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CAPE COD. 
perhaps a piece of some old pirate’s ship, wrecked 
more than a hundred years ago, comes ashore to-day. 
Some years since, when a vessel was wrecked here 
which had nutmegs in her cargo, they were strewn all 
«ilong the beach, and for a considerable time were not 
spoiled by the salt water. Soon afterward, a fisherman 
caught a cod which was full of them. Why, then, might 
QOt the Spice-Islanders shake their nutmeg-trees into 
the ocean, and let all nations who stand in need of them 
pick them up ? However, after a year, I found that the 
nutmegs from the Franklin had become soft. 
You might make a curious list of articles which fishes 
have swallowed, — sailors’ open clasp-knives, and bright 
tin snuff-boxes, not knowing what was in them, — and 
jugs, and jewels, and Jonah. The other day I came 
across the following scrap in a newspaper. 
“A Eeligious Fish. — A short time ago, mine host 
Stewart, of the Denton Hotel, purchased a rock-fish, weigh¬ 
ing about sixty pounds. On opening it he found in it a cer¬ 
tificate of membership of the M. E. Church, which we read 
as follows: — 
Member 
Methodist E. Church, 
Founded A. D. 1784. 
Quarterly Ticket. 18 
Minister. 
‘ For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for 
ns a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.’ — 2 Cor. iv. 17. 
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' 0 what are all my sufferings here, 
If, Lord, thou count me meet 
With that enraptured host t’ appear, 
And worship at thy feet.’ 
The paper was of course in a crumpled and wet condition, 
but on exposing it to the sun, and ironing the kinks out of 
it, it became quite legible. — Denton (Md.) JournaU* 
