The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-02-16


like facts, but the above are sufficient to
convince the most incredulous. Far from
prohibiting the use of fruits, when the dys-
EMERY prevails, too many of them cannot be
eaten. The discretions of the police in
stead OF lnterdicting them should cause the
markets to be abundantly supplied with
them. This is a truth, which intelligent
persons no longer doubt Experience has
demonstrated it, and it is founded in rea-
son, since fruits remove all the causes of
dysentery.
SUNFLowER On. The American Farmer
recommends the culture of the Sunfower
for the sake of its oil, and states that the
cultivation Of the Sunfower differs in no
respect from that of corn, and the soil
adapted 10 the latter is proper for the form
er. The snnfower thrives in all our vari-
Gus climates. Under proper cultivation,
and with a medium soil, it yields from 60 to
20 bushels to the acre. The machinery
for crushing and expressing will cost about
$500. One bushel of the seed will yield
about quarts of cold, and one of hot press
ed oil.
"The uses to which this oil is adapted
are various. 1t is equal to olive oil for ia
BILE use, and superior in many respects to
sperm for lamps, while for paints and ma
chlnery it is we'll adapted to supersede the
oil now used in them. For burning in lamps,
the suntiower oil possesses an advantage
which has been an object of deep solicitude
ever since sperm oil came into use-it has
no perceptlble smell, hence sick persons
and others, to whom the smell of sperm oil
IN lamps is SO offensive, can use the sun
flower oil with perfect freedom. It's adj
vantages in this respect have been fully
tested in Philadelphia, where it is recon-
mended by some eminent physicians, and it
is in constant use by their patients. 1t
has another important advantage over
sperm oil-it affords about one third more
light, that is, sunfower will last one third
longer than sperm, both while burning af-
tording the same quantity Of light.
AS to market for the seed and the price
at present there is none ofeither. AT pres
ent Mr.. Barnitz, the intelligent inventor of
a new process Of crushing and expressing
the seed, recommends the producer to crush
the seed and express his own oil. There is
no doubt but oil mills will soon be establish
ell, at which the seed may be sold, for this
oil is too important an addition to our re-
sources TO be lost. Charles A. Barnitz of
York, PENN will give any information
that may be required.
The mass which remains after pressing
out the oil is useful he feed for hogs and
poultry. This plant gives out great quanti-
ties of oxygen or vital air, and it has been
cultivated in unwholesome places.
NJ
have some statistics Of our own. We
know town, in size about the third rate in
New England, where schoolmasterS re-
celve five dollars and half month, and
the el ergyman is dismissed because the
people are too poor to support him. This
generation OF paupers, gives an ample sup
port to two dancing schools, each of which
costs them directly and incidentally, a
thousand dollars. These thrifty people are
Of course too poor to paint their houses, or
replace glass broken in the windows, or
hinge on the doors: yet they have the abil-
ity to take several sleigh rides in winter,
at the expense of two dollars each, and to
call three times day at the tavern, at the
expense of six cents a time. 1t may be
said that this is but one town, and an ex-
| IRENE case; but perhaps the reader may
know many such towns, though it is hoped
| that he lives in better,
! How many towns in New England pay,
collectively, one thousand dollars to sup
port a tavern, that would not give fifty, to
! found Lyceum. Yet where would he got
the most instruction and rational amuse-
ment? Young men will pay FIVE dollars at
an assembly, sum that would, for year,
| a. 1Lo;r
tuition, that would not only advance them
selves in knowledge, but have an inressing
! bearing on the improvement Of all the
young in the community.
I Has not the reader, himself, honest man
MS he is, some times paid two dollars to ride
on the sabbath, though he now feels to poor
to give one to Lyceum, for course of in
tellectual pleasure and instruction.
This principle of ours is uniform and in
variable. Economy never stands in the
way of improvement, which is itself the
hest and most lasting thrift. There is nc
saving to be made in vice and ignorance
] 1t will save money, and character, ant
crime, and punishment and remorse, to adj
vance the moral and intellectual culture o
our nature. This is the way to make Vi
lords of the lower creation, rising in intel
ectual dominion and perfection towards
the Being who ordained it.
Journal Of Education.
| A BITE. Alfonso Lsmbardi, celebrate
sculptor of the Emperor Charles ", was grea
coxcomb. He got punished one day by youn
lady at Bologna, TO whom he took it into hi
head to make love in foppish manner Sh
was his partner at ball, in tho midst of whic
he turned to her and, heaving profound sigh
said, as he looked her in the face with what h
thought inefable sweetness in his eyes, anc
we may suppose, some infastic and within
gesture,
If It's not love feel, pray then what is it,
"Perhaps," said the young lady, " somethin
bites YOU" This story got abroad, and Alton
so became the jest ofthe city
The scholar, without good.brceding, is pc
daat; the philosopher cync; the soldier
brute and every man disugreeable
Chesterfield
A king once asked healthy looking peasar