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Chit Chat.
vision . The old man was struck with amazement . " I am Solomon , spoke the phantom in a friendly voice ; " what are you doing here , old man ? " " If you are Solomon , " replied the old man , " how can you ask this ? In my youth you sent me to the ant ; I saw its occupation , and learned from that insect to be industrious , and to gather . What I then learned , I am following out to this hour . " " You have only learned half your lesson , " resumed the spirit . " Go again to the ant , and learn from that animal to rest in the winter of your life , and to enjoy what you have gathered up . "
TALMUDICAL PARABLE . —THE AIAN AND THE SERPENT . —Man : Why , serpent , dost thou bite ? The lion rushes upon his prey to devour it , the wolf tears his victim , in order to satisfy his hunger ; you alone , wound for the sole purpose of killing . Serpent : Is it not my destiny so to do ? Man : But why must your poison rage through the whole body—why clo you not attack one single limb ? Serpent : Is not man a great deal worse than myself ? Even when in Syria , his tongue often wounds one that is in Rome ; and being at Rome its venom may wound one in Syria .
REMEDY FOR THE CHOLERA TRACED TO ANCIENT RABBINIOAL LORE . —M . Dumas read on the 25 th October , at the Academy of Science , in Paris , a document on the cholera , as interesting for its curious origin as for its remarkable results . It was copied at Smyrna from a Hebrew A 1 S ., the property of a learned rabbi , ancl written more than a thousand years ago .
SELLING A METHODIST PREACHER . —At Louisville , Kentucky , Peter Roberts , a free man of colour , a regularly licensed Methodist preacher , a member of the Indian African Conference , and a Aiaster A'lason of the Philadelphia Lodge , was sold at public auction before the court-house door , in that city , for the term of one year . He was bought by J . L . Hyatt , for 75 dollars 50 cents . An act of the Kentucky legislature prohibits the migration of the negroes to that state , under the penalty of 300 dollars , on which charge he was arrested and sold . —True Wesleyan , September , 1848 . The Rev . Peter Roberts , the free negro recently sold at Louisville , has been set at liberty : the law was declared to be unconstitutional . —North Star , October 6 , 1848 .
A Picor-HETio JEST BY LOUIS PHIMPPE . —Several years ago , a very distinguished English nobleman , Lord B m , having had the honour of dining with the king in the unceremonious manner in which he delighted to withdraw himself from the trammels of state , the conversation was carried on as if between two equals , and his majesty , inter alia , remarked , that he " was the only sovereign now in Europe fit to fill a throne . " Lord B m , somewhat staggered by this piece of egotism , muttered out some trite compliments upon the great talent for
government which his royal entertainer had always displayed , & c , when the king burst out into a fit of laughter , and exclaimed , " No , no , that is not what I mean ; but kings are at such a discount in our days , there is no saying what may happen ; and I am the only monarch who has cleaned his own boots , ancl coulcl clo it again . " ELF . CTKVN OF MAYOR OF KIDDERMINSTER . —On the 9 th of November Mr . Councillor Hooman proposed Dr . Roden as a fit ancl proper person to fill the office of mayor for the ensuing year . Mr . H . J . Dixon seconded the nomination in a very neat speech , in which he mentioned
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Chit Chat.
vision . The old man was struck with amazement . " I am Solomon , spoke the phantom in a friendly voice ; " what are you doing here , old man ? " " If you are Solomon , " replied the old man , " how can you ask this ? In my youth you sent me to the ant ; I saw its occupation , and learned from that insect to be industrious , and to gather . What I then learned , I am following out to this hour . " " You have only learned half your lesson , " resumed the spirit . " Go again to the ant , and learn from that animal to rest in the winter of your life , and to enjoy what you have gathered up . "
TALMUDICAL PARABLE . —THE AIAN AND THE SERPENT . —Man : Why , serpent , dost thou bite ? The lion rushes upon his prey to devour it , the wolf tears his victim , in order to satisfy his hunger ; you alone , wound for the sole purpose of killing . Serpent : Is it not my destiny so to do ? Man : But why must your poison rage through the whole body—why clo you not attack one single limb ? Serpent : Is not man a great deal worse than myself ? Even when in Syria , his tongue often wounds one that is in Rome ; and being at Rome its venom may wound one in Syria .
REMEDY FOR THE CHOLERA TRACED TO ANCIENT RABBINIOAL LORE . —M . Dumas read on the 25 th October , at the Academy of Science , in Paris , a document on the cholera , as interesting for its curious origin as for its remarkable results . It was copied at Smyrna from a Hebrew A 1 S ., the property of a learned rabbi , ancl written more than a thousand years ago .
SELLING A METHODIST PREACHER . —At Louisville , Kentucky , Peter Roberts , a free man of colour , a regularly licensed Methodist preacher , a member of the Indian African Conference , and a Aiaster A'lason of the Philadelphia Lodge , was sold at public auction before the court-house door , in that city , for the term of one year . He was bought by J . L . Hyatt , for 75 dollars 50 cents . An act of the Kentucky legislature prohibits the migration of the negroes to that state , under the penalty of 300 dollars , on which charge he was arrested and sold . —True Wesleyan , September , 1848 . The Rev . Peter Roberts , the free negro recently sold at Louisville , has been set at liberty : the law was declared to be unconstitutional . —North Star , October 6 , 1848 .
A Picor-HETio JEST BY LOUIS PHIMPPE . —Several years ago , a very distinguished English nobleman , Lord B m , having had the honour of dining with the king in the unceremonious manner in which he delighted to withdraw himself from the trammels of state , the conversation was carried on as if between two equals , and his majesty , inter alia , remarked , that he " was the only sovereign now in Europe fit to fill a throne . " Lord B m , somewhat staggered by this piece of egotism , muttered out some trite compliments upon the great talent for
government which his royal entertainer had always displayed , & c , when the king burst out into a fit of laughter , and exclaimed , " No , no , that is not what I mean ; but kings are at such a discount in our days , there is no saying what may happen ; and I am the only monarch who has cleaned his own boots , ancl coulcl clo it again . " ELF . CTKVN OF MAYOR OF KIDDERMINSTER . —On the 9 th of November Mr . Councillor Hooman proposed Dr . Roden as a fit ancl proper person to fill the office of mayor for the ensuing year . Mr . H . J . Dixon seconded the nomination in a very neat speech , in which he mentioned