“A HUNDRED YEARS TO COME.” 
0 wherk will be the birds that sing, 
A hundred years to come ? 
The flowers that now in beauty spring, 
A hundred years to come V 
The rosy lip, the lofty brow, 
The heart that bents bo gaily no"' ? 
O, where will be love's beaming eye, 
Joy’s pleasant am lie, and sorrow's sigh ; 
A hundred years to come ? 
Wholl press for gold this crowded street, 
A hundred years to come V 
Who'll tread yon church with willing feet, 
A hundred years to come f 
Pale, trembling age, and flory youth, 
And childhood with Its brow of truth, 
The rich and poor, on land and sea, 
Where will the tuighty millions be, 
A hundred y ears to come f 
We all within our graves shall sleep, 
A hundred years to come f 
No living soul for us shall weep, 
A hundred years to come 1 
But other tnen our lands will till, 
And others then our streets will fill; 
While other birds will sing as gay, 
As bright the sunshine as to-day, 
A hundred years to come ? 
jrt03!j>-S$IJn. 
HAM’S ESCAPE. 
FROM WINTHROP’S “JOHN BRENT.” 
[John Brent, Sir Uiron Biddulph (an English 
baronet) and Richard Wade (who tells the story) 
are returning across the plains from California, 
when they meet with “Ilam” under the following 
circumstances:] 
"Winter chased us close. It was full December 
when the plains left us, fell back, and beached us 
upon the outer edge of civilization, at Independence, 
Missouri. 
The muddy Missouri was ruuDiDg dregs. .Steam¬ 
boats were tired of skipping from sand-bar to sand¬ 
bar. Engineer had reported to Captain, that “ Kan¬ 
garoo, No. f>, would bust, if he didn't stop trying to 
make her lift herself over the damp country by her 
braces.” No more ateamboating on the yellow 
ditch till there* was a rise; uulil the Platte sent 
down sand three and water one, or the Yellowstone 
mud three and water one, or the Missouri proper 
grit three and water one. We must travel by land 
to St. Louis and railroads. 
We could go with our horses as fast as the stage¬ 
coaches. So we sold our pack-beasts and continued 
our gallop Of three across Missouri. 
Half way across, we stopped one evening at the 
mean best tavern iu a mean town—a frouzy country 
town, with a dusty public square, a boxy church, 
and a spilty court-house. 
Fit entertainment for beast, the tavern offered. 
“Shall we go into the spittoon?” said Biddulpb. 
“Certainly," said Brent. “The bar-room—I am 
sorry to hear you speak of it with foreign preju- 
dice—is au institution, aud merits study. Argee, 
upon the which the bar-room is based, is also an 
institution.” 
“Well, I came to study American institutions. 
Let us go in and take a whiff Of disgust,” 
Fit entertainment for brute, the bar-room offered. 
In that “club-room” we found the brute class 
drinking, swearing, spitting, squabbling over the 
price of hemp and the price of “ niggers,” and talk¬ 
ing what is called “politics.” 
One tall, truculent Pike, the loudest of all that 
blatant crew, seemed to Brent and myself an old 
acquaintance. We had seen him or his double 
somewhere. But neither of us could fit hiiu'with a 
pedestal in our long gallery of memory. Saints 
one takes pains to remember, and their scenes; but 
satyrs one endeavors to lose. 
“ Have you had enough of the spittoon?” 1 asked 
Biddulpb. “Shall we go up? They’ve put us all 
three in the same room; but bivouacs in the same- 
big room—out-doors—are what we are best used to." 
Two and a half beds, one broken-backed chair, a 
washstand decked with an ancient (ringed towel 
and an abandoned tooth-brush, one lorn slipper, and 
a stove-pipe hole, furnished our bed-chamber. 
We were about to cast lots for the half bed, when 
we heard two men enter the next room. The parti¬ 
tion was ouly paper pasted over lath, and cut up as 
if a Border Ruffian member of Congress had prac¬ 
ticed at. it with a bowie-knife before a street fight. 
Every word of our neighbors came to us. They 
were talking of a slave bargain. 1 eliminate their 
oaths, though such filtration does them injustice. 
“Eighthundred dollars,” said the first speaker, 
and his voice startled us as if a dead man we knew 
had spoken. “Eight hundred—that’s the top of 
my pile for that boy. Ef he warn’t so old and 
hadn’t one eye poked out, 1 agree he’d be wuth a 
heap more.” 
“Waal, a trade’s a trade. I’ll take yer stump. 
Count out.yer dimes, and I’ll fill out a blank bill of 
sale. Murker, the boy's yout’n.” 
“ Murker!” We started at the name. This was 
the satyr we had observed in the bar-room. Had 
Fulano’s victim crept from under his cairn in Lug- 
gernel Alley, and chased us to take flesh here and 
harm us again? [Fulano, Wade’s horse, had tram¬ 
pled to death a villain of that name who attacked 
them on the Plains.] 
The likeness, look, voice and name were presently 
accounted for. 
“ You’re looking for your brother out from Sacra- 
menter ’bout now, I reckon,” said the trader. 
“He wur cornin’ cross lots with a man named 
Larrup, a pardner of his'n. Like enough they’ve 
stayed over winter in Salt Lake. They oughter 
rake down a most mountaiuious pile tbar.” 
“Mormons is flush and sassy with their dimes 
seuce the emergration. Now thar’s yer bill of sale, 
all right." 
“ And thar’s yer money, all right” 
“ That are’s wut I call a screechin’ good price lor 
an old, one-eyed nigger. Fourteen hundred dol¬ 
lars—an all-fired price." 
“ Eight hundred, you mean.” 
“ No; fourteen. Yer see yer not up ter taimo on 
the nigger question. 1 know ’em like a church 
steeple. When I bought that boy, now cornin’ three 
year, I seed he wuz a sprighly nigger, one of yer 
ambishus sort, what would be mighty apt to get 
fractious, an’ be matin’ tracks, unless I got a holt 
on him. So, sez I to him, * Ham, you’re a sprightly 
nigger, one o’ the. reel ambishus sort, now aineber?’ 
He allowed ho warn't nothin’ else. ‘Waal.’ sez I, 
‘Ham, how’d yer like ter buy yerselt; an’ be a free 
nigger, an’ hev a house o’ yer own, an’ a woman o’ 
yer own, all jess like white folks?” 
“< Lor,’ sez he, ‘ Massa, I'd like it a heap.’ 
“‘Waal,’ sez I, ‘you jess scrabble round an’ raise 
me seven hundred dollars, an’ I'll Fell yer to jer- 
self, an’ cheap at that’ So yer see he began to pay 
up. and I got a holt on him. lie’s a handy nigger 
and a pop’ler nigger. He kin play on the fiddle 
like taime—pooty nigh a minstrel is that are nigger. 
He kin cut bar. an’ fry a beefsteak with ayry mnn, 
He kin drive team, an’ do a little jiner work, an’ 
shoe a mule when there aiut no reg’lar blacksmith 
round. He made these, yer boots, an' reg’lar stump¬ 
ers they is. He’s one o' them cbirrupy. smilin’ 
niggers, willl white teeth and genteel manners, w hat 
critiers and toaks nat’rally takes to. Waal he 
picked up the bits and quarters right smart. He’s 
been at it, laminin’ahead, raal ambishus, for ’bout 
three year. Last Sunday, after church, he planked 
up the last ten of the six hundred. So I allowed 
’twiis come time to sell hitn. He war? gittin' his 
bead drawed, an' his ideea set on freedom very 
onhealthy. 1 didn't like to disap’int him to the last, 
so I allowed 'twus jess as well to let you hev him 
cheap to go down river. Thai's how to work them 
fractious runaway niggers. That are’s my patent. 
Verkin hev it for nothin’. Haw! haw 1" 
“Haw! haw! haw! You are one er ther boys! 
I’m dutn sorry that are trick can’t be did twicet on 
the same nigger. J reckon he knows too much for 
that." 
Waal, suppose we walk round to the calaboose, 
Toro we go to bed, an’ see ef he’s chained up all 
right,” 
They went out. 
Biddulph spoke first, 
“ Shame!” 
*• Yes,” said Brent; “do you wonder that we have 
to run away to the Rockys and spend our indigna¬ 
tion on grizzlys?" 
“ What are we going to do now?” 
“ Try to abolish slavery in Ham’s case. Come; 
we’ll go buy him a file.” 
“ Wo seem to have business with the Murker fam¬ 
ily,” said I. 
“ A hard lot they are. Representative brutes!” 
1 am gening a knowledge of all classes on your 
continent,’ 1 said Biddulph. “Some I like better 
ers 
“Don’t he too harsh on us malcontents for the sin 
of slavery. It is an ancestral taint. We shall burn 
it out before many decades." 
“ You hail hatter, or it will set your own house on 
fire!” [1859-60.] 
It was late as we walked along the streets, chan¬ 
nels of fever and ague now frozen up tor the winter. 
We saw a light through a shop door, and hammered 
stoutly for admission. 
A Clerk, long-haired and frouzy. opened ungra¬ 
ciously. 
In the back shop were three men, also long-haired 
and frouzy, dealing cards and drinking a dark com¬ 
post from tumblers. 
“Porturine,” whispered Brent. “Fine old London 
Dock Port is the favorite beverage, when the editor, 
the lawyer, the apothecary..and the merchant meet 
to play euchre in Missouri." 
We bought our files from the surly clerk, and 
made for the calaboose. It was a stout low structure 
with grated windows. At one of these, by the low 
moonlight, we saw a negro. It was cold and late. 
Nobody was near. We hailed the man. 
“Ilam.” 
“That's me. massa.” 
“You’re sold lo Murker, to go South to-morrow. 
If you want to get. free, catch !” 
Brent tossed hi® np the files. 
“Catch again,” said Biddulpb, and up went a rat¬ 
tling purse, England’s subsidy. 
Ham’s white teeth and genteel manners appeared 
at once. He grinned, and whispered thanks. 
“Is that all we can do?" asked the baronet, as we 
walked off. 
“Yes,” said Brent, taking a nasal tone. 
“Ham’s a pop’lar nigger, a handy nigger, one er 
ver raal ambishus sort 1 le kin cut bar, fry a beef¬ 
steak. aud play on the fiddle like a minsiril He 
kin shoe a mule, drive a team, do a little jiner work, 
and make stampers. Yes, Biddulph, trust him to 
knnw himself free with that, Connecticut rat-tail.” 
“ Ham against Japhet; I hope he’ll win." 
“Now.” said Brent, “that we’ve put in action 
Christ’s Golden Rule., Jefferson’s Declaration of In¬ 
dependence, and All-the-wisdom’s Preamble to the 
Constitution, we can sleep the sleep of well-doers. 
If we have two nmn-stoalui*— ami one the brother 
of a murderer—only papered off from us.” 
| The following morning they resume their jour¬ 
ney.] 
The day, alter the crisp frostiness of its beginning, 
was a belated day of Indian summer; niilu as the 
golden mornings of that calm, luxurious time, We 
stopped to noon iu a sunny spot of open jiasture 
near a wide, muddy slough of the Missouri. This 
reservoir for the brewage of shades for Hikes had 
been refilled in some autumn rise Of the river, and 
lay a great stagnant lake along the roadside, a mile 
or so lone, two hundred yards broad. 
We camped by a fallen cotton-wood near the 
slough. The atmosphere was hopeful. We pic¬ 
nicked merrily, men and beasts. “Three gentle¬ 
men at once” over a chicken soon dissipated Ibis 
aud Us trimmings- A,- lighted the tranquil calu¬ 
met, and lounged, watching our horses at their corn. 
Presently we began to fancy we heard, then to 
think we heard, at lust lo be sure we heard the bay¬ 
ing of hounds through the mild, golden air. 
“Tally-ho.” cried Biddulph, “what a day for a 
fox-hunt! This haze will make the scent lie almost 
as well as the clouds.” 
“Music! music!” cried he again, springing up. as 
the sound, increasing, rose and fell along the peace¬ 
ful air that lay on earth so lovingly. 
“Music, if it were in ruerrie England, where the 
hunt are gentlemen. A cursed uproar here, where 
the hunters are men stealers/’ said Brent. 
“No,” said Biddulph. “Those are fables of the 
old. barbarous days of the Maroons, i can’t believe 
in dogs after men until i see it.” 
“I’m afraid it’s our friend Tlain they are alter. 
This would be his line of escape,” 
At the wofd. a rustling in the bushes along the 
slougli, and Ham burst through, lie turned to run. 
We shouted. lie knew us, aud flung himself, lurid 
with terror, and panting with flight, on the grottud 
at our feet—“ the pop’lar nigger !" 
“ O, massa,” he gasped. “ Dev’s gone sol. the dogs 
on me. What’ll 1 do?” 
“Can you swim?” said I; for to me. he was kneel¬ 
ing. 
“ No. massa; or I de bin cross this yer sloo Tore 
dis.” 
“Can you ride?” 
“ Reck’n I kin, massa.” 
A burst of baying from the hounds. 
The black shook with terror. 
1 sprang to Fulano. “Work for you old boy!” 
said 1 to him, ns I swung the saddle over Ms head. 
“ Take mine!” said my two friends at a breath. 
“No; Fulano understands this biasness. Chase 
or flight, all one to him, so he baffles the brutes.” 
Fulano neighed aud beat the ground with eager 
hoofs as I buckled the bridle. 
“Can't we show light?” said Biddulpb. 
“There'll be a dozen on Hie hunt. It is one of 
the entertainments hereabouts. Besides, they would 
raise the posse on ns. You forget we’re iu a slave 
State, an enemy's country.” 
I led Fulano to the brink. Jle stood motionless, 
eyeing me, just as lie eyed me in that terrible pause 
in Lnggernel Alley. 
“ Here, Ilam, up with you! l’ut across the slough. 
He swims like au alligator. Thou make for the 
north star, aud leave the horse for M r. Richard Wade 
at the Trouiont House, Chicago. Treat him like a 
brother. Ilam!" 
“ Lor’ bless you, massa! I will dat.” 
lie vaulted‘up, “like a sprightly nigger, oue of 
the raal ambishus sort.” 
The baying came nearer, nearer, ringing sweetly 
through the golden quiet of noon. 
I launched Fulano with an urgent whisper. 
Two hundred yards to swim, and then all clear to 
Freedom 1 
Fulano splashed iu and took deep water magni¬ 
ficently. 
What a sight it is to see a noble horse nobly breast 
the flood—lo see bis shoulders thrust aside the stream, 
his breath come quick, his eyes flash, his hauuches 
lift, his wake widen after him! 
Aud then- Act 2—how grand it is lo see him paw 
aud struggle up with might and main upon the 
farther bank—to see him rise, all glossy and reeking, 
shake himself, and w th a snort go galloping free aud 
away! Aha! a sight to be seen! 
We stood watching—Act 1. The fugitive was 
half across. The baying came closer, closer on his 
trail. Two-thirds across. 
The baying ceased. The whole pack drew a long 
wail. 
“ They see him,” said Biddulph. 
Almost across! A dozen more plunges, Fulano! 
A crowd of armed men on horseback dashed up to 
the bank two hundred yards above u 0 . It was open 
where they halted. They could not s* o us among 
the bushes on the edge of the slough. One of them 
—it was Murker—sprang from hi* saddle. He point¬ 
ed his rifle quick and steady. Horse and man, the 
fugitives were close to the bank and the thicket of 
sa'ety. 
Ping! 
Almost over as the rifle cracked, Ham had turned 
at the sound of his pursuers crushing through the 
bushes. Fulano swam high, lie bore a proud bead 
aloft, conscious of his brave duty. It was but a mo¬ 
ment since he had dashed away, and the long lines 
of hi? wake still rippled against the hither bank. 
We heard the bullet sing. It missed the mau as 
he turned. It struck Fulano. Blood spirted from 
a great artery. He bounded forward. Ham caught 
the bushes oh the bank, pulled himsedf ashore, and 
clutched for the bridle* 
Poor Fulano! lie flung his head up and pawed 
the surface with a great spasm. He screamed a 
death scream, like that terrible cry of anguish of 
his comrade martyred in the old heroic cause in Lug- 
gernel Alley. W^e could see his agonized eye turn 
back in the socket, sending towards us a glance of 
farewell. 
Noble horse! again a savior. He yielded and 
sank slowly away into that base ditch. 
But Ham, was hp safe? He had disappeared in 
the thicket, llis pursuers called the hounds, and 
galloped oil'to chase, him round the slough. 
Hum was safe. lie got off to freedom. From his 
refuge he writes to me that he is “ pop’lar;” ibat he 
has sot up a Livery Jnstitootion, and has a most 
beautiful black colt a growin’ up tor me.” Ham 
was saved; but Fulano gone. Dead by Murker’s 
rifle. The brother had strangely avenged his broth¬ 
er, trampled to death in the far-away canon of the 
Rocky Mountains. 
THEORY AND PRACTICE. 
In a recent number of Blackwood's Magazine. 
Bulwku tells the following good Btory, to illustrate 
the difference between the mere possession ol know¬ 
ledge and its application in practical life: 
A certain nobleman, very proud ot the extent 
and beauty of his pleasure grounds, chancing one 
day to call on a small squire, whose garden might 
cover about half au acre, was greatly struck with 
the brilliant colors of his neighbor’s flowers. “Ay, 
my Lord, the flowers are well enough," said the 
squire, “but permit me lo show you my grapes.’ 
Conducted into an old fashioned little green-house, 
which served as a vinery, my Lord gazed, with 
mortification and envy, on grapes twice as tineas 
his own. “My dear friend,” said my Lord, “you 
have a jewel of a gardener; let me see him!” The 
gardener was called—the siDgle gardener—a simple 
looking young man under thirty. “Accept my 
compliments on your flower-beds and your gtapes, 
said my Lord, “and tell me, d you eau, why your 
flowers are so much brighter than mine, and your 
grapes so much liner. You must have studied hor- 
Liutilluro profoundly.” “Please your Lordship," 
said the man, “1 have not had the advantage of 
much education ; 1 ben't no scholar; but as to the 
flowers and the l ines, the secret as (o' treating them 
just cam© to me, you see. by chance.” 
“ Bv chance ? explain.” 
“ )\*el 1, my Lord, three years ago, master sent me 
to Lunnon du business of his’n ; and it came on to 
rain, and 1 took shelter in a mews, you see.” 
“ Yes; you took shelter in a mews;—what then?” 
“And there were two gentlemen taking shelter 
too ; and they were talking to each other about 
charcoal.” 
“About charcoal ? — go on.” 
“ And one said that it hud done a deal o’ good in 
many cases of sickness, and specially In the first 
stage of the cholera, aud 1 took a note on my mind 
of that, because we’d had the cholera in onr village 
the year afore. And l guessed the two gentlemen 
worn doctors, and knew what they were talking 
about.” 
•*1 dare say they did; but flowers and vines don't 
have the cholera, do they?” 
“ No. my Lord; but tu«*y have complaints of their 
owu; and one of the gentlemen went on to say that 
charcoal hud a special good effect upon all vegeta¬ 
ble life, and told a story of a vinc-drosser, in Ger¬ 
many, I think, who had made a very sickly poor 
vineyard oue of the best iu all these parts, simply 
by charcoal dressings. So 1 naturally pricked up 
my ears at that, lor our vines were in so bad a way 
that master thought of doing away with them alto¬ 
gether. *Ay. said the other gentleman, “and see 
flow a little sprinkling of charcoal will brighten up 
a flower-bed.’ 
“The rain was now over, and the gentlemen left 
the news; and 1 thought, - Well, but before 1 try the 
charcoal upon the plants. I’d best make some inquiry 
ol them as aren’t doctors;’ so I went lo our nursery¬ 
man, who has a deal of book-learning, and 1 asfced 
him if ho’d ever heard of charcoal-dressing being 
good tor vines, and he said he'd read iu a book that 
it was so, but had never tried it. He kindly lent me 
the book, which was translated from some l'orren 
one. Aud, alter I had picked out of it all I could, 
1 tried thu charcoal in the way the book tolu me to 
try it; and that's how the grapes and the flower¬ 
beds came to please you, my Lord, it was a lucky 
chance that ever 1 heard those gentlemen miking 
iu the mews, please your Lordship.” 
“Chance happens to all,’’ answered the peer, sen- 
tttUlSously; "but to turn chance to account is the 
gift of the lew.” 
His Lordship, returning home, gazed gloomily on 
the hues of his vast parterres; he visited his viuexies, 
and scowled at the clusters; he summoned his head 
gardener —a gentleman of the highest repute tor 
science, and who never spoke ol' a cowslip except 
by its name iu Latin. To this learned personage 
my Lord communicated what, lie had seen of the 
benignant effects uf charcoal, aud produced iu proof 
a magnificent bunch of grapes, which he had brought 
from the squire's. 
**My Lord,” said the gardener, scarcely glancing 
at the grapes, “Squire -'» gardener must be a 
puOr ignorant, creature to fancy he had discovered a 
secret in what is so very well known to every pro¬ 
tested horticulturist. Professor Liebig, my Lord, 
has treated of the good effect of charcoal-dreusing, 
to vines especially ; and it is to be explained oh 
these chemical principles"—therewith the wise man 
entered into a profound disputation, ol which his 
Lordship did not understand a word. 
“ Well then,” said the peer, cutting short the har¬ 
angue, "since you know so well that, charcoal¬ 
dressing is good lor vines and flowers, have you 
ever tried it ou mine ?’’ 
“1 can't say that 1 have, my Lord; it did not 
chance to come into my head.” 
••Nay,” replied the peer, - chance put it into your 
head, but thought never look it out of your head." 
My Lord, who, If he did uot know much about 
horticulture, was a good judge of mankind, dis¬ 
missed the man of learning; and, with many apolo¬ 
gies for seeking to rob his neighbor of Bitch a treas¬ 
ure, asked the squire to transfer to his service i be 
mau of genius, The squire, who thought that now 
the charcoal had been once discovered, any new 
gardener could apply it as well as the old one, waH 
too happy to oblige my Lord, and advance thu for¬ 
tunes ot an honest fellow born in his villuge. His 
Lordship knew very well I hat a man who makes good 
nee of the ideas received through chance, will make 
u still bel ter useot ideas received through study, He 
took some kind, but not altogether unselfish, pains 
with the training and education of a man oi genius 
whom he had gained to his service. The man is 
now my Lord's head forester and bailiff. The 
woods thrive under him, the farm pays largely. 
He and my Lord are both the richer tor the con¬ 
nection between them. He is not the less practi¬ 
cally painstaking, though he uo longer says " ben't” 
and “his’n;” nor the less felicitously theoretical, 
thuttgh he no longer ascribes a successful experiment 
to chauce. 
Ik your friend goes into a speculation, don’t, be¬ 
cause he happens lo break, break with him. 
People often spend half their life in contracting 
maladies, aud the other half in trying to get rid of 
them. 
The difference between a carriage-wheel and a 
carriage-horse is, that one goes best when it is tired, 
and the other doesn’t. 
<Wit §I»mw. 
A bo'san’s mate,— His wife. 
Remedy for defective sight.—E yes in glass. 
Can a person speak the truth when ho lies in bed? 
What is taken from you before you get it?—your 
portrait. 
When is a tooth equal to four roods of laud?— 
When it's an acre. 
“ I’ll put that in my trunk,” as the elephant ob¬ 
served to the orange. 
A good many men are in the best health when 
they are out of spirits. 
The charities oi a good many rich people seem 
altogether indispensable. 
Direct from iiedlam.— When is a man most like a 
bird?—When he’s a raven. 
Wit at is that w hich makes all women equally pret¬ 
ty ? Putting the candle out 
“Too much of a good thing,” as the kitten said 
when she fell into the milk-pail 
Wu at is that which works when it plays, and 
plays wheu it works?—A fountain. 
To terminate a lawsuit speedily is the next best 
thing to never haviug commenced it 
The best way of preserving meat. — Invite 
none but vegetarians to dine with you. 
Little girls believe in a man in the moon; 
young ladies in a man iu the honey-moon. 
What is that which is ever before us, can never 
be seen aud yet all are looking toward it ?—To¬ 
morrow. 
Startling paradox.— However rich a man may 
be, by giving away a couple of half-pence, he be¬ 
comes penny-less. 
Cream may be frozen by simply putting it into a 
glass vessel, and then putting the whole in an old 
bachelor’s bosom. 
“ What is the best attitude for self-defense?” asked 
a pupil of a well-known pugilist “Keep a civil 
tongue in your head,” wa3 the reply. 
A public writer thinks that much might be gain¬ 
ed if speakers would observe the miller's method— 
always to shut the ga:o when the grist is out 
A wag has truly said, that if some men could 
come out of their coffins, and read the incriptions 
ou their tomb stones, they would think they had got 
into the wrong grave. 
“That star,” says the venerable Gammon, with a 
smile of angelic purity, “ is like any star on our 
flag; though clouds may hide it iu its ascending node, 
it is still kuowed to be ascending.” 
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My 1, 8, 3. 4,16 is a verb. 
My lo, 10, 11 is Kti animal. 
My 14 13, 7. 12, 0. 2 is a kind of bird. 
My tl, 13, 0 is a kind of food for animals. 
My whole I - what every boy aud girl should do. 
Monroe, Wis., 1662. B. W. Pritchard. 
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GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
T AM composed of 35 letters. 
My 1 4, 8, 10, 13, 7, 12,14. 15, 6 is the capital of one oi the 
United States, 
My 2, J2, 11, 20, 23,1. 33 is one of the disloyal States. 
My 3, 4, 10, 30, 28, 24 is a celebrated river of the East 
My G. 21), 24, 35. 23, 34 is the capital r f an African Province. 
My 9, 10, 14, 31 is a county in Pennsylvania. 
y 17, I S, 33, 35, 14, 8, 32 is a city in England. 
My 22, 2, 30,14, 3,11 is a city in Bolivia. 
My 25. 20, 34, 19, 21. 0, 2 is one of the Little Antilles. 
My 27, 29, 17, 4, 13, 18 is one of the G'and Divisions. 
Sly whole is a man who has recently handed his name to 
perpetual infamy. S. R. Kadik. 
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MATHEMATICAL QUESTION. 
An Eagle and a Condor being in latitude 80“ N., 42 miles 
apart, start and Hy directly South until their distance is 241 
miles. Determine the latitude they arrive at. 
Gouverneur, N. Y. Edwin A. Dodds. 
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For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
GEOMETRICAL PROBLEM. 
Fisd the solid contents of a spherical segment whose upper 
base is 8 inches in diameter, aud lower base 12 inches iu di¬ 
ameter, the altitude beiug 6 inches. 
Gainesville, Wyo. Co., N. Y., 1802. O. J. Brown. 
J2F” Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
CHARADE. 
Though composed of but four of the characters 6mall 
Thatlweuty and six are numbered in all. 
Yet constant and quickly I urn changing my guise, 
With a skill that even a wizard might prize. 
At first, a glistening pike l am gliding along, 
But e'er y ou're aware, have left, the gay throng, 
And now stand beside you transformed to itflowe;. 
Or, dancing along when the darkness shall lower 
Delude the lone wanderer I get in my power, 
Then leave him alone to find his owu way, 
And lly to the must of some sloop in the hay ; 
Or stand by the way side, a monitor stern, 
To mark off the time that ne’er can return. 
When tired of tiiis duty, I hastily seek 
A place in *ome kitchen, both lowly and meek, 
But though Constantly turning, aud all in a heat, 
Rie ivc not the rewu-d such labor should meet, 
Till weary of toil when so illy repaid. 
I leave the warm hearth when the gravy is made ; 
And expanding much over my wonted small size, 
Envelop some knight ere he fight for the prize, 
Nor leave him till weary and wounded he lall. 
Or receive his reward as the bravest of all. 
Though this is not every quaint shape I assume, 
You'll think, for the preseut, ’tis enough, I presume. 
Rochester, N. Y , 1802, Ernest Hoven. 
Answer hi two weeks. 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMA8, &c.. IN No. 671. 
Answer to Geographical Enigma:—All is not gold that 
glitters. 
Answer to Ornithological Decapitations:—Crane, Plover, 
Rail, Smew, Swallow. Swan, Tern, Upupa. 
Answer to Geometrical Problem:—32.7315 gallons. 
Answer to Charade:—Friend-ship. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Euigma Ambrose E. Burnside. 
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