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Gross wt. of lamb No. 8, after shear-
ing, 93lb

Fleece of 16 old sheep weighed, 63
Ditto of 8 lambs,

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them. He offers perhaps a shilling
a head more for them than for the
poorest; but as I reflect that in the
very first year the former will yield
me, by their wool, two and perhaps
three shillings more a head than the
latter, without any additional ex- Average 5lb. and upwards.
pence; and besides, that they will be
much better for breeding, and look
much handsomer, I invariably refuse
his offers; and if I dispose of any, they
are such only as are unfit for keep
ing. By this means I have improv-
ed my stock, so that it is now the
best in the neighbourhood. The
fleeces of my sheep, on an average,
are a pound heavier than those of
others. In spring, my lambs
strong and healthy, and require but
very little attendance; while my
neighbours are continually complain-
ing that theirs are weak, sickly,
and, notwithstanding the great care
and trouble they are at, frequently

die,

are all

When a friend or a stranger visits me, I can take him to my barn or my pasture, and with patriotic exultation show him my flock, which is the source of my independence. And I can present him my children clothed in a neat homespun garb, unsoiled by the least mixture of foreign frippery. And I do not hesitate to say, that when doing so I feel as proud and as vain as the miss when she displays to her mates a new muslin gown, or a bonnet of the latest fashion.

At a late sheep shearing at Mount Airy, in Carolina, the weights of fleece and length of wool were as follow:

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A writer in an eastern publication gives the following account of a suc the ravages of the squash bug and cessful experiment for preventing the yellow fly: From a floor lately covered with hops, I collected some of the flour of the hop, poured upon it boiling water, and put in it a little wheat flour, to give the liquid an sition I wet the plants with a mop of adhesive quality; with this comporags, and it coated them with a defensive shield against their natural enemy. I afterwards made a strong deit equally efficacious. This expericoction from the hop itself, and found ment is not sanctioned by repeated experience, but I am sufficiently satisfied of its efficacy to be confident. in its recommendation.

It is a fact, but not generally known, that the common strawberry is a natural dentifrice; and that its juice, without any previous preparation whatever, dissolves the tartareous encrustations on the teeth, and makes the breath sweet and agreeable.

As a number of children are at

the present season afflicted with the cholera infantum, a correspondent

would recommend the decoction of the blue flowers of delphinium, or larkspur, one small spoonful of

Weight of fleece. Length of wool, which will infallibly stop the most

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distressing vomiting. These flowers likewise have proved a specific in every of the many cases in which they have been applied (by expressing the juice) to that painful, dangerous and troublesome disease, the chin, or hooping-cough.

According to a new census, Austria now contains 11,608 square

leagues; and a population of twentythree and a half millions of souls; of which 17,551,800 are catholics: 1,050,000 Lutherans; 1,800,000 of the reformed church; 260,000 Greeks; 43,000 unitarians; 3,500 menonists, and 452,000 Jews. The nobility form about 600,000 souls; and the clergy 90,000 individuals. The revenue of the state amounts to 103 millions per annum, and the debt to 112 millions of florins.

The following statistical note on the Ottoman empire is taken from a late European print.

Extent, 49,173 square miles; population, 25,330,000 souls, viz:

1st. European Turkey, 11,963 square miles, and 11,040,000 inhabitants.

2d. Asiatic Turkey, 24,262 square miles, and 11,090,000 inhabitants. 3d. Egypt, 12,943 square miles, and 3,200,000 inhabitants.

Besides the Osmans and Tartars proper, there are to be found in the European part a mixture of Greeks, Esclavonians, Armenians, Valaches, Arnautes, Jews, Bohemians, and Franks. The Osman and the Tartar are the only ones who observe the laws of the Alcoran. Among the christian sects, the Greeks (who have here a patriarch, 20 metropo

litans, 18 archbishops, and 120 bishops), with the Armenians, are the most numerous. The form of government is Asiatico-despotic. The present sultan, Selim III, has filled the throne since 1789. Land forces in 1804, 266,454 men, with 60,000 irregular troops, viz. 113,400 janissaries, 132,054 spahis, 50,000 methardschjy, and 15,000 artillerists. Of these troops, only 186,000 are fit for campaign service. Sea force, 12

ships of the line, 6 frigates, and 50 lesser vessels. Revenues of the chevea or imperial chest, 2,000.000. Revenue of the miri or chest of the empire, 44,942,500 dollars. National debt, 53,350,000 dollars.

The sand of the rivers of Poniacer, Palaur, and Cargoory, in India, has long been celebrated for the quantity of gold found in it, so abundant in fact, that after heavy floods, grains of gold were constantly found in the ears of paddy, on the banks of the rivers: representations on the subject having been recently made to the Madras government, they sent in lieut. J. Warden to Ooscotto, to survey that district, and the result has been the discovery of a tract about forty-five miles in length along the Yena Batterine Conda Hills, abounding with gold.

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Again, when Summer's milder reign Has clad in varied charms the plain,

Thou lov'st in streams to lave: Oft plunging from the river's side, While Zephyrs rippled o'er its tide, I've found thee in the wave.

And-for what fair was always true? If as to show how much thy due,

Thou for a time wert shy; Yet when through wilds and woods I woo'd,

I soon regain'd the nymph I lov❜d, 'Twas but thy coquetry.

The man that wins thee to his arms,
Must sedulously court thy charms;
Attention gains the prize.
And if thou fly, let him pursue,
Try to regain thy favour through
Thy handmaid Exercise.

But when I made the town my choice, Lur'd for a time by Folly's voice,

In search of wealth, renown; As through my limbs disorder spread, The feverish dream, the aching head,

There told me Health was flown. Now pallid, wan, a mark for scorn, Scarce drag I on a corpse-like form,

Tho' once with vigour blest : In manhood's prime, a blasted sprite, Unmann'd, unnerv'd, a loathsome sight,

Each energy deprest.

But, Dissipation, hence, adieu!
The tavern feast, the bagnio's crew,
No more have charms for me;
The gay
debauch can please no more,
The drunken riot, midnight roar,
The with three times three

song

Henceforth to rural haunts I go,
Thro' summer's heat and winter's

snow;

Thy smiles, O let me share; And thou, as well-known scenes I hail,

Fresh strength with every breath exhale,

Once more shalt be my care.

Then often in the morning's grey, While southern gales bring in the day, The unmark'd dew I'll tread: I'll hie me to the new shorn fields, Beat for the game their stubble shields,

While yet on feed they're spread.

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And, fraught with tenderest love, hath lull'd to rest

The little sorrows of my youthful breast.

It must not be! I look around in vain; Darkness profound, and awful silence reign

O'er all this gloomy scene, which

seems to lie

Not so Heav'n's fav'rite bird that
wields

The weapons of Columbia's ire,
And every dear-bought interest shields
From mad Ambition's fire;
While time rolls on the passing hours,
Her flight the world shall awe,
And widely spread
The olive's shade,

Entomb'd beneath the sable vaulted To shelter Liberty and Law.

sky,

Oh! when shall this imprison'd soul

of mine

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