Mo- 4s- -WHoLE No. 256.

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ShrOudS the SOuk ln its mysterious gl0Ome Better wouIdit be to live in all 'wovldEN pain with blessed f1i6fity awaiting; your approach, Ike sweet happiness and love, prepared for the weary wahderer over the ocean of darkness and storm, than feel the consciousness of present being, bewildered with the whitening idea that that being musf end. Better that we were drencbed in long ages of agony, trinmphing over the gloomy desolation of the heart, if it. may only end at last, than to think that the jOy- ons soul can be hurled from it's blessed and beautiful career of hope and life, into that eternal lethargy, that dreainless slumber&-4

 that annihilatiOn of thought, feeling, and af-

 lection, never again to be awakened into

 that delicious existence. Such an idea tO

 an aspiring mind, would come over all its

 young affections asblasting as the poisonous air of Arabia upon the flowers which with- cred at it's touch. The idea is reyolting to reason. To be nOsokere tn all the wide in- terminable extent of this vast creation---

 while the snn's bright ray yet shines as H was wont to---aDd the moon yet wheels in her beautiful circle, serene and undecaying midst the storms of time---while all the universe keeps on in the same regular, un- NGVl0NbUS uuU StCnS B0VututdUAb@@sHUTutUX and returning from year to year, and age to age; and yet to be apart from all these things to hold no hope, nor joy, nor sym-

 pathy in their unchanging and noiseless perfection. The sense oflife eternal tho joy of virtue and innocence the young budding hopes of future bliss the great and absorbing love the adoration of beau- tiful women all cut off in their dreaM-ike being, and that most brilliant and wonder- full creation of God; the soul of his crea- ture, just as it was opening to the warmth fits faculties, to the energies of ifs incon- ceivable nature, to be hurled into the deap

 and tremendous nothingness which wrench-

 es down the young spirit in the blackesg

 night forever and forever. r EccENTRlciTY.-I never see an eccentric man--espccially if he be young man, ,with- out suspec.ing him of aifectation. Nature is whimsical old dame, and now and then manufactures an odd fellow, but such works are rare, and therefore the more likely to be counterfcited. have no patience with

 those young gentlemen, who in company affect absence of mind-who, if you ask

 them question, seem so profoundly wrapt

 in meditation as to be uRmihdf6f Of what is

 passing around them. Vanity often makes

 man ridiculous, but never more so than when he affects to be eccentric. Strength of lasects-It is not little l singular, says Baron Haller, that insects ap~ pear to excelia muscular rpower in pFopor- tioUto their diminutiveness. Of this we

 have a remarkable example in the common l flea, which can drag 70 pr 80 times it's own weight. The muscular strength of this a- ] gibe creature, enables it not only 10 resist the ordinary pressure of the fingers in our l endeavors to crush it, but to take leaps to

 the distance Of 200 times its own length,

 which will appear more surprising when we

 consider that man, to equal the agility of

 a flea should be able to leap between 3 and 400 yards.

 Mouffet, in his Theatre of Insects, hnen- tions that an English mechanic named

 Mark, to show his skill, constructed chain of gold as long as his finger, which together with lock and key, were draggsd along by flea. Bingley tells us that MT. Boverich, q watchmaker in the Strand. ex- hibited some years ago little ivory chaiso

 with four wheels, and all it's proper appar-

 atus, and the figure of man sitting on the box, all of which were drawn by single ! flea. The same mechanic afterwards con-

 structad minute landau, which opened

 and shat by springs. with the figures of 6

 horses to 1t and of a coaehmsn on the box,

 a dog between his legss 4 persons inside, 2

 fooinlen, and postillion riding on one of the fore horses, whicl, were all easily drag

 ged along by single lea. Goldsmith re-

 n.arks upon these displays of pnliciaH

 strength, that the feats of Sampson would

 not, to community of Aeas. appear to be

 at all miraculOtis. v

 Latreille tells as no less marvellous sto-

 " of another flea. which dragged silver

 cannon 24 times it's own weight, mounted on wheels, and did not manifest any alarm

 when this was charged with guDPowdsr and 1 fired of.

 TAcT AND TALENr.-TaIent is some .hing, but tact is every thing. Talent b serious. sober. grave, and respectable tact

 is all that and more too. It is not sev.

 enth sense, but it is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear. the judg- 1 ing taste, tho keen smell, and lively touch:

 it is the interpreter of ell riddlcs-the sur. moanter of all diffic1lties-the remover of all obstacles. It is useful in all plscsss and l at all times; it is useful in soliiade, for It shows man his say into the world. Tal-