thousand pensioners, who sold their pensions and emigrated within these last two years, have, from want of industrious habits, suffered the greatest misery. A Report, by the Emigration Committee of Quebec, as to their situation, states, that they must have brought with them, or received here since they arrived, probably about L.10,000; and, we believe, that few will assert that they are not now, in general, in a worse condition than they could have possibly been at home. But it is not necessary that the emigrant, to enable him to succeed in Canada, should be acquainted with agriculture. The method of cultivating the land is 30 different from that followed in Britain, that the knowledge of the system of agriculture in use in this country is comparatively of little value. A Scotch agriculturist has no knowledge of the clearing of land as practised in Upper Canada, or of the cultivation of Indian corn and pumpkins, two of the most valuable crops cultivated in that country. With sobriety, industry, and perseverance, every one who can use his hands may insure success; without these qualities he can no more expect to succeed in Canada than he can in Britain. We have some farther remarks to make on the subject of emigration to Canada; but we shall, at present, conclude with the following Extract of a Letter from an Officer's Widow, dated Township of Orillia, near Lake Simcoe, Upper Canada, 25th January 1833: "About two months ago, the Indians took it into their heads to complain to the Governor, that the white people occupied too many of the houses, and they insisted on all of them leaving the village of the Narrows. We had just engaged two men to chop five acres, and we got them to put up a shanty on our own lot, which they did in a few days, and we entered it when the snow was knee deep. I considered it a great hardship to be dislodged from the village, fearing the winter in a shanty in the woods, but I have regretted ever since that it did not happen sooner, as I am much more comfortable in every respect. It is only a temporary and rough log hut, such as all the families in these townships who came out last spring are living in, until their houses are ready-but we have made it warm and comfortable. We have plenty of water and fuel, and are secured from the cold by these majestic woods; and for the delighted feeling of independence! to look around and say this is all your own; no landlord, coal merchant, or shopkeeper dunning you for money-no fear of any thing disagreeable. The heart is light, knowing that in a year or two, with a little money, common prudence, and industry, one may enjoy every comfort any reasonable person would desire. We have fairly commenced our operations, and the trees are falling around us. Our choppers are young Scotch Highlanders, froma township on the opposite side of the lake, where they are numerous. They have been eleven years in the country, and are well acquainted with all the usual operations, and are civil, decent men. The plan followed by settlers is, to contract with a person to chop, that is, to cut down the trees, hew them into lengths 12 feet long, and pile all the tops into heaps, ready for burning, for seven dollars (30s.) an acre, they finding themselves in provisions. This is done during winter. You again contract, that in the end of April they log and clear the land that is, draw the logs together with oxen, burn them, fence, harrow, and sow the ground, for from seven or eight dollars per acre. We have got nearly five acres chopped, and intend to get other five acres done. These men (their fathers being masons and carpenters) are to have the contract for our house, which will cost about L.25, except, perhaps, the partitions, which require well-seasoned wood but I think it will include the whole. The situation must be fixed on, and the timber cut in March or April; and perhaps the shell put up, but nothing more done till after seed time. We shall have Indian corn, potatoes, turnips, pease, oats and pumpkins, but no wheat, till the autumn, as spring wheat does not thrive so well. We must have a yoke of oxen, two cows, pigs and poultry as soon as vegetation appears, for then they cost neither trouble nor expense, except to cut down a basswood tree that the cattle may eat the hops, and treat them with a little salt. It is astonishing to see how simply every thing animate and inanimate, is managed in this country. Every thing is made of wood; all is done with the axe-a different weapon, however, from the English axe. One hundred pounds would cover the above, but would not admit of more improvements. The average expense of land till you receive your crop, is L.4, 10s, to L.5, per acre, when you hire labourers to clear it; but every one here says, the first crop of Fall wheat will more than repay the outlay. We have this yet to prove; all that I can say is, that I am more and more satisfied with my plan, but it must be understood, that it requires at least L.300 to enable a genteel family to come out; L.100 for outfit and passage, L. 100 to reach the ground and live a year, and L.100 to carry through the operations to build a house, clear the land, reap a crop, and pay the first instalment of the price of the land. There is not a settler here who is well-inclined, active, and respectable in his conduct, who would wish to return to Great Britain with much greater advantages. Persons too refined, as lawyers, &c., would do no good; nor doctors, for the people, are very healthy. Industrious mechanics, particularly shoemakers, would be a treasure. Shoes we are much in want of. Even these for women cost 10s. per pair. "We have had a most delightful winter, except for a few days. We have felt no cold though up to the knees in snow. The woods are warm, and there is no wind. Every thing is dry; the snow may be knocked about like dust. I wander about in the woods with nothing on but what I have in the house; but this winter I understand has been very favourable. I am afraid all the best government land here is taken up, and the company's land has risen to 10s, and 12s. 6d., currency, per acre, according to quality. There is plenty of pine-land vacant, but nobody likes it. Several townships, however, are to be settled this year not far from here, in which there is plenty of good land." THE following extracts are from letters from persons who have, within these few years, gone from England to settle in Upper Canada. The first is dated “ January 16, 1833, St. Thomas, Talbot Road, Upper Canada." St. Thomas is a village, about 150 miles from York :— "Wheat harvest is over, I never saw finer crops. We had three acres of wheat, three of oats and pease; and next year we shall have more than double that quantity. As we increase our tillage, so we increase our stock. We milk three cows, and are rearing three calves. Last winter was a very long one, but i did not suffer more from the cold than at home. We kept large fires day and night. The snow was on the ground from the than 18 inches thick. middle of November to the beginning of April; but never more We fed the cattle on the tops of trees. of which they are very fond, particularly of young beech, ele maple, and bass wood. We have plenty of sugar maple here. We made about 200 cwt. of beautiful sugar. We tapped about 100 trees with an inch augur, and with a shoot carried the sup which flowed out into small troughs; and, after boiling the sap, in about ten days we had the sugar as good as we could wish. I wish I had come over 30 years ago. Although we are the people are industrious, we are sure to do well; for there it 700 miles back in the woods, there is no want of any thing. If Dodd, for 875 acres of land, has only paid six shillings. We no tithe, and very little taxes. We have not paid any yet; have six large stores in the village, that will take all coin, outs, and pork, paying half in cash, and the other half in such artcles as you may require from the Store." and The following is given as a list of the prices of provisions, reckoning the sovereign at 38s. New York currency so that the amount in English money would be but little more than half set down here: "Wheat, 8s., corn and oats, 4s., potatoes, 3s., pease, 4. per bushel. Beef, mutton, and veal, 5d. per lb. Beer and Cider, 1. per quart, whisky, ditto; rum, 2s. 6d. best French Bran dy, 8s., Hollands, 6s. Cider however will in a year or two be very low, as almost every farmer has planted an orchard, and the trees grow twice as fast here as they do at home, and bear home as I do here, and mother has not been stronger these 20 most excellent fruit. I never enjoyed my health so well st years than she is at present. We are very busy now in burning the trees we have cut down, to prepare the ground for wheat. We take but little trouble with our breech after the logs are burnt, we do not plough the ground the first year. We Bow one bushel of wheat and drag it in, and we get better crops I have surmised he has his furniture, &c.; he has consumed than you do with all your trouble of ploughing and dressing. two hundred and sixty pounds, and he has forty pounds left, They sow in general six pecks of oats per acre, and they are as which is to serve him in addition to what he may grow. Not thick at harvest as yours of five bushels an acre sowing. Our having bands enough to clear more than five acres in each pease produce better crops than yours, and I think both our year, unless he increases his annual expense by hiring men-say, green and dry of better quality than yours in England. We at the end of four years he has thirty acres cleared, twenty of don't plough down the potatoes, but put four close together and which he has under wheat. The average crops upon fresh draw a little earth over them with a hoe about the size of a mole cleared land being twenty-five bushels to the acre; this, if taken hill, leaving the hills three or four feet apa t, and thus we get to market, will produce four shillings per bushel. The remaingood crops. We make our own candles and soap, as it is neces- ing ten acres must be kept for spring crops, grass, &c.; as in sary to do every thing one can for ones self in a country where all probability his stock has increased. It will be necessary to labour is so high-a labouring man will not work on a farm for mention, that the whole of these calculations are made in curless than 6s. per day, a carpenter or mason, 12. a day (currency, our adventurers means are somewhat greater than might rency.) The reason of this is, that as soon as they have saved appear at first view." a few dollars, they become landed proprietors, by purchasing one hundred acres of land at 24 dollars an acre, paying one quarter down, and the rest in small instalments, which allow them eight or nine years to complete their purchase, paying 7 per cent.. however, for interest. Postscript.-I wrote the above last fall; since then 2000 emigrants have come out. We have had no winter. Christmas has been as mild as May. We have paid no taxes yet, but I had notice yesterday, and Joseph took his rifle and went out by the corn rick, and shot a wild turkey, and sold it for five shillings, and that paid our taxes at once.' Among the miscellaneous information of this letter, we learn that there are two newspapers in this village, so that the emigrants get all the news of "home" in five or six weeks after date; they have four doctors, who, however, have not work enough for one, as there is little doing in the village, except in the obstetric department of the art, and this is chiefly managed by the matrons. The second letter is dated, Peterborough, Newcastle District, Upper Canada, 22d January, 1833. "Another description of setler is that individual who possesses means, having L.300 or L.400, and a large family. At home the amount is considered quite sufficient. Now, let us see how it can be best appropriated. We must, in order to come to a close calculation, name the extent of his family,-say, a man, his wife, and five children. Suppose the children are not of a working age. The expense of fitting himself out, and that whic is incurred by reaching the upper province, will dip deep into one hundred pounds. However, it brings him to the town or village which is nearest to the land that he may purchase. This will not be at a less distance than from 15 to 20 miles of the aforesaid town or village; otherwise, the price will increase from 5s. per acre to 20s. or 30s. After several expensive trips into the Bush, (for he is compelled to take a guide with him at 7s. 6d. per day.) this excursion will, as it must be made on foot, occupy the best part of a week, and he may think himself fortunate if he succeeds in making his selection, without further loss of time, trouble, aud expense. However, let us commence with this charge... Bui'ding his house or shanty........ This £. s. d. 4 0 0 12 10 5 0 35 30 It will be necessary to lay in flour and pork, for one year.... Having now got up his house, and ten acres cleared, he crops it, with potatoes, Indian corn, pumpkins, grass seed, and what will make fodder for his eow and oxen; by the next year he purchases them, and during the growth of them, he is compelled to hire a man to assist him in chopping down, logging, and burning five acres more. One year's hire for this man and his keep, cannot be less than....... He now buys his cow and a yoke of oxen, say He must build a barn; otherwise his produce is not safe...... Remaining payments to be paid in course of three years, and interest................... Currency...... 00 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 L.222 10 0 .37 10 0 L.260 0 0 JOURNAL OF A SCIENTIFIC LADY, AH! my dearest Anna; you, who are still enjoying, at the College, the lecture of the most elegant of all Professors; you, who thrice a-week witness his ingenious experiments; you, who perhaps at this moment are inhaling the gas of nitrous oxide, or gas of Paradise; how do I envy your sensations and associations. Most joyfully do I sit down to perform my promise of noting an account of my journey to Rothsay; not to indulge in the frivolous tittletattle to which many of our sex are addicted, but to attempt a scientific journal worthy of our studies. Nothing occurred on the road worthy of mentioning; the indications of the barometer, the mean temperature of the thermometer, and the contents of the pluviometer, will be found in the table we have agreed to interchange weekly. The day after our arrival, we dined with our friends the S- -s, where we had the scapula of the ovis, or shoulder of mutton, with a sauce of macerated cæpe; two birds of the gallinaceous tribe, served with sysimbriam, or watercresses, and the customary vegetables, brassica, lactura, and spinacia, through none of which the aqueous fluid had been sufficiently allowed to percolate. There was also soup, which retained so considerable a portion of caloric that it scalded my palati epidermis; and the piper nigrim, or black pepper, with which it was seasoned, occasioned an unpleasant titillation in the whole oral region. In the afternoon the water in the kettle not having been raised to 212° Fahrenheit, or the point at which evaporation takes place, the thea viridis, or green tea, formed an imperfect solution, in which state I believe its diaphoretic qualities are injurious. Mrs. S declared that she never drank any thing but the simple element; but I informed her if she meant water, it was not a simple element, but composed of oxygen and hydrogen; and I availed myself of this opportunity to instruct her that the atmospheric air is also a mixture, containing about 73 parts of azotic, and 27 of oxygen gas; at which the ignorant creature only exclaimed, "Well, I have myself seen a good many red gashes across the sky, particularly at sun-set." But, my dearest Anna, I may confess to you, that I am more and more horrified at the sad blunders of mamma, who has not, like us, received the advantages of a scientific education; and yet she will every now and then catch a word which she fancies she understands, and betrays the most pitiable ignorance. When I was describing a resinous matter, obtained by precipitation, she shook her head and exclaimed, “Impossible, child; nothing is ever gotten by precipitation; your poor father was ever telling you not to do things in such a hurry." And once, when Professor Jameson shewed me a lump of mineral earth, I inquired whether it was friable; she ejaculated, "Friable, you simpleton: no, nor boilable either; why it is not good to eat." These are but a few specimens of her lamentable ignorance; in point of acute misapprehension, she exceeds Mrs. Malaprop herself; and you cannot conceive the painful humiliation I am continually subjected to by such exposures. As to experiments, I have not yet ventured on many; for having occasioned, a small solution of continuity in the skin of my forefinger, by an accidental incision, I have been obliged to apply a styptic, secured by a ligature; by placing some butter, however, in a temperature of 96, I succeeded in reducing it to a state of diliquescence, and by the usual refrigerating pro A singular change in his constitution now took place. He lost entirely the power of eating; his jaws were set, and his teeth so closely clenched, that every attempt to force open his mouth with instruments failed. Having ac cidentally observed an opening in his teeth, made by the action of the tobacco-pipe, and usual with great smokers, they succeeded in pouring some tent wine into his throat through a quill. During forty-six days, he subsisted on about three pints or two quarts of tent; and during all that period he had no alvine evacuation. cess, I believe I should have converted it into a gelatine, but that it refused to coagulate, doubtless owing to some fault in the apparatus. You are aware that a phosphorescent light emanates from some species of fish in an incipient state of putrefaction, to which has been attributed the irridescent appearance of the sea at certain seasons. To illus trate this curious property, I hoarded a mackarel in a closet for several days; and it was already beginning to be most interestingly luminous, when mamma who had for some days been complaining of a horrid stench in the house, discovered my hidden treasure, and ordered it to be thrown on the dung- At the end of seventeen weeks, viz., about the 7th of hill, observing, she expected sooner or later, to be poisoned by August, he awoke, dressed himself, and walked about the my nasty nonsense; but mamma has no nose for experimen- room, being perfectly unconscious that he had slept more tal philosophy; no more have I, you will say, for yesterday, than one night. Nothing, indeed, could make him believe as I was walking with a prism before my eyes, comparing the that he had slept so long, till, upon going to the fields, he different rays of the spectrum with the Newtonian theory, saw crops of barley and oats ready for the sickle, which he I came full bump against an open door, which drove the remembered were only sown when he last visited them. sharp edge of the glass against the cartilaginous projection Although his flesh was somewhat diminished by so long of the nose, occasioning much sternutation and a considera fast, yet he was said to look brisker than he had ever able discharge of blood from the nasal emanatories. By done before. He felt no inconvenience whatever from his nitrate of silver I have also formed some chrystals of Diana, long confinement, and he had not the smallest recollection and I have been eminently successful in making detonating of any thing that had happened. He accordingly entered powder; although the last explosion happening to occur just again upon his rural occupations, and continued to enjoy as our neighbour James Heaviside was reading of the tre- good health till the morning of the 17th of August, 1697, inendous thunderbolt that fell in the gentleman's garden at when he experienced a coldness and shivering in his back; Alloa, he took it for granted he was visited by a similar and, after vomiting once or twice, he again fell into ha phenomenon, and in the apprehension shuffled down stairs former state of somnolency. on his nether extremity (being prevented from walking by the gout) ejaculating all the way, "Lord have mercy upon us." Upon learning the cause of his alarm, he declared the blue-stocking hussey (meaning me) ought to be sent to the tread-mill, and mamma says I shall be indicted for a nuisance. I have done nothing yet in botany; the extreme cold of the early season makes it impossible to find plants, having only picked up a few specimens of the bellis order, “polygamia superfiua," vulgo the daisy. And now, my dearest Anna, adieu. You will receive this by my cousin George, who goes to Edinburgh to-morrow; but as the youth is of the bashful species, I fear, in spite of my lecture, he will commit it to the penny post, not having the honour of your acquaintance. Once more adieu, and believe me ever yours most truly. H. C. INTERESTING CASE OF SOMNOLENCY. SAMUEL Chilton, an inhabitant of the village of Tinsbury, near Bath, was a labourer of a robust habit of body, though not corpulent, and had reached the 25th year of his age. When apparently in perfect health, he fell into a profound sleep on the 13th May, 1694, and every method which was tried to rouse him proved unsuccessful. His mother ascribed his conduct to sullenness of temper; and dreading that he would die of hunger, placed within his reach bread and cheese, and small beer; and though no person ever saw him eat or drink during a whole month, yet the food set before him was daily consumed. At the end of a month, he rose of his own accord, put on his clothes, and resumed his usual labours in the field. Dr. William Oliver, to whom we owe the preservation of these remarkable facts, happened to be at Bath, and hear ing of so singular a case, set out, on the 23d of August, to inquire into its history. On his arrival at Tinsbury, he found Chilton asleep, with bread and cheese, and a cup of beer, placed on a stool within his reach. His pulse was regular, though a little too strong, and his respiration free. He was in "a breathing sweat," with an agreeable warmth over his body. Dr. Oliver bawled into his ear, pulled his shoulders, pinched his nose, stopped his mouth and nose together; but, notwithstanding this rude treatment be evinced no indications of sensibility. Impressed with the belief that the whole was "a cheat," Dr. Oliver lifted up his eyelids and found the eyeballs drawn up under his brows and perfectly motionless. He held a phial containing spirit of sal ammoniac under one nostril a considerable time; but though the doctor could not bear it for a moment under his own nose without making his eyes water, the sleeping patient was insensible to its pungency. The ammoniacal spirit was then thrown up his nostrils, to the amount of about half an ounce; but though it was " as strong almost tremble, and his nose run. as fire itself," it only made the patient's eyelids shiver and doctor crammed the same nostril with the powder of white Thus baffled in every attempt to rouse him, our ruthless hellebore; and finding this equally inactive, he was per fectly convinced that no imposter could have remained insensible to such applications, and that Chilton was really overpowered with sleep. In the state in which Dr. Oliver left him, various gentle men from Bath went to see him; but his mother would not permit the repetition of any experiments. but On the 2d of September, Mr. Woolmer, an experienced apothecary, went to see him, and finding his pulse pretty high, he took fourteen ounces of blood from his arm; neither at the opening of the vein, nor during the flow of the blood, did he make the smallest movement. After a lapse of nearly two years, namely, on the 9th of April, 1696, he was overtaken with excessive sleep. He was now bled, blistered, cupped, and scarified, and the most irritating medicines applied externally; but they were unIn consequence of his mother removing to another house, able to rouse or even to irritate him, and during a fortChilton was carried down stairs when in this fit of somnenight he was never seen to open his eyes. He ate, however, lency. His head accidentally struck against a stone, and re as before, of the food which was placed near him, and perceived such a severe blow, that it was much cut; but he formed the other functions which were required; but no person ever saw any of those acts, though he was sometimes found fast asleep with his mouth full of food. In this condition he lay ten weeks. *The above is, we presume, written in ridicule of the attempts lateI made to give women a better and more useful education. It is silly sooth," and so perfectly harmles, that we re-publish it with. out the least apprehenion of mischie'. It wal scarce even create a laugh. gave no indications whatever of having felt the blow. Dr. Oliver again visited him in his new house; and, after try ing again some of his former stimulants, he saw a gentle man who accompanied him "run a large pin into the arm of Chilton to the very bone, without his being sensibli of it. During the whole of this long fit he was never se to eat or drink, though generally ouce a-day, or sometimes once in two days, the food which stood by him had disap peared. Such was the condition of our patient till the 19th November, when his mother having heard a noise, ran up to his room and found him eating. Upon asking him how he was, he replied, " Very well, thank God." She then asked him whether he liked bread and butter or bread and cheese best. He answered, bread and cheese. She immediately left the room to convey the agreeable intelligence to his brother; but upon their return to the bed-room, they found him as fast asleep as ever, and incapable of being roused by any of the means which they applied. From this time his sleep seems to have been less profound; for though he continued in a state of somnolency till the end of January, or the beginning of February, yet he seemed to hear when they called him by his name; and though he was incapable of returning an answer, yet they considered him as sensible to what said. His eyes were less closely shut, and frequent tremors were seen in his eyelids. About the beginning of February, Chilton awoke in perfect health, having no recollection whatever of any thing that had happened to him during his loug sleep. The only complaint he made was, that the cold pinched him more than usual. He returned, accordingly, to his labours in the field, and, so far as we can learn, he was not again attacked with this singular disease. DR. PRIESTLEY--A numerous and highly respectable meeting of nearly two hundred gentlemen of Birmingham and its vicinity, was lately held to celebrate by a public dinner the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Dr. Priestley. The Reverend John Corrie, President of the Birmingham Philosophical Society, was in the Chair. Several excellent speeches were made by the Chairman, and the other Dissenting ministers of Birmingham and the neighbouring towns. The great change in the feelings of the people since the time of the Church-and-King riots which drove Priestley across the Atlantic, was especially pointed out; and the late meeting in London, held for the purpose of doing honour to his scientific acquirements and discoveries, and which was attended by so many eminent men of science, was adduced as a gratifying proof of the increasing liberality of the age. The memory of Priestley was drunk in silence; and Mr. Joseph Parkes, in returning thanks, paid a just and warm tribute to his virtues as a public and private man. He said that "The purity of Dr. Priestley's personal character and his private virtues were never even questioned by a virulent press, or the tongue of slander. He was indebted to his own single exertions, unaided by factitious circumstances of birth and fortune, for his distinguished literary eminence and scientific reputation. To use the language of the Roman, Dr. Priestley was born of himself,' and could boast no aristocratic lineage he was essentially a self-educated man. who had derived no advantages from academical education. His own zealous love of truth and science raised him to celebrity. Mr. Corrie, and the recent meeting of the first men of science in London, had done ample justice to his promotion of science and philosophy. Mr. Parkes would not involve the unanimity of the meeting by any ill-timed or illiberal allusion to Dr. Priestley's particular political or religious opinions; but it was due to that illustrious man to say, that truth was the great and single object of all his intellectual exertions-that the freedom of discussion and opinion which he claimed for himself he desired to extend to all mankind-and that he boldly maintained civil and religious liberty, in the most unrestricted sense, to be the right of all men in all countries. The war of opinion which burst out on the first French Revolution involved the characters of many great public men in temporary prejudice and persecution, but the political opinions of Dr. Priestley were now the practical views of the present generation; and to him was especially due the merit of exciting public attention to the injustice of the civil disabilities of the Protestant Dissenters, now so happily erased from the Statute-book of England. The memory of the Reverend Robert Hall was drank in the course of the evening; and the Reverend Mr. Berry, who spoke to the toast, as a friend of Mr. Hall, related the following anecdote of that eminent man. "Travelling with the venerable and learned Andrew Fuller in a coach from Bristol to London, the conversation turned on political topics. Mr. Hall was told that there was a probability of speedily obtaining a Reformed Parliament; on which he said, Sir, I should think nothing of walking a thousand miles barefoot, to be beheaded at the end of my journey, if so desirable an end could be accomplished.' (Cheers.) To which Mr. Fuller humorously replied I think Brother Hall, you would walk mighty slow."" THE TRUE POET. I AM a Poet of right sort; I hate your lazy sullen shade, Nor do I know that phantom jade The sunny field is my delight, From dawn to dark, there pleas'd I write Two doughty mares my muses are; Each step's a word; my line a fur; The couplet is a drill. My ridges, too, they that are skill'd, I count a noble volume. Manuring is my preface good; My argument is sowing; And harrowing, though rough and rude, Is lines both full and flowing. And thus complete in each respect, Whose glowing colours, type correct, Three brothers, of divine descent, Do honour me my works to print: Till plump and hard the pickle grows, With harden'd hand and eager look, For sheet and quire, by sheaf and stook, And plies his work with quick dispatch, Till every thing's complete: And sure, bound up with rape and thack, And now my critics, flail and mill, A quick demand I'm sure to have; My readers, with me, vow I'm right— But still pursue, with new delight, A. PLOUGH MAN. [The above sturdy verses were lately sent to the Schoolmaster. We publish them not without certain misgivings of their being original; but if this suspicion be erroneous, we beg the poet to construe our doubts into compliments to his vigour and originality.] SCIENTIFIC NOTICES. CAUTION TO ALL WHO VALUE THEIR EYES. into the milk-pan, or the milk be put into a vessel made of that substance, the same quantity of milk will yield a greater quantity of cream or butter. EASY MODE OF FINE EDGING RAZORS-On the rough side of a strap of leather, or on the undressed calf-skin binding of a book, rub a piece of tin, or a common pewter spoon, for half a minute, or till the leather become glossy with half a dozen times, it will acquire a finer edge than by any the metal. If the razor be passed over this leather about other method. THE MODERN BROWNIE; OR, THE LITTLE MAN WI' THE BRAID BANNET. THE first thing to be attended to is a careful regulation of the use of the eyes, in regard to the length of time, as far as this is practicable; entire disuse of them suddenly would be almost injurious as a continued straining of them beyond their capabilities. They should, therefore, be variously employed, as much as this can be done, not applying them too long, or too intently, to the same object, but relieving them by change of scene and diversity of occupation. Another means that will be found to be beneficial, and to help In a Scottish provincial paper, we learn that this wee, the eyes where much relaxation cannot be obtained, consists wee, man" was last seen between Dumblane and Stirling. in shutting them now and then while at work, going into It is, however, well known, that he waylays travellers on the air, looking out of a window, especially if there are almost every cross-road in the three kingdoms. His ap. trees or verdure within sight. This interval of rest, though pearance near Stirling is described as follows:-We under only of a few minutes' continuance, will be found greatly to stand, that of late much has been reported in the district relieve the eyes, and enable them to resume their employ-tain personage on the public road betwixt Stirling and to which it refers, regarding the felonious exploits of a cer ment with comparative pleasure. A third caution is, that Dumblane, familiarly termed "the Little Mannie wi' the those who are conscious from experience, that their sight braid bannet," owing to his antique and uniform appear. has been weakened by its severe and protracted exercise, or ance to the several wights benighted by the way, and whe had been relieved of the burden of their orra pennies by lis arising from any other cause, should carefully avoid all atnefarious acts in the vicinity of the Bridge of Allan. One tention to minute objects, or such business or study as refact deserves to be mentioned:-Late in the evening quires close application to the visual faculty immediately Wednesday seʼennight, a rather errant and wayward knight on rising; and the less it taxed for a while after eating, of the shuttle arrived at his humble domicile in Dumblane or by candle light, the better. The fourth means I have from Stirling, in a piteous plight. He stated to his wife that he had been robbed of his all, with the exception of a already recommended, viz., bathing the eyes frequently few coppers, near Lecrop Bridge, by a "little auld man wi through the day, with cold water. Though the effect of a braid bannet," and thanked his stars that his wab and life this simple remedy may, for a time, be hardly perceptible, were not also away. The poor wight being all bespattered yet, if duly persevered in, I can vouch for its producing the with mud, and several parts of his body bearing the marks happiest results. So long as there is no actual disease in of contusion, his better half credited his story, but rallied him next morning rather sharply on his permitting “a little the eyes, only cold water should be used-and this, ap-auld mannie wi' a braid bannet to tak' his siller," sering plied in the gentlest manner, will soon become sufficiently that he himself was young, and a "big and buirdly chiel:" tepid for all the ends of utility and comfort.-Curtis on the besides his hat would resist a blow better than a bannet, Eye. however braid that bannet might be. All this was enough at his own fireside; but the fool must tell all to his acquaintances, with exaggerated particulars of the robbery. The "wives o' Dumblane," however, wished not to see "pair Michael" too severely handled by his companions d of doors, and excused his cowardice on this occasion. by observing that better men than he, to their certain knowledge, have been robbed of more than 5s. by "THE Little Auld Mannie wi' the braid bannet," betwixt Stirling and Dunblane. Now, good courteous reader, you no doubt desire to know something more, of this extraor dinary Little Mannie." Be assured then that he has the power, and has often exercised it, of knocking a man down, without ever laying hands upon him-and that there is some truth in the remarks made by an old toper of the "auncient citie" to his rib, that this wonderful "Little Mannie" was the least of all his tribe. "But what is he like, Tam?" inquired the wife impatiently."Why, Jenny, he replied, "if ye maan ken, of a' the things in the warld, he's likest to a gill stoup." OPTICAL WONDERS. People laugh at the story of Argus with a hundred eyes; but what was even Argus to some insects? The cornea of insects seems cut into a num ber of little planes or facets, like the facets of a diamond, presenting the appearance of net-work, and each of these facets is supposed to possess the power and properties of an eye. Lewenhoeck counted in the cornea of a beetle 3,181 of these facets, of a horse-fly 8,000, and of the grey drone fly 14,000. CREAM AND BUTTER.-If we are to believe the following notice, our Highland Society, as an economical Board, is beat hollow. We are told, for we have not seen the publication, that the Repertory of Patent Inventions, contains a notice of a novel and ingenious method of obtaining cream from milk, founded upon the system acted upon in Devonshire, for obtaining what is called "clotted" or "clouted cream," and which is well known to many to be very delicious. Mr. Carter, of Nottingham Lodge, near Eltham, Kent, the originator of the new process, gives, in the Repertory, a description of the machine which he constructed, and by which he obtained from four gallons of milk, in twenty-four hours, four and a half pints of clotted cream, which, after churning only fifteen minutes, gave forty ounces of butter, being an increase over the ordinary method of 124 per. cent. in cream, and upwards of 11 per cent. in butter. If this be so, our dairy farmers should look to it. ZINC MILK-PAILS.—Among the patents recently taken ont in America one is for a process for extracting cream from milk by the use of zinc. It is said that if zinc be put weil LADY LOUISA'S Cow. During the last war, when that truly worthy General, Lord John Lennox, was Governor of Plymouth, he gave strict orders that the green in front of the Government-house should not be trespassed upon, and the sentry had orders not to allow any one to walk on it, or Alderney cow. any cattle to graze, except Lady Louisa's favourite little Shortly after, the lady of the Port-Admiral going to call at the Government-house, was crossing the green, when the sentry stopped her Ladyship, who remark ed to him, that perhaps he was not aware that she was the Admiral's Lady. "I don't care, Ma'am, who you be," said the man," or if you be the Admiral's Lady or his Wife, you must stop, for I know you are not Lady Louisa's Alderney Cow,' |