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well, kisses her brow, and leaves upon its 
faint tracery of wrinkles angelic radiance. 1 
see, though no one else can, the bright glad 
young face that won me first, shine through 
those withered features, and the glowing 
love of forty years thrills my heart till the 
tears come. Say not again I can no longer 
be a lover. Though this form be bowed, 
God has implanted eternal love within. Let 
the ear be deaf, the eye blind, the hands pal¬ 
sied, the limbs withered, the brain clouded, 
yet the heart, the true heart, may hold such 
we 1 1th of love, that all the power of death 
and the victorious grave shall not be able to 
put out its quenchless flame.” 
“ 1 never kept mv Husband Waiting.”— 
How much of moment is conveyed in these 
words, “I never kept my husband waiting.” 
How much of life is lost by the lost min¬ 
utes ; how much of happiness, by not being 
ready to enjoy it; how much of prosperity, 
by being “five minutes too late.” 
We heard those words utter d by a lady 
whose decision of character, whose readiness 
for duty, and whose prompt performance of 
it, gave us an assurance that whatever there 
might be of adverse fortune in her husband's 
future life, he could always rely upon the 
helpmate God had given him ! There is an 
energy in her tone of voice, a fire in her 
look, that told she knew a wife’s duty and 
would perform it. We shall not soon forget 
that event; we shall bear in mind the future 
of that couple, and we venture to say that 
darkness nor despair can never drive happi¬ 
ness from that home, so long as that God- 
spirit reigns there ; for it was the voice of 
true woman’s heart that spoke, and that was 
a God-spirit. 
If every wife could but thus speak and 
and act, how rapidly would the world ad¬ 
vance. How many husbands have been 
ruined by waiting precious moments of time, 
in the life of a business man ; but the never- 
readv wife has, step by step, broken down 
the characteristic promptitude of many a 
husband, and with it his business energies, 
until ruin comes upon his business and 
wretchedness enters his home. Would 
wives wish peace of mind, and blessings- at 
home, flowing from the prosperity of the 
husband, let her constant aim be, to be able 
to say, “ I never kept my husband waiting.” 
—Ohio Farmer. 
Uses of Tobacco. —In the United States, 
physicians have estimated that 20,000 per 
sons die every year from the use of tobacco. 
In Germany the physicians have calculated 
that, of all the deaths which occur between 
the ages of 18 and 26, one-half originate in 
the waste of the constitution by smoking. They 
say that the article exhausts and deranges 
the nervous powers, and produce a long 
train of nervous diseases, to which the 
stomach is liable, and especially those forms 
that go under the name of dyspepsia. It also 
exerts a disastrous influence on the mind. 
Four Spanish Proverbs. —What the fool 
does in the end, the wise man does in the 
beginning. Voltaire defined a physician as 
an unfortunate gentleman, expecting every 
day to perform a miracle, namely, to recon¬ 
cile health with intemperance. The most 
insignificant people are the most apt to sneer 
at others ; they are safe from reprisals, and 
have no hope of rising in their own esteem 
but by lowering their neighbors. All vice 
stands upon a precipice ; to engage in any 
sinful course is to run down the hill; if we 
once let loose the propensities of our nature 
we can not gather in the reins and govern 
them as we please; it is much easier not to 
begin a bad course than to stop when begun. 
An Eastern Guide-Book. — “When I 
went,” says his friend Collins, “ to bid Sir 
David Wilkie farewell a day or two before he 
left home for his last journey (to the East), 
I asked him if he had any guide-book 1 He 
said, ‘ Yes and the very best;” and then un¬ 
rolling his traveling-box, he showed me a 
pocket Bible. I never saw him again ; but 
the Bible throughout Judea was, 1 am as¬ 
sured, his best and only hand-book.” 
Directions for a Short Life. —We copy 
the following directions for a short life from 
an old almanac. We doubt not they will 
prove as efficacious as any doctor could de¬ 
sire; 1st. Eat hot bread at every meal; 
2d. Eat fast; 3d. Lie in bed every morning 
till the sun is two hours high. If the case 
should prove stubborn—4th. Add the morn¬ 
ing dram. 
Two gentlemen, of opposite politics, meet¬ 
ing, one inquired the address of some politi¬ 
cal celebrity, when the other indignantly 
answered : 
“ I am proud to say, sir, that I am wholly 
ignorant of it.” 
“ Oh, you are proud of your ignorance, eh ! 
sir ?” 
“ Yes, I am,” replied the belligerant gen¬ 
tleman, “ and what then, sir ?” 
“ Oh, nothing sir ! nothing; only you have 
a great deal to be proud of, that’s all.” 
Weight of the Earth. —An English math¬ 
ematician, named Bailey, has been for some 
time past engaged in weighing the earth. 
Here are his figures: 1,256,196 675,000.000,- 
000,000.000—or in words, one quadrillion, 
two hundred and fifiy-six thousand one 
hundred and niueiy-five trillions, six hun¬ 
dred and seventy-live thousand billions tons 
avordupois. 
In the long run those who work slowly 
and gradually at one business succeed the 
best It takes a man about seven years to 
get acquainted with one channel of business. 
A complaint has been preferred against the 
Sexton of the New cemetery at Dundas, C. 
W., of “ dunning ” the mourners for his pay 
while the funeral was actually going on ! 
True. —I never knew a man who deserved 
to be well thought of himself for his morals, 
who had a slight opinion of the virtue of the 
other sex in general. 
Some wise person advises : When you 
buy or sell, let or hire, make a clear bargain, 
and never trust to “ We shan't disagree 
about it.” 
There is one satisfaction in the passage of 
oppressive laws, that those who pass them 
have to come under their power as well as 
others. 
The common-place man speaks like the 
multitude; but the man who is above the 
common, makes the multitude speak like 
him. 
The Greatest Organ in the World.— 
The Organ of Speech in Woman ; an organ, 
too, without a Stop ! 
I know of no homage more worthy of the 
Deity, than the silent admiration excited by 
the contemplation of His works. 
Dr Johnson, once speaking of a quarrel¬ 
some fellow, said, “ If he had two ideas in 
his head they would fall out with one 
another.” 
Sixty Feet of Daughters. —In the half 
century Sermon of Rev. Dr. Brace, of New¬ 
ington, Ct., we find a fact respecting the 
Edwards family, which we do not remember 
to have seen elsewhere stated. Speaking of 
Mr. Backus, oneof his predecessors, he says : 
“ His wife was one of ten daughters, every 
one of whom has been said to be six feet tall 
—making sixty feet of daughters, and all of 
them strong in mind—children of Rev. Tim¬ 
othy Edwards, of East Windsor.” That 
man who had sixty feet ot daughters, and 
besides them one son who had more than 
sixty feet of intellect, must, according to the 
Psalmist’s view of things, have been a happy 
man. 
St arte. 
Remarks. —On account of the 4th of July, 
we close our market reports one day earlier, 
and have not quite so full data for making 
up our quotations of prices and remarks as 
usual. The Flour market is quite unsettled, 
with a further small decline. We hear of 
sales and contracts for some 16,000 bbls. 
Western and common to good State brands, 
at $8 per bbl. Some Southern brands (new) 
are in active demand at advanced prices. 
Wheat from the upper lakes sold on Monday 
for $2a$2 10 per bush. The Weather during 
the past week has been just the thing for the 
Wheat crops. With a general report very 
favorable, we hear local complaints ofinsects, 
winter-kill, &c.; but we think these unfa¬ 
vorable reports are less extensive than usual, 
even in the very best seasons. Ten days 
more of similar weather to that of the past 
week, will decide the question in favor of an 
unprecedented Wheat crop. Some of our 
western exchanges are in ecstacies over the 
prospect. A Cleveland (Ohio) paper ven- 
tuies its character for reliability upon the 
fulfillment of its prediction, that before the 
close of this month Flour will fall to $6 50 
per bbl. This,' we think, over sanguine, 
though we must, everything considered, pre¬ 
dict a still further considerable fall from the 
present prices, which are already about 
$2 50 per bbl. lower than five weeks since. 
Corn has experienced a heavy fall of from 
8 to 12 cents, per bushel. Oats are little 
changed from our last quotations, perhaps a 
trifle lower. 
Cotton has again declined about lc. per lb. 
on the different grades. 
The Weatl er has been very warm for six 
days past, with an almost uniform range of 
the thermometer above 90°. Frequently it 
has remained from 10 to 15 hours in the 24, 
with scarcely a variation of two degrees. 
On Saturday, according to Mr. Merriam, 
of Brooklyn, the thermometer remain- d at 
98° from 3 to 4 o’clock, P. M. This is re¬ 
markable for the date. Coming so suddenly 
upon the cool weather preceding, the heat 
has been oppressive, especially as the air 
has been charged with moisture, exhaled 
from the ground with previous rains, which 
has prevented rapid evaporation from the 
surface of the skin, and the consequent cool¬ 
ness resulting from this course in a drier 
state of the atmosphere. But however un¬ 
pleasant for man and beast, this weather has 
been exactly the thing for growing crops. 
