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posed of Taffeta plastered over with an elastic gum, and was filled with inflammable air, obtained by the filings of iron in Vitriolic acid. It weighed 40 lbs. It rose to about 12,000 feet and fell in three quarters of an hour.

Whenever you speak any thing, think well, and look narrowly what you speak; of whom you speak; and to whom you speak, lest you bring yourself into great trouble.

At Shuster, a city at the foot of the Bucktiari range of mountains, in Persia, there is a bridge eighty feet above the waters of the river Karoon. From the summit of this bridge, the Persians throw themselves in sport, and with impunity, into the river below.

Our pleasures are for the most part, short, false, and deceitful; and like drunkenness, revenge the jolly madness of one hour, with the sad repentance of many.

Never expect any assistance or consolation in thy necessities from drinking companions.

A virtuous man who has passed through the temptations of the world, may be compared to the fish who lives all the time in salt water, yet is still fresh.

How much pains have those evils cost us which have never happened.

The winter with his grisly storms no longer dare abide,

The pleasant grass with lusty green the earth hath newly dyed,

The tree hath leaves, the boughs do spread, new changed is the year, The water brooks are clean sunk down, the pleasant boughsappear, The spring is come, the goodly nymphs now dance in every place: Thus hath the year most pleasantly so lately chang'd her face.

Spiders are excellent barometers: if the ends of their webs are found branching out to any length, it is a sure sign of favourable weather: if, on the contrary, they are found short, and the spider does not attend to repairing it properly, bad weather may be expected.

A bigot counterworks his Creator, makes God after man's image, and chooses the worst model he can find — himself.

What an eccentricity of wickedness was it to appoint any place where a murderer should get shelter a church too! but such were, and are ( abroad ) called sanctuaries. Lancaster Church was reserved by Henry VIII. as a sanctuary, after the abolition of that dangerous privilege in the rest of England.

It is only when the rich are sick, that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

The annual average quantity of dew deposited in England is estimated at a depth of about five inches, being about one seventh of the mean quantity of moisture supposed to be received from the atmosphere over all Great Britain, in a year, or about 22,161,337,355 tons, taking a ton at fifty two gallons.

Diogenes being at Olympia, saw at that celebrated festival some young men of Rhodes, arrayed most magnificently. Smiling, he exclaimed, “This is pride. “Afterwards meeting with some Lacedemonians in a mean and sordid dress, he said, “ And this also is pride. ”

Silver has increased in value thirty times since the reign of William the Conqueror.

Care, the consuming canker of the mind, The discord that disorders sweet heart's tune, The abortive bastard of a coward mind, The lightfoot lackey that runs post by death, Bearing the letters which contain our end; The busy advocate that sells his breath

Denouncing worst to him who's most his friend.

The susceptibilities that we create or refine by the pursuit of one object, weaken our general reason; and I may compare with some justice the powers of the mind to the faculties of the body, in which squinting is occasioned by an inequality of strength in the eyes, and discordance of voice by the same inequality in the ears. Proverbs Beware of enemies reconciled, and meat twice boiled. Beware of a silent dog, and still water. Crosses are ladders to heaven. 



RECIPES.

TO RAISE THE NAP ON CLOTH.

When woollens are worn thread bare, as is generally the case in the elbows, cuffs, sleeves,

c. of men's coats, the coat, & c. must be soaked in cold water for half an hour, then taken out of the water and put on. a board, and the threadbare parts of the cloth rubbed with a half worn hatters ' card, filled with flocks, or with a prickly thistle, until a sufficient nap is raised. When this is done, hang your coat, & c. up to dry, and with a hard brush lay the nap the right way. This is the method which is pursued by the dealers in old clothes.

TO REVIVE THE FADED COLOUR OF BLACK CLOTH.

If a coat, clean it well, as described in scouring blues, blacks, browns, & c., then boil from two to four ounces of logwood in your copper or boiler half an hour; dip your coat in warm water, and squeeze it as dry as you can, and put it into the copper, and boil half an hour. Take it out and add a piece of green copperas about the size of a horse bean; boil it another half hour, then draw it, and hang it in the air for an hour or two; take it down, rinse it in two or three cold waters, dry it, and let it be well brushed with a soft brush, over which a drop or two of olives has been rubbed: stroke your coat regularly over. The whole expense of this process ( the firing excepted ) will not exceed a few cents. If any part of the coat, & c. should be worn thread bare, the nap must be raised with a prickly thistle, & c. and the coat will look as new. Some dyers use old black liquor, instead of logwood and copperas.