Litchfield enquirer., 1831-06-02

tony did nothing but weep and wiring her hands; Peggy, the maid, looked on will amazemcnt, not conceiving how it was possible for mortal man to get ready for 90 long journey in so short time. She nev- ] ertheIess acted herpart as we'll as she could. every now and then wiping her eye with the corner of her apron, for decency's sake. As for Juslus, he scratched all night long at the twin charges, separating them with as little remorsc as surgeon would the Si- arnese boys.
 The morning came, and the doctor was Preparing to go. sAh! my poor mistress she'll be widow,' said Peggy with sigh; as she went to the cistOrn to get some soft water to wash out few things preparatory to the funeral. The cistcrn, which had no curb' had been left open, and on letting down her bucket, Peggy preceived the old SOW, floating on her sides bloated like drowned creature, and dead as a herring.-- She dropped her bucker, and ran in, ex- claiming
 'The old SOW !Rihe old SOW P Whist whist r said Mrs. Phlebotomy; you'll disturb the doctor.'
 'The old SOW is in the cistern 7 said Peggy, louder than ever.
 How! what the devil!' exclaimed the dying doctor; as he started with sur- prising agility on his feet. 'Ths SOW ftl the cistern, did you say! You careless jade, what did you leave tire cistefti open for2 There's good ten dollars gone.'- He rushed out, half dressed, to explore the watery premises and there sure enough, he beheld the cause of all his alarm, tho drowned old saw.
 The doctor lived many years afterward, but he never fairly got over the story of the death warming: Mrs. Phlebotomy and the Minister did what they could do to keep the report from going abroad but the Squire, whenever the subject was broach- ed, put his finger mysteriously beside his nose, gave a knowing wink, and merely said-' Did ever tell you that storyv Never, 'Squire.'
 "Then wont,' he replied.
 Peggy was dismissed from the family; and therefore had good excuse for blab- bing. And Justus, the sly rogue, drought it too good story to sleep in silence in ihe' premises of his master.-M Y. COastelld!
 Mik PGns.-A writer in Poulson's Dai- ly Advertiser, has the following remarks On the properties of milk pans 4
 The pans used in this country are made either of tinnod iron, glazed earthen, or stone ware. Tin is perhaps less objec- tionable than any other species of metaly at least of all such as can be applied to this use but no metallic vessel whatever should be allowed tO enter the walls of a we'll regulated dairy. A tin pan becomes galvanic apparatus the moment an acids ulated auidis poured into it !; besides which; if the seams are closed with solder. pais- on is soon generated by the acid of the milk, and ifelosed by tapping, the cut edge exposes the iron to the same influence.- Timed vessels soon communitate disa- greeable taste, and even smell to water distilled water how unfit then for pre- serving such fluid as milk.
 The earthenware pans are generally glazed with lead, which renders tin vessels (improper and dirty as they are and musr bel very preferable indeed. Here then we have direct mineral poison (which, in the very smallest quantities produces sickness) lining the whole of that surface which is in immediate contact with the milk. I would as soon drink vinegar that had been boiled in a copper saucepan as to use butter or cream that has remained twelve hours in glazed earthen vesseE
 To the stone Vare, can see no possible objection; on the contrary,I am thofough- Ty convinced from theory, that it alone is the proper material for milk pans. Com sider it as you will, its superior fitness for this purpose is evident. The most highly concentrated acids have no effect upon it the chemists daily avail themselves of this capital substitute for glass, of which the fia- ces arc composed, an absolute *ifri6cation taking place during their baking by means of salt. Stone ware milk pans then are the proper ones, and shall hereafter con- clusively demonstrate that stone ware or glass is the only proper material for such vessels as are intended to preserve butter and a variety of objects wholesome in themselves, but rendered deleterious by being prepared or being allowed to remain in improper vessels"
 That quaint old moralist, Quarles. in his Enchiridion, gives us the following advice l: -Gaze not on beauty too much, lest ie blast thee nor too near, lest it burn thee i; if thou love it, 1t disturbs thee # thou Is'st after it, it destroys thee if virtue aecempaA ny it, it is the hearts paradise # vice as- es~:.1as Sr;th ;t ;s ie inc soulss nurgaGory