Show A friend loves your society forsakes others for yours fervently wishes your prosperity and peace venerates th those 0 se who befriend you and is not jealous of them A friend consoles you in adversity ver hersity ver sity sustains you in poverty sympathies with gou iou you in afflictions warns you of danger dangers endeavors to read the true feelings of your associations steadily watches your enem enemies iee lee hates those that hate you tries to preserve you from imposition anticipates your desires without waiting for requests mourns your absence rejoices rejo icea at your return braves the corn scorn of sycophants to ie be near you and even I 1 when his hia friendship is not all appreciated still serves and still labors for your welfare ile he admires your virtuous character to your faults be he is a little blind many many flatter many advise and many exhibit these evidences in part but lie he that will do all is the gem that is more prec pre clona ciona than the diamond and when known will shine among your treasures as invaluable ile he will surely obtain his bis reward coar AMERICAN VOLUNTEER COMPANIES the london saturday review in an art article articie cle cie headed cobden in washington hab has the following the united states have properly speaking no standing army at all A force of about men employed in small parties over a vast and desert territory rv includes some highly educated american officers but the rank and file are nearly all irishmen and germans yet the americans are so far from pacific that their very platitudes are bloody minded mr cobden may possibly have convinced himself i that it is not paying for soldiers but playing at soldiers which makes a nation warlike it is the habit babit of serving in the militia which keeps american heroism at boiling point A community which maintains by its half pay a million of men may be perfectly non ag gres sive and pacific but a people like ibe the americans who perpetually parade their streets in fancy uniforms and are called general Col coi colon onel onil or major will ever be thirsting for blood the restless spirits who are always longing to meet the men of inkermann and the alma in a fair fight are by no means the officers and privates of the american regular army they are the clerks and who baptise themselves washington and Ye jefferson fferson guards these truths will oon soon nia make e themselves felt in england the english ten pound householder has bas for the present bet set his affections on neutrality but when he has once taught himself ria rif lemans rians drill when he has once learned to throw himself on the reverse portion of his bia person perdon and fire suddenly through bis big legs we are persuaded that nothing less will satisfy him than a campain on the ticino A GREAT FEAT mone mons blondin lately walked across the niagara river just juat above the fall falls on a ti tight ht rope in the presence of el solm he first crossed from the american si aide e stopping midway to refresh himself with water raised raise d with a rope from the deck of the steamer maid of the mist the time occupied in the girs firs crossing tyas was seventeen minutes and a half the return to the american side was accomplished in twelve minutes As a mere more foolhardy y exploit this ibis has seldom been equalled equal led and as an exhibition of nerve it stands without a parallel the ile single rope is three and a quarter inches in diameter 1300 feet long and with the 2700 feet of guy ropes necessary rec essary to steady it cost 90 and looked like a mere inere thread spanning the chasm which is eleven hundred feed wide mid and one hundred and fifty feet deep through the bottom of the the niagara river at that place of an unknown and immeasurable depth rushes along with furious swiftness to the whirlpool below the slightest misstep of the foolhardy adventurer would have burled him from his precarious foo footing tinZ and he be would have disappeared from mortal eyes until his mangled body should be picked up far below probably in lake ontario exchange ei e F PAIN parm TING books and news new papers have multiplied to such fuch an extent in ou our country that it now take takes paper mills wih 2 engines in constant operation to supply a the 8 printers who work night and day these thee e a produced pounds of p paper ap last year which immense supply old sold fa for tor rab about out gar oooo A pound and a quarter of raes bie BIP required for a pound of paper and pounds were therefore consume consumed in in this way last year eve independent bruised Bruise cl borse horse radish applied applied to the face or other parts affected it is said afford certain and speedy relief from toothache or neuralgia the remedy is cheap simple and safe |