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Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 541, 15 August 1866, Page 2

Old Bachelors. Tn antiquity it was considered unpatriotic in a citizen to remain a bachelor all his days. By the Spartan laws those citizens who remained bachelors after middle age were excluded from all offices civil or military. At certain feasts they were exposed to public derision, and led round the market-place. Although, generally speaking, age was deeply respected, yet this feeling was not manifested to old bachelors. " Why should I make way for yon," said a Spartan youth to a grey-headed old bachelor, " who will never have a son to do me the same honor when I am old ?" The Pomans pursued the same policy towards bachelors. They had to pay extra and special taxes ; and a law was enacted by which bachelors were made incapable of acquiring legacies and devises of real estate by will except from their near relatives. An Extraordinary Collection. — On Sunday, the 24th December last, the Rev. Henry Ward Bee cher made a collection in his church in New York, on behalf of the Evangelical Mission to the South and "West, inaugurated by the congregational body of New England. He said he would deviate from the usual practice, and receive the sums personally and announce them from the pulpit. , The' first sum handed up was 1000 dollars. As the greenbacks rolled up in a varied stream he made appropriate remarks, and was especially effective when a little girl handed up twe cents as her contribution. The total result amounted to more than 100,000 dollars. Difference between Modesty and Assumption. — The modest department of those who are truly wise, when contrasted with the assuming air of the young and ignorant, may be .compared to the different appearance of wheat, which, while its ear is empty, holds up its head proudly, but as soon as it is filled with grain, bends modestly down, and withdraws' from observation. EPITAPH ON A MISER. Header, beware immoderate love of pelf! ' Here lies the worst of thieves, who robbed himself." " Do you choose Newport this season ?" asked a pretty woman of Admiral Earragut. — " No, ma'am," said he, " I most decidedly prefer old port." The lady smiled, and so did the Admiral soon after. — American paper. Knowledge of the world is not a gift which, a kind divinity would care to bestow on woman. They know enough of the cares of life without being initiated into its" vices and its shadows.