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yll)e iTarmcr's iUcintl)li) bisitor. 



lei^'ti of fancy is confirmed: sliB grows first iiii- 

 penoiis, anil \n time (If.-<|iotii,- ; the fictions begin 

 to operate as realities, false opinions, fasten upon 

 the mind, ami fife passes in (heains of Japture or 

 anguish. 



Hiiit« on Health. 



Avoid excess of (bod, as tlie principal soince 

 of dyspepsia. Fi\eorsix horns should elapse 

 between rneals. Commercial and professional 

 men should avoid long fasting. Do not hnrry 

 from dinner to business, rest an hour afterwards. 

 Never eat things out of season, nor much of 

 dishes to which you are unaccustomeil. Much 

 liquid delays the digestion. Avoid intentperauce. 

 Water is tlie most wholesome beverage. Excess 

 of fermented liquors is highly injurious. Useful 

 exertion is iudispen'sahle to liealtli, and happi- 

 ness. Mirscular exercise well regulated, is con- 

 ducive to longevity. The sedentary should walk 

 whenever they have an opportunly. Never con- 

 tinue exercise after it has become paiid'ul. Stand- 

 ing at a high desk to w rite, w hen fatigued with 

 sitting, will be found highly beneficial to literary 

 men. The constant use of soft stuffed seals is 

 injurious. Rooms in which the sedentary are em- 

 ployed, should be warmed by fires in open grates, 

 whicli assist ventilation : not by steam, hot water, 

 gas, or close ovens. Never stand or sit with 

 your back to the fire. IMental excitement is one 

 of the most prevalent causes of disease, produ- 

 cing dys|)epsia, monomania and insanity. Few 

 things tend more to the preservation of health, 

 and the prolongation of life, than the mainten- 

 ance of a calm, cheerful, and contented stale of 

 mind, and the cultivation of feelings of affection. 

 Mental inactivity is scarcely less injurious than 

 excessive exercise, giving rise to hypochondria- 

 sis. In the choice of professions, the talents, 

 disposition, and natural beiU of the mind of the 

 - individuals ought to be studied. Trips to tlu; 

 country, to watering or bathing places, are highly 

 beneficial to those who live in towns. — Citrtis's 

 work on ^'Preservation of Health." 



PuLMO.NARY Consumption. — In the incipient, 

 and indeed in more advanced stages of this un- 

 hnppy complaint, the iidialing of the fumes aris- 

 ing from the burning of a composition, the basis 

 of w hicli is supposed to be common far, has been 

 of singidar utility. A. Mr. Timevvell, of I^oole, 

 Dorsetshire, has employed it with extraordinary 

 success; the modus operandi he thus explains: 

 — "The first symptoms of this horrid disease 

 are generally accouqianied by an irritating cough, 

 which niises from the excoriation of that beauti- 

 ful and delicate structme, the lining of tlie air 

 tubes, whicli, no medicine can possibly reach : 

 these excoriations aggravated by the cough, grad- 

 ually degenerate into open and destructive ulcers, 

 whereas the fiiinigalioii coming in immediate 

 contact with these excoriations, or perhaps, small 

 ulcers, it heals them, the coiish ceases, the pa- 

 tient gains strength, and ultimately recovers. — 

 Foreign Paper. 



From the I''ariner«' Cabinet. 



Salt for Grub Worms. — A correspo"deni 

 of the New Genesee Farmer sa_\s, that .-ifler 

 finding the grub worm was cutting ofi' his corn 

 and cabbages at a sad rate, be first applied ashes, 

 then soot, and Scotch snuff to the hill, hoping to 

 destroy or drive away the worm, but it was all 

 to no purpose. Afterwards, seeing it stated that 

 salt was very disagieealili! to the grub, be appli- 

 ed about two table spoonfuls to each hill of corn 

 or cabbage, )ilacing it so as not lo touch the 

 plant. The worms left them imniedialely. 



Another s;iys, that by putting about "a pinch" 

 of salt !o each |ilant, two or three times, the 

 worm ceased his depredations. He also men- 

 tions a neighbor, who watered liis cabbages dai- 

 ly with \vater from a salt pork barrel, and was 

 not troubled; but as soon as lie discontinued 

 the practice, his plants were attacked, equally 

 with his neiglibors. 



Dead Animals. — By covering dead animals 

 with five or six times their bulk of liesh soil, 

 mixed with one part lime, and suffering them lo 

 remain, their decomposition would impregnate 

 the earth with soluble matter, so as lo render it 

 a most valuiible manure, which might be appli- 

 ed in tlie same way as other mamncs to crops. — 

 Davy. 



It is recominended not to allow the lime to 

 come in contact with the carcass, else the de- 

 composition would be retarded. The lime may 

 be spread overtiie surface of the heap of earth, 

 where it would imbibe the gases as they are en- 

 volved during the decomposition of the dead an- 

 imal ; tliat having ceased, then the whole mass 

 may he turned over together; and after a season, 

 the compost may be carried abroad as a dressing 

 of superlative value. It is said, in Fiance the 

 value of a dead hor.se is oftentimes far greater 

 then that of a living one. 



Greek Minstrelsy. — Greece was, without ex- 

 aggeration, a land of' minstrelsy. It is not to a 

 few great names and splendid exhibitions, to tem- 

 ples, and theatres, and national assemblies, that 

 weneedappeal for proof of this assertion. View 

 her people in their domestic occu|)ations, their 

 hours of' labor or refreshment, peep into their 

 houses, their worksTiops, their taverns; survey 

 their vineyards, iheir gardens; from all arises a 

 universal sound of melody. The Greek weaver 

 sang at his loom; the Greek baker sang beside 

 his bolter; the reapers sang in the field, the wa- 

 ter-drawers at the well ; the women grinding at 

 the mills' beguiled tfiidr toils with song. * « * 

 On board ship was heard one kind of strains; 

 around the wine-press pealed another ; the shep- 

 herd had his own peculiar stave; the ox-herd re- 

 joiced in ballads more suited to the ears of 

 'horned bestial' — the 'godlike' swineherd dis- 

 dained to be outdone. Greek nurses, like other 

 nurses, soothed fretfiil infancy with lullabies; 

 Greek bathiiig-inen, unlike the grim race of mod- 

 ern bathing-women, were given to be musicial. 

 At bed and board, in grief in love, in battle, in 

 Itistivity, walking, runing, swinging, sitting, or re- 

 cumbent, still they sang. Young men and ma- 

 dens, old women and children, woke the untir- 

 ing echoes. Beggars asked for alms in verse. 

 No occasion, great or small, of a mortal career, 

 was without its appropriate harmony : marriage 

 had itsepilhalamium — its soporific strains at mid- 

 night — its rousing strains in the morning; par- 

 turition had its hymns to Diana; Death himself 

 was forced lo drop the curtain to soft music. — 

 .Sir D. K Sand/ord - 



Something for the Ladies. — In the Provi- 

 dence Chronicle we find Ihe following new mode 

 of preserving flowers and keeping them fresh. 

 Suppose simie of our fair readers in this delight- 

 ful land of flowers try it : — 



Procure a flat dish of porcelain, into whicli 

 pour water ; [dace a vase of flowers, and over Ihe 

 vase jilace a bell glass, with its rim in water. 

 The air that surrounds the flower being confined 

 beneath the bell glass, is conslanlly moist with 

 water, that rises into it in the form of vapor. As 

 fast as tlie water becomes condensed it runs down 

 the side of the bell glass into ihe dish, and if 

 means be taken to inclose the water on the out- 

 side of the bell glass, so as to prevent it evapor- 

 ating into the air of the sitting-room, the atmos- 

 pliere around the flowers will remain continually 

 damp. The plan is designated the " llopean Ap- 

 paratus." The experiiiieut may be tried on a 

 small scale, by inserting ;i tumbler over a rose 

 bud, in a saucer of water. 



Honesty. — A right mind and generous aftec- 

 tion hath more beauty and charms than all other 

 .syunnelries in the world besides; and a gi-ain of 

 honesty and native worth is of more value than 

 all the adventilious ornanienis of estates or pre- 

 ferments. 



Enthusiasm. — Enthusiasm is a beneficent en- 

 chantress who never e\-erts her music hut to our 

 advantage, and only deals about her friendly 

 spells in order lo raise imaginary beauties or to 

 improve real ones. The worst that can be said 

 of her is, that she is a kind deceiver, and an 

 obliging flatterer. 



Rashness. — Make no vows of enmity while 

 j'ou are smarting with a sense of neglect or cru- 

 elty; pain speaks with little propriety. 



Woman. — A man cannot possess anything that 

 is better than a good woman, nor any thing that 

 is worse than a bad one. 



Precept and Example. — Whatever parent 

 gives his children good inslructioD, and sets them 

 at the same lime a bad example, may be consid- 



ftred as bringing them food in one hand and 

 poison in another. 



Passion. — Never suffer your courage to exert 

 itself in fiercenes.^, your resolution in obstinacy, 

 your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in 

 sullenness and despair. 



The business of husbandry brings men ac- 

 quainted with the condition and iny.-<tery of all 

 iidand trades, inasmuidi as they all depend on 

 and have relation to the plough, in which all in- 

 terests are interwoven ; nor can a discourage- 

 ment fall on husbandry, occasioned either by bad 

 seasons or untoward circumstances, but the arti- 

 san, the merchant, and even the sovereign on his 

 throne must feel it. 



If gentlemen would use such methods to at- 

 tain a skill in husbandry, as they do to becoitie 

 masters of any other art or science, they would 

 soon find an entertainment in it, not unworthy 

 the most exalted genius. 



On Lying. — Lying supplies those who are ad- 

 dicted to it with a plausible apology for every 

 crime, and with a supposed shelter from every 

 punishment. It tempts them to rush into danger 

 from the mere expectation of impunity, and 

 when iiraclised with frequent success it leaches 

 them to coidbnnd the gradations of guilt, from 

 the effects of which there is in their imagination.s 

 at least one sure and common protection. It 

 corrupts the early sinqilicily of youth, it blasts 

 tlie fairest blossoms of genius, and will most as- 

 suredly counteract every effort by whicli we may 

 hope to improve the talents and mature the vir- 

 tues of those whom it infects. 



A quiCK Sale. — Two weeks ago Major John 



Gouhiing of Sherburne gave us to understand 

 that he had Pjur or five hundred good apple trees 

 for sale. We told him he ought lo make it gen- 

 erally known, as apple trees were in great de- 

 mand. We inserted a notice in the Ploughman, 

 and 11! one week all his trees were gone. People 

 ouglii not to keep trees from year to year in their 

 nurseries when nothing but a notice is wanted to 

 bring purchasers. In two years from this Mr. 

 G's trees would have been a nuisance on his own 

 land. — .Mass. Pto ushm u n. 



Rearing Calves. — As veal is very low many 

 farmers will be inclined to rear their calves in- 

 stead of killing them. It is impiirlant that such 

 as are intended for cows should he taught lo drink 

 milk and swill ; it is easy to teach them when 

 they are young. 



When calves are taken from the cow they are 

 very often tifinbled wilh the scours. We have 

 always found boiled skimmed milk a sure reme- 

 d v- — Plo usitman. 



More about the State of lUaiue. 



The most interesting part of the Ten Days in 

 Maine last October was the day spent with oiir 

 excellent friend the Rev. William A. Drew of Au- 

 gusta. By the way this town of Augusta, being 

 the highest upon the Kennebeck of the three vil- 

 lages which want no great addition to make a 

 coniinueil city from the lower end of Gardiner to 

 the great dam above the first bridge on the river, 

 is one of the most beautiful of this fine country. 

 These villages embrace a population of nearly 

 ten thousand hihuhilants. Sloop and steamboat 

 navieation extends as high up as HallowelL An 

 immense business in the mannfacture of the 

 huge piiie logs brought all the way fiom high up 

 the Kennebeck and the numerous lakes and 

 ponds at its several sources into hnnber is done 

 at the .\ugnsta dam, at Hallowcll, at Gardiner 

 and at Piltston. Gardiner has a fine water power 

 in a stream coming in fiom the northwesi, which 

 is fed by the extensive ponds which extend north 

 and south between the towns of Hallowell and 

 Augusta and Winlhrop. Hallowell and Piltston 

 have splendid sleam mills on either side of the 

 river. Augusta and Hallowell extend east and 

 west five miles on both sides of the river, while 

 Gardiner west and Piltston east below, and Sid- 

 ney west and Vassalhorough east above, are each 

 only on one side of the river. The six towns, 

 containing each al)Out thirty-two thousand acres 

 — and more than this probably, as in the original 

 surveys generous allowance was always i»ade fo»- 

 waste and water — are among ihe most valuable 



