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THE BRITISH AMERICAN.
Use the same proportion to dye any number in many a house the harmless babes
ofpounds.
1. Prepare a brass or copper kettle with
about five gallons of water; bring the liquor toa scalding heat, then add3 ounces of alum that is pounded, and Ioz. cream oftartar ; then bring the liquor to a boiland put in the wool. len and boil it for two hours. It is then taken out, aired and rinsed, and the liquor emptied away. ‘ 2. Now prepare the kettle with as much wa ter as before, and add to it 8 ounces of good madder, which should be broken up fine, and well mixed in the water before you put in the woollen. When you have warmed the dye as hot as you can bear the hand in it, then enter the woollen and let it remain in the dye forone hour, during which time the dye must not boil, but only remain at a scalding heat, observing to stir about the woollen constantly while in the dye.
3 When the woollen has been in one hour, it is to be taken out, aired and rinsed.
4. Add to the dye. half a pint of clear lime water, which is made by slacking about half an ounce oflime to powder, then add wa- ter to it, and when settled, pour the clear part into the dye and mix it well, Now put in your woollen, and stir it about for ten mi- nutes the dye being only at a scalding heat. It is then to be taken out and rinsed immediately.
N. B.—Should you wish the red very bright add about a quarter of an ounce or nearly half a table spoonful of the aqua fortis composi- tion at the time of putting in the madder.
_ Many ofour readers may correct mistaken Ideas relating to diet, from the following report to the Minister ofthe interior in France, by Percy and Vauquelin, on the relative propor- tions, per cent of nutritious properties in different articles of food.
Turnip! and greens, 8 per ct farm“ 14 t’otatoes 25 Butcher’s meat, 35
Bread, 80 “ Broad Beans, 89 “ Peas. 93 “ Lentils, ahind of half peas, 94 “
Newport Herald.
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MISCELLflNY.
HARD TIMES. as nannan sseasi.
We say the times are grievous hard, And hard they are, ’tis true!
But, drunkards, to your wives and babes They're harder made by you.
The drunkards tax is self-imposed, Like every other sin :
The taxes altogether cost Not halfso much as Gin
The state compels no man to drink, Compels no man to game;
i’Tis Gin and gambling that sinks him down To rags, and want, and shame.
Thifiadest husband changed by Gin, ls fora tyrant known 3 The tendes-est heart that nature made.
Are poorly clothed and fed, Because the craving Gin-shop takes The children’s daily bread.
Come, neighbour, take a walk with me, Through many a London street,
And see the cause of poverty, In hundreds that we meet.
Behold the shivering female there, Who plies her waful trade!
’Tis ten to one you’ll find that Gin That helpless wretch has made.
Look down those steps, and view below You cellar under ground;
There every want and every wo, And every sin, are found !
Those little children trembling there, With hunger and with cold,
Were by their parents’ love of Gin, To sin and misery sold.
Look through the prison‘a iron bars! Look through that dismal grate,
And learn what dire misfortune brought So terrible a fate !
The debtor, and the felon, too, Though differing much in sin,
Too oft you’ll find were thither brought By all-destroying Gin.
See the pale manufacturer there, How lank and lean he lies!
How haggard is his sickly cheek! How dirn his hollow eyes !
How amply had his gains sufliced, On wife and children spent!
But all must for his pleasure go. All to the Gin-shop went.
See that apprentice, young in years, But hackneyed long in sin!
What made him rob his master's till ? Alas.‘ ’twas love of Gin.
That serving man, I knew him once, So jaunty, spruce, and smart !
Why did he steal, then pawn the plate? ’Twas Gin ensnared his heart!
But hark ! what dreadful sound was that? ’Tis Newgate's awful bell !
It tells, alas, for human guilt ! Some malefactor’s knell !
Oh, woeful sound ! Oh, what could cause Such punishment and sin ?
Hark! hear his words! he owns the cause, “ Bad company and Gin.”
And when the future lot is fix‘d,
' Of darkness. fire, and chains; How can the drunkard, hope to ’scape
Those everlasting pains?
Bonaparte—What a vain thing Was his am- bition. Who can hope to attain half what Na-
leon won? Yet what did even he win. .He enobled his famil —-but it has sunk back into
Becomes a heart of stone.
obscurity. He eaped up treasure—but his
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enemies have scattered it.
him. died a mere subject. earth, and his name carried terror in the sound—but his arm lies powerless in the grave, and his name is rapidly passing into oblivion !
The objects of his ambition were difficult of
attainment, unsatisfying in their nature, and briefin their duration. -
How much nobler is that ambition which seeks the distinction of being just, merciful, peaceable and useful ! How much rather would we enjoy the reputation of a Franklin a How- ard. ora Wilbeiforce. than to attain to the glo- ries of a Bonaparte, an Alexander or a Caesar!
How much more enviable is the skill and in— dustry which makes two blades ofgrass grow where but one grew before," than the talents
of the warrior, which Spread misery all around, ‘
and add no happiness to his own lot. Yet the “bubble reputation”is sought '-s at the cannon's mouth,” by men who claim to be great; while the sure and certain road to happiness, quiet industry, with contentment and a good conseio once, is passed by untrodden and almost no- seon.—Porlsmoulh J our.
AMERICAN WILD HORSES
Lewis and Clarke, speaking of the horses found to the west of the Rocky Mountains, say, that they appear to be an excellent race, lofty, elegantly formed, active and du- rable; many ofthem appear like fine English coursers, some of them are pied, with large spots of white irregularly scattered and inter- mixed with a dark brown bay: the grea»: part, however, are of an uniform color, market. with stars and white feet, and resembling in fieetness and bottom as well in form and color, the best blooded horses of Virginia. The na- tives suffer them to run at large in the plains, the grass ofwhich affords them only winter sub- sistence, their masters taking no trouble to
lay in a winter’s store for them, notwithstand- \
ing they will, unless much exercised, fati G» on the dry grass afforded by 0";- plai'ns during the winter. The plains are-liarer i! ever moist- ened by rain, and the grass is consequently short and thin. The natives, excepting those of the Rocky Mountains, appear to take no pains in selecting those of the male horses for breed: and, indeed, those of that class appear much the most indifferent. Whether the horse was originally a native of this country, or not, the soil and climate appear tobe perfectly adapted to the nature of this animal.
Horses are said to be found wild in many parts of this extensive country. The several tribes of Shoshonees who reside towards Mexi~ co, on the water of the Multomah river, and particularly, one of them called Shaboboah have also a great number of mules, which the Indians prize more highly than horses. An elegant horse may be purchased at? the natives for a few beads and other paltry trinkets, which in the United States, would not cost more than one or two dollars. The abundance
and the clieapness of horses, will be extremely '
advantageous to those wlo may hereafter at-
tempt the fur trade to the East Indies, by the.
way of Columbia river and the Pacific ocean.
VEGETABLES. In the early part of the reign of Henry VIII.
l He allied bimseh i, to the Royal Family—but his wife soon forgot He created his son a king—but this son His power was first on the
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not a cabbage, turnip, or other edible root,_, »
grew in England. Two or three centuries be- fore, certainly, the monasteries had gardens with a variet of vegetables; but nearly all the gardens 0 the laity were destroyed in the
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