The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-02-10
From the GALAXY and Boston Mercury.
FOR THE YEAR 1890

PREDICTIONS FOR THE YEAR 1880.
The year 1880 will be very eventful one
to every old maid who gets married.
Throughout the whole course of the year
whenever the moon wanes the night will
grow dark.
Those who have debts to paw. and no
cash, will lose their credit.
1t is probable that if there is no business
DONG, people will complain of hard times,
but it is certain that those that hang them
serves VIII escape starving to death. ANY
man who spends faster than he earns will
not be richer at the end of the year than he
was at the beginning, which is more certain
stlil. lie that bites off his own nose or
turns politician, will act like fool, and that
Is the most certain of all.
If bishop sleeves go out of fashion there
Will be more elbow room among the ladies'.
Ii toques follow, we may perhaps see over
their heads. If either of them should be
talked of there will be much ado about
nothing.
If dandies wear their boards there will
be less work for the BARRIERS. He who
wears mustachios VIII fove something Re
sneeze at. He who does either will LOOK fihe
ruffian, and we pray all such to keep Out
of our sight.
He who marries this year will run a great
risk-that is, if he does it in hurry. He
who steals match will make tattlers Cos
sip and get himself into a scrape.
He that is pennyless this year will not
grieve much at the fall of stocks. He who
grows old without growing wise, will be a
long time coming to years of discretion.
He who wants to borrow money will know
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dull jokes, or hunts for a cat with three
legs, or becomes a candidate for office, will
rival honest Dogberry, and be content to
"wrte himself an ass.''
Whoever is in love this year will think
his mistress an angel. Whoever gets mar
red, will find out whether it be true.
If any young lady should happen to blush,
or basic a turkey this year, she will look
red in the face. If she dreams of young
man three nights in succession, it will be a
sign of something. If she dream of him
four times, or have the toothache, it is ten
to one that she is a long time getting either
of them out of her head.
1t a man builds house this year without
counting the cost, he will know more at the
end of his undertaking than at the begin
ming.
If any one jumps overheard without know
ing how to swim, it is ten to one that he
gets drowned. If any one lends an UNI
brella, it is ten to one that he is obliged to
60 home in the rain for his pains.
Whoever runs in debt this year will be
dunned. Whoever hires money out of the
bank will be in no hurry to see the last day
of grace. Whoever is out at the elbows
will think of tailor. Whoever is high up
on the score and lew in the pocket, will
think of deputy sheriff.
! Whoever makes the discovery that the
world is given to lying, will do what Jack
Falstaff has done before him.
Many an old sinner will resolve to turn
over new leaf this year, but the new leaf
will turn out blank. Many fond fool
will jump into honey pot, and find it mus
tard-without being able to say with the
fly, "I'm off"
Finally, we are of opinion that this will
be wonderful year,-just like all that have
gone before it. Politicians will make fools
of themselves, pettifoggers will make fools
of others, and ladies with pretty faces will
make fools of both themselves and others.
The world will 60 round and come back to
| the place from which it set out, and this
will be the course of many a man who
should be up and doing. There will be a
great cry and little WOOL as at a shearing
of pigs or a session of Congress.
! Mich Cows KEPT BY ANTS. The ants
keep and feed certain other insects, from
which they extract a sweet nutritious
! liquid, in the same manner as we Obtain
milk from cows. There are two species Of
insects from which the ant tribe abstract
this juice-the aphides, or plant-lice, and
| the gall insect. Linneus, and after hin
other naturalists, have called the insects
mich cattle of the ants; and the term is
not inapplicable. In the proper season.
any person who may choose to be at the
pains of watching their proceedings NAV
see, as Linn@us says, the ants ascending
trees that they may milk their cows, the
aphde. The substance which is here call
ed milk is a saccharine fluid, which these
insects secrete; it is scarcely inferior tc
honey in sweetness, and issues in limpid
drops from the body of the insect by two
little tubes, placed one on each side, Just
above the abdomen. The aphides insert
their suckers into the tender bark of a
tree, and employ themselves without inter-
mission in absorbing its sap, which having
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[ insect, is discharged by the organs Just de-
scribed. When 10 ants happen to be al
hand to receive the treasure, the insects
eject it 10 a distance by jerking motion
which at regular intervals they give their
bodies. When the ants, however, are in
attendance they carefully watch the ennis
sion of this precious fluid, and Immediately
suck it down. The ants not only consume
this fluid when voluntarily elected by the
aphides, but what is still more surprising
they know how to make them yield it al
pleasure, or in other terms to milk them
On this occasion the antenne of the ants
discharge the same functions as the fingers
of mik-maid; with these organs, moved
very rapidly, they pat the abdomen of an
aphis, first on one side then on the other
a little drop of the much-covetcd juice i'm
medately issues forth, which the ant carer