The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-06-13


partial decision. PROPOSE 70 ABcLIsH THE
OFFICE OF PUBLIC PRINTER.
ALCIBIADES.
FROM THE AMERICAN DAILY ADVERTISER.
MR. PoULsoN,
IKE following information may perhaps be of
fervce fuch Of your ubicrners have not cool and
dry cellars preierve their meat and other provicns
and the hint perhaps Offers opporunity thoie who
have lefure and talents, OF improving great public
advantage.
a Joint of any provilion fuipended in fam
mel bag will keep iveet comfortable time longer than
by any of the modes generally praaiEed The cooler
and dryer the is when the flannel is pu, round the
better and it will occur to any thinking mind that the
flannel ihould DC perfectly clean. A flannel bag with
bowl plate it, ALTO the beit mode of conveying
butter from, perhaps market, and if the bowl or
plate is made of wood the better. A Rronger proof
cannot be given of the truth of the above than that ice
wrapped infannelwil keepa comfortable time, where
az exPoied to the air and wrapped in nen will DIFF
folve almoh immediately.
The following curious receipt for curing fresh
provisions carry abroad, has been tried by gen.
tlelnan who has twice made the experiment in a
voyage to Archangel, and one to the West Indies.
Let the mea., whether beef Or mutton, be fresh
killed, and when hung till i. BE perfectly cold, Let
1t be cut In quarters, lay each block and sprn-
kle it over with ingredients prepared in the follow
ing manner, hgnumvite fine chips one pound, COM
mon salt ounces, coarse sugar four ounces, salt
Ptuneila half an ounce; when it has been well
sp1nNled, inclOse the whole i'll sheet lead; which
done lay II tn chest and each lot is laid in CO.
yer 1T with fresh saw-Gust; ram it well down
and cover the whole close. Meat, (particularlv
line far beef has been cav fresh so prepared, six
weeks or two months after sailing from England :
TIE beet must be in fine order, and when taken
out Tor dressing, (is best,) il should be wi
ped and scraped clean, and put down to the FIRE
as quick as possible Lbiiad Paper.
DR.. PRIEsrLY.-A London paper copies from the
American prints the account of that gentleman dea,h
ard adds Ill note that owing an unforefeen event
the Doctor had lately futained lois of cool ferng
per annum, which the zeal and beraty Of his friends
had amply made up, for week before the news of his
death-a particular friend wrote to him refpeaing it,
deiiring him to draw him for foO. ferng per an
num- which he might rely on for the remainder Of his
hfe
| Irisb Giant Lately the remains of the larpes,
person ever known in Ireland, lea since the DAYS
ct Phil Macoul, the famous Irish Giant We're in.
TERED in the Church yard of Roseunalli. in the
| Queens county. The coffin with it's contents
| weighed hfty-two stone, which amounts exactly 70
| SIX hundred. 1t was borne n very long bier bv
thirty strong men, who were relieved at intervals
The name of this extraordinary person is sa d to
| nave been Roger Byrne, who lived ar B ur-
ros, in Ossory, and is reported to have died of no
other disease, but a suffocaton, occasoned bv an
extremity of fat that stopped he play of the lungs,
and put period to his life, in the 54.h year of
his age He was thirteen heavier than
the no.ed Bright, of Maldon, whose waisi coat in
| closed seven large men. Byrne was married
man, and 1t is remarkable his widow is a very
small woman, by whom he has left four boys
London Paper,
a new vegetable falt, containing new acid,
has been difcovered by Klaproth it coniits of
ialine MATS, exuded from the trunk of the
white mulberry, (morus alba, L. on the furface
OF the bark it has the appearance of coating,
IN little granulous drops of a yellowifh and