Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-03-24
CAUTIONS TO MOTHERS.

your infants. especially round the DO =
dy, Tor fear If producing fits, obstruc-
tons IN the bowels, or slow decay.
Avoid giving them Godfrev's Cor.
dial, DaiTy's Elixir. Dalby's Carmina-
tive. Bsteman's Drops, or anv other
warm anodyne, for fear of producing
Its, fever. or palsy, common cunse-
quenee OF quack medicines indiserert-
~ given.
Avoid giving them any quaek medi.
cine. for fear Of bringing ON decline or
sadden death. IL Journal Of Health.
The vanity of young men, in loving
fine clothes and new fashions, and va
lung themselves BY them. j. one of
the most childish pieces Of folly that
can be. and the occasion Of great pro-
tuscacss and undoing of young men.
Avoid curiosity and too much expen-
slvencss in your apparel be comeiy,
plain, decent. Clearly, not curious nor
costly ID is the sign of u weak head.
piece, TO be sick for every new fashion.
or Ia think himself the better in il. or
the worse without il.
Sir Matthew Hale.
Fearing Of .2ppie Trecs.-A horti-
cuiturist IN Bohemia has a beautiful
plantation Of the best sort of suple
trees, which have neither sprung from
seeds nor grating. His plan is TO take
shoots from the choicest sorts, insert
each OF them into potato. and plunge
both into the ground, leaving but an
inch or two OF the shoot above the sur
face. The potato nourishes the shoot
whilst II pushes out roots, and the
shoot gradually springs Up. and be-
comes beautiful tree. bearing the best
OF fruit. without requiring tn be grated.
Puzsiing.-Ne have often been
amused with the whimsical superscrip.
tons of letters that occasionally find
their way from our national mail bags
INTO the public papers. but none has
come under our observation so enigma.
teal as that upon letter shown 10 US
the other day at our post Office. TWAS
literally this :-"1'O q widow woman
that keeps tavern in the State Of Ohio.
10 any Postmaster IN the State Of o.
hio. please forward this letter a. fast as
possible" What will be the fate of
the despatch thus labelled. Ohio Post.
masters alone can determine.
Bn6dio Journal
Not Tar dis;antfrom our good village,
there lives man. whose spouse one
day got in pet. and refused TO speak
for eight or ten days, mo cayillinc, old
bachelors. she actually held her tongue
all the aforesaid time y Well, the
husband. poor fellow. although her 81
lence sometimes used 30 be most dc
voutly wished for, wished to hear again
the clapper Of. that little bell that some
times made his ears tingIe but she
was memorable. At last he hit anon
an e1pedient that brought her to hes
speech again. She was very neat and
tidy abuut her furniture and APPAREL
lie stepped into another room. opened
a bureau, and commenced throw itg the
contents OF tie floor. She came m
when be had nearly completed hi,
work Of tumbling out silks. laccs. hand
kcrChiefs, &c. and. without thinking.
screamed out, Mercy! what IN ill.,.
world are you doing - "Noihing-
only looking fsr my wifc's tongue.
which have found in The bottom of
liese drawers"
Satanic Interruption n n Rotbery.-
\ few nights ago. some burglars enter.
eel barn 10 the nrishbnrhood OF stroud.
snd began helping themselves TO some
sacks Of oosn. They found tie sack,
too clumsy 90 remove with ease. and
wished the devil might take the corn
Tor beiug ~ very heavy. At that NO.
fneni. chimney sweep, huu tie Tar
tncr had SLOWED 10 sleep in tic straw,
made hIs appearance and the Sillain,.
hin. by the light of Their
lantern. TO be the arch fsnd they had
in.t invoked. fed with All the precipi
tatiou she most unfeigned 'efrns could
inspIc. - Cheifmhe..t CiToHdcie.
ffrMp Or0iOTg. - There - much
originality aud quaintness of express.
SION IN tie following extract from g
siump spcech Of candidate for tie
legi-laturr ~ one Of tie wcstefn states
- BERN" said BE-, in q cane break,
GRABBED in zap though, my real co.
Independence has groau TO n,atariig.
~l'host being ehVked By the weeds u
educauOu.
Sir Walter Scott j, reported ~ be
engaged on a Romano. 81 Wiieh tie lc.
90 - the good Sir James Douglass, 2
oh0 bore tie Btace's hca,t 20 spun