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out the country. Much of that recommended for 

 its whiteness of color and general purity, combined 

 with great acidity, is made by adding sulphuric acid 

 to pure water. This is sometimes colored by ad- 

 ding burnt sugar in order to conform to the appear- 

 ance of ordinary cider vinegar, while the former is 

 sold as white wine vinegar. This deception is a 

 very important one. Sulphuric acid is an acid poi- 

 son, and possesses corrosive properties very differ- 

 ent from acetic acid, and other properties upon the 

 stomach and blood which it is unnecessary here to 

 mention; but which make it evident that the effect 

 of this combination, used as a daily food, is highly 

 deleterious to health. Sulphuric acid has more- 

 over an affinity for lime and its compounds which 

 renders it very destructive to the teeth. I have 

 before mentioned that a travelling quack dentist in 

 and about New York is persuading the ignorant to 

 allow him to cleanse their teeth from tartar, &c., 

 with his preparation, which is nothing hut sul- 

 phuric acid, and is certain destruction to the teeth. 

 I have not intended to give a thorough discussion 

 of this subject, but only to put people upon their 

 guard in respect to an article upon everybody's 

 table." 



A MOTHER'S LOVE. 



"A mother's love ! How thrilling the sound ! 

 The angel spirit that watched over our infant 

 years and cheered us with her smiles ! O ! how 

 faithfully does memory cling to the fast fading me- 

 mentoes of a parent's home, to remind us of the 

 sweet counsels of a mother's tongue ! And O, 

 how instinctively do we hang over the scenes of 

 our boyhood, brightened by the recollections of 

 that waking eye that never closed while a single 

 wave of misfortune or danger sighed around her 

 child ! Like the lone star in the heavens in the 

 deep solitude of nature's night, she sits the pre- 

 siding divinity of the family mansion, its delight 

 and its charm, its stay and its hope, when all 

 around her is overshadowed with the gloom of de- 

 spondency and despair." 



enly doctrine, but withal of earthly adaptation. In 

 preparing a guide to immoitality, infinite Wisdom 

 gave not a dictionary or a grammar, but a Bible — 

 a book which, in trying to catch the heart of man, 

 should captivate his taste; and which, in trans- 

 forming his affections, should also expand his in- 

 tellect. The pearl is of great price; but even the 

 casket is of exquisite beauty. The sword is of 

 ethereal temper, and nothing cuts so keen as its 

 double edge; but there are jewels on the hilt, and 

 fine tracery on the scabbard. The shekels are of 

 the purest ore, but even the scrip which contains 

 them is of a texture more curious than that the ar- 

 tist of earth could fashion it. The apples are 

 gold; but even the casket is silver." 



A Suspicious Mind. — It is difficult to tell who 

 suffers most from suspicion, he who entertains it, 

 or he who incurs it. There are few evils more in- 

 tolerable in life than the coldness and distrust of 

 friends and acquaintances. But the pain of dis- 

 covering an unworthy trait or a vile deed in those 

 whom we have trusted, is hardly less distressing. 

 God has made us social beings, and the social in- 

 stinct cannot be outraged without pain. There is 

 hardly any habit more unfortunate, than that of 

 readily taking up an evil report, or of easily im- 

 bibing a suspicion of the conduct or character of 

 our fellow men. 



Sweet Potato Pudding. — Take five eggs, 

 half a pound of butter, a quarter of a pound of su- 

 gar, add as much sweet potato as will thicken it, 

 the juice and grated peel of a lemon; beat it very 

 light. 



THE LITERARY ATTRACTIONS OF 

 THE BIBLE. 



This is the subject of a pamphlet in England, 

 and sent to America by our Minister, Hon. Abbot 

 Lawrence, for circulation here. It has been re- 

 published by the American Tract Society. Rev. 

 Jas. Hamilton, of London, is its author. The 

 following is an extract: — 



"But in giving that Bible, its divine Author 

 had regard to the mind of man. He knew that 

 man has more curiosity than piety, more taste than 

 sanctity; and that more persons are anxious to 

 hear some new, or read some beauteous thing, than 

 to read or hear about God and the great salvation. 



"He knew that few would ever ask. What must 

 I do to be saved? till they came in contact with 

 the Bible itself; and therefore he made the Bible 

 not only an instructive book, but an attractive one — 

 not only true, but enticing. He filled it with mar- 

 vellous incidents and engaging history — with sun- 

 ny pictures from old world scenery, and affecting 

 anecdotes from the patriarchal times. He replen- 

 ished it with stately argument and thrilling verse, 

 and sprinkled it over with sententious wisdom and 



He made it a book of 



proverbial pungency. Me made it a 



lofty thoughts and noble images — a book of heav-lpost-paki tn Raynoltls & Nourse, Quincy Hall, Bostou 



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