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Vaccination of Sheep. —The good
effects ot vaccination of Sheep has been
proved in Russia. —On the estate of
Count Romanzoff, above 3,000 sheep
were inoculated with the Cow-Pox,
and thus preserved from a contagious
distemper, which proved mortal among
the neighbouring districts, and even in
the place where the experiment was
made to those sheep Which were iiot
inoculated.
In Prussia the Potatoe is cultivated
with peculiar success ; —as the stalk
grows, the earth is heaped up, leaving
only three leaves at top; the roots are
thus greatly increased, and the produce
is said to be astonishing.
To raise early potatoes. —Take the
potatoes whole, and cover them in horse
litter of a moderate warmth ; let them
remain there till they put forth shoots
of 4 or 5 inches in length, which they
will do in two or three weeks ; then
take them carefully from the litter, and
put them, perpendicular, and equal
with the surface, in a light dry soil,
with more horse dung. If the season
be tolerable they will vegetate amazing
ly fast. In cold countries, the last week
in April or first of May, is early e
pough to venture them out. By these
means, potatoes may be had four weeks
earlier than the same variety can be rai
sed in any degree of perfection, were
they planted in the usual way. The
above was communicated to me by a
reverend clergyman, of my acquaint
ance, who has practised it with great
success, for more than a dozen years.
[U. S. Gaz.
A Hint to Farmers.—The following
articles, will grow and yield abundant
ly in New-England, and will amply
reward the toil of cultivation—mus
tard SEED, CARRAWAY DO. CORIAN
DER DO. CANARA DO. HEMP DO. PAL
MA CHRISTI OF CASTOR OIL DO. MAD
DER, rhubarb. The English mustard
seed is preferable ty the native Ameri
can, and small quantities of it and the
other seeds for sowing may be had of
most of the grocers ; it will command
6 dollars per bushel for any moderate
quantity, to the extent of at least 4000
bushels, its demand is encreasing for
the rising American mustard man
ufactories—the expressed oil of it and
hemp seed is much superior in smell to
fish oil for lamps and equal in any oth
er respect—The palma christi seed
yields that excelent medicine castor-oil
which sells at 1 dollar (what is called)
a quart bottle ; it requires a warm sit
uation and good soil ; one gallon of
seed yeilds two pounds of oil if prop
erly managed. Rhubarb now grows
in many of our gardens and stands our
winters in safety. _Qfyez ^eg.
WHEN sunk in death, our friends rever'd,
By every tie of love endear'd;
The voice of nature must be heard.
The sternest bosom feel!
Know we, alas ! this world of care;
How should we long their lot to share,
Whose heavenly slumbers dreamless are
On earth's maternal breast !
But why should memory haunt the grave ?
And why the tender griefs enslave ?
The wounds which Heaven in mercy gave,
Its hand of love can heal !
Yes ! we should hear the storm of death,
To yield with silent joy our breath;
'T were but to die and gain the wreath
Os God's eternal rest !
Squash Bug and Yellow Fly.
The squash bug and yellow fly have
of late committed gfeat ravages.—
Viewing their havock, at a moment
which quickened invention from the
necessity of immediate succor, I hap
pened to hit upon a Receipt which made
the ravagers retreat. From a flbor late
ly covered with hops, I collected of
the flour of the hop, poured it upon
boiling water, and,.put it into a little
wheat flour, to give the liquid an ad
hesive quality; with this composition
I wet the plant with a mop of rags, and
it coated them with a defensive shield
against their natural enemy. J after
wards made a strong decoction from
the hop itself, and found it equally ef
ficacious. This experiment is not sanc
tioned by repeated„experience, but I
am sufficiently satisfied of its efficacy to
be confident in its recommendation.
To prevent the depredations of the
Fok the Constitutionalist.
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AGRICULTURAL.
POETRY.
POTATOES. •
mentum mortalia tangunt.
H****S.
Extraordinary coincidence in the
lives and deaths of two gentlemen and
two ladies, of Norfolk whose decease
was recently recorded :—Mr. Jary and
Mr. Elliot, lately residing in and near
South Walsham, married two sisters
the same day ; these ladies both died
on the same day, one at five o'clock
in the morning, and the other at five
in the afternoon ; and the same day
viz. the 10th inst. closed the existence
of their two husbands, the first at five
o'clock in the morning, and the other
at five in the afternoon. Ibid.
EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY.
Andrew Pearse, a very industrious
man, who worksat Messrs. Hare and
Son's floor cloth manufactory, Bristol,
was married Jan. 20; 1801, to Hannah
Taylor, by whom he has had fourteen
children in little more than six years,
with a speedy prospect of a farther in
crease to the family. The children
consist of three boys, born October 1,
1801 ; two boys, October 2, 1802 ;
one boy and a girl,.July 16, 1803 ;
two boys, May 13, 1804 ; one boy
and a girl, February 14, 1805 ; one
boy and a girl, January 14, 1806 ;
one boy, November 16, 1807.
London Paper.
THERE resided in Bordeaux a
young, rich, and handsome widow,
who had for six months incessantly
lamented the loss of her husband ten
derly beloved. A fatal storm had
wrecked the vessel in which he embar
ked, and every soul on board was sup
posed to have perished. The young
widow, though surrounded by admi
rers, observed very scrupulously the
rules of decorum ; at length, however,
the persuasions of her friends had effect
and she once more threw open her
doors to receive company. —Madame
St. Amere had one foible, she loved to
play to excess—and this foible alone
threatened to involve her in much sub
sequent calamity. On the evening of
her first fete, a tall graceful figure,
masked, followed her and played her
innumerable silent attractions; to
rid herself of his importunities she sat
down to the card table, and was suc
cessful for about an hour. The mask
who fixed himself behind her chair,
then solicited the honor of playing with
her, which she granted, and renewed
the game with fresh spirit, though not
with equal good fortune. Madame
was piqued at the superior skill of the
important mask, and staked to an im
mense amount; still the stranger' wds
triumphant, and pulling from his pock
et a large purse of gold, tauntingly
dared to risk the like amount. Al
though absolute ruin might have been
the consequence Madame would not
recede, but anxiety and vexation mark
ed her features. For some time the
game was doubtful; at length the
malignant deity decided against her,
and the rash widow found her fortune
destroyed by one night's folly. Her
anguish could not be concealed; she
rose abruptly from the card table;
when the mask, in an insinuating tone
of voice, hinted to her that she need
not put herself to any inconvenience
to make up this debt of honor, as he
could wait her leisure, or compromise
it some other way, with more pleasure
to himself, and less embarassment to
her. She darted at him a look of rage
and contempt.—Who art thou, wretch,
she exclaimed, who darest thus to insult
mein my own house? Softly madame,
replied the mask, I am no gambler,
nor needy adventurer ; —there are la
dies who would not be ungrateful for
such an accomodation. Madame burst
into tears: good heavens, must I en
dure this insolence; quit my house sir;
and if you are a gentleman, make good
your claim to morrow. No madam,
I will not quit this house to night; my
claim is on your fortune, or on your
self; and I will make it good let who
will dispute it. With these words he
removed his mask, when she uttered a
shriek of joyful surprise and fainted
in his arms. The company croudcd
around; they were chiefly relations,
who immediately recognized the Chev
alier St. Amere. The raptures ofMad
ame may easily be imagined, when, on
recovering her husband informed her,
that he had been saved from the wreck
by a brave sailor, who had taken him
into his own ship, which was bound
to Peru; that he remained there till a
convenient opportunity offered for
his return, and having been fortunate
enough to amass a considerable portion
of wealth, had meditated this agreeable
surprise,in thehopeof curingherofaru
inous habit,the consequencesof which he
had long dreaded. Madame embraced
him with transport, and assured him
she would never again yield to tempta
tions, or continue a practice of which
she saw the madness in glaring colors.
Having received the congratulations of
their friends, the amusements of the
evening, which had been so strangely
interrupted, were again renewed:
and the adventure was for many months
the talk through Bordeaux.
THE AGREEABLE SURPRISE.
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Tenders his grateful acknowledge
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country, who have favoured him
with their custom in the line of his
profession ; and he would solicit
future favours from them and the
public in general. Those who are
inclined to favour him with their
custom, may depend on having
their work done in the best man
ner, and in the newest fashion, at
the shortest notice.
THE GENERAL USE OF NUM
BER 10 IN CALCULATION
The learned Bishop Huet, says, it is
a remarkable circumstance,that for cal
culation, and numerical increase, the
number 10 is always used, and that
decimal progression is prefered to every
other. The cause of this preference
arises from the number of our fingers,
upon which men accustom themselves
to reckon from their infancy. First,
they count the units on their fingers,
and if they surpass that number, they
then commence a different species, of
calculation by the same agents ; as thus
—reckoning each finger for tens, then
for hundreds, thousands, &c.
This number of fingers is bestowed
on man, as ready instruments to assist
them in calculating; and it is this
which makes us prefer the number ten,
though not so convenient and useful a
number as twelve, which admits of
more divisions, as ten can only be di
vided by two and five, but twelve by
two, three, four, and six.
The Roman numbers proved the
truth of my opinion; the units are
marked by the letter I, which repre
sents a finger.
The number five is marked by the
letter V, which represents the first and
last finger of a hand.
Ten, by an X, which is two V's
joined at their points, and which two
V's represents the two hands.
Five tens are marked by an L ; that
is half the letter E, which is the same
as C, the mark for a hundred.
Five hundred is marked by a D,
half of the letter o , which is the same
as M, the mark for a thousand.
We see by this, that the calculation
of their numbers was from five to five,
that is, from one hand to the other. Ov.
id makes mention of this mode, as also
of the number ten :
Hic numeris magno tunc in honore suit.
Seu quia tot digiti per quos numerare sol
emnus,
Seu quia bis quino femina mense parit.
Seu quod ad usque decem numero crescente
venitur:
Principium spatiis slimitur in de novis.
Vitruvius also makes the same re
mark; he says, Er manibus denari
us digitorum numerus.
Many unlettered nations, as the in
habitants of Guinea, Madagascar, and
of the interior parts of America, know
not how to count further than ten,
The Brasilians, and several others, can
not reckon beyond five; they multi
ply that number to express a greater,
and in their calculations they use their
fingers and toes. The natives of Peru
use decimal progression; they count
from one to ten : by tens to a hnn
dred ; and by hundreds to a thousand.
Plutarch says, that decimal progres
sion was not only used among the Gre
cians, but also by every uncivilized na
tion. By this we perceive how much
Priscian was deceived in his origin of
figures. We have however refined
upon that convenience with which Na
ture has furnished men to assist them
in their claculations; for we not only
use onr fingers, but likewise various
figures, which we place in diffeientsit
uations and combine in certain ways,
to express our ideas.
The ingenuity with which these sub
jects are treated, induced me to give
them a place in this paper ; and if
they do not convince, I hope at least
they will amuse.
Joseph Boardman,'
Tailor & Habit Maker,
Isle of Dogs in Middlesex —why so
called. —lt is a low marshy ground on
the banks of the Thames, opposite to
Greenwich. A pedlar, who had a dog
with him, was murdered there, and the
body buried by the murderer ; thedog
would not leave the spot but when im
pelled by hunger he swam across the
Thames to Greenwich for food. This
being frequently observed by the wa
termen plying there, they followed the
dog when he returned, and by that
means discovered the body of the mur
dered man. Some time afterwards the
dog as usual swam over to Greenwich,
and snarled at a waterman who sat
there, and would not be beaten off,
which the other watermen perceiving,
and knowing of the murder, they
apprehended the strange wartermen,
who confessed the fact, and was con
demned and executed for it. ibid.
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Channing's Sermon.
A few copies of the Rev.
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.June ^.
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