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' Fiotn Frazer's Magazine.
The Sepulchre.
There manhood lies ! Lift up the pall !.
,.. llqwlike the tree struck jdown to earth
In. its green, pride, the mighty fall, , ;f
.sAVhom life hath flattered with its wealth ! ,.
Life is a Voyage 'to our graves, . :-. i
Its promises, like smiling waves,
Invite us onward to the-seaf
Where all is .hidden treachery. t'v' ? .i
What stated beauty slumbers there I , ,
...JButmark those ,floNY.ets,lpale, as.the. brow
Which they have wreathed ; if death could spare
A victim, he had pitied now ;
To-day she hoped to be a bzide
To-day, 'twas told her lover died !
Here 'Death has revelled in his power,
The riot of life's fairest hour.
.
Loolc on that little cherub's face
"l-rWhose budding smile is fixed ,'byjdeath ;
itow short indeed has been its;race;! . . ... .
.A cloud sail'd by, the sun, a' breath'
Dfd jrentlv creep across a bed - '' -
n . ,
Of flowers its spirit then had fled,
A -morning star a moment bright , . .
Then melting into Heaven's own light.- . .
Behold the picture of decay,
'Where nature wearried sank to rest!
Full four :scote "years have'passed -away, "
'iJYet did he, like a lingering guest,"'
Go from life's banquet with a sign,
That lie, alas ! so soon should die
Dur youth has not-desTres so vain; rf
As creep into an age of pain. .,
But there how mournfully serene
That childless widow'3' mother's look
To her the -world a"waste,hastbeen, . - r r-
-On
rie-VTiom it pitied, yet forsook
Galm'as the moon's ligbt, which no storms
Raging benaeth it, can deform,
T)fd Ber afflicted spirit shine
Above i Tier earthly woes dfnnc !
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Thus Death deals with 'mortality;
m
a..
-flitke flowers, some gathered in ttfeir "prime";
Others were scarcely said lo be
"Just numbered with the things of time ;
With life worn out some grieve to die, "
To end their griefs here others fly. ' r
Life is but that which woke ivbreatn
Look here and tell me, what is death 1
Seedli.vo Potatoes. Mr. James Whartenby , of
Bristol township, this county, received the first
premium for white patatoes at the late exhibition
pfthe Phildelphia Society ; and it is worthy of re
mark that two years ago, Mr. W. received the pre
mium from the society for the best Seedling Pota
toes of the same variety. This potato has never
been affected by the rot, thus establishing the fact,
in some degree, that starting again from the seed i
in :the cultivation of this all-important vegetable,
is a protection against the disease from which the
crop has so greatly suffered for several years past,,
and particularly this year, in this region of coun
try: Will our farmers take the hint, and actupon it
another year ! Ed .' Germaritown Telegraph: '' '-
. 3 Treatment of Scarlet Fever.
T J Important PREscRiPTioK'Dr. 'LTtidsly, of
Washington, strongly recommends the mode' of
treatment of scralet fever, resorted to by Dr.
Schneemann, physician id. the King of Hanover;
Jtfis as follows, and exceedingly simple :
, Treatment of Scarlet Fever by Inunction. , , '' '
From the first day of the illness, and as s.opnas
wef are pertain of its natur,e;1 the patient must jbe
rubbed morning and .evening -over the. whole Jiody
with fa niece of bacon,1 in such a manner that, with
. ...
the excepUqn of the-. head, a covering of fat is ev
ery where appldd. "Jji order -to make the rubbing
ih somewhat . caserj jit jsbest to take apiece of
bacon the size of the hand, choosing a part still
armed with the rind,l thatVe msiy have a firm graps.
On the soft side of this piece slits dfe to'be made,
in order to allow th'e'oozihg .out of the fat; The
rubbing must be thoroughly performed, and hoMoo
quickly, in order that the k'in.frnay be regularly
saturated with the fat. rTJie .beneficial xesults of
the application are soon obvious; with a .rapidity
bordering on magic, al, teveq . the. jmos,t .painful
symptoms of the disease.tare-allayed ;;quiet sleep,
good humor, appetite trfti'unf, and there remain's1
only the impatiences -qUiffthesickoomT '
JUT If'attari'fiqq poof to', take a newspape
or send his children school, 'how many ' 'dogs:
shall he keep ? -Wtf x - t
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Having the' Small jPox-ltiferuallr. .
The following caseofhyppc hondria has never
appeared in print. It occurred in the private prac
tice of Dr. Todd, the first physician to the retreat
of the Insane, in Hartford, Connecticut. :
The subject of it was a robust, hard laboring
man, by trade a mason. He had, as he believed,
been exposed to the contagion of small-pox. Un
der the impression that a spare diet would essen
tially mitigate the virulence of the disease from
a full diet, in which animal food formed a large
portion, he restricted himself to one entirely vege
table, and this in. so limited a quantity as hardly
sufficient to sustain life. This change in his mode
of living, combined with the depressing influence
of fear, from anticipation of a loathsome and fatal
disease, soon reduced his once athletic frame, and
involved him in all the horrors of hypochondria.
The time soon arrived, when according to his cal
culations, the small pox ought to make its appear
ance, but not a 3pdt or pimple could he find on
himself. A new cause of apprehension now took
possession of his mind ; viz : that he had the dis
ease internally, and that it was preying upon and
destroying his system. Under this impression he
consulted a physician, who, after listening to the
history of his case, and making a careful examin
ation assured him that his apprehensions were en
tirely groundless, and existed only in his imagin-
ation.
This conclusion was far from being satisfactory
to the hypochondriac. He was not thus easily to
be reasoned out of his senses. The physician
was dismissed as one wanting in skill to discov
er and understand the nature of his complaint.
A second and a third were called, and both con
curred in the decision of the first one. But the
patient as is common in such a:ase, would soon
erbelieve the whole fraternity at fault, than him
self, the subject of mental hallucination, rejected
all medical advice, confined himself to his room,
and resigned himself to his fate. In the the mean
lime his robust form had become attenuated almost
to skin and bone. His friends now became seri
ously alarmed at his condition. The reputation
of Dr. Todd, then residing in Farmington although
in early life, had spread into the neighboring
Towns, and his peculiar talent for the manage
meat of mental diseases, which so eminently qual
lfied him to take charge ot the insane, had in nu
merous instances been manifested.
A brother of the oatient called on Dr. Todd,
stated his case, and assured him the patient's con
fidence in the faculty was gone, and that it was
without his knowledge he was consulted. A plan
was soon arranged by which the doctor should hap.
pen 'to pass the house of the patient and he called
in as if by accident. The next day Dr. Todd was
seen driving at his usual rapid rate through the
street where, the patient resided ; he "was hailed
by. the messenger, in a tone of voice overheard by
the. sick person, requested to call and see his
brother wha'had for some time been suffering from
ill7 health.
The doctor alighted and was sodrf introduced to
the 'patient, but was received without any recogni
tion or act of civility, hbr even raising his eyes to
look at him, nor could he by any kind attention of
enquiries, elicit a word from his sullen and des
pairing patient.
With a tact peculiar to himself, the doctor com
menced a very minute and careful examination of
the patient first looking carefully into his ears,
his nose and his eyes; then rising hastily from his
seat, he commenced walking the room as if in the
utmost astonishment, and could ha fly credit his
senses, at the same time ejaculating in an under
tone;
Is it possible 1 Who could ever have thought
it ? Can it be!1
Then resuming his place by the side of the pa
tient, he went through an examination still more
minute. Again leaveing' his seat he continued msA
soliloquy
It is a fact! There can be no mistake and
yet the like cannot be found oh the record of med-
icirie.
By this time the patients attention wasf aroused,
aticf breaking through his taciturnity he exclaimed:
What! what! what is it, Dr. Todd?
'Why, I sir, something very singular in your case;
but l am under no obligation to you for the discov?
ery, I wil keep it to myself, More, than that, it
is much as a physician's reputation; is worth even
in orlr-incn tin nnlninn' ' J
'Doctor,' said the patienV I' must ' know it I
will do any thing: iii my power you ask me', if you
will only tell me.'
Well, sir,' replied the doctor, if Pteff'you it
must ever be a profound secret between ourselves.'
To this the patient xeadily assented. A
Tlion inrvnii innst It now that vnn bavp ihft
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small pox internally.'
'J l! H J.) .(
In an instant with all the strength he could-com-
mand, the patient. sprang. from, his-chair, and seiz
ing the doctor by the hand he exclaimed :
' You are. the" doctor for me! This'-isust what
Ihave been telling-the' doctors; but hot one of them
would believe a word of it! Now,1 is there any
lemedy for such a case I Is there any hope or
mef" ' ' ;(
T think t'.oc 'Butmarlc rh.e
everything depends upon .closely adhereing to .jmy
directions. There are .three wjty s by which this
disease , may . be eradicatedr-one is by jnaensible
perspiration ; another by internal jerhedies.; and
the third by bringing it out on the surface in the
form of an eruption.'
, 'Lot it 'be the last one,1 was 'the quick 'response
of-tHe patient. 'Let hie1 :haver the ocular proof (of
. . . . , ,.J yl -t.O -
I ne patient was ordered to resume a course or
nutritious diet," by which he rapidly regained
health and trerigthittihe same time taking some
harmless medical preparations, which the doctor
assured him, would ;iq due, season, bring. forth the
the eruption. When the specified time arrived,
the doctor directed the housekeeper to strew the
patients1 bed with cowhage, an article known to
most persons, for producing, an eruption, accom
panied with intolerable itching when applied to the
skin. His bed was' so prepared on the night in
which the doctor's skill was to be tested, and the
patient retired, to - rest. He had not ... lpng been in
bed, when, to his; great satisfaction, the itching
commenced, but wishing, to be fully assured that
all was right, he immediately called for a, light,
and found the surface of his body an entire blotch.
Satisfied with the proof, he endured the suffering
patiently till morning. Soon after he resumed his
business and was never troubled again with the
small pox internally. Hartfort Chronicle'
The Duration of the Earth,
AS INTIMATED BY ASTRONOMY.
The following views, by a correspondent of the
Puritan Recorder, upon the, "Duration of the
Earth," as indicated by Astronomy, will be read,
we think, with much interest.1
The evidence which geology affords of the great
intiquity of the earth, turns thought to the evi
dence which astronomy furnishes of its future con
tinuance. From the many striking resemblances
between the bodies that compose the solar system,
we infer for them a common origin and a common
destiny. The earth, then, will probably live while
the system lives, and no longer. What its partic
ular destiny may be, and by what means brought
about, we stop not here to inquire. Our only pur
pose now, is to consider some intimations furnish
ed us by the system itself, that it is fashioned for
a long duration. This is indicated by the im
mense length of some of the periods involved in
this system.
According to the commonly received chronolo
gy, the planet Neptune has had but thirty-six of
his years since the creation of our race. If the
analogy between the earth and that planet holds
good, then the first generation of his inhabitant is
hardly yet passed away. Some comets have not
yet had one year since the date of Adam's crea
tion. But there aie periods of greater length still
The earth's Perihelion is slowly creeping around
the orbit from West to East, at a rate which will
require 111,000 years to complete the circuit.
The Perihelion of Murcury is moving in a similar
manner, at a rate which will requite 200,000 years
to complete it. Uther planets exhibit the same
movement
Now if all the planets in the system
were arranged along in a line on the same side of j eacn 0,her marking the spot some British
the sun and all in their Perihelia, i. e., all in that gquare had occupied when exposed for hours
point of their orbits which is nearest the sun, and, . j r r uu..
then all their orbits set revolving according to their ! he murderous fire of a French battery.,--presentlaws
of motion, millions of years must e- Outside, lancer, and cuirassier wore scattered
lapse ere all of them would meet again under the
same circumstances -to hold their family festival
preparatory to another revolution of the same
length.
The earths' orbit is now an ellipse, but. is slow-
i t . '-, r'
iy oecommE circular,--mia av us presem raiu ui
change, will become a perfect circle in about half' iau
a million of years from this time. Then it will be- intermingled : and the heavy Norman horse of
gin to resume its eliptical form, becoming more the Imperial Guard were interspersed wnh the
and more eliptical for some millions of years, 1 grey chargers which had carried Albyn's chiv
when having attained the maximum of elipticity, ' airy. Here the Highlander and trailleur lay
it will begin again to shape itself into a, circle.
Corresponding with this change and caused by it,
iB a change of the period of the moon's revolution.
Its period is now slowly shortning; its motion in
revolution, nf rnnrap. inprpnQinor nnrt thiQ. ratfi nf
increase is such as will make it 'train a little more
than its diameterin a thousand years. Thishort-
ening of her period and increase of velocity will J
continue until the earth's orbit becomes a perfects
circle, and then she will slowly reverse her move-j
meats and gradually return to her former condi-
From the mutual attraction of Jupiter and Sa-
turn, their orbits are pasainir through similar
chanees. the orbit of one-bocominfr more and morel
elliptical while, from the same cause, that of the
other becomes' more and more circular, in conse
quence of which motions, the period of one is
lengthening, whilehat of the other is shortening.
This oscillation requires more than 70,000 years
for its completion.
The sun has what is" called a " proper motion,"
i. e., the sun, with all his dependent household, is
sweeping thro' space at the rate of 422,000 miles
per day or nearly half its own diameter. It is
11? . 1 " f m .
supposed by some good astronomers that all. thed
stars have a-sitmlar movement; all revolving to
gether in the plane of the milky way, about some
common centre ; that the orbit described by bur
sun in this grand march, is so large, that this, in
conceivably rapid motion continued' for years,
forms practically a straight litre; in other words,
the, orbit is so large that the arc of it decribed
since this motion was first observed, is so short in
comparison With the, whole orbitfJ as to seem to be
no arc at all. At least, no instruments are, as yet,
accurate enough to detect and measure its rate of
ucviauuM iruui a zuruigui nne. iierscneii' inti
mates that the elements of this orbit may perhaps
be determined after 30 or 40 years observation
with the nicest instruments. Of course; many
millions of, years must p'ass, ere this vast circuit
can oe tuny described by, the sun.
We granj there is some little of conjecture at--
tacnmg to tnis last illustration wjjich belongs not
vj any ui me previous ones ; ana yet u is mucn jn
keeping with those demonstrated' facts, that it carl
hardly be calt improbable'. '
Althougn these periods are inconceivably long,
stjj.1 they jare;nope. the less rieriodsl They are as
iruiy perioas,?as it tney .were. completed jn one, day
or one hpur,. The fact that our life, is short in
cuijipanauu auu inui vve cannot in ,Qur Dest estate,
have any adequate conception, of thegi, is' ho more
of an objection, to their existence than it, is an . ob
jection to the length of Nentune's period. that in-
acuta uie uiicr a iey uuuis existence, auu wiuiuui
fiiijr uuiijuuiu witiCyviuil Ul all IIUUUICU uIIU oiaijt-
iour yeuis existences
From the movements of the heavenly 'bodies
through .a tceftajn part of tlieiV orbits (or, of their os
cillations, science determjnes,wjthtthe grQajetjex'
actness ;tj?e fact,jthatf after certain poipt in.de
Darture is pained, the bnrlv will infallibly return to
its former conditioil 'and; place. On itsVfautifujiy
1-othfnThnr' anil VYiiel naUtraf!ritirr lhi nor'tnrhijtrnTlrf1!
caused by its-departurethe' harriionv' and stabili-s
tV of the whole system 'denehd. : " 'J
Jow jnark the cbpclusion. For the same good4
aison,thajt,we say the ,earh ,cpuld,pot have beenj
made and set rotating. peely. to cause, finypj.i
hundred ;Jayi, or vv'as nyt'set reaving ar.ound.the,
isun to cauao onl one oriwc yeaispor perhaps
4
only a. $ mall part, of one year for these good rea
sons do ve 'say 'that these unmeasured and almost
immeasurable periods were intended by the Crea
tor to be described, gone through with, and boubt
less. many Aimes, repeated ere the.great chronome-;
ter runs down.
Our ideas of the perfection of his workmanship
are shocked by any other conclusion. Our minds
refuse to admit the idea of a period or an orbit, or
an oscillation only partially completed. In the
language of Professor Mitchell we say; "The en
tire system forms one grand complicated piece of
celestial machinery ; circle within circle, wheel
within wheel, cycle within cycle; revolution so
swift as to be completed in a few hours move
ment so sloy that their mighty periods, are only
counted by millions, of yeais. Are we to believe
that the Divine Architect constructed this admira
bly adjusted system to wear out and to fall to ru
ins even, before one single revolution of its com
plex scheme of wheels had been, performed 1
At the end of a vast period, amounting to many
millions of years, the entire range of fluctuation
will have been accomplished ; the entire system,
planets, orbits, inclinations, eccentricities, perihe
lia and nodes will have gained their original values.
and places, and the great bell of eternity will then
sound One I
Waterloo at Noon
THE DAY AFTER THE BATTLE.
On a surface of two square miles, it was as
certained that fifiy thousand men and horses
were lying ! The luxurious crop of ripe grain
which had covered ihe field of battle, was re
duced to litter, and beaten into the earth ; and
the surface, troddpn down by the cavelry, and
furrowed deeply by the cannon wheels, strewn
with many a relict of the fight. Helmets and.
cuirasses, shattered firearms and broken swords;
all the variety of military ornaments ; lancers'
caps and Highland bonnets : uniforms of every
color, plume and pennon; musical instruments,
the anaratus of artillery, drums, busies ; but
good-Gtid ! why dwell on the harrowing ptc
ture of a foughten field T each and every rti
inous display bore the testimony to the misery
of such' a battle. Could the melancholy
appcarence of this scene of death be height
ened, it would be by witnessing the researches
of the living, amidst its desolation, for the ob
ject of their love. Mothers, wives and chil
dren, for days were occupied in that mournful
duty ; and the confusion of the corpses, friend
and foe intermingled as they were, often ren
dered the attempt at recognizing individuals
difficult, and in some cases impossible
In
many places the dead lav four feet deep upon
thickly on the earth. Madly attempting to
force the serried bayo'hets of -the British, they
, had fallen in the bootless essay, by the muskets
of the, inner files Farther on you traced the
spot where the cavalry of France and England
. PU J T,..,,
side by side, together ; and the heavy dragoon,
with green Erin s badge upon his helme', wa
grappling in death with the Polish lancer.
On the summit of the Ttdg, where the ground
was, cumbered with dead and trodden fetlock
deep in mud and gore, by the frequent rush of
rival cavalry, the thick strewn, .corpses of the
Imperial Guard,, pointed out the spot where
Napoleon had been defeated. Here, in column,
(haJ fayorQj corps? on whom hisJ Jasl Qhance!
r?9ed' hfd been annihilated ; and the advance
aild PG of ,he Guard was traceable by a
mass of fallen rrenchmen. In the hollow be
low, the last struRglo of p'rance had been vain
ly made ; for there the Old Guard, when the
middle battalions had been forced back, at
tempted to meet the Briiiah, and' afford time
for their disorganiAed companions to rally-
Here the British left, which had converged
upon the French centre,. had come up ;-r-and
here the. bayonet closed the contest. MaxweWs
Victories of the British Army.
ITlicc Power.
A gentleman in Kirkaldy, Scotland, has
trained a couple of mice and invented' machin
ery enabling them to spin cotton yarn. They
have been employed about' two months. The
work isidone on the tread mill principle. It
is so constructed that the common house mouse
is enabled J.o make atonement to society for,
past offences, by twisi.i.ng, twiriingand reeling
from I Op to J 26 threads per . day. To com
pjete thi", ihe Iiltle pedestrian . has to run 10
1-2 miles. A half-penny's worth of pat meal
at lad per .peck, servos one oi n.eae ireau
wheef cnlprits for the long period of fiVe weeks.
In 'that time it makes 1.10 threads per day.-
At this rate a mouse earns 9d. every fiv weeks,"
which is 7s. 6d. per annum. Take 6d. off for
hoardand Is. for machinery, there will arise
6s. clear profit from 'every; inouse anh'ualjy,
The mouse employer was going to' mane an
application for the lease of an old empty house,
which will hold lep thousand mouse iriilf. suf
ficient, room being left far keepers, and spnie-
Iw.rwtrofl 'nanialnrt AHnwlTier for Tent, maS
iflrs: interest ahd'm&chirierv., there will
be
balarfce of $ 1 M'ti.D p'r,apnurn.
To Tpujjlen ffio.lV JErlhowi Watfi,
It is a bad1 plan to put noweirthdh' wae' iti
to boiling-hot wafer ; ft should st,befpriipig'c:di
into cdld water, and placed aVer1 a 'fire wljtfre'
it wifl'beW moderalely the'tiQilihs. point, anil
i hen be'permftted to coq( again Tfiis prqpess.
greatly promotes the .toughness and duraoimy
Ofqpmmop e.ar'tjienfiw.are!, iwhicK is generally
objectionable fpr doniesinc uses on aocounl' of
Ii8 'iragiiiy . ' 'i'iie'giMi&irig uij mo, niuu ui waio
will remian'uhWnred'by 'the boiling, if a hand-
iful of rye or w.lieat brail be aTdeto the water,
(aifd prepaf'ii5 tb wjthstand sugess'fuHyl and
lor a long nmo, ine action oi aciu or sau.
Xud Serous.
A young itinerant preacher, in the constant
habit of declaiming a great deal about the ere-'
ation, and especially about the getiing up of
man, whenever he wiahcd to display his native
eloquence to good advantage, was one day
holding forth to a mixed congregation in' a
country school house. Becoming warm, and.,
enthusiastic as he pioceeded, it was not long
before he reached his favorite theme, and star-;
ted off in something like the following style:
44 And when the world was created, and the
beasts of the field, and fowls of the air, and
pronounced very good, God said, let us make
man. And he formed man afier his own like
ness, and declared him the noblest of all the
works of his hands ! and he made woman also,
and fashioned her in the exact image of man,
with a little variation
"Thank' the Lord for the variation " shouted
an old sinner, who tat over in the amen corner
of ihe room, at this interesting juncture of the
discourse.
The effect was perfectly ludicrous and irre
sistable. The preacher dropped the subject
where he was interrupted, and was never heard
to allude to it during a subsequent ministry, of
forty years.
A love-born swain broke a wibh-bo'ne
his 'heart's queen,' somewhere up in
Hampshire.
with
New
Neow, what d'ye wish, Sally V demanded'
Jonathan, with a tender grin of expectation.
1 wish I was handsome,' replied the fair
damsel, 'handsome as as Queen Victory V t
' Jerusalem ! what a wish,' replied Jonathan,
' when you are handsome 'nuff, neow ! But
I'll tell ye what I wish, Sally I wish you was
locked in my arms, and the key was lost !'
A. Snake Story An old deacon in Yankee
land once told us a story. He was standing ono
day beside a frog pond we have his own word
for it, and saw agarter snake attack an enormous
buil-frog.. The snake seized upon oneoflho
bull-frog's hind legs, and the frog to be on a
par with his snakesliip, caught him by the tail,
when both commenced swallowing one anoth
er, and continued this operation until nothing
was left of either of them !
Theman who would cheat a printer is too
mean to receive a passing grunt from a hog.;
there is a moral pestilence continually around
him. His mind is filled with wickedness, and
when he goes home he flogs his wife if he has
sufficiant courage. His children are ignorant
and malicious for they never care to read the
stolen paper. The dogs stop wagging their
tails when he passes by them. Reader, do
you know such a creature ?
A man in Michigan, not long since,f com
mitted suicide by drowning. As thb body
could not be found, the coroner held an inquest
on his hat and jacket, found on the bank of 'th'e'
lake. Verdict " Found empty."
The Cow Tree.
On the parched side of a rock iu Venezuela
grows a tree with dry and leathery foliage, its
large woody rootB scarcely penetrating; into the
ground. For several months in the year the
leaves are moistered by a shower ; its branch
es look as if they were dead and withered ;
,buf when the trunk is bored, a bland and nour
ishing milk flows from it. It is at sunrise that
the vegetable fountain flows freely. At that
time, the blacks and natives are seen coming
from all parts provided wiih bowls to receive
the milk, which grows yellow and thickens at
its surface. Some empiy their vessels on the
spot, while others carry them to their children.
One imagines he sees the family of a shepherd,
who is distributing the milk of his flock. It is
named the polo tie vac or the cow tree.
JCure of the Eyes. Looking into ihe
fire is very injurious to the eyes, particularly
a coal fife. The stimulus of light snd heat ir
nited soon destroy the eyes. Reading" in twT
lighi is very injurious to the eyes, as they are
obliged to make great exertion. Reading or
sewing with a side light, injures the eyes, as
both should be exposed to an equal degree of
light. The reason is; the sympathy between
the eyes is so great, that if the pupil of one is
dilated by being .kept partially in ihcshade, thet
one that is mqs.v exposed cannot contract itself.
sufficiently for protection, and will ultimately
be injured. Those who wish to preserve their
sight, should" preserve their general health .ftby
rnrrecr habits, and give their eyes just ' work
enough, with a due degree of light. ,
A Productive " FA,n."M." One of -ourijin-,.
dustrious townsmen, in West Chester, whpjias
been in the habit of supplying our table, occa ,
8ionaIJy with vegetahles, has furnished. us fwnhff,
the following esiiiriate of the income derived
fjrom his " farm." It will serve to show ' how 1
nrnflnoti vr ' a little farm well tilled" mav be-
" - ' . : f
come. His " larm" is, indeed, notoing .more
than' a edi'den. Of ab'ou one-sixth of an acre.-
He" has- sold the pYesiBnt seasoti $ 1 5 worth? of
potatoes ; ne nas yuu neau oi cauuagu wumu
certts a headi $49 : $4 worth of onions ;u his 4
'turnips $5.; and .he has'saold 50 cents worth5 of '
beeiU tie. has besides, ten busnels oi potafbb '
rpsered fpr hU own winter useraBtJsother tee-
,etabe jn proportion, 'J hitf w.iltake $69;50t
as the product of his sales the present seasen,
upon a single "farm," over and above what
hfas, been required to ptqyiytpn his. own family!
This, is not consitlej.e.d by. him as an exjraordt.-..
nary crop. , j jm prp.duqt pi his cabbage pajicrj ,
has usually: paid his rei, . .His garden.
beqtl ciillii.aieiHraiher as a past'ima. haii otejrwi .
vise, and has pot!. seriously iriierfred withtthe
nursuit of his usual business. Village Record