The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-08-04 00:00:00, page 1

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Ufeful Mifeeflany.
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FOR THE MIRROUR.
On the OPERATIONS and (ECONOMY
of the HONEY-BEE.
[From Smellie's Pbilojogby of Natural Hijiory,)
THE conjecture of Maraldi con
cerning the impregnation of the
eggs after they are deposited in the
cells, as well as the observations of
Mr. Shirach concerning the lex of the
working bees, have been completely
verified by the experiments of Mr b
Debraw. Both Maraldi and Retu
rner had long ago difeovered, that in
every hive, beside the large drones,
there arg males, or drones, as small as
the working bees. By means of glass
hives, Mr. Debraw observed, that the
queen-bee begins to deposit her eggs
in the cells on the fourth or fifth &,
after the bees begin to work. On the'
firft or second day after the eggs are
placed io the cells, he perceived sev
eral bees finking the posterior parts of
their bodies into each cell, where they
continued but a short time. After
they retired, he saw plainly with the
naked eye a small quantity of whitish
liquor left in the bottom of each cell
that contained an egg. Next day he
found that this liquor was absorbed
into the egg, which, on the fourth day,
is hatched. When the worms escape
from the eggs, they are fed for the
firft eight or ten days with honey, by
the working bees. After that period
they (hue up the mouths of the cells,>
where the worms continue enclosed
for ten days more, during which time
they undergo their different transfor
mations.
" I immersed," fays Mr. Debraw,
"all the bees in water ; and, when
they appeared co be in a senseless state,
I gently pressed every one of them
between my fingers, in order to distin
guish those armed with flings from
those that had none, which left I might
fufpea to be males. Os these I found
sixty seven, exadly of the size of com
mon bees, yielding a little whitish liq
uor on being pressed between the fin
gers. I killed £very one, and replac
ed the farm in a glass hive, where 1
they immediately applied again to the
work of making cells ; and, on the
fourth or fifth day, very early in the
morning, 1 had the pleasure to fee the
queen-bee deposing her eggs in these
cells, which (he did by placing the
posterior part of her body in each of
them. I continued to watch most
part of the ensuing days, but could dis
cover nothing of what I had seen be
fore. The eggs, after the fourth day,
instead of changing in the manner of
caterpillars, were found in the feme
state they were in the firft day. The
next day about noon, the whole [warm
forfook the hive, probably because the
animals perceived, that, without the
r assistance of males, they were unquali
fied to multiply their species." To
(hew the necessity of the eggs being
- fecundated by the male influence, Mr.
Debraw relates an experiment still
more decisive.
" I took," fayl' he, " the brood
comb, which, as I observed before,
Mited : Idivid
ne I placed un
. Witfr honey
-1 ; I took care
no drones, a-I
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BY RUSSELL.
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MONDAY, August 4, 1794.
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mong the common bees I confined in
it. The other piece of brood-comb 1
placed under another glass bell, No. 2.
with a few drones; a queen, and a
number of common bees proportion
ed to the liz2 of the glass. The re
full was, that, in the glass No. 1. no
impregnation happened ; the eggs re
mained in the fame state they were in
when put into th, glass ; and upon
giving the bees their liberty on the
seventh day; they all flew away, as was
found co be the case in the former ex
periment :Whereas, in the glass
No. 2. I law the very day after the
bees had been put under it, the im
pregnation of the eggs by the drones
in every cell containing eggs ; the
bees did not leave their hive on re
ceiving their liberty ; and, in the
course of twenty Bays, every egg un
derwent all the above mentioned nec
essary changes, and formed a pretty
numerous young colony, in which I
was not a little started to find two
queens."
(To be concluded in cur Ha.)
the PROMPTER.
SHE CARRIES THE BELL.
OUR honest farmers, who turn their cat
tle and iheep into the woods, pu + a bell
upon one of the stoutest of the herd, which is
said to carry the bell ; and the rest of their
flock ufoally follow their leader. So a lady
of uncommon beauty or sprightliness is said
to carry the bell. She is easily found, and
has a large herd in her train.
This carrying the bell has a wonderful effect
in procuring notice and admiration. It is
like getting one's name up. The lady who ar
rives at the honour oredfrfing the bell, may
do and fay what ihe pleases with impunity.
Like the bell whether in the woods, where
ever ffie goes, even through swamps, rive'rs
and briars, all the herd will very stupidly fol
low. '
A lady who carrift the bell, will have a
crowd of flatterers about her ; every one is
her rcoft humble servant. One will court
her a few weeks—the will smile till <the man
is half diftraaed—then the will frown on him
and smile on another. Sometimes the gives
hope that her heart and hand will be surren
dered to her fond lover-.then all at oncefa
canfuit berjelf better. She makes a dozen nin
ies dance attendance for years—till at last
she looses her chara&er and her admirers at
once, or gives her hand, with a teorthlefs,
fickle, proud, unfeeling heart, to some good
man of great simplicity of intentions. Here
we have a pretty couple yoked together for
life. But look ye, young bacheldors ; a
lady who nbo wutars the bell before marriage,
always carries the fort end of the yoke after mar
riage. An officer who has long commanded
a regiment is net easily reduced to the ranks.
Astonishing ! Can the Prompter with a wife
to he reduced to the ranks ; fobdued, hum
bled, commanded by her husband, like a sol
dier by his officers 1 No, no, my dear good
woman ; but will a Captain Lieutenant sub
mit to be /econd Lieutenant, Ab, there's the
rub.
How charming it is to carry the bell! ev
ery body who comes to town must call upon
the lady who carries the bell: Just call at
kaft, fb as to fay, when he gets home " I saw
Miss ——, the belle of the town, and the
looked and aded so and so." Every man
whois going to Boston, to Newyork, to Phi
ladelphia, must call on Mifs—=, pay their
refpe&s, and beg the favour to be permitted
to carry a letter from her to her friend. If
she does not want towrite, (he must write a
line at least—it is such an honour=a happi
ness for every body to foeak to her—to speak
of'her-~and carty a fetter-which the wrote.;
O the pleasures, the adyantages^nd ,be vex
ations of carrying the bell. ,/
The following extra#s ate copied from afatapfelet
' lately published at Philadelphia, by Abfehm
I^7°"" and Richard Alien, two Black Men.
The pamphlet is entitled, " A Narrative of the
IX THEN the mortality came on to its
VV ft^ %.f was impossible to
1 procure fufficient assistance, therefore many
whose friends and relations had left them,
died unseen and unassisted. We havefound
them in various situations, some lying on
the floor, as bloody as if they had been dipt
in it, without any appearance of their hav
had even a drink of water for their relief;
others lying on a bed with their clothes on,
as if they had come in fatigued, and lay down
to rest; some appeared as if they had taHen
dead on the floor, from the position we found
them in.
Several affecting instances occurred, when
we were engaged in burying the dead. We
have been called to bury some, who when we
came, we found alive ; at other places we
found a parent dead,and none but little babes
to be seen, whose ignorance led them to think
their parent was asleep ; on account of their
situation, and their little prattle, we have
been so wounded, and our feelings so hurt,|
that we almost concluded to withdraw from
our undertaking, but feeing others so back
ward, we still went on.
An affeding instance.—A woman died,
we were sent to bury her—-on our entering
the bonfe and taking the coffin in, a dear lit
tle innocent accosted us, with, " mamma
is asleep, don't wake her ;'' but when ffie
few us put her into the coffin, the distress of
the child was so great, that it almost over
come us ; when Hie demanded why we put
her mamma in the box > We did not know 1
how to answer her, but committed her to thel
care of a neighbour, and left hfer with heavy|
hearts. In other places where we have been |
to take the corpse of a parent,and have found j
a groupe of little ones alone, some of them'
in a measure capable of knowing theirfitu-I
ation, their cries and the innocent confuficn|
of the lirtl/ eones, seemed almost too much
for human nature to bear. We have picked
up children that were wandering, they knew
not where, (whose parents were cut off) and
taken them to the orphan house, for at this
time, the dread that prevailed over the peo
ple's minds, was so general, that it was a rare
instance to fee one neighbour visit anot her,
and even friends, when they walked in the
streets, were afraid of each other, much less
would admit into their houses, the distressed
orphan that had been where the sickness
was ; this extreme seemed in some instances;
so have the appearance of barbarity ; with
reluctance we call to mind the many oppor
tunities there were in the power of individu
als, to be ufeful to their fellow men, yet,
though the terror of the times, was omitted.
A Black man ridjng through the 'ftreet,
fawa man pu(h a woman out ofthe house,
the woman Daggered and fell on her face in
the gutter, and was net able to turn herfelf,
the black man thought she was drunk, but
observing (he was ip danger of fuffocation,
alighted and taking the woman up, found
her perfe&ly fobet, but so far gone with the
disorder that (he was not able to help herfelf;
the hard hearted man that threw her down,
(hut the door and left her—in such actua
tion foe might have perished in a few min
utes ; we heard of it>and took her to Bulhhilh
Many of me white people, who ought to be
patterns for us to follow after, have acted in
a manner tlpat would make humanity Jud
der. We remember an instance of cruelty.
Which,we trust no black man would be guilty
of; two filters, orderly, decent White Wo
mon, were sick with the fever, one of them
recovered so far as to cqme to the door ; a
neighbouring white man saw her, and in an
angry tone asked her if her sister was dead or
not? She answered no, upon which he repli
ed, damn her, if (he don't die before morn
ing I will make her die.,
The poor woman, (hocked at such an ex
pression from this monster of a man, made a
Sodeft reply, upon which he snatched up a
bof water, and would have dashed it over
her, if he had not been prevented by a black
man ; he then went and took a couple of
fowls blit of a coop (which had, been given
them for nourifhmeut) and threw themin
to an open alley ;be had his wifli; the ( >or
woriian that he would make die, died that
night. A white man threatened to (hoot us,
If we passed by his house with a corpse—we
buried him three days after. '/
A A SERMON.
A ND Rachel said unto Jacob, give me
children or else I: die, and Jacob's an
ger was kindled against Rachel. Genesis
xxx. Part of the ift and ad verses.
From these words, my brethren, I shall
beg lea veto make a few observations, w^ich
may tend tenfold some new ideas of the fe
'male cheraaer. ^3W '
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condition of her life. '' Give me children)
fays (he, or elfeldie ", Ah ! weak and in
considerate woman !—Little didst thou know
the dreadful connexion that was established
in the book of fate, between thy death, and
^he birth of children.—But heaven often
curses human folly by answering its prayers.
Rachel's desires for an increase of her family
are gratified, but alas ! Rachel knows only a
short- lived joy froth this event. She died in
childbed with her second son—Her lovely
boy drops from her breast. His smiling in
fancy and prattling childhood afford her no
pleasure —for Rachel's remains have defeen^-
ed into the grave, and mixed with the clods
ofthe valley.
A second remark that is suggested by the
words of my text, is, that upon certain occa-
Ifions, anger is a necessary passion, and that it
Imay be exercised, with peculiar propriety;
by huffiands, when the folly of their wives re
quire it. Jacob was a'man of uncommon
dignity of character.—He was wife, prudent
and religious—and yet Jacob was angry.—
He was a fond and indulgent hu(band—and
yet he was angry at his wife : For we read,
that the anger of Jacob teas kindled against
Rachel. But ler us examine a little further,
and inquire tn what manner Jacob difeovers
and gives vent to his anger. Does he stamp)
upon the floor, and call his wife by any im-
;proper names r—No. Does he drag her a-
I croft the floor by the hair of the head, or
Ithrow her behind the fire ? : —No. Does he
I pinch her—or kick her—or beat her with his
I fift ?—No—for Jacob wasa brave man, and
!never disgraced bi^ thara&er as a soldier by
I ftrikirig a woman. He rebukes his wife, and
I reasoning with her—'' Am I (fays he) in
God's stead, who hath withheld from thee
the fruit of thy womb f"
Learn hence, ye husbands, from the ex
ample of Jacob, to treat your wives as reason
able creatures. In this way only, you will
hot only reform them, but secure their per
petual esteem arid affe&ion for you.
We have beheld the end of Rachel, the
wife of Jacob; but unhappily for mankind;
her posterity did not die toith her. There
are Rachels still alive in every part of the
world. While one cries out, give me chil
dren, or else I die—there are hundreds of
her defeendants who cry out, give me no
more children, or else 1 die. Nor is this
all—how many wives do we find, who urge
their requests to their hutbands, with the
feme powerful, and, as they fuppole, distress
ing argument ? Give me, fiys one, 2 new
house, or else I die.—Give me, fays the sec
ond, another house teench, or else I die.—
Give me, fays a third, a weekly rout, or else
I die.— Give me, fays the fourth, a trip jo the
Virginia Springs, or else I die.—Give me,
fays the fifth; a winter in Ntewjork or Phila
delphia, or else I die.—Give me, fays a sixth,
a service of plate, or else I die.^-Giye me,
fays a seventh, a let of china, or else I die.-
Give me, fays an eighth, a hew hik gown, or
else I die.— Give me, fays a ninth-—but I
forbear, for the day would fail me, should I
attempt to enumerate all the instances of fe
male folly and extravagance, which are dis
played in conjugal and domestic life.
I (hall conclude with one remark, which,
I hope, will be profitable to the ladies, who
compose a part of my audiance—and chat is,
that this kind of petulance never fails to cool
th, affections of buibands. Os this we have
a striking proof in the conduct of Jacob: we
read, that his wife died on her journey with
him to Ephrath. But we read of no remarks
or refped paid to her memory, by a splendid
or even a decent funeral. We do not find
that Jocob secludes himfelf, even for a fingte
day, from his ordinary pursuits, in order to
mourn over her. We only read that he plac
ed a pillar of stone over her grave—proba
bly to prevent her rising from her grave, to
tearfe him with her ill humours ;—and hence,
pfobably, may be derived the origin of
tomb-stones.
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4% maxim s.—s% tongue may fawtimet be bri
dled, but the mind canjvffir no reflraint.
Whoever is terrible to titbeN, will ever be
af raid of himfelf.
Just pubhfad, and for forte at tbit Office,
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M'O NC^D rQ N THE ;
MAJOR ^ANDR^ 1
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Major 11
Addrtfed to Miss Seward, ik bierftoub,&\
N EWHAM.
[Num. 93.]