2 Ch, miss 1, 1 De, 2 Ch, miss 2, +12 | 2 Ch, miss 2, 4 De, † 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, times. 11th Round.+ 9 De over 7, 2 Ch, miss 2, 7 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 De, 2 Ch, miss 2, 13 De (over 10), 2 Ch, miss 2, + 6 times. 12th Round.+21 De (over 18) 2 Ch, miss 1, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 9 De (over 8), 2 Ch, miss 1, 4 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, + 6 times. 13th Round.-+1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 1, 19 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 7 De, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 1, 1 De, * 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 3 times, 2 Ch, miss 2, +6 times. 14th Round.+ 10 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 13 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, * 4 times, 2 Ch, miss 2, 3 Dc, + 6 times. 15th Round.+ 16 Dc, * 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, twice, 2 Ch, miss 2, 4 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 13 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2 +. 16th Round. +1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, * twice, 7 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 4 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 11 De (over 10), 2 Ch, miss 2, 12 Dc, + 6 times. 17th Round.+10 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, * twice, 13 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 1, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 1,1 De, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, + 6 times. 18th Round. +7 De, 2 Ch, miss 2, 7 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 13 Dc (over 12), * 2 Ch, miss 1, 1 Dc,* twice, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 4 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 3 Dc, + times. 19th Round.+ 18 De over 16, 2 Ch, miss 2, 16 Dc, * 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, * 3 times, 2 Ch, miss 2, 7 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, +6 times. The last time close the round and begin the next on the last of 7 Dc. 20th Round.- 19 De (over 18), * 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, twice, 2 Ch, miss 2, 4 Dc (over 3), 2 Ch, miss 2, 10 De (over 8), 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 4 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 De, 2 Ch, miss 2, + 6 times. 21st Round. +19 Dc, * 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 5 times, 2 Ch, miss 2, 7 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 4 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 De, 2 Ch, miss 2, + 6 times. 22nd Round.+10 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 4 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, * 7 times, 2 Ch, miss 2, 4 Dc, 2 Ch, mis: 2, 1 Dc, twice, 2 Ch, miss 2, + 6 times. 23rd Round.- + 8 Dc, * 2 Ch, miss 2, 1 De, 11 times, 2 Ch, miss 1, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 1, 1 Dc, 2 Ch, miss 2, 4 Dc, + 2 Ch, miss 2,1 Dc, + 3 times, 2 Ch, miss 2, + 6 times. Or 1 round of open square crochet, missing 1 only sometimes, instead of two. The border: +1 Sc, 6 Ch, miss 5, 1 Sc, 11 Ch, miss 8, + all round. 2nd Round.+5 Dc, on centre 5 of 11 Ch, 4 Ch, De on 2nd of 6 Ch, 4 Ch, miss 2, 1 De, 4 Ch, + all round. 3rd Round. +7 De on 5, 4 Ch, De on 2nd of 4 Ch, 4 Ch, De on next chain, 4 Ch, + all round. 4th Round.--+ 7 De on 7, 5 Ch, Dc on 2nd of 4 Ch, 6 Ch, De on next stitch, 5 Ch, all round. 5th Round.-+7 Dc on 7, 5 Ch, De on 2nd of 6 Ch, 6 Ch, miss 2, De on next, 5 Ch, all round. 6th Round.5 Dc, beginning on 2nd of 7, 6 Ch, De on 2nd of 6, 8 Ch, miss 2, 1 Dc, 6 Ch, + all round. 7th Round.+3 Dc on 3 centre of 5, 6 Ch, De on 2nd of 8 Ch, 10 Ch, miss 4, De on the next, 6 Ch, + all round. 8th Round. Se on 1st of 3 Dc, 6 Ch, miss 1, Sc on the next, 6 Ch, miss 6, 2 Dc, 3 Ch, miss 3, 2 Dc, 3 Ch, miss 3, 2 Dc, 6 Ch, + all round. This edging makes a nice trimming for Children's drawers. TITLES.-The Romans gave the titles of Africanus, Asiaticus, Macedonicus, Numidicus, Parthicus, &c., in memory of the victories obtained over the people of those countries. The Emperor of China, among his titles, takes that of Tiensu, Son of Heaven. The Orientals are extremely fond of titles: the simple Governor of Schiraz, for instance, after a pompous enumeration of qualities, lordships, &c., adds the titles Flower of Courtesy, Nutmeg of Consolation, and Rose of Delight. Henry IV. of England had the title of "Grace" conferred on him; Henry VI. that of "Excellent Grace;" Edward IV. that of 'High and Mighty Prince;" Henry VII. 'Highness;" Henry VIII. " Majesty," (and was the first and last that was styled, "Dread Sovereign;") and James I. that of "Sacred," or, "Most Excellent Majesty." 66 66 STANZAS. BY EMILY TAYLOR. TRY and perhaps thou may'st not errTo sound the depth of ocean caves, Where long and late the mariner Impels his bark o'er unknown waves; But think not with thine utmost art To fathom all thy brother's heart, There is an evil and a good In every soul, unknown to theeA darker or a brighter mood Than aught thine eye can ever see; Words, actions faintly mark the whole That lies within a human soul. Perhaps thy sterner mind condemns Some brother-mind that, reasoning less, The tide of error slowly stems In pain, in love, in weariness: Thou call'st him weak; he may be so, What made him weak thou canst not know! Perhaps thy spirit's calm repose No evil dream hath come to spoil; Amidst the passions' fiercest broil! But there their pious aid hath been? THE THREE CALLERS. BY CHARLES SWAIN. MORN calleth fondly to a fair boy straying And so she smiles and waves him an adieu! Whilst he, still merry with his flowery store Deems not that morn, sweet morn! returns no more. Noon cometh-but the boy, to manhood growing, Heeds not the time-he sees but one sweet form, One young fair face, from bower of jasmine glowing, And all his loving heart with bliss is warm; So noon unnoticed, seeks the western shore, And man forgets that noon returns no more. Night tappeth gently at a casement gleaming With the thin fire-light, flick'ring faint and low, By which a gray-hair'd man is sadly dreaming O'er pleasures gone, as all life's pleasures go; Night calls him to her, and he leaves his door Silent and dark-and he returns no more. THE RISING MOON. BY W. O. B. PEABODY. THE moon is up! How calm and slow The weary winds forget to blow, The way-worn travellers, with delight Revealing all the paths and plains, It glistens where the hurrying stream It falls upon the forest shade, The waning moon in time shall fail TO BLOSSOMS. BY HERRICK. FAIR pledges of a faithful tree, But you may stay yet here a while, What! were ye born to be 'Tis pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we A SIMILE. From LONGFELLOW's Golden Legend. SLOWLY, Slowly up the wall Steals the sunshine, steals the shade, Evening damps begin to fall, Evening shadows are display'd. Round me, o'er me, everywhere, All the sky is grand with clouds, And athwart the evening air Wheel the swallows home in crowds. Shafts of sunshine from the west Paint the dusky windows red; Darker shadows, deeper rest, Underneath, and overhead. Darker, darker, and more wan In my breast the shadows fall; Upward steals the life of man, As the sunshine from the wall. From the wall into the sky, From the roof along the spire; Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher. OLD TUSSER'S GOOD AND BAD HUSWIFERY.* Ill huswifery lieth Till nine of the clock; To rise with the cock. Ill huswifery tooteth To make herself brave; What household must have. Ill huswifery trusteth To him and to her; Or other must crave: With gossip to spend; Her household to tend. Herself with unknown; Mad toys in her head; A shilling to nought; Her coffers full fraught. With plenty of meat. Thomas Tusser, a quaint writer, is supposed to have been born about 1515, at Rivenhall, in Essex. In 1557, he published his "Hundred Good Points of Husbandrie," from which the above is extracted Fler says of him that he "was successively a musician, schoolmaster, servingman, husbandman, grazier, poet-more skilful in all than thriving in any vocation."" INTERESTING VARIETIES. A swallow usually flies a mile a minute for ten hours a day. THERE is a prison in Paris occupied exclusively by women, who bake, mend and wash for all the other prisons. THE human voice has been heard across the Straits of Gibraltar, a distance of more than ten miles. This only happens in peculiar states of the weather. THE sound of thunder may be heard for 20 or 25 miles, or, with the ear to the ground, much more. Lightning is reflected 150 or 200 miles. IT is calculated that the birds of passage that visit the British Islands, consume 15 millions of insects per day, whose existence is promoted by our hedge-rows. AT each of the French passport-offices, a small camera is to be established, so that each person's likeness may be instantaneously taken, and thus the usually foolish description will be rendered unnecessary. AMERICA is calculated to contain half the use ful soil of the old continent, or about 10 millions of square miles, cach capable of supporting 350 persons, or four times the present population of the earth. THE herb ægilops, hitherto considered as worse than useless, grows abundantly on the shores of the Mediterranean. It produces a species of grain resembling wheat in form, but much smaller. By a few years' cultivation this weed has been perfected into an excellent wheat. CURIOUS properties of the Number Nine. I any row of two or more figures be reversed and subtracted from itself, the figures composing the remainder, will, when added horizontally, be a multiple of nine : ICELAND was discovered in 860; settled in 870; became an independent republic in 928; was Christianized in the year 1,000; in 1265 became voluntary subject to Norway; in 1387 fell, together with Norway, under the dominion of Denmark; and remains to this day a Danish province. For nine hundred years the dress, habits, mannners, and characters of the people (sixty thousand in number) have remained unchanged. In order to ascertain the height of an object, a peculiar method of measurement is in use among the Isthmus Indians. In measuring the height of a tree, for instance, a man proceeds from its base to a point where, on turning the back towards it, and putting the head between the legs, he can just see the top; at the spot where he is able to do this he makes a mark on the ground, and then paces the distance to the base of the tree: this distance is equal to the height. USEFUL RECEIPTS. To preserve Furs.-When laying up muffs and tippets for the summer, if a tallow candle be placed on or near them, all danger of caterpillars will be obviated. To clean Beads.-Mix up a small quantity of soft soap, spirits of turpentine, and powdered rottenstone. Lay it on the beads with a rag, and rub off with a bit of fine linen or leather. To take Mildew out of Linen.-Take soap and rub it well; then scrape some fine chalk, and rub that also in the linen; lay it on the grass; as it dries wet it a little, and it will come out at twice.-J. J. To make Crayons for Drawing.-Mix to one pint of boiling water three ounces of spermaceti, one pound of fine grond long ash with the colouring matter a suflicient quantity; roll out the paste, and when half dry cut it in pipes. J. H. M. To Varnish Plaster Figures. Take half an ounce of tin, half an ounce of bismuth, melt in a crucible, then add half an ounce of mercury. When perfectly combined, remove the mixture from the fire and let it cool. Mix with the white of an egg, and it forms a beautiful varnish. The figure to be dipped in it, and polished when dry. Stains of Wood.-The most effectual way of removing stains of most descriptions from wood, is to mix a quarter of an ounce of oil of vitriol with two ounces of water, and rub the stained surface with a cork dipped in this liquid, until the stains disappear: then wash with cold water. The colour of the wood is rendered pale for a time by this method, but it is brought up dis-again by rubbing with furniture paste. To make Walnut Wood Colour.-A given quantity of ceruse, half that quantity of ochre de rue, a little umber earth, red ochre, and yellow ochre de Berri, compose this colour proper for temper varnish, and oil.-A "SUBSCRIBER." To render Leather Waterproof.-Take of neat'sfoot and linseed oil two quarts, boil them two hours, then add six ounces of Indian-rubber, and let the whole boil until the rubber is dissolved. Apply, with a soft brush, a little at a time. Corrective of bad Water.-Five drops of sulphuric acid put into a full quart of bad water, will cause the noxious particles to fall to the bottom. The water should stand two hours; pour off about three parts for use, and throw the rest away. To drive away or prevent the approach of Caterpillars-Wrap up yellow or turpentine soap in paper, or place an open bottle containing spirits of turpentine within the wardrobe. But as the smell of the latter may be unpleasant, sprinkle bay-leaves, or wormwood, or lavender, or walnut-leaves, or rue, or black pepper, in grains. To preserve Flowers in Salt.-Common salt, three pounds; flowers, ten gallons. Beat them to a paste, and preserve it in wide-mouthed jars or bottles. This plan furnishes the perfumer with flowers at any season of the year. The scent is not only much improved, but the flowers rendered more suitable for the purposes of distillation.-J. J. Blacking to preserve Leather.—Take spermaceti oil, four ounces; molasses, twelve ounces; mix. Add by degrees twelve ounces of ivory-black, mixing it in smoothly, and rubbing it well, so as to leave no lumps; then add gradually a quart of the best white-wine vinegar. If too thick, add more vinegar; stir it hard, and let it stand in the jar three days, stirring frequently with a round stick. Bottle it for use. If still too thick, even when warmed at the fire, dilute with a little more vinegar,-A SUBSCRIBER. To give Plaster Figures the appearance of Marble.Dissolve one ounce of pure curd soap grated in four ounces of water in a glazed earthen vessel; add one ounce of white wax cut in thin slices. When the whole is incorporated, it is fit for use. Having dried the figure before the fire, suspend it has absorbed the varnish dip it a second it by a string, and dip it in the mixture; when time, and that generally suffices; cover it carefully from the dust for a week, then rub it gently with soft cotton wool, and you will have a brilliant shining gloss exactly resembling polished marble. by oxidation, a fine, green tint, called patina Bronzing.-Bronze of a good colour acquires antiqua. Corinthian brass receives, in this way, a beautiful clear, green colour. This appearance is imitated by an artificial process, called bronzTo stain Musical Instruments.-Crimson.-Boiling. A solution of sal-ammoniac and salt of one pound of ground Brazil-wood in three quarts sorrel in vinegar is used for bronzing metals. of water for an hour; strain it, and add half an Any number of layers may be applied, and the ounce of cochineal; boil it again for half an hour shade becomes deeper in proportion to the gently, and it will be fit for use. Purple.-Boil number applied. For bronzing sculptures of a pound of chip logwood in three quarts of water wood, plaster-figures, &c., a composition of for an hour; then add four ounces of alum.- yellow ochre, Prussian blue, and lamp-black, W. COLES. dissolved in glue-water, is employed -J. J., Leeds. To make Oak Wood Colour.-The basis of this colour is still formed of ceruse. Three-fourths of this oxide, and a fourth of ochre de rue, umber earth, and yellow de Berri; the last three ingredients being employed in proportions which lead to the required tint, give a matter equally To Clean and Starch Point Lace.-Fix the lace in a prepared tent, draw it straight, make a warm lather of Castile soap, and, with a fine brush dipped in, rub over the point gently; and when it is clean on one side, do the same to the other: then throw some clean water on it, in which a little alum has been dissolved, to take off the suds, and having some thin starch, go over with the same on the wrong side, and iron it on the same side when dry, then open it with a bodkin and set it in order. To clean point lace, if not very dirty, without washing; fix it in a tent as the former, and go over with fine bread, the crust being pared off, and when it is done, dust out the crumbs, &c.-J. H. M. Black Dye for Woods, Veneers, &c.-Steep the wood for two or three days in water, if possible, keeping it warm all the time, the water having had a little alum dissolved in it so that it tastes rough; then put a handful of logwood, cut small, into a pint of water and boil it down to less than half a pint; if a little indigo is added the colour will be more beautiful. Spread a layer of this liquor quite hot on the wood with a brush, which will give it a violet colour. When dry spread on another layer, dry it again and give it a third, then boil verdigris at diseretion in vinegar, and spread a layer of it on the wood; when it is dry rub with a brush, and then with oiled chamois skin. This forms a good imitation of ebony wood.-W. COLES. For Cleaning Wainscots, and other Painted Woods. Four ounces of potass, and four ounces of powdered quick-lime are to be mixed together, and boiled for half an hour in three quarts of water; this mixture is to stand until it is cold and quite clear; the clear liquid is then poured off, and a painter's brush dipped into it is to be passed over the surface of the wood, in the same way as for painting, immediately afterwards washing with cold water. This mode of cleaning will frequently render a new coat of paint unnecessary, and it has the advantage of being destructive to the eggs of insects which may be deposited in the interstices of the wood; where there is reason to suspect that bugs are in the wood, it may be well, as an additional precaution, to add to the mixture two drachms of corrosive sublimate Balloons from Turkeys' Crops.-Free the crop from a thick coat of fat; turn the inside out, and wash the food away; soak it in water for a day or two, then lay it on a cloth, and with a bone or knife scrape off the internal coat of the stomach, wash it well, and dry it with a clean cloth; then turn the crop, and make an incision through the external coats, taking particular care not to cut through the membrane; draw the coats at once over the neck, which must be cut long for greater convenience in using the balloon when finished. Proceed with the other neck in the same way; tie it firm with silk, and cut it close to the body of the balloon; it must be then distended with wind and hung up to dry. It may then be painted and varnished, but will not require it if properly prepared. It may be made large enough to contain a gallon of gas, and so light as to weigh only thirty grains. To Clean Paper-Hangings.-Cut into eight half quarters a stale quartern loaf; with one of these pieces, after having blown off all the dust from the paper to be cleaned by means of a good pair of bellows, begin at the top of the room, holding the crust in the hand, and wiping lightly downward with the crumb about half a yard at each stroke, till the upper part of the hangings is completely cleaned all round; then go again round with the like sweeping stroke downward, always commencing each successive course a little higher than the upper stroke had extended till the bottom be finished. This operation, if carefully performed, will frequently make very old paper look almost equal to new. Great caution must be used not by any means to rub the paper hard, nor to attempt cleaning it the cross or horizontal way. The dirty part of the bread too must be each time cut away, and the pieces renewed as soon as at all necessary. Stains of Metals.-When metals are rusty, or covered with verdigris, which has entered the substance, they are to be rubbed with sand or emery, or even filed, if the oxidation be deep; the polish is then to be restored by an impalpable powder of emery, moistened with oil, and cleaned off with a leather covered with whiting. Silver, gold, or tin, which is stained by any sulphurous emanation, should first be washed with water slightly acidulated with vinegar, and then rubbed with fine tripoli or whiting. Almost all the powder which is sold for cleaning plate is mixed with mercury, and is therefore in some degree objectionable. The fine colcothar of vitriol used by painters, is, however, a good plate powder. Another and very excellent mode of cleaning plate, is to rub it, after having washed it clean, with a piece of cloth prepared in the following manner :-Cut a yard of coarse calico into four, and boil it in a quart of water with two ounces of calcined, powdered, and sifted hartshorn, till all the liquid is absorbed. Sulphur Coins, to make.-Prepare first the requisite moulds of both sides of the coin, by pouring plaster of Paris on each side alternately. Make a line, or other mark, on each mould, to show the position that they are afterwards to be placed in, that the heads and devices may be in such a position relative to each other, as they are in the original coin. Then melt some sulphur, (that is best which has been melted two or three times before, so that it has acquired a light brown colour.) When ready to pour, hold the two moulds at the proper distance from each other, according to the thickness of the coin, and with the marks of both in a line with each other, and wind round the edge of the moulds & strip of card, in such a manner that the card sha!! go very nearly round them; a small vacuity only being left at the top. This being prepared, hold the card between the fingers and thumb, then pour in the sulphur, and as it shrinks, pour in more, until the space between the moulds is full. It will immediately congeal, and when removed, it will be found to have taken a fine impression from the moulds, and to have all the sharpness of the original coin. When taken out, it may be trimmed with a knife around the edges, for sulphur has the property of remaining soft for some considerable time after melting. To give the artificial coins clearness, and an appearance of antiquity, they must be rubbed all over with blacklead, and then the blacklead removed from the more prominent ports with a soft damp rag. A fine metallic appearance is given to medals by varnishing over the blacklead surface with a weak solution of dragon's blood in spirits of wine, instead of partially rubbing the blacklead off. The moulds must of course be damped previously to using. |