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SCIENCE OF THE SOUL.—The faculties of the soul do not develop themselves together and at once. Their successive development is adapted to our wants; they appear at the proper moment, in order to enlighten, to enjoy, or to combat. To study the precise period of their appearance, to learn, to recognize, to direct, and to harmonize them, is what we term forming education of men. This education belongs by right to women; they alone know how to smile upon childhood; they alone can seize by sympathy the first transports of a soul which is awakened by their caresses. We transfer this work to rhetoricians and to logicians, but they arrive too late. In order to understand well the science of the soul, its alphabet must be studied near the cradle. Whoever has not the beginning of it, cannot guess at its result.

DUEL KEPT ON THE TAPIS.—Mr. A., bachelor, challenged Mr. B., a married man with one child, who replied that the conditions were not equal, that he must necessarily put more at risk with his life than the other; and he declined.—A year afterwards he received another challenge from Mr. A., who stated that he too had now a wife and child, and supposed therefore the objection of Mr. B. was no longer valid. Mr. B. replied that he had now two children, consequently the inequality still subsisted. The next year Mr. A. renewed his challenge, having now two children also, but his adversary had three. This matter, when last heard from, was still going on, the number being six to seven, and the challenge yearly renewed.

BALLOONING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.—The London correspondent of the Boston Traveller, says, that in a conversation with Green, the æronaut, a short time since, he —Green) stated that if a sufficient sum was secured to him in England and America to remunerate him for making the ærial voyage, he would go to Boston in the steamer, and, taking advantage of the westerly winds, would return to England in his balloon. The writer thinks it will be attempted.

SENSIBLE.—A shrewd farmer in the Vermont Legislature declined answering the speech of a member who was remarkable for nothing but his frothy and pugnacious impudence and self conceit, thus:—"Mr. Speaker, I can't reply to that ere speech, for it always wrenches me terribly to kick at nothing."

CAST IRON POSTS, BEAMS, OR SUPPORTERS for dwellings or warehouses, have been condemned by a parliamentary commission in England. It is a common practice in many foundries, to remove castings red-hot from the sand. In the Oldham mill, in several beams, large seams were discovered. The commissioners' report recommends wrought iron in the place of cast iron, for beams and front posts, or supporters, as it can be relied upon whereas cast iron cannot.

POLITENESS RECIPROCATED.—A criminal was in the county jail awaiting his trial for murder, with a reasonable prospect of conviction. The candidate for sherifality called one day to see him, when the prisoner, wishing to compliment his visitor, said to him; "If I should be condemned to be hanged, I know of no one by whom I would rather be hung than by you." The visitor, with one of his blandest smiles replied:—"And should I be elected sheriff, I know of no one I would rather hang than you."