ford, the name of the celebrated seat of learning, has a derivation equally humble: Oxford is only the ox-path across the river. Bosphorus is a highsounding name in the Greek language; but what is it, in the English translation, but bull-path or oxford? MARRIED LIFE. Do not run much from home. | stands was the site of an old manufactory of tiles, One's own hearth is of more worth than gold. Many (tuileries,) as if one should say the tile-house. Oxa marriage begins like a rosy morning, and then falls away like a snow-wreath. And why? Because the married pair neglect to be as well-pleasing to each other after marriage as before. Endeavor always to please one another; but at the same time keep God in your thoughts. Lavish not all your love on to-day, for remember that marriage has its to-morrow likewise, and its day after to-morrow, too. Consider, ye daughters, what the word wife expresses. The married woman is the husband's domestic faith; in her hand he must be able to intrust the key of his heart, as well as the key of his pantry. His honor and his home are under her keep ing-his well-being in her hand. Think of this! And you, ye sons, be faithful husbands, and good fathers of families. Act so that your wives shall esteem and love you. WHEN there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, covering every black cloud with gorgeous hues. SYDNEY SMITH was on one occasion waited on by a lady, who lamented her inability to make her child pronounce his words correctly, and said that in a Scripture lesson lately given to him, the youngster called Abraham and the other sacred characters in the passage which he was reading-instead of patriarchs "partridges." "I see," responded Sydney, "the young rascal was making game of them." A FASHIONABLE lady who, from having been a laundress, was raised to the hight of " upper-ten"dom by a fortunate marriage with a millionaire, being one day besieged by a flatterer, who treated her as if she had been born to royalty, said to him, half laughing, half seriously: "Sir, you owe me for some washing I did for you some time since." "I had not forgotten it, madam," replied the no ways disconcerted flatterer, "but I was afraid to pay you." There are few persons, men or women, in society, who would dare to have so good a memory. THAT man can not be your friend who will not allow you to teach him any thing. HENRY NELSON. DERIVATION OF CELEBRATED NAMES.-The name HOME.-A home!-it is the bright, blessed, adorable phantom which sits highest on the sunny borizon that girdeth life! When shall it be reached? It is not the house, though that may have its charms; nor the fields, carefully tilled, and streaked with your own foot-paths; nor the trees, though their shadow be to you like that of a "great rock in a weary land;" nor yet is it the fireside, with its cozy comfort; nor the pictures, which tell of loved ones; nor the cherished books; but more far than all these, it is the presence! The altar of your confidence is there; the end of your worldly faith is there; and adorning it all, and sending your blood in passionate flow, is the ecstasy of the conviction that there, at least, you are beloved; that there you are understood; that there your errors will meet ever with gentlest forgiveness; that there your troubles will be smiled away; that there you may unburthen your soul, fearless of harsh unsympathizing ears; and that there you may be entirely and joyfullyyourself! BEWARE. THOUGH rosy lips to thine be prest, And sunny eyes glance through thy heart, When first love beckons, pause and think, From such enchantment, and beware! And beauty's light has ceased to shine: The blossoms of the heart are dead, The glittering hopes of plumage shorn, How vain the warning! who in youth When hopes like startled birds are gone: "Tis given, like winged seeds 'twill roam, Perchance to find some bosom-home. J. W. THIRLWALL. PHILOSOPHICAL.-Life, we are told, is a journey, and to see the way in which some people eat, you of the gorgeous French palace of Tuileries was deriv-wonld imagine they were taking in provisions to lat ed from the circumstance, that where the palace them the whole length of the journey. RETORT COURTEOUS.-A judge and counselor being upon indifferent terms, a client of the counsel's making his appearance at the bar with.his jaw terribly swelled, the judge remarked, "Mr., this client of yours would make an excellent counselor, he's all jaw," which set the court in a roar of laughter against the counselor. On silence being restored, the counsel then remarked: "My lord, I think he would make a better judge, for his jaw is all on one side." The retort turned the laugh against the judge, and from that day they were on the best terms of friendship. THE tears of beauty are like light clouds floating over a heaven of stars, bedimming them for a moment that they may shine with greater lustre than before. A wir once asked a peasant what part he performed in the great drama of life? "I mind my own business," was the reply. "I wish you would give me that gold ring on your finger," said a dandy to a country girl, “for it resembles the duration of my love for you-it has no end." "Excuse me, sir," she said, "I choose to keep it; for it is likewise emblematical of my love for you-it has no beginning." THE common things of life are those which cluster in and around our homes. The world is made up of homes. We may leave them for a holiday; but our lives are spent in our homes, and it is there we must make or mar them. If our homes are happy, the happiness of life is secure. And as only the good life can be a happy one, those who do the best here-the best they know-may assuredly hope to reach the best hereafter. WHY is the bequest of the late Duchess of Kent the most munificent on record? Because she has left a Sovereign to each of Her Majesty's subjects. SARATOGA EMPIRE SPRING. D. A. KNOWLTON, PROPRIETOR. THE attention of the public is invited anew to the renowned mineral qualities and health-renovating virtues of this remarkable fountain of waters. Its name and value are already widely known. But multitudes remain still strangers to the benefits to be derived from its use. The proprietor begs to present to the public the following certificates among many others as ample testimony to the medicinal virtues of the Empire Spring: By Professors of Castleton Medical College. Having been acquainted with the water of the Saratoga Empire Spring since the time of its discovery, and having observed its effects in obstinate scrofulous diseases, we believe this water is more salutary in the treatment of that form of scrofula which results in common consumption than any other mineral water with which we are acquainted. The combinations of nature in the medicinal properties of this water are doubtless inimitable by art, which we have found evinced in some cases of diseases which have resisted all other preparations of iodine, and have yielded to the water of the Empire Spring. J. PERKINS, M.D., Prof. of Materia Medica. Empire Spring, by R. L. Allen, M.D., a Resident This fountain has more than answered the expectations of its friends; as a beverage, our inhabitants who have drank it daily for several years past, can not be induced to make a substitute of any other spring. As a cathartic and alterative, my past experience compels me to say, that in my opinion it has no superior here or elsewhere. Its exemption from clay, and the small relative quantities of iron which enter its composition, render it one of the best, if not the very best, mineral water for commercial purposes; while its ability to withstand the trying influences of warm climates and sea-voyages, makes it a very desirable water for bottling purposes. These properties, together with the gentlemanly care of its present proprietors, have given it a circulation and use abroad which have heretofore been unprecedented in the history of celebrated mineral R. L. ALLEN, M.D. waters. May, 1857. Letter from Dr. Valentine Mott, of the city of From the analysis of the water of the Empire Spring at Saratoga, by eminent chemists there can not be a doubt but that it contains ingredients of a medicinal quality equal to any in that celebrated village. The larger quantity of Iodine which it contains, particularly fits it for the varied forms of strumous or scrofulous affections. VALENTINE MOTT. New-York, April 30, 1857. EMPIRE SPRING WATER. Bicarbonate of Lime. Hydriodate of Soda or Iodine. Solid Contents in a Gallon.. 269.696 grs. ..141,824 " 41,934 30,848 12,000" 000 46 .496,352 .1.039 Prices of Empire Water delivered at .$1.75 2.25 The water of the Empire Spring is bottled with the utmost care, and packed in strong boxes, suitable for exportation, by the subscriber. The corks of all genuine Empire Water are branded, Empire Spring. Orders may be addressed to July, 1861. D. A. KNOWLTON, |