Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-10-11

ENCHANTED MouNTANs-The following
account of a natural curiosity is from the !
Texas Telegraph:
This singular mountain or hill is situated |
on the head waters of the Salley-a small |
tributary of the Colorado, about eighty miles |
from Bastrop, in a north westerly direction. |
II is about three hundred feet high, and APP |
nears to be an enormous oval rock partly /
embedded in the earth. When the sun !
shines, the light is reflected from its polished |
surface as from an immense mirror, and the
whole mountain glows with such daZzling |
radiance, that the beholder who views it even
from the distance of four or five miles, is I'M |
able to gaze upon it without experiencing a
painful sensation, similar to that which is
felt when looking upon the rising sun. The
ascent Of this hill is SO very gradual, that per-
sons can easily walk up to the top; but the
rock is so smooth and slippery that those who
make the attempt arc compelled to wear mo-
cassins or stockings instead of shoes. This
act. together with the name of the place, Ho
ly Mountain, remind the viStant very tOrcI-
Div of the command made to Moses at Mount
Horeb "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet"
The Cumanches regard this hill with relig-
iuus veneration,and Indian pilgrims frequent
lv assemble from the remotest borders OF this
tribe, to perform their Panym rites upon its
summit.
CoRsErs,-When we breathe VIC take into
the chest or inhale, and give out, or expire
certain quantity of air, which can be mea-
sured BY breathing through curved tube
Into a l-glass full of water, inverted over
hc< of fTnftJnCC1s
has lately been performing some curious ex-
periments in relation to the quantity OF air
that is breathed. Now the commonest un-
Outstanding will appreciate from them the
comfort Of full and unrestrained breathing.
DR., Herbst says, that middle sized man, 20
wears old, after natural expiration or ennis
sion of air, inspired or took in 80 cubic in
ches, when dressed, and LOG when his tight
dress was loosened. After full dilation of
the chest, he inhaled 1875 cubic inches when
dressed, and 1856 when undressed. Another
Young man, aged 81, after natural expira-
ton, took in so while dressed, and So when
undressed. Had DR.. Herbst made his obser-
vations on some of the ladies, who carry the
use of corsets to extremes, we apprehend that
he would have obtained results of nature
really alarming. IF the wheel of Fashion,
which revolves even more rapidly than that
of Fortune itself, would but bring up some
thing oriental in costumes, it would go far
toward perfecting the public health.
At the Hotel -Dieu, the great hospital at
Paris, a young girl of 10, lately presented
herselfto M. Brescht for his advice. On the
right side of her throat she had tumor Of
variable size, but never bigger than ones
fist it reached from the collar-bone as high
as the thyroid cartilage. (called in common
language Adams apple) when pressed
downward it wholly disappears, but returns
as soon as the pressure is removed; it is in
dolent, soft, and elastic. 1t is observed to be
the largest when the chest is tightly laced in
corsets. In short, by placing the ear on it,
the murmur of respiration can be heard in
the tumor, which proves that protrusion of
the lungs has taken place; or, in other words,
that the poor girl had been laced SO tightly
that her lungs, having no longer sufficient
space ia their natural position, are squeezed
out of il, and are forcing their way up along
her neck.
IMPORTANT TO FARMERs.-Grant Thor
burn. in communication published in the
N. Y. Spectator, gives the following impor-
tant statement:
Some three years ago merchant in New
York, while emptying box of tea, observed
therein few grains of corn. Concluding
that corn from China must be something new
under our sun, he had them planted, and so
they grew and multiplied. Last spring re-
ceved from a worthy friend, a portion of
said corn-it's new variety-so gave it
the name of China's fall prolific, or tree corn;
as it strikes off in two, three, and frequently
four branches, in appearance like small
tree, and produces an ear at the head of each
branch, whereas the common corn shoots out
the ear from the side of the stalk; it grows
from eight to ten feet high, produces an
abundance of fodder, is large white flint
twelve row corn, with ears from ten TO four
teen inches long. counted six hundred and
sixty grains on one ear; it was planted on
the 10th of May, and had cars fit to boil on
the 10th of July. Its produce was much cur
tailed by the long drought, but notwithstand-
ing counted 2,l2O grains, the product OF
one stalk-being an increase of 2,OOO from
one. The button (Which is an excellent
corn) planted on the same day, on the same
field, and receiving the same quantity of ma
nure, cross ploughing and hoeing, did not
produce one half. The patch, about 200
hills, was examined by many. respectable
farmers, who all pronounced it something
new, and something superior. Ed.
The corn may be had Of q. z. Thorburn,
New York, and at the store of VIM. Thor
burn in Albany, price Is cents per ear the
nett profits to be given to some of the chart
table institutions in New York and Albany.
Now, if there is farmer between Maine and
the Rocky Mountains who would rather pay
IS cents for two gills of brandy, than to buy
oneear ofthis corn, which wil1plant 100 hills
II say,if there is such man, he ought to
be fed on nothing but supaun and buttermilk
as long as little soul and big carcass hang to-
the manner Of growth. may be seen at the
above stores"
The editor of the Spectator adds: ave
have examined some stalks Of the corn oil