PnculIAa PROPERTIES or THE BEAcH.-
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PECULIAR PROPERTIES or THE BEAcH.-| It iSprety well aseertained that the beach tree Is proof against the electric fluid. An Ohio paper states that the surveyors and woedSmen of that State have never known beach to be struck by lightning; during the heaviest thunder storms, they felt per- fectly secure under the spreading of a large beech.

 (We would not advise any one to try the experiment, notwithstanding for we find that a Vermonter "has known the lightning tear beech tree in pieces, to get at wild cat.'O

 We have occasionally noticed the adver- tisemrnis of Marriage Brokers, in the French papers, but haze never met with a. ny quite eqnal 10 one contained in a late number of the ConsiitutionalliSt. X rich agricuItnrSt, it is announced, ,wishes to djs- pose ol two daughters, one nineteen, tine other twenty years ofage, with fortunes of four hundred and fifty thousands francs each.

 Ice q Medicim.- .-T he custom of taking ice in Italy and Sicily is considered as an indispensable refeshment aud as power full remedy in maAy dieeases. The physi- clans of these coutries do not give many medicines but frequently prescribe a severe regimen, and prevent the banefu effects of various disease, by suffering the sick, fer several days, 10 take nothing but water cooled with ice, sweet oranges, and ice fruits. l

 A man who entrusts his secrets to anoth- TT is like him who surrenders his arms, and declares himself slave; but how great would be the intamy of him, to whom vel have surrendered them, were he to turnl those very arms against us, and assassin- ate us in that detenceless state! Thus hdel- ty is the greatest treasure man can find, and the secret entrusted to him is the high est mark of sincere friendship.

 An avaricious mechanic, who kept a ve ry scanty table, dining one Sunday with bis apprentice at an ordinary, whispered in his ear, "Ton', you must eat for to- half-s,arved G n apprentice, abu, have no, eaten for to-day and yesterday yet, sir" Our oF.-A writer in the New Haven Chronicle says the words oat of, are the worst in the language, when one is Out of patience and out of money. He says his wife tells him she is out of sugar one day out of coffee the next; out of flour the next and finally out of Spirits. The words, we think, are decidedly the best in the lan- guage, when one is oMt of debt; out ofl trouble, and out of jail. If man has a smoky house and a scolding wife, out ot doors is DO bad place.

 Bunker Hill Aurora.

 Why may the air equally as we'll be cal led air, earth, or water? Because it isl ether (either.)

 My daughterAnne used to be dull why is she lively since her marriage Because she is Anne mated.

 Why are Europeans with white swell- ings like Africans Because their knee grows.

 