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PUNCHING FIaG-I is surprising that among the vast variety of discoveries which phrenologsts have made the territory of the human skull. they have not found the organ of gnitiveness. They may depend upon that such an organ IS there, and shall not be amazed if we ourselves hit upon of these days, if our explorations through the boundess fields of our own, or modesty speaking of some of our friends inteects, and thereby disappoin every body and mmortaize ourselves after all. According to our philosophy felicity in making fires depends up- on organization; and therefore man must be born with genius for 1t, or remain numbsku SO far as its manifestation is concerned. Any blunderer can put good fire out, but it takes genius to build up one.

 Ladies have been remarkable from time out of rnind for the dexterity which they often manifest in punching fires. Did you ever lady bushing with cold, enter the without marching straight up to the fire place, picking lip the tongs, and banging away at the fore stick If you have such thing, you have seen female prodigy. The desire of oruring their

 lovers is not more natural to the dear than the propensity to punch the fire. Sometimes the grati6ca- ton of this innocent propensity is attended with sad dscomforts For instance, when you have, by the aid of construchveness, succeeded in building up first rate frame work, for the flames to wreath themselves about, and are just congratuating yourself on your architectural skill, in will pop your wife of sister, or some other lovely being, and picking up the tongs, with fell blow will eectually level the result of your labors. The fire is knocked into cooked hat as our friend E would say. and sets up smoko

 like miniature S!rombol. If you like ourselves of gentle temper, and your amiabiity being un rued you in turn grapple the tongs and rebuild the fire castle, by the time the flames beginning to make meal of it, in rushes another lady of the family and, before you can say Jack Robinson, her pretsf foot twnkles, and away she kicks the whole affair into heap of smouldering ruins The thing is done in graceful manner, that fov your life you can't get sdrry You can resums your labors again. and 70 @ cn nd in6nisun,n II ihe philosophers say.