The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-07-15
From the .Ne,o England Farmer.
On THE USE OF LIME FOR PREsERv1S
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{ YIN me USE OF LIME FOR PRESERVIN
| HEALTH.
Lime as an antidote to contapion. a ORE
servatIve against infection, and means O
purifying vaults, is not SO much used as
should be. By means of this simple blu
! powerful agent, together with due atten
ton to cleanliness and ventilation, the ali
IN Jalls, hospitals, ships, &C., may be render
ed comparative sweet and salubrious. A
quantity of it, while hot and quick, siftet
every day or two into the vaults of back
houses, would greatly contribute to comfort
and health.
We should think it very serious matter
If we were forced to eat tainted provisions
or drink filthy water; and yet seem very
well satisfied with taking substance into
our lungs which is fit only to support the
respiration of reptiles accustomed to " feed
on the vapors of dunghill." And this we
suffer, while the remedy is at hand, and
almost as cheap as the scrapings of the
street!
The walls of cellars, dairy rooms, sitting
rooms, and indeed of all apartments, which
are much occupied by human beings should
be well coated with good caustic lime white
wash, at least once year. The time for
Its application should be just before the
heats of summer become fervent and OPP
presslve. "ln London" says Wi!lich's
Encyc., "a Society ia organized for the
Cure and Prevention of Contagious Fevers
in the Metropolis" and they have appropri-
ated certain sum of money for purifying
the tainted habitations of the poor. Their
method consists simply in washing the walls
OF the room with hot lime, which will rem
dar tho placo
In the villages of New England, the
Practice of white washing the walls and
ceiling of dwelling apartments is very COM
mon in cities less so. The walls of the
apartments of our more opulent citizens are
usually decorated with costly paper, or
something else, which would be spoiled by
white washing; and if they prefer decora-
tons to health, they must submit to the TN
wholesome annoyance of a contaminated
NEWSPAPER READING. Who would not
take newspaper Why it is worth more
than all the travelling from Cape Cod to
the Stony mountains, and from the Lake of
the Woods to Terre del Fuego. Seated in
your old fashioned arm chair, you can look
out upon the world as a mirror, and observe
the busy scene, passing in ever changing
review before your minds eye. A newspa-
per, friend, is the camera obScura that brings
the objects abroad within the narrow COM
pass of vision. What a world of articles
it contains All amusing, instructive, and
enightening.
Aside from trifing, gentle reader, let US
make ieod fsehestiaR Af s
in the course of year, from volume of
newspapers? Here is paper containing 16
columns OF reading matter per week, eX:lu-
slve of advertisements each column COM
prises, at least, as much as moderate pages
of volume. Here you have 80 pages per
week, and AGO per year, sufficient to form
a work of 8 large volumes, quite snug little
library, and all for a mere trif1e of 2 dol
lars. And then only think of the vast fund
of entertainment which you and your family
derive from it, how it adds to your conse-
quence among your neighbors. Friend A.
is a very intelligent man, (they will saw
and his children are all chips of the old
block; who knows but some of them NAV
6e fit to send to Congress at some time or
other? Think of this once and who would
not take paper, which costs no more than
one paper of tabacco, or glass of grog per
week.-.Neac Bruns,oick Times.
QUEER MISTAKE. We remember to
have heard an anecdote of gentleman,
who in riding through the deep and shady
Devonshire lanes, became entangled in the
intrcaces of their numberiess windings:
and not being able to obtain a sufficiently
wide view of the country to know where
abouts he was, trotted briskly on, in the con-
fdent hope that he should at length come
to some house whose inhabitants would d.
rect him, or to some more open spot, from
which he could take survey of the differ
ent roads, and observe whittier they led.
After proceeding a long time in this man
ner, he was surprised to find perfect uni
formity in the country through which he
passed, and to meet with no human being,
or come in sight of any habitation. He was,
however, encouraged by observing, as he
advanced, the prints of horses feet, which
indicated that he was in no uifrequented
track: these became continually more and
more numerous the farther he went, so as
to afford him a still increasing assurance of
his being in the immediate neighborhocd of
some great road or populous village; and
he accordingly paid the less anxious atten-
ton to the bearings of the country, from
being confident that he was in the right
way. But still he saw neither house nor
human creature and at length the recur-
renee of the same objects by the road side
opened his eyes TO the fact, that all this
time, misIed by the multitude of the turn
ings, he had been riding in acircle; and
that the foot marks, the sight of which Sc
cheered him. were those of his own horse
their number of course increasing with
every circuit he took.-Londoa Reriew.
ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION. Most Eng.
lish works of merit appear in Germany il
the original, or in translations. TO trans
late English prose is very easy to the Ger