Vol. VIII.— No. 5. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



37 



HINTS, 



ICJTABLE FOR THE PRESSURE OF TilE TIMES. 



Cease to injulge in the luxuries of life, they 

 ither prolong our existence nor add to our 

 ippiness. 



Desist from the use of ardent spirits and even 

 ine except in cases of sickness ; these corrupt 

 Ji 9rals, reduce the purse, and shorten life. 

 Join in no expensive entertainment at home 

 abroad — they engender many evils. 

 Let us lay aside our carriages and horses 

 ii -they invite dissipation, cherish idleness and 

 fli dude that kind of exercise which health de- 

 ands. 



Indidge in no extravagance of dress, neither 

 yourselves or your children; outward show 

 111 >es little to secure the good opinion of those 

 ho can render us the best service. 

 Teach your children to believe that their fu- 

 re livelihood must depend u|)on their own exer- 

 "51 )ns, and early accustom them to some kind of 

 bor, that they may not be wholly unprepared 

 hen necessity overtakes them. 

 Lay aside the use of tobacco in all its forms, 

 a habit uncleanly, expensive, troublesome, 

 twin brother of intemperance, and a harbin- 

 r of disease. 3Iany waste more money by 

 (low Dutch) practice of smoking alone, 

 an they pay for the support of that religion 

 — )on which their immortal welfare depends. 

 "f Centinel. 



CDRt; FOR BURNS. 



Messrs Editors — In your paper of yesterday 

 oruing, I observed an extract from the Boston 

 ed. and Surg. Journal, reconmiending the use of 

 lour in Burns, which induces me to send you a 

 cipe for a poultice which has been employed in 

 y father's family about forty years, without fuil- 

 g in a single instance of producing the nicst 

 Ed| ippy result ; and which I earnestly recommend 

 1 all who are under the necessity of applying 

 r relief under such afflictions. 



A SUBSCRIBER. 



To half a pint of milk, add about as many 

 iffron flowers as can be laid in a table-spoon, 

 ther green or dried, let them simmer together 

 i)0ut three minutes, then sprinkle in sufficient 

 heat flower to make it to the consistency of 

 lick paste ; after spreading it on a cloth apply a 

 nail tiuantity of sweet oil or lard. The poultice 

 lould be renewed every three hours, and in the 

 Durse of twentyfour hours the fire will be en- 

 rely extracted, and the wound will heal without 

 aving any scar. 



The milk must not boil.— A". Y. D. Adv. 



Green Peas ^c. in China. — The introduction of 

 reen peas and potatoes to China is probably owing 

 ) the Dutch; becausethe Chinese call them Ilot- 

 nd peas and Holland yams — sometimes the latter 

 re called Utile yams. These products of the 

 arth, it is said, have obtained, at the tables of 

 le rich, a general currency throughout all the 

 rovinces of the Empire, particidarly green peas, 

 hicli at Pekin are used for green pea .soup. 



To these innovations in the culinary department 

 earl barley is to be added In the taste for 

 ird's nests, spices, peas, &c. not omitting the 

 black conunodity," (tobacco,) which affords 

 foreign smoke," China seems verging to that 

 ;ate in which she will be as dependent on the 

 estern world as the tea drinkers are on her for 

 le luxuries of the banquet. 



Rice well boiled, is an excellent vegetable, and 

 has, lor several years past, been getting into more 

 extensive use in the Northern States. As many 

 house keepers may not know how to prepare it, 

 we co|)y the following receipt from the Charles- 

 ton Courier : — 



Put yoiu' rice in an open pot, covering it with 

 water ; then put it on the fire to boil ; when it is 

 boiled so as to become soft, (which is easily ascer- 

 tained by means of a wooden ladle, which we 

 call a hominy stick,) take it oft' the fire, drain ofl" 

 the water, and cover the pot so as to retain the 

 heat — then jiut it on the coals, or hot ashes for 

 about fifteen or twenty minutes, so as to throw off 

 the steam, or as it is usually called, to soak. Your 

 rice is then ready for the table. 



The first green \H'.a» in London, were sold in 

 June, about 3 dozen pods, for two sovereigns, 

 nearly ten dollars. 



A writer in the Worcester jEgis asserts that 

 salt is an eftectnal cure for hydrophobia. It shoidd 

 be administered in the form of strong brine, both 

 internally and externally as soon as practicable. 

 It is well known that salt is a powerful antidote to 

 [)oison of all kinds ; and we remember to have 

 heard one of the first settlers in one of the west- 

 ern states relate that, as he was carrying a bag of 

 salt through the woods, he stepped on and was 

 bitten by a rattle-snake. Being at a distance from 

 any house, no medical aid could be procured, and 

 he sat down and rubbed the wound with salt. He 

 continued the application for more than an hour, 

 and then proceeded on his journey, experiencing 

 not the slightest inconvenience from the bite. 



American Advocate. 



American Jfine. — We have understood that the 

 [ircmium was awarded to Mr Charles JVes, of this 

 borough, for the best specimen of domestic wine 

 exhibited to the "Wine Convention," which met 

 on the 1st instant, at Mr Upp's vineyard. AVinas 

 from many of the vineyards in this county, and of 

 various kinds of grape, were exhibited ; but no 

 report of the examinations, save of the general 

 result, has reached us. Those who were present 

 at the exhibition express themselves decidedly 

 well pleased with the progress made in the cul- 

 ture of the grape, and the promise thus given that 

 wine will be speedily and permanently added to 

 the staple products of our country. 



York, Pa. paper. 



TREE COVERING TWO ACRES. 



Extract from Dr Scudder's Letter from Ceylon. 



Banian, (Ficus.) Of this singular tree, there are 

 three species in Jaflfna. The most remarkable 

 thing concerning it, is its well known property of 

 self-propagation. One species, especially, sends 

 out branches from all its lower hmbs, which, 

 hanging down like long ropes, reach the ground, 

 take root, and become additional stems, or trunks 

 to the parent tree. Thus there is a gradual addi- 

 tion to the family, until the whole often covers a 

 very large space ; while it is still connected to- 

 gether as one tree. I have seen, I think, two 

 acres covered in this way, by the progeny of one 

 ancient trunk. The tree is useful only for shade, 

 but it is much reverenced by the natives, who 

 think every ancient banian to be the residence of 

 some evil spirit ; and they will by no means be 

 under one at noon or at sunset, lest the evil spirit 

 should possess them. — Miss. Herald. 



Egg Trade. — One of the Derry steam vessels 

 carried over to England (from Ireland) 15 tons 

 at a late trip, and on her next voyage upwards 

 of 20 tons, in all 270,000 hens' eggs. 



fFoman. — To the honor, to the eternal honor of 

 the sex, be it said, that in the path of duty no 

 sacrifice is with them too high or too dear. No- 

 thing is with them impossible, but to shrink from 

 what love, honor, innocence, and religion require. 

 Tlie voice of pleasure, or of power, may pass 

 them luiheeded — but the voice of affliction never. 

 The chamber of the sick, the pillows of the dying, 

 the vigils of the doad, the altars of religion, never 

 missed the presence or the sympathies of Wo- 

 man ! Timid though she be, and so delicate that 

 the winds of heaven may not too roughly visit her, 

 on such occasions she loses all sense of danger, 

 and assumes a preternatural courage, which 

 knows not and fears not consequences. Then she 

 displays that undaunted spirit which neithe:' 

 courts difliculties nor evades them ; that resigna 

 tiou which utters neither murmurs nor reg-ret, and 

 that patience in suft'ering which seems victorious 

 even over death itself — Judge Story. 



Crops at the West. — We are informed by Mr 

 Ely, proprietor of some of the great Rochester 

 Flouring Mills, that the wheat crop not only ap- 

 pears to be abundant, but that the quality is of the 

 finest description ever known. The kernels of 

 wheat generally are very full and so large that 

 they actually burst out irom the husk; and the 

 ears were filled out and pointed to the very top. 

 New Rochester flour, from the present crop will 

 be received in New York, in a few days. Other 

 crops, we also learn, promise abundant return. 

 N. Y. Com. Adv. 



Warning to Postmasters. — Asa W. Howe, Depu- 

 ty Post Master at Norwalk, Ohio, has been con- 

 victed and sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred 

 dollars to the United States, and to be imiirisoned 

 in the Penitentiary for the spaceof twelve months, 

 for having opened certain letters which passed 

 through bis hands, while acting as P. M. 



It is reported that the splendid Cathedral of St. 

 Paul's is discovered to be in an insecure state, 

 and that it has been thought by scientific men 

 that a great portion of the edifice must be 

 rebuilt. 



The Height of Enjoyment. — A gentleman near 

 Castletoji, Eng. asked a country booby what he 

 considered the greatest enjoyment. His reply 

 was, " if 1 was a king, I 'd live on tharkik, (stir 

 pudding,) and treacle, and swing all day on a 

 gate." 



Let i;ol .\mbiliou mock Iheir homely joys." 



It is stated in an English paper that the Mac- 

 clesfield silkweavers have inserted an advertise- 

 ment in the papers, in which they offer their teeth 

 for sale, having these hard times, no further use for 

 them ! 



Vaccination. — A table recently published in 

 Paris states that the number of persons who, 

 within the last twenty years have been vaccinated 

 by the direction of the Academy of Medicine, 

 is upwards of eight millions ; and that, in the 

 same period, the total number who have been 

 vaccinated throughout France is as much as thir- 

 ty millious. 



