1857. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



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HINTS TO WORKMEN OH HEALTH. 



1. Abstain from all spirits and dram drinking. 

 Spirits relax the muscles, diminish the strength of 

 the body, and render men susceptible of disease. 



2. Let your food be coarse and plain. Concen- 

 trated and highly-seasoned food is, if possible, as 

 bad as liquors. 



3. Where (well-filtered) water does not disa- 

 gree, value the privilege and continue it. Pure wa- 

 ter is a far better beverage for the sedentary, and 

 those who take but little exercise, and for those 

 whose labor or exhausted strength do not require 

 stimulants. 



4. The quantity (of most things) is always more 

 hurtful than the quality. 



5. Take your meals at regular hours always. 

 The human frame is capable of being changed from 

 sickness to perfect health, by a well-regulated sys- 

 tem of diet. 



6. Avoid everything, however agreeable to the 

 palate, that from experience you find to disagree 

 with you. 



7. Make daily ablution the first thing on rising ; 

 you will feel stronger and more refreshed from it 

 during the day. I fancy I hear you say that you 

 have not the time to do so. My answer to you is, 

 rise ten minutes earlier, dip a coarse towel in cold 

 water, wring it out, and rub the whole body over. 

 "Cleanliness is next to godliness." 



8. Never quack or tamper with your constitution 

 by taking patent medicines j they are offered for 

 every kind of disease, for many of which they are 

 decidedly prejudicial, producing very often fatal re- 

 sults. If slightly indisposed (and if it is possible 

 to do so,) remain quiet, avoid all excitement, and 

 abstain from all meats and fermented liquors for 

 the day. In headache and slight fever, this plan 

 mostly effects a cure. Never use purgatives. 



9. Take exercise if you value your health, but 

 proportion it to your strength. 



10. Never learn to smoke ; shun tobacco in all its 

 forms. It stunts the growth, when taken at too 

 early an age ; it is a great promoter of indolence 

 and laziness ; it causes nervous trembling of the 

 hands, and nervous debility ; it has nothing nour- 

 ishing or stimulating in it, but is merely a narcotic, 

 of which the moral and physical effects upon those 

 who use it are of a very dubious character. — Cor 

 respondence of the Builder. 



CASHMERE GOAT AND SHAWLS. 



It is not as yet generally known that the Thibet 

 goat, from whose wool the famous Cashmere shawls 

 are made, has been introduced successfully into the 

 United States. This enterprising undertaking was 

 achieved a few years since, after many difRculties, 

 by Dr. J..B. Davis, of Columbia, S. C, at that time 

 employed by the Ottoman Porte m experimenting 

 on the growth of cotton, in the Sultan's dominions. 

 Dr. Davis succeeded, at vast expense, in securing 

 eleven of the pure breed, which, on his way home 

 lie exhibited in London and Paris. Since that pe- 

 riod, the goat has been introduced from South 

 Carolina into Tennessee, where it is said to thrive. 

 The value of a flock may be estimated from the 

 fact that no real Thibet goat has ever been sold for 

 Jess than a thousand dollar.?. This enormous price, 

 moreover, is not a speculative one, for no fleeced 

 animal has wool of such fineness, softness and du- 



rability. The wool of all the Thibet goats in Ten- 

 nessee, for example, has been engaged, at New 

 York, this year, at $8,50 per pound, the purchasers 

 designing to send it to Paisely, in Scotland, in or- 

 der to be manufactured into shawls. 



The prices paid for the real Cashmere shawls, or 

 those woven in India, have sometimes been almost 

 fabulous. A full sized shawl, sdch as is called in 

 America a long shawl, ordinarily commands in Paris 

 or London from five hundred to five thousand dol- 

 lars, according to the quality. Scarfs and square 

 shawls, being smaller, sell for less. It is a mistake, 

 however, to suppose that all these shawls are man- 

 ufactured in India, in the shape in which they are 

 sold here. Generally, indeed, the centres and bor- 

 ders come out separately, and are put together af- 

 terward in sizes, and after patterns, to suit purcha- 

 sers. Moreover, a large portion of the shawls sold 

 as real India ones are actually made in France, for 

 the Thibet goat was introduced into that country 

 more than thirty years ago, and the Cashmere shawls 

 imitated with considerable skill. Judges of the ar- 

 ticle pretend to say, however, that the real India 

 shawl can be detected, by its having a less evenly 

 Avoven web, as also from its brighter colors. It is 

 likewise said that the border of the genuine Cash- 

 mere shawl is invariably woven in small pieces, 

 which are afterward sewed together, as the whole 

 border is subsequently sewn on to the centre. But 

 other authorities deny that the skill of India is in- 

 sufficient to broche a shawl ; in other words, to 

 weave the border and centre in one piece, or run 

 the pattern of the former over the latter. 



Notwithstanding the successful imitation of these 

 shawls, fashion and luxury still prefer the apparent- 

 ly ruder original. Just as laces, woven by hand, 

 bring a price more than five times as great as the 

 same pattern woven by machinery, so a Cashmere 

 shawl, known to have come from India, will fetch 

 vastly more than the cleverest imitation. Proba- 

 bly, however, this is not all. Persons familiar with 

 both the article and the imitation assert that the 

 former is softer than the latter, and that this soft- 

 ness arises partly from the way the thread is spun, 

 and partly because the Thibet goat, when exported 

 from its native hills, sensibly detriorates. There is 

 also a shawl known popularly as the French Cash- 

 mere, which is an imitation of the imitation ; but 

 this has none or very little of the wool of the im- 

 ported Thibet goat. The animal from which this 

 valuable fleece is taken is a hardy creature, at least 

 in its original localily ; and tlieir fine curled wool 

 lies close to the skin, just as the under hair of the 

 common goat lies under the upper hair. Eight 

 ounces for a full size goat is a large yield, but the 

 yearlings, from whom the best wool is taken, give 

 less. About five pounds is required to make a 

 shawl of the largest size and finer quality ; but 

 three or four pounds is sufficient for an inferior one. 

 — Philadelphia Ledger. 



The Highest Mountain in the World. — The 

 jirincipal topic of conversation at Calcutta is the 

 discovery of the highest mountain in the world. At 

 the meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, on 

 the Gth August, Major Thuilliea announced that 

 Col. Waugh, Survej-or General of India, had com- 

 pleted his computations of the positions and eleva- 

 tions of the peaks of the Himalaya. The result 

 was to depose the mountain Kanchinjinga from its 



