some portion of skin from the shin of one of the urehins.

The following is the mode in China of receiving supernatural communications.

The table is sprinkled equally with bran, flour, dust, or other powder, and two media sit down at opposite sides, with their hand placed upon the table. A hemispherical basket, of about eight inches diameter, such as is commonly used for washing rice, is now reversed, and laid down with its edges resting upon the tips of one or two fingers of the two media. This basket is to act as the penholder; and a reed or style is fastened to the rim, or a chopstick thrust through the interstices, with the point touching the powdered table. The ghost, in the meantime, has been duly invoked with religious ceremonies, and the spectators stand round awaiting the result in awestruck silence. The result is not uniform. Sometimes the spirit summoned is unable to write, sometimes he is mischievously inclined, and the pen-for it always moves-will make either a few senseless flourishes on the table, or fashion sentences that are without meaning, or with a meaning that only misleads. This however, is comparatively rare. In general, the words traced are arranged in the best form of composition, and they communicate intelligence wholly unknown to the operators. These operators are said to be not only unconscious but unwilling participators in the feat. Sometimes, by the exercise of strong will, they are able to prevent the pencil from moving beyond the area it commands by its original position; but in general, the fingers follow it in spite of themselves, till the whole table is covered with the ghostly message.

In one thing, however, we are in advance of the Celestials in obtaining "material aid” from the other world. Witness the following statement in an account of digging for hidden treasure in Washington Co. New York.

A party of spiritualists, procured the services of a "medium," and called on St. Paul for help to remove a rock which was in their way, who replied through the modium that he was engaged, and advised them to invoke the aid of St. Peter, which they accordingly did. Peter, they affirm, rendered them the service asked for, for the rock immediately yielded to their levers.

While we are upon this subject, we think it our duty as Editor of a Journal which professes to give "Musical News from Everywhere," to mention, that, at a recent meeting of Spiritualists in this city, it was stated by a gentleman, (a clergyman we are told), that he, on one occasion, approached so near the Spiritual world as to hear the music of the angels in Heaven, and that their songs were exactly one octave higher than those of the saints on earth.

IDEAL BEAUTY.

There is in trees no perfect form which can he fixed upon or reasoned out as ideal; but that is always an ideal oak which, however poverty stricken, or hungerpinched, or tempest tortured, is yet seen to have done, under its appointed circumstances, all that could be expected of oak.

The ideal, therefore, of the park oak is full size, united terminal curve, equal and symmetrical rang of branches on either side. The ideal of the mountain oak may be anything, twisting, and leaning, and shattered, and rock-encumbered, so only that amidst all its misfortunes, it maintains the dignity of osk ; and indeed I look upon this kind of tree as more ideal than the other, in so far as by its efforts and struggles, more of its nature, enduring power, patience in waiting for and ingenuity in obtaining what it wants, is brought out, and so more of the essence of oak exhibited, than under more fortunate conditions.--Ruskin.

And what Ruskin thus beautifully says of plants, is equally true of man, if th world

could be made to comprehend it, yet, how often do we hear persons blamed for not being park oaks and mountain oaks at the same time. Take the following as a specimen :

Hallam has underrated Luther's talents, because forsooth his works are inferior to his reputation. Why what was Luther's real work? It was the Reformation. What library of Atlas folios-aye, though Shakspeare had penned every line in it-could have been compared to the rending of the shroud of the Christian church? As soon accuse an earthquake of not being so melodious in its tones as an organ, as demand artistic writings from Luther. His burning of the pope's bull was, we think, and Mr. Rogers thinks with us, a very respectable review. His journey to Worms was as clever as most books of travel. His marriage with Catherine Bora was not a bad epithalamium. His rendering of the bible into good German was nearly as great a work as the "Constitutional History." Some of these winged words which he uttered against the Pope and for Christ, have been called "half-battles." He held the pen very well too; but it was only with one of his hundred arms. works were his actions.-Eclectic Review

His

The same review gives us the following notice of the old English divine, Fuller, as original, in his way, as Luther himself. If he would not be a safe model for the imitation of modern clergymen, at least it may be said of him, that he imitated nobody.

We have long desired to see what we call ideal geography, i. e. the map of the earth run over in a poetical and imaginative way, the breath of genius passing over the names of places. and through the link of association between places and events, characters and scenery, causing them to live. Old Fuller gives us, if not a specimen of this, something far more amusing; he gives us a geography of joke, and even from the hallowed scenery of the Holy Land, he extracts, in all reverence, matter for inextinguishable merriment. What can be better in their way than the following? "Gilboa-the mountain that David cursed, that neither rain nor dew should fall on it; but of late some English travelers climbing this mountain were well wetted, David not cursing it by a prophetical spirit but in a poetic rapture. Edrei. The city of Og, on whose giant-like proportions the rabbis have more giant-like lies. Pis-gah.

-Where Moses viewed the land; hereabouts the angel buried him, and also buried the grave, lest it should occasion idolatry." And so on he goes over cach awful spot, chuckling in harmless and half conscious gloe like a school boy through a morning church-yard, which, were it midnight, he would travel in haste, in terror, and with oft-reverted looks. It is no wish to detract from the dignity and consecration of these scenes that actuates him; it is nothing more nor less than his irresistible temperament, the boyheart beating in his veins, and which is to beat on till death.

Down the halls of history, in like manner, Fuller skips along, laughing as he goes; and even when he pauses to moralize or to weep, the pause is momentary, and the tear which had contended, during its brief existence with a sly smile, is "forgot as soon as shed." His wit is as often withering as it is quaint, although it always performs its antihilating work without asperity, and by a single touch. It is just the tap of the keeper on the shoulder of the escaped lunatic. Hear this on the Jesuits: "6 Such is the charity of the Jesuits, that they never owe any man ill will-making present payment thereof." Or this on Machiavel, who had said that he who undertakes to write a history must be of no religion:" "if Machiavel himself was the best qualified of any in his age to write an history." Of modest women, who nevertheless dress themselves in questionable attire, he says, "I confess some honest women may go thus, but no whit the honester for going thus. That ship may have Castor and Pollux for the sign, which not

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withstanding has St. Paul for the lading." His irony, like good imagery, often becomes the shorthand of thought, and is worth a thousand arguments. The bare, bald style of the schoolmen he attributes to design, "lest any of the vermin of equivocation should hide themselves under the nap of their words." Some of our readers are probably smiling as they read this, and remember the DRESS of certain religious priests, not unlike the schoolmen, in our day. After commenting on the old story of St. Dunstan and the Devil, he cries out in a touch of irony seldom surpassed: "But away with all suspicions and queries. None need to doubt of the truth thereof, finding it on a sign painted in Fleet-street, near Temple Bar."

Glees.

-EPITATH IN AN ENGLISH CHURCH-YARD. She was-but words would fail me to tell what. Think what a woman should be-she was that. Beneath this some one has written : A woman should be both a wife and mother; And Jenny Jones was neither one nor t'other. -Notes & Queries. -A German writer observes, in a late work on the social condition of Great Britain: "There is such a scarcity of thieves in England, that they are obliged to offer a reward for their discovery." -Speaking of babies-did you ever think, when you saw a very little one, dressed up in its very long Sunday clothes, that it was like a sixpence tied in the corner of a pocket handkerchief?

-Sir Thomas More rose every morning at five o'clock. Napoleon was an early riser; so were Frederi k the Great and Charles the Twelfth-Newspa per Paragraph.--[Sir Thomas More was beheaded; Napoleon died a prisoner; Frederick the Gaeat was an infidel; Charles the Twelfth was shot by a cannon ball. "Up in the morning's no for me!"P. D.]

-BOSWELL complained to Johnson that the noise of the company the day before had made his head ache. "No sir, it was not the noise that made your head ache; it was the sense we put into it." "Has sense that effect on the head?" Yes, sir, on heads not used to it."

-THE Princess Augusta asked Lord Walsingham for a frank. He wrote one for her in such detestable characters, that, at the end of a month after having wandered half over England, it was opened, and returned to her as illegible. The princess complained to Lord Walsingham, and he then wrote the frank for her so legibly that, at the end of a couple of days, it was returned to her, marked Forgery!"

-One pleasant day list summer, I took my seat in the stage coach bound from Fall River to CAmong the passengers was a little gentleman, who had possibly seen five summers. The coach being quite full. he sat in the lap of another passengerWhile on the way, something was said about pickpockets, and soon the conversation became general on that interesting subject. The gentleman who was then holding our young friend remarked: “My fine fellow, Low easy 1 could pick your pocket!" "No, you couldn't," replied he; "I've been looking out for you all the time!"

-WHEN is a ham like the Mew York Exhibition! When it's a West failure.-Diogenes.

-A collector of Church-rates in England called upon a Quaker who kept a dry goods store, for the usual sum; the latter said, "Friend, is it right that I should pay, when I never attend the Established church?" The church is open to all," answered the collector, and you might have attended if you had a mind to." The Quaker paid the morey, and on the next day sent the collector a bill for broadcloth. The man came immediately, and, in a great passion, asked the meaning of it, declaring that he never had a single article from his store, *Ob!"

said the Quaker, rubbing his hands, "the store was open for thee, and thou mightest have had the cloth if thou hadst a mind."

Editorial Translation.

AN OMITTED CHAPTER IN BARNUM'S BIOGRAPHY, TRANSLATED FROM BERLIOZ, FOR THE "MUSICAL WORLD."

UPON the landing of Jenny Lind in New York, the crowd pressed around her with such eagerness, that an immense number of persons were crushed to death, still, enough remained to prevent the advance of her carriage. It was at this moment, that Jenny Lind, upon seeing her coachman raise his whip to drive away these indiscreet enthusiasts, pronounced these sublime words, which have been repeated from Canada to Mexico, and which bring tears into the eyes of all who hear them; do not strike, do not striké, they are my friends; they have come to see me.

It is difficult to say, which is the most admirable in this memorable phrase, the kindness of heart which suggested the thought, or the genius which clothed it in a form so beautiful and poetic. It was received with phrensied huzzas. The owner of the transatlantic steamers, Mr. -, awaited her at the landing place, armed with an immense boquet. A triumphal arch, covered with verdure, was erected on the middle of the wharf, surmounted with a stuffed eagle, which seemed to bid her welcome. At midnight the orchestra of the Philharmonic Society gave a serenade to Mademoiselle Lind, and, for two hours, the illustrious songstress was obliged to remain at the window, notwithstanding the coolness of the night. The next day, Mr. Barnum, the skilful fowler, who has succeeded in caging the Swedish Nightingale, conducted her to the Museum, where he has shown her all the curiosities, without forgetting the cacatoes and ourang-outang, and, at the close, placing a mirror before the eyes of the goddess, he said, with exquisito gallantry; "Behold Madam, the rarest and most beautiful object we can show you!" Upon leaving the Museum, a band of young girls, dressed in white advanced to meet her, singing hymns, and scattering flowers before her footsteps. Farther on, a striking scene, and of a kind entirely new, awaited her. The dolphins and whales, which for more than eight hundred leagues, (some say nine hundred) had shared in the triumph of this new Galatea and followed her ship, throwing out, at intervals, jets of perfumed water, became convulsively agitated in the harbor, a prey to the despair of not being able to follow her on shore, while the sea calves expressed their grief by great tears and lamentable groans. A sweeter spectacle for her heart were the sea-mews, pelicans, and other wild birds, which inhabit the vast solitudes of the ocean, which flew fearlessly around the adorable songstress, alighted upon her white shoulders, hovered over her Olympian head, holding in their beaks pearls of immense size, which they of fered in the most graceful manner, with gentle cooings; the cannons boomed, the bells chimed Hosanna! and peals of thunder were heard at intervals in the radiant immensity of a cloudless sky.

All this, of a verity as incontestible as the prodigies effected formerly by Amphion and Orpheus, old blasés Europeans, without enthusiasm and without love of art, presume to doubt.

will enable you to do it in a manner, which shall be useful to your poor children and your unfortunate wives. She has arrived!!! She ??? Yes, she, she herself! Consequently, I will assure to your heirs two thousand dollars, which shall be religiously paid to them on the day when the act you meditate shall be accomplished, in the manner I shall point out to you. It is a delicate homage which I wish to render to her. It can be easily accomplished if you will aid me. Listen. Some of you must mount to the upper story of the houses in the neighborhood of the concert hall, and when she shall pass, they will precipitate themselves to the pavement, crying, "Long live Jenny Lind." Others will throw themselves without disorderly movements, without cries, with gravity, with grace if possible, before the feet of her horses, or the wheels of her carriage; the remainder will be admitted gratuitously to the concert hall; these will hear a part of the concert. They will hear her ??? They will hear her. At the end of the second cavatina sung by her, they will declare aloud that, after such bliss, is will not be possible for them to support the remainder of a prosaic existence, then, with these daggers, which I give you, they will pierce their hearts. No pistols. It is an instrument which has nothing noble about it, and the report, besides, might be disagreeable to her." The bargain was concluded, and the conditions without doubt, would have been honestly fulfilled by the parties concerned if the stupid and ignorant American police had not interfered to prevent it. Which shows, that even among an artistic people, there are always some men of narrow heads, and cold hearts, coarse and, we may as well say it, envious. Thus the system of death applause was rendered impracticable, and a number of brave men were deprived of a new method of gaining a subsistence for their families.

I must conclude my account with another grievous injury inflicted upon Mr. Barnum by the Board of Public Works. The newspapers have often spoken of the immense railroad to be constructed across the American Continent, making a direct communication between the Atlantic Ocean and California. The simple Europeans supposed, that its object was to shorten the journey of the explorers of this new Eldorado. Not at all. On the contrary, the object was more artistic than philanthropic or commercial. These hundreds of miles of railroad were voted by the States in order permit the wandering pioneers among the Rocky Mountains or on the banks of the Sacramento, to come to hear Jenny Lind, without spending too much time in the indispensable travel. But, in consequence of some odious cabal, the work instead of being finished, was hardly commenced when she arrived. The negligence of the American Government is inexcusable. The consequence has been, that these gold-hunters of every age and sex, already exhausted by their hard labor, have been forced to make this long and dangerous journey either on foot, or on the backs of mules, in the midst of unheard of sufferings. The placers have been abandoned, the ditches have remained yawLing, the buildings in San Francisco have been left unfinished, and Heaven knows when their labors will be resumed. It may causo terrible perturbations in commerce, in every part of the world. HECTOR BERlioz.

Paris Gossip.

THE disappearance of Mademoiselle Sophie Cruvelli from the boards of the Grand Opera, from her lodgings, from Paris, from Frauce itself, has been fertile topic of talk. Various causes have been given for this sudden hegira, which took place last Monday by way of the Brussels railroad.

Among the potent motives

the opera. Of course there are numerous others reported, each more or less likely and more or less ornamented with voluntary suppositions by each reporter. For the truth of the matter we wait, as for the taking of Sebastopol. What is certain is, that the management of the opera -now a government affair-was put all aback by her flight. Gustave Planoh talks about it at length, and with his constitutional austerity -not to say acridity-in the last number of the Revue des Deux Mondes. Madame Stoltz, who was off at London on leave, was sent for in a hurry. The Minister of the Imperial Household-within whose department comes the administration of matters theatrical-has obtained from the proper judicial magistrate an order to attach Mdlle. Cruvelli's furniture, &c., at her lodgings, and her funds at Rothschild's.At the Theater Français, also, there are troubles-a plethora of manuscript plays, to that extent that the Minister above mentioned has ordered the Reading Committee of the theater to suspend its sessions. Meantime Mr. Legoure, a dramatic writer who has had his successes, cannot get a piece of his played although it has long ago been accepted for the stage. It is a three-act tragedy in verse, entitled Medea. Rachel was to fill the chief part in it, but Rachel has determined not to fill it, and the author sues, not her, but a judicial tribunal to make her fill it. The case was on for trial the other day; Rachel's lawyer applied for a postponement; plaintiff's counsel objected on the ground that Rachel was to retire from the Theater Français in five months, and that every day's delay was consequently a loss for his client. The case was adjourned for a week. The dramatic jurisprudence in France strikes us oddly: but cases like this of Rachel's are not the oddest part of it. She may be condemned not only to play Medea, but if she does not behave properly, as Medea should, she may be sued again and ordered to play it well-by a judicial tribunal.

There was a trial in the criminal court last week, which proves that Sue in his Mysteries of Paris, nor Balzac in his Last Incarnation of Vautrin, has in nothing exaggerated the famous prison scenes of these romances. An informer who had put justice on the track of a great many criminals, was inclosed with the prisoners at the Conciergerié, to play the spy upon some of them. In spite of his disguise, his true character was discovered by the prisoners, one of whom offered himself to do vengeance on the common enemy, and a bloody duel with knives, continued till both combatants fell in a pool of blood. This took place in the prison court.

-Some glimmering of light begins to be thrown npon the causes of the sudden disappearance of Mdlle. Sophie Cruvelli. It is not true, as has been asserted, that she has taken to flight bebause her name did not appear on the bills in vidette; neither is it true that she has sacrificed her lucrative engagement in Paris for a still more lucrative engagement in America She has bolted for other and far more feminine reasons; for nothing less than an affair of the heart. It appears that at the same time with Mdlle. Cruvelli, and to all appearance at the same moment, has also disappeared the young Baron Vigier, a well known Parsian, and it is said that the happy couple are now safely ensconced in that terrestial paradise-Brussels.

The wonder is why they should have thought it worth while to run away from Paris, that being the pleace which over ardent lovers generally run to. The reason alleged is this: The lady, who is as deeply enamored as the gentleman, insisted that marriage should crown their mutual happiness, and as the lover is a mere youth -considerable younger, indeed than the ladyit appears they have gone to Brussels for the purpose of making their union indissoluble. The young man has an immense fortune.-London Globe.

THE following pages were originally prepared in the form of a course of Lectures to be delivered before the Lowell Institute, of Boston, Mass., but, owing to the unexpected circumstance of the author's receiving no invitation to lecture before that institution, they were laid aside shortly after their completion.

Receiving an invitation from the trustees of the Vallecitos Literary and Scientific Institute, during the present summer, to deliver a course of Lectures on any popular subject, the author withdrew his manuscript from the dusty shelf, on which it had long lain neglected, and, having somewhat revised and enlarged it, to suit the capacity of the eminent scholars before whom it was to be displayed, repaired to Vallecitos. But on arriving at that place, he learned with deep regret, that the only inhabitant had left a few days previous, having availed himself of the opportunity presented by a passing emigrant's horse, and that, in consequence, the opening of the Institute was indefinitely postponed. Under these circumstances, and yielding with reluctance to the earnest solicitations of many eminent scientific friends, he has been induced to place the Lectures before the public in their present form. Should they meet with that success which his sanguine friends prognosticate, the author may be induced subsequently to publish them in the form of a text-book, for the use of the higher schools and universities; it being his greatest ambition to render himself useful in his day and generation, by widely disseminating the information he has acquired among those, who, less fortunate, are yet willing to receive instruction. JOHN PHOONIX.

San Diego Observatory, September 1, 1854.

The Solar System is so called, not because we believe it to be the sole system of the kind in existence, but from its principal body, the Sun; the Latin name of which is Sol. (Thus, we read of Sol Smith, literally meaning the son of Old Smith.)

Up to the time of a gentleman named Copernicus, who flourished about the middle of the Fifteenth Century, it was supposed by our stupid ancestors that the Earth was the center of all creation, being a large flat body, resting on a rock, which rested on another rock, and so on "all the way down;" and that the Sun, planets and immovable stars all revolved about it once in twenty-four hours.

This reminds us of the simplicity of a child we once saw in a railroad car, who fancied itself perfectly stationary, and thought the fences, houses and fields were tearing past it at the rate of thirty miles an hour; and, poking out its head, to see where on earth they went to, had its hat-a very nice one with pink ribbons-knocked off and irrecoverably lost. But Copernicus, (who was a son of Daniel Pernicus, of the firm of Pernicus & Co., wool dealers, and who was named Co. Pernicus, out of respect to his father's partners) soon set this matter to rights, and started the idea of the present Solar System, which, greatly improved since his day, is occasionally called the Copernican System.

The demonstration of this system in all its perfection was left to Isaac Newton, an English Philosopher, who, seeing an apple tumble down from a tree, was

led to think thereon with such gravity, that he finally discovered the attraction of gravitation, which proved to be the great law of Nature that keeps everything in its place. Thus we see that as an apple originally brought sin and ignorance into the world, the same fruit proved therafter the cause of vast knowledge and enlightenment ;-and indeed we may doubt whether any other fruit but an apple, and a sour one at that, would have produced these great results; for, had the fallen fruit been a pear, an orange or a peach, there is little doubt that Newton would have eaten it up and thought no more on the subject.

It is possible that the Sun may burn out after awhile, which would leave this world in a state of darkness quite uncomfortable to contemplate; but even under these circumstances it is pleasant to reflect, that courting and lovemaking would probably increase to an indefinite extent, and that many persons would make large fortunes by the sudden rise in value of coal, wood, candles and gas, which would go to illustrate the truth of the old proverb, "It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good."

Upon the whole, the Sun is a glorious creation; pleasing to gaze upon (through smoked glass,) elevating to think upon, and exceedingly comfortable to every created being on a cold day; it is the largest, the brightest, and may be considered by far the most magnificent object in the celestial sphere; though with all these attributes it must be confessed that it is occasionally entirely eclipsed by the moon.

Mercury receives about six and a half times as much heat from the Sun as we do; from which we conclude that the climate must be very similar to that of Fort Yuma, on the Colorado River. The difficulty of communication with Mercury will probably prevent its ever being selected as a military post; though it possesses many advantages for that purpose, being extremely inaccessible, inconvenient, and, doubtless, singularly uncomfortable.

The Earth moves round the sun from West to East in a year, and turns on its axis in a day; thus moving at the rate of 68,000 miles an hour in its orbit, and rolling around at the tolerably rapid rate of 1,040 miles per hour. As our readers may have seen that when a man is galloping a horse violently over a smooth road, if the horse from viciousness or other cause suddenly stops, the man keeps on at the same rate over the animal's head; so we, supposing the Earth to be suddenly arrested on its axis, men, women, children, horses, cattle and sheep, donkeys, editors and members of Congress, with all our goods and chattels, would be thrown off into the air at a speed of 173 miles a minute, every mother's son of us describing the arc of a parabola, which is probably the only description we should ever be able to give

of the affair.

This catastrophe, to one sufficiently collected to enjoy it, would, doubtless, be excedingly amusing; but as there would probably be no time for laughing, we pray that it may not occur until after our demise; when, should it take place, our monument will probably accompany the movement. It is a singular fact, that if a man travel round the earth in an eastwardly direction, he will find, on returning to the place of departure, he has gained one whole day; the reverse of this proposition being true also, it follows that the Yankees who are constantly traveling to the West, do not live as long by a day or two as they would if they had staid at home; and supposing each Yankee's time to be worth $1.50 per day, it may be easily shown that a considerable amount of money is annually lost by their roving dispositions.

1. I will fit a dollar to the end of a twig two inches long, and while a second person will hold the other end in his mouth, so as to bring the coin within an inch and a half of his face, I engage to strike the dollar three times out of five, at the distance of ten paces or thirty feet. I will add in explanation, that there are several persons willing and ready to hold the twig or stick described above, when required.

2. I will hit a dollar, tossed in the air, or any other object of the same size, three times out of five on a wheel and fire.

3. At the word, I will split three balls out of five, on a knife blade, placed at the distance of thirty feet. 4. I will hit three birds out of five, sprung from the trap, standing thirty feet from the trap when shooting.

5. I will break, at the word, five common clay pipe stems out of seven, at the distance of thirty feet. 6. I engage to prove, by fair trial, that no pistol shot can be produced who will shoot an apple off a man's head, at the distance of thirty feet oftener than I can. Moreover, I will produce two persons willing and ready to hold the apple on their heads for me, when required to do so.

7. I will wager, lastly, that no person in the United States can be produced who will hit a quarter of a dollar at a distance of thirty feet, oftener than I can, on a wheel and fire.

I am willing to bet $5,000 on any of the above propositions, one-fourth of that amount forfeit. So soon as any bet will be closed the money shall be deposited in the Bank of the State of Missouri, until paid over by the judges, or withdrawn, less forfeit. I will give the best and most satisfactory references that my share will be forthcoming when any of my propositions are taken up. Any one desiring to take any of my propositions must address me by letter through the St. Louis Post Office, as the advertisements or notices of newspapers might not meet my eye. Propositions will be received until the 1st of September next. EDMUND W. PAUL.

140 Sixth street, between Franklin avenue and Morgan street, St. Louis, Mo. (COMMENT.)

I am unable to see anything very extraordinary in the propositions of Edmund W. Paul. Any person, acquainted with the merest rudiments of the pistol, could certainly execute any or all of the proposed feats without the slightest difficulty.

"Owing" to my entertaining these opinions, "without solicitation from friends, and unbiassed by unworthy motives," I am induced to make the following propositions.

I will suspend two dollars by a ring from a second person's nose, so as to bring the coins within threefourths of an inch of his face, and with a double barreled shot-gun, at a distance of thirty feet, will blow dollars nose and man at least thirty feet further, four times out of five. I will add, in explanation, that, San Diego containing a rather intelligent community, I can find, at present, no one here willing or ready to have his nose blown in this manner; but I have no manner of doubt I could obtain such a person from St Louis, by Adams & Co.'s Express in due

season.

2. I will hit a dollar, or anything else that has been tossed in the air, (of the same size) on a wheel, on a pole or axletree, or on the ground, every time out of five.

3. At the word, I will place five balls on the blade of a pen-knife, and split them all!

4. I will hit three men out of five sprung from obscure parentage, and stand within ten feet of a steel trap (properly set) while shooting!

5. I will break at the word a whole box of common clay pipes, with a single brick, at the distance of thirty feet.

6. I engage to prove by fair trial, that no pistolshot, (or other person) can be produced who will throw more apples at a man's head than I can. Moreover, I can produce in this town more than sixty per

sons willing and ready to hold an apple on their heads for me, provided they are allowed to eat the apple subsequently.

7. I will wager, lastly, that no person in the United States can be produced, who with a double barreled shot-gun, while throwing a back-handed sommerset, can hit oftener, a dollar and a half on the perimeter of a revolving wheel, in rapid motion than I can. Any one desirous of taking up my propositions, will address me through the columns of The Pioneer Magazine. Propositions received on the 1st of April JOHN PHOENIX.

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1384 Seventeenth street, Vallecitos. "Se compra oro acqui up stairs."

ANTIDOTE FOR FLEAS.

In a climate where attacks of fleas are a constant source of annoyance, any method which will alleviate them becomes a desideratum. It is therefore with pleasure I make known the following recipe, which I am assured has been tried with efficacy.

Boil a quart of tar until it becomes quite thin. Remove the clothing, and before the tar becomes perfectly cool, with a broad, flat brush, apply a thin, smooth coating to the entire surface of the body and limbs. While the tar remains soft the flea becomes entangled in its tenacious folds, and is rendered perbut it will soon form a hard, smooth fectly harmless; coating, entirely impervious to his bite. Should the coating erack at the knee or elbow joints, it is merely necessary to retouch it slightly at these places. The whole coat should be renewed every three or four weeks. This remedy is sure, and having the advantage of simplicity and economy, should be generally known.

So much for Miss More. A simpler method of preventing the attacks of these little pests, is one which I have discovered myself;-in theory only-I have have not yet put it into practice. On feeling the bite of a flea, thrust the part bitten immediately into boiling water. The heat of the water destroys the insect and instantly removes the pain of the bite.

and we will never speak to each other if your majesty forbids it."

The Emperor was silent in his turn. He grew pale. Thrice he made the circuit of the saloon. He did not ask the name of the young man.

He who would have braved for a caprice the monarchs of the world at the head of their armies-he, with his omnipotence, feared this unknown youth who disputed with him his dearest treasure. "Is he a king ?" he asked at last. "No, father."

"At St. Petersburg ?"

"Yes, father."

The voice of the young girl grew faint. "Where shall I see him?" said the Czar rising with a threatening aspect.

"To-morrow, at the review."

"How shall I recognize him?" repeated the Czar, with a stamp of the foot.

"By his green plume and black steed." ""Tis well. Go, my daughter, and pray God to have pity on that man."

The princess withdrew in a fainting condition, and the Emperor was soon lost in deep thought.

"A childish caprice," he said at length-"I am foolish to be disturbed at it. She shall forget!" and his lips did not dare utter what his heart added. "It must be, for all my power would be weaker than her tears.

At the review on the following day, the Czar, whose eagle eye embraced all at a glance, saw in his

A few years since there was in the city of St. Petersburg, a young girl so beautiful and so lovely that the greatest prince of Europe, had he met her, even in a peasant's hut, might well have turned his back upon a princess to offer her his hand and his crown.

But, very far from having been the light of a peasant's hut, she was born in the shadow of the proudest throne on the earth. It was Marie Nicolewna, the adored daughter of the Emperor of Russia.

As her father saw her blooming like a May flower, and sought for by all the heirs of royalty, he cast his eyes upon the fairest, the richest and most powerful of them, and with the smile of a father and a king said to her

"My child, you are now of an age to marry. I have chosen for you the prince who will make you a queen, and a man who will render you happy."

"The man who will render me happy," said the beautiful princess with a sigh, which was the only objection to which her heart gave utterance. Speak, father," she said, as she saw a frown gathering on the brow of the Czar, " speak, father, and your majesty shall be obeyed."

"Obeyed!" exclaimed the Emperor, trembling for the first time in his life; "it is then only an act of obedience that you will receive a husband at my hands."

The young girl was silent, and concealed a tear. "Is your faith already plighted ?" The girl was still silent.

"Explain yourself, Maria; I command you." At this word which sways sixty millions of human beings, the princess fell at the feet of the Caar.

"Yes, father, if I must tell you, my heart is no longer my own. It is bestowed on one who knows it not, and who shall never know it if such be your wish. He has seen me but two or three times at a distance,

charger. He recognized in him who wore the one and rode the other a simple Colonel of the Bavarian Light Horse, Maximilian Joseph Eugene Auguste Beauharnais, the Duke of Leuchtenburg, youngest child of the son of Josephine (who was for a brief time Empress of France) and of Auguste Amelia, daughter of Maximilian Joseph, of Bavaria, an admirable and charming cavalier, in truth, but as far inferior then to Marie Nicoloewna as a simple soldier to an Emperor.

"Is it possible ?" said the Czar to himself, as be sent for the Colonel with the design of dismissing him to Munich.

But at the moment when he was about to crush him with a word, he stopped at the sight of his daughter fainting in her caleche.

"There is no longer a doubt," thought the Czar, "'tis indeed he."

And, turning his back upon the stupified stranger, he returned with Marie to the Imperial Palace.

For six weeks, all that prudence, tempered with love and severity, could inspire, was tried to destroy the image of the Colonel in the heart of the princess. At the end of the first week she was resigned; at the end of the second week she wept; at the end of the third she wept in public; at the end of the fourth she wished to sacrifice herself to her father; at the end of the fifth she fell sick; at the end of the sixth she was dying.

Meanwhile, the Colonel, seeing himself in disgrace at the court of his host without daring to confess himself the cause, did not wait for his dismissal to return to his regiment. He was on the point of setting out for Munich, when an aid-de-camp of the Car came for him.

"I should have set out yesterday," he said to himself-"I might have avoided; what now awaits me. At the Arst flash save yourself from the thunderbolt."

The bolt in reserve for him was the following. He was ushered into the cabinet, where only kings are allowed to enter. The Emperor was pale and his eye was moist, but his air was firm and resolute.

"Colonel Duke," said he, enveloping and penetrating him with his glance, "you are one of the handsomest officers in Europe. It is said, also, and I believe it true, that you possess an elevated mind, a thorough education, a very lively taste for the arts, a noble heart and an ideal character." The Colonel looked up.

"What think you of the Grand Duchess, my daughter Marie Nicoloewna ?"

This point blank question dazzled the young man. It is time to say that he admired and adored the princess, without being fully aware of it. A simple mortal adores an angel of Paradise even as an artist adores the ideal of beauty.

"The Princess Marie, sire!" exclaimed he reading at last his own heart without daring to read that of the Czar, " your anger would crush me if I told you what I think of her, and I should die of joy if you permitted me to say it."

"You love her; 'tis well," said the Czar, with a benignant smile; and the royal hand from which the Duke was awaiting the thunderbolt, delivered to the Colonel the brevet of General Aid-de-Camp to the Emperor the brevets of the Commandant of the Cavalry of the Guards and of the Regiment of the Hussars-of Chief of the Corps of Cadets, and of the Mining Engineers-of President of the Academy of Arts, and members of the Academy of Sciences and of the Universaties of St. Petersburgh, of Moscow, of Keasan, of the Military Schools, of the Council, &c., &e. All this, with the title of Imperial Highness and several millions of revenue.

"Now," said the Czar to the young man, who was beside himself with joy, "will you quit the sorvice of Bavaria, and become the husband of the Princess Marie ?"

The young officer could only fall upon his knees and bathe with tears the hands of the Emperor. "You see that I also love my daughter," said the father, raising his son-in-law in his arms.

On the 14th of July following, the Grand Duchess was restored to health, and the Duke Beaucharnais de Leuchtenburg espoused her in presence of the Representatives of the Royal Families of Europe.

Such an act of parental love merited for the Czar and his daughter a century of happiness. Heaven, which has its secrets, had ordered it otherwise. On Tuesday, Nov. 5th, 1852, the Duke of Leuchtenburg died at the age of 45: worthy to the last of his brilliant destiny, and leaving to Marie Nicoloewna eternal regrets.

All the young princes of the world will dispute again the prize of her hand-but she has been too happy as a wife to consent to become a queen.-Atlas.

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