Litchfield enquirer., 1836-03-03

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 ] FRUIT. Why are some fruits improved in sweet ness by drying or half withering on the trees?
 Because their watery parts thus exhaIe, and the sugar is increased in. quantity.
 Why should grapes hang on the vine un- til they are perfectly ripe 1?
 Because unripe punches never get any r'Per after they are gathered.
 Why should grapes be eaten soon after they are gathered?
 Because, unlike other fruits, grapes do not. improve in flavor after gathering.
 Why should the crowns be removed from ripe apples
 Because, when suffered to remain, they live upon the fruit until they have sucked out all the goodness.
 1 Why does an apple when first cut ap- pear white, and after time brownish?
 Because fermentation arises from tho rest of the fruit absorbing the oxygen of the atmosphere ,: the apple having previ- ously been, by its tough skin, protected from the contact of the air.-Donovam.
 Why are certain apples called russet- ings?
 Because of their russct or reddish brown color.
 Why should raspberries be eaten from the bush [.
 Because their flavor is the most Aeeting of all fruit. Even few hours will dimin- ish it, and on the bush the flavor does not continue above two or three days after the fruit is ripe. Ifkept for two or three days when first gathered, the flavor is almost entirely gone.
 Why are chesnnts best preserved thro' winter in sand 2,
 Because if there be any maggots in the chesnuts, they will come out and work up through the sand to get air..
 Why is fern preferable to straw for the bed between the layers of fruit ]?
 Because it does not impart that musty flavor which is so often produced by straw Why are the autumnal fruits, as plums. pears, &zc. more crude and indigestible than those of summar?'
 Because, in part, of the state of the con- stitution. Thus, at the commencement of summer the system is more nerved and braced by the atmosphere of winter and spring, and by the dryer food which ne- cessiiy obliges US to take at those seasons, so that the cooling fiui,s of summer are wholesome for the opening of the bowels, &c. But it is not wonderful that con- tinuance of watery and innulritious food, | c..,:x ~k~ debility in constitutions partly predisposed to it, by the continual and relaxing heat of the summer months..
 Knosclrdgs for Me People. 71e Drunkard's Son. Mother this bread is uery hard-why don't we have cake and nice things, as we used to when we lived in the great house2 oh. that was such pretty house, Mamma-and I do love to live there so; you made sweet mu- sic there, Mamma, with your fingers, when Pa would sing Pa used to laugh then, and take me on his knee, and said ,D0s his o,Or dear boy. What makes Pa sick, Maj l wish he wasn't Sick-for it makes me 'fraid when he stamps on the floor, and says SO fond, George, go of to bed. Say, when will he get we'll and take me on his knee, and love me, as he used toG But Ma, there is tear in your eye; let me wipe it; there another comes 1; oh-another did make you cry these tears, Mamma?
 Hush, little innocent, you cannot stop your Mothers tears, for they are the very overfowings of a fountain, filled with blighled hopes, anguish and misery. She cannot tell you 'when your Father will love you,' for alas he is drunkard. | heard beautiful boy scarcely four years old, Iisping this to his mother {; and I pitied him from my inmost soul. His name was George Elwyn. His father was once rich and happy, and nearly idolized his little son but in an evil hour, he be- gan to sip the intoxicating cup the habit had grown upon him. until the peace of his family was destroyed and he tyrant. The beautiful house, in which they had lived. was now exchanged for miserable cottage, in the suburb of the city, and little George doomed to be the companion of the indolent and vicious. Quaker's Sermon. Verify, this Weath- CT trie,h our patience and testeth our phi. losophy. We like it not, for it liketh not us. It taketh us by the toes and pincheth them. It taketh US by the nose and dis figures it, making it incarnaxine. It tak- eth US by the fingers and crampeth them. It takerh us by the heels. and verify irri. tateth them with chilblains. Yet we 6nd