THE LOVERS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 273, 29 May 1874, Page 3

THE LOVERS.

IN PIFFEItraT MaODS AND TBSSE3. Sally Salter, she was- a young teacher, whotaught, „ And her friend Charley Church wasa prea«'herwho praught! Though his enemies called him a.screed.er,. who scraught. --. .... His heart, when lie'-saw her, kept sinkm-*,.-and sunk; ■ , ,' ? • And his eye, meeting hers,. began winking,, and wunk; . . ,;•':'" "While .-hf, in her turn, .began thinking,, an 1" fchunk. # -.- . - He hastened to woo her, -and sweetly liewoo'd, . •. '• . For his love grew until to- a mountain itgrew'd," . . . _1 And what he was longing to do, then he do'd. Tn secret he wanted to speak, he spoke, To seek with his lips what.his heart long- hart soke j ' - - - 80 he managed .to let the, truth leak, and. ifcloke. , - He ask'd her to ride to the church, and theyrode; - They so sweetly did glide that they ,boih thought they gloae, ; And - they came to the place to be tied, and were tode. Then homeward,, he said, Ist us- drive, and they drove, And soon as tliey wished to arrive "tiny arrove : For whatever lie couldn't contrive- she eon— ~ trove. „ The kiss he • was dying to > steal, then liestole ; ' At the feet where he wanted to kneel then, he knole : •- -. And he said, " I feel better than.' ever E fole." So they to each other kept clinging, and. clung, _ ' While Time his swift circuit was winging^and wung; And this was the thing was bringing,. and b'-dng: The man Sally wanted to caieh, and ba<i caught. That she wanted from others to snatchy. and had suaught— Was the one she now liked to scratch," and she scraught. And Charley's warm love-began freezing, and." froze, While he took to teazing, and cruelly toze The girl he had wished to be squeezing andsquoze. " Wretch! " he cried, when she threatened, to leave him, andlef,, C! How could you deceive me as you have deceft ?" And she answer'd " I promised to cleave, and I've, cleft!" On a tombstone in ' South Carolina is the following beautiful tribute to depaKteci worth : . . Here lies the body of Robert Gordon ■ Mouth Almighty, and teeth accordin * Stranger, tread lightly o'er this wonder, If he opens his mouth, you are gone/hy thunder.

The extent to which gold-mining i& prosecuted in Finland is but little' under- , stood. During last autumn, says the " Journal of the csocuty of Arts," there- " were no fewer than seventeen companies extracting gold from the auriferous sand in Finland. One of the companies returned a dividend of 70 per cent. The largest nugget weighed 28dwts.

When Aldus Manutius set up in busi - ness'as a printer in Venice, he came into possession of a liule negro boy. This boywas soon known all over the city as " thelittle black devil,"' for at that lime negroes were not often seen in Venice, and some of the most ignorant people believed him to be either an embodiment or an emissary of Satan who aided Aldus in the work of his profession One day .Manutius, wishing to -dispel this strange and spreading opinion, displayed this young imp publicly to the poorer classes, making this short but characteristic speech :—'• Be it known to you and to all Venice, that I, Aldus Manutius, printer to the. Holy Church and the Doge, haye this day:rnade exposure to all of the printer's'devil.; Und if any think , \ he is not like" us, flesh land , blood,:, they *V3? may come and pinch- him; ~aud-. they ,-witf - : „"5i : find that though he- is black he is hmua4J r ' '-~ '