The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-31
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DCSli1Ai VI w OAIEN-4NO SDCleIy Is more
Prohtable because none more refining and pro-
vocative OF virtue, than that of refined and SEN
slble women. God enshrined peculiar goodness
IN the form OF woman, that her beauty mi ht
via, her gentle voice invite, and the desire of
her favor persuade mems sterner souls IN leave
the paths OF sinful strife, for the WAYS Of plea
santness and peace. But when women falls
from her biest eminence, and rational enioy-
ments, into the vain coQuette, and hattered idol
ator of the idle fashion, she is unworthy of AN
honorable mans love, or sensible mans admi.
ration. Beauty is then, at best,
"a pretty plaything,
Dear deGeit"-
We honor the chivalrous Difference which IS
paid IN our land TO women. 1t proves that our
men know how to respect virtue and pure affec-
ton, and our women are worthy of such res
peet. fet women should be something more
than mere women, to win US into their society
10 be our companions, they should be fitted Ia
be our friends; to rule our hearts, they should be
deserving the appreciation of our minds. There
are many such, and that there are not more is
rather the fault Of our own sex than their own,
and, despite of all the unmanly scandals that
have been thrown upon them both in prose and
verse, they would rather share in the rational
conversation OF men of sense, than the silly
compliments oil fools; and man dshonors them
as well as disgraces himself, when he seeks their
NNASN ia AHAS diiu llOb hut improve
ment his mind.
WINE FROM RHUBARB.-Hunt's Merchants
Magazine states, on the authority of the Lon
don Journal of Commerce, that William Stone.
OF Bradford, Wiltshire, Eng has obtained a
patent for the manufacture OF wine from rhu-
barb.-The process is described as follows. In
the month of May, when the rhubard is green.
take the stalks OF the leaves in the following
proportions. Lett pounds of stalks be bTuis-
ed in a suitable vessel, to which add one gallon
Of spring water. After remaining in mash
three or four days, let the liquor be poured off:
and to every gallon OF this juice add three pounds
of loaf sugar, and allow the whole to foment for
four or five days in suitable vat. AS soon as
the fermentation in the vat ceases, draw the Ii
quor off into cask and allow it to remain un-
I'll the month of March, when all fermentation
will have entirely ceased. Then rack it off,and
add more lump sugar. In August second
crop OF rhubarb will be ready for use.
Of the quality Of the wine thus produced, we
have seen no mention made. The process, az
described above, is certainly very simple; and
the value of the discovery may therefore be
easily tested by experiment. We hope some
Of our agricultural friends will be induced TO try
it the next session, and report to us the result
for publication. The discovery may be one of
great value. As matter of curiosity, if for
nothing more, we should like to see il tested.
TEXAN LEoPARD.-We were shown few
/ days since the skin of Leopard which was
| killed near Bexar, some weeks since. The
animal 10 which this skin belonged must have
been about ten feet long from the tip OF the nose
to the end of the tail, and his body of proper
tional Dimensions. The skin is beautifull'
variagated with spots, upon yellowisll brow
and white ground. and so closely resembles tn
skin of an African Leopard, that il would b
difficult to distinguish it, iffound among sever
al skins ofthat animal. Many persons in tn
United States have doubted the statement
made by travellers that the Leopard exists il
Texas, but if they cosld visit Bexar and its vi
cinity, their skepicism would soon vanish. I
is said that great numbers of these Leopard
are found in the vicinity of the Nueces and th,
Rio Grande. Although they rival the African
| species in size and beauty of their skins, the,
are probably much less fierce and rapacious
as they have never been known TO attack man
their depredations have generally been confined
to the herds of deer that frequent ttose sec
tions.-Houston Telegraph.