VOL. XIV. NO. -SO. 



AND G A II D E N K 11' S JOURNAL, 



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Waxino Marbi.k, for the purpose of |ir()tpctiii<; 

 t from the effect of the weather when cxposeil in 

 lie open nir, lias been sometime pnuticecl in Enp- 

 and and might be adopted here with jrreat advnn- 

 ago, particularly in the iireservatiou of fine Italian 

 narlilo, used in monuments, gravestones, or ceno- 

 aphs — as at Mount Auhurn or elsewhere — or in 

 >rnaiiienling private and public edifices, witif 

 rieze or entablature, or enilwllishinj; gardens, and 

 roves, and parks, with statuary. A lati' London 

 leriodical contains an extract from the evidence 

 )f Mr John Henry, before the Committee of Arts 

 ind Manufactures. He was the first person who 

 ised wax as a preservative. He applied it to the 

 rieze of the Athenasum and Hyde Park Corner, 

 o preserve them from the atmosphere ofLonilou. 



His testimony ran thus : The first experiment 

 [ made was on a piece of polished marble. 1 took 

 ivax and made a stripe across it with a hair pen- 

 ;il ; I contrived to warm it till the marble had 

 ibsorbed the wax. and left none on the surface. 

 riien I mixed wax with a little turpentine, ami I 

 bund that it went in further, hut I found that the 

 iN'ax went one sixteenth of an inch into the marble. 

 [ put it on the top of the house for one winter. 

 [ found in the spring the polish was all off' the 

 Tiarble, except w-hcre the wax was ; this con- 

 vinced me that it must he of some use. It makes 

 :he stone like the finest preserved old marble that 

 !ver- was seen. We warm the wax ; wejhave 

 he marble warm also ; and I take off anything 

 bat is upon the stone, and leave nothing hut 

 what is within the stone. You must warm the 

 hole bust or statue, have the wax as hot as you 

 can have it, and take the best means to sett off the 

 iuperfluous matter. I take it off with soft cloth, 

 >rwith cotton. You may also dissolve the wax in 

 urpentine, but it goes in so far, the wax by it- 

 lelf, that it is hardly worth while. I believe 

 vax is almost indestructible in the open air. — 

 tBost. Trans. 



Prices of every kind of produce have soldoni 

 leen so high as at the present time. Farmers' 

 rticles are up to an almost unexampled height. 

 Hay is selling here at §16 to 18 per ton. Flour 

 ;8, and butter at 20 a 22cts. per pound. Wheat 

 Oats and the like, all command exorbitant prices. 

 Articles of household consumption are so high, 

 both in town and country, that hotels are raising 

 the price of board, and Hay and Grain, the means 

 whereby horses live, are so expensive, that the 

 stage-folks are following the fashion and i)Mtting 

 up their prices. The late spring kept back vege- 

 tation, and the crops were not so large as usual. 

 The snow fell so early that two or three weeks of 

 feed abroad for cattle were thus lost. Many far- 

 mers are now reducing their amount of stock, 

 and if the winter holds on like a strong man till 

 late in the spring, without flinching, there will be 

 tough times abroad and not a little grumbling. — 

 Korthamplon Courier. 



Rail Roads in Cities. — The Pbilad. U. S. 

 Gazette states that on Thursday evening the Com- 

 mon Council of that city, by a laqge majority, 

 passed a bill authorizing the construction of a 

 Rail Road down Market street. A Rail Road 

 runs directly through Schenectady, steam and all. 

 A Rail Road also }iasses through Baltimore. Yet 

 •we should not think well of a Rail Road passing 

 BO crowded a thoroughfare as Broadway or Chat- 

 ham street. 



ImPOKTA.NT SUIIGICAL Ol'KHATIOiN. !t isgOIKM'- 



al!y understooil that an accumulation of water on 

 the brain is fatal to the patient, ('hildren thus 

 affected are supposed to be incurable. The St 

 John's Gazette however, mentions a case of a suc- 

 cessful surgical operation on a ])ati<Mit siitt'ering 

 under this disease by Drs Bavard and Living- 

 stone. Tlie patient was a child four months old. 

 The operation was performed on the 9th inst. ; up- 

 wards of a pint of limpid water was discharged 

 from the brain. The Gazette says — " It is now 

 /tn (/a^« since the operation ; and the child is doing 

 well, even beyond the most sanguine expectations, 

 and the countenance is fast resuming a natural 

 appearance. Before the operation, the eyes and 

 fcatnies were much distorted in consequence of 

 the pressure of water on the brain." 



Extract from Judge Stort's Eulogy of 

 Chief Justice Marshall. — May I be permitted 

 also in this presence to allude to another trait in 

 his character, which lets us at once into the in- 

 most recesses of bis feelings with an unerring 

 certainty. I allude to the high value, in which he 

 held the female sex, as the friends, the companions, 

 and the equals of men. I do not here mean to 

 refer to the courtesy and delicate kindnes.s, with 

 which he was accustomed to treat the sex : hut 

 rather to the unaffected respect, with which he 

 spoke of their accomplishments, their talents,their 

 virtues, and their excellences. The scoffs and 

 jeers of the morose, the bitter taunts of the sati- 

 rist, and the lighter ridicule of the witty, so pro- 

 fusely, and often so ungenerously, poured out upon 

 transient follies or fashions, found no sympathy in 

 his bosom. He was still farther above the com- 

 mon place flatteries, by which frivolty seeks to ad- 

 minister aliment to personal vanity, or vice to 

 make its approaches for baser purposes. He spoke 

 to the sex, when present, as he spoke of them, 

 when absent, in language of just appeal to their 

 understandings, their tastes, and their duties. He 

 paid a voluntary homage to their genius, and to the 

 beautiful productions of it, which now adorn al- 

 most every branch of literature and learning. He 

 read those productions with a glowing gratitude. 

 He proudly proclaimed their merits, and vindica- 

 ted on all occasions their claims to the highest dis- 

 tinction. And he did not hesitate to assign to the 

 great female authors of our day a rank, not infe- 

 rior to that of the most gifted and polished of the 

 other sex. But above all, he delighted to dwell 

 on the ailmirahle adajitation of their minds, and 

 sensibilities and affections to the exalted duties as- 

 signed to them by Providence. Their superior 

 purity, their singleness of heart, their e.vquisite 

 perception of moral and religious sentiment, their 

 maternal devotedness, tlicir uncomplaining sacri- 

 fices, their fearlessness in duty, their buoyancy in 

 hope, their courage in despair, their love, which 

 triumphs most, when most pressed by dangers and 

 difficuhies; which watches the couch of sickness, 

 and smooths the bed of death, and smiles even in 

 the agonies of its own sufferings. These, these 

 wer(^ the favorite topics of his confidential con- 

 versation, and on these he expatiated with an en- 

 thusiasm which showed them to be |ircsent in his 

 daily meditation. 



iivvM individual actions. Though domestic occu- 

 pations do not hold the high rank to which they 

 are justly entitled, yet there is reason to belive that 

 the prevailing seutiments are gradually undergo- 

 ing a change ; that females see more and more 

 the projiriety of po.ssessing the ability to overlook 

 and wisely direct the expenditures of that part of 

 the husband's income which fall under their own 

 immediate inspection ; and that they are the most 

 deserving characters, whatever their situations, 

 who best perform the duties which those situations 

 require. We beliove that, at the present day, the 

 instances are inoro common where ladies in the 

 higher dassesof society deem it no disparagement 

 to he fanuliarly acquainted with all the interna) 

 concerns of their families. This is considered not 

 only a matter of (•hoicc, but as absolutely neces- 

 sury if they would maintain that character and 

 influence which they are destined to maintain in 

 society. Yet to the shame of many a mother it 

 must be spoken, that their daughters are sufl^ered 

 to come forward in life unprepared to fill any sit- 

 uation with usefulness and dignity. They arc 

 instructed in the elegant but not in the useful arts 

 of life ; and the result will he as it often has been, 

 where there is no security for the possession of 

 wealth, that they will he obliged to exchange the 

 voluptuous dream of life spent in feasting on sil- 

 ver and dozing amidst curtains of massy velvet, 

 endeavoring to account for the strange inconsis- 

 tency in the events ofreallifeand the promises of 

 romance — to exchange these, and undergo every 

 drudgery and every humiliation for the wages of 

 lackeys. There is so much truth in the remark, 

 that to paint is well ; to play the piano is well ; 

 to embroider, is well ; but to be able to make a 

 pudding is better than aU." 



Domestic Habits i.n Females. — Many a man 

 has owed his success or failure in business as 

 much to the management of bis wife, as to his 



Great Heifeb. — Mr Oliver Shaw of Heath, 

 slaughtered a two years old Heifer lately, weighing 

 as follows. 



Quarters 589 lbs. 



Tallow 52 



Hide 75 



Total 7K 



The Vermont Phoenix tells of a two year old 

 heifer slaughtered in IJrattleboro' by Mr Elias W. 

 Fisher, but it comes a good deal behind Mr 

 Shaw's. The quarters of the Brattleboro' heifer 

 weighed 527 lbs. hide 60, tallow 32— total 619.— 

 Grecnjicld Mercury. 



ExKRcisF,. — The skipping rope, a toy wliich is 

 discarded by the young girl when entering prema- 

 ture womanhood, but which ought to be looked 

 upon as a neeessrary article in every boudoir, or 

 private room occupied by a woman of civilized 

 life and civilized habits, is one of the best, if not 

 the very best, kind of gymnastic exercise that I 

 know. It exercises almost every muscle in the 

 body. There are few women who do not neglect 

 exercise. Men, most of whom have some neces- 

 sary out of door occupation — almost universally 

 walk more than women. Thousands upon thou- 

 sands of English women never cross the threshold 

 of their houses oftener than once a week, and 

 then it is to attend the public worship of their 

 Maker; audit is seldom that, in towns, the dis- 

 tance to the Church or Chapel is such as to 

 occupy more than ten minutes in going thither. — 

 Treatise on Diet and Regimm. 



