for the good things of the table, and indulge their appetites to such excess, that soon the countenance loses its naturally healthy look and praportions, and becomes inflated and inflamed. The organ of gormandazibility may be traced in each direction, from the summits of the cheeks, to points between the eye-brows, and in the chin. It is of a Spanish-brown hue, and is scabbed. A knowledge of this organ will be of vast importance to gentlemen who are in the habit of having dinner-parties and suppers; especially if they are economists, from choice or necessity.

The organs of Bibative Phaceology are:

1. SANGAREETIVENESS,

II. EGGPOPSTABILITY,

III. VINEFRETABILITY,

I. SANGARE ETIVENESS.

There is a luscious drink, the chief ingredients of which are port-wine and loaf sugar, known by the musical cognomen of sangaree. This drink is sipped with much gusto by people just indulging in the use of alcoholic stimulants. Its flavor is such, that the drinkers of it, frequently before they are aware, become victims to insensibility. The organ of Sangareetiveness is a slight flush of the countenance. It will not be recognized by any one who is not familiar with the science of Phaceology.

II. EGGPOPSTABILITY. There is another drink, of which rum and eggs are fundamental ingredients, bearing the abrupt name of eggpop, or egg-nog. It is much desired by those who are in the early stages of intemperance. The organ is a slight redness of the eye, added to the organ of Sangareetiveness. Men in whom this organ is found, are inclined to instability of mind, and sometimes of body, and may with propriety be called men of Eggpopstability.

III. VINEFRETABILITY. Persons who indulge habitually in the use of wine, and frequently to excess, are subject to fits of irritability; and ultimately the countenance assumes a severity which, with the two preceding organs, forms the organ of Vinefretability.

IV. BUSTIVELOCITATIVENESS. Those who are addicted to the use of sangaree, egg-pop, wine, and drinks of similar character, are more or less in the habit of indulging in wild scenes of inebriety, commonly called 'sprees,' or ' bu'sts;' probably a contraction of bursts, signifying a breaking away from sobriety. These persons are called bus'ters,' and are gregarious. When several of them are congregated together, they indulge themselves to such an extent, and their spirits become so elevated, that they find pleasure only in extreme obstreperousness, jactitations of the body, braggardism, and mischievous caperings. They have gymnasia bibonum, (as old Burton hath it,) schools and rendezvous; these Centaures and Lapitha toss-pots and bowls, as so many balls. So they triumph in villany, and justifie their wickedness, with Rabelais, the French Lucian; drunkenness is better for the body than physick, because there be more old drunkards than old physicians. Such persons may be known by their blowzy countenances, and inflamed eyes, which together form the organ of Bustivelocitativeness.

V. PUNCHVOLUBLENESS. There is a disposition in excessive drinkers of punch to punch their neighbors, as well as great volubility.

They are known by a slightly contracted brow, fiery eye, and halfopened mouth, which compose the organ of Punchvolubleness.

VI. TODDYTIVENESS. There is a warm drink called Toddy, of which old bachelors and old maids are extremely fond. The former, especially, imbibe it until their ratiocinative disposition has oozed out, and they are left in a state of blissful obmutescence. The appetite for this drink may be discovered by the organ of Toddytiveness, which is situated upon the nose, and is vulgarly known by the name of Toddy-blossom.

VII. BRANDIFORMITY. It is not difficult to find this organ in the brandy drinker. The deep vermilion hue of his countenance, and the strong development of the organ of Vinefretability, are always sufficient indications of it.

VIII. CARBUNCLIVITY. This is truly a wonderful organ. It is almost always to be found upon the nose of the old brandy and gin toper, and is composed of shining pustules, of various sizes and hues. When the possessor of this organ has been long addicted to inebriety, it extends itself to the cheek-bones and forehead. It has been said that it is used in dark nights, as a lantern to light its owner from the bar-room to his cheerless home. Whether we credit this or not, we may safely believe that it is the only lantern with which he should be trusted. For a farther description of the organ, I refer to Sir John Falstaff.

IX. POTHEASIVENESS. Those persons who make pot-houses their constant resort, and drink the chief part of their subsistence, are always possessed of this organ. It is too well known to require any description here. Look at the confirmed drunkard, and in his countenance you will see the of Potheasiveness.

organ

I have thus given some of the outlines of this wonderful science; a science before which all other sciences will hide their diminished heads; a science which, for simplicity and definiteness, certainly cannot be equalled; a science which for sublimity is unrivalled, and for usefulness cannot be matched; a science which requires no bombastic parade, no fulsome panegyric, to obtain for it immediate and lasting celebrity. Time shall be no longer, when it shall cease to

exist!

J. E. G.

VOL. XV.

MOMENTS of life there are, in which whole years
Of incident, and thrilling thought combined,
Are crowded; and the heart can, save in tears,
No channel for its deep emotions find.
Such, is the present--richly fraught, as brief!
Big with remembrances which charm the mind,
Of joys, as fading as the autumn leaf;

Past-but whose fragrance lingers still behind.
All that this pen might say, if Time would pause,
And rest his wing, till thought in words found vent,
Would leave the fount within but yet unspent,
And sad adieus be still the final clause:"
But 'Time' that 'waits for no man,' pauseth not
Farewell! To meet again, be yet our happy lot!
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E. C. 8.

'THE beauty of Lebanon shall come unto thee; the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box, together; to beautify the place of my sanctuary.'

FROM the leafless wood we have gathered the pine,
With the hemlock branch and the winter vine,
And the laurel hath sprung from its frozen sod,
To wreathe in beauty the house of God!
For this the fir-tree and box shall wave,
Its leafy wing o'er the holy pave;

Round the sainted altar the wreath shall fall,

And the holy cross on the hallowed wall.

For this the cedar its leaf unfurled,

And bent in shade o'er an icy world:

And we strew thy path, oh SAVIOUR! now,

With the living green and the deathless bough.
'Tis our hosanna! a voiceless prayer,

Feeling that language can never share;
The silent worship of heart to Thee,
And this is its bright orthography.

Death has touch'd our home, and the spirit grieves,
Its loved have past with the summer leaves;
Yet brighter thoughts crest the surge of wo,
Work'd white from the turbid depth below!
A thought of heaven, a trust in God,

That faith which springs from its darken'd sod,
A winter vine that the storm has traced;
God's autograph on a blighted waste!

L'ABEILLE.

LIMNINGS IN THE

THOROUGHFARES.

BY GEORGE D. STRONG.

THE NEWS MAN AND

NEWS-BOY.

In tracing the progress of the political and social movement which marks the present era, our attention is frequently arrested by specimens of the Genus Homo, created as it were out of the elements of society, as at present organized, and if not new in themselves, yet exhibiting novel combinations of the primal elements of human character.

Conspicuous among these monuments of a remodelled organization, stand the NEWS-MAN and NEWS-BOY. In analyzing the distinct claims to notice of these Mercurys of hebdomadal and diurnal literature, we shall find the news-boy to possess the most prominent and piquant attributes. Moving, it is true, with more erratic steps than his senior, but exhibiting in his eccentricities and vagaries those Hogarthian peculiarities which are now readily transferred to the canvass, and when happily sketched, are universally recognized and appreciated.

The news-man is the messenger of the larger newspaper establishments, satirically termed by their Lilliputian rivals, the respectable sixpennies.' The news-boy is born and nurtured in the more exciting purlieus of the penny press, and bears about him no doubtful tokens of his birth-place and lineage. Heir to the wit and slang, the

drollery and impertinence, the humor and frolic, the curiosity and perseverance, of his official parentage, he thrusts his wares alike in the face of the aristocrat and the plebeian, the belle and the slattern; carrying out the principle of equal privileges to its utmost boundary, and hurling defiance alike at the frowns of the haughty, and the menaces of the testy.

The news-man, on the contrary, moves with the sober pace befitting his rank in the social scale; and in the very whirlwind of excitement, caused by the receipt of important and unexpected intelligence, which serves to throw editors, clerks, pressmen, and compositors into a fever, never for a moment compromises his dignity by exhibitions of undue haste, or nervous anxiety. Scan him narrowly, and you may observe that his lips are slightly compressed, and his brow is a thought contracted; that his features bear the impress of a consciousness that he is conveying to the ignorant mass tidings of high import: but his gravity of deportment is still admirably sustained, and his cool and practised bearing might serve as a study for even practised diplo

matists.

The news-boy is a being of different order; exhibiting not only the spirit, and confidence, and animation of youth, bounding with the spring of that elasticity which is lost in later life, but carrying into public highways and by-ways the evidence of his familiarity with the mysteries of the craft, of which he is at once the type and the ornament. To awaken his enthusiasm, it is not requisite that his sheet should contain important intelligence, foreign or domestic. The editor of the paper of which he is the distributor may vainly have searched for novelties of a quality to arouse the flagging curiosity of his heterogenous patrons; but let him not despair. The news-boy will remedy the evil. His inventive mind is at work, and ere he has traversed a square, you may recognise his voice, high above the city's din, proclaiming to the gaping crowd the information his sheet imparts, of accidents and casualties which came not beneath the editorial ken of his employer, and the murderous barbarities of savages, which were never perpetrated, except in his own teeming fancy.

Question him closely, and he will give you a wink and a nod; and if he deems you, in his expressive phrase, a knowing one,' will slily thrust his tongue out of the side of his cheek; but of these mysterious movements the inquiring crowd shall not be permitted to take cognizance; and the next moment finds him at another point, heralding a series of novelties of which his former auditors remained in happy ignorance.

If loquacity be the prominent characteristic of the news-boy, his senior may be termed the High Priest of Silence. Follow him in his daily rounds, and no sound will be permitted to escape his lips. Does a dissatisfied subscriber require the delivery of his paper at an earlier hour? The news-man hears the request, but deigns no reply. He has been known, on such occasions to nod intelligence, but his courtesy goes no further.

The news-man, in outward seeming, is decent and staid, and his dress is in keeping with his official character. In summer, it consists of a round jacket and trowsers, of some light material, with a hat so placed as to preserve the equilibrium of the owner's general bearing; neither leaning to the one side nor to the other; neither thrown back

slovenly, nor perched forward foppishly. His winter clothing is usually a peet jacket and trowsers, of strong pilot cloth, boots made of thick leather, with heavy soles, a fur cap, and woollen mittens.

The news-boy, deeming propriety of costume or manner a slavish obedience to social tyranny, discards all such degrading shackles, and exhibits his independence no less in the selection of his clothing, than in more important particulars. Combining in his personal contour the picturesque abandonment of the Italian Lazzaroni with the inartificial contempt of adornment of the Fulton-market lounger, his fur cap in winter, and open-flapped beaver in summer, appear thrown upon his fertile cranium by the Genius of Disorder; now displaying its front to the left, anon to the right, and again to the rear; causing this oracle of penny-a-liners not unfrequently to appear like a crab walking backward-when the rogue is using his pedals in the due order of nature.

His rough, out-at-the-elbows monkey-jacket, fished from the lowest depths of a pawn-broker's omnium gatherum, and trowsers to match, may be similar in form and texture to other articles of the like kind; but no sooner are they transferred to the wardrobe of the news-boy, than they seem invested with a new-being; as unlike any clothing extant, as is the wearer in comparison with the rest of his species. Watch him daily, and you will not detect a button-hole of his coat in conjunction with its lawfully-wedded button, nor any other part of his dress, in the position which the artist designed. The left angle of his coat collar will be found perched high above his ear, while its mate is quietly dosing in unambitious obscurity, under the right shoulder of the garment. His shoes are akin to his upper-benjamin; out at the toes, slip-shod, and exhibiting at every point that disregard of the unities which would throw a modern critic into convulsions.

The news-boy entertains some highly dangerous doctrines in relation to the distinction between meum and tüum. According to his logic, the cause which justifies war between nations, is equally a warrant for individual hostilities; and emulating the enlightened conduct of the British people toward their Gallic neighbors, he holds the juvenile venders of matches and pocket-combs to be his natural foes, against whom it is justifiable to declare eternal warfare. The faithful representative of the social movement of which he is the walking title-page, the catch-words and leading head-lines of the penny-press are familiar to him as household gods. He opens his mouth, and out flies a winged army of proverbs calculated to ridicule wealth, and contemn station. The news-boy hath no existence out of his vocation. From whence he emerges at the early dawn to run his erratic course, or whither be vanishes at the close of his daily labors, are profound mysteries, of which the public have not the clue. We may entertain a shadowy and imperfect idea that this running commentary on the superficial acquirements of the masses has at some period been like unto other children, in the possession of parents, guardians, and play-fellows; but in endeavoring to solve the problem, we at once are lost in the individuality of the official, nor can our mental laboratory furnish the wherewithal to separate the news-boy from his functional existence. His kindred or friends, if such he possess, have no being distinct from him; but like lesser lights, are lost in the blaze of his renown,'