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Flowers.
Ye are the scriptures of the earth,
.Sweet flowers, fair and frail,
A Sermon speaks in every bud
That woos the summer gale.
Ye lift your heads at early morn,
To greet the sunny ray,
And cast your fragrance forth to praise
The Lord of night and day.
Sown in the damp and cheerless earth,
Ye slumber for a while,
Then waken into glorious life,
And bid creation smile.
Thus when within the darksome tomb
Our mortal frame shall lie,
The soul, freed from the bonds of sin,
Shall join the choir on high.
A Sweet Draught.
A lady poetess, writing about her lover, says
in ihe charmingest manner imaginable:
-He drew
In one long kiss, my whole soul thro'
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew !"
The Baltimore Clipper tells us a good story,
of which the following is ihe substance :
A board of school Commissioners,' who en
cumbered a consequential little vjlliage in Ma
rvland. heinrr in want of a teacher, advertised
in ihe newspapers for 4 a well disposed moral j
tnan, who was capable of teaching the dead Ian-;
guaoes, and did not chew tobacco or drink whis- j
key? After a fortnight of this advertising had
been elaborated, a raVboned Yankee made his j
appearance with a knife in one hand, and a
Cape Cod Projection, alias a cake of ginger-
bread in the other, and held ihe following
l,mP with th rnrnmiiiM pfnrpsaid!
Well, sir' said the chairman, eveinz the J
candidate from head lo fool, 'do you possess h is believed ihat brown bread will generally
ihe necessary requisites for a public school J be found the best by all persons having slug
Jeacher V ' gsn bowels and stomach?, equal to ihe diges-
T ...- T rln ' nnRwarerl Slick, whittling his I
xOww ', J a J
-m llr..
4 Do you understand Latin?' asked one of !
J - i
the committee men, a Dutch farmer.
1 guess I do,' replied Slick again rounding
the end of his slick with hh knife.
4 Well, let's hear some of your Latin,1 said
the Chairman.
. n..mhn Mr snnash r.nm. et nunkintum lin-S
m,' said Slick, drawing his coat sleeve slow- j
cum
ly under his nose.
Humph !' exclaimed the Dutchman, 1 ish
ihat Laiin ! Who's le auihor V
Josephus,' replied Slick, he says, in his
life of Governor Hancock, ' Sic transit gloria
Monday morning Hancocibus quad erat de
inonstrandum.
Dai's gool V exclaimed the Dutchman, rub
bing his hands, ' lere never was petter Latins I1
Now, sir,' said the Chairman, l suppose
you understand geography?'-
I guess I do,' replied Slick, sharpening the
end of his stick.
'How far have you been V
As far as ihe District of Columby
4 What Slate is it in V
' A State of desperation.'
4 What latitude are we in V
4 According to ihe thermometer, we are ten
degree below zero.'
What is the most western point of North
America V
4 Cape Cod.'
4 Good. 'Now, sir, let us know how far you
studied mathematics. What's ihe area of a
quare acre of land V
' That depends upon ihe quality,' replied
Slick, snapping the blade of his knife.
Well, suppose it be corn land.'
4 Why, it depends upon the number of hills.'
4 Say five hundred.'
4 Guess you might as well tell a fellow how
many grains to a hill.'
4 Five.
' Then, accordin to Euclid, ii would be 750
feet horizontally perpendicular.
4 Excellent ! Pray, where are you from V
1 Staunton, down in the Bay State and I
effn do most anything.'
4 No doubtj but there is one jhing you can
not do ; vow cannot humbug us- You can go.
' From Chambers' Edinburgh Journal.
White and Brown Bread.
Several years ago, we threw out the surmise
that the separation of the while from the brown
pans of wheat grain was likely lo be baneful
to ihe health. We proceeded, upon theoretical
grounds, belicVing ihat Providence must have
contemplated our using the eritire grain, and
noi a poriion only, selected by means of a nice
ly arranged machinery. It struck us forcibly,
that to go on for a long course of years, ihus
using a Kina oi 100a umerent irom wnat nature
designed, could not fail to be attended with bad
consequences. We have since learrted that
our views have some recognized support in sci
ence. The following paragraph from a recent
pamphlet will at once serve to keep the subject
alive in the minds of our readers, and explain
the actual grounds on which the separation of
i the flour is detrimental. 44 The general belief,"
! says the writer, 44 is, that bread made with the
finest flour is the best, and that whiteness is
the proof of its quality ; bui both these opinions
are popular errors. The whiteness may be and
generally is, communicated by alum, to the in
jtir)T of the consumer ; and it is known by men
of science that the bread of unrefined flour will
sustain life, while that made with the refined
will not. Keep a man on brown bread and
valef, and he will lh'e and enjoy good health ;
give him white bread and water only, and he
will sicken and die. The meal of which the
first is made, contains all !he ingredients neces
sary to the composition of nourishment lo the
various structures composing our bodies. Some
of the ingredients are removed by the miller, in
his efforts 10 please the public ; so that line
flour, instead of being better than meal, is ihe
least nourishing ; and to make the case worse,
it is alsq, ihe most difficult of digestion. The
loss is, therefore, in all respects, a waste, and it
seems desirable ihat the admirers of white bread,
bul especially ihe poor, should be acquainted
with these truths, and brought to enquire wheth
er they do noi purchase, at loo dear a rate, the
privilege of indulging in the use of it. The
unwise preference given so universally to white
bread, leads to the pernicious practice of mix
ing alum with the flour, and ihis again to all
sorts of adulterations and impositions ; for it
enables bakers who are so disposed, by adding
more and more alum, lo make bread made from
the flour of an inferior grain look like the best
! or most costly, and tc dispose of it accordingly
at once defrauding the purchaser and tamper-
mg wnn ms neaun. Among me matters remueu
by the miller are ihe large saline substances,
which are indispensable to ihe growth of the
bones and teeth, and are required, although in
a less degree, for daily repair. Brown bread
should, therefore, be given to nurses, and to the
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dia-,y0Ung and to the growing, and should be pre-
furred bv all. of whatever ase.whose bones show I
a tendency to bend, or who have weak leeih
lion of ihe bran. But with some it will disa
Uree, for it is too exciting to irritate bowels,'
and is dissolved with difficulty in some stom -
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achs. -wnen mis Happens, tue orau suuuiu uujej.awa, u j. ...auc a SuUU u., .. v
removed, either wholly or in part ; and by such self down. The night was almost passed tran-
means the bread may be adapted with the great-
est ease, to all habits and all constiiutions.
Mr. Smith, in his tato rem'arkable work on
fruits and farinacea as the food of man, gives
some illustrations of this doctrine. " Bulk," he
says, " is nearly as necessary to me articles oi
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diet as the nutriment principle. They should
be so managed that one should be in proportion
to ihe other. Too highly nutritive is probably
as fatal to the prolongation of life and health,
as that 'which contains an insufficient quanliiy
of nourishment." It is a matter of common re
mark among old whalemen, that during long
voyages ihe coarser their bread the better iheir
health. " I have followed the seas for thirty
five years," said an intelligent sea-captain to
Mr. Graham, " and I have been in almost every
part of ihe globe. I have always found that
ihe coarsest pilot-bread, which contains a con
siderable portion of bran, is decidedly ihe best
for any man." " I am convinced, from my own
experience," says another captain, ,rthat bread
made of the unbolted wheal meal is far more
wholesome than that made from the best super
fine flour, the latier always tending to produce
constipaiion."
Capt. Dexter of the ship Isis, belonging to
Providence, arrived from China, in December
1804. He had been about one hundred and
ninety days on the passage. The sea-bread,
which constituted the principal article of food
for his men, was made of the best superfine
flour. He had not been long at sea before his
men began to complain of languor, loss of ap
petite and debility. These difficulties contin
ued to increase ihe whole voyage, and several
of the hauds died on the passage of debility and
inanition. The ship was obliged 10 come lo
anchor thirty miles below Providence; such
was the debility of the men on Ijoard, that they
were not able lo get ihe ship tinder weigh again,
and the owners were under ihe necessity of
sending men down from Providence. When
she arrived ihe owners asked Cap'. Dexter
what was the cause of the sickness of his men '
He 'replied that " ihe bread was loo good."
tetters cf Paul liouis Coiiricr to a
Female Cousin.
A PREDICAMENT.
I was one day travelling in Calabria; it is a
country of wicked people, who, 1 believe have
no great liking lo any body and are particu
larly indisposed towards ihe French. To tell
you why would be a long affair. Ii is enough
that they hate us to death, and that the unhap
py being who should fall into their hands would
not pass his time in the most agreeable manner.
I had for my companion a fine young fellow.
I do hot say this to interest you but because
it is the truth. In these mountains ihe roads
are precipices, and our horses got on with the
greatest difficuliy. My comrade going first a
track which appeared more practicable and
shorter than the regular path led us astray.
It was my fault. Ought 1 to have trusted to
a head of seventeen years ? We sought our
way out of ihe wood while it was yet light, but
the more we looked for the path the farther we
were off from it. It was a very black night,
and we came close upon a very black house.
We went in, and not without suspicion. But
what was to be done. There we found a whole
family of charcoal burners at a table. At the
first word they invited us to join thetn. My
young man did noi wait for much ceremony.
In a minute or two we were eaiing and drink
ing in right earnest he at least. For my own
pan, I could not help glancing about at ;he
place and the people. Our hosts, indeed, look
ed like charcoal burners ; but the house, you
would have taken it for an arsenal. There was
nothing to be seen but muskets, pistols, sabres,
knives and cutlasses.
Every thing displeased me, and I saw that
I was in no favor mTself. My comrade, on
inn r.nn'.rarv. was soon one of the family. He
laughed, he chatted with them ; and with an
imprudence which ought to have been prevent
ed, ho at once said where we came from, where
we were going ihat we were Frenchmen.
Think of our situation. Here we were among
our mortal enemies, alone, benighted, far from
human aid. That nothing might be omitted
ihat could lend to destroy us, he must play ihe
rich man forsooih, promisng these folks to pay
them well for their hospitality ; and ihen he
must prate about his portmanteau, earnestly be
seeching thern to lake care of it and put it at
the head of his bed, for he wanted no other pil
low. Ah, youth, how you are to be pitied. Cous
in, ihey might have thought we carried the dia
monds of ihe crown the tieasures in his port
manteau, which gave him such anxiety, con
sisted of the letters of his mistress.
Supper ended, they left us. Our hosts slept
below, we on the story where we had been
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eating, in a sort ol plailorm, raiseu seven o
eight feet, where we were to mount by a lad
der, was the bed that awaited us a nest into
which we had to introduce ourselves by jump
ing over barrels filled wirh provisions for all
ihe year.
My comrade seized upon the bed above, and
was soon fast asleep, wilh his head upon the
. precious portmanteau. 1 was determined to
1 I. anfrn 1 mewl r nrtfl fi r n n ri A cat mtr.
quuiy enougn, anu i was oeginmug .o .um
fortably enough, when just at the time when it
' appeared to mo that day was about to break, I
heard our host and his wife talking and dispu
ling below me and putting my ear into the chim
ney, which communicated to ihe room below,
I perfectly distinguised ihese exact words of
ihe husband :
44 Well, well, let Us see ; must we kill them
boihr
To which the wife replied
41 Yes" and I heard no more.
How. shall i tell you the rest? I cduld scarce
ly breaihe ; my whole body was as maple ; to
have seen me you could not nave told whether
I was dead or alive. Heavens! when I think
upon it ! wo two were almost without arms ;
against us were twelve or fifteen who had plen
ty of weapons. And then, my comrade dead
of sleep and fatigue. To call him up, lo make
a noise was more than 1 dared; to escape was
an impossibility.
The window was not very high, but under it
were two great dogs, howling like wolves. Im
agine, if you can, the distress 1 vas in.
At ihe end of a quarter of an hourwhich
seemed an age I heard some one on the stair
case, and through the chink of the doors I saw
the old man, with a lampjn one hand, and one
of his knives in ihe other. He mounted, his
wife after him ; I was behind ihe door-.-ho
opened it; but before he came in he put dow4t
the lamp, which his wife took up; and coming
in, with his feet naked, she being behind him,
said in a smothered voice, hiding ihe light par
tially wilh her fingers
tr Gently, go gently.''
When he reached the ladder he mounted,
with his knife between his teeth; and gding to
the head of the bed, where ihe young man lay
with his throat uncovered, wilh one hand he
took his knife and with the other oh, my cous
in, he seized a ham which hung from the roof,
cut a slice, and retired as he came in. The
door is re-shm, the li'ght vanishes, $nd 1 am
left alone to my reflections.
When the day appeared, all the family with
a great noise came to arouse us as we had de
sired. They brought us plenty lo eat- they
served us a very proper breakfasi, a capital
breakfast 1 assure you. Two" capons formed
pari of it, 4,of which," said the hostess, "you
must eai one and carry the other away."
When I saw ihe capons 1 at once compre
hended the meaning of those terrible words,
"Must we kill them both?"
Wlay is there so much iiseac.
Because, in a number of things, we do just
what by our nature, we never intended lo do.
For example :
1. Man is iniended lo draw fresh air every
time he breathes. Almost all ihe people, when
in their shops, breaihe ihe same air over and over
again. To show ihe necessity of allowing fresh
air continually to euier living rooms, and the
bad air to escape, it may be stated that every
person, during each moment of his life, de
siroys a quantity of air twice as large as hhh
self. ,
2. Man ought to breaihe pure air at every
breath. Our sewers and drains are so bad, thai
the vapor and foul gasses rise, and we breathe
ihem.
3. Man was intended to take open exercise
every day. Neither his heart, his stomach and
bowels, his skin, his liver, his lungs, his kid
neys nor his brain, will act rightly, without
walking exercise every day. Most of us do
not get any walk, or only a very short one,
which is scarcely of any use.
4. Man is furmed id lake simple, plain and
wholesome food He eats all sorts of things,
which not only do him ho good, but do him
harm, and drinks large quantities of beer, spir
its, and wine, which hurt his stomach and take
away the proper use of his brain.
5. Man onoht to wash himself all over with
water every day, ad as id cleanse the pores of
the skin, else they get slopped up; he cannot
perspire rightly, and his skin cannot breaihe.
The majority of people only wash ther hands
and faces.
6. Man should wear clean clolhes next his
skin, because the body gives off bad fluids. At
present many people wear the same thing day
after day for weeks together.
7. Man was iniended to live in the light.
Many, very many, have scarcely any light in
iheir rooms.
S. Man in this climate, must wear warm
clothing. Many have no flannel, and are clad
wilh heavy and useless things.
Hovv much misery would be avoided in the
history of many lives, had truth and sincerity
been ihe guiding and controlling motives, in
stead of prevarication and deceit ! ' Any vice,'
said a parent in our hearing, a few days since,
any vice, at least among the frailties of milder
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character, but falsehood. Far better that my
child commit an error or do wrdng and confess
it, than escape the penalty, however severe, by
falsehood and hypocrisy. Let us know the
worst, and a remedy may possibly be applied.
But keep me in ihe dark let me be misled or
deceived, and it is impossible to tell ai what un
prepared hour a crushing blow, an overwhelm
ing exposure may come.'
Relief for the Toothache;
Some years since I found ihe following re
cipe in a highly popular dental work, 2nd bav
ins used it with the most gratifying success
from that lime to the presdm, in common case'j
of toothache, it strikes me L may be ihstrumren-
tal in relieving suffering by making it pub);,c.
Take Sulphuric Efhfr 1 oz.
Pulverized Gum Camphor 2 drachms.
44 44 Alum 2 '
Mix and keep tightly corked. 'Wet a little
cotion or lint with the mixture ?tQ apply to ihe
seat of pain. The above quantity can be ob
tained of any druggest for IQ or 12 cents.
This preparation havin.abcen simply the re
sult of scientific investigation, arid not having
been obtained either Cr.om the Indians or Arabs,
it is recdmmendeel to cure loothache arising
from local inflammation, (in about three cases
out of four, in ls than five minutes) but so fa'r
as the writer 'jf this article is aware, has not
been known to cure Neuralgia Face ( con
sumption to set bonqs, or 4 shut ihe cellar
door and rock the baby."
H. PRESTON, dentist.
No. 12 Slato-sircel. Hart. Courant.
Mrs. Partington says she has always noticed
that, wether flour was dear or cheap, she had
invariably lo pay ihe same money for half a
dollar' worth. Bost. Post.
Poll Evil.
I noliced a very simple cure for the poll evil
in your paper some lime ago ; lhal iu to wash
out the sor'e and apply common salt. We have
a good horse that had il for two years. I doubt
ed the simple remedy, bui resolved to try it,
thinking it could do no harm, at least. How
ever, the horse soon got well, and is now as
ound as ever. 'JOHN MILLER.
Thornton, IU.yTeb.'Sp.'
A Good Telescope.
A genlledian conversing with aii lri;hmnn.
stated ihat he 'had seen a telescope witlr'which
he cduld see rocks in the moon.' 'Arrah,' saul
Pat, 'and wa's it not my own father thai had .x
telescope which wduld bring a hug so near y..i
could see him five niiles off, an' you could hear"
him gruni, too !'
In Germany every child must enter schoobat
six years of age, in default of which a penalty
is exacted of the parent.
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FaSal to Swsaae;
Sahpeiro is as fatal to swinc as arsriic to-many
Our foreman last year salted sumtj sw'iuo with;
refuse salt which had been taken from a beef
barrel and stored away ; within twelve bourn
two out of three which ate of it died, and flie
third was much injured. As fanner at thiA:
season are emptying iheir meal barrels, instead '
of preserving, ihe refuse salt for the future, ihey
had beiier bury it in the compost heap. Our5
beef was but slighily sahpetred, and hut
litile could possibly have been taken by thti
swine. N. H. Post.
Chokeihg.
Neal cattle, fed on apples or potatonv ar
very liable to get chocked, and rilany a valtia-
animal has been losl from not knowing hnw i
afford relief in time to save life. The fojlrjws
ing remedy is therefore published; wi fi ihf?
fullest and most confident reliance in its effio.'i
cy. .
As soon as an animal is found to be choki",
pour into the mouth, from a boule. a pint of inl,
rubbing the throat externally, at the same time,,
with the hand. A friend who", by he iay, is.
a skilful veierinary surgeon, assures us he h;i
never known this remedy fail, and that the re
lief afforded is almost inMantaneou.4. The tn
lubricates the gullet, and faciliiates ihe eject iin
of the obstructing substance, without ihe slight
est pain. If oil is not immediately i t a " nable'.
soap and water may sometimes be abb inutetL
with equal success.
Marrying. " Young women i I heeft-wu
tell you 10 look. out for your husbands, for l
know ihat you are fixing contrivances tu caiclr
ohei and are as naturally ori ihe watch as a cat
is for a mouse. Don't ban your hook wjih ait
artificial fly of beauty ; if you do, thr chance.-
are ten lo one lhal you will catch a gudgeon--some
silly fool of a fish ihat isni worth his
weight in sawdust. Array :he '.!4ner lady with
beautiful garments of virtue, mo Jesty, wisdom,
truth, morality, and unsophisticated love, ami
you will dispose of yourself quicker, arid to
mtich better advahlage than you would if yoii
displayed all the gew gaw --it flipperiugs, fol do
rbls.and fiddlededees ini..e universe. Remem
ber that.it is an awful i'n,jng to die a self manu
factured old maid!" Tjow Jr.
A mafihine has ju ji been" invented for making
beef-Sieak tender. In dhe minuie, the tough
est beef-steak tha. ever made a man's jaws ache,
is made lender and delicious. This machine
will be a blesmg m boarders, if the keepers of
boarding fcou ies will introduce ii.
wiretw said a married man, looking for hi
bbot-jric x, after she Was in bed, 41 I have a pia'fco
whe'.e. 1 keep all my things, and you ought to
kiuv it." 44 Yes," said she, " I ought itf know
wlere you keep your late hours."
A lawyer wrote "rascal" in the hat of a broth
er lawyer, who, on discovering ii, entered a
complaint in open court agaihsi the tresspasser,
who, be said, had not only lakeri his hat- bul
had written his own name in it.
A drunken Yankee soldier iri Mexico, Ky
way of penance, was made lo march through
ihe camp, in a straight jacket made of a head
leas rum-barrel, labelled "a walking rum cask."
" Waiter," said a dinner-out, in a down town
restaurant yesterday 44 Waiter, bring me a plate
of soup, quick.'.'
Say soup again, stranger, said a tall Ten
nessee relumed volunteer, who happened irf
sit opposite to him, 44 and I'll give you a Sierro
Gorda whipping, I will. I. told the old Gen
eral'when I left him at Jalapa that when I come
to the States I'd lick the first man I'd hear
sayiu' soup, and I'll be hanged if 1 don't do it."
A Mew Bool CrampaKg Iflacajiwe.
Mr. John E Tucker, of Boston, has invented
a machine for crimping boois, which appears
to be quite a novel feature in ihe boot-making
art. It can be mado so as to be driven by
steam.
Metallic Hub, Spoke and Rim.
f Moscow. N. Y.. has n't
4k tIA I t w i
length perfected a metallic hub, spoke and rim.
carriage or wagon wneei, oy Gracing me bpuhea
in iwo rows on tne nuu, wnicn is in paris, a
cylinder, in which the spoke is screwed or riv
ited and ihe axle sheeted. The spoke is hI
rivited or screwed into the rim.
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