The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1794-07-07 00:00:00, page 4

^ Recipe for Lowe.
TAKE eight ounces of considera
tion, half the quantity of indif
ference, ten grains of ingratitude fix
fimpies of patience, a small sprig of
rue, two good handfulls of employ
ment, four months absence, mix them
with the constant conversation of a
rival ; to this you may add as much
discretion as nature hath allotted you.
Then boil all together till a third part
be consumed, cooling it with a few
flights, spread it on the thoughts of
your miftreh's imperfections, and ap
ply the plaifter lukewarm to your
heart ; but be fare not to take it off
till it comes off irfelf: If this fails your
case is desperate.
[From SmelHe's Pbifo, of Natural Hifto,.}
AFTER the farina it digested, and
converted into wax, the bees
poffefa the power of bringing it from
their stomachs totheir mouths. The
instrument the, employ in furnifhing
material! for conftruding their waxen
cells is their tongue. This tongue is
situated below the two teeth or fangs.
When at work, the tongue may be
seen by the assistance of a lens and a
glass hive. It is then in perpetual mo
tion, and its motions are extremely
rapid. Its figure continually varies.
Sometimes it is more faarp, at others
it is flatter, and sometimes it is more
or lets concave, and partly covered
with a moist paste or wax. By the
different movement# of its tongue, the
On the OPERATIONS and (ECONOMY
of the HONEY-BEE.
MR. RUSSELL,
By inserting theft lines in you,paper,,ou <will
oblige a friend and customer.
TO DAY man's dreft in gold and fiver bright,
Wrapt in a /broud before to morrow night ;
To day he's feeding on delicious food,
To morrow dead, unable to do good ;
To day he's nice, and /corns to feed on crumbs,
To morrow be bimjelf a di/hfor worms ;
To day he's grand, majeflic, all delight,
To morrow gbaftful, pale, inJenfatequite :
True, as the Scripture Jaith, man's life's ajpan,
The present moment is the life of man.
I T,muft beso —my friend, thou reas'nefl well!
Else whence this pleafag hope, this fond desire.
This longing for the happy wedding day ?
Or whence tbis jecret pining, and the fear
Os dying an Old Maid ? Why turns the ear
As if afbam'd, while pleas'd to hear of marriage ?
'Tis but timidity that flirs within me ;
For heaven itftlf declares we ought to marry,
And promijes much happiness therefrom.
Much happiness ! thou pleafag anxious thought !
Thro' what variety of untrod windings, [thee ?
Thro' what rough sanes would I not pass to find
Thefeldof patrimony lies before me,
Afettled faminefeems to rest upon it.
Where wiltn bold? If I have e'er a lover,
(And that I have the neighbours all can witness)
He must delight in Wedlock ;
And that which be esteems mufl make me happy ;
Rut where or bow ?—this town delights injcandal;
I'm weary of contriving, thus 'tie ended ;
(marries)
Thus am I twice Jecure—m, keys—a marriage—
Two methods of concealment are in view,
Theft wilifecure me from the gaping crowd;
Or that will quickly waft us to the country.
The wife,fecur'd in her fond bujband, smiles
At old maids, and laughs at all their env,;
For they will fade away, and lose their charms ;
Growgrey with age, and never get them bufbands;
But we Jhall live to crown each other's wishes.
Unchang'd amid# the various feenes of life,
The smiles of fortune, or her darkest frowns.
Miss — — alone, with a letter in her hand.
• FOR THE MIRROUR.
Parody on Cato's Soliloquy.
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Ufeful Miscellany.
[continued.]
FOR THE MIRROUR.
SEAT OF THE MUSES.
Bees from the nature of their con
stitution, require a warm habitation.
They are likewise extremely solicitous
to prevent infeds of any kind from
getting admittance into their hives.
To accomplish both these purposes,
when they take possession of a new
hive, they carefully examine every
part of it, and, if they difeover any
small holes or chinks, they immedi
ately paste them firmly up with a res
inous substance which differs conside
rably from wax. This substance was
not unknown to the ancients. Pliny
mentions it under the name of propolis,
or bee-glue. Bees use the propolis foh
rendering their hives more close and!
perfed, in preference to wax, because
the former ii more durable, and more
powerfully resists the vicissitudes of
the weather, than the latter. This
glue is not, like wax, procured by an
animal process. The bees collect if
from different trees, as the poplars,
the birches and the willows. It is a
complete production of nature, and
requires no addition or manufacture
from the animals by which it is em
ployed. After a bee has procured a
quantity fufficient to fill the cavities
in its two hind thighs, it repairs to the
hive. Two of its companions inflant
ly draw out the propolis, and apply it
to fill up such chinks, holes, or other
deficiecces, as they find in their habi
tation. But this is not the only use
to which bees apply the propolis.
They are extremely solicitous to re
move flich infects or foreign bodies as
happen to get admission into the hive.
When so light as not to exceed their
powers, they firft kill the infeCt with
their ftiogs, and then drag it out with
their teeth. But it sometimes happens
that an ill-fated foail creeps into the
hive. It is no sooner perceived than
it is attacked on all sides and stung to
death. But how are the bees to car
ry out a burden of such weight ? This
labour they know would be in vain..
They are perhaps apprehensive that a
body so large would diffufe, in the
course of its putrefaction, a disagreea
ble or noxious odour through the hive.
To prevent such hurtful coofequenc
es, immediately after the animal's
&h,' they embalm it, by covering
every part of its body with propolis,
bee continues to supply frefh wax to
the two teeth, which are employed in
railing and fafhioning the walls of its
cell, till they have acquired a fufficient
height. Ai soon as the moist paste
or wax dries, which it does almost in
stantaneously, it then assumes all the
appearances and qualities of common
wax. There is a still stronger proof
that wax is the result of an animal
process. When bees are removed in
to a new hive, and closely confined
from the morning to the evening, if
the hive chances to please them, in
the course of this day several waxen
cells will be formed, without the pos
sibility of a single bee's having had
access to the fields. Besides, the rude
materials, or the farina of plants, car
ried into the hive, are of various col
ours. The farina of some plants em
ployed by the bees is whitish ; in oth
ers it is of a fine yellow colour ; in
others it is almost entirely red ; and in
others it is green. The combs con
ftruded with these differently-colour
ed materials are, however, uniformly
of the fame colour. Every comb, es
pecially when it is newly made, is of
a pure white colour, which is more
or less tarnished by age, the operation
of the air, or by other accidental cir
cumstances. To bleach wax, there
fore, requires only the art of extract
ing such foreign bodies as may have
insinuated themselves into its sub
stance, and changed its original col
our.
4 handsome variety of Cotton
saiw.
&mal, Bandanno, Sefliioi and
Barcelona Handkerchiefs.
A great assortment Hard Ware,
and Crockery, as ujual.
All kinds of GROCERIES, on
the ioweft j,rms possible, considering the
times, and tie present fluctuating Rate of
commerce
tt^feafchea
6 it,.
Me INDIES are also invited
to take a lo& at a,good choice of Mullins,
Muslin Handkerchiefs, Lawns, and Lawn
Handkerchiefe.
A fine choice of Silks,Jilk Gloves
tend Mitts. Some very large and fine.
Cambricks, Gauzes, Cypress and
Millinetts.
A handsome choice of Fans, La
ces, Ribbons, Felty ditto. Looking Glosses, Edg
ings and Laces, with afew pairs of beautiful En
glish Kid Gloves.
Patches, Chintzes, and Callicoes,
and a great variety of other GOODS, not enume
rated.
Physicians and Surgeons are
supplied with MEDICINE^, Clothiers
with DYE STUFFS.
Joiners, Carpenters and Shoe
makers, with almost every Utensil for their
several vocations.
Russia, Swedes and Philadel
phia bar iron.
German^glilh and Blifte'r-.
ed STEEL. V
A few Cases of genuine Hol
land GIN.
Country Produce, of all kinds,
received at the higbeft rates ; and every favour
acknowledged with becoming gratitude.
June zZth, 1794. 88
Capt. Stephen Webfler's Eflate.
A LL persons who are indebted to,
4= or have any demands on, the es
tate of Capt. Stephen Webster, late
of Bofcawen, deceased, are hereby no
tified to bring in their accounts to
Benjamin Webster, of Bofcawen, ad
ministrator, in order for settlement.
Bofcawen, June 1, 179, 88
firft wound from a fling, it naturally
retires within its shell. In this case,
the bees, instead of patting it all over
with propolis, content themselves with
gluing all round the margin of the
shell, which is fufficient to render the
animal forever immoveably fixed.
Nankeen, and Olive Jeans, Ja
conets, and Fuflians, proper for the small clothes of
officers.
Avery extenjive variety of Shal
loons, Antiloons, Durants, Tammies, Cambists,
Cambletteens, Rufflls, and Callimancoes.
A fine assortment Iri/b Linens,
direaly from Newry.
Agood choice of Laffings, Sat
tinets, and Florentines.
WHICH he is now enabled to
offer to his former customers, and such oth
ers as will be so obliging as to favour him
with their orders, on lower terms than at
any time heretofore :
BROADCLOTHS, Serges, De
wonjhire Kerfas, Lambfeins, and Baizes.
Velvets, Velverets, Velvetteens,
Corduroys, and Elliot's Cords.
GOODS,
CALEB STARK
HAS JUST IMPORTED,
in the MARY, from L OND 0 N,
AND IS NOW OPENING,
At his STORE in DUNBARTON,
A very extensive Affortmentof
EUROPEAN AUD INDIA
through which no effluvia can escape.
—When a snail with a Ihell gets en
trance, to dispose of it gives much left
trouble and expense to the bees. As
soon as this kind of snail receives the
CONSISTING OF
(To be continued.)
Compend of Military Discipline,
for the TROOPS of Newhaffipfhire.
Chiefly/defied from the Regulations of Baron Steu
ben, and Major General Sullivan.
Watts's PSALMS and HYMNS, Dodd's
REFLECTIONS on DEATH, and
The French Convert,
A very entertaining and ufeful Hiftory,
For Sale as above.
CASH to be fold for OLD RAGS
at Russell's Printing Office.
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^ The Price of this Paper is 7 Shillings a
year, at the Office—delivered by Post, Bs.
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ALMANACK.
July. Ir.'Q f.lr. Qf. •'s placeAfuU sea.
7 Mond. 4 318 1 21 secrets. 7 20
8 Tues. '431 8 1 43 secrets. 8 8
9 Wedn. 432 8 2 7 thighs, 8 57'
xo Thurs. 432 8 2 36 thighs, g 47
11 Friday. 433 £ 3knees, to 37
12 Saturd. 434 8 .rife, knees, h at
13 Sunday. 434 8 832 legs. Morn.
WANTED, to contrast for the making of
fever al tbqftfd pairs of good thick leather
men's SHOES—fo^ quivered Joon— The payfor
makingfaid faes, to be wholly in leather—and a
generous price given, i£application be made imme
diately to NATHANIEL LADD.
Concord, June 7, 17,4. ^s'f
Wanted to let, ,^.,.:
: A quantity of Hemlock Bark, to
peel; or, hire a hand by the month—for which a
genkrotes price will be given, if application is made
immediately to NATHANIEL LADD.
Concord, June ^. ^9f
of the Rev, Christopher Love, & his
LAST WORDS on the Scaffold,
Who was beheaded at Tower-Hill, London;
The 22d day of August, 1651. ''
This day published, and for sale, at the Mir
rour Office, wholesale and retail,
THE PROPHECIEs
1L,,: ::;?'" ," • : -^:.: '")'""•
TO BE SOLD, RY B. RUSSBLL,,^. ;•
(Printed on fuperfipe paper, price 9 penq„
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ATTENTIONt the WHOLE,
Two flout, healthy BO Y S,
15 or 16 years of age, as apprentices to the
Tanner's Ind Currier's Trade. Apply to
NATHANIEL LADD.
Concord, May 24, 1794. Bjtf
TN order to prevent people being
'impofed on, public notice is hereby
given to all people, not to purchase a
note of hand against John Murrey,
of Alexandria, payable to Robert
Murrey, of Grafton ; said note bear
ing dace Match 25, 1794, and is held
unjustly, as I have received no value
for it. Therefore lam determined
not to pay it.
Ample security will entitle the
purchaser to a generous credit.
For further particulars, apply to
CALEB STARK.
Dunbarton, June 21. 87
A long lease, or absolute sale,
will be preferred.
The Situation for either a Trad
er, Attorney, or Tavernkeeper, will appear,
on view, to be too eligible to need any com
ment.
BENp. & TIM°. WIGGIN,
HEREBY take leave to inform the public,
that they have just received a general
assortment of
Englifo & Weftindia GOODS;
which they are determined to fell on the ve
ry lowest terms possible.
Cash, and all kinds of Country
Produce, will be received in payment.
Hopkinton, June 23. 87
That beautiful and elegantly situated
HOUSE & STOREtn Hopkinton,
Take Notice.
HEMLOCK BARK to peel.
JOHN MURREY.
Alexandria, June 4, 1794. 87
Lately improved by Mr. Isaac Babfon.
SHOES t* MAKE.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
FOR SALE, or TO LET,
Pleasant Situation.
Note of Hand.