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one of their (apparently amiable) companions? 

 I have had several hens thus slighted ; and have 

 one now, which is so cruelly beaten by her 

 associates that I am compelled to remove her. 

 To me she seems perfectly harmless, and good- 

 tempered ; but she is nevertheless voted de trop by 

 her companions, and has been severely mal-treated. 

 — Honeysuckle, Henley. 



[Fowls, dear Honeysuckle, like the human race, 

 are full of whims, caprices, fancies, evil passions, 

 and prejudices. The antipathies you speak of, are 

 very common amongst poultry ; and when fowls 

 do take a dislike, their hatred becomes deadly. 

 No jealous woman ever carried her projects out 

 more surely or more fatally ! We have ourself, 

 just now, a very beautiful golden-spangled Ham- 

 burgh hen thus maltreated by her companions. 

 They had nearly " finished" ber, when we dis- 

 covered her misfortune ; but we have succeeded 

 in preserving her life. However, she must be 

 parted with ; or she will inevitably be killed. She 

 seems "amiable," so far as we can judge; but her 

 own tribe have condemned her, and our inter- 

 cessions are of no avail.] 



Citrons, Lemons, and Limes; grown in the 

 Open Air. — We have recently given some very 

 remarkable instances of the mildness of the climate 

 of Devon. The papers furnished by our highly- 

 esteemed correspondent, "C.F. T. i r .," Stockleigh 

 Pomeroy, Crediton, throw a light upon the 

 matter that invests it with a more than 

 common interest. But we have something 

 beyond mere assertion to bear our kind friend 

 out in his observations. We have received, 

 during the past month, a basket of fine citrons, 

 lemons, and limes, which were grown in the open 

 grounds of Cliff House, Salcombe, Kingsbridge, 

 Devon. These were most handsomely franked to 

 us by the fair owner of the mansion, — Mrs. 

 Walter Prideaux; and we here tender that lady 

 our most grateful acknowledgements.* So sur- 

 prised were we at the sight of such curiosities, 

 that we have publicly exhibited them in a prin- 

 cipal thoroughfare, — not thinking it right to 

 withhold from general observation, such " proofs" 

 of the mild climate of Devon. We hardly need 

 say that our surprise has been largely shared by 

 others. The time has now come for these citrons, 

 lemons, and limes, to be "preserved." The 

 receipt for this, has also been considerately for- 

 warded to us ; and we live in the hope of sharing 

 with more than one, two, three, or a dozen of our 

 readers, the treat that, at present, is in embryo. 

 We learn, in confidence, that such conserves are 

 exquisitely delicious, — so that "Honeysuckle," 

 " Puss," " Lily of the Valley," and many other of 

 our " pets " may — look out ! — W. K. 



There is u Something" to be learnt Daily. — The 

 1st of Chronicles, chap, iv., is replete with hard 

 names, surrounding one single verse (the 10th), 

 which contains alone the beautiful ejaculatory 



* We received, at the same time, a gentle 

 "order" to enroll this esteemed name (for a 

 twelvemonth in advance) among our choice readers. 

 For this we are specially indebted. Few journal- 

 ists, we imagine, can boast of a family of sup- 

 porters like those of Our Own. — Ed. K. J. 



prayer of Jabez, calling on the God of Israel. 

 May this not remind us of a botanist, on an in- 

 teresting tour, coming to a rough and tedious 

 pass, full of hard rocks and barren soil ? His 

 first impulse would doubtless be, to avoid this 

 uninteresting spot, and not lose time in endeavor- 

 ing to overcome the opposing difficulties. Ex- 

 perience has, however, taught him that, even 

 amidst all these wild and apparently unfruitful 

 wastes, some hidden treasure may lurk, to com- 

 pensate his toil; some lovely, delicate, and rare 

 flower may meet his languid eye, and amply repay 

 his past exertions. — Aglia Tau, Stoke New- 

 ington. 



[We quite agree with you in this sentiment. 

 Many a rare jewel is lost, for the want of carefully 

 searching it out. Perseverance rarely goes 

 without its reward. The only difficulty is, to get 

 people to believe this. "Nil sine labore" is a 

 saying treated with supreme contempt now-a- 

 days ! ] 



Ardent Spirits fatal to Health. — It is a very 

 well-known, though little cared-for fact, that 

 ardent spirits kill twenties of thousands amongst 

 us yearly. Beer, too, slays its votaries in im- 

 mensely-large numbers. A very interesting 

 lecture to prove this, was recently given by Dr. 

 Carpenter, who most satisfactorily showed that 

 health instead of being sustained, was impaired 

 in its activity by the use of alcoholic liquors. 

 Alcohol stopped the process of elimination of 

 everything that ought to be carried away; im- 

 peded the body from getting rid of its effete and 

 used-up matters ; curdled albumen, which was 

 one of the greatest constituents of the blood ; and 

 prevented the removal from the tissues, of the 

 inert fatty matters which accumulate about them. 

 He quoted a remarkable circumstance, which had 

 been told him by a friend who had commanded a 

 ship from Sydney. Shortly after leaving Australia, 

 a leak was discovered in the vessel; and, unable 

 to put in at the Cape of Good Hope, they were 

 obliged to sail homewards, keeping the men night 

 and day at the pump. When each man's work 

 was over, he was allowed a good quantity of grog 

 for his extraordinary physical endurance. But, 

 as the men would not take their proper quantity 

 of food and fell off, the captain stopped their grog, 

 and ordered them a mess of cocoa, biscuit, and 

 meat. They turned in hearty, awoke fresh, 

 regained the flesh they had lost, and came into 

 port as fine a crew as ever was seen. In noticing 

 the effects that alcohol had upon the mind, the 

 lecturer said that it weakened the power of the 

 will ; and, although by stimulating the automatic 

 tendency of the mind, it produced extraordinary 

 activity for the time, yet it weakened and, if 

 continued, destroyed external control ; that no 

 man who had taken to a habit of drinking could 

 concentrate his mind on a subject as he used to 

 do; nor could he even properly direct his mental 

 powers to any object on which he wished to 

 exercise them. — E. W. 



A Pretty Garden at a nominal Cost. — There 

 are, I believe, many possessors of a small garden 

 who feel the expense they deem necessary to its 

 fertility ; although the labor bestowed upon it is 

 all their own. To such I would divulge the plan 



