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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25

The prevalence of defective teeth in this coun
try is the general sube of remark by foreigners,
and whoever has travelled in Spain and Portugal is
struck with the superior soundness and wilderness of
teeth in those countries.
Nobody need to have an offensive breath. A
careful removal of substances from between the
teeth, rnsing the mouth after meals, and bit of
charcoal held in the mouth, will always cure q bad
BREATH
lump of charcoal held IN the mouth, two or
three times week, and slowly chewed has won
deriul power to preserve the teeth and purify the
breath The action is purely chemical 1t coun-
teracts the acid arising from disordered stomach,
or food decayng about the gums and it is the u
cid which destroys the teeth.
A dear friend ofours had, when about twenty years
OF AGE, n front tooth that turned black gradually,
crumbled, and broke off pecemeal. BY fire.
quenty chewing charcoal the progress Of decay
not only arrested, but nature set vigorously to
work to restore the breach, and the crumbled por-
ton grew again, till the whole tooth was as sound
as before This know to be fact
Every one knows that charcoal is antiputrcs-
cent, and is used in boxing up animal and vegeta-
bic substances to keep them from decay Upon
the same chemical principle, it tends to preserve
the teeth and sweeten the breath.
There is no danger in swallowing il; on the con
trary, small quantities have healthy effect on the
inward system, particularly incident to summer
1t would not be wise to swallow that, or any gritty
substance, in large quantities, or very frequently
but once or twice u week little would be salutlry
rather than otherwise bit of charcoal as big as
q cherry, merely held in the mouth few hour;
without chewing, has good effect At first mos
people dislike to chew il, but use soon renders j
far from disagreeHble. Those who are troubled
with an offensive breath might chew il often, anC
swallow it but seldom. 1t Is peculiarly mporlan
to clean and rinse the mouth thoroughly before
going to bed otherwise great deal Of the desuuc
tive acid will form during the night
am continually panied 10 see young people 10
sing their teeth merely for the want of few sim
pie precautions and one cannot enter stage o
steam car without finding the atmosphere polluted
and rendered absolutely unhealthy for the lungs T.
| breathe when a proper use of water and charcoal
might render it as wholesome and pleasant as
breeze of Eden.--.NrS. Child.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25
MISCELLANEOUS.
DAYS WITHOUT NIGHTS AND NIGHTS
WITHOUT DAYS.

There is nothing that strikes a stranger more for
chilly, if he visits Sweden at this season OF the
year, when the days are longest than the absence
of night. DIR. B. had no conception OF 1t before
his arrival He arrived at Stockholm little before
ten o'clock There is great illumination all night,
as the sun passes round the earth towards the north
POLE and the refracton of its rays is SUCH that you
see to read at mdnigh DIR. b. read n letter IN
the forest near Stockholm at midnight, without ar
ticial light There is a mountain at the head OF
the Gulf of Bothnia where on the 2lst of June the
sun does not 90 down at ALL Travellers 60 up
there to see it, A steamboat goes from Stockholm
for the purpose of carrying those who are curious
to witness the phenomenon. 1t only occurs one
night The sun goes down to the horizon, you can
see the whole face of it, and in five minutes 1t be-
gins to rise At the North Cape, lat Y, 1t does
not 90 down for several weeks. Now June 23d
it would be at midnight about 20 above the horl'
ION. The way the people there know it Is mid
night, they see the sun begin to rise. The chang
es in those high ATTITUDES, from summer to winter
are so great, that we can have no conception Of
them at ALL In the winter time the sun disappears
and is not seen for six weeks. Then 1t comes VI
and shows its face. Afterwards 1t remains Tor ten
fifteen or twenty minutes, then descends. And II
naly it does not set at all, but makes almost cir
Gle round the heavens. He had been asked how
they managed in regard to hired persons, and wha
they consider day. He could not say, but sup
posed they worked by the hour, and twelve hour
would be considered days work. Birds and AM
mls tlke their accustomed rest at their usual hours
the DR.. did not know how they learnt the time
but they had, and 90 to rest whether the sun goe
down or not The hens take to the trees about
p ~, and stay there until the sun is well up in tn
mornlng-and the people get into this habit of lat
rising too. The first morning DIR. b. awoke
Stockholm, he was surprised to see the sun shlnln
into his room. He looked at his watch, and toun
it only three o'clock. The next time he awoke
was five clock but nobody in the streets IN
people are not in the habit of rising SO soon III
Swedes in the cities are not very industrious, oV
ing probably to the climate. The sun Is up so lon
that the atmosphere becomes very hot, though NJ
SO hot as our summer weather. The shopkeepe
in Stockholm, in the middle of the day, used
shut up their shops, and take their siesta but Il
government allowed the Jews to come in, and thu
obliged the Swedes to change the Jews kept the
shops open in the middle Of the day, and Il
Swedes had to follow the example. But they a
not very thankful to the Jews for lt.-Dr. Baird
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25
FASHIONABLE EDUCATION.

BY MRS. A. DICKINSON,
Far be it from to dlsparage mental cultivation.
We would tina; the minds of our daughters were
disciplined, and their reasoning powers developed,
by much more patient and systematic pursuit OF
science. But we would also have them pursue a
thorough course Of mental discipline, not because
it is fashionable, nor that they may practically
demonstrate their equality with the sterner sex
but that they may be better fitted to discharge their
own appropriate duties; that they may be more
suitable companions for those with whom they are
to be most intimately associated Ter those, perhaps
whose lives are TO be spent IN intellectual pursuits
in thinking and reasoning, that they muy secure
greater influence in society," that they may have
strength Of character to tram their sons, while YET
in the nursery, 10 habits Of prompt and cheerful
obedience and may infuse into their minds senl
Inents of exalted virtue and true philanthropy,
which may not only be the means OF preserving
among us sacred and nviolabe regard TO law anC
constituted authority, but also of advancing MS il
everything that contributes TO render nation glo
rious and happy.
Neither would we have them indifferent to thos
external accomplishments which diversity and en-
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25
IMCoNTROvERTIDLE TRUTH.

Every young female, no matter whether she be-
longs to the class of rich poor, should be ac-
quainted with the routine of household duties
She can never take uer position as the Mistress of
fimy with dignity or usefulness, unless she nm
derstands house keeping. This is well understood,
even by the III, ST wealthy A lady belonging 10
the English nobility, visit to this country some
years since, expressed Ter establishment at the APP
parent indifference Of the American ladies' TO this
necessity. She was understood tn say that in the
house of nobte6ian, near relative of her own,
the lady of the mansion exercised personal SUI
perverson of her domestic arrangements ordered
the breakfast aud dinners, kept an account OF tle
family expenses, and preserved every receipt duly
filed and endorsed with its date. Indeed, she knew
perfectly well what was gong on, or what ought tt
be going on, throughout her establishment.
The beautiful daughters of one OF the richest
bankers in London, who was also OF noble iam
ly, do not hesita to spend part of every day II
attending to the wants and comforts OF the family
We presume this is univers lily the case IN all or
derly and we'll regulated families in England
| If such be the fact where the wealth of the par
ties would relieve them from all personal care, 1t II
evident that where economy is necessary, an'
where wealth is yet to be acquired, such habit
are not only praseworthy but indispensable.
! Parents-are you aware Of the fearful reponslbll
| ity you are assuming, IN allowing your daughter
to grow up in utter ignorance Of household duties
Do you not konw that you are laying up for yoursel
yes and them, a harvest of sorrow-perhaps lli'
of bitterness and remorSe?
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25

RESURRECTION OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
oLD.PEA- In the year 1888, Sir Gardener Wilkin-
son brought from Egypt vase of great antiquity,
which had been dug out of mummy pit. This vase
was presented to the British Museum, and was O.
pened in the presence Of several anquares but it
contained only small quantity Of dust and few
seeds among which were peas, vetches and wheat.
Three of the peas were presented to Mr.. Grimes
tone by Mr. Il. J. Pettigrew, who kept the peas by
him until 1914, when having purchased the Her
barry at High-gate, he set them m pot of compos-
te. The pea soon sprang from its three thousand
year trance into vegelable life, but yellow as if it
had been aundiced with diseased liver. This
yellow appearance arose, no doubt, from its being
confined in hot frame. When it had attained
sufficient heigth II was carefully tanspanted INTO
the open garden; the stalk thnved, blossomed and
| in August last Mr. Grmestone harvested fifty five
seeds from lis pods. These fity-6ve peas have
been planted thus year, and all of them have thrown
up their STEMS their blossoms, and their pods,
and again give hope for an abundant incrcase.--
! This pea has many peculiarilies, one of which is
that the pod projects through the blossom, leaving
the latter behind il, while the generality Of peas
push, or rather carry off the blossom at the up OF
their pods. Mr. Grmstone was otlered last year.
twenty pounds for twenty of these peas which he
refused to accept, prelerrlng rather to multiply
than to sell. The bloom of this pea is white and OF
"a bell form, that of our pea having wings something
| like those of butterfly. A visit TO Mr. Grimes
tones herbary to see this production from the AN.
tiquated Egyptian grandfather pea, is well word
the trouble.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25

Miraculous SPEED.-ln our English files we
find an account OF railroad speed which has never
been exceeded. The result of the Sunderland cleo
ton was looked for with so much interest in Lon
don, that the Times ran an express, which perform
ed the distance, 800 miles, in eight hours! A de-
tailed account of this extraordinary performance is
published in the Times of the 18th, which states,
that while the returning officer was procainlng the
result OF the election from the hustlngs I'm the
place where the election heidi Il copy Of the
Times, published 800 miles oil, containing The same
information, was placed in his hands I he dis
lance by railroad was BOB miles, which was accom-
plished by the special engines in seven hours and
thirty minutes. The journey from Darlington to
York, A. miles, was performed in flty-two minutes,
and in some parts Of the line, the train was pro-
ceeding at the almost incredible speed of mile in
iorty-eight seconds--at the rate of rs miles an
hour! While going at this speed, there was hard
ly any perceptbe motion, and the operation OF
writing was performed with the greatest ease.--
| Philadelphia Saturday Posi.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25

A LoNG BEAN.-There was sent TO this Office a
few days since, Bean, cultivated by Mr.. Jacob f.
Charles, on the farm of Nathan Bolton, in limerick
township, measuring in length ~ 3 inches. Beat
this who cau---. NorriStoon Register
Well that does beat all that we ever saw or
heard Of, in the bean way and we have seen some
pretty large affairs of the kind Twenty-seven in.
ches and three quarers!!!! Why it must have
been one of the kind that Jack planted; when he
got on the top of ii and grew up to the Clouds
Let our brother OF The Register sit down alone in
his glory nobody will dispute with him the honor
of having seen a bean ~ "a inches in length. =
We remember to have seen fine patch growing
once, of which the pods were from twenty to forty
inches in length, but the beans were small.-U
S. Gazette.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25
THE MOTHER AND HER FAMILY.

Philosophy is rarely found The most perfect
sample ever met. was an old woman, who APP
parenlly the poorest and most forlorn--so true is
the maxim which all profess to believe, and none
act upon Invariably, viz: that happiness does not
depend on outward circumstances. The wise Wo-
man to whom have alluded walks TO Boston, a
distance Of twenty or thirty miles, TO sell bag Of
brown thread and stockings, and then she patiently
walks back with her little gain. Her dress, though
tidy, Is a groesque collection Of shreds and patch
es--coarse in the extreme.
"Why don't Won conc down in wagon ~ said
j. when observed she was wearied with long
Journey
I'VE haven't got any horse,7 she replied The
nelghbors very kind TO me, but they emit spare
thelr'n and it would cost us much as my thread is
worihn
"You have a husband-dont he do any thing for
you z"
lie is a good man he does all he can, but he
is a cripple aud an invalid. lie reels my yarn and
mcnds the children's shoes. Hos az kind hus-
band as woman need 10 have"
But his being cripple Is q heavy misfortune
to you" said |.
why, ma'am, don't look upon it IN that iabt,"
replied the thread woman; 81 consider that Eve 4
great reason to be thankful that lie never took Ga
any bad haDis."
+" How many children have you p
six sons aud five daughters, ma'aia."
Six sons and five daughters! What a family
for poor man to support"
/ lisa firmly ma'am, but there amt one Of EN- I'd
be willing to lose They Are all healthy children
as need be- all willing TO work, all clever 10 nc. &C.,
Even the litest boy, when he gets cent now and
then, for doing an errand, will he sure to bring il
to me"
"Do your daughters spin your thread p
No ma'lm soon as they arc big enough
they 90 out to service, as don't want to keep then
aIv Jott E,r O.,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25
POETRY.
LABOR.


flo, yo who at the anvil Toll,
Aud strike the sounding how,
Mlrre from the burning lroa's breast
The sparks fly to- aud fro,
While answering to the hammer ring,
And hru's mteusof glow
Oh, while We feel 't- hard 10 toll
Aud sweat The LONG day through,
Remember, it is harder st'll
To have no work to do.
lilo, We who til the stubborn soil,
Whose har hands guide the plough
Whb bend beneath the summers sun,
with bu ming cheek and brow
We deem tho curse stili cliugs To eatth
From olden times till now,
putMhilc We fuel 'tis hard to toll
Aud labor an day thrungh,
Remember il is harder sull
To have no work to do.
Ho. We who plough lhe seas blue field
Whu ride tie restless wave,
Beneath whuse gallant vessels keel
There lies a yiwting grave,
Around whose hifk the wmtfy wind,
Like frnds Of fuzzy lave
OH while We feel Is hard TO toll
And Labor long hours through,
Remember II IS harui sill
TO have no work TO do.
Ho, SO, upon whose fcvered checks
TDc hucr gag is nrishi,
Whose mental toll wears out tho Jay
Aud half the Vea'y hight,
Who | dior for the souls Of men,
Champions OF ruth end right
Although ye feel out toll Is inrd,
Even with this glorious view,
Remember 1t Is harder still
10 have no work to do.
Uo, all who llbor--all who strive
We Weld a lofty power,
n, ,vith yout might, ln with your strength,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25
FAITH.
FROM THE BALTIMORE visirER.

FROM THE BALTIMORE NlslTER
n. s. ANDROs.
swallow in the spring
Came to our granary, and meath the caves
Essayed to make her nest, and there did bring
Wet.eatih aud straw ana leaves.
Day after day she tOllcd,
With pniient art, but ere hur wurt was crowned,
Eone sad misIop the TN, Fabric spoiled,
And dashed 1t TO the ground
She found the ruin wrought,
Yet not cast down, forth from her place she flew,
And with her mute, fresh cath and grasses brought
Aud built her nest anew.
But scarcely had she placed
The last soft feather on its ample floor,
When wicked h ud, ~ chance again laid waste,
Aud wrought the ruin DER
But still her heat she kept,
And toiled again and last night hearing calls,
looked, and 10 three little swallows slept
Within the ear.h-mude walls
What truth is here, oh Man!
Hath HoPL been smiiten in ITS early dawn
Hath clouds o'etcast thy pa pose, trnst or plan
Have Fam, mud struggle on!
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25
"Ceezal rm gone to axes you one OBJ dose :

"Ceeza! Pm gone to axes you one OBJ dose ire
coumbossinbussls. 'Tention!"
"Wel, put on de steam, nigga or as de great
Crockett use ter say, lef 'um 60 long,
"Why am de sun like a lof OBJ bread 7"
"Cause he am round, EN- Cuff"
"'Tant dat; you CUB it up?
EYES, amt done noffin else"
swell, den, bekase 1t rises in de yeast
"Nigger, you bin sweepin' out de school room'
sin't ye 2"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25
AN APOLOGIZE OR APPLE-LOGUE

Two men planted out each one hundred apple
trees. In six or seven years they began to bear,
One had spared no pains to bring his orchard into
the highest condition. lie had constantly cultiyat-
ed the soil about them, scraped oil the rough bark,
washed them, picSed off every worm, and nursed
them ms if they were children. The other, pursu-
ing cheaper plan simply let his trees alone; but
the moss and canker worms took his place and at
tended to them every year. When the orchards
began to bear, the careful man had the best fruit,
and the careless man covered his folly by curslng
the nurseryman for selling him poor trees. In
year or two the careful man had two bushels to the
others one from each tree. MOTTO be outdone, the
latter determined to have as many apples as the
former, and set out another hundred trees. by and
bye, when they bore the other orchard had so I'M
proved that it produced twice many yet; another
hundred trees were therefore planted. In process
of time the first orchard of one hundred trees sent
more fruit to market than the three hundred trees
of the careless man, who now gave up and declar-
ed th13 he never did have luck, and 1t was use
to try on his soil to raise good fruit
l.. When man is too shiitless to take good care
of two horses, he buys two more, and gets from the
four what he might get from the two.
=. A farmer who picks up COW simply because
it is not an OK, and is nominaly lactferous, and
lets the creature work for living, very soon buys
second, and a third, and fourth, and gets from
them all what he should have had from one good
one.
3. farmer has one hundred acres. Instead of
getting seventy five bushels of corn to the acre. he
gets forty and makes it up by cultvating twice as
many acres; instead Of thirty bushels Of wheat he
gets twelve and puts in acres enough to make up;
instead of making one hundred acres do the work
of three hundred. he buys more land, and allows
three hundred to do only the work of one hundred
A. A young woman, with little pains, can have
three times as many clothes as she needs, and then
not look so well as humble neghbor, who has not
half her wardrobe; wherefore we close with some
proverbs made for the occason;
Active little is better than lazy much.
i Curefulness is richer than abundance
! Large farming is not always good farming, anC
small farming is often the largest Indiana Farm
er d Gardener.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25

TRuTn-Power will intoxicate the best hearts
as wine the strongest heads; no man is wise O.
nough to be trusted with unlimited power, for what
ever qualification he may have evlnced TO entiIle
him to the possession OF SO dangerous privilege
yet when possessed, others can no longer answer
for himself
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25
" ATCHMAN 81 JOURNAL.

TERMs-slO cash advance; 50 90 r payment is rot made
in advance always charged from the oud of the year
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25

MAN. Man is an odd gcnus-made up of all
kinds of materials. lie is grave to-day and gay
tomorrow the suds Of dependency this mo-
ment, and the next sailing on the cur of hope. Now
passion rules him--anon, child is leading him.
Last month he made his fortune, and will lose it
the next. Is not man queer compound? An odd
old genius thus defines the creature:
eat ten, a child, at twenty, wild,
Al thirty tame, II ever,
| Al forty, wise, at hhy, rich,
AT sixty, good, or never"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25

RIcH TowN.-The village of New Bedford
contains $4,000 inhabitants, and its valuation is
Sl2,000,000 being $1,000 to each man, woman
and child Some 800 vessels are owned there,
mostly employed in the whale fishery.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25

ANOTHER CRATER IN THE SLAVE CASE
Catherine Lindsay, the se'VSn. gr o. mr n iiVog
en- before Judge Dewey, at Northampton, on writ
Of Ho5sas Corpus, through the agency of Doct
Hudson, of West Springfield, has sued said Hud-
son for alse Imprisonment, laying her damages at
$1,000. The suit is brought into the Common
Pleas Court in Suffolk, which meets at Boston in
October. AS Hudson refused to give the necessa-
ry bail (Sl5OO) he was comni,ted to Jail in this
town, ON Monday last.-SPringfeid Republican.
Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-07-01
THENEw PoST oFFICELAw.-To-


the new law regulating postage, &c. com
mcnccs its operation. Its effect will be most
salutary and acceptable To all classes of the peo-
pie. ltat once relieves the correspondence of
the country from most onerous tax to which
il had been too long subjected. If portion of
the burden should now fall on the treasury it
will be much more just than that the letters
should almost wholly support the Post Office
Department. But the experience of other
countries fully warrants the expectation that
in few years the reduction of postage will in
TACT, increase the aggregate revenue of the De-
partment. 1t is much To be thankful for, how
ever, that the facilities of intercourse among
our people are 80 much increased. The more
frequent interchange of friendly feelings will
be of scarcely less importance than the relief
afforded TO the business correspondence of the
country. The law authorizes any letter not
exceeding half an ounce in weight To be sent
a single letter. Some one who is curious
in such matters, has weighed with accuracy
the different kinds of paper most generally in
use, and has asccrtained that the following may
bc sent at single postage, being under the half
ounce weight:
/. One and half sheets of letter paper, seal
cd with wax or wafer.
z, One sheet of letter paper, with large or
small envelope, wax or wafer
3. One sheet of foolscap, with small cnvel-
opc, sealed with wafer.
!. One sheet OF letter paper. with quarter
eagle (S2,oO) enclosed, and secured with wax
and the letter sealed with wax
D. Hall sheet OF letter paper or light fools
cap, with half eagle enclosed, secured and
sealed with waters.
b. a sheet OF letter paper may contain a
dime anda halt, or a hall sheet may contain
quarter dollar.
z; sheet OF letter paper may enclose seven
bank notes and he sealed with wax; or three
bank notes, and the whole in an envelope.