WE present our readers with a print of the Tallowtree, which grows in great plenty in China, and produces a substance much like our tallow, which serves for the same purpose.

It is about the height of a cherry-tree; its leaves are in the form of a heart, of a deep shining red colour, and its bark is very smooth. Its fruit is inclosed in a kind of pod, or cover, like a chesnut, and consists of three round white grains, of the size and form of a small nut, each having its own coat, and within that a little stone. This stone is encompassed with a white pulp, which has all the properties of tallow as to consistence, colour, and even smell. The Chinese make their candles of it, which would doubtless be as good as ours, if they knew how to purify their vegetable tallow, as well as we do our animal tallow, and to make their wicks as fine. All the preparation they give it, is to melt it down, and mix a little oil with it, to make it softer and more pliant. Their candles, it is true, yield a thicker smoke, and a dimmer light than ours; but those defects are owing, in a great measure, to the wicks, which are not of cotton, but only a little rod of dry wood, covered with the pith of a rush, wound round it, which being very porous, serves to filtrate the tallow attracted by the burning stick, which by this means is kept burning..

THIS animal, whose appearance is very singular, is found in different parts of Asia. It is larger in size than the common goat, and the body is covered with long shaggy hair, which, it is probable, was the article. used in making cloth, as spoken of in Exod. xxvi. 7, and XXXV. 26. The most striking part of this animal is its ears, which are remarkably large, being from one to two. feet in length, and broad in proportion. In colour the Syrian goats are black; some black and white, and some gray.

Dr. Russel, a modern traveller, informs us that this kind of goat is to be found in the country round Aleppo, . a city in Asia, near the head of the Mediterranean sea, not far from Antioch; where they are kept chiefly for their milk, which is sweet and well tasted, and which they yield in considerable quantities. This milk is. esteemed highly as food by the inhabitants of that country.

The same kind of goat is also to be found in the country near about the city of Jerusalem, and it is no doubt to flocks of this description of goats, that Solomon refers at the end of the twenty-seventh chapter of Pro

verbs, where he says," Look well to the state of thy flocks-and thou shalt have goat's milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household," &c.

These animals which have been seen by modern travellers are probably of the same kind that were kept in Judea in the days of the prophet Amos, more than two thousand six hundred years ago. Amos lived in the reign of Jeroboam the Second, and prophesied a little before Isaiah; He was a shepherd, and many allusions in his writings, which are esteemed very beautiful, are drawn from his country employment.

INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE EXTRACTS.

AUTUMN.

AUTUMN has come again! One more is added to the list of years that have passed over us, and the ripe fruit and the falling leaf show that many of us have filled our cup of life; and that, as the leaf turns pale, we too must cease our mortal vegetation! The stream runs on-but we cease to be. The moonlight rests upon the hill side-but it will fall upon our graves!-The leaf is renewed and the fruit will be ripened—but man lives not again upon the earth! He leaves only a perishing monument of good or evil, in the memory of surviving friends-a trace in sand, which the returning tide of time will obliterate for ever! The insect on which we tread, the fabled gods of olden time, the wish as yet unwished, are not more frail, feeble, unlasting, than all that man is and must be! Like the meteor, he lights the sky for a moment, passes in darkness and is forgotten!-There is a melancholy pleasure in contemplating the "sear and yellow leaf." The autumnal season is one dear to memory. All things die about us, and we remember the departed. The eye naturally looks back upon the vales and mountains of existence over which we have passed, even until distance makes indistinct the occurrences of infancy.-We have ever found it to be the case, that autumn calls up our remembrance of of those who are dead-the playmates of our youth. The first kindling of the parlor fire-the gathering

around it-the "wheeling of the sofa round"-these circumstances alone call up recollections of the past, and turn the tide of thought from anticipation to memory. They will send us slowly back to the bright fountains and green landscape of younger days. The head sinks upon the hand, and visions of early pleasure flit across the brain-the cares of to-day vanish, and we live over in an hour, a life of joy and sorrow.

CURIOUS PROPERTIES OF THE FIGURE 9.

The following discovery of remarkable properties of the number 9 was accidentally made by Mr. V. Green, more than fifty years since, though, we believe, not generally known.

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+1 The component figures of the product, made by the multiplication of every digit into the number 9, when added together make nine. The order of these component figures is reversed, after the said number has been multiplied, by 5. The component figures of the amount of the multiplier, (viz. 45) when added together make nine. The amount of the several products, or multiples of 9, (viz. 405) when divided by nine, gives for a quotient, 45; that is 4+5=9. The amount of the first product, (viz. 9) when added to the other products, whose respective component figures makes 9, is 81; which is the square of nine. The said number 81, when added to the above mentioned amount of the several products, or multiples of 9, (viz. 405) makes 486; which, if divided by 9, give for a quotient. 54; that is 5+4-9. It is also observable that the number of changes that may be rung on 9 bells, is

363,880; which figures, added together, make 27; that is 2+7=9. And the quotient of 362,880, divided by 9, is 40,320; that is 4+0+3+2+0=9.

No man can safely go abroad, that does not love to stay at home; no man can safely speak, that does not willingly hold his tongue; no man can safely govern, that would not willingly become subject; no man can safely command, that has not truly learned to obey; and no man can safely rejoice, but he that has the testimony of a good conscience.

POETRY.

WITHERED BLOSSOMS.

BY REV. H. HUTTON.

THE blossoms are withered!-we tread oe'r their form,
On the plain as we pass, without care for them now;
In their frailty they meet the rude shock of the storm,
And they dropped, unprotected, uncropt from the bough.

But lately we gazed on their beauties, and prayed

That the sun beam would cherish and ripen their bloom;
And we hoped, ah how vainly, for see where they fade!
"Twould be long ere the garden should lose their perfume.

Thus often young genius is praised and caressed,
While his morning of promise is splendid and gay;
And bright seem his prospects of fame and of rest,
Till the blast of detraction sweeps over his way.

Alas! how the world views the fallen with scorn-
How it heedlessly tramples the withering mind!
Forgotten the charms which attracted at morn,
All its worth, all its hopes, are to darkness consigned.

How dull and unfeeling the hearts of the crowd,
To the pinings of virtue in misery's hour!
In the reign of her sunshine they greet her aloud,
But leave her neglected when storms overpower.

The many will tread on the best of their race,

When ruins sharp blight o'er their prospects has blown ; Or coldly will gaze on the sufferer's face,

And pass on their way without pity or moan.