THE SCOTCH GIRL AND THE IOWA INDIANS. She spoke to her parents frequently during her affliction with so much delight and confidence of her precious Saviour, and of her desire to be present with him, that their hearts were filled with joy; and while suffering with fever, requested her father to read Psalm xxiii., and to sing the 30th Hymn, 2nd Book, Dr. Watts. She continued in the same happy state of mind, with short intervals of slight delirium, until the following Friday, when it was evident that the messenger was fast approaching. Finding her end drawing on apace, her weeping mother, who had been anxiously watching the progress of the disease, perceiving she had become speechless, desired a signal of her happiness, which was immediately responded to. She raised her hands and with a placid smile signified the sweet composure of her mind; and soon afterwards (which was about nine o'clock in the morning of the 20th of Oct., 1848) her ransom'd spirit took its flight to the bright regions of a better world. "Welcome, dear sister, sang the spirits of the just, As the wide portals expanded. 'Welcome, my purchased one, my well-belov'd,' The great Redeemer cried, with arms extended, Enter thy rest, and share with us the bliss of heaven.' And then the chorus join'd." M. H. R. THE SCOTCH GIRL AND THE IOWA MR. CATLIN, the enterprising traveller, who has visited numerous tribes of the North American Indians, relates the following pleasing incident respecting a company of the Iowa tribe, which lately visited this country, and who were then on board a steam vessel from Edinburgh to Dundee. It may be necessary to explain to our young friends that the Doctor is the wise man of the tribe, and that Little Wolf is the name of one of the chiefs. Daniel was the Interpreter-perhaps an American. Mr. Catlin says:-"On board the steamer as a passenger was a little girl of twelve years of age, and a stranger to all on board. When on their way, the captain was collecting his passage-money on deck, and came to the little girl for her fare, who told him she had no money, but she expected to meet her father at Dundee, whom she was going to see, and that he would certainly pay her fare if she could find him. The captain was in a great rage, and abused her for coming on board without the money to pay her fare, and said he should not let her go ashore, but that he should hold her a prisoner on board, and take her back to Edinburgh with him. The poor little girl was frightened, and cried herself almost into fits. The passengers, of whom there were a great many, all seemed affected by her situation, and began to raise the money amongst them to pay her passage, giving a penny or two apiece, which when done amounted to about a quarter of the sum required. The poor little girl's grief and fear still continued, when the Doctor, standing on deck wrapped in his robe, and watching all these results, touched with pity for her situation, went down into the fore cabin, where the rest of the party were, and, relating the circumstances, soon raised eight shillings, one of which the Little Wolf, after giving a shilling himself, put into the hand of his little infant, then supposed to be dying, that its dying hand might do one act of charity, and caused it to drop into the Doctor's hand with the rest. With the money the Doctor came on deck, and, advancing, offered it to the little girl, who was frightened and ran away. Daniel went to the little girl, and called her up to the Doctor, assuring her that there was no need of alarm, when the old Doctor put the money into her hand, and said to her, INTELLIGENCE IN A FISH. through the interpreter, and in the presence of all the passengers, who were gathering around; 'Now go to the captain and pay him the money, and never again be afraid of a man because his skin is red; but be always sure that the heart of a red man is as good and as kind as that of a white man; and when you are in Dundee, where we are all going, if you do not find your father as you wish, and are amongst strangers, come to us, wherever we shall be, and you shall not suffer; you shall have enough to eat, and if money is necessary, you shall have more. Such acts of kindness as these, and others that have and will be named, that I was a witness to while these people were under my charge, require no further comment than to be made known: they carry their own proof with them that the Doctor was right in saying, that "the hearts of red men are as good as those of the whites.'" INTELLIGENCE IN A FISH. Ar a recent meeting of the Liverpool Philosophical Society, Dr. Warwick related an extraordinary instance of intelligence in a fish. "When he resided at Durham, the seat of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, he was walking one evening in the park, and came to a pond where fish intended for the table were temporarily kept. He took particular notice of a fine pike, of about six pounds weight, which, when it observed him, darted hastily away. In so doing, it struck its head against a tenterhook in a post (of which there were several in the pond, placed to prevent poaching), and, as it afterwards appeared, fractured its skull, and turned the optic nerve on one side. The agony evinced by the animal appeared most horrible. It rushed to the bottom, and boring its head into the mud, whirled itself round with such velocity that it was almost lost to sight for a short interval It then planged about the pond, and at length threw itself completely out of the water on to the bank. He (the doctor) went and examined it, and found that a very small portion of the brain was protruding from the fracture in the skull. He carefully replaced this, and with a small silver tooth-pick, raised the indented portion of the skull. The fish remained still for a short time, and he then put it again into the pond. It appeared at first a good deal relieved; but in a few minutes it again darted and plunged about, until it threw itself out of the water a second time. A second time Dr. Warwick did what he could to relieve it, and again put it into the water. It continued for several times to throw itself out of the pond, and with the assistance of the keeper, the doctor at length made a kind of pillow for the fish, which was then left in the pond to its fate. Upon making his appearance at the pond on the following morning, the pike came towards him to the edge of the water, and actually laid its head upon his foot. The doctor thought this most extraordinary; but he examined the fish's skull, and found it going on all right. He then walked backwards and forwards along the edge of the pond for some time, and the fish continued to swim up and down, turning whenever he turned; but being blind on the wounded side of its skull, it always appeared agitated when it had that side towards the bank, as it could not then see its benefactor. On the next day he took some young friends down to see the fish, which came to him as usual; and at length he actually taught the pike to come to him at his whistle, and feed out of his hands. With other persons it continued as shy as fish usually are. He (Dr. Warwick) thought this a most remarkable instance of gratitude in a fish for a benefit received; and as it always came at his whistle, it proved also what he had previously, with other naturalists, disbelieved that fishes are sensible to sound." THE GERMAN PORTRAIT. [The following lines are by a youth in humble circumstances, and therefore we hope their imperfections may be excused, in favour of the tale and the moral it contains.] SOME hundred years have pass'd of late, Since a wealthy merchant died. He left behind his whole estate- The neighbours knew he had a son, At length one day three youths drew near Each said he was the son and heir, "A well-drawn portrait I'll produce "This picture has a well-known mark The first who shot came very near- The third, who stood in dread and fear, The bow and arrow now in vain Then drops them both upon the plain |