Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-12-23

FRE PLACES. An open heart and lib
eral hand are much better than an open
house and large fire place. New England
hrs places, and other contrivances for
warming apartments, are not, generally
speaking, indications of superior skill in the
useful arts, nor evidence of paramount &C
QUESTIONS in the details of practical philoso<
ply. One would think that the warmth
generated by the combustion of wood, or
other fuel was considered as nuisance, and
that the principal objects Of our culinary
tires were to heat the atmosphere, and bring
on such thaw as would soonest break up
the sleighing. In pursuance of this plan,
we THAT is, some of us) stick our stoves in
the throat of our chimneys, and turn the
heat out of doors with all practicable expe-
dition. In lieu Of all this, we advise you to
have good deal of stove plate and pipe in
your rooms which you wish to warm, and let
the pine go round and round till It has dis
triDuted all the heat it is capable of receiv-
ing, in the apartment, instead of conduct
ing it to the open air by the shortest possie
BILE route.
RAILWAY IN GERMANY. 1t is stated I'M
the Leeds (England) Mercury, that the
Emperour of Austria has recently made
special contract with the Chevalier Gerst-
ner, gentleman whose energy and enter
PRISE are well known to some of the most
respectable characters in Leeds, to convey
Salt along a railway, 'sof which the Chevalier
has executed and completed upwards of
forty miles, 1.-THE whole extent being eighty
English miles) and which will connect the
Moldau with the Danube. The contract is
for years; and the Chevalier states the
quantity of this article transported by wag<
ons in the last years, to have been 4,773,
400 cwt. or 100000 per year. He is to-
have about Is I'd per cwt. for conveying
the salt along the whole line. The
weight Of other merchandise passing along
the same route, it is said, will amount to
about 10000 tons per ahnum. The labear~
ers on the line are principally females, whose
employment consists in excavating the soil,
&c. and whose wages are Cd per day. They
are about two thousand in number, and per-
form their work with great industry and skill
the Chevalier says, tive have in 40 1-2 Eng
fish miles, cut 696,464 cubic yards, and
made 807, 944 cubic yards of entertainments,
besides laying the way with malleable rails
&C.. I; we have also erected 70 bridges from
three to eighteen yards each with 1873 cul-
verts, and made 236 wagons--tfe whole
cost, up to Nov. last, amounting to &75,212
S."
BEST PREPARATION OF BLACK LEAD
FOR CLEANING Stoves. Mix powder Of
black had with q little common gin OF the
dregs red port wine, and lay it on the
stove with peice of linen rag then with q
clean, cry, and close, but not hard, brush,
dipped in dried black lead powder, rub it to
a beautiful brightness. This viii be found
to produce much finer and richer black
varnish on the cast iron, than either boiling
the black lead with small beer and soup, or
mixing it with white of eggs, 60, whiUii
are the methods commonly practised.
A QUEER MISTAKE. When the late Adj
mira1 Crosby was dining with Col. Fitzger4
aid, at, Merrian-square, London, he happened
to lay his huge brown fist upon the table
at that moment DR.. Jenkins, who was very
short sighted, casting his eyes around the
table in search ola loaf of bread, happened
to rest them on the Admiral's fist; and mis-
taking it for loaf, thrust his fork plump in
to it. The Admiral smartihg with the
wound, said in rage, "don't trouble your
self to reach-I'll help you" and raised the
same fist to demolish the doctor. The
doctor d pe9rceiving. his mistake, cried out,
+" only a slice, sir, it won't go round" This
disarmed the Admiral Of his wrath, and so
convulsed the company with laughter, that,
all the diyspeptick cases at table were dis
continued.
A BULL. A gentleman from the neigh
bourhood of Falkirk, travelling lately in
Ireland, stopped at an Inn in Belfast. Bee
ing anxious to rise early next morning,
he requested the chambefmaid, whose
name was Jean, to rouse him at half
past six, which the girl promised to do.
Jean, however did not appear in the morn
ing, and the gentleman, when awoke found
it was eight O'Clock. Having dressed, he
was preceding down stairs, when he met
Jean and challenged her for not performing
herpromise. d" Why" replied Jean, "Sure Sir
you might have rung the bell, and would
have came up and awoke you. ;"
Counsellor Lamb ian old man, at the time
the late Lord Erskine was in the height of
his reputation) was q man of tinid manners
and nervous disposition, and usually pYefac-
ed his pleadings with an apology TO that
effect; and on one occasion, when opposed
to Erskine, he happened to renark5 that
"he felt himself growing more timid as he
grew older" "No wonder" replied the
witty but relentless Barrister; s'every one
knows, the older lamb grows the more
sheepish he becomes. Nottingham .Mer.
A STARVING BEeGAR. A gentleman, in
the neighbouThood of Edinburgh, was re-
Gently applied to for charity, BY a vagrant
who, according to his own account, was dy-
ing for want. Finding, however, on exam
nation, that he had nothing but silver in his
nockaf and nofifv;no, tho aorna ~ %bo rts~,,