Small Talk

-Of all the espediente o make the lieacl wenk, the hnnn g;uiz}', and to biing hfe down into the eonsistency of a cambric handketchief .ho most suoceséful ia the lit'.Ia tulk and tattie which, in porno charmed r.ircíes, is eourteously styled conVwiHli n. rlow humari-beings can live nfi tneh meager fare - how continue aswtence n such a f;imine of topics, and on sticli short f.llowanoe of sense - is a grert'. question, if phüosophy eouM otilv search it out. All wo know i that suoh men and women tliero aro, who vill go on duwdliug in this war, trom ifteen to lour score, and never a hint on their tombsiones that they died at ast of consumption of the liead and marasmus of the heart? Tho whole universa oí God, spro-iding out i's splendors and torrors, pleading for tlu-ir ittention, and they wondering how lrs. Somebodv got thnt divine rbbon o her bonnet I" The whole wofld of iterature, tlirough its thousand tamtw of fatne, abjuring them to regard its garnered stoned, both of emotion jiikI thought, and they think, "Tt'a 1imo. if John inbends to mary Sarah, for brui o pap the qtiostïon !" Wlien, to 1h sure, this frippery is spiced with a littln envy and malice, and prepares its small dish of scandal with nice bits of de'r.tc ion, becomes endowed with a slighty venomons vitality, which does prettv well in the absence of ronI, to carry fn he machiDerv of living, if not the .y of li fe. -