Litchfield enquirer., 1843-08-03

January-Jacinth or Garnet,-signifyiS cOnstan- cy in every engagement 4"
 FsbruGry- y-Ameihysts--preserves moTAls from strong passions and ensures peace ot mind.
 Mdrch-B -BlOodStone, ,--couTsge and secIccy in dan' gerous enterprises. -s~r "'~ -
 April-sapphire or DiamOnd.-sepentdnceend in- nocence.
 MGy-Emerald, successful love. :i:
 Jwne-Agates-Iong life and health. 's'.-ay~
 July-Ruby or Cornelian,-,he ioEgetfnlness or of those foles arising from friendship low.
 August-SardOnix.-c -conjugal felicity. - ~
 September hrysolte,-preecrvcs from or cures folly ssqs... ..re..ss,. .~...
 0ctober-Aqua- Marine or Opal, al,-misfottuns and hope. %f., ..,,
 Nouember-Topaz,- fidelity and friendship. raat December--T Turquoise or Maakite,-denotes the most brilliant success in every undertaking.
 Cato tcensorous) said that he repented of three things only during his life to have gone by when he could go by land, to have passed day nacive, and to have told secret to his wife. g :' -
 Dr. Johnson said, that Scochinan must be sturdy moralist who did not love Scotland better than truth
 RerolufiOns of Liff-lndigence and osscnriry the parents of vigence and economy; visilence and economy of riches and honesty; riches and honesy pride and luxury; prite and luxry ofimpunity and dlencss; impuni.y and ideness of indulgence and ob. security. Snch are the revolutions of human life.
 Time and l, says the Spanish proverb, against any tw0.. - . ... ?. .'
 What has, life to shew us but the glass door of heaIen 2 Through this we see the highest. beauty and the highest bliss but it IS not yet open.
 A man never portrays his own character better than blythe way and manner in which he por,rays the character of another.
 By heaven upon the same man. as upon vine- planted mount, there grow more kinds of wine than one :; the south side something little worse than nectar on the north side something little better than vinegar. '.'.. 2, ,-' E .s>@
 Clever are often infdels; aeen of high gen. jus are generally believers. .| s~.'.'
 All men are better than their ebulitions of evil but they are also chan their oubdrsts of noble enthusiasm: '' '.. f+1 -N*+ ''
 Man upon earth vanity and ashes and smoke, did he feel that he was 500 God hiseeling is our immortality :' '-; ''
 Noman ought to be privileged to laugh a, mankind but he who kvesthem rightheartily.
 To revisit the scenes of our youth is to commune with the ghosts of ourselves.
 
 the precious and sprituous essences, witch diffuse delicious fragrance and die away into air, love it's nature peSishahle.
 The Persans lay their dead north and south the Megariansand Phnnic;a placed their heads to ths east; the Athenians some think, towards the west, and Beda Wih have it to be the ros of Savior. IT Russians bury in upright, and some bal barOus nations in sitting posture. Some tribe of sou ern Indians think the uchees' l'ce the dead bodies of their friends on lone platforms built among ,rees. and, like the ancient Sythians, leave them m offering to the eenlents. In the catncombs below the church. of the Capuchins at Palermo the dead stand in nches tricked out r gay fnery and crowned win ga-an''s of long wthcred Aowsss. Beneath Roslyn Castle it ancient baraEE le. in armour, uncorrupted; and der the church of Bolton Priory, in Yorkshire,
 -"face by face m l hand by hand
 The Claphams and Maueverers stand" The dispos l of the body after life fl i fever has ever been among all naons solemn ceremonal.- By many rude people the objects valued beloved in Efe were eensuAedFn the funeral pyre Taid in the grave with the dead; the wife, the familiar slaves, the av0re horse, and the weapons of war. atts sed by sad destruction and common sepuu ure alike the awful reverence of the living and the ghas,y power of the dead. Among more civilized nations, the passing bell the congregation of friends, the religious rites, the weeds of mourning and all the pomp and cercmo ny of sepalchrnf show but other exhibitions ofths same mehnch ly power of deah Why should the livery of Deal be of sables Is the grave all black. ness! Those orientals seem to me to mourn we'll who clo,he themselves in white rubcs on the deahe friends. rejoicing in their assured harpiDess.- Why should fears of the pains of another worll he higher than our hopes of its joys! Tas Uni ras. nos te Ordsne, SSo ssfsrs perm,tiet, scquemUr.
 DIVERSITY OF CLIMATE AMI SEAsoNs.-The Albany Argus, after collecting many instances of the differ. ence ofthe weather in daeseni pats ef the Unon,i regard to dryness and moisture, remarks sAsc ding O the usual laws of nature, it is impossible for drought to pFevade our whole country. Neither ean ~e have famine as long ss the cultivation of the soil is attended to- Local and partial scarcity may but what is the loss Oi section is frequent y the gain of some more fortunate section. When he North is parched with drought, the West or tho South is rejoicing in the fertazing rains. When the sanapsr is cool in New York and New England. is frequently the warmer and more genial in Michigan. Wisconsin or Ohio; and even drought which would burn all vegetation to crisp here, does not exhaust he croPgrowing energies of the black mud ot western prairirs or of the woodlands Their new and virgin soil is comparatively more independent of tho dsws and rains ot heaven. This is the chief reason why he Great West presents so inviting field to ,he thrifty, calculating, and industrious farmer. He can place more reliance upon the intrinsic qualities ofIhs | R-- l-.