Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-07-11
Abstain rom undressed food Of every descrip

ton.
All cold drinks, taken when person is heated
are at all times dangerous. The water used al
a beverage ought to be clear. Filtered water is
better than any other. Instead of drinking il
pure, it would be better TO mix it with two tea
spoonfuls of brandy or dbsinthe to pint. Wa
ter lightly mixed with wine is equally good.
The excessive use of strong liquors is very
pernicious, and taking unmiXed brandy when
fasting is equally so. Persons who have con
tracted the habit of doing should at least first
eat a piece of bread The same objections apply
to drinking white wine fasting
All beer and cider OF bad quality ought to be
avoided.
Every person who feels himself suddenly Ell
tected by dull pains in the limbs, heaviness OF
glddiness of the head, feeling Of oppression,
uneasiness of The chest, heartburn, choic, should
immediate} apply to a ply stefan, or the next
Bureau de Secours.
Persons thus effected should Immediately go
to bed, and take, quite hot, an infusion otpepper-
mint and flowers of the lime tree, and heat himself
by every possible means.
Prepared choioric solutions being universally
useful precaution against
infection of any kind, it may be desirable to
give the following recipe for making them.
Take one ounce of dry chlorate of lime, and
one quart of water; pour sufficient quantity on
the powder to make it into paste, and then dllute
it with the remainder; strain off the solution,
and keep it in glass earthern vessels well stop
ped. A portion OF this solution should be poured
into a shallow bowl, and placed In every room in
the house
The chlorate of soda is near us good; ii is to
be used in the same manner, in the proportion of
an ounce of chlorate t. 10 or II ounces of water.
Mo- all Snsoke-At the cluse of the late war.
that yeritaole old iabrick, the Park Aims House
needed some considerable repairs upon the roof
and person was employed to examine it and
report. Having ascended to the caves, looking
along in the cornice, he discovered a bill for rs
cents which he picked up and found to be ''genu-
ne;1 we perhaps need not inform the reader thai,
he only money afioat at that period, was in paper
ssusd by JACOB Barker; in passing over the roo,
ne tound number more OF various denomina-
iors; in fact, so numerously were they scattered
looUt him, that the duty he was sent to perform
,ecame altogether secondary consideration.
A. last, having disencumbered the scene Of his
'esearches OF this unnecessary litter, he descended
Utterly Dewiidered at his good fortune, and as I'm.
,nle to solve the mystery, as we are to credit the
Arabian tale Of the 'goden egg," bat so it was
10 dream-he was certainly awake, and veril,
1eld bundle of the "tan5l " in his hand.
The mex day himself and another were depued
% commence operations in the repairing. o.
reaching the summit, 10! another edition of the
same work, though not SO abundant as the dav
thought the place enchanted, but
nevertheless they gathered up and divided tn
uck, and went to work in the course OF the dav|
he marvel was unraveiled; and one of them hap
,ened to cast his eye the top ofthe chimney :,
Jaw one Of the ''iight vaiuables" making its best
way outof the hue. presently depositing itselfquie
y before him; alter that, one eye was kept on The
chimney, and perhaps another on their work.
A short time after this, it became necessary toI
expedite the job, more hands were sent to help it
IN and ofcourse to share the ''wind fall" During
he greater part of the progress of the business,
he mutual contract was inviolate, and the work
men continued togrow rich upon the roof, until
me of their number, moved by the hopes of a
,reat reward, betrayed to the committees, appoln-
ed by the corporation to call in those bills, that
IS fast as they were redeemed and thrown into
he CRATE to be consumed, they instantly flew up
nd out of the chimney Franklin Advertiser.
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