So calm the current of her life,
So lovely and serene its flow,
We hardly mark'd the deadly strife
Disease forever kept below.

But Autumn winds grew wild and chill,
And pierced her with their icy breath;
And when the snow on plain and hill
Lay white, she passed, and slept in death.

Tones only of immortal birth

Our memory of her voice can stir;
With things too beautiful for earth
Alone do we remember her.

She came in Spring, when leaves were green,
And birds sang blithe in bower and tree,
And flowers sprang up and bloomed between
Low branches and the quickening lea.

The greenness of the leaf is gone,

The beauty of the flower is riven,
The birds to other climes have flown,
And there's an angel more in Heaven.

And an appropriate companion to this, is

THE EARLY LOST.

When the soft airs and quickening showers
Of springtime make the meadows green,
And clothe the sunny hills with flowers

And the cool hollows scooped between,

Ye go, and fondly bending v here

The bloom is brighter than the day,
Ye pluck the loveliest blossom there
Of all that gem the rich array.
The stem, thus robb'd and rudely prest,
Stands desolate in the purple even,
The flower has withered on your breast,
But given its perfume up to heaven.

When, mid our hopes that waken fears,
And mid our joys that end in gloom,
The children of our earthly years

Around us spring, and bud, and bloom-
An angel from the blest Above

Comes down among them at their play, And takes the one that most we love, And bears it silently away.

Bereft, we feel the spirit's strife;

But while the inmost soul is riven,
Our dear and beauteous Bud of Life

Receives immortal bloom in Heaven.

We close our selections with the following poem on CHARLES HAMMOND. There is a double propriety in this: in the first place, because Mr. H. was Mr. Gallagher's political Mentor, and in the next, because it shows a just and true appreciation of the mental and moral characteristics of that independent journalist and incorruptible politician:

Who sleeps below.

Strong passions, spurning at control,
Debasing appetites, that gave
A galling fetter to his soul,

Made him their slave:

But 'neath a firm, unbending will,
High reason, and a heart of strength,
That, baffled oft, could struggle still,
They fell at length.

A keen perception of the right,
A lasting hatred of the wrong,
An arm that failed not in the fight,
A spirit strong,

Array'd him with the weak and low,
No matter what the opposing pow'r,
And gave a terror to his blow

In battle's hour.

SCIENTIFIC SUMMARY.

FOSSIL FOOTPRINTS.-Dexter Marsh, a laboring man, while flagging the side walk near his house, discovered the first footprints of birds in solid stone; since that discovery, he has felt an increasing interest in the subject, and in a letter to the Editor of the Journal of Science, dated Greenfield, Mass., May 20, 1848, gives an account of his recent investigations. He says he has in his collection more than eight hundred footprints of birds and quadrupeds, besides having presented specimens to many individuals and institutions in this and other countries. He has some very perfect tracks of a quadruped so small that a five cent piece will more than cover the entire impression of the foot; and tracks of a bird that measures more than half a yard from the heel to the point of the longest toe, with a foot very thick and being in proportion to the length. The most perfect specimens he obtained from Turner's Falls. He has obtained valuable specimens from South Hadley, found in the highway leading to Amherst, a mile and a half north of the Seminary. The slab in which they are found is a coarse grey sandstone cut and used for building purposes. He has also obtained from the south part of Montague some hundreds of the footprints of birds, but none of quadrupeds. This location is half a mile from the river, and nearly two hundred feet above it. He says if the height of the birds was in proportion to the length of their feet as indicated by many specimens in his collection, they must have stood nearly twenty feet high. These are the marks of birds that lived and become extinct perhaps hundreds of ages ago! Mr. Marsh says, he has in some localities traced the tracks of a single bird thirty or forty feet, to where the bird went in the water; this he knew from the fact, that the first tracks would be very slight indeed, being

pressed on hard sand or clay, and each successive step would be deeper and deeper until the mud closed over the impression; and when he got into the water, though he settled deep in the mud, the motion of the water entirely obliterated all appearance of the track on the strata over which the bird had walked, but by removing a thin layer we find the impression. This enabled him to ascertain how high the water was at the time, and how much of the layer was out of the water when the impressions were made. He has one slab, four or five inches thick, containing two footprints of a bird, which he split into five layers, the impression being distinct in each layer, although on the upper surface, it only shows a straight mark three or four inches long over each impression, the mud having been so soft as to close up, leaving no impression, while the lower slab shows were the foot rested. What facts in science can be more interesting than these! The student of geology, as he passes along this valley leading from the north line of Massachusetts to Weathersfiled, Connecticut, can determine with certainty that water once flowed at a level, hundreds of feet above its present line, and that the present flinty rocks to an indifferent depth, were once soft mortar to receive the impressions of the traveler's feet. These signs as it were an old language printed on the rock tables, tell of the earth long before the existence of human beings!

THE TENTH ASTEROID DIAN.-A new planet has recently been discovered by Prof. Kaiser, at Seyden. It belongs to the group between mars and jupiter, and performs its revolution in about three years and eight months.

PRESERVATION OF MILK.-This process, invented by a Russian chemist, named Kirkoff, consists in evaporating new milk by a very gentle fire, and very slowly, until it is reduced to a dry powder. This powder is to be kept in bottles carefully stopped. When it is to be employed, it is only necessary to dissolve the powder in a sufficient quantity of water. According to Mr. Kirkoff, the milk does not loose by this process any of its peculiar flavor.