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Why arc some fiiiits iii)|irovivl in swot-tm-.^s Iiy 

 drying or half wlllieriiig on the trees ? 



Beraiise tlicir watery parts thus exhale, anil the 

 sugar is incrcaseil in quantity. 



Why should grapes linng on the vino until they 

 are perfectly ripe ? 



Bccauso unripe hunches never get any riper af- 

 ter they are gathered. 



Why should grapes he eaten soon after they are 

 gathered ? 



Because, unlike other fruits, grapes do not im- 

 prove in flavoi after gathering. 



Why should the crowns lie removed from ripe 

 pine apples ? 



Because^ when suffered to remain, they live 

 upon the fruit until they have sucked out all the 

 goodness. 



Why does an apple when first cut appear while, 

 and after a time hrownish ? 



Because a fermentation arises from the rest of 

 the fruit absorhing the oxygen of the atmosphere ; 

 the apple having [)reviously been, by its tough 

 skin, protected from the contact of the air. — Do- 

 novan. 



Why are certain apples called russetings ? 



Because of their russet or reddish brown color. 



Why should raspberries be eaten from the 

 bush ? 



Because their flavor is the most fleeting of all 

 fruit. Even a few hours will diminish it, and on 

 the bush the flavor does not continue above two 

 or three days after the fruit is ri|)e. If kept for 

 two or three days when first gathered, the flavor 

 is altnost entirely gone. 



Why are chestnuts best preserved through win- 

 ter itisand ? 



Because if there be any maggots in the chest- 

 nuts, they will come out and work up through the 

 sand to get air. 



Why is fern preferable to straw for the bed 

 between the layers of fruit ? 



Because it does not impart that musty flavor 

 which is so often produced by straw. 



Why are the autumnal fruits as plums, pears, 

 etc. more crude and indigestible than those ot 

 summer ? 



Because, in part, of the state of the constitu- 

 tion. Thus, at the commencement of summer 

 the system is more nerved and braced by the at- 

 mosphere of winter and spring, and by the dryer 

 food which necessity obliges us to take at those 

 seasons, so that the cooling fruits of summer are 

 wholesome for their opening the bowels, &c. 

 But lit is not wonderful that a continuance of 

 watery and innutritious food, like fruit, should 

 towards autumn, produce debility in constitutions 

 partly predisposed to it, by the continual and re- 

 laxing heat of the summer mouths. — Kno 

 for the People. 



A New Variety or Pea. — The Charleston 

 Courier states, that a quantity of a new species of 

 pea has been imported from Cuba, by Dr B. B. 

 Strobel, of that city, and placed in the publica- 

 tion office of the Southern Agriculturist, for gra- 

 tuitous distribution, with a view of introducing 

 their culture into the United States. It is a native 

 of Old Spain, and is called the Gareanza or Bra- 

 ganza. Peas of this kind yield, in Old Spain, 300 

 bushels to the acre ; they sell, ripe, in Havana 

 market, for $1 to $1,50 per bushel. They are ex- 

 cellent for soups, are larger than even the marrow- 



fats, and are said to be better, cooked in the sani 

 way — .MULildun Sentinel. 



Reauino Calves The folloiviug is the gener- 

 al mi-thod of rearing calves in IJiitain, and diflers 

 not materially from that followed by Bakewell, 

 the great cattle breeder. 



" The calves sucked fov a week or fortnight, 

 according to their strength ; new milk in a pail was 

 then given a few meals ; next new milk and skim 

 milk mixed, a few meals more; then skim milk 

 alone, or porridge made with milk, water ground 

 oats, &.C., and sometimes oil cake, until cheese 

 making eotnmence<l, if it was a dairy farm ; after 

 which, whey porridge, or sweet whey, in the field, 

 being careful to house them in the night, until 

 the warm weather was confirmed. Bull calves, 

 and high-bred heifers, however, were sufl^red to 

 remain at the teat until they were six, nine, or per- 

 haps twelve months oM, letting them run with 

 their dams, or more frequently less valuable cows, 

 or heifers." 



A Radish. — The Olentaugy (Ohio) Gazette 

 states, that a radish was brought to that office, by 

 Capt. C. Plumb, of Berkshire, which excels any 

 other instance of extraordinary vegetable produc- 

 tion on record. It measured two and a half feet 

 circumference, two feet in length, and weighed 

 twenty-one jiounds ! — Albany D. Advertiser. 



We learn from a friend who recently visited Old 

 Concord, that the inhabitants of that town are 

 about erecting a monument on the Battle Ground, 

 on the spot where the two first British soldiers fell, 

 and where they were buried, and where their 

 grave stones still are. The land belonged to the 

 Rev. and venerable Dr Thayer — now in his 83d 

 year and still continues in the ministry, who has 

 given it to the town for that purpose. — Boston 

 Trans. 



Stone Planing Machine. — The last number 

 of the Mechanics' Magaz ne states that a machine 

 has been invented by Mr James Hunter, superin- 

 tendant of the Leysinill qu.arries, near Arbroath, 

 which will entirely supersede all liand labor in the 

 hewing and smoothing of stone. It is said to be 

 so ingenious and eftective a machine that it will 

 reduce and polish more blocks of rough stone in 

 thirty minutes, at a cost of one shilling and nine- 

 pence, than a good mason could reduce and polish 

 in_^i»e days and a half, at a cost of Jive shillings 

 and ninepence ; and the machine moreover, will do 

 the work in far more workman-like manner than 

 the man ! 



A letter from Washington says : " I hear today 

 that the Indians are marching fifteen hundred 

 strong to the capital of Florida. Mr White, del- 

 egate from that territory, has just arrived from 

 home, and is in great appiehension upon the sub- 

 ject — blood is fl,owing, and the greatest outrages 

 have been perpetrated." 



A Bargain. — John Jacob Astor recently sold 

 the Great Hotel in Broadway, to his son, William 

 B. Astor, for one dollar ttnd delivered the title 

 deeds on New Year's Day. If John Jacob has 

 any more such bargains on hand, we'll take one of 

 them, — A'". Y. Herald. 



Dr Xavier Chabert, the celebrated Kire King, 

 die<l ii] New Vurk, on '..ednesday last, in a most 

 awful manner. Ho was engaged in making some 

 e.xiiirimeiiis in chemistry with phosphoric atthcr, 

 or prussie acid, which exploded, and scattered his 

 mr.rtal frame iiuo a thousand atoms. 



Silk Manukactures. — At the benntiful village 

 of Poughkeepsie.s, situated on the North river, 

 there are now being built six factories intended 

 for the manufacture of silk goods. — Ball. Farmer. 



The First Kennebec and Boston Stage left 

 Quebec yesterday «fternoon. There were three 

 passengers; one was Captain Dougla."?, of the barh 

 Endeavor, wrecked in the ice, who is on his way 

 to England. The time taken to Boston, may be, 

 — by an extra expense of a dollar, so as to 

 overtake the line of stages at Skowhegan — four 

 days and a half, and the travelling expenses Jo 

 Boston about twentyfive dollars. From Boston 

 to New York, the tinje occupied is often as short 

 as 15 to 17 hours ; but allowing another day and 

 a half, the traveller leaving Quebec, may get to 

 New York in six, and certainly seven days. — 

 Gaz.Dec. 18. 



Soft Water. — There is a great complaint that 

 the rain water cisterns almost throughout the city 

 are empty, and some families are obliged to melt 

 snow — some even use hard well water, and others 

 buy aqueduct vvati;r at considerable expense with 

 which to meet the weekly demands of washing 

 day, and the daily calls for other purposes. Our 

 cistern has been empty several weeks — but we 

 have neither bought nor borrowed soft water, and 

 yet our washing was never better done. We take 

 the hard waK^r from our well, and into o.:e buck- 

 et we put one ounce of the carbonate of Soda, 

 which dissolves immediately when the water is 

 warmed, and it becomes at once as soft and harm- 

 less as the purest rainwater. This article is for 

 sale at any of the apothecaries or druggists, and 

 costs 12 cents per lb. — Boston Mer. Journal. 



Mr Whitmaksh, of this town, who went to 

 France last fall, to acquaint himself more parti»- 

 ularly with various branches of the Silk business, 

 has concluded also to visit Italy in the prosecution 

 of his plans, and where, ])robably, more is to be 

 learned than even in Franco. — Hampshire Gaz. 



A French chemist is said to have condensed 

 carbonic acid gas to a solid state. The tempera- 

 ture required was nearly one hundred degrees be- 

 low the freezing point. 



The Ettrick Shepherd, James Hogg, died of 

 bilious fever at his residence on the banks of the 

 Yarrow, on the 21st of November, aged 59, leaving 

 many admirers throughout the world. 



Mr A. Brunson of Meadville, Pa. says, from fif- 

 teen years' experience, he finds that an Indian 

 meal poultice, covered over with young hyson tea, 

 softened with hot water, and laid over burns and 

 frozen flesh, as hot as it can be borne, will relieve 

 the p.iin in five minutes ; that if blisters have not 

 arisen before, they will not after it is put on, and 

 that one poultice is generally sufficient to effect 

 a cure. 



