ggaajua si^ 



ijlljc Jarmci's iilont!)h) bisitor. 



tliioiigli ilie woods !>>■ marked Irees, to my loj; 

 lioiise and home, ut tliat lime. iMy lot o('"land 

 "■as Ileal- wliere Air. Reiihcii Saflord built a lioiise 

 on his land. If Mr. ftiironi, or any oihcr | ,i- 

 M>iis are now living who resided in" Hope t'loiu 

 tirt\-five to si.\ly years ago, they can tell you some- 

 thing of Sam'l Aniileton of" that day. 



As 1 should he veiT sorry to fjive a bell that 

 nufiht soiiinl my praisi's under (iilse prelences or 

 iin|iiPssions, I (here(l)re most respectliilly decline 

 complying with your wishes. 



(Signed,) Sam'l Appleto.v. 



^. , . Appleto.v, N"ov. lOlh, 1845. 



f*AM I, Applkto.'v : 



Sir— .Your letter of Nov. 3d has been received, 

 and we thank you for the inlljrmation you have 

 given us. The most aged persons now" living in 

 this town, have always staled llmt the town of 

 AppliMon was named In honor of your father, 

 who, ihry lielieved, resided in linslon at the time, 

 and was an owner of easleiii lands; and ue Inue' 

 always supposed (lill now) ihat this was the liiet ; 

 liow (his impression became so general,! am not 

 able 10 sav. 



'I'he (iirin upon which you commenced in your 

 younj; days lies aliout llirce miles from the new 

 Meelmjf House, and is now under impnjvemenl 

 lour old neighbor, Mr. Satford, is still living, al- 

 lliongh Jus head seems to be whitened liv llie 

 frosts of iiiany winters. 



As we have been mistaken in regard for whom 

 the town was named, we now wiihdravv the re- 

 ■inesl that you would eive us a bell, and hope you 

 Y ill not believe th. a we inlended In olilain "one 

 from you under" false pretences,"— lor if we had 

 succeeded in gelling it by such means, it would 

 liave sounded only our own dishonor. 



(Signed) IJe.nj. McLai.\ 



95 



particularly for those who like nnatomical and 

 physiological curiosities. ]t is impossible to sav 

 with certainty how long the bodv bad lain previ". 

 oils I.> MS discovery: but ihe pio"b.il,ilii v is that a 

 eeiunry has elapsed since ihe male <n- one of the 

 olhcers of a inerclumt ship running down the 

 Alrican coast, died, and since a [)artv of sailors 

 landed lor an hour to bury the body of their 

 shipmate on a lone and nameless islam!, teii- 

 anied only by sea-bird.s, on the desert coast of 

 Africa. 



I5osTO>-, 31eu. 1st, Ifl].5. 

 Bew. McLai.v, Es,j.-,SiV._l |,;,ve received 

 your letter of Nov. 10th in which you withdraw 

 ibe reijnest made in a former letter, Ihat I would 

 give a meelmg-bouse bell to the lown of Aiii'lc- 

 ton. You will please to recollect Iliatyonr reasons 

 lur asking me for a bell, were— " First, that the 

 lowii of Appleton was named in honor of my fa- 

 ther ; in answer to timt letter, I informed you 

 that your first reason for asking me lor a bell was 

 not correct ; as the town of Appleton was not 

 named m honor of my father. J ibeiefore de- 

 cline giving a bell on that score. Your second 

 I'eason for asking me for a bell, was, " Ihat if you 

 were not wrongly informed, I could make the gift 

 without the least possible injury or incouveiiience 

 to myself." To this, your second reason, I now 

 reply, that through the kindness of Providence 

 in my pecuniary affldrs, you were not wron^rly' 

 informed on tint subject ; and if you will procuie 

 asniiable bell for your new meeting-bonse, and 

 send me the bill, 1 will will, the greatest pleasure 

 pay the amount. 



i am happy lo hear that a raeeting-house is 

 erected, and that the gospel is preached within 

 three miles of the place wbi'ie I spent three Ioim. 



summerseasons,dnring which time I never heard 

 the i^omul of a church goin^' bell, or ever beard a 

 sermon or the voice of praNcr; there beiuf.s at 

 that time, no place of public worship within 

 twenty imlesof my humble dwelling. 



(Signed) Sam'l. Appleton. 



'l-I.efollmving beautiful lines are from the pen of Miss 

 11. f. oould. lliey need no coiiieiit. 



The Silk-Wonn's Will. 



On a plain rush hurdle a silk-worm lay, 

 When a piouci youug princess came that way • 

 1 he haughly child of a huiii:ni king, 

 Threw a sidelong glance at the humble thine 

 J hut took, with a silent gratitude, ° 



From Ihe mulberry leaf her simple food; 

 And shrunk, h,,lf scorn and h ilf disgust, 



Awny from her sister child of dust 



Declaring she never vet could see 



\\ hy a replile Ibrm like this should be, 



.And Iliat she was not made with nerves so firm. 



As calmly lo stand hy a " crawling worm !" 



_ Wiih mtite forbearance the silk-worm took 

 The taunting words and the spurnino- look : 

 Alike a stranger to self and pride, " 



She'd no disquiet from aught beside 



And lived of a meekness and peace possessed, 



VVhiLh these debar from the human breast 



^he only wished, for the harsh abuse, 



To find some way to become of use 



To the haughly d'aughter of lordly man; 



And thus did she lay a noble plan. 



To teach her wisdom, and make it plain. 



Thill the humble worm was not made in vain; 



A plan so generous, deep and high. 



That, to carry it out, she must even die ! 



_ " No more," said she, will I drink or eat! 

 I'll spin and weave me a winding-sheet. 

 To wrap me ap from the sun's clear light. 

 And hide M:y fmni bom her wounded sTgh't, 

 In secret iheii, till my end draws nigh, 

 I'll toil for her, and when I die, 

 I'll leave behind, as a farewell boon. 

 To the proud young princess, my whole cocoon, 

 lo be reeled and wove to a shining lace. 

 And hung in a veil o'er her scornful fice' ! 

 And when she can calmly draw her breath 

 I'hro' the very threads that have caused my death 



journeyed their vetieiable clinrgo slowly alon- 



'yV>i"f.'M,sh ihe fhint ligb, which so didicaldv' 



",;'•','''' '" ."■■^, ""■'<•''■ The old man ihus siip"- 



:; ;■H"■■'^■'''''''•'''V''.'■•■'^■^''>'^ »i''>«<^vvboieiiib, 



ev I I III , ,„) emerprising, has been successfnily 

 devoted o the accnmnlation of weallh. We 

 mnrabzed as we left ilie group that i, was a 

 si ame to place the happiness of life In gohl and 



SI ve, lor which bread , .valer is ^.tticien, 



■ind Hi, I no „,an w„ul,l ever yei be so poor, bu 



he could procnie en.mgl, lo carry bin, to his ionr- 

 ney s end. 1 be best eondiiioi, of li.rtune is that 

 which IS neither directly neces-iion.s, nor f,r 

 from it-wiih good heallb and evennessof mind. 

 — .V. 1. Fuper. 



When she finds, at length, she has nerves so firm 

 As to wear ihe shroud of a crawling worm, 

 May she bear in mind, that she walks wi'th'pride 

 In the winding-sheet where the silk-worm died ' 



Locusts.- Phis year is disiingui.sbed in the 

 vicmiiyol Memphis, Tenii., by ibe appearance 

 of ciumtless millions of locnsi.s, which have been 

 yiside lor .some days, making a Iremendous noise 



in the forests bke Ihe en, tin is r,dl of ibousands 



of drums. How la,-ge a district .d' country they 

 novv miest m ibat vicinity ii is impossible l"o tell • 

 we have heard, however, that l!;,.v extend, at 

 lea.si. Iron, Ibe upper counties o|' Mississippi lo 

 ./acksou coiiniy, Tcm., north of ibis, an area of 

 near bliy imle.s. 'I'hey have not i,,ade tbeir an- 

 I'caranee m that region since ]«:«, when il'e 

 cholera was prevalent on the iMississippi river 

 It IS contended by naturalists, ihat ibese mysle- 

 nous insecis come out of ,!,(. earib every ibir- 

 leenlh year, moimi the trees, ihe tallest they can 

 biKl, raise Iheir slnnning cry, which only" two 

 pyenis has power lo iiiterinii, a shower of rain or 

 nigiit-l.dl, 1,1,(1 ibeii their connlless millions be- 

 come a firey to death after a yer\ few days Be- 

 fore their decease 1 bey deposit eggs iii the" branch- 

 es of the trees, which, being »ar„ied by thesum- 

 niers sun, become worms, fall to ibe earth, and 

 bwlje III Its bosom for ibirteen loi.i; yoar.s. 



They are from one lo Ir.o inches in'. lenetli. 

 about the size and shape of ibe largest meatfow 

 bees in New England, of a brown or snuff color 

 wiih red, |io:celam like, promi,ient eyes. They 

 have done no damage to ibe foliage o"f the trees- 

 they live on song, a,„| as ila^ir mi-sion of proere- 

 alion finishes iiself, ihey d,o|, dead from ih'e 

 irees, the ground being already covered with their 

 dead. 



Burial Alive.— We have often thought that 

 some provisions should be made, by the {rovern- 

 ment, against the possibility of living inlermenls 

 Death and the funeral following each other so 

 closely that we have no doubt many persons are 

 annually inearthed while alive. An exchanoe 

 paper states that since 1833, accidental circum- 

 stances have p,-evei,ted 1)4 persons from beii," 

 buried alive Of ibese, 35 persons recovered 

 sponlaneouslyf,-o,M ibeir lelba,-y,at the moment 

 vvbeii the funeral ceremonies wire about lakiu'. 

 place lo were arou.sed under Ibe stimulus of the 

 busy love and grief about them, 7 by the fall of 

 the coffin which enclosed them, 9 by the pick- 

 ings of the flesh ii, sewing up the shroud, 5 by 

 the sense of snffocaiion in their coflins 19 b"v 

 aeculental delays which occurred in ihe iiiier- 

 ment (how insiggificant is this item!) and 6 by 

 volnnlary delays .suggested by doubt as to theiV 

 death ! W,,' bebeve that in some parts of Conli- 

 neiilal Lurope the law compels Ibe delay of fu- 

 nerals for a certain and satisfactory term — £j 

 Paper. 



A Guano MumMv.— The recent excavations at 

 Ir haboe b,r the new ferlilizer, have result^'d in 

 other freightage save such as could be devoted 

 to Agricultural interests. A mummy has been 

 brougbt to Loudon ami deposited in ti,e E^vpiiaii 

 Hall of that city which has been wundeifuliy 

 preserved by the ammonia of the island. The 

 body IS that of a full grown man enclosed in a 

 coftin which IS yet pprfeclly entire as also ihe 

 trowsers and shirt of the deceased, the former of 

 'l"ck and the lalter of cotton, both of which on 

 bemg tried, retained all the strength of the new 

 y'I'nc. Ihe body itself, says an account in a 

 J.ondou paper, seems as if it were tanned leather- 

 Ibe flesh has beconie in a great measure absorbe, 

 wub all Ihe sober animal tissues ; but ibe museu- 

 ai developement remains firm,aiid ihe veins and 

 tendons of the extremities are curiously shown 

 streiched over the bones. The teeil, are "il „„ , , -, 



9; "SfS; 71,;^;:;; «iE;sri" f "r ' T-~-"^ 



A Scene in BaoADWAr.— Passing down to our 

 othce^ a few mornings since, nearly opposite 

 Aililos, onr ailention was atuacte,! by the e.'i-ess 

 rom ilie front door of a neat but plai"n two-siory 

 bouse, of an old gentleman, bent and decreiiid 

 borne up on either side by a man whose vocalion' 

 It probably was, to perform ibis service. A.'e 

 decrepitude, and care, were slrongly depicted "iii 

 every lineament of bis face. His assistants seem 

 ed cbari'ed with the c 



OoTTi.E MAf;i.VG.-Tl,e rapidity with which 

 i'otiles are made is almost incredible. A work- 

 man, wiih the assistance of a iiatheier and blow- 

 er, will begin and finish one hundred and twenty 

 dozen of ipia, t hollies in ten l„eu-.s, which ave"- 

 rases nearly two an.l a rpiarter per minute, and 

 this IS ordinarily done; and in some works the 

 men are restricted to two per niinuie, to prevent 

 the work being slighted, it may not be uninler- 

 estmg to observe the low price at which this de- 

 senplion uC glass can be produced, now that the 

 duty has been removed. Qu.rt bottles can now 

 be produced at the works at aboui 14s. per groce 

 Lacli groce weighs two cwl., which is equal to 

 /s. per cwt. or £7 per ton for maniificliired hol- 

 lies; if from this we deduct, fbr workmen and 

 other incnleulal expenses, £3 per ton, it would 

 cave the price id' bottle gla.ss£5 per ton.— jEns-. 

 hsh paper. 



A California Farmer.— A cenileman wriiinT 

 bon, California to the editors of the St. Louis 

 Keveille, says bis stock consists of about fiiur 

 Ihoiisand bead of oxen, one ibonsand .seven hun- 

 dred horses and mules, \\,rt>e ihousand sheep, and 

 as many hog.s. They all pastme themselves 

 vvithouiilifficulty in ihe rich prairies and bottoms 

 ol Ihr tai'i-amenlo, ;md only re(]i,i,-e to be ;rtien(l- 

 ed. 'J'bis is done by Indians, of whom be eiii- 

 I'loys four Imndivil. H^s annual crop of wheat 

 is abmit twelve thousand bushels, with barley, 

 peas, beans, (Sic, in jirofiorlioii. 



A Cheap Paint.— T.ike one bushel of unslack- 

 ed lime,aud slack it Mill, cold water; when slack- 

 ed, adil to it ao lbs. ol Spanksb whiting, 17 lbs. 

 ol salt, and 12 lbs. of sugar. Strain ibis mi.xlure 

 lhroii;;h a wire sieve, ami it vi ill be tit for use af- 

 ter reducing with cold water, 'i'bis is inlendeil 

 tm- the outside of bnilding.s, or where it is ex- 

 posed lo the weaiher. in eider lo give a good 

 cidor, three coats are iiecessary on brick, and two 

 on wood, it may be laid on with a brush similar 

 to white wash. 'Each coat must have sufficient 

 time to dry before the next is applied. 



