That was the last time the mechanic visited the young woman. He is now a wealthy man, and has one of the best of women for his wife. The young woman who disliked the name of a mechanic, is now the wife of a miserable tool—a regular vagrant about grog-shops—and she, poor and miserable girl, is obliged to take in washing in order to support herself and children.
Ye who dislike the name of mechanic—whose brothers do nothing but loaf and dress(beware how you treat young men who work for a living. Far better discard the well-fed pauper, with all his rings, jewelry, brazen-facedness and pomposity, and take to your affections the callous-handed, intelligent, and industrious mechanic. Thousands have bitterly regretted their folly, who have turned their backs on honest industry. A few years of bitter experience taught them a severe lesson. In this country, no man or woman in health, should be respected, in our way of thinking, who will not work bodily or mentally, and who curl their lips with scorn when introduced to hard working men. Ex.
THE BITER BITTEN.—Some one has told an anecdote something like this:—a gambler challenged an old pilot on the Mississippi to play a game of loo. The old fellow was too much for the traveling gentleman, and bled him $50 in short metre.
"Now," says the blackleg, "I'll bet you 50 against the 50 you have just won, that I can turn up a Jack the first thing."
"Never mind," says the pilot, "let's have a game at old sledge. You can easily get your change back at that."
But so far from this, in a few hands the gambler was minus $50 more; when he offered to bet a hundred dollars he could turn up a Jack.
"Very well, go ahead."
Over went—the whole pack.
"Wall," said the gambler, "I reckon there's a Jack up."
"Not's you knows on," said the pilot, "for while we were at old sledge, I stole out all the Jacks."
The Blackleg had run against a snag, and he wasn't insured!
EFFECTS OF BRITISH MACHINERY.—The declared value of the British machinery and mill work exported in 1844, from a Parliamentary return, was £776,256. The following are the principal countries to which it was exported:—Russia, £158,137; Italy, £98,342; Germany, £92,851; France, £84,315; East Indies, £62,080; Spain, £54,681; Holland, £34,117, £27,787; British West Indies; £24,102; United States, £32,223; Brazil, £19,934; Marautius, £14,937.
COST OF HEATHENISM.—In Benares, India, there are 5000 places of heathen worship; and there are supposed to be 50,000 brahmins in that single city. One individual has presented $1,200,000 to the different shrines, simultaneously, for the support of heathensim. A missionary saw the money carried through the streets: there were between thirty and forty cart loads!