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NEW ENGLAND FAHMER, 



August 13, 1830. 



MISCELL-ANIES. 



HINTS TO MOTHERS. 

 Parents, and especially mothers, shouW be aware 

 that the natural effect of the extreme heat of the 

 eeason, and of teething, separate or conjoiiieil, is 

 feverish disturbance, diminished appetite, and im- 

 paired digestion in their children. They ought 

 to know also, that whatever deviation is made from 

 extreme simplicity and regularity of the diet of 

 these young heings, will necessarily aggravate thtir 

 restlessness and sufferings. All the trash of fruit, 

 cakes and pastry of any kind ; coff"ee or any bever- 

 age except ])ure water, ought to be sedulously with- 

 held. The question at this time is not what is 

 agreeable at the moment to tlie child, or chimes in 

 with the oftentimes silly fondness of the mother, 

 b;;t what will be most likely to guard it from an 

 attack of summer complaint, and in fact to save its 

 life. To preserve coolness of the skin by light 

 and loose dress ; bathing twice daily, in lukewarm 

 water, or even cold water, if the skin be hot and 

 dry ; regular airings out of doors, in the morning, 

 and out of the approach of evening; the bedroom 

 well ventilated, but the air so admitted that it shall 

 not blow directly on or over the bed, are among 

 the additional means of prevention. Finally, we 

 would conjure mothers, when their infants are un- 

 well at this season, we might add at any season, to 

 give no medicine on their own responsibility — to 

 listen to no neighboring gossip — to be deceived by 

 no impudent quack; and every quack is as impudent 

 as he is generally ignorant, or he would not be 

 periling the lives of his fellow creatures, by thrust- 

 ing on them alleged sovereign cures for bowel 

 complaints, under the title of vermifuges and the 

 like. If mothers delay in sending for physicians, 

 let them also delay in giving physic. They may, 

 when their infants are ailing, sometimes arrest dis- 

 eases, by curtailing the usual quantity of food, and 

 giving it of a still simpler quality ; or what is still 

 better, by enforcing abstinence except from such 

 drinks as rice, or barley, or gum arabic water,slight- 

 ly sweetened or salted as may be most agreeable. 

 Beyond this, mothers are bewildered ; and if they 

 will go blundering on, theirs be the penalty, as 

 theirs assuredly will be the blame. 



Journal of Health. 



Obedience. — Let thy child's first lesson be obe- 

 dience, and the second may be what thou wilt. 

 — Fuller. 



The directors of the Liverpool and Manchester 

 Railway have determined to open the road the 

 whole length on the 15tli of Se|)tember. A com- 

 pany has been formed for the establishment of a 

 railway from Manchester to Sheffield. 



The first experiment by the directors of the 

 Liverpool and Manchester Rail Road, of travelling 

 the whole line, thirtytwo miles, was made June 

 14, with the most gratifying success. The Arrow 

 steam engine drew a carriage with twelve inside 

 pas-iengers, another with thirty outside, and seven 

 carriages loaded with 34 tons of rough stone. 

 The journey was made from Liverpool to Man- 

 chester in two hours and twenty minutes, including 

 the stoppages for water, which occupied 13 1-2 

 minutes, being at the rate of 14 miles an hour, in- 

 cluding stoppages. 



A man in Cattskill, N. Y. with his wife and a 

 boy, in six days, recently cut, cured and housed 

 15 loads of rye, 3,000 sheaves, and 6 loads of 



hay — drinking molasses and water, milk and wa- 

 ter, and nothing stronger. He is 42 years old, 

 nd offers to bet any man $10 that he can jump 

 over a six rail fence, any time of day. During 

 the six days he went twice to the village, 10 miles, 

 and hoed leans half a day besides. 



M. de Ruyter, a descendant of the famous Dutch 

 Admiral, lately died at Toulon, aged 82. He left 

 the rent of a house, 1800 francs, as an annual 

 marriage portion for the most virtuous girl and the 

 best sailor, to be decided by the Mayor and the 

 Maritime Prefect. 



A man lately arrested in New York for stealing 

 from a ship's cabin, was found to be a villain who 

 had married two wives in three months, and was 

 committed therefor. 



A shark was caught off Fulton Market, New 

 York, on Wednesday morning, July 28. When 

 brought on the deck of the smack, he snapped at 

 the leg of a bystander, but his monstrous jaws 

 closed only on the pantaloons. There were others 

 in company when first seen, and several boys were 

 bathing near. 



IMPORTANCE OF GARDENS. 



Many of our mechanics, and most of the truck- 

 men in this town, occupy their leisure, this year, 

 in cultivating land in the vicinity. We mention 

 this to express our hearty approbation of the prac- 

 tice, and to recommend its adoption elsewhere. It 

 gives us pleasure to say, that at present there is 

 every reason to helieve that they, in common with 

 others, will reap a plentiful harvest. 



Every bushel of Potatoes raised in this way 

 will do more toward maintaining a family, than half 

 a dozen groans over hard times and dull business 



Industry nnist prosper. — Portsmouth Jour. 



mankind, and (unless when assailed) more ready to 

 retreat than to attack. They are not the bold 

 creatures described by Bartrani, and are as much 

 diminished in number as depreciated in courage. 

 In Alabama they still thrive, and the low lands there 

 that produce seventy bushels of frogs to the acre, 

 have, it is said alligators enough wherewith to fence 

 them in. 



The old hunters that used to seek for deer by 

 night, and shoot between the luminous eyes reflect- 

 ing the torch light, avoided the alligator, also, by the 

 reflection of his eyes, which seem like two burning 

 coals, differing in appearance from the eyes of any 

 other animal. 



But in South America the alligator comes to his 

 largest growth, and is the monarch of the rivers. 

 Sometimes he is said to work himself under the moisf 

 earth which cracks with a loud report when dry, and 

 discloses a huge alligator, completely mailed _ like 

 Minerva, when she sprung from her concealed ex- 

 istence. This is (we think) mentioned as a commoD 

 story by Humboldt. 



Marco Polo describes these animals (or crocodiles^ 

 as, ' huge serpents ten paces long and ten spans 

 wide, round the body. At the fore part near the 

 head they have two short legs, having three claws 

 like those of a tiger, with eyes larger than a four- 

 penny loaf and very glaring ; the jaws are wide enougl 

 to- swallow a man, the teeth are large and very sharp 

 and the whole appearance is so formidable thai 

 neither man nor any kind of animal can approach then 

 without terror.'— Tribune. 



ALLIGATOR. 

 The Courier acknowledges the receipt of one of 

 these pretty creatures from a friend in South Carolina, 

 and like Jacques runs into such a vein of metaphor, 

 that it is as good to the Editor as ' an allegory on the 

 banks of the Nile.' Such presents are in the true 

 spirit of charity — twice blessed ; profitable to the 

 giver and acceptable to the receiver. ' You cannot 

 feed capons so,' for the alligator is so little dainty that 

 he will eat whatever he can get, and you may feast 

 him like a statesman, or a retiring Editor, for his 

 digestion is equal to his appetite ; he will grind a bone 

 that has been well polished by a cur, or he will 

 fatten upon a knot of pitch pine, or as they say in 

 Carolina of ' lightwood.' But the proprietor of the 

 animal must trust himself to the clemency of the 

 South Carolinians, if he would see an alligator lying 

 on a bank ' alone in his glory.' He will find one 

 twelve feet in length, and may have sport with him 

 if he will attack him in his castle. The alligator 

 makes a hole like a fox's, except that it is filled witli 

 water; the entrance may be staked up and a new 

 one opened from the surface directly upon the back 

 of the tenant. A few blows will fill him with rage 

 when he will try to come forth that he may, as was 

 desired by Ajax, see and confront his foes. While 

 he is creeping forth at the hole thus made, his 

 hunters can despatch him by striking their axes into 

 his brain. If however he should come upon th© 

 green sward in the exercise of his natural powers, 

 the siege will be raised ; for he makes a noble sally. 

 It is never safe for the hunter in his retreat to fall 

 within reach of his jaws ; which close upon a man like 

 a miller's trap upon a mouse : the muscles that enable 

 him to bite are particularly strong, and his teeth 

 though of the hue of ebony, are equally well adapted 

 to the same service. 



The alligator as he now exists in Carolina is a 

 sullen and fearful animal, awed by the presence of 



Turkish Unconcern. — A boat was sent off fron 

 shore to reconnoitre, and the man who commande( 

 it had a musket on his shoulder, with pistols, a poig 

 nard, and an immense flask of powder suspended fron 

 his belt. He recognized the captain, who had beei 

 absent a month, 'Oh!' cried he, 'AliReis, you an 

 welcome. Mahmoud Selim, welcome ! Who ai' 

 the infidels ?' ' They are sons of Frank gentleraer 

 whom we are taking to Trebizond.' ' You are wel 

 come.' ' What news .' ' ' Nothing — the son of th 

 Aga ofRizahas murdered his cousin for jealousy, an 

 he has taken refuge with us ; he is a fine youn 

 fellow. Oh ! I forgot — Husseis has blown up yoi 

 neighbor's house with gunpowder ; five persons wei 

 killed.' ' Wonderful ! ' ' What would you have, tlie 

 were only children.' Such are Turkisli greetings o 

 the coast of the Black Sea.—Foreigti Review. 



Yellow Locust Seed, ifc. 



For sale at the Seed Store connected with th< 

 New England Farmer, 52 North Market-street, 



Fifty pounds of genuine and fresh yellow Locus 

 Seed, saved for us by a gentleman in Harrisburg 

 Pa. The excellence of this timber for posts, its usei 

 in ship building, its easy culture, rapid growtli, &c 

 recommend it to the notice of farmers. Directions fo 

 its culture furnished gratis. 



Also, seed of the Gtedilschia tnacanthos, or Hone; 

 Locust — or three thorned Acacia, — for live fence! 

 This is the sort recommended by Judge Buel, (1 

 the New England Farmer, vol. viii.-page 1G4) as th 

 best plant that can be cultivated for hedges : of ver 

 rapid growth, long and abundant thorns, and wit 

 hard and strong wood, and it is attacked by no insecl 

 which gives it a de cided advantage over Hawthorns 



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