NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 27, 1S3J, 



MISCELLANY 



ami although there be no coaling of perpetual snow, 

 I believe ice may be found, at all seasons, in the 

 D in?ATTu crevices which surround the well known CaUleira, 

 HINTS FOR HEALIH. cauldron or crater, near the summit. Be this as it may. 

 Pel-sous in health should never under any circum-. [ am sure that by going up the hill or coming down 

 stances take medicine. The custom wliicli pre- it, a range of many degrees of the thermometer may 

 vails in some families of administering physic in be commanded. So that, if the taste of an infirm 

 tl„- m.riu" and fall to prevent the attacks of riis- person, or tlje peculiarities of his complaint, require 

 ease is p.- posterous in the extreme. The only a heat of 60^ or 70-, he may live as ong as he pleas- 

 ease, IS p. L| =i „„,;„„ .,,,. cs in a climate thnt is best suited to his recovery. 

 sure safeguards are temperance in e.iting and .^^, gentlemen resident on the spot, rep- 

 tile clothiDi' ti. I _ . 6 



drinking, and carefully adapting me ciouiiu^- "' I rebate in strong terms the inutility, not to say cru- 

 the changes of the atmosphere. Persons in the '](y^ pj-gjj,^jjjjg p^^ p^tigntg in tl,e advanced stages 

 vicinity of contagious disorders, must carefully at- gC consumption. ' Generally speaking-,' observes 

 tend to these i)rescriptions,and by proper exercise, Dr Renton of Madeira, as quoted by Dr Clark, 'the 

 cheerful recreation and strict regard to cleanliness, poor patient himself has nothing to do with the Br- 

 and rangements ; and it is principally m obedience to 



medical advice that he undertakes a voyage product- south points can be ascertained 



preserve the mind in a state of cheerfulne 

 activity. It is absolutely necessary for those vis- 

 itin" warm climates to abstain entirely from the 

 use°of spirituous liquors. The great cause of the 

 mortality among our seamen visiting. the West In- 

 dia Ports, may be traced to the prevailing use of 

 liquors, which heat the blood and induce levers in 

 those warm climates. One sick person only should 

 occupy the same apartment. The bed should he a 

 matrass, in casu of fever, in preference to feathers. 

 The room should be v/ell ventilated, the light ex- 

 cluded, and it should be kept in a state of 

 perfect cleanliness. The introduction of visi- 

 ters, in a sick chamber should always he avoided as 

 the air becomes vitiated and unfit for respiration, 

 and their presence and conversation, are apt to 

 disturb the patient. The room of the sick should 

 always be kept quiet and free as possible from all 

 noise am! talking. — Catechism of Health. 



opal and quartz and are as pure as crystal. They aro 

 cool enough for drinking in the hottest day in August. 

 The great lead-mines are in the southern parts of 

 this district. They have been wrought but three years, 

 by comparatively few persons, and under every pos- 

 sible disadvantage; yet nearly thirty million pounds 

 of lead have been made there. Only about a mile 

 square of surface has yet been opened, and from this 

 thirty million pounds more might be e.xtracted with- 

 out opening a new mine. The whole of the lead dis- 

 trict occupies a surface one hundred miles square 

 including, however, a district of copper ore about 

 twenty miles long, and four or five broad. The cli- 

 mate is fine and pure, and the soil of the prairies is 

 admirable for grain. Among the curios, ties is a sort 

 o{ vegetable compass, the ' rosin weed,' from the posi- 

 tions of whose leaves it is said that the north and 



From Uasil Hall's Voyages and Travels. 



From what I saw of Madeira during many visits 

 at different seasons of the year, I had long been of 

 opinion, that this delightful island formed one of the 

 best, if not the very best places in which a consump- 

 tive patient might hope to find a cure — or rather, to 

 which a person having a consumptive tendency 

 might resort in hopes of preventing the fatal access 

 of "a disease which, at certain stages is but too well 

 known to bo beyond tlie reach either of climate or 

 medical skill. I was not aware, however, till lately, 

 how completely this idea of the superior advantages 

 of Madeira was borne out by the opinion of the best 

 qualified professional men, especially by Dr James 

 Clark, whose very iuteresting work, on the Influ- 

 ence of Climate in the Prevention and Cure of 

 Chronic Diseases, may be consulted with great ad 

 vantage on this subject. 



One poor passenger's case was precisely one of 

 those which, had this work been published twenty 

 years sooner, would never have been referred to Ma- 



ive of nothing but mischief and disappointment. So 

 uniform is the result of this practice, that the an- 

 nual importation of invalids from England is thought 

 a fit subject for ridicule, amongst the boatmen, on 

 landing these unfortunates on their island. ' La vai 

 mais hum Inglez u Laranjeira'—' there goes another 

 Englishman to the Orange tree,'— such being the 

 nan'o of the burying ground of the Protestants.' 



Dr Clark gives a table, from which it appears, 

 that of 47 cases ot confirmed consumption, no fewer 

 than 33 died within six months after their arrival at 

 Madeira ; while out of 35 cases of incipient consump- 

 tion, or of those wherein there was merely reason 

 lo dread this disease, ':2l) were cured, or, at all events 

 they left the island much improved. 



The same authority, Dr Kenton, long a resident 

 at the island in question, further remarks, that' when 

 consumption has proceeded to any considerable ex- 

 tent, he should consider it the duty of a medical 

 attendant not only not to advise the adoption of such 

 a measure, but most earnestly to dissuade from it 

 those who, from hearsay evidence of the recovery 

 of persons in circumstances similar to their own, may 

 feel disposed to fly to it as a last resourco. 



Madame de Genlis relates the following anecdote 

 of her residence in Berlin: 



' My saloon had two doors : one opening into my 

 chamber, and the other conducting to a private stair- 

 case descending to the court; on the platform of 

 this staircase was a door opposite to mine, belong- 

 ing to the apartments of an emigrant. This man 

 was of a savage disposition, and never saw anv one 

 in his house. Some one had given me two pots of 

 beautiful hyacinths ; at night I placed them on this 

 platform between my neighbor's door and my own. 

 In the morning I went to take them again, and had 

 the disagreeable surprise to see my beautiful hya- 

 cinths cut into pieces, and scattered around the pots 

 which held them ; I easily guessed that my neigh- 

 bor was the author of the deed, who had been e.v 



Ferocity of the Panther.— An instance of unparal- 

 leled ferocity in this frightful animal, occurred a short 

 time past in the upper part of the country. The 

 circumstances, as we learn them are these: — A gen- 

 tleman, with three negro men and several large dogs 

 happening to be in the woods, discovered the carcass 

 of a deer, concluded to take a part ofit in order to 

 feed the dogs. Having done so, and being on their 

 way home, they were surprised at the approach and 

 ferocious attack of a panther. Being unarmad,the com- 

 bat liked to have been fatal to some of the negroes ; 

 but at length victory declared in favor of the gen- 

 tleman and his valiant army, and they left the common 

 enemy on the field of battle supposed to be dead. The 

 next morning they ieturned,with a view of depriving 

 their fallen enemy of his skin, and exhibi'.ing it as a 

 trophy of their victory ; but to their astonishment the 

 panther was absent. — The dogs soon after took his 

 track, and in a short time overtook him, when the 

 wily foe, regardless of his less noble pursuers, 

 immediately "attacked the men ; but they being 

 armed, succeeded, after a desperate engagement, in 

 conquering him a second time ag*" lest he might again 

 resuscitate, they took the precaution of depriving him 

 of his hide. — Benton Mississippian. 



cited to it, doubtless, notwithstanding his French 

 deirafor a cure. Of comforts, indeed, she had no | politeness, by the libels, which were published 



want ; for she was received into the house of one of 

 those splendid persons, the great English Madeira 

 merchants, who, with a sort of oriental hospitality 

 and luxury, in character with their liappy climate, 

 used to fling their doors wide open to receive stran- 

 gers coming to the island. In those days, there 

 was great difficulty in procuring good lodgings.; but 

 I am told that accommodations for tamilies or for sin- 

 gle persons, may now be hired by those who have 

 not the advantage of such introductions, or who ore 

 unwilling to encumber these most hospitable of men 

 with the anxious companionship of invalids. 



Most, if not all the merchants liiive two houses — 

 one, of course, in the city, where their business is 

 transacted — another lying beyond the noise and 

 bustle of the Port. Many of these gentlemen reside 

 occasionally at their country, seats, the side of 

 the mountain which takes its rise from the beach 

 at the town of Funchal, and rises with a steep 

 face to the height of many thousands of feet 

 above the sea. The upper parts of all are so lofty, 

 that no vegetation finds root upon them ; — 



...ainst me. Not wishing the afiair to be known, I 

 dfd not ask more flowers of the persons who had 

 given me these ; but directed a servant to buy me 

 some. Having placed these in the pots, I attached 

 to them a slip of paper, on which I wrote these 

 words—' Destroy my works if you will, but respect the 

 works of God.' ' At night I placed them on the plat- 

 form—in the morning 1 went with eagerness to see 

 what had been their fate, I saw with great pleasure 

 that some one had been content with simply water- 

 ing them; I carried them immediately into the sa- 

 loon, and placing them on the table, perceived that 

 there were attached to them two sdk strings, each | ll'lt, 

 having a chnrming cornelian ring. The emigrant, 

 apparcntlv knew,'that I was then making a collec- 

 tion of bhijouterie, and wished to repair his wrong 

 in this manner. I was much touched with this pro- 

 ceeding, which divested me of all rancor.' 



iMUgevity. — Belsham's Chronology informs us that 

 21 persons who had attained the age of 130, and 

 upwards, died between the years 17U0, and 182G ; of 

 these, one was aged 1G6. In the same period 8G had 

 attained the age of 120, and not 130. The number 

 who attained the age of 110, and not 120, was 29 in 

 the same space. And those who died after the age 

 of 100 and not 110, was 24 within the period. Of 

 till whole number recorded, 64 were natives of Eng- 

 land, 2:! of Ireland, and 12 of Russia!— Doubtless, 

 many more have died after the age of 100, but no 

 more have had their names reco ded. 



True prudence is to see from the commence- 

 ment of an affair what will be the end of it. 



J] Fairy land or new El Dorado.— The streams in 

 the Huron country, says the Rochester Advertiser //(,/,7u.r, in. H.— i'. J. hollasd. ti 

 glide over pebbles of cornelian, topaz, jasper, agate, ' J/o«(re«^. L. C— Hkkry millock 



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