Agriculture is the fostei mother of all
other occupations and profess’ons. The
first labor informed by man was in the
cultivation of ilia earth. It always has
been the most important avocation <>♦’ car
face; and if, in the final Consummation of
human destiny, there should be a gradual
cessation of industrial pursuits, the last la
bor performed would be in farming, and
the last man would bo a farmer. How
apt is the resemblance between the life of
tbe worl I. Maa’s better parts art the
first levcbped, His eailfost attachn ent
is mixed with a feeling of dependence; .nd
when he dies, his higher and nobler
faculties outlive all the rwst.
“Dodge the Big Ones!”—A gentle
man relates an anecdote of the Mexican
war, which has never been published :
“When the American army »va< f tim
ing for the battle of Buena Vista, Genctttl
Lane was ri ling up and down the line of
his Indiana regiment. The Mexicans had
stationed some small guns on a neighbor
ing height, which weie b'azing away most
furiously on General Lane's regiment.
But as their gnus wera badly aimed, the
balls in every ease pass, dm er their heads,
t lit sufficiently near as to cause the men,
as they hem J the pecular whiz of the balls,
to involuntarily Muck’ their beads.
