with a nut. First of all 
he shakes and rattles it, that he may be sure 
there is something inside; then he twists it 
round and round in his paws, till he gets the 
narrow end uppermost, for he knows that at 
the upper end the shell is the thinnest; then 
he begins to grate and file till he has wormed 
his way through, getting noisier and noisier as 
the hole gets bigger; and then come intervals 
of quiet, which mean that his teeth are in the 
kernel, and that he is eating all within reach, 
for a squirrel never has patience to wait till the 
kernel is clean out; he eats it by instalments in 
the shell, and trust him for getting the whole of 
it! Well, after the nut, he will perhaps pick 
the bones of an apple, if there be one within 
reach; and when |he has had his fill, he will 
wash his face with his paws, and his paws with 
his face, and, feeling quite clean, and spruce, 
and comfortable, he will roll over on the turf, 
making funny little noises, and giving queer little 
jumps, and then away ! up the next tree stem, 
clawing, leaping, swinging, so fast, so fast—up 
and up, till your neck is out of joint with watch¬ 
ing him, and he is lost among the leave.s—-Arne 
Companion. 
THE LITTLE MISSIONARY. 
“ I should like to be a missionary, aunt Mary,” 
said little Ellen, “just like uncle William; do 
you think he would take me with him?” “ And 
leave mama ?” said a kind voice behind her. “ Oh 
no, mamma, I had quite forgotten that ; I never 
could leave you; but still, I do wish I was a 
missionary.” 
“And if my little girl had her wish granted, 
what would she do ?” 
“ I would tell the little children about ‘gentle 
Jesus,’ mamma, and how he loves them, and I 
would try to get them to love him, that they 
might go to heaven ?” 
“Well Ellen, I am willing you should be a 
missionary ; but can you not begin at home ? 
you can set a good example to your brother; for 
if you are dutiful and affectionate, he will try to 
imitate you; and as he cannot read, you can 
teach him your text and hymns, and tell him the 
Bible stories you are so fond of.” 
“ Oh, thank you, dear mamma, I can do that; 
and now will you please to give me a nice little 
verse to teach Willy ?” 
“Will this do, Nelly ? ‘ Little children, love 
one another.’ ” 
Ellen looked very grave, for she remembered 
that often, when her little brother teazed her, 
she was apt to get angry, and forgot altogether 
that there was such a verse in the Bible. How¬ 
ever, she went to look for Willy; and when 
she found him, they sat down and repeated it.— 
Child's Paper. 
STATES AND THEIR VOCATIONS. 
Geneva, sends us watches; Nuremberg, 
toys; Trieste, rags; and Newcastle, coals. Vir¬ 
ginia sells us something of the same sort, but 
we either have forgotten the quotation, or intend 
to leave such things to our own truly classical 
magazine, Putnam. The truth is that there 
are localities adapted to certain branches, or 
else the followers of these occupations are gre¬ 
garious. We have extracted a number of les¬ 
sons from the census tables. One of the most 
important contains the number of each trade, 
profession and calling in the several-thirty-one 
States of the Union. Some of these occupa¬ 
tions are generally diffused, others are confined 
in large portion, to particular States. Actors, 
Artists, Architects, Auctioneers and Authors, 
chiefly belong to New-York. Maine boasts a 
large proportion of Agricultural makers. Ar¬ 
morers are divided between Massachusetts and 
Virginia. Pennsylvania is fond of Physic, for 
it outstrips New-Yorlc one-half in the number of 
its Apothecaries. There are only 1846 Appren¬ 
tices in the Union, and these only in the older 
States. Of Bankers, New-York, Pennsylva¬ 
nia, Ohio and Massachusetts have the largest 
number. Louisiana is the Paradise of Bar¬ 
keepers. New-York is ahead in Smiths. In 
Boat-builders, Pennsylvania. In Boatmen, 
New-York is far in advance, possessing one 
third of all in the Union. The same State con¬ 
tains nearly one-half of all the Boiler-makers. 
In Brewers, Boilers and Distillers, Pennsylvania 
takes the lead; and (surely there can be no 
connection) in Brickmakers. In Brokers and 
Broommakers, the Empire State is paramount. 
In Brushmakers the Keystone. There are 
17,733 Butchers in the Union. Connecticut 
beats New-York and Pennsylvania together in 
Button-makers. Pennsylvania and Massachu¬ 
setts, are the Calico printing States. Of Car¬ 
penters the Union holds 148,671. Texas is the 
Cattle Dealing State. Maine nearly equals, 
New-York, and surpasses Massachusetts in the 
number of her Caulkers. Pennsylvania con¬ 
tains the greatest number of Chemists. New- 
York near one-fourth of the hundred thousand 
Clerks of the Union. Connecticut one-half of 
the Clock makers. Massachusetts possesses 
more Comb makers than any two States, and is 
far ahead of any other State in Cord-wainers; 
31,944 ply their awl, to 130,473 in the Union. 
The same State is chief in the Cotton Manufac¬ 
ture. In Drovers and Dyers, Pennsylvania is 
ahead. In Editors, New-York. The Farmers 
of the Union are 2,363,958—the great basis of 
the Republic—and of these, New-York contains 
311,591. Of Fishermen, Maine and Massachu¬ 
setts contain nearly equal numbers, and to¬ 
gether almost as many as the remainder of the 
States. In Glass Manufactories, Pennsylvania 
and New-Jersey excel. All the Grate-makers 
hail from New-York. The Grocers of New- 
York outnumber those of Pennsylvania, Ohio 
and Massachusetts combined. In Hardware 
Massachusetts has the palm. California is the 
State of Herdsmen. Pennsylvania of Hosiers. 
In India-rubber, Rhode Island bears the bell. 
Iron founders and workers, Pennsylvania is far 
ahead, having more than three times as many 
as New-York, the next State on the list. The 
Joiners of Maine nearly equal those of New- 
York. There are 609,786 laborers in the Union. 
There are a few more Machinists in Massachu¬ 
setts than New-York. Of marines, Maine has 
13,125; Massachusetts, 16,665; New-York, 
11,143; Union, 70,603. In Millers and Mill¬ 
wrights, Pennsylvania leads. California boasts 
57,861 mines; Pennsylvania, 9,418. New-York 
is the Musical State, Massachusetts is the Mail 
making State. Pennsylvania distances the field 
on her Ostlers. Virginia and Maryland are the 
States for Oystermen, and New-Jersey follows 
them close. On Patent Leather, New-Jersev is 
preeminent. In Perfumery, Pennsylvania. In 
Philosophical Instruments, New-Jersey. Ken¬ 
tucky is the Pilot State. Ohio is the State for 
Plane-makers, Polishers and Potters. New 
York and Louisiana take the lead in Refectories. 
In Rope-makers and Sail-makers, Massachusetts 
and New-York. New-Hampshire takes the 
precedence in those small wooden articles 
yclept shoe-pegs—need say no more. In Silk 
Manufacture, New-Jersey. In Spinners, Massa¬ 
chusetts and Rhode Island. In Spoons, Con¬ 
necticut. In Stevedores, Louisiana and Massa¬ 
chusetts. The Tailors in the United States are 
52,079, and one-fourth of them belonging to 
New-York. North Carolina equals New-York 
in Toy-men, and exceeds the rest of the Union 
many times in Turpentine. The office holders 
are 10,268. Ohio beats the Union in the Wagon¬ 
making, and Pennsylvania has 23,450 weavers, 
four-fold the rest of the Union. The Wood 
cutters exceed those of any other State. And 
to conclude this glance at the employment of 
the Union, we find the total number who work 
by hand, or head in the United States, by the 
late census, 5,891,876.— Wall Street Journal. 
THE CHILD IN THE CLOVER-FIELD. 
Mary went down the little green lane and crept 
through the bars, and went by the stone wall 
until she sat down under the cooling shade of a 
young maple. A beautiful clover-field lay out be¬ 
fore her, so green and so thick, Mary was sure 
there must be a great many six-leaved clovers 
there. The sun shone softly upon it, and the wind 
waved the honeysuckles to and fro, and Mary 
thought it a most beautiful and happy place. 
“ The sweet honeysuckles never quarrel,” she 
said within herself; “they never are naughty ; 
they never cheat; there is never no fault-find¬ 
ing here; the clover loves the sunshine, and the 
rain washes it, and it never frets. The bees 
come and get honey, and the flowers never 
speak cross to them or send them away empty- 
handed. And the grasshoppers play here; how 
they jump about, and how glad they are. Rob¬ 
in perches on the tree and sings his pretty songs.” 
And as these good and beautiful lessons which 
God teaches us in his woods and fields, stole 
into the child’s heart, she felt a kinder and 
humbler spirit, and wished she could always be 
there. So let us, when fretted by the jars of life, 
go abroad in thisjbeautiful summer-time and learn 
lessons of peace and thankfulness and love from 
the works of God. They do show forth his 
goodness, and speak his praise. — Child's Paper. 
SLANG. 
We confess to an intense horror of slang and 
cant phrases. The use of this species of lan¬ 
guage appears to us, in some sort, a sinning 
against light. With the pure well of English 
undefiled at hand, and no water rate to pay, it 
is a mystery to us why educated people will insist 
upon paddling in the muddy pools of perverted 
vocabulary. Time was when this vile substi¬ 
tute of a language, copious, expressive and flu¬ 
ent, was the especial property of the vulgar 
and uninstructed—those who either knew no 
better, or did not care to—but that day passed, 
and we now hear phrases that were nurtured in 
the slums and stables, quite domiciliated in the 
parlor. Even our ladies receive and entertain 
the filty strangers, and we hear expressions fall 
from their delicate lips, that were born in the 
obscene purlieus of low night cellars, and form 
the standard vocabulary of such as frequent 
there. With our men, however, the practice of 
resorting to slang has grown into so great an 
evil, as to leave room for serious doubt whether 
the mother tongue is not in danger of actually 
becoming obsolete, forgotten, and those who 
fondly cling to it in conversation and composi¬ 
tion, of being behind the age, and forced to call 
in an interpreter to aid them in their intercourse 
with others. Pierce Egan’s “ Dictionary of Flash 
Terms,” a recondite work, heretofore rarely seen, 
except in the hands of prize-fighters and wateb- 
stuffers, will soon replace Walker and Johnson, 
and be a part of a necessary library. Webster, 
either from an innate taste for the odiom, or for- 
