Litchfield enquirer., 1840-09-03
NECESSITY OF MENTAL CIJTT11RE

acOrnS There is not one ot tsthose 'acorns that does not carry within itself the germ'of a perfect oak, as lofty and wide.spreading | as the parent stock which does not enfold the rudiments of a tree and strike its roots in the soil, and lift its branches toward heaven, and brave the storm of a hundred winters- It needs for this but handful of soil, to re- ceive the acorn as it falls, a little moisture to nourish it, and protectiot from violence till the root is struck. 1t needs but these and these it does need and these it must have and for want of them, trifling as they seem, there IS not one out of thousand of those in- numerabfe acorns which is destined to be- come Atree. ... .l,,.-7 ... 5...,...
 Look abroad through the cities, the towns, the villages of our beloved country, and think of what materials their population, in many parts already dense, and every where rapidly growing, is, for tle most part, made up. lii not lifeless enginery, it is not ani- mated machines. it is not brute beasts, train- ed to subdue the earth it is rational intel ectual beings. There is not mind, of the hundred of thousands of our community, that is not capable ot making large progress in useful knowledge; and no one can pre- sume to tell or limit the number of those who are gifted with all the talent required for the noblest discoveries. They have naturally
 
 say i'll as high a degree, but who shall say in no degree ?--possessed by Newton. or Franklin or Fulton. It is but little which is wanted to awaken every one of these minds to the conscious possession and active exercise of its wonderful powers. But this little, generally speaking, is Indispensable How much more wonderful an instrument is an eye than U telescope! Providence has furnished this eye; but art must contribute the telescope, or the wonders of the heavens remain unnOticed. 1t is for want of the lit- tie. that human means must add to the won- derful capacity for improvement born ia man, that by far the greatest part of our in ieIlect, innate in our race, perishes undevel- oped and unknown. When an acorn falls in an unfavorable spot, and decays there, wo know the extent of the loss; it is that ot a tree, like the one from which it fell but when the intellect of rational being, for want of culture, is lost to the great ends for which it was created, it is loss which no one can measure, either for time or for eter- nity.--Ed,card Eperett. , .s .e... a. sn-55 .i Quality of 1lilk during the Process of MiA- ing.-Several large coffee cups having been successfully filled while milking from ono COW produced the following results. In eve- ry case the quantity of cream was found to increase in proportion as the process of milk ing advanced. In different COWS the propol- ton varied, but in the greater number the excess of cream in the last cup, as compared with the first was l6 to one but in some ca ses it was not so much; therefore, as an ave- to one. The h hs4qgSdered m IS ten or twelve two sorts of cream was no less striking; te tne cream given by the first drawn milk was thin, white, and without consistence, while that furnished by the last was thick, buttery, and of a rich color. The milk remaining in the different cups presented similar differen- ces; that which was drawn first was very poor. blue, and had the appearance of milk and water; thatin the last cup was of yell Jewish hue, rich, and to the eye and taste re- sembled cream rather than milk. It ap- pears, therefore, from these experiments, that tt, after drawing seven OF eight pints from a COW, half pint remains in the teats, not only almost as much cream, will be lost us the seven or eight pints will furnish, but of the best quality, and which give the richest taste and color to the butter. This fact has been corroborated by chemical experiments, and holds good with respect to goats and oth- CT animals.-Blacher's Essay of Farms.
 Cesr OF PAINr.-Sone years ago there lived in Berkshire county, Mass, two physi- clans of considerable skill and eminence.- One of them used no spurious liquor--the other drank freely, and while the one had ac- quireds considerable. property, the other re- mained poor Meeting each other one day, when the former was returning from a dis .tant town with richly painted and we'll made carriage, the latter accosted him :- Doctor =, how do you manage to ride in carriage painted in 50 costly u manner have been in practice as long and exten- sively as you. and charge as much. but | can't hardly live and drive the old one."-- :" The paint on my carriage" he replied, " didn't coss hGLf as much as the paint On yOtr tace." .1sa v; .ersa4 ssd 05y .-..0. .I 2 ...., J.rt-s1 !l.v sAs ra 5.s
 Eazy People--Thanks to Heaven and our ancestors, and to all others who had any part in making us what we are; thanks to them, one and all, that we were not born lazy. Laziness has been. the parent of all the sins that have been committed since the morning of the creation. Eve was in lazy fit, at the time Satan tempted her; if Adam had kept her busy, she would have kept out ofmischicf, and we should all have been as innocent and as,happy as young lambkins. If the antedeldvaIls had commenced buiid- ing arks when Noah preached to them, they might all have been saved; but they were too lazy to work, and sol they were drown- cd in the great aq uacious catastrophe. The reason the Egyptians refused to let the Is- raelites go, was because they were too lazy to make their own bricks, and wished to compel the Hebrews to do that work for them. The consequences are all known; they were plagued grievousiy, and alter wards drowned in the Red Sea. Lazy people, in our own days, are constantly plagued themselves, and are an everlasting and hka Sin