plomas
News-Boys--Public excitement
Nuts--Problems
Oxen--Patient toil
Palms--Restful victory
Palm-Trees--Tropical scenes
Park--Benevolence
Platform--Oration
Pitcher--To receive
Public seats--People's joy
Quills--Old parchments
Rats--Thieving
Ring--Contract
Near heart, Wedding
With child or flowers, Bliss
Road--An outlook
Rabbit--Timidity, Cowardice
Rainbow--Sublime promise
Saw or Scissors--Vexations
Scales--Love of justice
Star--Hope, Promise
Squares--Realizations
Sunlight--Vital life, Health
Ships--Commerce
Sinking Ships--Perils and loss
Spring--Wisdom, Peace
Snake--Enmity, Lies
Staff--Aid
Sofa--Social or Courtship
Spiders, or--
Scorpions--Illness, Venom
Sky-scenes--Sublimity and Peace
Tiger--Onslaught
Tall Shaft--Illustrious dead
Table Set--Feasting
Trees--Lofty thoughts
Tower--Strength
Urns--Veneration, Retrospection
Wells--Wisdom and drawing forth good
Wheat--Plenty
Whirlwind--Distraction
Wavy lines--Vexations
Weeds--Petty trials
Window--In a new light
Monks, Nuns, Priests or Ministers--betoken sectarian controversies
Scattered objects--Lack of harmony and no propitious time for action

Keep the mind well centered in reading. Thus only will the
transmitting powers of soul expand the descriptive faculties.

[Illustration: calligraphy flourish 4]

GIRLHOOD.

[AMELIA E. BARR.]

An exquisite incompleteness,
The theme of a song unset;
A waft in the shuttle of life;
A bud with the dew still wet;
The dawn of a day uncertain;
The delicate bloom of fruit;
The plant with some leaves unfolded,
The rest asleep at the root.

POPULAR TOASTS.

[Illustration: American flag]

_Our Flag:_ The beautiful banner that represents the precious
_mettle_ of America.

OUR COUNTRY'S EMBLEM.

The Lily of France may fade,
The Thistle and Shamrock wither,
The Oak of England may decay,
But the Stars shine on forever.

* * *

The standard of Freedom floats proudly on high,
It's the bright waving Banner of Light,
Fair symbol of Liberty born of the sky,
True emblem of Union and Might.

WEBSTER'S MOTTO.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

SHIP OF STATE.

Nail to the mast her holy flag;
Set every threadbare sail;
And give her to the God of Storms,
The lightning and the gale.

A TOAST TO OUR NATI