rises 10 58 6 27 11 41 6 51 morn 5 7 20 0 22 25 T 11 51 43 5 51 5 53 DANIEL WEBSTER, being present at a ball in [ was never covetous. Fourth. He must send it Washington during his incumbency as Secretary to a doctor's shop who never killed a patient. of State, was asked by an effeminate, foppish sort Fifth. He must mark it with a lawyer's ink who of a chap, who thought a good deal of his own never cheated a client. Sixth. Apply it to the dancing: "Don't you dance, Mr. Webster? I part affected, and a cure will speedily follow. never see you dancing." "No," said Mr. Webster, as only he could say and look such things, "I never had the capacity to learn how, sir." A husband, residing in a small village in the interior, thus announces the departure from his" bed and board" of his dearly beloved: "My CURE FOR GOUT.-(From an old book.)-First. wife, Anne Maria, has strayed or been stolen. The person must pick a handkerchief from the Whoever returns her will get his head broke. pocket of a maid of fifty years, who has never As for trusting her, anybody can do so who sees had a wish to change her condition. Second. fit-for as I never pay my own debts, it is not at He must wash it in an honest miller's pond. all likely that I will lay awake nights thinking Third. He must dry it on a parson's hedge who' about other people's." 5 50 5 53 rises 5 51 5 51 6 28 9 21 5 515 51 7 53 5 495 54 4 3 52 5 49 6 54 10 25 52 5 49 6 57 5 53 5 48 64|5 46 26 4 59 9 17 morn 6 25 5 28 4 58 10 10 0 14 6 26 5 110 16 "Mrs. Polly," said Uncle Eb, of an old of an ancient maiden lady, one pleasant mornConnecticut town, as he hobbled into the house wife thinks she's a pretty tall one, but she'll take ing," Mrs. Polly, you're a fustrate sweeper. My raise as big a pile of dirt as you've got together her broom and go all over the house and can't in five minutes there!" Uncle Eb left very soon. Another instance of his wit is on record: Going into the nicely clean dwelling of a neighbor, one day, with suspicious looking boots, the gude wife hailed him with, "Did you not see the scraper at the door, Uncle Eb?" "Yes'm," was the reply, "and I intend to use it when I go out." where." "Mother, can't I go and have my Da "No, my child; I guess "Well, then, you might pulled; I never go any AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.-A Paris journal [ says that the bad smell and taste of butter can guerreotype taken ?" be entirely removed by working it over in water it isn't worth while." mixed with chloride of lime. The discovery was let me have a tooth made by the Brussels farmers, whose practice is to take a sufficient quantity of water to work it in, and put in it from twenty-five to thirty drops Dr. Bethune being about to lecture in of chloride of 1 me for every ten pounds of butter. Boston a short time since, heard a colloquy on his When it has been worked until the whole has way to the lecture hall, which ran thus: "Where been brought into contact with the water, it are you going to-night?" asked one of another. should be worked again in clear water, when it" Well, I do not know," was the reply; "I thought will be found to be as sweet as when first made. I would go and hear Dr. Bethune lecture on the 'Age of Pericles.'" "Oh, pshaw !" was the He that a watch would wear, this must he do-response of the first, "who cares how old PeriPocket his watch, and watch his pocket too. cles was? Let's go to the theatre!" GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE EXECUTIVE. FRANKLIN PIERCE, of New-Hampshire, President of the United States.. pro THE CABINET. WILLIAM L. MARCY, of New-York, Secretary of State. THE JUDICIARY. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. .Salary $5,000 ROGER B. TANEY, of Maryland, Chief Justice...... JOHN M'LEAN, of Ohio, Associate Justice. | SAMUEL NELSON, of New-York, Associate Justice. JAMES M. WAYNE, of Georgia, " JOHN CATRON, of Tennessee, 66 PETER V. DANIEL, of Virginia, " 66 ROBERT C. GRIER, of Pa., 66 Salary of Associate Justices, $4,500. Meets first Monday in December at Washington. SENATE 62 Members. JESSE D. BRIGHT, of Indiana, President pro tem. [Whigs in Italics, 18; Democrats in Roman, 38; Free Soilers in SMALL CAPS, 5; Vacancy, 1. The figures before each Senator's name, denote the year when his term closes.] |