uttered by the great, we might almost hensively, and gallantly. To love say, the glorious Wordsworth. We have seen many a youth, on more occasions than one, standing in profound affliction over the dead body of his aged father, exclaiming, Ahir vick machree-vick machree-wuil thu marra wo'um—wuil thu marra wo'um? Father, son of my heart, son of my heart, art thou dead from me-art thou dead from me?" An expression, we think, under any circumstances, not to be surpassed in the intensity of domestic affection which it expresses; but under those alluded to, we consider it altogether elevated in exquisite and poetic beauty above the most powerful symbols of Oriental imagery. with power is a proof of a large sot! and to hate well is, according to the great moralist, a thing itself to belove Ireland is, therefore, through all sects, parties, and religions, an amicable nation. Their affections are, in deed, so vivid, that they scruple not sometimes to kill each other with kindness: but we hope that the march of love and friendship will not only keep pace with, but outstrip, the march of intellect. Carleton's Stories of the Irish Peasantry. GEN. CAVAIGNAC'S MARRIAGE.The way in which this match was A third phrase, peculiar to love and made, was romantic enough, and quite affection is, Masim as thee hu-or, interesting. Mille. Odier had never "My soul's within you." Every per- spoken to Cavaignac in her life. He son acquainted with language knows was with several other gentlemen spendhow much an idiom suffers by a literal ing the evening with her father, but translation. How beautiful, then, how the ladies present sat with their work tender and powerful, must those short around a table, and took no part what expressions be, uttered, too, with a fer- ever in the conversation of the gentlevour of manner peculiar to a deeply men who stood in the middle of the feeling people, when, even after a lite- room. At last one of them mentioned ral translation, they carry so much of the marriage of a well known old man, their tenderness and energy into a lan- with a very young girl. Cavaignac re guage whose genius is cold compared marked that any father who would for to the glowing beauty of the Irish. money or station, sacrifice his young Mavourneen dheelish, too, is only a daughter to an old man deserved to be short phrase, but, coming warm and shot. He little thought that this was mellowed from Paddy's lips into the heard by the fair young girl who seemed ears of his colleen dhas, it is a perfect so absorbed in her embroidery. But spell-a sweet murmur, to which the she did hear it and looking at Cavaig lenis susurrus of the Hybla bees is, nac saw in him a man well advanced with all their honey, jarring discord. in life, who, from the sentiments exHow tame is "My sweet darling," its pressed would probably never ask a literal translation, compared to its soft young girl to marry him, and she, the and lulling intonations. There is a fair daughter of the banker thought dissolving, entrancing, beguiling, delu- it would be the height of happiness to ding, flattering, insinuating, coaxing, be loved by a man who expressed himwinning, inveigling, roguish, palaver self so nobly. She thought of him all ing, come-over-ing, comedhering, con- night, and the next morning went to senting, blarneying, killing, willing, her father and told him that if Gen. charm in it, worth all the philtres, that Cavaignac would marry her she would ever the gross knavery of the alchymist never have any other choice. As a gal imposed upon the credulity of those lant soldier, Cavaignac could not rewho inhabit the other nations of the fuse such an offer, but a few days acearth-for we don't read that these quaintance showed him that fortune shrivelled philtremongers ever pros had thrown a prize in his way which pered in Ireland. No, no-let Paddy he had little dreamed of ever possess. alone. If he hates intensely, and ing. effectually, he loves intensely, compre THE TRESSES OF THE DAY STAR. sometimes bought a specimen for a dozen pence, and sometimes for as many guineas. They have come from "MR. GOULD's Humming Birds, at the South American Continent and the the Zoological Gardens-Sixpence ex- Antilles; sometimes in packing-cases, tra." Plain prose and very sensible. sometimes in a letter containing a sinBut with these feathered jewels still gle bird. The fortunate possessors of glittering in our vision, we cannot call the rarer species are known to the nat them by any less delicate name than uralists of all countries. Those who some one of the charming Indian terms have secured a specimen considered which belong to the poetry of their as- unique, are looked upon with the same sociations. They shall remain in our sort of admiring envy that gathers memory under "the pretty, fond, adop-round the owner of a genuine Correg. tious christendoms," by some of which gio. Call not this enthusiasm by any the ancient Mexicans expressed their irreverent name! The passion for col love for these most brilliant of living lecting and preserving rare objects of creatures. They shall be to us "rays nature has raised natural history into a of the sun"-"rose-suckers"-"myrtle- science. It has enlarged the domain suckers"-"hill stars"-"hermits"- of the useful and the beautiful. It has "comets"-"stars of the morning"- made such men as Wilson and Audu; "tresses of the day star." When we bon. It has given England one natuleave the building in which many hun- ralist who has trod in the path of these dreds of these exquisite things are illustrious observers with pre-eminent grouped under glass cases, we will success. His history is instructive. strive to forget that their beauty is not Some twenty-five or thirty years ago, quite animate. The skill of the natu- there was a young man whose "daily ralist, who has formed this wondrous walks and ancient neighborhood" were collection, has given to them almost a by the quiet creeks that branch from life-like variety. They hang amidst the Thames, near Eton, or on the verge fuchsia flowers, or float over beds of of the adjacent forest. He is somebromelia. They sit in their nests upon times, apparently idle, lying under the two white eggs, ready to disclose their willow branches in a little boat, with a "golden couplets." They dart long book on his knee, and a gun by his beaks into deep, tubular, flowers, hover side. There is a well-known sounding beneath the pendant bells. They and the gun is cocked. The kingpoise themselves in the air, we hear not fisher has darted upon his finny prey, the humming of the wings, but we can falling into the stream like a lump of almost fancy there is a voice in that lead. As he rises with the minnow, beauty. Cortes saw their radiant plu- and his orange breast and green blue mage in embroidered pictures, and in tail glitter in the evening sun, his flight the mantles of Montezuma. The stern is ended. In a few days he is stuffed, conqueror saw and was astonished. sitting on a pendant bough, ready for What Cortes saw of the spoils of the the plunge. The unscientific birdHumming Birds, was far inferior to this stuffers are amazed that there can be artificial representation of their varied life in death. existence. * In process of time this young man But how was this marvellous collec- has made a considerable collection. tion formed? "When were the birds He is the possessor of a few books of sent over?" was a question we heard Zoology, but most especially does asked. It has been one of the many "Berwick's Birds" delight him. He labors of an earnest and thoughtful earnestly longs to become a scientific man's life to get together this unrivall-naturalist; to attain to something more ed assemblage. He began with a little than the mechanical skill for which he case of the most beautiful and curious, has gained a reputation. The oppor picked out of the odd groups of glass tunity arises. He leaves his native domes in curiosity shops. He has town, being engaged by the Zoologi. cal Society in the preparation of speci- star? The most vivid colors of the mens for the Museum. He marries. painter's pallette cannot duplicate His wife has a remarkable talent for their ever-varying tints. The drawings delineating objects of Natural History of Mr. Gould's admirable book, brilwith accuracy and taste. They publish a beautiful example of their joint ability, he, as the scientific author, she, as the accomplished artist: "A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains." Their success is complete. Henceforth, JOHN GOULD, the young man who had sold stuffed birds at Eton, is to take rank amongst the best naturalists of his age. liant as they are with every device that can impart a metallic, yet transparent lustre, are opaque when compared with the bright reality. You look upon their plumage under the chastened light of a canvas covering, beneath the glass of their house, and they give out a brilliancy which art cannot even then imitate. A sunbeam lights up the morning, and they reflect the lustre like His labors are unceasing; his suc- gorgeous gems. Language is still more cess is proportionate. He commences weak. It must resort to analogies. "The Birds of Europe" in 1832, com- The naturalists classify the Humming pleting it in 1837; a magnificent work, Birds by typical names. One species of which, though the cost is astounding, is the velvet bird; another the topaz; not a copy now remains for sale. Af another the amethyst; another the emter the issue of one or two less impor-erald; another the ruby; another the tant books, he commences "The Birds sapphire. They have frills, ruffs, of Australia," and completes the se- feathered boots, downy muffs, gorgets, ries during ten years' labor. Here are cravats, helmets. Some are the Sapsix hundred species figured and des-phos, some the Coquettes, some the cribed from actual observation in their Fops. All this indicates the imperfecnative haunts. Connected with this tion of verbal description. Strength work of surpassing beauty, and of becomes exaggeratien. "They shine necessarily large cost, there is a touch- as the sun," says one. "They dart ing history. The wife of the naturalist forth pencils of light," says another. was the companion of his voyage. Science then comes in to explain their She had drawn on stone nearly all the wondrous lustre. Andebert demon. plates of "The Birds of Europe;" but strated mathematically that the organ. her loving industry was interrupted. ization of their feathers, reflecting the She died "within one short year after rays of light from innumerable facets, our return from Australia," says Mr. was the cause of their surprising varieGould in his preface; "during her so-ty of color. When; it is stated, the journ in which country an immense light glides in a vertical direction over mass of drawings, both ornithological their scaly feathers, the luminous rays and botanical, were made by her inimi- are absorbed, and they appear black. table hand and pencil." They went When it is reflected from their feathers, to Australia in 1838; they returned in each feather being a reflector, they are 1840. Mr. Gould is now engaged on emeralds and rubies. Wondrous pro"The Birds of Asia;" and has, also,vision of the Creator! Was all this issued the first part of a "Monograph beauty for no purpose but for the grati of the Trochilide, or Humming Birds." fication of a passing curiosity, or the The industry which has got together, pride of a mathematical demonstration? and the taste and science which have Does it not speak to the higher el arranged, the collection in the Zoolog.ements of our nature, where poetry and ical Gardens, will be permanently art imperfectly abide? The Mexicans represented in this book. The color felt the poetry when they looked upon ed engravings approach the brilliancy the Humming Birds as emblems of the of the plumage of the birds themselves, souls, as the Greeks regarded the butterin a degree which is very remarkable. fly; and held that the spirits of their How shall we attempt to describe warriors, who died in the defence of these resplendent children of the day their religion, were transformed into ese exquisite creatures, in the manon of the sun. ases. contrasting at once and harmonising. In the fifth case, the Bourcieria offers a The collection of Mr. Gould, as ex- different species of beauty, the snowibited in the Gardens of the Zoologi- white throat and tail feathers mingling al Society, is comprised in twenty-four with the deepest brown and the most inHis materials for a history tense blue. In the eighth case, we f Humming Birds extend to about have the Cynanthus and the Cometes hree hundred and twenty species. the forked-tail species-the two tailTen species only were known to Lin- feathers four or five times the length of• æus. In 1824 Mr. Bullock had col- their minute bodies, and bright as the ected a hundred species. In 1842 Mr. mysterious visitor of "th' arctic sky." Loddiges possessed a hundred and In the ninth case, is the Oreotrochilus ninety-six species. Mr. Gould has ac- Chimboraza-the species peculiar to quired two thousand specimens, many the monarch of mountains-of a bright of which have still to be mounted. blue and green, with gray breast, as if, The rapid extension of geographical re- like the birds and foxes of the polar research, especially in the new world, is gions, it caught a winter livery in the well illustrated by the additions which regions of eternal snow. In the eleventh are constantly being made to our know- case, is the Oxypogon Lindeni, the ledge of these birds. They range over helmet-crested, grave as a white-bearded the continent of America, but chiefly rabbi, short-beaked, the flower-hunter. within the tropics. Some species are of the highest Andes. In the thirteenth found in the West Indian Islands; two case are several species of the charming in the Island of Juan Fernandez: one little Ereopus, their tarsi clothed with in Chiloe, in the Pacific. In the vast white down, or, as we heard more sigrange of the Andes, at a height of seven nificantly expressed by a fair visitor, or eight thousand feet, they are most with cotton-bags at their feet. The abundant. They glitter even above fourteenth case contains some larger the snow line at an elevation of four species, of surpassing brilliancy-radi teen or fifteen thousand feet. Chimbo- ant in their scaly armour-"glittering razo has its peculiar bird; and so has in golden coats." Lastly, at the end Pinchinoha. Every valley of those of the room, in the centre, is the mar wild regions-each a world in itself velous Docimastes ensifer, hanging befrom its prodigious depth-exhibits neath the deep flower of Brugmansia, some variety in form or colour. From into which it thrusts a beak much longer the immense extent of their geographi- than its whole body, to suck out the cal range, we may form some notion of honey from the hidden nectary--hidden the labor necessary to describe and in vain from that unfailing instinct. classify these wonders of ornithology- The color of the Humming Birds. a labor which seems never ending, necessarily attracts the first attention. through the constant accumulation of But, to understand the habits of this new materials. numerous family, we must study their Let us endeavor to look a little more forms. Never was such an opportuniminutely at some of the varieties of ty for so doing presented as in Mr. beauty in this collection. Each case Gould's collection. generally contains several species. The question may be asked by some, Properly to describe one case would "Why, are they called Humming Occupy several pages. We must be Birds?" The name is derived from the content with an unscientific glance at a few of the more attractive. noise produced by the aerial movement of some of the species. Look at the In the second case in the centre is little collared group, Calothorax, with the Topaza pyra. Vain were the at- very imperfect tails. These are not tempt to analyse those hues. There formed for distant flights. But, as is the metallic lustre of the brightest they hover over a flower, the rapid vi gold, but beneath the gold there is a bration of their wings produces the vivid green, running off into scarlet, noise which has given a name to the whole family. They remain apparently motionless for hours. "The vibra tion of their wings," says Buffon, "is so rapid, that the bird poised in the air appears not only immoveable, but entirely without action." The great characteristic of this family is the power of the wing. Their muscular system is almost wholly employed to give effect to this power. They are essentially an ethereal race. They find their food on the earth, but their home is the air. As the wings and the tail exhibit the peculiar character of their flight, so do the beaks determine the nature of their food. Within the beak, whether short or long, is a tongue which can be darted out with a spring-like move. ment. It pierces the flowers for their honied juices; it seizes upon minute in sects. It is composed of two blades, with spoon-like terminations. The beak is also a weapon of attack and defence. As the female Humming Bird sits in her cup-shaped or pendu lous nest the male watches over her duties. The Indians say he assists her. If a bird invade the solitude, especially one of their own species, the little creature becomes a fury. The needlelike bill is darted at the eyes of the intruder, and, uttering the most piercing shrieks, the tiny warrior will fight to the death. Various, almost, as the forms of nature, are the tastes and pursuits of man. so of the Great Exhibition. Some men A GEM. THE WELCOME. Come when you're looked for, or come without warning. Light is my heart since the day we were plighted, I'll pull you sweet flowers, to wear if you choose them, I'll fetch from the mountain its breeze to inspire you; We'll look through the trees at the cliff and the eyrie, you ask of your darling what gift you can give her. O! she'll whisper you, "Love as unchangeably beaming, so, come in the evening, or come in the morning, REMEDY FOR THE BITE OF A RAT TLESNAKE. The remedy is nothing more nor less than equal quantities of hoarhound and plantain, bruised and squeezed until you get a table spoonful of juice for a man, or half a pint for a horse; and if a man let him drink The dose may be repeated in twenty or it-and if a beast, drench bim with it. sickness begin to subside, in severe swer all purposes if taken in season. cases; but usually one dose will an It is a remarkable instance of this comprehensive law beneficiently made for our instruction, advancement, and delight, that we have this quiet collection sparkling in the Sun within a mile or pursue the object of their lives amid thirty minutes, until the swelling and the revolutions of noisy wheels and the rattling of machinery; some, patiently and slowly work it out with microscop ic tools; some, pursuing Nature, track it through her mighty solitudes. Each man may well respect the vocation of the other. All contribute to the com. mon Treasury. Study the useful and ornamental inventions of the civilised world; but study, too, the work of the Divine hand in these little birds. Household Words. For many years I have known this remedy, aud though I have not personally had occasion to make much use of it on others-none on myself—yet I have never known of a failure. If the fang of a reptile should penetrate a vein, and diffuse a poison within the blood vessel, and be almost instantly conveyed to the heart, there is said to be |