The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1830-04-22

/ aW0y swearing ne WOuld employ Lawyer
Phillips to bring the matter before the
House of Lords.
KEEPSAKES.
! "Few things in this weary world are SO de-
! lightful as Keepsakes Nor do they ever, to
. my heart at least, nor TO my eye. lose their
! tender, their powerful charm! How slight,
how small, how tiny, memorial, saves be-
| loved one from oblivion-worn oR the finger,
/ or close to the heart! especially iithey be dead
| No though. is % insopportabie as that OF en-
tire, total, blank forgetfuncss-when the
creature that once laughed, and sang, and
wopt to us, closo to our side, or in our very
arms, is as ifher smiles her voice, her tears,
her kisses had mover been. She 81 them, all
swallowed up in tho dark nothingness OF the
dust,
! Ofall kecpsakcs, memorials, relicks,-most
dearly, most dcvoutly do love a little lock Of
har,.-snd oh! when tho head it beautiied has
| long moudorcd in the dust, how spiritual
seems tho undying glossiness OF tho sole re-
naming ringlet! All else gone to nothing
save and except that soft, smooth, FURNISHED
and glorious fragment of tho apparelling that
once hung in clouds and sunshine over an an-
gels brow Aye, lock Of hair is far better
than any pcture--it is part of the beloved
obiec, hcrsefit belonged TO tho tresses that Of
ten, long-lcng ago, may have all been sud
denly dshe yelled, like q shower of sunbeams,
over your beating breast! But now soiemn
thoughts sldden the beauty once SO bright SO
| rofulgunt: the longer you gaze on It, the more
and more ponsive grows tho expression OF the
holy relic--it seems to say, almost upbrald-
ingly. 'wcep's. thou 40 more for me-? and then
indeed, tear true to the imperishab affect.
bears witness, that the object towards which
| it yearncd is no more forgotten, now that she
has boen dead for SD many, many, long, wea
| ry days, months, years--than she was forgot.
| ten during one hour of absence, that came like
passing cloud between us and tho sunshine
! of her lving-her loving snilos!"
! eoe
Educate your Children tar{y-What is
the object OF Education? To form the
character. How is this TO be done? Not
| by lessons, but principally through the in
fluence OF example, and circumstances and
situation. How soon is The child to be ex-
posed to these inIiuences9 From the mo
ment 1t opens its eyes and feels the pres
sure Of its mothers bosom--irom that time
it becomes capable of noticing what passes
around it, and knowing the difference OF
ono thing from anolher.-So powerful are
the gradual and unnoticed influences of
these early months. that the infant, if in.
dulged or humored, may grow into petty
tyrant at ten months old, and iotle abou,
in two years, selfish, disc coniented, irrita.
BILE thing, that every one but the mother
turns from in disgust. During this period
every human being is making its first OBJ
servatlons, and requiring his first expert
ence; passes his early judgments, forms o
pinions, acquires habits. They may be
ngrained into their characters for life
Some right and some wrong notions may
take with firm hold, and some impressions
good or bad. may sink so deep as to be will
scarcely any force eradicated. There is nj
doubt that many Of these incurable crook
ednesses Of disposition which we attribute
, to nature would be found, if they could bt
traced, to have originated in the early cir
I cumstances Of life; just as a deformed o
stunted tree. not from any natural perver
, sity of seed, from which it sprung, but from
the circumstances of the soil and situation
3 under which it grew.-Jownot Of Edped
ton.
' Ripening Of Vine.-Dr. Lardner state
5 tha, discovery has been lately made, b.
which the melewness that age gives {
wine may be attained by very simple con
g tfivance. Semmering put four ounces O
red Rhcnish wine into tumbler in winter
s its mouth was covered with moist blad
der. and the ,umbler plsced-in the shade
In eighty one days, the wine was reduce,
2 one hall, was in a state Of perfect preser
: vation, and contained crystals Of tartar
b Its tas,e, although stronger, more spiri,
! uous, and more aromatic, was yet milder
J. more grateful, and more mellow than or
J dinary. II contained ono half more slco
hol, than similar wine. The bladder ha
permitted the evaporation ofwater but hs
prevented that Of the alcohol; hence III
strength Of tho wine and the deposition G
), the acid salts. S9mmering proposes ths
wine should be kept in bottles not corkeC
}, bu, tied over with soft bladder, in whic
state, il will in twelve months, become a
r mellow as in twelve years, in the casks
The shallower tie vessel and the wider II
mouth, the sooner will the effects be pre-
,, duced. We may thus attain in fe,
weeks the good effects Of many years,