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NEW ENGLAND FAllMER. 



Sept. 14, 1827. 



From the Columbia, S. C. Ti-loscopc. 



PUMPING THE HUMAN STOMACH. 



Messrs. Euia-ORS. — The instrmiient for pump- 

 ing poisonous substances from the stornacli was 

 used last week, wc understand, by the physicians 

 of this town with tlie most complete success. 



It was employed on a gentleman who had swal- 

 lowed a prodigious dose of nuniato of mercury or 

 corrosive sublimate aud laudanum, and tha^oo, 

 fonr hours after the poison had been swallowed, 

 and after he had been in a state of convulsions 

 and total insensibility, for at least two hdurs. He 

 was in a deep state of insensibility when the tube 

 was introduced into the stomach. A pint and a 

 half of lime water, the antidote to the poison was 

 Srst injected, and it was pleasiuff to witness the 

 immediate good effects. — It was suffered to ro- 



GRAPES. j sidered that the sugar has turned into wine, or 



The North Carolina purple oval grape, known ', rather spirit, and the spirit has evaporated durinf, 

 here as the Isabella grape, is in very luxuriant I the process of baking. This sort of bread may 

 bearing in many of the gardens of this village. — i be easily distingaished without tasting, by its 

 A friend has handed us five l:irgc bnrxhes on a | loose, open appearance, the pores or cells being 

 stalk of one foot in length, and not bigger than a very large — whereas the genuine good br<;ad i.^ 

 pipe stem. {marked by finer pores, and a sort of delicate net- 



Wc are sorry to say that tho foreign grape , work of an uniform appearance. The reason why 

 vines of Dr Vanderveer of Flatbush, which have ; broad turns out sour, when allowed to attain ilU' 

 in former seasons yielded abundance of the finest acetous or vinegar fermentation, is obvious to 

 fruit, are blasted for tho present season. The every one. This may bo called the hypocritical 

 green fruit burst open and withered, and the bread, not only because it is sonr, but because it 

 leaves (and in some instances the small branches is apt to assume the appearance of all the other 

 also) changed to a brown colour and dropped oft', kinds, — and a reference to tho senses, either ot 

 Whether this may have been owing to \.\is> wet taste oi smell, is necessary to inform you as to its 

 season, or to any peculiarity of the climate, is al real character. [Berkshire American.] 



question of some interest, and we hope the friends | 

 of the vine in different and distant parts of the i 



THE THAMES TUNNEL, 

 main a few minutes; and even before it was with- [country will intercliano-e their information and e.K- 1 % strong precautionary measures the water 

 drawn from the stomach the convulsion had ceas- L^ricnco on the subject— Lonfl- hland Star. |has almost been completely drawn out, and tho 



.-d, and the patient articulated several words as 1 [workmen were gomg on with their work. The 



AFRICAN COLONY. I earth in front of tho face of the present opening, 



distinctly as the apparatus in the mouth would 

 oerrnit, and rationally. 



The lime water injected was as limpid and as 

 pure as lime water always is ; but when it was 

 pumped out it had assumed the orange colour, test- 

 mg the presence of muriate of mercury. This 

 test, however, was unnecessary, as a quantity of 

 the poison that had not been swallowed, proved 

 the nature of it. We are happy to state that the 

 patient has recovered from the effects of this dose. 



We the more readily publish this case because 

 we are rather inclined to believe that this may 

 have been the first instauce in which the instru- 

 ment has been employed in this state. And as we 

 understand that the operation is so easy both to 

 the operator and thepatient.we cannot but think it 

 very important that tlie employment of it should be 

 widely e.xtendcd. Melancholy instances of pois- 

 oning are but too frequent. The actions of pois- 

 ons are often so speedy, and tho discovery of hav- 

 ing swallowed them is frequently so late, as total- 

 ly to e.xclude all relief by swallowing remedies, in 

 consequence of the insensibility of the patient 



Tho Doris with 0.5 coloured emigrants arrived |has been bored into the distance of 10 or 11 feet, 

 at Liberia from Virginia, on tho llth of April, ' as it appeared somewhat loose, additional tarpau- 

 and remained there until tho 2ist of .lune. The tins had been sunk in the bed of the river ove*- 

 colony was in a thriving condition, and tho cmi- the stratum of soil. Beyond this, a strong stratum 

 "•rants much pleased with their new residence — nf blue clay was met with, through which quality 

 They had gone through tho fever with the loss of of soil the workmen had previously been very for- 

 only two young children, and most of them were tunato in their exertions. 



workinp' on their farms — Hamp. Gaz. 



BREAD. 



Visiters descend tho shaft by means of a spi- 

 ral staircase, and meet tho mouth of the tunnel. — 

 Tho passage from shore to shore consists of two 



Bread has been very aptly called the staff of life. ; continuous archeil roads, separated by a line of 

 But in order that it may prove a staff substantial | b^jck work. Tho western arch forming a commu- 

 and pleasant, and not a"broken reed," it isneces- j j,jcai|r,n from south to north, and the eastern from 

 snry that it should be good — that is, light and | „(,j,], {q sontj^ 'j'ljp archwavs are each 13 feet 



I G inches wide, and 1!) feet 3 inches high; thf' 

 bricks are hard burnt, and laid in Roman cement 

 and sand, which sets very fast. 

 The method of building tho brick work is ex- 



In order to make good bread, barm or yeast of a 

 good quality, should be combined in due proportion 

 with good fiour. This being premised, the grand 



secret and mystery of having the bread come out , f,.g„,piy curious. By means of what i.^ termed 



of the oven delicious, inviting,nutritive, is theexact i^overhanging," several bricklayers are enabled tc 



point of time of putting it in. While in the dough ^^.q^j. aijove each other at the same time. An in- 



V.UUSCHUC.,, c u. ..,^ ...^cM^.u..-., ... ...- K— ''^ "''•'' naturally run into several sorts of fermen- ^g^tgj g,.ch, 9 feet 3 inches thick, is turned under 



This operation is the only resource left ; and it is Uation, the first of which is the saccharine or that ^^^^^ archway, and supports the external wall and 



a consolation to know that it is so very practica- which produces sugar ; the next is the vinous, the ,,^if t^g middle wall on the other sido.-The ex- 



Me and efficacious. A CITIZEN. ! third, the acf/otis, &c. If the dough be lormod in- tornal walls are battered or slanted inwards, in 



'- — I to loaves, and thrown into the oven before the order more offbctually to resist the pressure of 



FISH OIL. first fermentation, the bread will turn out heavy, t^g ^rch. Openings G feet wide, arched at the 

 A new process for the purification of fish oils j ^^d whoever eats it may lay his account with hav- top, are let into the middle wall at a distance of 

 has been invented in France, which we have not { i^g the night-mare, and twenty other " ills that lo feet from each other, thus forming a commu- 

 ' " ■ ° fit be kept from the oven till 



seen particularly described, but which, the French 

 papers assure us, has the following advantages 

 over the methods commonly in use. 



It makes the oil perfectly colourless, by acliemi- 

 cal separation of the colouring matter, without 

 in any way affetting the quality. This renders 

 the oil more proper for burning, as it leaves no 

 residuum on the wick; and fits it for use in manu- 

 facture of wool.ns, the fabrication of soap, the 

 the mixing of paints, and the oiling of machinery. 

 Fish oils are now used in Eaflland for painting- 

 houses, and floor cloths. 



The process of purification requires but little 

 time, and may bo finished in a day and night, and 

 the substances employed cost only 50 centimes, 

 [or about ten cents,] for 100 pounds of oil. About 

 two per cent of extraneous matter are removed 

 from the oil.— .V.F. Mv. 



J. B. Ladd's Steam Mill, at Alexandria, has been 

 nearly destroyed by fire, with its contents of flour 

 and grain. Loss said to be $20 or 30,000.— No 

 iDsutance.. 



flesh is heir to ;" if it be kept trom the oven tin njcation between the two arches, for the accommo 

 the second fermentation, it will prove to be light dation of the passing pedestrian. In eacli of 

 enough, but tasteless, and no better than the same these openings a brilliant gas light is placed, the 

 quantity of chips ; if it be delayed until the acet- g^s for which is manufactured on the premises, 

 ous fermentation, it comes out sour, and altogeth- , 'fi,e road way descends3feet in 100 tothedepth 

 uneatable. It is, then, during the first, or sug-c"' j of 400 feet from the mouth of the shaft, and it then 

 fermentation, that it should bo "cast into the i proceeds on a level until it reaches the same dis- 

 oven ;" it will then, after well baking, come forth | tunce from the north shore. It is to beMackadam- 

 Sitjcfi, and fit for the tooth and the stomach of a i jsgd and the sidewalks paved with Yorkshire flag, 

 monarch — aye, and even of the " sovereign peo- 1 ^^d a part of this has been laid. It is at present 

 pie." I open to public inspection, and aVi immense con- 



The reason why bread will be heavy, if put j course assembled on the 27th of July at the works. 



into the oven too soon, h, that it wants the en- ■ __ — . ■ 



lightening eff'ect of the- fixed air which is genera- 

 ted during fermentation. If taken at "the very 

 nick of lime," or during the saccharine fermen- 

 tation, it will have all the requisite lightness, 

 while the sweetness is confined in the loaves and 

 ever ready to greet the taste of the thrice fortun- 

 ate and happy eater. That it should be without 

 sweetness, when allowed to run into the vinous 

 fermentation, is not at all strange, v;hen it is con- 



Gigantic Sunjloicer — The editor of the West- 

 chester (Pa.) Village Record, gives the following 

 description of a Sunflower : — •• Directly opposite 

 our office, in the garden of Mr. Titus Dennett,. 

 there stands a gigantic Sunflower, the anak of 

 annual plants. The length of the stem is 12 feet 

 and one inch. A leaf measures 21 inches across. 

 The main flower is four feet in circumference—' 

 its disk like the rising moon- 



