A Western editor says:--"Wood, chips, coke, coal, corn-cobs, feathers, rosin, sawdust, shavings, splinters, dry leaves, old rags, fence-rails, barn-doors, flints, or anything that will burn or strike fire, taken on subscription at this office." TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTISM.--332. A Down-Easter thus distinguishes between different sorts of patriotism:--"Some esteem it sweet to die for one's country; but most of our patriots hold it sweeter still to live _upon_ one's country." POETICAL PATCHWORK.--333. Rock'd in the cradle of the deep, Old Casper's work was done; Piping on hollow reeds to his pent sheep, Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on! There was a sound of revelry by night, On Linden, when the sun was low; A voice replied, far up the height, Tall oaks from little acorns grow. What, if a little rain should say, I have not loved the world, nor the world me! Ah! well a-day; Woodman spare that tree! My heart leaps up with joy to see A primrose by the water's brim; Zaccheus, he did climb that tree; Few of our youth could cope with him. The prayer of Ajax was for light, The light that never was on sea or shore; Pudding and beef make Britons fight; Never more! Under a spreading chestnut tree, For hours the gither, sat I and my Annabel Lee; A man's a man for a' that. Truth crush'd to earth shall rise again, And waste its sweetness on the desert air; In thunder, lightning, or in rain, None but the brave deserve the fair. Tell me not in mournful numbers, The child is father of the man; Hush, my dear, lie still in slumber. They can conquer who believe they can. A change came o'er the spirit of my dream; Whatever is, is right, And things are not what they seem; My native land, good night! SO HUMANE.--334. A lady in Brooklyn is known to be so humane that she will not allow even her carpet to be beaten; and was frightfully shocked on hearing a boy, who was relating a story about a donkey, tell his comrades to cut his tail short. She actually fainted away when a relative said he had been killing time. THE LYING AT THE TOP.--335. "Truth lies at the bottom of the well." All very well, as long as it stays there; but it is the lying at the top and thereabouts that does all the mischief! "BRAGGIN' SAVES ADVERTISIN'."--336.