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From ike lij-Mon American. Qrchantist. GVTH r(2 A N't) iRESLRVLN lilliT. Y'.u ? theories have been elf-red for prf.eiymg apples id a sound state lor wtu'ei u-e or tor distant voyage?. Sme hye pi"i.)tel cjathermsr the truit btfoie it 1 ripe and drying it on floor heioie n i put up: this has been tried: ihe apples lose their spnghtly flavor: and keep no Vet;er than by Mime less troublesome mo IP. Dr. IVoah Webster hits icrom mended that they should he put down between layers ot find which had been dried bv the heat of summer This ie without doubt an excellent mode, a u ex elude ;'r Kl,d absorbs the moisture, and must be useful when apple? are to tie Phtpped to a warm climate. Hut apples thus reaerved aie liable to imbibe an early taste. Chopped straw lias also been highly reromTendcd to be placed between the

so pood a quality as when fed with corn; but the difference in the market prices does not compare with the difference in the expense of feeding There is no doubt that pumpkins may be profitably ted to fatten rattle but more profitably to milch cows. Potatoes', turnips, ruta baga, and mingel wurlzel, are the rootot) which the farmer should chiefly depend for lattenit g beef, in order to ren uer the business at all pic-fitable ; and we believe, with proper use of these, it mr, te. made the best part I the farmei business. Kuta bagra ir m our opinio:), a nre profitable rj.,j. than either ot the orl.ers mentioned , though eloubt yvlietliei .1 given quantity Ut! go us far in fattening beel ts I tie same quantity l poiatoes An animat put into he stall and ei on potatoes, w i ll hay and a little salt, tviihout any water, will perhaps fallen as well a in any other waj . 'I'hey sliOulii,we r- confident, have no vatei when led chi'tlv on potatoes, whether coiitined to ihr stall or toe yard. We put Up a cow on the fifteenth ol November, which ha! boon milked until the fust m Ociobei, anu was in no more than common t"ie order She was !d with I torn three ecks to a t u-hel of potatoes n day . kept clean and rubtted often with the earn She was kepi till she had cnn-.um.ed thirty bushels of potatoes, and did not ieave the stll tid led tiut by the but' her She w aslighily tallowed, but the beet was ol the first quality When pu; up ?-he i.uid not sell tor over 1G, -.no w ben kitlr-d was worth to the . ume.i $31 We bciieve that the i0?i John potatoes may be raised in common season;, at an ejp ne 10 the farmer of' lo-t over MX reins per bushel C'-nseq'H nil v thoe led t loe above cow

did not ot the grower oyer l 80; which.

the yix;i:tabt.f, ivori.u. An F.n?lieh book, with this title, fiy Mr. Charles Williams, has been republished here by Mr. Dow. It contains a great many curious observations of Natural His tory. new and old. We make some pleasant extracts: 'I he IWtAZii.iAN Bamboo. "Among the Trees wt.irh attracted our attention,1' says Dr. Walh, m his travels in Brazil, weie I bp different -pccies of bamboo, some, of which were of enormous size, nd t"'rac ol singular beauty. Ot the first kind nerc many that mea-urrd two feet in cirrumterene, sending cut large lateral branches, and so tall agto resemble forest tiees Others, of equal magnitude, wi'hout any branches, shot out in a su gle

w hich is mde by dissolving it in spirits of

wine is called laudanum. The author speaks of the honey fiowei. nn African plant whirh produce" more honey than any other, and in such abundance that a tea spoonful may be collect"

ted every morning from each of its nnmer

nus floyvers. though its strong nwl iliagree able smell, when bruised, indicates a poi. nnous quality. He mentions alo the Carolinian candleberry tree. In November, lie say9. when the berries are ripe, a man, with hi9 family, will remove from, home to some island , or sand-hank, near I he sea, where these berries abound, taking w j i h them kettles to boil the berries in ile builds a hut with palmetto leav a shelter

stem divided into regular joints, smooth during 'heir stny of four or five weeks and tapering to a po,ni, till they attained j He cuts down 'the trees; the children an immense height. Some were not so jdrip off the berries and throw them into

I with bay aixWalt. might onnglhe cost

layer ot Iruii; hut I have noticed that me , ot feeding aide ot labor, to thiee or lout ptraw, from the pet-piratioo it imbibes, he j ,j0ar!, The.i xptnse ol feeding on grain roms mntj, and may probably do more j n,-anv jimii Q)ust have Keen much mtire, huit than good. When apples be to ex-: hough the quantity d tallow would have ported, it has been lecommended that each jiet. greater A custom uevails in be separately wiappe.i in coaise jtaper; ; ra,iCfc . 0f feeding cattle, t or a shoi t time in the manner manges and lemons are us j,,evious to slaughtering, upon a kind ol rally put up This is wiih. ut doubt an nur i0od, prep red iy making a thick excellent mode And Mr. Loudon ha'pa,lPOf rye meal and yvater, letting it recommended that apples destiued br ; .;nd nil it lei incuts atid becomes .oiii, Eutojte should be picked between layers .'m ,ii;i;tiug with water and adding u cf grain quaioiiyot cut hay . Caiile are said to Great qumttties of fine winter fruit reilnIVt, Jemai Uably on this mixture, though raised in the vicinity of Boston and put up , fvf u, nj,, u too ol:g, it impans iheir for w inter use, for the markets, and lor . (j,gestion and destioys Uieir -appetite, exportation The following is the mode. Farmer's Journal

almost universally adopted by tne most experience.!. And by this mode appies under very favorable circumstances, are

frequently preserved in a soui.m state, or not one in ti'iy detective, tor a period of

Feven or eirht months. The huit is s-uf bocker pickle11 lor beef or poiK. Iwiii fereo to bang on the tree to as Jatea period ; jrive mine which 1 have ued for twenty

thif k, but ran ui till they became so slen

der that they bent down, gradually taper ing to a very fine point, as thin as a horse hair, and waiving across the road like long fi-bing rods. I cut one of them, which had shot up from the valley below, ab'.ut the middle, where ii was not quite so thi-k as my wrist. After cairy ing it -ome time in m) hand, where it felt hghter than a enrt whip, I laid it along the road and measured its length, and found it tif'een yards long, so that the entne plant must have been ninety teei, tupermg, and miished the whole way with the most exquisite finish " Anothei kindyvasso proiitic that it coveted the w hole surface of the forest, climbing to the tops of the highest trees, and clothing them v i t h the mot exquisite verdure. Sometimes it ran from tree to tree, covering the whole sloping surface of a glen

with a level uniform curtain of the i idlest drapery. This vegetable surface is cnllcd "grass of the thicket." It yields the entile a supply of green and whole some fodder at all seasons.

the vessels; and. on their bping boiled, oil ri-es to the surface, which, when cold.

hardens to the consistence of wax It is afterwards purified in other vrcl; and candles made of it burn n loog time, and yield a grateful odour Boston Journal

fypti a x i:;r;-ovE. It is a well known fact, that eggs may be hatched by artificial means. The Egyptians, as well n those who have tried the experiment in Europe, ha ve succeeded by means of artificial he;it. in hatching egg without any aid from the mother bird According to the host descriptions of the Egyptian incrna!. or hatching oven, it i n

brick structure about nine feet high. The middle is formed into a gallery about three feet wide and eight fet high, ex tending from one end of the building to the other. This gallery forms the entrance to the oven and commands its

and exhibited tor a number of days at thMorgue. The mystery which involve i this dark transaction excited quite nn interet, and numbers went to behold the ccrpse. The general and only conviction was, that he must have been murderedbut for a number of yveeks no clue wa- oh. ained to elicit information on the subject. When it became improper to keep the body longer above ground, a cast iu plaster was taken, fully representing the murdered victim, and this remained a much longer time for the public to see At length Dautun happened to be engager! in gambling at the Palais Royal; he played high and lost; calling for liquor to drink, and angry her-au-e the waiter was somewhat tardy, when he orne with it, Danttin emptied the glass and threw it at the waiter. It was shivered into a thousand piece, and a fragment was carried into Dau'un's wrist under the cuff of his coat. The spectators gathered around, and learning the accident, wished to see the gash; he dreyv down hifl sleeve, and firmly pressed it round his wrist; the iosifted on seeing it, he obstinately refused. B this course, the bye standers were at length led to t-uppnse that something mysterious was involved in this conduct, and they determined at all events to see his wrist. By force they pushed up his sleeve and behold a scar, recently healed, as if made by tearing out of flesh, appeared. The landlord had been at the Morgue, had seen the murdered man with tlie flesU between the teeth, and it struck him in a

moment that the flesh was torn from ibid man's wrist. Charging them to keep Lira safe, he hastened to call in the legal authorities, and arrested him. In the event, Dautun confessed that be ing quartered at Sedan, and out of money tie came to Paris to try some adventure.

Knowing that his brother had a large sum

whole extent, facilitating the various ope

rations indispensable for keeping the egg ' by him, directly on his arrival, he went

at the proper degree of warmth. On to his lodgings in a retired part of the each side of this gallery there is a double city, about eight o'clock in the evening.

row of rooms, every room on the ground j He entered the house, unnoticed by the

Frcm the Acre York Farmer. cuiu.m; roetiv. Afr. E-titor --In she New Vmk Farmer noticed a leeipe for m tkmg "Koicker-

porter, and passing to his apartment, lound

iblf. It.

October, or ti!l hard Irost fiye years, with uniloim success, and will

have loosened the stalk, izthevare in im tell how ami where I got it. in Augu.-i

minent danger ot being blown by high 1805,1 lodged liorn S.tiurday to Moni.ay Tvinds;such as havealready fallen aiecate- w 1 1 1 an inn keeper in Cheny V.ii.eN. tail) g:tbeied r.nd inspected,and the best! V., (who .a aiso a farmer ) Oo tne lame jut up for early winter u-e. They are hie, tor Sunday's dmnei, (hen was a fine carefully gathered irom the tiee by hand, piece ot pickled pork, ot.ued the day beard as caietuily laid in baskets. New,; fore. I tasted it, ami ihoug.it it the most tight, well seasoned fl ur barrels Irom delicious I ever ate I uqu steo -"ni.ie tr l.Uic :ri luiulh interred: lliP hoM." to yive me his leceiot tor cuilng

1 IIV. I lift' IW " mm v , j-j , w , bkts being filled are cautiously, lower- poik He replied, he would do so wiui ed into the barrels and reversed The pleasure, ano proceeded as tollows: barteis being quite filled are gently shu "As so -ti as my hogs are dressed and ken, and tlie head is gently pressed down cool enough to be cut, I park the side piefo it place and seamd It i observed ( Ces m a ba;iei oi cask, w it tt plenty of salt thi pres-uie never rauses them to rot'onall sides of each piece, and when roy next the heart, and is net essary, aR they aio cask is lull, I immediately roll it to my never alb'wed to rattle in moving No, pump and I pump in water until i can see pott straw or havings are admitted at j the yvater cease n sink in the vessel, or to the ends; it causes mu-tiness and decay . ; m i?ten the salt on the cask. I then lay They are nxt caretuliy placed in wa-';. fl it stone, as large as the vessel will i e gons'and removed on the bulge, and laubccive, on the contents of the vessel, so as in courses in a cool airy situation on the! to keep the pork always under the. salt or

north side of the buildings near the cellar, ( pickle I put it m my cellar, covered so piotected by a covering on the top ofjas to exclude the flies, and there it reboaid", so jdared as to deft rid them from ; mains until a piece is wanted. Care must the sun ami lain, while the air is not ex : be taken to keep the meat under the piccludett at the sides. A chill does not in-jklp, otherwise it will rust."'1 jure thim.it is no disservice; but whenj Here is the whole secret of making good extreme cold weat her comes on, and they pickled pork for family use. I have used nre in imminent danger of being frozen,1 (!,3 method lor the time above mentioned, whether by night or day, they aie care-land I want no better, easier, or economi-

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AIR PLANTS.

These attach themselves to the driest floor having one over it precisely the

and most napless t-nr.'ace. and fl wer as it 1 amo dimensions, namely, three feet in i his brother asleep He immediately rora-

issuing fmm the richest soils "A spcci-1 height, four or five in breadth, and twelve menced his work of death; his brother men of one of these, which I thought cu ior fifteen in length The? have a round j waking up defended himself, but in siddinous.11 says Dr WaUh . "I threw iu: my J hole for an entrance of uhout a foot and, a j tion to the surprise and horror ot the rooportm mieati, where it w as forgotten; an i half in diameter, wide enough for a roan ment, being in a feeble state of he.i'th. all some month alter, in unfolding some lin itocreei through : nr.i into each are put j the desperation of his struggle was overpn; I wa astonished to find a rich scat let four or five thousand eggs (powered. In the scuffle he tore out the flower in lull blow; it had not only lived, When the fires have been continned forflesh. Being killed, the surgeon cut up

tint vegetated and blossomed, though so eight or twelve days, according to the the body, tied it up io four parcels a be

long secluded from air, light and humidi-' weather, they are discontinued, the heat ty. The batten pine is not less extiaor acquired by the oven being sufficient to dinar). It also grows nn sapless trees, fini-h the hatching, which requires in all and never on the grund Its seeds aie twenty-one days, the same time as when furnished, on the ct'n, with a long filmy eggs are naturally hatched by the hen. fibre, like the thread of gosa ner. As The number of oven? dispersed in the they ripen they are detached, and dnven several districts ef Egypt ha been estimawith he umd.hiving the long thread te l at 33G; and it ha been computed that streaofttig i.ehio i them. When hey meet a million of chicken are annually hatched with toe obstruction of a w ithered branch, in this manner, to Egypt.

i he thtead is caught, and. revolving round, j the see t at length comrs into fixed con-1 tar t with th surfice. where it som vege ! (ate, and supplies the n iked arm with a new filng. In Brazil it grows like the

Perries Meg.

Aerc Year's Gifts The custom of New Yeir's gifts i very ancient, and was formerly carried to a great extent. The

common plant of a pine apple, and shoots ! sovereign used to accept gifts from his

i from its centre a long spike of bright scar ; courtiers and principal favorites, and wa

let t'los-oms . m some species the leaves j ai-o in me n.ioii oi inaKing pie.-etns iu tci are protubeiant below, and form vessels tain individuals; the Prince, however, like pitchers, which catch and retain the! taking care that Ihe presents he received

rain yvater, furnishing cool and refreshing greatly exceeded in value those which he

draughts in the heated traveller, inigave. It is recorded of Bishop Latimer,

heights where no water is to be found. j that on one occasion he presented to his Thp quantity of this fluid is sometimes ve-j master. Henry VIM , instead of a sum in rv considerable, and those who have at-;gold for a New Year' Gift, a New Pes-

fore mentioned, secured the money and retired Ile also confessed that eleven months previous he had murdered an aunf, who was living with a second husband, to obtain money Her husband was arrested and imprisoned for a number of months, but as nothing appeared to criminate him, he had been discharged The writer saw the unhappy fraticide on his way from prison to the place of execution.

tempted to seach the flower stem have been often drenched by upsetliog the plaut.

India iirnnER. The tree that produced caoutchouc, or India rubber which was first introduced into Europe about the beginning of last century, is a native of South American and the West Indies This substance is an elastic resin, obtained by making incisions in the stem . The juice i collected as it trickles from the wound, and moulds

lament with the leaf folded down at He

brews, ch. xiii ver. 4. -on reference to which the King found a text well suited as an admonition to himself Qoeen Elizabeth supplied herself with wardrobe and jewels principally from New Year's gilts. Dr. Drake has given a list of some of these presents; amongst the items yvs find the following: "Most of the Peers and Peeresses of the Realm, the Bishops, the Chief Officers of State, her Majesty's Household, even as the master of the pan try and head cook, all gave her Majesty a Christmas box consisting either of a

on the clav, and several laver are added

till the bottle is of sufficient thickness

fully rolled into a cool, airy, dry cellarJcal plan. It often happened that wheu

with openings on the north side, that the yvanted to nut down new pork, there re

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y.o, ,,,r ,a nave tree acce-u.ey a.e.maineci some oi w.e wiu .u t is 1hen bpt , , . f, t,,e ray

laid in nets, an the cellar is in due time the cask. Io this case, I poured on me, . . , . l rua in.i;,,.

made boots of cautchouc, which are water

of clav. in the form of little bottles, are

dipped into it. A layer of this juice dries um of money, jewels, trinkets, or wear-

closed and rendered secure Irom frost ,.irL-lo tnolt out the undissolved salt whlCl) i , ,

grown in dry seasons and on dry soils. If! old pickle or yvater. In this way I have

FATTEN' I N(l CATTI.C A" many fnrmeis depend much upon the sale of cattle, tor the successful pros ecution of their bu-mes. it becomes an important question with them, how the grea;t?t amotnt of fat miy be put on an animal at the lea-t expense. That many eironeous opinions prevail upon this subject i evident from the fact, that while many fanners raise an I sell beef cattle, so a to afford a handsome ptofit. otlni are obliged to give it up as a had business It is generally admitted that nothing cobe made by tat (eniog cattle on Indian coin We believe true conomv requites i thould ll should be done ehutl- ; gta?, or other green food, and loots. Beef fat-

tetu d in this way will uot be so fit tu or ct

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i.mi in; ntrtii. n pints Keep t'csi wuen iresti ii necessary, ami uiu i'ui u rP,, -.-.. c. :

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ine nun is g unei eu iaie, ami accoming io the above directions, re-packing is unnecessary, it is even ruinous and should on no account be piacttsed till the barrel is opened for use. It has been carefully tried .

of my poik barrel, and when used, it was as ftee from rancidity as it was three

yveeks after it was put down. Indeed I

seldom empty my pork barrel except

when it wants hooping. 1 believe that boiling the pickle is useless if not injuri-

ous I orii ougni noi, ii ii cm jmc

vented, be trozen before it is put dowu.

flambeaux are made of it, that burn with

out a wick; and are used by fisherman when they go out to fish at night.

Apf le Pudding. Take a pint of scalded milk, half a pint of Indian meal, a tea cup full of mola-ses, a tea -spoonful ot salt, nod six sweet apples cut in small pieces,

-hould be baked not less than three bouts; n wi,ile iq,Jor flolV9 ou(? wnich the heat of

(he apples will nnoru an txceeuingiy iicu j ,,e un hardens upon them, this is opium

OPIILU. Opium, so much used as medicine to allay pain and occasion sleep, is the juice obtained from the unripe eed vessels of a species of white poppy. In many parts of AiaMinor whole fields aie sown with its seeds, as our's are with corn. When the

heads are nearly ripe, they are wounded on one side with a sharp instrument, and

jellv This is I inly one oi me rnosi iux uiiou. yet Mmple Yankee puJdmgs made

Tlif.-i;)ieiicQt popular ait ol Jim Crorv Ii t fouit i us way to Eoiope, an i the wneoited t-s musical t oxes niv play this nalio-.ial inel dy. vVho ever thought that o liisiiiiguished nu fituor awaited Jim Crow ?

It is collected the next day, when fresh

wounds are made on the opposite side of the seed vcsel; but what comes from the first incision is decidedly the best. When the opium is collected, it i moi-tened with a small qu mtity of yvater or honey, and worked on a board until it h is the consistency of pitch, w hen it is formed into cakes or rolls loreate. The tincture of opium,

ing apparel. The Archbishop ot Canter

burv usually gave 40, the Archbishop of j York, 30" and Ihe other Prelates from 10 to 20. The Peers gave inthesam proportion yvhilst the Peeresses presented rich gowns, petticoats, shifts, stockings, garters, &c Her physician pre

sented her with a box of sweetmeats; and from her apothecary she received a box of ginger candy, and a box of green ginger. Ambroise Lupo gave her a box of lutestrings: and Smith, the royal dustman presented her Majesty with two bolts of cambric. Mirror.

From Zera Colburn's Memoirs. A REMARKABLE INCIDENT. "In the beginning of 1815, a circumstance took place that excited much in terest in Paris. A surgeon in the army, named Dautun, was arrested at a gam bling house, in the Palais Royal, on the testimony of a scar on his wrist. Some time previous, the officers of the night had found while parsing rounds, in the different parts of the city, four parcels tied up. Onp contained the head, another the trunk, a third the thighs, and a fourth the legs and arms of a man In tlie teeth, tightly compressed, was a piece of human flesh, apparently torn out in the dying struggle The parts were collected, and put together in their regular order,

A KNAVE AND A FOOL. Two or three weeks ago a man applied at a boarding house for lodgings, sta ttng that he was a planter f'rom the South. He had noticed a young lady at the window, and it was not long before he made her acquainted with the fact, that though possessed of great wealth was destitute of a partner, and that it was the glimpse he caught of her person which induced htm to lake lodgings there He said a slight acquaintance had confirmed his favorable prepossessions, and although he was somewhat advanced, yet if she would consent to be his bride, he would do what he could to compensate for that, by settling upotj her the um of five thousand dollars at once, and making her as happy as his own effwts ani hi ample poe-stons would enable him to do. The young Udy, though, under another obligation, deemed this am opportunity loo good to be lost. The courtship commenced on Friday and the wedding took place on Tuesday, The bridegroom was but indifferently attired; had with hitn only a few articles in his bandbox, and the tailor disappointed him upon his hasty order lor a wedding suit. That however was a matter of 6mall im

portance with a gentleman whose character rested on much more stable foundations The new clothes and every thing else would be ready for the wedding visit, the being "at home," which w a9 fixed a few evenings ahead. Before that time arrived, however, he told his blooming wife in the morning that he had had a strange dream during the night, which troubled him; and, said he, "I am going

lout and if I do not return you may think

something has happened to me. He did not come back, and on sending to his nasher-woman it was found, that a couple of shirts had been sent to htm on board a steamboat. The steamboat was gone, and the rich planter had gone too, bandbox and all. As he left his bili unpaid and his young wife not a little in the lurch, it is presumed that something has happened to him. JV Y Journal of Commerce. Rational Amusement. ' At St. Sebastian, in Spain, at a recent bull fight, a three year old bull, after having killed no fewer than seventeen horses, was morfal'y wounded by a Pickadore. In the agonies of death he leaped over the bat ner among' the spectators, killed one man ami injured many others by tr.implingthern under foot, r second combat was then giveu fur lh& benefit of tbo sufferers."