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wirriu” irj” rage anti lury ot Mr smerism some
few years ago, a well known, humorous gentle
man, tho first letters of whose name are Ostjian
h. D. O. I), G. E., courteil a young ga-l—thar
is, ho walked out semi.occasionally with herj
plied her with icc-cmnm, tender nonsense, and
wtc., here in the ity of Boston, it is u|.
together probajjp that’ pudge ‘cuttoned up’
protty strong Ustlio young lady, and took es’ ‘
cial pains to n/ake himself agreeable anr 1 J-ep'jK
interested as his personal accomplisjudy ll **’ gW*
longue, smooth face and -snavijj^r* l manner,
give* him ample soope We
shall taks/it for granted wa&fhc case,
tho very accents such, tluft a^^vas progressing
‘goose grcasfi/ as inar*
riagbliells, when po*r Doi4 r ° discovered that
ht'hw has not) n Jo 1 *" 1 Jones, in shape of
’boso blood-thirsty pur.
‘poses
anything but smooth. The humorous man
paused, he had known a eat/*fl.vithout an
cfiect, nor an efle/Ct without n remedy—he view-
Td and planned his assault which
ry and Hying color* not long af
lances of the case we may as
stood thus : Dodge’s Psyche
J as wo Yankees say—in a dom
iden spinster’s, whoso ages, like
rarnids, or Horace Groely’s hat
in mortal eyes; and whose coun
tenances, despite the well.applied friction of tho
soaps, powder* and ‘fumaries’ of Bogle, were
like the hue and evenness of cane.bottomed
■chairs, which neither paint nor putty could pos
eibly give any reasonably surfaco or consisten
cy. The fresh, fair, and oft.ohauntod lovftl#*
flowers oftheiryouth had wasted their fr£ ra,, c°
on the desort air ;no bold Lotlm*!*’ - *^ 1 least so
tfiqv declared—had dared IV e<isa y *o pluck
them ; diicd, withers* -nd l ‘<quated, these^
** - 1 ’ of 1
r’rflng long outlived the heydey (as
calls it) of lovo and joyous life, they
.''il a strong disposition—as all such ladies do;
to frown down and brow-beat young and ardent
bearts having tiie temerity to indulge in billing
and cooing, and more especially nocturnal ram
bling, and these two sins Dodge and his lady,
love were guilty of in a most alarming (to the
old maiden’s notions) degree, and the old ’uns
determined to veto it, by strong expressions,
long.taced denunciations, diabolical hints and
mysterious inuendoes.
Dodge made his evening calls, when in the
city, and finding the old gals not to bo out sot,
hinted off; nor in any wtfy gotten rid of, while
he was about, took his lady-love out upon the
delightful promenade of the Common and wiled
away tho time so smooth and rapidly, that the
witching timoof night frequently arrived before
the loving twain reached tho domicil of tho
young lady. For these Into walks, tho old ’uns
regularly doled out a moral lecture at the next
morning’s hreakfast table, and ding dunged over
it ail the live long day ; so that the old catania
rams becamo a brace o| decided bores, and so
the weather soon proved unfavorable for prom
enading, Dodge determined to get rid of the pes
tiferous old maids by stratagem. Tho old ’uns
were dreadfully superstitious and overstocked 1
with moral delusions, as most antiquated mai.
den ladies are, so one tedious evening Dodgo
asked tho old ’uns it they would like to be thrown
into the mesmeric state.
‘Thrown whore!’ said both in short breath of 1
some alarm.
‘lnto the mesmeric state,’ said Dodgo.
•Don t you talk about throwing us into a
trother state,’ said ono of tho maidens, ‘you had ‘
better not threaten us young man, no how, or j
we II call iu tho polico, so we will: yes wo will ,
and have you taken up !’
trt&nil mesmerism I perceive, but I’ll explain, j
Mesmerism, ladies, is a scienco by which one
person may throw another into a somnambulic
state or torpor; the Magnetiser may have ,
•tomplete control of the body by tho agency of (
the sympathetic fluid, in a high rectangular
state, he may slick pins, scissors or carving,
knives into tho body ol tho subject, and tho sub.
ject will not know it ?’
“My gracious is that true ?” said tho old
Hiaids.
‘Ah yes,’ says ono of tho old ’uns, ‘I recollect
Dr. Ipecac, told me how they’d found out anew
way to cut people up almost, while they were
asleep and tho poor creatures wouldn’t know
•what ail’d ’em no more nor nothing.’
‘"Yes, that’s it,’ says Dodge, ‘and it's a dread
ful convenient thing to those that understand
It; one day not long ago,’ he continued, ‘I was
in the ears going down to Lowell, so I conclu
ded I'd have some fun. So I seta tho fluid to
work.’
“Do you understand this setting a folks asleep?
eay* one of the old ’uns, with much earnest
ness and concclu.
•O! yes,’ says he, ‘and as I was going to tell
you, I concluded'l'd set some of the passengers
asleep, then stick them full of pins and wake
them up, and let them sec what a fix thoy were
‘Well, did you'?’ says the old ’tins.
,Didn’t 1 7 Weil you’d thought so, if you had
ilar tissue tti'Hpp
’ secundum i
any time, pul the fttiTid vicefe.
into their^svstem through
Wn..~\ S* \us el their dipthong and tilth con-
Bquencc’'.. <mld be—’
mVAd what, 0 10! gracious, what would -if’
?’ said one. -s
their pendulums into a action
slopo, ma’ml’ said Dodge. ‘andjiTsomc cases,
I have, foi; my own tunusement, while seated
in my chair at a passed my hand so —’
‘Don’t, don’t pass ft over us if you please, no
don’t sir!’ said the old ‘uns.
‘At tjiefrimn or woman on the opposite side of
the way. man’—continued Dodge—‘and para
lyzed thejr fambvgvziptionary muscles of the
leg, or arm, and they would limp or let their
arm fall instantly l’
‘Becky get the lamp, let us go to bed it’s get.
ting late !’ said one of the old maidens whose
nerves began to shiver under the learned lin
guae, of the great mngnetiselr!
•Quite early yet, ladies, keep your seats, and
I’ll give yon the entire analysis of this
system, by which I can by my strong mcjJf./
acular power, at any moment, bring tlupf yt
rectangular horizontal person down
and quietude of a sleeping infant
‘Becky, l/ccky, do get the —come
let us go!’ said one of the most maidens.
But Dodgo went on :
•I have taken women a kneedicu
lar position, facing me in colap
sum manner, and the doojum
portion of their it has pro
proved impossible for a thorough bred
physician to conijmpe on tho ossiofalligas
ca iculi of their offldWitntions, fora week after
sue], a prostration of their secular systems-!
J-Xct!’
U’ho last brick took full effect, ‘Bectu^jjj
accelerated on tho scratch gravel principle,
was .highly interesting and useful to the joker
and his lady love.
The moral of this operation was, Dodgo was
pfoeious seldom afterwards bored by the pres,
once of his annovyrs. and fearing tho ill will of
the great mesmeric performer, the old maids
were always afterwards as good as pie to
Dodgo’s Pysche !
A young lady, (?) ono of those affected Mis
ses who belong to tho ‘upper ten,’ recently en
tered tho store of a fashionable milliner, with
whom her family was acquainted, for the pur.
pose of making some hiding purchase.
‘How is your mother, Miss?’ politely enquired
tho lady of the store.
‘She is not very well, madam,’ replied Affec
tation.
‘Ah I what is tho matter with her ?’
‘Sho fell down stairs and hurt her curtesy
bender,
‘Hurt what V
‘Her curtesy bender.’
‘Curtesy bender I What is that V enquired
tho puzzled milliner.
‘Why her knee !’
It caused the good lady a very painful effort
to prevent her committing a downright act of
rudeness. She succeeded however ; but sever
al young ladies present were forced to make a
precipitate retreat, to give full vent to their ris
ibilities, which tho ludicrousness of the remark
could not fail to produce.
‘Give me your Baby I’ —We saw a poor
woman sitting on the steps in front of a hotel,
on Fifth-street, tho other morning holding a
pale yet beautiful infant in her arms; in one
hand she had a saucer containing a few pennies.
She was apparently about thirty, and neatly
clad, although the dress was of the cheapest ma-
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had been belter, and perhaps a happy one tor
Our attention was arrested by a crowd of
well dressed ladies, who were standing around
and endeavoring to beg the baby,
‘What a sweet child !’ said one.
•Poor little dear!’ said another, ‘how I should
love it if it was my own !’
The mother drew the child closer to her bo.
6om. but said not a word.
Another lady, in whose face one could see at
a glance, a fountain of charity and love, seemed
more intent in the child than any other,
j *Give me your baby,’ said she, *and I will take
good care ofit.’
The poor woman looked up for the first time
v>ilh r.'tifc so melancholy, and the tears trem
bled in hrr eyes. ‘No. madam, I thank you for
vour kind feelings, but I cannot part with the
only thing I have left to love on earth !
This was enough. The lady droped a half
eagle upon tho saucer and turned away in tears.
The others opened their purses, and placed
their ofteiings in charitable sociability with the
gold piece. We added our mite, and walked a
-1 way a happier and better man.——[Ctrl. Com.
Wear asd Tear—Life is shortened by in
i dulgencc in anger, ill-will, anxiety, envy, grief,
sorrow and excessive care. Ihe vital powers
are wasted by excessive bodily exorcise in some
1 cases, and want of due proportion in othors.
jgWeo, she's V f
: Banil delight V>
HMundred pounds ff>a “g, ‘s-.f BH
Kte hack of one, IrP/ivj,,'/ ‘ l>
B lllt ‘ following words: ‘'V.r,,. .wjovt-r
----§?;B. ve > *ek your Bible.’ And other, in
s hand. ‘Your Father’s ears are never
g(B The saie was immediately stopped, and
HjHatnily Bible given to its faithful owner/-
SH C ” we view,’ is the corollary derifmd :
HHthe incident, by several relig : ous journiiU,!
good t‘ be derived from examining t&L
The pecuniary turn given this anecdoff*
fordWjlvofji stoiv
*JpnenTed TTe n i vTinnan^B
with inimitable effect, of an illiterate
En.jl’isli Methodist minister at the West, who
otic night at a class meeting, related the follow.
ingjxtTccting circumstance : ‘lt is hut a little
vsbtle-ali, since I was a-travdling along one of
4<wr great rivers-ah, surrounded by the deep for.
est; I stopped at a rude shanty by the low river
side-ah, add there I found a poor in
gre-a-a-t affliction.ah. They were all
; their children were shivering and starving; their j
heads frowzy and dirty ; and 1 was informed by
tho mother that they had lost their fine-toothed
comb-ah ! They was ignorant of the go-os)jcl,!
and didn’t seetn to care about il, ‘ither; for when j
l reasoned with ’etn-ah, the woman was all the
time lamenting the loss of her fine tooth comb,
ah ! ‘llaveyoti the Biblo in your cabin?’ said I
to to her, s*ys I-ah ; says she, ‘Yes, heorit is, up
there on the catch-all-ah,’ p’inting to a narrow
I shelf <>v*r the smoky fire-place, but we don’t of
\ ten vend into it-ah ; lia’n’t read any ou’t but
jliuVonce-t, when our little Bill died with ifhe j
l ager, for as much as tew month.ah !’ I got in.
jo the dye tub, my friends, that stood into i*Ue
corner, and reached up and took down the hßk
cd bonk, all covered with dust-ah ; and whaHh
you think it wus that I opened to-ah ? Win ■Bo
you think it teas that I found there to satisfyltlie
longing of that poor woman-ah ? It wasWtte
long-lost, the long-wanted fine-tooth comb-ah I
Oh, my hearers, s’a-a-rch the skripters-ah! If
she had only s’a-arc-hcd the skripters,
mind would ’a been eased-ali !’ I seems to us
that the morale of searching the scriptures (for
money is not far .removed in absurdity from tho
inculcation above, recorded.
Funch ou Protection.
The following, th.iugh intended as a burlesque
is so neat an expose of the iiitrinsicjusticeteud
and practical expediency of the ‘Protective
icy,’ that wo give it at length :
M^fma^Protcction —A dfcilnumdfcgtv^H
itni tin
-Ist Duke—Gentlemen, the object
meeeting is to give equal protection
merce, industry and agriculture. The first thing
to he done is to restore the corn-laws. I
iid Duke—Free trade is ruining the country,
Wo have hud a revolution in every country in
Europe since tho corn.laws were repealed.
Wo have had the potato rot and Irish famine,
since the corn-laws were repealed. We have
had ‘hurt cotton crops since the corn.laws were
repealed. We have had the railway mania and
the panic since the corn-laws were repealed.
Therefore it is clear that free trade is ruining
the country.
3.1 Duke—Mr noblo friend has prored that
free trade is ruining the country, I call upon you
gentlemen, to form a league for protecting ev.
cry body and every thing against every l<x!y
and every thing. First, you must restore the
corn-laws, to protect the ; a-hetni tenant.
1-t Tenant Fanner—Huzza ! I’ll thank you
to protect me agiiust John Stocks in next par.
ish. His land's twice us good as mine, ttnd his
poor-rates only half uurs. I wants a protective
duty of ten shilling- a quarter, or l ean never
compile with John .Stocks. Enter mo for the
ten shilling duty.
2d Tenant Fanner— l shall want vfvtcqn
shillin’a quarter, for there’s t’ parson o’Hiejt
parish to ouni have set ’em all a deep drainilf
and a guanorin’, and a genin’ twice out o’ tfi*
ground what wc bo gottin’, and I can’t grow
agin ’em at loss non vivtcen shillin.’ So book !
me for vivtern shillin.’ rnv lord.
3d Tenant Farmer.—Aw’ve never na mark**t
within a half.scoro mile c’ mo, and there’s Si
moil Thrapstone have only a mile to carry to
my ten, and sol doan't think six shillin’ onrea*.
enable agin Simon Thrapstone.
Ist Doubtful—Hilloa, monster ! Idulnirmy
corn o’ you, and I aren't a going tu pay *ix sbil-
stones in Essex. j
Ist Duke —Lliish, my friend ; your turn"v.Jll 1
come next.
Ist Shoemaker —l can’t make shoes against
Thomas Lapstone under s shilling a pair pro
tection. Tom don’t go to the public house, and
works over hours. He’s ruining me. He
ain’t taxed as I am, paying sixpence a day to
government, excise duty for spirits consumed on
the premises. So put ’em down at a shillin’ a
pair extra.
Ist Tenant Farmer —Stop there. Tom made
these here top-boots for me. You don’t think
I’m a goiu’ to pay yeou twenty-seven shillin’
a pair when I can’ get ’em of Lapstone for
txventy.six ?
2d Duke.—My worthy friend—you arc pro
tected. We go for equal protection.
Ist Doubtful—Please, my lord duke, what
is equal protection ?
2d Duke— Equal protection, my excellent
friend, is this ; I givo Peter a shilling protec
tion against Paul, and Paul a shilling protec
tion against Peter. Thus I benefit both Peter
and Paul to the extent of a shilling.
2d Doubtful—Stop, l don’t see that.
3d Duke— How, my intelligent friend? Thus
A gives B a shilling—
-2d Doubtful—l’ll be B. give me a shilling,
3d Duke—Them (gives him a shilling) now
B gives A a shilling—
-2d Doubtful—Darned if B. do. I’ve got
cursed Fren Trade,
steeple. (Terrific cheering by the liupes.
The Doubtful shake their heads. Meeting
breaks up in utter confusion of ideas great en
thusiasm and profound conviction, except as ex
cepted.)
-y Weighin’ the Gals. ‘‘■S
.Sum boddv stjf it aint a fair question to ax a.
her age. The old maids, 1 reckon, grid
that. Now i think it’s fully- as unfair to ax a
fi her weight, as it is to ax her her age, ’case
it’ a tuff question, it is, and when you hears
alfmt weighin’ Sally Greeny, you will say so
top.
You know cusen Jeff; lie's a rale staver
’ihongst the gals, he is, and he don’t kftre a
straw what he sez to any on ’em, he don’t.
Cusen Jeff, he cum over to our house one
Sunday, and he sez to me, ‘Pete, les go to see
’Squire Greeny’s gals.’ ‘Agreed’ sed I. And
so out we struck. I felt orful bold when we
first started, but sum how the nearer we got
to ’Squire Greeny’s the worse sheared I was.
And I wished we had never started ; but it was
too late now, so in wo went. ’Squire Greeny’s
got two gals, Sally and Betsy, as nice gals as
you ever seed, they is. They all seem'd migh
ty perliter, and me and cusen Jeff thought we i
gettin’ on fust rate, we did. Sally look’d
dreadful nice, 1 tell you. I’de gin’ the world ,
it l could only ’a found sumthing to say to her ;
hut I stud’yd over everything I ever heard or
• thought about in tny whole life, but not the first
darn’d word could 1 think of wuth say in’,
Cusen Jeff was ail the time talkin’ like all
natur’ to Betsy. After a while Sally she pro
posed we should all go and weigh. So out we
ail went, ’Squire Greeny goin’ along to weigh
us. When Sally’s turn cum, ‘Squire Greeny,
he look’d sorter ’stonish’d. ‘Why Sally,’ gays
he, ‘you Weigh and fifty.’ ‘Law !
Par,’ sed Sally, it Jeff?’ sed the ’squire.
•Yes sir.ee,’ sed Jeff. And sure enuff Sally
weighed a hundred and fifty ; the hevyest crit
ter in the whole gang on us.
Woll we all went back to the house, and
ar’ter a while, gez ‘Squire Greeny, sez he...-
bjOld ’oinan, SalU’ weighs a hundred and fifty.’
m she don ‘,’ sed the old lady.
sir-ee, slie duz/’sed
‘1 don’t b’lieve it,’ sed the old lady.
‘Wolf we’ll weigh Sally ag’in, and show
you,’ sed the ’Squire. ‘Oa! no, don’t,’ sed
Sally.
•Why not Saliy? ‘Oh! ’case it’s Sunday,’
ses Sally.
•But I will, though,’ sed the ’Squire. So
Sally was strung up ag’in, and the ’Squire he
balanc’d the stil yards to the last kickup place;
and then he commenced lookin’ over his specks
and countin’ his fingers. ‘Jeff.’ sez he, ‘how
much is that ?’ Jefi’, he looked over the ’Squire’s
shoulder. ‘One hundred and thirtv-seven’ ses
Jeff.
‘Yes,’ sez the ’Squire, *a hundred and thirty
seven.’
•Thar now,’ sez the old lady, ‘1 told you Sal
ly didn't weigh a hundred and fifty.
‘Well how on yeth did we make such a mis
take ?’ sed the ’Squire.
•I know,’ sez Kate, Sally’s little sister.
‘Hush ! sed Sally, sliakin’ her fist at Kate,
and turnin’ as red as a beet, in the face.
‘How ?’ ged the ’Squire.
‘Ef you do,’ sed Sally, stampin’ her foot.
‘Rut l will though,’ sed Kate.
•Yes, tell,’ sed the ’Squire.
•Sally has took her Bustle off!”
Bring the camp tire here, quick 1
Pantomimic Preaching. —Tho idea of a
Deaf Mute Preachei is rather a unique one ; j
but strange as it may sound, it is nevertheless
ts iKt, that we were one of an assembly who ■
rn4 in the Baptist Church in the city to sec
(net to hear) a Deaf Mute Preacher, on
Wednesday evening last.
Tho Pastor. Elder Sears, opened the oxer- i
ciscg by singing and prayer ; the preacher then !
jjose and taking the niaou'cript synopsis of bis
sertnon front his pocket, laid it on the table, and
requested Elder Sears to read, audibly, the Text,
and then tho first topic for discussion, and then
the preacher con)tnenceAin a most solemn man
ner, to illueidatc his subject, in the use of those
natural signs, peculiar to the Deaf and Dumb,
and which, remarkable to think of, is perfectly
understood by all Deaf Mutes from all climes.
His sermon was divided into eight heads or
topics, each of which was read by the Pastor,
at his request, in regular order and expatiated
upon bv tho preacher in his peculiar language;
and certainly tho audience was deeply inter,
ested.
It is remarkable with what force and clear
ness his thought and feelings were in many in
! stances expressed; even to those who had nov.
i er studied the natural languugo of the Deat and
! Dumb. We were really in erested in the ex
i hibition, and felt quite convinced that the preach
j er understood and felt deeply the power of the
, great truth he was expatiating upon.
After the services were over, a gentleman
came leading up to the pulpit his lady, who is a
Deaf Mute, but a vety polished and intelligent
looking lady, who engaged with the preacher in
a lively and, to them, most gratifying convcrsa.
tion. Sbo gave him to understand that she un
derstood and was interested in what he had
been discussing about, and scenied greatly de.
lighted. We understood that the lady and- her
husband are Episcopalians; they were ho-ev.
•Do you believe in God,
‘What have you to do, .tir, with what I be
lieve ?’ replied the person accosted, with a look
of astonishment.
% ‘You are in the gall of bitterness and bond of
iniquity,’ cried the offended preacher —-Look at
that poor lad, whistling along the road, and
driving his cart before him--he is on the straight
road to heaven.’
•It may bo so sir.’ said the person interroga.
ted, ‘but to my certain know ledge, if lie’s going
there, he’s going with a cart load of stolen
corn.’
Every student who would enter Oxford Uni
versity, must acknowledge his belief in the
‘Thirty-nine Articles.’ A good joke is told of
a youth, who, being told at his matriculation
that he must subscribe to the Articles, very in
nocently pulled out his purse, and asked, ‘How
much ?’
‘The tree is known by its fruit.’ The only
exception to this is the dogwood, which is known
by its bark.
A fop is like a cinnamon tree —the bark is
worth more than the body.
A Smart Boy. —‘Father’ what docs the print
er live on ?’
•Why child ?’
•Because you said you bad'n paid him for four
years, an still tako the paper.’
FARMER 8o HOUSEKEEPER
How blest is the farmer's simple life!
How pure the joy it yields !
Far from the world's tempestuous strife,
Free ’mid the scented fields.— Ecerett.
The Farmer’s Daughter.
She may not in the mazy dance;
With jewelled maidens vie,
She may not smiie on courtly ewain
With soft, bewitching eye;
She cannot boast a form and mein
That lavish wealth hhsjirniiglit her.
But ah ! she has much charms,
The Farmer’s peerlesWralghter!
■ r -'‘ •” ‘’
Together love to dwell, *
Her laughing blue eves writhe around
The heart a witching W l ’. ,
Her smile is bright * morning s glow
Upon the dewy [-.lain,
And listening to her voice, wc dream
That spring has come again.
The timid form is not more mild,
Nor yet more gay and free.
The lilly’s cop is not more yore
In all its purity,
Os all the wi and flowers in the wood,
Or by the chrystal water,
There's none more pure nor fair than she,
The Farmer’s peerless daughter.
Then tell me not of jewelled fair—
The brightest jew el vet
I* in the heart where virtue dwells,
And innocence is set!
The glow of health upon her cheek,
Th grace no rule has taiignt her.—
The fairest wreath that beauty twines,
is for the Farmer’s daughter!
Florida Products.
Wm. C. Dennis, Esq., ol Baldwin co., who
has been sojourning for some months past in
Florida, -arrived hero on Sunday on board tho
sc hr. from Key West, Mr. D. went to j
Florida to recruit his health, and although nf. ;
tbring at the time of his arrival with a severe ;
paroxysm of asthma, we are glad to learn from
him that his general health has greatly improv.
ed. Mr. D- is quite eloquent on the subject of
the bright kics and balmy atmosphere of the
Florida Keys. The climate of the most salu.
brious portion of cuba does not surpass them ;
and the time will come, we doubt not, when in.
valids will seek the softned temperature of the
everglades, keys and islets of that region, in
stead of the more expensive trip to Havana)]
and other parts of Cuba.
Mr. Dennis brought with him quite a collec. !
tion of Florida products ; among them growing !
specimens of the Agave Americana and Maguey j
—both indigenous to Mexico, the latter flourish- |
ing on the elevated pl*"= I
which is produced the famous beverage called j
pulque, and the so mer growing spontaneously
over a large portion ot Yucatan, yielding their :
staple Hencguin or Sisal hemp. Dr. Pen ine. j
who, it will be remembered, was for sometime ,
Consul at Campeche, formed under the patron- .
age of our government a plantation of the Agave j
on Indian river. Unfoi Innately, soon after the j
plants were set, and before much progress was j
made in the enterprise, he was killed by the
Indians. The grant, however, was subsequent
confirmed to his heirs, and the probability is I
that the object of government to introduce, into j
Southern Florida tropical frnits, plants and
shrubs, will yet be accomplished. Wc learn
frem Mr. Dennis that the plants put out by the
Doctor are doing well, and that the soil and
climate of that region aro admirably suited to
that as well as all other tropica! plants.
[Mobile Tribune.
Double-headed Firkins.— Happening in
at the cooper establishment ol Mr. A. D. But
ton. in this village, a day or two since, we no
ticed anew kind of butter firkins which we
think is a great improvement on those in gen
eral use. It is double hoaded, that is, at the
upper, or over end, is an extra, closely fitted
head, to be put in when tho tub is filled with
butter. Tho space between this head and tho
cover is to be filled with brine so as to efiectu*
lit'.:- of each at a
hard when all the mixture
diately into a rather brisk oven ; and bake it
well for three or four hours or more, in propor
tion to its thickness.
This is n very nice cake. It shoula be eat
en the same day that ,'t is baked ; as when stale
(even one day old.) all ludian cake becomo
dry hard, and rough.
It will bo improved by the addition of a pound
of raisins, stoned, cut in half, and well dredged
with wheat flour to prevent their sinking to the
bottom. Sultana or seedless raisins are best
for all sorts of cukes and puddings.
From Miss Leslie's ‘lndian Meal Book.’
Kantucket Pudding.
Six large ears of iudian corn ; full grown,
but young and soft,
A pint of milk.
A quarter of a pound of fresh butter.
A quarter of a pound of sugar.
Four eggs.
Half a nutmeg grated, and five or six blades
of mace powdered.
Having first boiled the corn for a quarter of
an hour, grate the grains off the cob with a
coarse grater. Then add the butter (cut into
little biis) and the sugar. Having stirred them
well into the corn, thin it with the milk.—•
Beat the eggs very light, and then add them to
the mixture, a little at a time, and finish with
the sp’ce. Stir the whole very hard. Butter a
deep white dish, put in the pudding, set it direct
ly into the oven, and bake it two hours. Send
it to table warm, and eat it with butter and
sugar, or molasses. It is not good cold. What
is left may be put into a small dish, and baked
over the next day, for half an hour; or tied in
a cloth and boiled awhile.
From Miss Leslie’s ‘House Book.’
Donrstie Dyes.
Green. —Make first a
meric, tied up in thin n.Wffi, ln d boiled in soft
water, with Muae.nvcos of alum, flavin-r ;hor
the
tj ye, rukewfirfn,)
and stir it about till it has taken. Then open it
out and dry it. Afterwards stir into the yellow
dye a sufficient quantity of the druggist’s blue in
digo.composition, (a little at a time,) to make it
the tint of green you require. Then put into
water the article that is already dyed yellow; and
when well soaked, squeeze it out, and pot it wet
into the green dye. When it has taken the
green thoroughly, (perhaps in fifteen minutes,)
dry it, and smooth with a stone. A warm iron
will injure the colour.
This dye must not be used for cotton.
A good proportion of the ingredients for a
bright green dye, is two ounces of pulverized al
um ; and for the blueing, half a table-spoonful
of the indigo compound. For more yellowish
green, use more tumeric ; for a more bluish, a
larger proportion of the indigo mixture.
For a dark or bottle greeu, take ‘twelve oun
ces of fustic, and three ounces of bruised alum,
and boil them in three gallons of water. Then
stir in (by degrees) the indigo composition, till
you get the colour as dark as you wish.
An excellent Buff Dye. —For about twelve
yards of white cotton or thick muslin, prepare
in a brass kettle two gallons of soft water, into
which put a large tea-cupful ofpot-ash sewed up
in a flannel bag. After the potash has entirely
dissolved in t'he water, hang the kettle over the
fire, and let it become scalding hot; but do not
allow it to boil. When almost at the boiling
poißt, take out the potash hag, and put in an
ounce ofannatlo or aronetta powder, sewed up in
a linen bag. Let the annatto bag simmer in the
water about half an hour, fill the kettle is almost
at a boil. Then have ready the article, which
must be previously washed in a strong warm
potash water. Remove the kettle from the fire
put into it the wet muslin that has been washed
in the potash water, and work it about in th*
dye ; rinsing it up and down, till the-whole of it
has taken the color thoroughly and evenly. Do
not lot it Ijflij. as that may injure the tint. Then
has entirely dried,.* i—w— e>
it out again and iron it while damp.
This will be found a very handsome colour
for linings, bed-spreads, ballanccs, and common
curtains. For the lattor purpose, it should have
fringe or a finding of black, dark-green, brown,
purple, or crimson. Aronetta alone, makes a
well known salmon colour ; but this addition ol
of potash gives it a beautiful bright butt tint,
such as is generally called bird of
our. It will bear repeated
ding* ,
For more yellowish tinge, use a portion
of potash ; for a more reddish, the quan
: tity of aronetta.
This dye may be made of a deep nankeen
i colour, if desired.
A Calf in Sheet's Clothing.— Mr. Wil
liam Carter, of Cambridge, Mass, has a calf
covered, not with hair, but with sheep’s wooL
A correspondent of the Boston Courier says the
calf is a healthy, well-formed animal, cl a dark
brown color, approaching very nearly to black,
i There is no perceptible difference in the appear
ance of the animal’s hide, from that ot a sheep
iof the same age. Like the sheep, the face an
the lower part of the legs aro covered with
short and not very pliant hair; the rest of th®
body ha* a covering of wool, which, to all ap
pearance, may afford as liberal a fleeco as a
| true Saxon or Merino.