The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-08-15

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The times are past when joys bright ray
Gilded life's vernal morn; u
And the lov'd tints, SO fair, SO gay,
No more the sky adorn.
InIooking Ger times calendar,
For many year of gloom,
But few and short the days appear, "
Where joys bright visions bloom. N
Thick rolls the dark and threatening cloud,
And but transient CLEAN
OF sunshine breaks the midnight shroud, q
Joys evanescent dream.
Oh! that / were times charioteer,
I'd better guide the rein,
Pleasures bright scenes should gil the year,
Nor leave one day for pain.
important to Housekeepers.-The following
recipe we can certify from our own expert
ence to be efectual. The cobalt, however
instead of being mixed with water merely
should be put into weak rum and water, the
Odonr Ofswhich attracts the fies.-EUe. Post
FJses! Fties An ounce of pulverized co.
+ halt. moistened with water, and placed in such
situation that flies may have free access to
1t, will effectually destroy the largest number
Z OF them in very short time. ~
AS the water dries out, it may be replen-
ished any number of times, without destroy
ing, the .,gy-kiIling properties of the cobalt.
This simple method Of freeing ourselves from
these troublesome insects, is valuable dis
scoyery, and the more So, asthe article may
be obtained at the apOthecaries at the low
price of about twelve and half cents Der
ounce. =
Such is the effect which the late chemical
lectures have produced upon the ladies, that
when an egg at the breakfast table is well
bolied the 0t6unaen is declared to be sufc;entLv
coagmtoted; and if by dire mishap another
egg should be tainted, as its smell viii! at once
declare, the lady coolly desires the footrnan
70 remove this egg, as sulphurated hydrogen
gas IS eUotving.' When a vase is placed on
the table, 1T was no uncommon thing in for
mer days to hear the question asked, are YOU
sure the water is boiling? but now the mat
ron demands IT the water, or it may be, if
xte or.de cf hydrogen has reached the eisth de-
gree Of Fahrenheit.-N. Y. paper.
"A little man asking, how it happened
that many beautiful ladies took up with
but indifferent husbands, after many fine
o1ers; was thus apdy answered bv noun
tam maiden.-A young friend of hers. du-
ring walk, requested her to 90 into a
dellghtful canebrake, and there gel. him the
handsomest reed; she must get it in once
going through, without turning. She went.
and coming out, brought him quite mean
reed. When he asked her, If thatswas the
1andsomest one she saw? "Oh no, ''replied
she."I saw many finer as went along, but
i kept on in hopes Of much better. until
mad gotten nearly through, and then |
was obliged to select the best that was left.''
THE JAIL.-No one can think of n
Jail, in the general acceptation of the Germ,
without associating with ii all the horrors
OF narrow cell. grated window and
Inose cheeriess hours which are pregnant
with melancholy. A naturally amiable
young lady who became the dupe of q
designing lover, by series of misfortunes
was reduced to the Notifying dilemma OIL
descending from the opulence of wealthy
iaIners house, to the mental drudery of q
common servant. But her poverty-he,
lailen condition and the accumulation OF
tnose endless woes which are the result ~
seuuc!ion could not screen her from the
maliclous prosecutions of her superiors.
ne mere loss of some trifiinr article
induced her hard hearted mistress to throw
her into prison for supposed theft. and
when she saw her delicate frame exnose,
to the cold damps of wretched abode a
stu tormented her almost senseless victim
with continual threats ofgreater venpoanc,
if she continued to deny the crimes Q
which she was accused.
The months passed away, and the 200
forgotten Mary, who once delighted tn
fondest parents-who gave life to ever
circle, and who administered to the want
OF the needy, became perfect maniac.--
An unit subject for the deliberation of
court, she was suffered to remain in the sam
disconsoiate apartment the very picture a
wild despair. The story other crime ha
been forgotten. The mistress alone re
membered the maid whom she had persecu
ted-but neglecting the SUBJECT of her NAL
Ace, and only thought Of her when con