Litchfield enquirer., 1837-03-02


 family. He seemed to take to me .ac ...J my spirits began 10 rise bu, accidentaliv ,. as Ielt the room, heard him sav t., ,s,s sister, say, aunt what can we do to :. muse the old gentleman 2 and thQt was a damper !! My disappointments were ma ny i; but to describe them in detail wonId be tedious. At balls found that nobody expected me to dance, unless indeed thero happened to be a lack of beaux, and then my good matHre' in standing up was re- marked, or some pert girl said, What! yoM figuring away!
 l was advised by all my family to marry. by all means the very thing I wished: but l never dreamed of proposing for any wo- man that was not young and crettv: ! did. propose for one that was decidedly both. aud was rejected. .
 '. And had spent the twenty best wears of my life. necessarily toili6p to nhfs;n 1 wealth, m order tbat l might return home to enjoy myself? and had returned at last only to discover that the time for en;ov. ment had passed away? So it would an. pear; but had committed one great error. and these little confessions of an elderly gentleman may prove warning to others who arc similarly situated. Let no one dream of beginning life at forty: were ' to start again at the age of nineteen. to play the same part, on the same staoe ', ofyouth must be enacted. and there ,he hss roine of my love story mus, be wooaJ ana won. If it be your lot to pass so manv years m foreign land, that land must be the scene ofyonr hopes and fears, your joys and sorrows, your loves, yder friendships, your associations. Foil and climate may thin the hair and tan the cheek. but the married man and the father is not expected to return unchanged-he has assumed a new character; while one who. like my- self. returns at the end of twenty years en garco" to dance quadrilles and look for wife will find, that, in his matrimonial re- searches, it behoves him not to be ever. particular. IT. HR l Surprising e6scts of Camphor on Tege- ta6Iss.-The stimulant effects of Camp6or upon the hsman and some other animal bodies, are well known; but those on ye- getaDies are not only new but astonishing in their nature. A piece of the woody stem of the tulip tree, with one flower and two leaves, taken out of a pot of water, containing several other flowers of the plant, all to appearance in the same state, was placed in eight ounces of water, which had been stirred up for sonrc time with one scruple of good camphor. In little while an unusually lively appearance became rec markable in the fewer in the Aampior: while the others, though they had the bene- tlt ot larger quantity of water, were sen- | slbly dropping. The two leaves first con- siderabiy elevated themselves upon the footstalks; the flower expanded more than in natural state; the stamina archives receded from the pistillum and the three leaves of the calix, or fower-cup, were remarkably reflected back, and grew ex- tremeiy rigid and elastic. The internal surface of the petals of tho flower perspir- ed considerably, though similar perspira- ton could not be perceived in the flowers of the same plant in the same room and | temperature.
 The camphorated plant continued in a very invigorated state for two whole days, after which it began to droop; but the leaves dropped and decaycd sooner than the flower. The other flowers and leaves of the tulip tree left in simple water did not thrive more than half as long as that in the water impregnated with campbor.- Notwithstanding these surprising effects, no odour of camphor could be traced in any part of fhe branch except what was im- lnersed in the fluid. This circumstance seems to render it probable that the cam phor was no, absorbed by the plant, but that it exerted its remarkable influence entirely through the solids to which it was immedi- ately applied. 'The appearance, however, was very striking, and might be compareds with the beneficial effects of opium on the human constitution.
 Several other experiments were made with camphor on plants, in all of which it was very evident that campkor operated as powerful and wholesome stimulant. A stalk of yellow iris, with one expanded flower, was taken out of vial of water, in which it had been placed moro than day. The flower had commenced dropping; but very few minutes after being put in a vi- al of the same size, containing few grains of camphor, it began to revive, and contin- ucd in vigorous state for many hours.-- As camphor is but very sparingly soluble in water, it is natural to conclude that the sti- mulant effects are produced by very small part of the quantity mingled with water.
 This discovery might induce us to mako experiments witIl camphor as a manure. if the expense of trying them on a scale suf- fciently large, were not excessive. Bat still we may apply the camphor in the manner before mentioned; and can that be termed useless purpose ! A few grains of camphor. acting as cordial, will revive