The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-05

e lent IN our city, which it would puzzle Ga
len, or the Society of Physicians who con
: duct the Philadelphia Journal of Health. n
assign to its proper class in the catalopu,
OF nils that flesh is heir to-" We b9v,
, heard no name for it, except "this cold
and sometimes, "this shocking cold" Ey
cry second man you meet in the publi,
highway has either just emerged from hi,
chamber where he has been laid I'D week
with "this cold" or he is hurrving home t.
take an emetic and soak his feet in hot wa.
ter to cure him of "this cold" A LADY,
who is well and audacious enough to make
a few morning calls in such weather as we
are favored with, rings at door and asks
IT Miss A. is at home? The answer is. Yes
- x-she is too sick. to see her friends
hatis the matter? don't know. ma'am-
but believe it's this cold. If Won notice
the meeting Of two men on Change. len 10
one, ypu Will hear one or both comnlain ~
" this cold" The best preventive that we
know If against this or any other cold is 10
thrust your feet into cold water-wben Won
rise inthe morning. and give them smart
| rubbing with a crash towel. If notvith
standiig this precaution, YOU have caught
THIS eold," you must take hot bath before
going 70 bed, and drink any quantity less
IMAM agallon of hot herb drink, or wine
whey. N. B. Those who have NOT SION
ed the temperance rules, sometimes take
whiskey\ punch. But this we wouId not
recommend, lest some people should take
expedient.N Boston Courier.
NEaATIN GooDNEss. Some people
seem to plume themselves upon the notion
that they neNr did any harm. though every
body can testify that they never did any
good' so tarNs public evils can be cured
by letting then, alone, so far thew are ex-
ceiient reformeS An editor lately closed
Hatterlng Obituary by Boosting that the
deceased never md made an enemy during
his life. Anothefcditor remarked that IN
all probability he rever undertook to do any
goou IN the world, for no such person ever
iallGd OF making erhmies. There is some
ruin IN this. jenkins, the celebrated writ
ing MASTER used TO sly that if people even
Suspected a man OF Gying to do any good,
.ney would try to kill him. Perhaps in re-
Venge Tor the severity Of this testimony, that
peole raiiea Jenkins crazy. History is, alas,
700 mq 1GIl on the side ofJenkins in this mat
yer, whoever did any good, or attempted
any without bitter opposition from enemies,
ceiuneSs from friends, and secret hindrances
from protested supporters
never did any harm Never made any
enemies is this thy utmost claim most
worthy citizen The same may be said of
paroer's block, doll, wax image, cab
page head. Most worthy citizen! thou
Shait PC eTnoaimed'-GenauS Of Temperance.
THE MAGIc ONION, sometimes called the
Canada, sometimes the tree, or top onion.
This is singular plant, and deserves cult
walton, not only for its domestic use, but as
curiosity. All other plants raised in the
garden are oviparous, or in other words, re-
produce their species from seeds or eggs {;
but this aiene is viviparous, and brings forth
its young alive; in clusters of four or five,
around the parent stalk. These continue
10 enlarge, until their weight brings them
to the earth, where, if not prevented, thew
take root, and the maternal stalk now be-
comes useless, dries off, and the next sea-
son, these in their turn become parents, and
reproduce numerous progeny.
This species of onion iE raised with less
art than the other. If you would have them
in perfection, make your ground ready as
for the other kind; then stretch a line ten
inches froua the alley, and with a small hoe
make furrow two inches deep: in the bot
tom of this place the top bulbs, or infant
onions, five or six inches apart, with their
points or heads uppermost; then fill 10 the
drill with light earth, which should be press
ed down with the hand or broad hoe, This
done, remove the line back foot, and in
the same manner, plant as many as you
please. In setting out these bulbs, YOU
! should not place the large and small ones
promlscuously together, but separate the
large from the small, and plant them in diff
terent rows; for the largest will generally
become breeders this season, while the
small ones will enlarge, and swell into
beautiful onions fit for any use in the ktch-
en-. The magic onions intended for seed,
or breeders, should be two years old, and
the largest and the best of their kind
! They must on no account stand near the
other species of seed onions, or they will
degenerate, and mongrel race cnsue.
An account of very curious appearance
of the electrical fluid produced by raising
an Electrical Kite in the time of Thunder
Storm-by Loammi Baldwin:
MIR. Baldwin raised his Kite in July, 1771
at the approach of heavy thunder storm
which was attended with a violont wind
proper precautions being taken for that pur-
pose. The storm was attended with the
most piercing shafts of lightning, and the
kite had not been long elevated, before he
appeared surrounded with a medium of fire
/ winch presented itself to him wherever he
turned his eyes. Alarmed at this singular
phenomenon, he was about to discontinue
his operations, but feeling no bad effect;
from it except a little WEAKNESS in his limb:
and joints, he continued to raise his kite
whilst an incessant rafting attended the
spreading of the cloud, as if the heavens
We're rcn6ing asunder. All this time the
firing atmosphere was expending itself with
faint gentle Hastings which at length made
HIM draw in the kite, and retire to his owl
house, where he found his family greatly
surprized and reioiced to see him, as they
had seen him surrounded with the flame
aforementioned, and expected every mo
ment to see him fall sacrifice to the flame
Mr.. Is. does not attempt to account for this
singular appearance.
Ernit was so very scarce in the reign Of Hen
I hat r..