"Our first thought, Madame, was to go and visit her, I assure you; but Dagobert is so fond of us, that he is always alarmed for our safety."

"And besides," added Rose," our father has confided us to his care; and he, in his solicitude for us, magnifies to himself, perhaps, the danger to which we would be exposed in visiting our governess."

"The scruples of this excellent man are excusable," replied the Princess; "but his fears are, as you say, exaggerated, for the disease is, as is now proved, not infectious." "Infectious or not, Madame," said Rose, "it is our duty to be beside our governess." "I believe so, my children; else she might accuse you of ingratitude or cowardice. It is not sufficient to merit the esteem of the world; we must strive to gain the grace of the Lord. You have had the misfortune to lose your mother, have you not?"

"Alas! Madame, we have."

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"Well, my children, although there is no doubt she is in paradise, among the elect; for she died a Christian death, and received the sacrament of our holy Church; did she not?"

"Our mother died in the wastes of Siberia, where there was no priest to assist her," replied Rose, sorrowfully.

"Is it possible?" cried the Princess, with an air of alarm; ". your mother died without the assistance of a minister of the Lord?"

"My sister and I watched over her after we had buried her, and we prayed for her," said Rose, while her eyes filled with tears. "Dagobert dug the grave in which she reposes."

"Alas! my dear children, your worthy mother, notwithstanding all her virtues, is not yet in paradise; for, as she died with out receiving the sacrament, her soul is now wandering in purgatory, awaiting the clemency of the Lord."

The Princess seeing, by the sorrowful countenances of the young girls, that her hypocritical fraud had produced the intended effect, added, "You must not despair, my children; sooner or later, the Lord will admit your mother into paradise; besides, can you not hasten her deliverance?"

"Oh! tell us how, Madame."

"In meriting the favour of the Lord by your exemplary conduct. For example, by accomplishing that act of gratitude toward your governess; yes, I am certain that this proof of Christian zeal, as the Abbé Gabriel says, would be efficacious in the sight of the Lord for the deliverance of your mother."

Oh! it is not only our governess that is now concerned," cried Blanche.

"Dagobert is coming," exclaimed Rose.

"Calm yourselves," said the Princess, "and do not mention to this excellent man what I have said; for he might throw obstacles in the way of your generous resolution."

"But, Madame, how shall we discover our governess?" inquired Rose. "Confide in me; I shall see you again." The soldier now returned.

"Well, Madame," said he, "I hope you have lectured these perverse young ladies on the contagion of devotedness."

"You may rest easy, sir," replied the Princess, exchanging a look of intelligence with the young girls, "I have said all that was necessary, and we understand each other now.'

These words completely satisfied Dagobert; and the Princess, having taken an affectionate leave of the orphans, returned to her carriage, and went to rejoin Rodin, who was waiting for her a little way off, for the purpose of hearing the result of her interview.

CHAPTER V.-THE INFIRMARY.

Among a great number of provisional infirmaries that were opened in Paris at the period of the cholera, there was one in the Rue Mont Blanc, in the lower part of an empty house, which the proprietor had generously placed at the disposal of the authorities. Hither were conducted the indigent sick that were suddenly seized with the cholera, and who were deemed in too dangerous a state to be immediately conveyed to the hospitals.

Two days had elapsed since the Princess de St. Dizier's visit to the orphans. It was about ten in the morning; and the persons that had voluntarily watched over the sick during the night, in the infirmary established in the Rue Mont Blanc, were about to be relieved by other volunteers.

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"Well, gentlemen," said one of the newcomers, was there a decrease last night in the number of patients?"

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No; but the doctors think that the infection has reached its height."

"We have, at least, the hope of seeing it decline."

"And among the persons whom we have relieved, has not one of them caught the infection?"

died, however, gloriously; for there is as much courage in dying thus, as there is in dying in battle."

"He had only one rival in zeal and courage; this was the Abbé Gabriel. Ah! if all priests were like him!"

"Who was the other victim among you last night?"

"Oh! his death was horrible! You have heard of the beast-tamer, that all Paris went to see, at the Porte St. Martin?" "I know the person; his name was Morok."

"The same. Well, this Morok was brought here; for it was thought he had the cholera, and, in fact, he presented the symptoms of it; suddenly, a frightful disease exhibited itself."

"What disease?"

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Hydrophobia!"

"And he became mad?"

"Yes; he has acknowledged that he was bitten a few days ago by one of the animals in his menagerie; unfortunately he did not make this known until after the dreadful fit, which has cost the life of the unfortunate person, whom we regret."

"How did this happen?"

"Morok was in an apartment along with three other patients. Suddenly he was seized with a kind of furious delirium, and he rushed wildly into the corridor, in uttering savage yells. The unfortunate person I have mentioned tried to stop him. This opposition increased Morok's frenzy; he rushed on the person, and bit and tore him, and at length fell into frightful convulsions. Morok's victim died last night in dreadful agony; for the shock he had received brought on a brain fever."

"And is Morok dead?"

"I don't know: he was secured in a room above; but I think he must be dead; the doctors did not give him more than twenty-four hours to live."

(To be continued.)

ORIGIN OF INDIAN CORN. The Canadian Indians give a very romantic tale as to the origin of Indian corn. It tells that there is a place on the banks of the softly-flowing Unadilla, not far from its confluence with the Susquehannah, which in former years was an extensive beaver-meadow. The short turf sloped down almost to the brink of the stream, whose banks in this place nourish not a single tree to shadow its waters. Here, where they flow over pebbles so smooth and shiny that the Indian maid who wandered along the margin would pause to count over her strings of wampum, and think the beads had slipped away,

there came one day some girls to bathe; and one, the most beautiful of all, lingered behind her companions to gather some bright pebbles from the bed of the river. A water-spirit who had assumed the form of a musquosh, sat long watching her from the shore. He looked at her shining shoulders-at her dripping locks, and the gently swelling bosom over which they fell; and when the maid lifted her round limbs from the water, and stepped lightly upon the green sod, he, too, raised himself from the mossy nook where he had been hidden, and recovering his own shape, ran to embrace her. The maiden shrieked and fled, but the enamoured spirit pressed closely in pursuit, and the meadow affording no shrub nor covert to screen her from her eager pursuer, she turned again towards the stream she had left, and made for a spot where the wild flowers grew tall and ranky by the moist margin. The spirit still followed her; and, frightened and fatigued, the girl would have sunk upon the ground as he approached, had she not been supported by a tuft of flags while hastily seiz ing and twining them around to hide her person. In that moment her slender form grew thinner and more rounded; her delicate feet became indurated in the loose soil that opened to receive them; the blades of the flag broadened around her fingers, and enclosed her hand; while the pearly pebbles that she held resolved themselves into milky grains, which were kept together by the plaited husk. The baffled water-spirit sprang to seize her by the long hair that yet floated in the breeze, but the silken tassels of the rustling maze was all that met his grasp.

"1. A grammer schole maintayned by every cathedrall church, and they appoint scholmasters, and send out best schollers. "2. Encouragement of studients. "This is the prize they aime at. "Noe schollards admitted; noe bookes sould.

"Our best devines have had these places.

"3. The councell of the bishopp to assist him in jurisdiction, ordination, and censures.

"4. The use of the cathedralls.

"They were the first monuments of christianity.

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Quoad personas.

above

"1. The officers about them 10,000. Coristers the seminaries of musick, and have no other vocation, but undonn.

"2. The tenants gaine above 6 parts in 7.

"3. Citties wherein these cathedralls stand much supported by them.

"4. The lands and revenue are the commons of the reipublique.

"5. The clergy enjoy all by charters and lawes. Gentry and commons live better heere than in other nations, ergo, let the clergy doe soe likewise. Other reformed churches have them though some...

"6. The kinge and commonwealth are advanced by them in tenths, first frutes, subsedies, arms, and yet would doe more, as this house shall appoint or suffer.

"These

are dedicated to God, the founder appoint the uses, and curse any that alter it.

"xvi Numbers, 28. Offerd to God, ergo, holy.

66 xx Proverbs. A snare to devoure that which is holy.

"ii Rom. Thou that abhorredst idols dost thou commit sacriledge?

"DR. BARGRAVE delivered a letter from the university of Cambridge, and a petition from them, and a petition from the almesmen and officers and other members of the cathedrall of Canterbery, and another petition from the tenants of the same cathedrall.

"And MR. SELDEN delivered a petition from the university of Oxon, and all for the preservation of deanes and chapters and bishops.

"DR. BURGIS. Quare. Whither deanes and chapters doe conduce to the ends mentioned by Dr. Hacket.

"Quare quoad res. "Musick intellegable, ergo, not to edifi

cation.

"1. Cathedralls noe fitter for prayers the parochiall churches.

"2. Preachings utterly neglected, or used only for raylinge.

The Heart and its Functions.-The heart is one of the simplest organs of the body, composed of muscular fibres, and divided into four cavities, namely, a right auricle and ventricle, and a left auricle and ventricle. Red blood is sent from the left side of the heart into the aorta or large pipe leading from it, which soon forms the arch of the chest, and descends to carry blood

to the abdomen and lower limbs; other vessels being given off from the arch itself, which supply the upper limbs and head. Losing its florid colour in its course, the blood is brought back of a dark hue to the right side of the heart, by the veins; and before it again passes to the left side of the heart, it is driven through the lungs, in them to be reconverted, by the action of the inspired air, into its florid or arterial state; after which it is again propelled into the aorta, to travel through the arteries as before. Just before the blood in the veins of the head and neck is transmitted to the heart, it receives, from a peculiar duct, a supply of chyle, which has been brought upwards along that duct from the organs of digestion, in a state to be mixed with the blood; and in the lungs the mixture becomes complete.

Supremacy of the Pope.-Gregory VII established the doctrine that kings were his temporal bishops. Urban II made Philip I of France submit to his will in a point of private morals, by relieving his subjects from their oath of allegiance. The emperor Henry IV submitted to a similar humiliation; and in the long pontificate of Innocent III, contemporary with a great part of the reign of Philip-Augustus, we find this pope excommunicating the king, putting the kingdom under an interdict, proclaiming himself suzerain of England, and, in short, playing in every instance the universal monarch.

Ancient Liberality in matters of Religion. -Originally the Eleusinian mysteries were closed to all but Athenians; the liberality of later times and the eagerness of strangers to gain admission abolished the mo

from these holy initiations. The Greeks were rather happy to be allowed a free from foreign countries, than desirous to trade in religion, and to import sacred rites make converts by the sword or the stake. conceived themselves in the possession of a The worshippers of any particular god valuable religious monopoly and pre-emito divine protection; and they were no nence, as knowing a short and easy road more anxious to make others participate the bank of England or the East India in these advantages than the members of Company would wish to extend to others the privileges of their respective monopolies.

Troubadours.-It was from the year 1201 up to 1280, that the songs of the trouba dours were chiefly in vogue. During this period occurred the crowd of gai chanteurs, such as Cadenet, Blacas, Giraud, De Borneuil, Boniface de Castillane, Pierre Cardinal, Isarn, the Monk of Montaudon, Giraud Riquirer, &c., whose poems were bower. so celebrated in castle, hall, and lady's

Novogorod Three Centuries ago.-Richard Chancellour, who passed through Novogorod in 1554, in his way from the court of the Czar, says that "next unto Moscow, the city of Novogorod is reputed the chiefest of Russia; for although it be in majestie inferior to it, yet in greatness it goeth beyond it. It is the chiefest and greatest mart town of all Muscovy; and albeit the emperor's seat is not there, but at Moscow, yet the commodiousness of the river falling into the gulph of Finland, whereby it is well-frequented by merchants, makes it

more famous than Moscow itself."

Poetical Revivals.-In the year 1589, at the moment when all the birds of ill omen were floating round the supposed deathbed, Shakespeare started in his immortal career. In 1667 the poetry of England was pronounced to be ruined. Before that year was at an end, the "Paradise Lost" refuted the calumny.—Croly.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

ally delayed.

Answers to certain questions have been accidentMr. T. S. N. is informed the means by which the lustre thrown upon casts imitating iron bronze, is by mixing a small portion of black lead with brown ochre, and a fine oxide of iron, or iron rust.

R. W.'s question, we are afraid, must be answered in the negative. The beautiful hues of blooming flowers cannot be preserved when they are dried. By pressing the leaves closely between paper, and excluding the light, the colours of some plants may be partially saved.