MORAL COSMETICS. 
DROPS OP WISDOM. 
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Toe who would rave jour features florid, 
Lithe limbs, bright eyes, unwrinkled forehead, 
From age’s devastation horrid, 
Adopt this plan; 
’Twill make, in climate cold or torrid, 
A hale old man. 
Avoid in youth luxurious diet, 
Restrain the passions’ lawless riot; 
Devoted to domestic quiet, 
Re witiely gay; 
So shall ye, spite of age’* flat, 
Resist decay. 
Seek not in Mammon’s worship pleasure, 
Hut find your richest, dearest treasure, 
In books, friendp, music, polished leisure; 
The mind, not sense, 
Make the sole scale by which ye measure 
Your opulence. 
This is the solace, this the science, 
Life's purest, sweeteht, best appliance, 
That disappoints not man's retianoe, 
Whate’er his state; 
But challenges, with calm defiance, 
Time, fortune, fate. 
0 IIM. 
A FRENCH WILL STORY. 
“ Is she dead, then?” 
“ Yes, maritime,” replied a little gentleman in a 
brown coat and short breeches. 
“ And her will?” 
“Is going to bo opened here immediately by her 
solicitor.” 
“Shall we inherit anything?” 
“ It must be supposed so; we have claimB.” 
“ Who is this miserably-dressed personage, who 
intrudes herself here?” 
“ 0, sho,” replied the little-man, sneeringly; “she 
won’t have much in the will; she is sis >r to the 
deceased.” 
“What! that Anne, who wedded in 1812 a man of 
nothing—an officer?” 
“Precisely so.” 
“ Sho must huve uo small amount of impudence to 
present herself here, before a respectable family.” 
“ The more so, us sister Egrie, of noble birth, ha i 
never forgiven her for that misalliance.” 
Anno moved at this time across the room In which 
the family of the deceased were assembled. She 
was pale, her lino eyes were filled with tears, and her 
face was furrowed by care with precocious wrinkles. 
“ What do you come here for?” said Madame do 
Yilleboys, with great haughtiness, who a moment 
before had been Interrogating the little man who 
inherited with her. 
“Madame,” the poor lady replied with humility, 
“I do not come here to claim a part of what does 
not belong to me; I came solely to see M. Dubois, 
my poor sister’s solicitor, to inquire if she spoke of 
me at her laRt hour.” 
“Whatt do you think people busy themselves 
about you?” arrogantly observed Madame de Ville- 
boys;” “the disgrace of a great house—you, who 
wedded a man of nothing—a soldier of Bonaparte!” 
“Madame, my husband, although a child of the 
people, was a brave soldier, and, what is better, an 
boneBt man,” observed Anne. 
At this moment a venerable personage, the notary 
Dubois, made Ills appearance.. 
“Cease,” be said, “to reproach Anuewith a union 
which her sister has forgiven her. Anne loved a 
generous, brave and good man, who had no other 
crime to reproach himself with than poverty and 
obscurity of bis name. Nevertheless, had he lived, 
if his family had known him as I knew him, I, his 
old friend, Anne would be at this time happy and 
respected.” 
“ But why is this woman here?” 
“Because it is her place to be here,” said the 
notary, gravely; “1 myself requested her to attend 
here.” 
M. Dubois then proceeded to open the will. 
“I, being Bound in mind aud heart, Egrie de 
Damfrcmdg, retired as a boarder in the Convent of 
the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, of Jesus, dictate the 
following wishes as the expression of my formal 
desire and principal clause of my testament: 
“A iter my decease, there will be found two hun¬ 
dred thousand francs in money at my notary’s, beside 
jewelry, clothes and furniture, as also a chateau 
worth two hundred thousand francs. 
“ In the convent, where I have been residing, will 
be found my book, llieures de la l urge, holy volume, 
which remains as it was when I took it with me at 
the time of emigration. I desire that these three 
objects be divided into three lots. 
“ The first lot, the two hundred thousand francs in 
money. 
“The second lot, the chateau, furniture and jewels. 
“ The third lot, my book, llieures de la Vierge. 
“ I have pardoned my sister Anne the grief she 
has caused us, and I would have comforted her sor¬ 
rows if T had known sooner of her return to France. 
I comprise her in my will. 
“Madame de Yilleboys, my much beloved cousin, 
shall have the first choice. 
“ M.-Yatry, my brother-in-law, shall have the second 
choice. 
“ Anne will take the remaining lot.” 
“Ah! ah!” said Vatry, “sister F.grie was a good 
one; that is rather clever on her part.” 
“ Anno will only have the prayer-book,” exclaimed 
Madame de Villeboys, laughing aloud. The notary 
interrupted her jocularly. 
“ Madame,” said he, “which lot do you choose?" 
“The two hundred thousand francs in money.” 
“ Have you quite made up your mind?” 
“ Perfectly so.” 
The man of law, addressing himself then to the 
good feelings of the lady, said: 
“ Madame, yon are rich, and Anne has nothing. 
Could yon not leave this lot and take the hook of 
prayers, which the eccentricity of the deceased has 
placed on a par with the other lots?” 
“You must be joking, M. Dubois,” exclaimed 
Madame de Yilleboys; “you must really be dull not 
to see the iutentien of sister Egrie in all this. Our 
honored cousiu foresaw full well that her book of 
prayers would fall to the lot of Anne, who had the 
last choice.” 
“Aud what do you conclude from that?” inquired 
the notary. 
“ I conclude that she intended to intimate to her 
sister that repentance and prayer were the only help 
that she had to expect In this world.” 
As ahe finished these words, Madame de Yilleboys 
made a definite selection of the ready money for her 
share. M. Vatry, as may bo easily imagined, selected 
the chateau, furniture and jewels as his lot. 
“ Monsieur Vatry,” said M. Dubois to that gentle¬ 
man, “even suppose it bad been the intention of the 
deceased to punish her stater, it would be noble on 
your part, millionaire as yen are, to give at least a 
portion of your share to Anne, who is in want of it.” 
“Thanks for your kind advice, dear sir,” replied 
Vatry; “the mansion is situated on the very con¬ 
fines of my woods, and suits me admirably, ail the 
more so that it ta ready furnished. As to the jewels 
of sister Egrie, they are reminiscences which one 
ought never to part with.” 
“Since it is so,” said the notary, “my poor 
Madame Anne, here is the prayer-book which remains 
to you.” 
“Anne, attended by her son, a handsome boy with 
blue eyes, took her sister’s old prayer-book, and 
making her son kiss it after her, she said: 
“Hector, kiss this book, which belonged to yonr 
poor aunt, who Is dead, but who would have loved 
yon well had she known you. When you have 
learned to read, you will pray to Heaven to make 
yon wise and good as yonr father was, and happier 
than your unfortunate mother,” 
The eyes of those who were present were filled 
with tears, notwithstanding their efforts to preserve 
an appearance of indifference. 
The cliiId embraced the old book with boyish 
fervor, and opening it afterward: 
“ 0, mamma,” he Baid, “what pretty pictures!” 
“Indeed!” said the mother, happy in the gladness 
of her boy. 
“Yes. The good Virgin, in a red dress, holding 
the infant Jesus in her arms. But why, mamma, has 
silk paper been put upon the pictures?” 
“ Bo ’’ *, they might not be injured, my dear.” 
“But, mamma, wby are there ten silk papers to 
each engraving?” 
The mother looked, and uttering a Budden shriek, 
she fell into tire arms of M. Dubois, the notary, who 
addressing those present, said: 
“Leave her^lonc, it won’t be much; people don’t 
die of these shocks. As for you, little one,” ad¬ 
dressing Hector, “give rue that prayer hook; you 
will tear the engravings." 
The inheritors withdrew, making various conjec¬ 
tures as to the cause of Anne’s sudden illness, and 
the interest tho notary took in her. A month after¬ 
wards, they met Anne and her Hon, exceedingly well 
yet not ext -antly dressed, taking an airing in a 
baroucln in. led them to make inquiries, and 
thej ascertained that Madame Anne had recently 
purchased a hotel for one hundred and eighty 
thousand francs, and that she was giving a first rate 
education to her son. The news came like a thun¬ 
derbolt upon them. Madame do Villeboys and M. 
Vatry hastened to call upon the notary for explana¬ 
tions. The good Dubois was working at his desk. 
“Perhaps we are disturbing yon?” said the arro¬ 
gant old lady. 
“No matter; T was in the act of settling a pur¬ 
chase in the State funds for Madame Anne.” 
“What !” exclaimed Vatry, “after purchasing 
house and equipages, she has still money to invest?” 
“ Undoubtedly so.” 
“ But where did the money came from?” 
“ Where! did you not see?” 
“When?” 
“ When she shrieked at seeing what the prayer 
book containori, which she inherited.” 
“We observed nothing.” 
“Oh! I thought you saw it," said the sarcastic 
notary. “That prayer book contained tdxty engrav¬ 
ings, and each engraving was covered by ten notes 
of a thousand francs each.” 
“Good heavens!” exclaimed Vatry, thunderstruck. 
“ If I had only known it,” shouted Madame Ville¬ 
boys. 
“You had the choice,” added the notary, “and I 
myself urged you to take the prayer book, but you 
refused.” 
“ But who could have expected to find a fortune in 
a breviary?” 
The two baffled egotists withdrew, their hearts 
swollen with passionate envy. 
Madame Anne is still in Paris. If you pass by the 
Rue Lafitte, on a summer evening, yon will see a 
charming picture on the first floor, illuminated by the 
pale reflection of wax lights. 
A lady who has joined the two fair hands of her 
son, and a fair child of six years of age, in prayer 
before an old hook of llieures de. la Vierge, and for 
which a ease in gold has been made. 
“ Pray for me, child,” said the mother. 
“ And for who else?” inquired the child. 
“ For your father, your dear father, who perished 
without knowing you, without being able to love 
you.” 
“ Must I pray to the saint, my patron?” 
“Yes, my little friend; but do not forget a saint 
who watches us from heaven, and who smiles upon 
us from above the clouds.” 
“ Wbftt is the name of that saint, mamma dear?” 
The mother then, watering the fair child’s head 
with her tears, answered, 
“ Her name is—sister Egrie.” 
Otnt Bed-rooms. —Our bed-rooms are too often fit 
only to die in. The best are those of the intelligent 
and affluent, which are carefully ventilated; next to 
these come those of the cabins and ruder farm¬ 
houses, with an inch or two of vacancy between the 
chimney and the roof, and with cracks on every side, 
through which the stars may be seen. The ceiled 
and plastered bed-rooms, wherein too many of the 
middle classes are lodged, with no other apertures 
for the ingress or egress of air hot the doors and 
windows, are horrible. Nine-tenths of their occu¬ 
pants rarely open a window, unless compelled by ex¬ 
cessive heat, and very few are careful even to leave 
the door ajar. To sleep in a tight six-by-ten bed¬ 
room, with no aperture admitting air, is to court the 
ravages of pestilence, and invoke the speedy advent 
of death. 
Old Pamphlets.— Not long ago the librarian of 
Harvard college Baw a man stuffing some bags with 
old pamphlets and papers in a Boston auction-room, 
when, to his surprise and delight, he espied among 
them a pamphlet for which ho bad been looking for 
eleven years, in order to complete the volume if 
a valuable periodical. The purchaser of the old 
wares relinquished it willingly, and the librarian 
bore it away iu triumph. The same librarian says 
that he has known a journey to be made from New 
York to Cambridge in a storm, just to consult an old 
funeral sermon, the only copy in the country. It was 
wanted in a law case in which a half million dollars 
was involved. 
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Truth. — We are afraid to trust truth alone. Fatal 
error. Fire, and flood, aud time sweep away the 
proudest works of man; he who builds on these 
builds on sand, but he who builds on truth builds on 
a rock, which, though the eye see uot, and the hands 
touch not, neither floods nor ages can waste.— 
Thompson. 
There is no such thing as an easy chair for a 
discontented man. 
What a burthen is leisure to a mind unprepared 
for irs enjoyment. 
Teosk who heed not God’s writ are often forced 
to hied the sheriff’s. 
Live down calumny; the best reply to slanderous 
repoits is a good life. 
For.i-ow the fashion; yon had better display other 
people’s follies than your own. 
Children.— The smallest are nearest God, as the 
smallest stars are nearest the sun. 
He who knows his ignorance is the possessor of 
the rarest kind of valuable knowledge. 
Some people arc so obtuse than one would hardly 
think they could have an acute disease. 
A promise iB a just debt, which should always be 
paid, for honor and honesty are its security. 
Children alwayB turn toward the light. 0, that 
grown-up people in this would become like little 
children. 
All of ns who are worth anything, spend our 
manhood in learning the follies or expiating the mis¬ 
takes of 6nr youth. 
Forgiveness, the noblest of all self-denial, is a 
virtue, which he alone who can practice in himself 
can willingly believe in another. 
The discovery of truth by slow, progressive medi¬ 
tation, is wisdom. Intuition of truth, not preceded 
by perceptible meditation, is genius. 
If you wait for others to advance yonr interests in 
this world, yon will have to wait 6t> long that yonr 
interests will not he worth advancing at all. 
The world goes ever on. It is strange how soon, 
when a great man dies, his place is filled, and so 
completely that he seems no longer wanted. 
We don’t want men who will change, like the vanes 
of our steeples, with the course of every breeze; hut 
men who, like mountains, will change the course of 
the wind. 
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human 
thought! Each subsiding century yields some new 
mystery; we build where monsters used to hide 
themselves. 
Follow the laws of Nature, and you will never be 
poor — your wants will be but few. Follow the laws 
of the world and you will never be rich—your wants 
will never bo satisfied. 
The same object, seen from three different points 
of view the Past, the Present, and the Future— 
often exhibits three different faces to us; like those 
sign-hoards over shop-doors which represent the face 
of a lion as we approach, of a man when we are iu 
front, and of an ass when we have passed. 
Education. — What sculpture is to a block of 
marble, education is to a human soul, the philoso¬ 
pher, the saint, and the hero; the wise, the good, or 
the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a 
plebian, which a proper education might have disin¬ 
terred and have brought to light.— Spactator . 
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An amusing colloquy came off recently at the snn- 
per table on board of one of our Eastern steamboats, 
between a Boston exquisite, reeking with hair oil and 
cologne, who was assuming very consequential airs, 
and a raw Jonathan, who sat by his side, dressed in 
homespun. Turning to his “vulgar” friend, the for¬ 
mer pointed his jewelled finger, and said: 
'“Butter, sab!” 
“I see it is,” coolly replied Jonathan. 
“ liutler, sah, 1 Bay!” fiercely repeated the dandy. 
“I know it—very good—a first-rate article,” pro- 
vokingly reiterated homespun. 
“Butter, I tell you!” thundered the exquisite in 
still louder tones, pointing‘with slow unmoving fin¬ 
ger, like scorn’s, and scowling upon his neighbor, as 
if he would annihilate him. 
“ Well, what of it?" now yelled the down-easter, 
getting his dander up in turn —“ Yer didn’t think I 
took it for lard?" _ _ 
An Ohio stumper, while making a speech, paused 
in the midst of it, and exclaimed: “Now, gentle¬ 
men, what do you think?” Instantly a mau rose in 
the assembly, and with one eye partially closed, 
modestly, with strong Scotch brogue, replied: “I 
think, sir, I do indeed, sir — I think if yon and I 
were to stump tho country together, we would tell 
more lies than auy other two men in the country, 
sir; and I’d not say a word myself daring the whole 
time, sir!” 
Conclusive Testimony. — “Mr. Brown, you say 
the witness was honest and intelligent. What makes 
you think so? Are yon acquainted with him?” 
“No, sir, 1 have never seen him.” 
“ Wby, then, do yon como to such a conclusion?” 
“’Cause he takes ten newspapers, and pays for 
them all in advance.” 
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A Mississippi paper says that Gen. Lane is fleeing 
before the Confederate forces in Missouri. Well, as 
he isn’t a “long Lane,” we guess he’ll “turn” pretty 
soon.— Louisville Journal, 
Laconic.—J eff. Thomson thus reports the result of 
his engagement at Fredericktown, Missouri:—“ The 
enemy came out two to my one, and whipped me, 
when 1 left.” 
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“Marriage,” said an unfortunate husband, “is 
‘.he churchyard of love.” “And you men,” replied 
the not less unhappy wife, “are the grave-diggers.” 
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John Slidell’s father was a candle chandler, and 
this is probably the reason hi3 son is so wick-td. 
Answers to Enigmas, &c., in Number 622. 
Answer to Anagram: 
There must be sunshine somewhere, friends, 
E'en in the- darkest hour; 
Should we not wait with patience, then, 
The puling of the shower ? 
Answer to Charade; — Tri-go-no-nie-try. 
Answer to Arithmetical Problem: — 70 65-128 feet. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma: — George Washington. 
Answers to Enigmas, Ac., in Number 623. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma: — Keeping company with 
those who have not good moral characters. 
Answer to Astronomical Problem::-228114.000601 plus 
miles from the Earth's surface. 
Answer to Charade -. — Law-suit. 
Timely Grreetixig'S 
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HOLIDAYS, 
consisting In pari, of the following: 
Fkrncu Bronze Clocks, Statuettes, Busts, Ac., very fine 
good*. 
Parian Futures. Vasks. Baskets, Boxes. Ac., alarge variety. 
pi.ATxn Goods— a complete slock, »: much reduced prices. 
Ivory -it wdlku Cutlery— a large tsi etv, of varion* qualities. 
Lava Ware Vasfs, Tea and Fmoking Sits, Ac., Ac. 
Rich China Goods in great variety. -• in* very choice, to¬ 
gether with a great variety ot Fancy and Useful Articles suita¬ 
ble Tot Christmas. Ne» Y-ar'e, or Bridal Presents. 
For all articles in Staple or Fancy Goods. China ITxll is the 
place to purchase.. An examination of his stock will convince 
any one of this. _ 622-41 
GILMAN’S SHOE STORE, 
No. S STATE STREET, 
ROCHESTER, K. Y. 
^ A. R R E T I N G S! 
GOO PIECES 
New and Elegant Carpetings! 
Comprising many new styles, never before in this market— 
Our Stock is complete in every department, from the Royal 
Medallions to the very lowest priced Carpel made. 
Elegant Carpets 5 
FOR DR A WING ROOMS, 
PARLORS, DINING ROOMS, 
BALLS, LIBRARIES, 
Oil AMBERS, KITCHENS, 
OFFICES, CHURCHES, SCHOOL HOUSES. 
In fact, the best assortment Of all kinds of CARPET ROOM 
GOODS to be found in any o.vu hot; v- i« this country. 
Wo have purchased murh larger thnn n-aul. in anticipation 
of the rise of (hrpetings. In cmn-equence of tho new Tariff', and 
the great call for tow priced 
WOOLS FOR ARMY 1’HES, 
A fact that should be borne in mind by alt persons about buy¬ 
ing » new Carpet; a* all goods purchased by us after this will 
i.oit from 10 to 20 cent* per yard more than now. 
Oua Stock is the Laicgkst in Variety to be found in any 
IMail House in this Stole, and at prices that cannot fail to suit 
the CLORKMT RUTKHM. HOWE A GOGKKS, 
818-eotf Carpet Ware Rooms, 35 State St, Rochester, N. Y. 
GILMAN'S SHOE STORE, 
No. 8 STATE STREET, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
TfriW KNTKRI’RIHEW.—Any desired 
<J information about PRICES OF ADVERTISING, and of 
tINTINO, furnished GRATIS _ . 
u aid). BOWERY EM, Commission Agent, New York. 
ppi STOCKS —1,000,000 one year, and 2,000.000 
L two year old Apple Stocks, at from SI-A0 to $2 30 fit i,000. 
Our Stocks are unsurpassed, aud "m <>tler tUeiu 0.*r cash at 
■■ ■,; ..ve war prices. 
V GENTS WANTED 10 SELL Fit I' IT TREES. 
\ WB wish to employ a number of experienced and tauet- 
irihy men to sell tree*, to-. from our Nureenes at liberal 
WooucSALK Drapers furnished with Nursery, Stock of all 
scriotioaa at thi* i'/west wholesale rate* 
HOOKER, rARLEY & CO., 
^kJtf Rochester Wholesale Nurseries, Rochester. N. Y. 
IRE.— I'agc's Perpetual Klin, Fntented July, 
J DOT.- Superior to any in use for Wood or Coal ,2&c*N* 
wood or 1 ** tuns of coal to 1W bblft—coal not Ruxed wtill 
me AMreSs [«4-t£ 1 C I). PAGE . Roche ster. N Y 
'ochcstcr Light Carriage Factory,; 
l .V», 145 Main SI., /tochettery jY. 1'. - — 
[ have now rented a portion oftbe Carriage Fact, r.v formerly 
cunied by Elliott A l.ndewiek, where I will manufacture all 
nd* of light Carnages and Sleighs of the lightest ami nn* 
oved sivles Great attention will be paid to all kinds of re- 
■ ring, i »ill make to order any kind of Carriage wood work 
r&uv other establishment, ami will sell to J 
ev ,-An manufacture. J. HUGH MCDONOUGH- 
rv 1 . . \v »> il-_A I J ten 
GILMAN'S SHOE STORE, 
D^To. 8 STATE STREET, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
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