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THE GENESEE FARMER 



October 22. 1831. 



from Porter's Health Almanac. 

 THE DUTY OF AN ATTENTION TO HEALTH. 



The celebrated English moralist, i>r. 

 Johnson, has eloquently enforced the du- 

 ty and importance of an early attention to 

 the means of preserving health. 



" Among the innumerable follies," he 

 observes, " by which we lay up inour youth 

 repentance and remorse lor the succeeding 

 part of our lives, there is scarce any a- 

 gainst which warnings are of less efficacy 

 than the neglect ot health. When the 

 springs of motion are yet elastic, when the 

 heart bounds with vigor, and the eye spark- 

 les with spirit, it is with difficulty that we 

 are taught to conceive the imbecility that 

 every hour is bringing upon us, or to 

 imagine that the nerves which are now bra- 

 ced with so much activity, will lose all their 

 power under the gripe of tune, relax with 

 numbness, and tetter with debility. 



" Health is indeed so necessary loall the 

 duties, as well as pleasures of liie, that the 

 crime of squandering it is equal ti< the fol- 

 ly ; and lie that lor a short gratification 

 brings weakness and diseases upon him- 



most pernicious practice to wear warm 

 stockings and shoes dining the day, and to 

 change them after night tor those of a 

 more flimsy texture. Many a fatal cold 

 has, in this manner been contracted. 



littles for Turkish Doctors a,:d Ameri- 

 can Quads. — .Never to give advice nor 

 render assistance before getting a fee ; ne- 

 ver to ask questions of the sick; and nev- 

 er to give intelligible answers to the friends : 

 to fleece the poor of their hard-earnings, 

 in the name of humanity ; and to kill, by 

 their nostrums, as evidence of the force of 

 untaught geuius, and of the folly of lear- 

 ning. 



A receipt for most disorders of the skin. 



— '' Take of pure clean water quantum snj- 

 jicit,[mt it into a clean earthen or china basin, 



then take a clean linen cloth,dip it into that 

 ] water, and apply it night and morning as 



a matter of course, aud frequently between 



whiles, in the course of the day, as occa- 

 j sion may require- 



Many persons habituate themselves to 



taking large quantities of food, on the sup 



nto some hot water, which restored it; and 

 the process appears to be one that may 

 prove of much advantage to the preservers 

 of those beautiful animals. 



The Cap of Liberty. 

 In early times the right of covering the 

 was a mark of liberty : hence the term "Cap of 

 Liberty." Slaves whether white or black, in Eu- 

 rope in the latter half of the eighteenth century, 

 went without any hats. In South America, and 

 in the Southern States, slaves go bare headed 



a trespasser against 



self, and for the pleasure of a few years ,| position that it is necessary for the support 

 passed in the tumults of diversion and the, of then: strength. In this they commit a 

 clamors of merri.iient, condemns the ma- j| very great error. By large quantities oi 

 turer and more experienced part of his life || food the stomach is over-distended, and lo- 

 to the chniber and the couch, may be just-! jSes part of its powers— it therefore per- 

 ly reproached, not only as a spendthrift of forms its office imperfectly, and debility 

 his own happiness, but as the robber of the i; and disease are the consequences. It is 

 public, — as a wretch that has voluntarily ! I established beyond doubt, that far great- 

 disqualified himself for the business of hisjjer nourishment is derived from the moder- 

 station, and refused that part which Pro-j; ate use of any given food, than w hen large 

 vidence assigns him in the general task of j quantities of it are taken, 



signal punishment awaiting 

 die restriction. 



The cap of Liberty has been made to play a 

 very important put in Revolutions. The Sv. ii 

 owe their success to the cap which Gessler ordered 

 to be saluted as a mark of submission. The cap 

 of liberty appears on some of the English devices. 

 The cap of Liberty was a symbol of the French 

 Revolution. The Marseilles Galley slaves mount- 

 ed a red one whi n ihey were emancipated. But 

 t he French cap degenerated into the Jacobin cup 



Living biography isan unenviable task. If die 

 biographer be a friend of the one whoso life he 

 paints, he spares him, of course. If written by 

 an enemy, he willdo injustice. So, between these 

 extreme cases, the pendulum of the biographei 

 has a wide range. I would, therefore, give very- 

 little for living biography: neither will 1 subscribe 

 for books ; because, if the book be a good one, it 

 will find purchasers. 



Negligence, imprudence, and irregularity, if long 

 persevered in, will " make knowledge useless, wil 

 idiculous, and genius contemptible." 



human nature 



When a person sighs without knowing 



It is impossible to procure sound sleep 

 without the day has been devoted to tem- 



why, is sad amidst the cheerful, pesters the]] perance, and some hours of it to active ex- 

 doctor with complaints, which can neuherijercise, as it is to take exercise without 

 find name nor place; who cannot sleep ;|| strength, or to support the body without 

 or, whose sleeping is a busy dream ; who j! food. 



speculates upon the properties of every | Laborers, when about to return to their 

 mouthful of food swallowed — in fine, who j; homes, from their occupation, particularly 

 is not comfortable either awake or sober- — |i j n the evening, or in cool or damp weather, 

 we must direct such a person to exercise] ought always to put on their coats or jack- 



freely, and still better, regularly to labor in 

 the open air, in order to produce fatigue. — 

 Indolence is a malady which neither elo- 

 quence nor physic can cure. 



Nothing, says an old writer, pesters 



ets, and by no means to return in their 

 shirt sleeves. 



Domestic Cleanliness. — People, in ordei 

 to preserve their health, ought to observe 

 all cleanliness and sweetness in their hou- 



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condition. 



Simple Diluents. — The man who dilates 

 his blood with simple fluids, escapes many 

 of' those hepatic and bowel complaints to 

 which the drinker of ardent spirits is lia- 

 ble. 



the body and mind sooner than to be still seSj cloths, and furniture, suitable to then- 

 fed, to eat and ingurgiate beyond all meas- 

 ure, as many do. By overmuch eating, 

 and continual feasts, they stifle nature, and 

 choke up themselves ; whereas, had they 

 lived coarsely, or, like galley slaves, been 

 tied to an oar, life might have been happily 

 prolonged many fair years. 



Exercise, sufficient clothing, comfort- 

 able rooms, wholesome food, and abstin- 

 ence from all intoxicating drinks, are the 

 only certain means of defending the sys- 

 tem from the cold, and from the diseases 

 — coughs, pleurisy rheumatism, and the 

 like, which result ti >m it. 



In damp, wet, and chilly weather, keep 

 the feet warm and dry. Soft wollen stock- 

 ings, and stout thick-soaled shoes, are im- 

 portant preservatives of health. It is a 



Elasticity of Feathers. — The elasticity 

 of feathers was well illustrated by an ex- 

 periment lately performed in the library of 

 the Royal Institution, London, of immers- 

 ing feathers, rumpled and bent in almost 

 every direction, in boiling water, and on 

 withdrawing them thev were seen to have 

 resumed their regular and natural form. — 

 This was accidentally discovered by a spe- 

 cimen of a foreign bird, the plumage of 

 which had been very much rumpled, falling 



GRA1 E VINJ K 



Grape vines of choicest va 

 fnz'*Ap\_W rieties both of American 



and European for sale in fine condition , i 



reasonable prices ■ - the Editor. Persons wishing 

 to plant either lor the table or vineyards can bi 

 supplied. Orders directed to iliis othec post paid 

 will be attended to. Also a general assortment ul 

 peach, plum, apple and oilier frail trees, 

 oct 15 



TO EDITORS AND PULL1SHERS. 



A Gentleman, residing in the country, plan 

 tically engaged in husbandry and having 

 some knowledge of science, literature and 

 politics, wishes to ei gage with some publish- 

 ers of our Periodical V\ oi Us. in suppl) ing ar- 

 ticles and papers for the public press. He 

 has been for many yens, a pretty liberal con- 

 tributor, but always voluntary and gratui- 

 tous, in which be has probably done his part. 

 He now asks a reasonable compensation foi 

 the fruits of his leisure and experience. — 

 Reference,N. Goodsell, Editor Genesee Far- 

 mer. 



STATE OF NEW-Yi RK.. i Albany Sept. 1st 

 Secretary's Office. ) 1831. 



Sir — 1 hereby give you notice, that at the next 

 General Election, to be boldenon the lirst Mon- 

 day in November next, and the two succeeding 

 days, ,t Senator is to he chosen in the i ighth sen 

 ate district, in the place of Timothy H. Porter, 



whose term of service will expire the last da; 



of December next. 



A. C. FLAGG Secretary of State. 

 To the Sheriff of the County aj' Monroe. 



N. B. Members of Vssembly, Sheriff and 

 Clerk, are also to be chosen at the General Elec- 

 tion. 



=n"f Proprietors of the dill", vent public newspa- 

 per;- in this county, will please to publish this no- 

 tice once in each week, until alter the Election 

 and forward th< ir bills to the undersigned 



J. K. LIVINGSTON, Sheriff. 



Rochester, Sept. 20th, IP31. sept 21 



