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AN ESSAY ON WORDS. 
Some ono lias remarked, as truly as sen¬ 
tentious] y, that “Words are things.” The 
perpetual utterances that greet our ears, 
though they are sent forth oftentimes at 
random, and seem to perish even in their 
birth, are yet, when viewed aright, of 
weighty importance. They are more than 
mere agitations of the air—more than 
empty sound — more than an impression 
made on the organs of hearing. They 
alford an index to the character of the 
speaker, and influence deeply, for weal or 
woe, the passive hearer. Though they pass 
from memory, thoy have reached that Omni¬ 
present ear which no sound escapes, and, at 
a future day, will all lie mado to pass in re¬ 
view before the thoughtless utterer. “ By 
thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy 
words thou shalt bo condemned.” 
How often has the fate of a whole life¬ 
time depended on tho utterance of a single 
word ! Who has not seen a man, one per¬ 
haps of more than ordinary abilities, whose 
fevered brain has been turned, and he made 
a poor shiftless -thing, without purpose or 
energy, solely because ono whom ho doted 
on as his life, spoke to him a contemptuous ! 
‘■JYo!” That fatal word annihilated his 
hopes, and struck out the sun from his day 
of mortal existence. By a word, sworn 
friends have been alienated forever. By a 
word, feuds have been engendered, that 
were not quieted till long years of blood 
and carnage had desolated whole regions. 
A word spoken in jest has often inflicted a 
heart-wound, that has healed not this side 
of the grave. And a kind word has more 
than once unsealed the long pent up foun¬ 
tain of affection in some neglected outcast, 
and from that moment a new spirit has ani¬ 
mated tho degraded ono;—the power of 
ignorance and vice has been broken, and 
nobler influences have thenceforth con¬ 
trolled the aspiring soul. Reproachful 
words have struck upon the ear of tho dul¬ 
lard, and indications of genius have followod 
tho stroke, as the heated iron scintillates 
under the blows of the smith's hammer. 
Tho words of some impassioned orator 
have decided again and again the fate of 
nations. Tho pleadings of some earnest 
advocate have more than once completely 
overborne the strongest array of proof, and 
elicited from tho excited jury a favorable 
verdict. A listener to one of tho masterly 
orations of Webster, remarked that “ overy 
word weighed at least twelve pounds.” 
Such force and efficiency does language 
possess, when it is controlled and guided 
by a giant mind. 
But vast as is the influence of spoken 
words, it becomes as nothing when com¬ 
pared with written ones. Penned far back 
in the regions of antiquity, they have been 
borne down on tho stream of time, speaking 
anew to each generation, and exerting their 
influence on myrads whom tho writer’s 
voice could never have reached. The tre¬ 
mendous outpourings of eloquence from 
Demosthenes, and copious flow of argument 
and persuasion from Cicero, move us in 
this nineteenth century as they moved the 
listeners ages sinco. The grand epic of 
Homer, and the sweet pastorals of Virgil 
inspire and tranquilize us as they did gene¬ 
rations that perished long ago. And still 
their mission is not ended. Till men ceaso 
to pursue the study and cultivation of let¬ 
ters, their power will continue to increase 
and their influence widen. 
No philosophical study is moro interest¬ 
ing or important than Philology; since by 
it we learn the derivation and history of 
words, thereby having opened to us a rich 
field of investigation and research. Words, 
as well as men, have their history, and it is 
exceedingly curious to trace them from 
their origin, through their various transfor¬ 
mations, either to the period of their be¬ 
coming obsolete, or to the position and rank 
they hold at the present hour. And not 
only is this a curious study, but it is ono of 
the first importance to tho writer or speaker. 
No person can become a correct and forci¬ 
ble writer who has not a thorough knowl¬ 
edge of tho precise meaning of the words 
ho employs ; neither can any one take rank 
as an effective orator, who has neglected to 
discriminate between tho thousands of 
words in a language, so that he cannot fix 
upon the very ones that express just the 
information he would impart. 
There is oftentimes an occult meaning 
wrapped up in common words, concealed 
from all but tho inquiring scholar,.that is at 
once evolved by a knowledge of their 
etymology, and which, when ascertained, 
throws a new interest around them. Some 
have undergono mutations, gradual and al¬ 
most imperceptible at the time, until their 
original character has disappeared altogeth¬ 
er. Others have taken a new moaning in 
consequcrtco of their connection with some 
great event in tho history of the human 
race. ***Evor and anon, now words are 
coined* not capriciously, but with reference 
to the acknowledged principles of Philolo¬ 
gical scienco, to meet the exegiences of tho 
occasion. Again, there is a class that claim 
no affinity with their fellows, tho puzzle of 
lexicographers and etymologists, which start 
into notice, no one can teLl how or from 
whonco, but which, nevertheless, so patly 
express a current idea, that they hold a firm 
position, despito their illegitimate origin. 
A little volume recently published, entitled 
“ The Study of fVords,” from tho polished 
pen of an English scholar, Richard Chene- 
vix Trench, is worthy the attentive perusal 
of every ono, especially of writers for the 
public. It contains sufficient information 
to set tho thinking student on the track of 
more extended and recondite inquiries, that 
cannot fail to richly reward the diligent 
searcher. 
It links us moro closely to tho past, to 
know that this and that and the other word, 
usod by us daily in the intercourse of life, 
once formed part and parcel of the noble 
Roman tongue; that another and another 
often fell from the lips of tho refined and 
philosophic Greek; that France, with her 
conquring hero, bequeathed us a large va¬ 
riety ; that Germany, with her Saxon inno¬ 
vators, largely infused strength, vigor and 
simplicity; and that not a few of the 
weightiest, expressed the thought of the 
•Hebrew, as he worshiped in the magnificent 
temple at Jerusalem, or listened to the 
thunder-voice from Sinai, or perchanco hold 
converse with Abraham, Noah, or Adam. 
Loekport, N. Y., 1853. J. VV. 
REGISTRY OF PERIODICAL PHENOMENA. 
The following observations on the regis¬ 
try of periodical phenomena have boon is¬ 
sued in a circular by the Smithsonian In¬ 
stitution : 
The Smithsonian Institution, being desi¬ 
rous of obtaining information with regard 
to the periodical phenomena of animal and 
vegetable life iniNorth America, respectful¬ 
ly invite all persons, who may have it in 
their power, to record their observations, 
and to transmit them to the Institution.— 
The points to which particular attention 
should be directed, are, the first appearance 
of leaves and of flowers in plants; the dates 
of appearance and disappearance of migra¬ 
tory hybernating animals, as Mammalia, 
Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, &c.; the 
times of nesting of birds, of moulting and 
littering of Mammalia, of utterance of char¬ 
acteristic cries among reptiles and insects, 
and anything else which may be deemed 
noteworthy. Tho Smithsonian Institution 
is also desirous of obtaining detailed lists of 
all the animals and plants of any locality 
throughout this continent. These, when 
practicable, should consist of the scientific 
names, as well as those in common use; but 
when tho former are unknown, the latter 
alone may bo employed. It is in contem¬ 
plation to use the information thus gather¬ 
ed, in the series of tables, showing tho geo¬ 
graphical distribution of tho animal and 
vegetable kingdoms in North America. 
A WORD TO BOYS. 
We find tho following “ word to boys ” 
in ono of our exchanges, and particularly 
recommend its perusal to our young read¬ 
ers. Get it by heart, lads:—“ Who is re¬ 
spected ? It is the boy who conducts him¬ 
self well, who is honest, diligent, and obedi¬ 
ent in all things. It is tho boy who is 
making an effort continually to respect his 
father, and to obey him in whatever ho may 
direct to be done. It is the boy who 
is kind to other little boys, who re¬ 
spects age, and who never gets into diffi¬ 
culties and quarrels with his companions. 
It is tho boy who leaves no effort untried to 
improve himself in knowledge and wisdom 
every day—who is busy and active in en¬ 
deavoring to do good acts towards others. 
Show me a boy who obeys his parents, who 
is diligent, who has respect for ago, who al¬ 
ways has a friendly disposition, and who ap¬ 
plies himself diligently to got wisdom, and 
to do good towards others, and if he is not 
respected and beloved by everybody, then 
there is no such thing as truth in this world. 
Remember this, little boys, and you will bo 
rospected^iy others, and you will grow up 
and become useful men.” 
If you wish to have care, perplexity, and 
misery, bo selfish in all things; this is the 
| short road to trouble. 
NATURAL CURIOSITY. 
We wore shown the other day by Henry A- 
Meetze, Esq., of this village, one of the most 
beautiful fowls we havo ever seen or road 
of. We need hardly attempt a description. 
It appears to be a cross botwoen a pea fowl 
and a guinea fowl, and resembles also the 
game fowl. Each and all these species havo 
a showing in the picture, and yet, strange 
to say, you cannot for tho life ot you iden¬ 
tify the family or families to which it be¬ 
longs, or its gender. 
The bird is about tho size of a half grown 
pea fowl, made a good deal after that form, 
with a back and head that looks as much 
like tho pea as guinea fowl and yet it is said 
there is not a pea fowl within five milos of 
whore it was raised. The sides or wings are of 
the gamo fowl color, and the breast the color 
of the swamp owl. Tho feet are those of tho 
guinea, but the legs look unlike anything of 
the kind wo recollect ever to have noticed, 
being dark and perfectly knotty. It makes 
a loud shrill noise when approached which 
cannot bo likened to ono species, but which 
indicates distinctly its varieties. It is per¬ 
fectly formed and very sprightly. There is 
another color of which it partakes, and 
which we forgot to mention in place, which 
is tho wild turkey. It was hatched by a 
common dung-hill hen. Mr. Meetze, after 
keeping it several days so as to givo an op¬ 
portunity to tho curious of tho village and 
country of seeing it, prepared a neat, com¬ 
fortable cage and started it in care of Col. 
A. G. Summer for the World’s Fair.— Lex¬ 
ington Telegraph. 
THE WATER BUFFALO. 
The water buffalo is an animal much in 
use at Singapore, for purposes of draught. 
It is a dull, heavy looking animal—slow at 
work, and I think, disgusting in appear¬ 
ance; but remarkable sagacity and attach¬ 
ment to its native keepers. It has, how¬ 
ever, a particular antipathy to a European, 
and will immediately detect him in a crowd. 
Its dislike to, and its courage in attacking 
the tiger, is well known all over India. Not 
long ago, as a Malayan boy, who was em¬ 
ployed by his parents in herding water buf¬ 
falos, was driving his charge homo by tho 
borders of the jungle, a tiger made a sud¬ 
den spring, and seizing tho lad by the thigh, 
was dragging him off, when two old bull 
buffalos." hearing tho shriek of distress from 
tho well-known voice of their little attend¬ 
ant, turned round and charged with their 
usual rabidity. The tiger, thus closely 
pressed, was obliged to drop his prey to do- 
fond himself. While ono buffalo fought and 
suscossively drove tho tiger away, the other 
kept guard over the boy. Later in the eve¬ 
ning, when tho anxious father, alarmed, 
came out with attendants to seek his child, 
he found that the whole herd, with the ex¬ 
ception of the old buffalos, had dispersed 
themselves to food, but that they wore still 
there—one standing over tho bleeding body 
of their little friend, whilo tho other kept 
watch on the edgo of tho jungle for tho re¬ 
turn of tho tiger.— Peppel. 
Canary Birds and Canary Seed. —Tho 
Boston Atlas having mentioned that during 
last year 56,000 bushels of Canary seed wore 
imported, costing $13,500, a writer in tho 
Journal of Commerce adds the intelligence 
that 41 000 canary birds aro annually im¬ 
ported, costing $i7.360, making a total of 
nearly $31,000 for birds and their food. 
HOMES OF THE DEPARTED. 
If j on bright stars which gem the night 
Be each a blissful dwelling sphere, 
Where kindred spirits re-unite 
Whom death has torn asunder here— 
How sweet it were at once to die, 
And leave this blighted orb afar, 
Mix soul willi soul to cleave the sky, 
And soar away from star to star! 
But, oh 1 how dark, how drear, how lone 
Would seem the brightest world of bliss, 
If, wandering through each radiant zone. 
We failed to find the loved of this 1 
If there no more the ties should twine, 
Which death’s co d hand alone can sever, 
Ah 1 then these stars in mockery shine. 
More hateful as they shine forever 1 
It cannot he—each hope and fear 
That lights the eye and clouds the brow, 
Proclaims there is a happier sphere 
Than this bleak world that holds U3-now : 
There is a voice which sorrow hears, 
When heaviest weighs life’s galling chain; 
’Tis Heaven that whispers, “ Dry thy tears; 
Tlte pure in heart shall meet again l” 
THE THRONE OF SOLOMON. 
The following account of a remarkable 
pioco of mechanism is taken from a Persian 
manuscript called “ The History of Jerusa¬ 
lem.” It purports to be a description of 
the Throne of King Solomon, and if the 
details are correctly given, it undoubtedly 
surpasses any specimen of mechanism pro¬ 
duced in modern times, notwithstanding the 
wonderful inventions that have takon place 
in every branch of science. 
The sidos of it were pure gold, tho feet of 
emerald and rubies, intermixed with pearls, 
each of which was as big as an ostrich’s egg. 
The throne had several steps; on each side 
were delineated orchards lull of trees, the 
branches of which were of precious stones, 
representing fruit—ripe and unripe; on tho 
tops of the trees were to bo seen figuros of 
plumage birds, particularly the peacock, tho 
etub and tho kurges. All these birds wero 
hollowed within artificially, so as occasion¬ 
ally to utter a thousand melodious notes, 
such as tho ear of mortals novor heard. On 
the first was delineated vino branches having 
bunches of grapes, composed of various sons 
of precious stones, fashioned in such a man¬ 
ner as to represent the various colors of 
purple, violot, green, and red, so as to givo 
tho appearance of real fruit. On the second 
step, on each side of the throne, were two 
lions of terrible aspect, large as life, and 
formed of east gold. The nature of this re¬ 
markable throne was such, that when 
Solomon placed his foot on the first step, 
birds spread forth their wings, and made a 
fluttering noise in the air. On his touching 
the second step, tho two lions extended their 
claws. On his reaching tho third step, the 
whole assembly of demons and fairies and 
inon repeated tho praise of the Deity. 
When ho arrived at the fourth step, voices 
were heard addressing him in the following 
manner: “ Son of David, be thankful for 
tho blessings which the Almighty has bo- 
stowed upon you.” Tho samo was repeated 
on reaching the fifth step. On bis touching 
the sixth, all tho children of Israel joined 
them, and on his arriving at the seventh, all 
tho throne, birds and animals, became in 
motion, and ceasod not until he had placed 
himself on the royal seat, when tho birds, 
lions, and other animals, by secret springs, 
discharged a shower of tho most precious 
perfumes on Solomon ; after which two of 
the k-urgesos descended and placed tho 
golden crown upon his head. 
Before tho throne was a column of bur¬ 
nished gold, on the top of which was a golden 
dove which hold in its beak a volume bound 
in silver. In this book was written the 
Psalms of David; and the dove having pre¬ 
sented the book to tho King, he read aloud 
a portion of it to the children of Israel. It 
is further related, that on the approach of 
wicked persons to tho throne the lions wero 
wont to begin a terrible roaring, and to lash 
their tails with violence; the birds also 
began to bristle up their feathers, and tho 
assembly also of demons and genii to utter 
horrid cries,.so for fear of them no ono 
dared be guilty of falsehood, but confessed 
their crimes. Such was tho Throne of 
Solomon, tho Son of David. 
PROSPERITY AND VIRTUE. 
It is unfortunate for mankind, that those 
situations which favor pleasure, are too gen¬ 
erally adverse to virtue. Virtue requires 
internal government and discipline; pros¬ 
perity relaxes the mind and inflames tho 
passions. Virtuo is supported by a regard 
to what is future; prosperity attaches us 
wholly to what is present. The character¬ 
istics of virtue are modesty and humility; 
tho most common attendants of prosperity, 
aro pride and presumption. One should 
think that prosperity would prove the 
strongest incitement to remember and to 
honor that God who bestows it. Yet such 
is the perverseness of human nature, that 
it proves much oftener tho motivo to impie¬ 
ty. The changes of the world call the at¬ 
tention of men to an invisible power. But 
a train of events proceeding according to 
their wish, leads them to nothing beyond 
what they see. Tho Supremo Giver is con¬ 
cealed from view by his own gifts. This 
instance of success they ascribed to a fortu¬ 
nate.occurrence of worldly causes ; that ac¬ 
quisition, to their own skill and industry; 
unmindful of Him who from tho beginning 
arranged that series of causes, and who 
placod them in circumstances where their 
industry could operate with success. From 
forgetting God, they too often proceed to 
despise him. All that is light or giddy in 
their minds is set in -motion by tho gale of 
prosperity. Arrogance and self-sufficiency 
are lifted up, and their state is considered as 
secured by thoir own strength.— Dr. Blair. 
