St(ipl)gka tlifolta. Natural Order: Sapindacece — Soapberry Family. 
|ECULIAR to this handsome shrub, found in various sections 
|ot the United States, are the bladder-like capsules or pods, 
ti om w hich it dei ives its name, and in which are contained the 
seeds or nuts. These are hard, bony, smooth and polished. 
1 he flowers, which bloom in May, are white and hang in 
(shoit, pendulous clusters, somewhat like bunches of grapes, 
whence the scientific Greek name, Staphylea. It grows to the 
height of six, eight, or even ten feet, chiefly in low lands, in moist 
woods, amongst the underbrush. The wood is firm and white, and 
well adapted for cabinet work. 
% briffing iJptnitbr* 
AH! there are some 
Can trifle, in cold vanity, with all 
The warm soul’s precious throbs; to whom it is 
A triumph, that a fond, devoted heart 
Is breaking for them; who can bear to call 
Young flowers into beauty, and then crush them. 
,^ROUND him some mysterious circle thrown 
Repell’d approach and show’d him still alone; 
L pon his eye sat something of reproof, 
That kept at least frivolity aloof. —Byron 
JfJE was perfumed like a milliner; 
And twixt his finger and his thumb he held 
A pouncet-box, which, ever and anon 
He gave his nose — 
And still he smiled and talked; 
And as the soldiers bare dead bodies bv, 
He called them “ untaught knaves unmannerly, 
lo bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse 
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.” -Shakespeare. 
— Letitia E. Landon. 
yOU oftentimes can mark upon the street 
The gilded toy whom fashion idolizes; 
Heartless and fickle, swelled with self-conceit, 
Avoiding alway what good sense advises. 
— IV. H. c. 
yHE joy that yam amusement gives, 
O, sad conclusions that it brines. 
The honey of a crowded hive, 
Defended by a thousand stings. 
Tis thus the world rewards the fools 
That live upon her treacherous smiles, 
She leads them blindfold bv her rules, 
And 1 uins all whom she beguiles. 
— Cow per. 
