and modulating his voice to suit the occasion; "and let me hope that, when you are gone, you will not, brother, neglect the things of this world, in looking out for the world to come!" The quietness of sarcasm was more effectual than a broadside from a sloop-of-war. Before he left town, Brother W. employed another attorney to attend to his few unsold corner lots.

AN EXTRA ARTICLE WANTED for a SMALL PRICE.-Dr. Rice, when at the head of the theological seminary in Prince Edwards, Va., was requested by the people of one of the outparishes to send them a minister. They wanted one who could visit a good deal, for their former minister neglected that, and they wanted to bring that up. They wanted a man of very gentlemanly deportment, for some thought a great deal of that. And so they went on describing a perfect minister. The last thing they mentioned was-they gave their last minister $350; but if the doctor would send them such a man as they had described, they would raise another $50, making it $400. Dr. Rice immediately replied, advising them to send for Dr. Dwight, in heaven, as he did not know any one on earth that would suit them.

HEELS OF COWARDS.-Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, relates this little anecdote of the Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, the veteran temperance orator, well known in the early history of the Wyoming Valley. He is an eccentric and rather quick-witted man. During our late war he enlisted in one of the regiments of infantry raised in the famous old valley, and served as chaplain. On one occasion, when, in the fiercest of battle, a major rode up in front of the regiment, and seeing Father Hunt at the head of the ranks, inquired:

"Chaplain, what are you doing there?" The reverend warrior instantly replied: "Cheering the hearts of the brave, and watching the heels of the cowards!"

A characteristic reply, and admirably told by the ex-governor.

Too GOOD TO BE LOST.-At a recent election in the State of New York, a lad presented himself at the polls to claim the benefit of the elective franchise.

Feeling a deep interest in a favorite candidate, the father, who was evidently opposed to the boy's preference, stood at the ballot-box, and challenged his right to vote, on the ground of his not being of age. The young man declared that he was twenty-one years old; that he knew it, and that he insisted upon his right. The father becoming indignant, and wishing, as the saying is, "to bluff him off" before the judges, said:

"Now, Bob, will you stand up there and contradict me? Don't I know how old you are? Wasn't I there?"

Bob looked his contempt for the old man's speech, as he hastily replied:

"Thunderation! s'pose you was? Wasn't I there too?"

This settled the sire, and in went the scion's vote.

NOT ALWAYS FLATTERING TO BE LEFT ALONE. "They never shoot us," said an old crow to a partridge, which, after a flight of terror from a murderous gun, had escaped to a quiet spot where some crows were feeding. She did not answer, but cowered beneath the long grass, still panting with alarm.

"I say," said the old crow, sidling up to her, they never attempt to shoot us."

"Don't they?" said the partridge.

"No; I can't think why. We are very handsome, and very useful, and highly respectable. I can't think why they let us alone, and are so fond of shooting you," said the old crow, with an inquisitive look.

"Ah! I didn't know there was any difficulty about it. Are you not carrion?" said the partridge.

"Caw! caw!" said the old crow; "that didn't strike me!"

MINOR JOKES.

The new process of cooking by gas stoves is one of the latest triumphs of gas-tronomy.

A man who had a scolding wife being asked what he did for a living, replied that he kept a hot house.

Why is a prosy preacher like the middle of a wheel? Because the fellows round him are tired.

Diggory says he always respects old age, except when some one sticks him with a pair of tough chickens.

A woman begins to have a great antipathy to dates when she finds herself out of date.

Why is an offering like a matrimonial engagement? Because it begins with an offer and ends with a ring.

"Ah, Pat," said a discontented hod-carrier, "don't take up this mode of life. It has too many ups and downs in it."

A young ecclesiastic having asked of his bishop permission to preach, the latter replied, "I do not forbid you to do so, but nature does."

Abernethy used to tell his pupils that all human diseases sprang from two causes, stuffing and fretting.

Often the "fastest" young women are most easily overtaken by the galloping consumption.

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service in support and defence of the sex may be admitted in mitigation of damages.

The fashion plate we present on the preceding page, is, perhaps, a slight exaggeration; but so is any picture, that is commended for its fidelity to nature. A picture in color and drawing that only repeats nature, does not take a very high position with connoisseurs; it is the province of genius in art to make it evidently up to nature, therefore we justify our plate. The chignon is increased

present the figure in contrast with its Chinese counterpart, as proving the axiom that antipodes meet-the celestial and the "angularSaxon," as a venerable friend of ours terms all white people. There is a decided similarity, only more so, and the Chinese almoneyed damsel is evidently complimenting her antipodal sister on her near approach to the celestial standard of grace and elegance. By perseverance, by-and-by, such perfection may be attained, that the human semblance will be

to extremes, and the unwholesome examples sport their finery with the natural abandon of those to the manner born. The hauteur of the embodiment of the spirit of Queen Elizabeth, with the ghost of the parasol, bears the true aristocratic mark. What a regal dignity there is on that brow! what a grace in the folded hands! what a majestic pose in the romanesque feet! That dress is regal, with real point lace at the bottom; that train is imperial, no mistake about it; that nose, retrousse, turns up at the approach of Mary the Queen of Scots, the other party, who sues for her attention. How the o'ertopping plumes angrily vibrate at the audacity! There is a block on Tower Hill for the intrusion. Nothing less will satisfy offended majesty. The costume of Mary is less marked, because indelible ink would not show on it, inaybe, but the dress is queenly. The chignon is marvellous, but hairy; the bonnet recherche; the train voluminous. The low-neck dress reveals grace that offends her royal sister, who tends to scragginess. The rounded shoulder of Mary excites her envy. She looks as if she might bite it, if she had opportunity. The graceful foot and ankle are suggestive of beauties that Canova might have loved to study, the foot planting itselt upon the pave with the force of a kedge anchor. The two present a less harmonious picture than the foregoing, but they are as true to fashion as they can afford to be.

How often do we see this ridiculous initation, in rags, of fashion in silk. We meet it every day, with the poverty so painfully standing out, that we would pity if we dared; but the pride that conceived it would brook no pity, and the poor imitation sports her bit of faded or cast-off finery, as if it were the last from Madame Demorest. There are few more pitiable sights than this of poverty struggling against fate.

The plate on this page reveals a specimen of culture that affects natural history, and delights in bugs, in harmony with the other parties who range through the whole field of scientific research, showing here, as an ornament, a grapevine or a tomato-bed, there a bunch of onions and a half-hundred of cucumbers. The tarantula represented in our plate is a wonderful specimen, and is suggestive of the pleasant song sung by one

of the same family to a certain fly, representing his parlor as being very desirable. It is to be half-suspected that the same sentiment, in a more refined form, is advanced by the young lady herself in the sign thus hung out, while the diminutive fly, suspended from her ear, is significant of the kind of game she will be likely to attract. We are sorry to record this species of headdress as belonging to a past regime. There was so much incentive in it to the study of natural history, and the quality of the mind could be so readily seen in the style of adornment, that tempers could be read with as much precision as char

THE INSECT HEADDRESS.

acters are known at a mercantile agency. There is much to study in fashion, whether it come in the form of distorted and foreignized dress, or milliner's bills, the latter the most impressive. But, seriously, it is a matter of more satisfaction to pay a bill for decent dress, however eiaborate and expensive, than the gross and outrageous discordances that so often invest the human female form withal.

Fashion is a strange infatuation, that leads its votaries to the commission of acts that might, at times, provoke a question of sainty, but it is submitted to because it is the fashion.