Litchfield enquirer., 1833-05-02

AFGeSs-1l you nave not dlTeduy uoue so, strip the dry bark from your fruit trees immediately, to promote theirgrowlh whilst the sap is running up, and thus greatly in- crease their product the old neglected or chards, with attention in this way, a little manure, &c. would produce double.- Whitewash your apple trees-wash the more favorite trees with soap suds-it will save them from attacks by worms, &c. Put cinders, bones and stones, about the roots of pear trees, by which they will be saved frcm blight, and greatly increasedin growth.
 Time would be well spent in more gen. eral culture of the Currant and Gooseber- ry. A little labor, manure and attention, by farmers and gardeners, or even by fe- male hands, would produce an abundance of these delicious fruits in every part of our country, which in their different varieties would continue d luxury for many weeks. The gooseberry, especially, would sell in our market towns at great profit. In Lan- caskire, England, near three hundred va ,rieties of the gooseberry are raised-some of them unspedkobty large, and ofthe finest flavor.
 
 bird, which visits the North of England and Scotland, in summer, and keeps up in the meadows its cry of fcrake, crake, is well known, but is not easily caught. 1t runs with great rapidty, and is 10th to take wing. When found it has the instinct, in common with some other animals, and es- pecially insects, to feign death. A gentle man had one brought him by his dog, it was dead to all appearance. As it lay on the ground he turned it over with his foot, he was convinced it was dead. Standing by, however, some time in silence, he saw it open an eye. He then took it up-its head fell-i,s legs hung loose, it appeared again totally dead. He then put it in his pocket, and before very long he felt it alive and struggling to escape. He took it out it was as lifeless as before. He then laid it again upon the ground and retired to some distance; in about five minutes it warily raised its head, looked round and decamped at full speed.
 Death by dn ElephaRt.-Mdle D'Jeck. the huge animal which has been so tre- quently exhibited in Liverpool, at the Theatre Boyal and Amphithoatro, has kill led one of her attendants. The French papers give the following account of this catastrophe :-On the 26lh, the two clc- phants lately seen at tho Cirque Olym- piaue, were exhibited at Pacaudiere, in the department ofthe Loire, in France.- ] Two Englishmen acted as leaders to these animals, and at night they marched them off to La Palisse, a small town, within four leagues of that village. The owner hav- ing observed in the eyes of one of these an. imals, named D'Jeck that it harbored some ill-humor against one of the leaders wh' had ill-treated it some days before, warn cd hin, of his fears, recommended him no 1 to accompany the caravan. This the ] leader did not attend to, but on the con. trary, affected to be more severe than usu- al against the beast. They had, however. scarcely travelled league, when the ele- plant stung by it's conductor, who wished to force it on, turned round, seized tho man with it's trunk, and lifted him off his horse, flung him several feet above its head. The unfortunate leader, having had his leg broken by the fall, was unable to escape, and the elephant laying hold of him sec ond time, threw him into aditch, and tram pied him under his feet. The infuriated animal then ran towards carman, who was journeying along the road, seized him and pitched him into field. The poor man fortunately came off with few slight bruises but his horses took fright, and would have probably added 10 tltc confusion had not the car upset in ditch along the road, where they were compelled to stop All these misforlunes would have been but the prelude to others, had not the horses of the Paris mail coach, which was passing at the moment, stopped in good time, and and the other leader at the risk of his life succeeded in calming and securing the el. ephant. The unfortunate EDglishman was conveyed to St. Martin d'Eucux, where he expired in few minutes.
 ] From kie Ne,o. Fork I'rareiier and Times. l STOLEN KISS.
 Or the Philosophy of MatrimOny.