"HoW BAD YOU LOOK.o
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There are some people in our world, Messrs.
Printers, who, under the cloak OF kind and sym
pathetic friendship, most dearly love to wound the
feelings Of fellow creature. II you are in mistor
tune, they soohe you with poor telton, ho1c 4
PITY you-hor hard your case is sn'-Or detail to
you score of unpleasant things which are ~hIs
pered about you, entertaining you oy the hour, as
Indian enterains his prisoner at the stake, with
torture after tor ure that they may enjoy the salts
faction OF seeing how you bear Il. ii you appear
resigned to your fortune they tell you your case is
too grievous TO be borne-that you ought not to be
insensible TO it-that to be SO seems like stupidity
something wo,se--a il not resigned-they tell
you "poor Denk creature, you ought to bear 1t
uith fortitude.''


You will meet these kind Of people in the stree
at almost all hours II you have bee sick, the first
thing you see is the mouth SC ewed up, the eyes
full OF the most admirably affected astonshment--
and Good heauens, hoU bad you look" OH heir.
toneue-and then you must hear catalogue Of
every symptom Of disease ha they will tell you
visible on your countenance-snd before you leave
them believe tina, you very fir candidate ior
the grave, that your kind friends are very noa
BILE story teers.


| An old lady the other evening WHO was walking
in the for exercise, accostsd in my hear
ing with poor deer creature! hoc arr ful uou look
-ah you here that cough yet-not Tong for this
,c0rld, fsee !-hope gou are prepared for better
| The woman might might not have been prepared
but confound yonr pity, said to myself il that's
the way you manifest il, and at the time
turned to look at the s. awful object which had
caused the sooquy-I had known her for ten
years-she was pale and thin-)ust as she was the
first day saw her.


Sometime ago went with one Of these good folks
to see person who was lohorng under one OF those
diseases, which most require Row o spirits TO en-
able one to recover from. The first salua,ion he
sick man received vas" Bless me, h0p bad you
tooh-gou are ten times Worse than had any idea
of." TUNED on my heel and left my companion
10 manage the conversation be had thus introduced
himself.


suppose there will not be one OF all VINO read
this that could not add an instance or two to the
above. The subject is one so dissgreeable TO me
that cannot DIV ell upon it 1t is the grossest cru
city thus to sport with the feelings of the unioru
nate. And if, reader, one OF your neighbors is If
The habit Of doing SOL beg of you to send hin
this paper-mark the piece, and perhaps they wi.
, consider how improper their conduct is, and be in
duced to amend it. Georgetown Metropolitan.


During the last quarter of year, the receipts Q
, the Coroner Of New York city have amounted to NJ
less sum than Sl524 This has been occasionet


in some measure nv the many sudden deaths /,