Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-07-24


the country, this. .sconomy has become vital
question. lisa kind Of Christian dn,y in eve.
~ one to pra :tise |. az far as his means and his
knowledge enable him. $50 t
Perhaps the whole amount OF The economy
which would follow the use Of whole meal in.
stead Of fine Hour, may not strike every one who
reads the above observations. The saving orise
from two sources.
First tho amount Of husks separated by the
miller from the wheat which he prinds. and
which is not sold for human use. varies very
much. think we do not over.es,imste it when
we consider il as forming one. eighth Of the
whole. On this supposition, eight poinde Of
wheat yield seven of -four consumed by man,
and one Of pollard and bran which ure given to
anmals-chiei 10 poultry and pigs. lf the
whole meal be used, however, eight pounds Of
f1onr will be obsncd, or eight people will be fed
by the same weight OF grain which Only fed Sc.
ven before.
Again we have seen that the whole meal is
more nutritious--so that the coarser -four will
60 farther than an equal weight Of fine. TIE
numbers at which we arrived, from the results
Of anlysis. show that, taking all the three sus.
taining elements of the food into consideration,
the course is one half more nutrtive thnn the
fine. Leaving wide margin for tho influence
of circumstances, le, us suppose it only one.
eighth more nutritive, and we shall have now
nine people nourished equally by the same
tuhf fnfu IL r.kx
flour. would support only seven. The wheat Of
The country in other words, ,oou,d in This form
so one fourth further than at present
GENERAL TAyLoR's PERsoNAL APPEARANCES.
--One OF the returned volunteers. who fought
under General Tay lor at Buena Vista, has furni.
shed one Of our exchanges with the following
graphic and minute sketch Of the general ma.
kng.up of the old hero. II is 30 we'll done that
q pcr,rai, might BE- painted from reading IT,
"1'he hero Of Buena Vista, around whose
military brow 60 many chapIets Of fame have
been thrown, presents in his personal appear.
ance many Of those striking stamps of nature,
| which mark the gentleman and the officer. Of
an average medium height-beng about hve
feet and nine inches; he inclines to heavine.s
Of frame, end general well-developed muscular
ou,linr, with some tendency to corpulency Of
square build, he now inclines to stoop; and
from the great equestrian exercise the nature o:
| his lite has led him necessarily 10 undergo, his
inferior extremi,ies are somewhat bowed His
sxpa nsive chest shows him ca npsble Of undergo.
| ing that vast fatigue through which he has pas.
scd amid the hammoeks and savAnnahs Of Flori.
ds, and the still more recent fields of Mexico.
His face is expressive of great determination
yet, still so softencd by the kindlier feelings OF
the soul, as to render the perfect stranger pre-.
possessed In his behalf He head is large well
developed in the anterior regions, and covered
with moderate quantity of hair. now ,ingsd by
the coloring pencil OF time, whichhe wenrs par
ted on one side, and brushed down. His eye
brows are heavy. and extend over the optic or
bit the eye grey, full OF FIRE, end expressive
when his mental powers are called into play
yet reposiug as If in pleasant quiet, when in or
dinsry. His nose is straight, neither partskine
of the true Grecisn or Roman order; his lip,
thin, the upper firm. and the lower slightly pro
iecting. The outline Of his face is oval, tbs
skin wripkled. and deeply embrowned by Tho
many tropical suns to which he has been expo
sed Ills manners are frank and social snc
no one ever left his company, without feeling
that he had been mingling with gentleman o
the true olden times He at times appears II
deep mediation, and is then not always accessi
bic. In his military discipline he is firm. nnc
expects all orders cmans,ing from his flee tt
be rigidly enforced and observed. Treating hi
men not as helo,s or slaves, but exercising on'y
,ha, command which is necessary for the goo,
of the whole. To the younger officers unde
him, he is peculiarly lenent, often treating ihei
little faults more with . fathers forgiveness
than with tho judgment of a ruler. In hi
toilet he does not initiate the Beau Brummel
and band box dandies OF the present fashionsb bl'
epoch. but sprarels his person in unison will
his age, and has no great prediction for tn
uniform. IN this. however, he 10 by IN mean
peculiar, for majority Of onr regular milI,ar
gentleman seldom appear in their externals o.
duty; and the stations to which General Tay
7 lor has been assigned have been in the warn
I and sunny South, rendering the heavy blu
cloth undress coat disagreable to the physics
, feelings. Ihave generally seen him in . pal
, Of grey trowssrs. sdsrk vest. and either brow
. or speckled irock coat, reaching lower the
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