The Arkansas "Southern Gem" asks a very natural question: "Why does not every one take 'Godey?' Those who read ours shall pay fifty cents for it, and upon no other terms."
WHAT WE LOSE BY BORROWERS.--The "Eastern Times" says: "Will the publisher please forward the first three numbers of the present year? We had the misfortune to _lend them_." Of course, we sent them.
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One side of every thing you see, You often think and talk of me; Yet though I clearly should proclaim All that I am, and tell my name Without disguise or round about, Still you could never make me _out_.
By wise men in the days of yore I was accounted one of four; But what our number is, of late Learning has brought into debate. The circuit of this globe I round; Disdaining loftiest wall and mound. Scarce felt or known, I always move Within you, round you, and above; Floating the earth and heaven between, Am often heard but never seen; Yet, though devoid of shape or size, Grow thinner always as I rise. By drawing me, you live and breathe; If I withdraw, you sink in death. I help to feed the plant and tree; I serve the birds for sail and sea. Without my passport to its flight Your eye could not discern the light, Nor to your ear would ever reach The voice of music or of speech. I am a gesture, a grimace, A blemish oftener than a grace, Except upon a favorite's face. But many are the parts I play, And oft the grave and oft the gay, Am pure, am foul, am heavy, light, Am safer in the day than night, Upon the mountain keen and sharp, But soft and sweet upon the harp. The prince of demons by degree Is for a season prince of me; But thence, too, he shall fall in time, As once he fell from higher clime; Meanwhile his lies of every hue By _taking_ me are passed for true.
Of my first you'll perceive at a glance, That I'm reckoned ill-meaning in France: Which annexed with what's everywhere cold, You'll a form as repulsive behold As disfigures humanity's race, Or could character taint with disgrace.
IRON-MOULDS IN PAPER.--When paper is disfigured with iron-moulds, it may be restored by applying to the stained part a solution of sulphate of potash, and afterwards a weak solution of oxalic acid. The sulphate attracts from the iron part of its oxygen, and renders it soluble in the diluted acids. This is applicable to other substances; but care must be taken to place the oxalic acid in a safe place, and to mark the bottom containing it "poison."