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Ie might, if he thought proper, sleep in his barn, which he very readily agreed tO.-) He accordingly made himselfa comfortable bed among the straw and went to rest.- Sometime in the night he was awakened by two men entering the barn with lantern and candle, and each of them sack; he immediately supposed they were not about their lawful business, lay still Ito watch their motions, when they began to. consult how they might place the light till they had fl- led their sacks from the corn heap. See- ing they were at loss how to proceed, he crept softly from his couch, and with an audible voice said, " Gentlemen, I'll hold the candIe." Turning round suddenly, they beheld the knight of the brush, in his sable robes, and 'supposing him to be mes- senger from the internal regions, threw down their sacks and lanterns, and imme- diately decamped.

 In the Enquirer of the 11th inst. we published an account of some eels having been found in the streets of town in Maine, supposed to have fallen from the clouds during severe thunder shower. The U. s. Gazette makes the following comments :- '.. -.,.

 We frequently meet with accounts sim- liar to the above and we believe that it is commonly held in the country, that little toads aud frogs rain down in warm show CTS and the scampering of these little fel- lows, in pleasant summers rain, seems to give warrant to such an opinion. But how do the toads and frogs get ap into the clouds we would ask and we remember, when very small lad, somebody just a. bout as wise as ourselves did ask the ques- ton, of a very grave and reverend senior, who never lacked an answer: Do you see, yonder," said he, swhere the sky comes down and touches the ground well, just there the toads chamber up from the eartls,on to the sky, and hop away over our heads; and when it thunders, it shakes the little fellows down the holes through which the stars shine." ~s.t#

 It was pretty thought, ,and doubtless, it entitled the Theban to the especial thanks of his little auditor; but when he had ob- tained few more years, he was met by another theory, equally as plausible and quite us philosophical-viz: |" the spawn of toads and frogs are drawn up into the clouds when the sun draws water from the ponds, and streams, ,tEc. but does the sun draw water upin columns, ofa size to carry such articles? Surely it does. Look, for instance, into the west; and those broad stripes extending from the single cloud, behind which the sun is hidden,to the edge of the horizon; those are the streams of water drawn up into the cloud, which will soon descend in showers, bringing with them, probably, little fishes, eels, toads and frogs" ..-. '"

 Oh, the wonders of philosophy How fortunate is it that the young have ever with them some sage deeply read in na- ture's laws who can explain. the various phenomena that meet their view, aad teach them s1chsprinciples of natural science, as are noticed above. How else would child of only common capacity, who was in the daily habit of seeing brooks and ponds overflow their borders, and .subsi- ding, leave a portion of their contents on the banks-how else would they avoid the conclusion that these same cells and toads escaped from their abiding place during an access of water? Nor would person not deeply read in philosophy, have an idea that an eel 1S inches long, could fall from the clouds without acquiring such mo- mentum in his downward progress, as would make alightlng upon our mundane sphere Q matter of inconvenience at least, if not of serious injury, to the corns upon his toes. Butthose who have seen them de- scend in shower, and taken them iron, the ground entirely uninjured, must not be troubled with arguments against their facts, derived from tho force of fgravitation. .+'" '' U g. Gazetse. During tho late war, a barber in Ports- mouth, England,in aspirit of funostensatious christian charity, placed in his window the following notice, "Broken down sailors shaved gratis" A poor tar availed hinl- self of this offer, and was scraped as bad as any novice on first crossing the line.- During the operation, a dog in the street howled piteously.--" What the devils the matter of the dog g?" exclaimed Strap. "Oh," replied poor Jack,'" dare say some rascally tlnty hearted barber is sha- wing him gratis ]"

 ANEcDoTE.-Lately an Irish recruit ar- rived a. the depot. A common soldier see-