Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1832-10-04

soon TO quit ii; and Sally, being about to
be married, no doubt thought the FIVE
hundred would prove very convenient
She Is the kindest creature 3 Aunt Polly
would say; she comes and reads to me in
the long evenings, and waits upon me when
am sick. should be but poor lone
some body without hers And then Aunt
Polly would sigh, and grasp her handker-
| chief convulsively. II was an odd friend4
ship-but the heart must have something
10 Ioye-and Aunt Polly had neither cat,
dog, nor parrot. nv esa tsa44s Is. 4 sa..t,-
My occasional visits 20 the lone woman
grew less and less frequent--for her house
soon became infested with Sally's father
poor, vicious, imbecile, odious knave.--
Once when passed tho open window.
during the bright evenings of June, saw
Aunt Polly's wicker-backed chairs ia unu-
sually close companionship nearer oh
servaiion convinced me that old Merriam
sat beside her, with her long bird fingers
clasped in his--'twas picture for Hogath,
Though somewhat too disgusting even for
his coarse pencil.
/ had always made il rule not to inter-
fere with Cupid's joint stock companies
but now ] felt it a duty to warn the simple,
honest creature, against the deception
which Sally and her lover were evidently
practising upon her, for tho sake Of getting
rid of troublesome parent. went for
this purpose, and found MIR. Merriam
there--evidently much intoxicated. When
ne had gone, 1 demonstrated earnestly
with Aunt Polly, and asked her if she had
not just seen before her own eyes, proof
of the mans bad habits. %s
90 dear2' said Aunt Polly, syou are
entirely mistaken about that--it is all ow-
ing to sort Of fits he is troubled with
Sally says he has had them ever since she
can remember
Umph!' said /, II have no doubt Of
that. But is it possible, Aunt Polly, that
you are going to be greater fool than Bet
ty Farnsworthi' Aunt Polly covered her
face with her handkerchief, and sobbed
out, Mr.. Merriam is such good-hearted
n,an-and he is so fond of me-and then it
is--it is msy first lore I! and il is hard for
any body to conquer, you know T.
turned away in pity. A week after,
Aunt Polly was married, and travelled off
with Mr. Merriam, to spend her FIVE hun-s
dred dollars in Ohio. = Well, said 4, II
would as soon have thought Of bed Of
oysters taking the fever Of emigration, and
marching OF to people the shores Of tho
Pacific; but, after all, it must be confessed
that there is a great dea! Of human nature
! ia woman sg5. seasf says
Hypocondria Cured.-The wife Of a
respectable farmer having suffered much
| from this disease, fancied that she should
die, and often assembled her friends a.
round her to witness.her closing scene.
convinced that she labored under disease
Of the mind, and advised her husband to.
i favor her belief abpu. dying. Not longaf-
forwards she was again attacked with her
old disease, and posted off a boy to the
corn-licld for her husband to come and see
her die. The husband hastcned to her
4 bedside, where he found her apparently
in the last stage of life. She informed
him that in one hour her soul would wing
its way 10 the mansions above, and before
hcr death she wished to know what he
would do with the children when her care
of them should be at an end. Al thought
struck him to try the power Of vexation
he told her therefore, with great apparent
seriousness, TINT his thoughts had been very.
anxiously employed on The subject; but al
length he came to resolution, for the sake
of the dear innocents, which he trusted
would set her mind at rest oniheir account;
in short, he had resolved as soon after her
death ms dccency would permit, TO marcy
Molly Brown, Gan old maid 10 whom she
had peculiar dislike.) This was TOO
much-the good mother Instantly jumped
| up, aud swore Molly Brownsshould never
be stop mother 70 her childFen. eom-,
plete cure took place, and Thu Image Of
Molly Brown never fails 70 check the
least symptoms ofrclapse.
4 Philosophy Of Heat Why is baked
potatoe hotter than boiled one D. This
query in our younger days was poser, not
only TO ourselves, but 10 our seniors, at
least those whose gravity we presnme
would not be offended by tho simplicity of
tho question. Having now assumed the
toga, we hasten for the benefit of at least
some of our Juniors, to explain tho cause.
Water in an open metallic vessel. cannot
be heated beyond 2l2 Of Fahrenheit, as
|any degree Of heat above converts the Gu-
| "a into vapor, and this IS formed more or
less rapidly in proportion To The Degree of