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GREAT RESULTS FROM SMALL. BEGINNINGS.-17112 possibility of a great change being introduced by very slight beginnings, may be illustrated by the tale which Lockman tells of a vizier, who, having offended his master, was condemned to perpetual captivity in a lofty tower. At night his wife came to weep below his window. " Cease your grief," said the sage, " go home for . the present, and return hither when you have procured a live black beetle, together with a little ghee, (or buffalo's butter,) three clews, one of time finest silk, another of stout packthread, and another of whipcord, finally a stout coil of rope," When she again came to the foot of the tower, provided according to her husband's commands, he directed her to touch the head of the insect with a little of the ghee, to tie one end of the silk thread around him, and to place the reptile on the wall of the tower. Seduced by the smell of the butter, which he conceived to be in store somewhere above him, the beetle continued to ascend till he reached the top, and thus put the vizier in pos- session of the end of the silk thread ; who drew up the packthread by means of the silk, the small cord by means of the packthread, and by means of the cord, a stout rope capable of sustaining his own weight,—and so at last escaped from the place of his duresse.—Quarterly Review.
ELEMENTS OF DISCOED AT NEW HAmeolvv.—The attempt to make persons associate on a footing of equality, whose manners and education were ex- tremely different, produced disgust and mutual aversion, and was found to be impracticable. Many, too, who were friends to the system, were shocked at the Sunday balls, and the entire neglect of religion. Ludicrous circumstances sometimes arose from the menial offices imposed on persons who had been brought up in fashionable idleness. The Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar mentions a Miss Virginia D. from Philadelphia, who was playing on the piano- forte and singing beautifully, in his presence, when a message came, an- nouncing that the cows were waiting, and that it was her turn to milk them, She went away almost weeping, execrating the new social system, with the much-lauded equality ; and to add to her vexation one of the cows had trod upon tier, and another disfigured her clothes !— Foreign Quarterly Review.
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