been endeavoring to catch, in order to ex- h'bit him as trophy to his friends.

 From the New.York Constellation.

 4 Jack tor aH Trades.-A druggist in this city last week advertised for clerk, and among other applications, was that of a tall awkward-looking fellow, apparently twenty-five years of age, coarsely dressed, without stockings, and with skin as rough as that of the rhinoceros. After staring q while at the splendid bottles, and other things that attracted his notice, he broke out. fs

 Are you the drugger of these'ere es- tablishments?'

 T am the druggist, sir replied tho owner. '. eg

 Well, thought so as I came in,' said the fellow. II know thing or two, for all look so. I've been readin in the newsprint about how you are iii want of Il clark, and thinks as soon as cast my eye on it. now that place will just suit me to hair. And so I've come right away up here to make bargain Have you been bred to the business g inquired the druggist. s.sl4 .s@ #a l can't say as have exactly replied the lout, but I've been bred to farmin, and I have brother that can chop wood like horse, which 'spose will answer all the same.' s5

 But,' said the druggist, II should like to get a man who understands something of the business se l Why, for that matter, returned the fel- low, should soon larn-I'm purity in- genious feller about any thing undertake. 1 Why, it's only last winter, made a whole ! new pig-trough h out of my own head. What do you think of that, sir 2 T a suppose you found the stuff already fitted to your hands. But imagine it is easier for you to make pig-trough than druggist K,

 Try me then, and see,' said the perse- vering applicant. You don't know till you try. Now what'll you wager can't tell what's in that are round bottle there in | the winder 2 N. r

 'l'm not in tho habit of betting,' said the druggist, but l doubt very much

 whether you can tell.'

 You won't bet, ha?' replied the fellow,

 then I'll tell you without. That stuff

 that looks so blue in that are bottle, is hy-

 drostatic- -murimatic-p acknowledgements l dClOs tttut OA OOStuA tb Oub

 town. Don't you think nows sir, I'm a purity ingenious scholar'

 I must say you have given a very fair , specimen,' replied the owner of the shop. . but as it takes some years to learn the druggists business, think you had better : engage in something which you can under stand more readily ...4..s.s You think had, ha 2 said tho fellow. with mortified look. He then stood mu-

 sing for a while, and drumming. on tie

 counter, when all of a sudden seeming to

 have caught new idea. he burst out, By

 lingo Mister, b'lieve you're right, and

 now I think ont, l'li go this minute and see if can't get s.place in hcery stable. 7

 The method of preserving eggs, by dips

 ping them in boiling water (which destroys the living principle,) is too well known to need farther notice. The preservation ot potatoes by similar treatment is also val. uabIe and useful discovery. Large quan-

 titles may be cured at once, by putting theni

 into basket as large as the vessel contains

 ing boiling hot water will admit, and then just dipping them minute or two at the ut,

 most. The germ, which is so near the

 skin, is thus killed without injuring,the

 potatoe. In this way several tons might

 be cured in few hours. They should II then be dried in warm oven, and laid up

 in casks or sacks from the frost. ln q dry

 place. Saturday Post. ssa .s4 ! Is it not general impression arnons tlIs people. that Isaac, when he was about sp he offered up by Abraham. was q mere child, little boy and not, although calls

 cd lad, young man of at least thirty, as ble 10 carry the sacri6cial wood up @, the Emourtain, and whom his father probably could not have bound, without his own spis ! ous acquiVscence9