But alas and alack! it is "all in my eye"--
For before it reaches the top of the stairs,
It's turned into water quite "unawares,"
While John with his salver, looks red and stares,
And the moist confectioner inwardly swears,
As he wipes with his apron his long, pale phiz,
"Oh--pooh! how infernally hot it is!"

Oh, what a treat 'twould be to wade
Chin deep in fresh ice and lemonade!
Or to sit a deep marble bowl within,
And camphor gurgling around your chin--
Hissing and sparkling round your nose,
Till you open your mouth and down it goes,
Gulp by gulp, and sup by sup,
As you "catawumpishly chew it up."
Refreshing your heart and cooling your faces--
Burnt down as they've been with all sorts of sauces
Oh, the fellow who thus could lave his phiz
Needn't care how hot the weather is!

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A son of the Emperor Nicholas, of Russia, is now travelling in the
United States. He is said to be an intelligent looking man.

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CALIFORNIA FARMING.

A gentleman, writing from California to the editors of the Saint Louis
Reveille, says his stock consists of about four thousand head of oxen,
one thousand seven hundred horses and mules, three thousand sheep, and
as many hogs. They all pasture! themselves without difficulty in the
rich prairies and bottoms of the Sacremento, and only require to be
attended. This is dune by the Indians, of whom he employs four
hundred. His annual crop of wheat is about twelve thousand bushels,
with barley, peas, beans, etc, in proportion.

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DIVERSIFICATION OF LANGUAGE.

_A poetic line from Gray admits of the following twenty-eight
variations without changing the accent:_

The weary ploughman plods his homeward way,
The ploughman, weary, plods his homeward way,
His homeward way the weary ploughman plods,
His homeward way the ploughman weary plods,
The weary ploughman homeward plods his way,
The ploughman, weary, homeward plods his way,
His way, the weary ploughman homeward plods,
His way, the ploughman, weary, homeward plods,
The ploughman, homeward, plods his weary way,
His way the ploughman, homeward, weary plods,
His homeward weary way the ploughman plods,
Weary, the ploughman homeward plods his way,
Weary, the ploughman plods his homeward way,
Homeward, his way the weary ploughman plod