Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-05-08

question often arises from the frequent rep
attion of this cause, by preacher whose n
health is not firm, and whose constitution
is not vigorous. Yours, truly, Up
April IS, 80. z.B.WooDwARD I
The SwALLow.-The swallow is one !
of my favorite birds, and rival of the
Tor he cheers my sense OF .
hearing, He is the glad prophet of the
year-the harbinger ofthe best season; he
lives life OF enjoyment amongst the love
lest forms Of nature Winter is unknown
to him; and he leaves the green mead
ows of England in autumn, for the myrtle
and orange groves of Italy; and for the
palms Of Africa. He has always objects
ofpursuit, and his success is secure. Even
the beings selected for his prey are poet-
cal, beautiful and transient. The ephem-
era are saved by his means from a slow
and lingering death in the evening, and
killed in moment, when they have known
nothing of life but pleasure. He is the
constant destroyer of insects-the friend
Of man; and with the stork and the ibis, !
may be regarded a sacred bird HIS in
sinct, which gives him his appointed sea.
son, and teaches him always when and |
where to move, may be regarded as flow
ing from a Divine Source, and he belongs
to the Oracles of Nature, which speak |
the awful and Ineligible language of
present Deity.
COOLEST OF CLIMATEs.-The earth |
has no spot upon its surface, either ha-
bitual or otherwise, which is so cold as
Yakus,k, paltry yet principal town of
Eastern Siberia, where a few wooden
houses are intermixed with numerous
huts plastered over with COW dung, and
Widowed with ice In this drearv and
remote region the earth is always frozen,
the summers thaW never reached below
three feet from the surface, the subterra-
mean ice having a computed depth of 200
yards. In January the thermometer has
been known to sink 10 degrees below the
bitterest cold experienced by Ross during
ants, favored by warm though short
summer, reap both wheat and barley, and
cultivate successfully potatoes and various
other hardy vegetables
Mr.. Hennessy, the inventor of the elastic
life boat, has addressed letter to the ed
E litor of the Liverpool Mercury in which
he shows the great superiority OF cables,
fabricated of elastic materials, over those
of different character, especially in rid
ing out heavy gale of wind. The fol-
{ lowing is an extract from the letter:
"Many years ago, was mate ola ship
of $50 tons. We were lying in Gibraltar
Roads, with thirteen inch hemp cable
and best bower and anchor down; the
morning was fine, the master and chief
part of the crew went On shore for water,
&C., and before they were ready it came
on to blow SO hard, that they could not
return to the ship. had what seamen call
E the long service out; but as the gale was
still increasing, l gave cable TO the end
= cenched TO the foremost. | had on board
a nine inch bass cable of 1870 fatholns, new
, err wet, which bent in place of a hemp
cable TO the second bower This bass is a
kind of grass very cheap in Portugal, cal
f led "spartha," in the language that coun-
try. We ran up the fore staysaiI-cave
the shipa broad sheer. & let 60 the grass ca
+ bic under foot. The gale increased to lem.
q pest-such as never saw before nor since
{. although in ballast, riding head to wind
Q and havihga very quick sheer shaft, we
t had to fix the dead lights or she would
q have filled through the cabin windows
# riding by the hemp cable.
!. AT twelve, at night, the bower burst,
; the ship brought up the grass cable, and
although the wind and sea increased, she
II never pitched even her transom in, but rode
il like duck for tWenty-four hours during
o the gale There were twenty-five sail
p mostly fine ships, In the Roads at the time
. all of which went on shore bat the one
j. belonged to, and two small craft that hac
> grass cables. So much for elasticity
~ EMBALMING.-A fluid has been dis
II covered, in London, says the Nantucke
;, - Inquirer, whereby the bodies of dead ami
: mails may be preserved Cor great length
'9 : of time, IN all the perfection of which ma
= ture, deprived Of vitality, is susceptible
= Several specimens oflarge birds, preserv
" ed by this process, were recently exhibit
y ed before q medical society in London
!. which excited great admiration. Tn.
= body OF man was also submitted to in
r. spection several months after death-th
=, flesh of which retained its natural softnes
! and elasticity, and exhaied no disagreed
- bic effluvia. The discovery is thought Il
- promise much advantage to the cause 0
H. anatomical science.
n HoRRID CRUELTY.-The following
from a private letter which appeared
Sc. few weeks since in the Philanthropist.-
I'd The writer describes what, took place il