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A SWARM OF BEES.

B patient, B prayerful, B humble, B mild,
B wise as a Solon, B meek as a child;

B studious, B thoughtful, B loving, B kind;
B sure you make matter subservient to mind.
B cautious, B prudent, B trustful, B true,
B courteous to all men, B friendly with few.
B temperate in argument, pleasure, and wine,
B careful of conduct, of money, of time.
B cheerful, B grateful, L hopeful, B firm,
B peaceful, benevolent, willing to learn;
B courageous, B gentle, B liberal, B just,
B aspiring, B humble, because thou art dust;
B penitent, circumspect, sound in the faith,
B active, devoted; B faithful till death.
B honest, B holy, transparent, and pure;
B dependent, B Christ-like, and you'll B secure
THE BEES OF THE BIBLE.

Be kindly affectioned one to another.

Be sober, and watch unto prayer.

Be content with such things as ye have.

Be strong in the Lord.

Be courteous.

Be not wise in your own conceits.

Bo not forgetful to entertain strangers.

Be not children in understanding.

Be followers of God, as dear children.

Be not weary in well-doing.

Be holy in all manner of conversation.

Be patient unto the coming of the Lord.

Be clothed with humility.

FRANKLIN'S "RE'S."

Dr. Franklin, in England in the year 1775, was asked by a nobleman what would satisfy the Americans.

He answered

that it might easily be comprised in a few "Re's," which he immediately wrote on a piece of

Re-call your forces.
Re-store Castle William.

paper, thus:-
:-

Re-pair the damage done to Boston.
Re-peal your unconstitutional acts.
Re-nounce your pretensions to taxes.
Re-fund the duties you have extorted.

After this

Re-quire, and

Re-ceive payment for the destroyed tea, with the voluntary grants of the Colonies; and then

Re-joice in a happy

Re-conciliation.

THE MISS-NOMERS.

After the manner of Horace Smith's “Surnames ever go by contraries.”
Miss Brown is exceedingly fair,

Miss White is as brown as a berry;
Miss Black has a gray head of hair,
Miss Graves is a flirt ever merry;
Miss Lightbody weighs sixteen stone,
Miss Rich scarce can muster a guinea;
Miss Hare wears a wig, and has none,
And Miss Solomon is a sad ninny!

Miss Mildmay's a terrible scold,

Miss Dove's ever cross and contrary;
Miss Young is now grown very old,

And Miss Heavyside's light as a fairy!

Miss Short is at least five feet ten,

Miss Noble's of humble extraction;

Miss Love has a hatred towards men,
Whilst Miss Still is forever in action.

Miss Green is a regular blue,

Miss Scarlet looks pale as a lily;

Miss Violet ne'er shrinks from our view,

And Miss Wiseman thinks all the men silly!

Miss Goodchild's a naughty young elf,

Miss Lyon's from terror a fool;

Miss Mee's not at all like myself,

Miss Carpenter no one can rule.

Miss Sadler ne'er mounted a horse,

While Miss Groom from the stable will run;

Miss Kilmore can't look on a corse,

And Miss Aimwell ne'er levelled a gun;

Miss Greathead has no brains at all,

Miss Heartwell is ever complaining;

Miss Dance has ne'er been at a ball,

Over hearts Miss Fairweather likes reigning!

Miss Wright, she is constantly wrong,

Miss Tickell, alas! is not funny;

Miss Singer ne'er warbled a song,

And alas! poor Miss Cash has no money;

Miss Hateman would give all she's worth,
To purchase a man to her liking;
Miss Merry is shocked at all mirth,

Miss Boxer the men don't find striking!
Miss Bliss does with sorrow o'erflow,

Miss Hope in despair seeks the tomb;
Miss Joy still anticipates wo,

And Miss Charity's never "at home!"
Miss Hamlet resides in the city,

The nerves of Miss Standfast are shaken;

Miss Pretty man's beau is not pretty,

And Miss Faithful her love has forsaken!

Miss Porter despises all froth,

Miss Scales they'll make wait, I am thinking;

Miss Meekly is apt to be wroth,

Miss Lofty to meanness is sinking;

Miss Seymore's as blind as a bat,

Miss Last at a party is first;
Miss Brindle dislikes a striped cat,
And Miss Waters has always a thirst!

Miss Knight is now changed into Day,

Miss Day wants to marry a Knight;
Miss Prudence has just run away,

And Miss Steady assisted her flight;
But success to the fair,-one and all!

No miss-apprehensions be making;-
Though wrong the dear sex to miss-call,

There's no harm, I should hope, in MISS-TAKING.

CROOKED COINCIDENCES.

A pamphlet published in the year 1703 has the following strange title: "The Deformity of Sin cured; a Sermon preached at St. Michael's, Crooked-lane, before the Prince of Orange, by the Rev. J. Crookshanks. Sold by Matthew Denton, at the Crooked Billet near Cripple-gate, and by all other booksellers." The words of the text are, 66 Every crooked path shall be made straight;" and the prince before whom it was preached was deformed in person.

THE COURT-FOOL'S PUN ON ARCHBISHOP LAUD.
Great praise to God, and little Laud to the devil.

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English Words and Forms of Expression.

DICTIONARY English is something very different not only from common colloquial English, but even from that of ordinary written composition. Instead of about forty thousand words, there is probably no single author in the language from whose works, however voluminous, so many as ten thousand words could be collected. Of the forty thousand words there are certainly many more than one-half that are only employed, if they are ever employed at all, on the rarest occasions. We should be surprised to find, if we counted them, with how small a number of words we manage to express all that we have to say, either with our lips or with the pen. Our common literary English probably hardly amounts to ten thousand words; our common spoken English hardly to five thousand.

Odd words are to be found in the dictionaries. Why they are kept there no one knows; but what man in his senses would use such words as zythepsary for a brewhouse, and zymologist for a brewer; would talk of a stormy day as procellous and himself as madefied; of his long-legged son as increasing in procerity but sadly marcid; of having met with such procacity from such a one; of a bore as a macrologist; of an aged horse as macrobiotic; of important business as moliminous, and his daughter's necklace as moniliform; of some one's talk as meracious, and lament his last night's nimiety of wine at that dapatical feast, whence he was taken by ereption? Open the dictionary at any page, and you will find a host of these words.

By a too ready adoption of foreign words into the currency of the English language, we are in danger of losing much of its radical strength and historical significance. Marsh has compared the parable of the man who built his house upon the sand, as given by Matthew and Luke. Matthew uses the plain Saxon English. The learned Evangelist, Luke, employed a Latinized

dictionary. "Now," he

say

says, "compare the two passages and which to every English ear, is the most impressive:" "And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”—Matthew.

"Against which the stream did beat vehemently, and imme. diately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great."-Luke.

There can scarcely be a difference of opinion as to the relative force and beauty of the two versions, and consequently we find, that while that of Matthew has become proverbial, the narrative of Luke is seldom or never quoted.

Trench says that the Anglo-Saxon is not so much one element of the English language, as the foundation of it-the basis. All its joints, its whole articulation, its sinews and its ligaments, the great body of articles, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, numerals, auxiliary verbs, all smaller words which serve to knit together and bind the larger into sentences, these-not to speak of the grammatical structure of the language-are exclusively Saxon. The Latin may contribute its tale of bricks, yea, of goodly and polished hewn stones to the spiritual building, but the mortar, with all that holds and binds these together, and constitutes them into a house, is Saxon throughout." As proof positive of the soundness of the above affirmation, the test is submitted that "you can write a sentence without Latin, but you cannot without Saxon." The words of the Lord's Prayer are almost all Saxon. Our good old family Bible is a capital standard of it, and has done more than any other book for the conservation of the purity of our language. Our best writers, particularly those of Queen Anne's time, -Addison, Steele, Swift, &c.,—were distinguished by their use of simple Saxon.

SOURCES OF THE LANGUAGE.

Some years ago, a gentleman, after carefully examining the folio edition of Johnson's Dictionary, formed the following table of English words derived from other languages:

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