SISTERS AND MOTHERS,
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These are ties, which, like the invisible strings ot conscience, bind man to the world of kindly affection, and are the last things forgotten, when one leaves life. The mar ried situation may be one of pure uninter- rupted felicity; there may ,bs no cloud in

 its whole happy horizon; it may be ever sunny, and flowers spring in at every sea-- son of the age. But even these happy ones. who are in this cline of bliss, remember long and late the claims of sister or a ] mother 10 their best affections. In the life of the solitary and single, those who. are said to be doomed to an emu; ofs,nne-, nliess, the claims of sister and a moth- CT should hold strongly, not only upeathelr feelings but duties. Those kindnesses whic h men bestow upon their offspring and their wives, and who possess each, and in wbetns their best views are concentrated, in the bachelor, are given to the [almost7 sacred names which constitute this heading. Tn loving sis CT, there is none of that earth Illness ofpassion which degrades the heart in the devotion due to a mother, comes: none of the selfshness of men. The fec lings inspired by both sister and mother. all are derived from sources as pure as the divinity that inspired them.

 Original Ans e.-At wedding few evenings since, " this village, after the clergyman had united the happy pair, an awful silence ensued, which becoming ra-- ther irksome to young gentleman, he cried out "you need not be SO unspeaka- dly happy !''-[Buffalo Pat.]

 A gentleman finished an eulogium on a lady with these words : 'Ah, sir, nothing beats good wife, T beg your pardon said listner, "a bad husband does.

 Sir Christopher Wren was a man of small stature. When Charles II. came to the hunting palace he had built for him at Newmarket, he thought the rooms too low. Sir Christopher walked about them, and looking up, replied, ;" Sir, and please your Majesty, l think they are high enough" The King squatted down to Sir Chrislo- pher's height, and creeping about in this whimsical posture, criod, "Aye, Sir Chris ,opher, think they are high enough"

 Let no man think he has pleased God by giving that to charitable or sacred uses. which he has purloined from otKers.

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 A man without wisdom, is like cat without whiskers-liable to thrust his head into hole where he cannotdraw his body thro' Silence is the best remedy for an ger-ifyou say nothing you will have noth- ing to unsay. as

 Old Baily Wa.-On Monday. during the trial of Mrs. Cook, the swindler, a witness stated that the prisoner had laid in during her imprisonment, when Charles Philips remarked "Aye that is what should call gGol-delirsry,"