THE name of this venerable, "good old man" has been a household word with the American people for the last thirty years. The ballad which embalms his memory has become a New England classic. We have, therefore, commissioned our artist to take the portrait of the "fine old gentleman " as he sat in his arm-chair, together with the portrait of his remains, left upon his chair after the good old man had departed. This ballad, which has the genuine vein of humor, was written by Albert G. Green, of Rhode Island, a graduate of Brown University. and was a production of his college days. He is the author, also, of several other poems of decided merit and of a more serious character. OLD Grimes is dead-that good old man We ne'er shall see him more; He wore a single-breasted coat That buttoned down before. His heart was open as the day, Whene'er was heard the voice of pai Thus, ever prompt at pity's call, His eyes were dark, and rather small, He lived at peace with all mankind, But poor old Grimes is now at reet, He had no malice in his mind, His neighbors he did not abuse, He wore not rights and lefts for shoes His knowledge, hid from public gaze, Thus, undisturbed by anxious cares, His peaceful moments ran; And every body said he was FATHER GRIMES. REMAINS OF FATHER GRIMES. OLIO SEASONINGS. YOUNG America in the feminine is certainly becoming very demonstrative. Recently a boy and girl, brother and sister, were at play together upon a piazza; the latter had caught a fire-fly, or "lightning bug," as the children call them, which she held in her hand. Presently a quarrel arose, which called the mother to the scene of action. Little miss had torn the hat of young master, and given him a blow upon the cheek. "Why, you naughty girl, what made you do so?" cried the mother. tion. Not long since he called for his rent of a very worthy mechanic, who, by the way, rejoices in the possession of a pretty little wife. The husband was not at home when Shylock called, and he was enchanted with the pretty little wife of the tenant. She could not liquidate the amount due; but the landlord, becoming really enamored, told her he would give her a receipt in full for just one kiss. Sir,' said she, myself and husband are very poor; perhaps we cannot pay our rent; but I tell you, Sir, we're not so poor but that we can do our own kissing.'" A SMART BOY.-When Lieutenant-Governor Patterson was Speaker of the Legislature, some dozen boys pre "Because he touched my bug and took the lightning out sented themselves for the place of messenger, as is usual of it," was the scientific reply. Another young lady of seven years was engaged in a sharp altercation with a group of girls of the same age, when a mild spoken boy of eight ventured to remonstrate. He was met by a sharp box upon the ear by the miss of seven, with the pithy speech, "I'll teach you next time not to dip into my quarrels.” ANECDOCES OF SIDNEY SMITH.-He said that ——— was so fond of contradiction that he would throw up the window in the middle of the night and contradict the watchman who was calling the hour. When his physician advised him to "take a walk upon an empty stomach," Smith asked- Upon whose?" "Lady Cook," said Smith, was once so moved by a charity sermon, that she begged me to lend her a guinea for her contribution. I did so. She never repaid me, and spent it on herself." A SHARPER, who had pawned his hat, going out of church in the midst of a crowd, snatched a man's hat from under his arm. The poor fellow, feeling his hat gone, cried, They have stolen my hat!" The sharper, immediately putting the hat on his head, and covering it with both his hands, exclaimed, "Have they? I defy them to take mine!" A FRENCHMAN asked quarter of a Highlander at Waterloo. "I can't spare your life," said the mountaineer but ask me any other favor, and I'll grant it with pleas That brevity is the soul of wit is thus argued by Butler, the author of Hudibras: As 'tis a greater mystery in the art Than draw it out; so 'tis in books the chief SOME one having lavishly lauded Longfellow's aphorism, "Suffer and be strong," a matter-of-fact man observed that it was merely a variation of the old English adage, "Grin and bear it." CAN DO THEIR OWN KISSING.--The following incident is related by a paper published in Elmira, New York: "Not a thousand miles from this village lives a very exacting landholder. He makes his tenants come to time' on the day the rent becomes due, and will only relax his stern decrees when a handsome woman is in ques at the opening of the House. He inquired their names, and into their condition, in order that he might make the proper selection. He came, in the course of his examination to a small boy about ten years old, a bright looking lad. "Well, Sir," said he, "what is your name?" "John Hancock, Sir," replied the boy. "What!" said the Speaker, "you are not the one that signed the Declaration of Independence, are you יין "No, Sir,” replied the lad, stretching himself to his utmost proportions, "but I would if I had been there." "You can be one of the messengers," said the Speaker. "HERE, you little rascal, walk up here and give an account of yourself-where have you been?" "After the girls, father." "Did you ever know me to do so when I was a boy?" "No, Sir, but mother did." My son, you had better go to bed." "PRAY, Sir," said a judge, angrily, to a blunt old Quaker, from whom no direct answer could be obtained, “do you know what we sit here for?" "Yes, verily, I do." said the Quaker; "three of you for four dollars each a day, and the fat one in the middle for four thousand a year." SAID a lady in fashionable dress, "Little boy, can I go through this gate to the river ?" Boy. "Pr'haps you can. A load of hay went through this morning." "SONNY, dear," said a fond mother, you have a dirty face." · Can't help it mam, dad's a Black Republican." LET ME BE A FANTASY. BY ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH. LIKE the faint breathing of a distant lute, Or like the wind-harp, trembling to its pain Like luster of a stone which wakens thought I would renew to Thee the dreams of youth, WALKING TOILET.-A crape bonnet trimmed with blonde TOILET FOR HOME.-Natural hair with the addition of a and having a short vail Imperatrice, that is to say, straight black velvet ornament behind. The hair, parted down at the edge and of a round shape behind. Inside the front there is a band of blonde quilled, and also a bouquet of which ends in a coarse and very loose plat turned back the middle, is made to form wide puffed bandeaux, each of pomegranate flowers. Blonde lappets. Strings of No. and rounding on the neck. Dress with a double skirt, 22 ribbon. Silk dress and jacket, ornamented with but-made of white organdi with broad colored stripes. Body tons and silk trimming with tassels, matching the stuff. high (straight way of the stuff,) gathered at the waist. The jacket body is high and fits tight; the upper part is Sleeve straight way of the stuff, nearly plain at top and cut straight way of the stuff, and the lappets are all of a forming three plaits lengthwise, then two puffs gathered piece with it, there being no seam at the waist. The full- and terminated by a flounce, (the puffs and flounce being ness of the lappets is obtained by the sloping of the cut. of the same piece.) Under the flounce are placed some There is a seam down the middle of the back, and the tulle ruches for the purpose of supporting it and filling seam in front supplies the place of plaits. The sleeve is up the vacancy. Tunic skirt having four widths and a composed of two bell-shape flounces. Beginning at the hem five inches deep. Long skirt having four widths and shoulder, there is a row of buttons sewed on the seam a half and a hem six inches deep. Sash of No. 80 ribbon, down the front quite to the bottom of the lappets. Two striped with the same colors as the dress on a white buttons are placed at the waist behind. Along the bot-ground. A tulle ruche round the neck. Under-dress of tom of the jacket is sewed a passementerie trimming, the white silk very low in the body. head of which consists of small rings from which proceed cords that form a network by passing through little balls. Small tassels of twisted silk hang down all round. The same trimming, but smaller, is put round the edge of each HOPEFUL YOUTH.-"You want a flogging, that's what you do!" said a parent to his unruly son. "I know it, dad, but I'll try to get along without it." agination, and, as it were, elevates him with itself. Possibly on this hint our query may be solved; but Nature remains at present unfathomed, notwithstanding. 1. GENUS NAUCLERUS. (Vigors.) THIS group contains some of the most grace-plumage, soars upward and pleases man's imfully formed and most handsome of rapacious birds. Nearly all the species of Kites are not only thus distinguished, but present colors of plumage frequently agreeable, and not usually met with in the family of birds of prey. These birds are, however, for much the greater part, quite deficient in the strength and courage of nearly all the other sub-families of this class, and capture only the smaller and more defenseless animals. The habitual food of many of the species is almost exclusively reptiles and insects. In examining the handsome birds of this group, and necessarily admiring their handsome forms, we have but an unpleasant contrast in the consideration of their avocations and the apparent object of such complete organizations. In such contemplations there is little written philosophy that can help us, and perhaps least of any the old and yet popular doctrine of final causes. The secrets of Nature are, as a result of modern science, quite too nearly demonstrated to be unfathomable to warrant a leap into the darkness of hasty inference from any partial gleaming of facts; and it becometh all men, and especially philosophers, to look carefully before, according to the ancient proverb. Bill short, rather weak; wings and tail long, the former pointed, the latter deeply forked; legs short; claws weak. Contains not more than three species, two of which are American and one African. NAUCLERUS FURCATUS. (Linnæus.) This beautiful species is the handsomest of the North American birds of the family of Falcons. Though its colors are two only, the glossy bluish-black of its upper parts, contrasting with the unsullied whiteness of its head and other plumage, produces an effect exceedingly agreeable; and, by the way, quite confirming the Brummelian axiom that black and white are the only colors for the dress of a gentleman. Thus far, then, the Swallow-tail is the gentle. man Hawk- possibly the gentleman of rather a roughish family, and of but small pretensions in that line. We shall see presently what are his visible means of subsistence. The Swallow-tailed Hawk is almost exclusively a southern species, rarely venturing so far north on the Atlantic as Virginia or Pennsylvania. In Texas and Louisiana it is of frequent occurrence, and thence into Carolina, and further north on the Mississippi River; it may be regarded as a bird of Summer, and like all other migratory birds, not adhering very strictly to any defined line in its northern range of locality. Professor Kirkland states that some years since this bird was to be found in considerable The homeliest Owl and the ungainly Heron prey on reptiles and insects; so does the beautiful Swallow-tailed Hawk of our present group. The object of the organization of the latter is apparently precisely the same as the former. Why should one be clothed in beautiful plumage and the other not? No utilitarian nor strict constructionist of the doctrine of final causes can solve this query. But modern numbers in some parts of the State of Ohio, THE SWALLOW-TAILED HAWK-1HE FORK-TAILED HAWK. but that latterly it has disappeared. Dr. Hoy has observed it in Wisconsin. In Pennsylvania our friend, Mr. A. F. Darley, once saw this bird in the meadows near the junction of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, a few miles below the city of Philadelphia. This is the only instance of its occurrence so far north on the coast of the Atlantic that has ever come to our knowledge. Notwithstanding the prepossessing appearance of our present bird, his avocations are by no means of a dignified character. Not even a bold nor adroit freebooter, like some of his relatives, he aspires to nothing higher than the capture of reptiles and insects. These are his food, in the pursuit of which he performs somewhat of a practical antithesis, rather ridiculous than otherwise. Stretching his broad wings and expanding his handsome tail to its utmost, he glides over the fields with a gracefulness and easiness of motion scarcely surpassed. With many fine passes and beautiful evolutions he reaches a climax, and pounces downward-upon a grasshopper! Thus are we schoolboys to our mother Nature, who thrusts lessons ever upon us, and seems to insist that they have a meaning, though not always to be readily understood. Snakes, frogs and grasshoppers are the principal subsistence of this fine species, but he has no objection even to caterpillars, or other of the immature stages or of the inferior classes of insects. He feeds mostly on the wing, and, flying with a snake in his talons, devours it deliberately without alighting. Almost constantly on the wing, this bird shows an analogy in its class to the Swallows, not inaptly further strengthened by its peculiar and Swallow-like tail. It is stated, too, that it drinks by gliding over the surface of the water, in the manner of the birds just mentioned. This Hawk rears its young in the Southern States, building in high trees, and usually selecting a marshy or other locality near a stream of water. It constructs a nest of sticks. lined with grasses and feathers. At the approach of Autumn this bird migrates southward into Mexico and Central America. We have never seen it in collections from the Western States. In South America there is a species nearly allied to, if not identical with, our present bird. DESCRIPTION.-Nauclerus Furcatus. (Lin næus.) Falco Furcatus. Linn. Syst. Nat., I, p. 129 (1766). Catesby's Carolina, pl. 4. Buffon's Pl. Enl., 72. Wilson's Am. Orn., VI, pl. 51. Audubon's Birds of America, pl. 72; Oct. cd., I, pl. 18. Wings and tail long, the latter deeply forked. Head and neck, inferior wing coverts, secondary quills at their bases, and entire under parts white. Back, wings and tail black, with a metallic luster, purple on the back and lesser wing coverts; green and blue on other parts. Tarsi and feet greenish blue; bill horn color. Total length, female, 23 to 25 inches; wing, 16 to 17 inches; tail, 14 inches. Male rather smaller. Habitation-Southern States on the Atlantic, and centrally northward to Wisconsin; Texas, Mexico, Jamaica. Accidental in Western Europe. Specimen in Mus. Acad., Philadelphia. 2. GENUS ELANUS. (Savigny.) Bill short, hooked, rather weak; wings long; tail moderate; tarsi short. This group contains four species only, much resembling each other, one of which is American, one African, two Australian. ELANUS LENCURUS. (Vieillot.) This is a southern and western species. It is abundant in California and Texas, and is found sparingly in Florida and on the Atlantic |