Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-06-18
From the Southern Review, No. x1I. for May 1ssI.

From the Southern Review, No XII. for May, 1881.
 HaTPer's FGmity Librdry.-" Paradoxical as il may sound we do not know that any publications are more honorable to the age in which we live, us l showing Its decidedly intellectual character than the Family Library, and others of the same class- The collection just mentioned is series of masterly | compositions, upon various subjects, all of them highly interesting, many of them highly useful, ad- dressed expressly the popular taste fthe day. and calculated by the very low price at which they are sold, to be brought into unprecedented circulation. The American publishers deserve all praise for their
 In this important and beneficial enterprise It is an
 important and benehcent enterprise, ifthere one, to contribute so essentially to the diffusion of | useful knowledge, to the awakening of just taste in literature, to the maintenance of high standard Of morality, and finally to that grand and crowning result, the formation of what is the very life and soul of all our institutions, enlightened public opin- ion." p. 247.
 |" We have great faith in the Family Libraries ana stereotype editions. We have no doubt but that the number of those to whose happiness literature
 IS necessary, whose leisure moments saved by it from waste or vice. to be given to elegant recreations and phllosophic thought, is beyond all comparison greater now than it was even twenty, nay even ten years ago-that 1t has increased, is Increasing, and should, and will be multiplied, to an infinite extent and that no better me.ais can be employed for the furtherance of tb;s desirable object than those of which the publication before us is a favorable spe cimen.-24o.
 4 Market for Cocoons.-The editor of the Ameri- Farmer is authorized to say that any quantity of cocoons will be purchased the ensuing season, by gentleman who is preparing to erect flature in Baltimore. From forty to fifty cents'a pound will be given for them, according to :he quality. Particu-
 lar care should be taken in killing the crysals that
 the fibre of the be not injured by heat and that all the crysas be certainly killed. If the CO., coons be put into tin vessel, the cover closed per fecty, and the vessel be placed in kettle of boiling water for half an hour, the crysalis will be all killed fhoo Ill as the water will prevent the temperature rising | above the boiling point.
 | We have thought proper to give this notice, that those who have been deterred from raising silk worms ty the absence of market for cocoons, might be induced to commence. At forty cents n pound cocoons will be very profitable article. One person. with boy to assist during the last ten days | can attend to hundred thousand worms; which if well attended to-kept clean and well fed with white mulberry leaves, will produce 300 pounds of CO., coons, which will bring at the minimum price $l2O; and if really first quality which they will be by pro- per attention, they will bring $150-and the time occupied will not be over six weeks. What more | profitable employment can females pursue? The gentleman will give notice in future advertisement of the place at which the will be purchased | In the mean time the editor will take pleasure in giving all necessary information on the subject All
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 Conjugating Uerb-Dick Onod and9hi brother | the West of England; their father who was flour
 shng farmer, sent them to pick up little learning | at an expensive academy, in large town about 20 miles from the village where he lived. The master had but recently purchased the school from his pre- decessor and, stranger as he was to the dialect of that part of the country, he could scarcely under stand above half of what Dick and Giles Orrod, and a few more of his pupils, meant when they spoke. "I kno,ced, rinned and hut" were barbarisms to which his had never been accustomed; and it I k.1 fhnt
 ranslations into the rula tongue, of II knew, ran | I hit" But there were few rude of speech us Dick and Giles Orrod.
 Fraterna affection virtue that did not four
 sh in the bosoms of either of these young gentle | men. Dicks greatest enemy on earth was Giles and if honest Giles hated any human being except the master it was Dick. They were excellent spies on each others conduct Giles never missed an Op portunty of procuring Dick castigation; and Dick was equally active in making the master acquainted with every punishable peccadillo that his brother committed.
 One day an accusation was preferred against Mas ter Richard, by of the monitors, of having cut down small tree in the shrubbery but there was not sufficient evidence to bring the offence home to the supposed criminal.
 "Does no young gentleman happen to know any thing more of this matter 2" inquired the master. | Giles immediately walked from his seat, and ta- king place by the side of his brother, looked as though he had something relative to communicate. | "Well, sir" said the master, "what do you know about the tree 7''
 "If you blaze, sir" growled Giles, "ifEyou blaze, | sir, sawed un" 'Oh! you sawed un,' did your? "Iss did:-Dick seed saw un." "Is this true, master Richard?" "Iss said Dick; and Giles, much to his astonish- ment, was instantly fogged.
 At the termination of the ceremony, it occurred to the master to ask Giles how he had obtained the saw "About your saw, young gentleman" said he, "where do you get when you want one TT | Giles had some faint notions of grammar floating in his brain and thinking that the master meant the verb, and not the substantive, blundered out-"From see."
 "Sea!-so you go on board the vessels in the dark, do you out of school hours, and expend your pock etmoney in purchasing implements to cut down my shrubbery?"
 "Noa sir" said Giles, "I doant go aboard no ships nor cut noa shrubberies." "What srrah! did you not confess lt?" | "Noa sir; said sawed brother Dick cut down the tree and he seed sawed un, and a couldn't de- ny tl" | q didn't deny it." said Dick. "Then possibly you the real delinquent, after | all Master Richard" exclaimed tho master.
 Dick confessed that he was, but he hoped the mas ter would not beat him, after having fogged his bro | ther for the same offence: Tn his way he humby submitted that one punishment no matter who re- ceived -but especially it had been bestowed on one ofthe same family as the dellnquent-was to all | intents snd purposes, enough for one crime. | The master, however, did not coincide with Dick on this grave point, and the young gentleman was duly horsed. dAs for Master Giles" said the master as he laid down the birch "he merited fogging for his asto- nishing-his wilfu stupidity. If boys positively will not profit by my instructions, am bound, in duty to their parents to try the effect of castgation No man grieves more sincerely than do, at the neces- sy which exists for using the birch and in-