genuity enough to plant some where none at present exists, will derive from their shade and balmy perspiration, all the advantages which the nabob derives from his cloth summer house, water, engines, and servants, and at no expense at all. The health will be benefitted in the same degree that comfort is promoted. Heat, oftentimes alone, but sometimes in conjunction with other agents, is the common cause of fever. The inhabitants of houses exposed by position and by want. of shades, and particularly the unhappy tenants of lodging rooms annexed, as is oftentimes the case here, to the west side of a house, or of a second story that has small or high windows, are usually its victims, while those better exposed to the summer breezes, and better protected from the sun, usually escape. The town of Edenton has been rendered much healthier than formerly by having its streets and houses shaded by trees. The vicinity of trees to buildings has been objected to, because it is said they will occasion the latter to rot. Indeed!! Then are not health and comfort objects for which houses are built? and it is not the fact that they occasion houses to rot, unless they confine dampness to the north side of a house, where they are never wanted; on every side, if they are not too close to prevent the circulation of the air, if their branches do not rest upon the houses, they have a contrary effect. Those then who sacrifice their health and comfort to prolong the existence of a few shingle, manifest a folly and receive a punishment that commonly awaits the narrow principles of avarice. 3. To preserve buildings from danger by Fire. Shingles, by being suddenly wetted and as suddenly dried by a hot sun, very soon suffer a change that gives them the nature of spunk; a spark of fire falling on this is very liable to produce a flame. To prevent this rot, the roof of a house, in preference to any other part should be painted. The common oil paints, or the durable lime and chalk washes, which are of late getting into use, and on account of their cheapness to be preferred, will secure it against sparks or even coals of fire. The police of all towns as a measure of general safety, ought to require that all roofs, particularly of old houses, should be painted. 4. Of the color proper to render a house cool, and to give to an assemblage of them a sightly appearance.-Philosophers tell us that white is produced by the reflec tion of all the rays of light falling upon a substance thus denominated, and black by the absorption of all. Hence the reason for what all experience tells you, what every body who has worn black dresses in a summer's sun can inform you, that black is warm, and white cool. Hence houses, and particularly the roofs, ought to be white. A white house, exposed to the sun, makes a habitation many degrees cooler than one of a dark color; and the appearance, particularly in a town, is an object of some moment. When towns are viewed at a distance, the roofs are most conspicuous, and black roofs give a gloomy and dismal appearance, that might suit monks or the tenants of a penitentiary, but are abhorrent to every person of taste. Nothing is said of the durability these give to roofs and houses, for that, though not inconsiderable, is little compared to comfortable and healthy dwellings, and the safety of a town.-SEL. SPEEDY CURE FOR A FOUNDERED Horse -As soon as you find your horse is foundered, bleed him in the neck in propor tion to the greatness of the founder. In extreme cases you may bleed him so long as he can stand up. Then draw his head up, as is common in drenching, and with a spoon put back on his tongue strong salt, until you can get him to swallow one pint. Be careful not to let him drink too much. Then anoint around the edges of his hoofs with spirits of turpentine, and your horse will be well in one hour. A founder pervades every part of the system of a horse. The fleam arrests it from the blood, the salt arrests it from his stomach and bowels; and the spirit of turpentine arrests it from the feet and limbs. I once rode a hired horse ninetynine miles in two days, returning him at night the second day; and his owner would not have known that he had been foundered if I had not told him, and his founder was one of the deepest kind. I once, in a travel of seven hundred miles, foundered my horse three times, and I do not think my journey was retarded more than one day by the misfortune, having in all cases practised the above prescription.-S. W. Farmer. [Ask advice before you try this.-ED. JUVENILE DEPARTMENT. The Tollman's Family. A TRUE STORY. In Desau, in Germany, there was a long wide bridge over the river Elbe. The ends of the bridge were much lower than the middle.-The tollman's house was placed upon the highest part of it, in the centre In the spring of the year, when the ice was breaking up, there arose a great storm, and the river with the broken pieces of ice, came roaring down so violently, that the ends were soon carried away and nothing was left, but the middle arch of the bridge with the tollman's house upon it which looked as if it were upon a little island, in the middle of the river. The force of the river was so great that it was impossible that this arch should stand long, and the poor tollman feared that his house would soon be carried away by the water, and his wife and children all drowned. There were a great many people on the banks, pitying the poor man's fate, and he and his wife and children screamed to them for help, but the storm beat heavy, and they were all too cowardly to go out in a boat to try to save a poor family from drowning. Among them was a rich Count, who held up a large purse of gold, and offered to any one, who would go and save the tollman and his wife and children; but no one would risk his life for money. At last a poor man came along in a wagon, and as soon as he saw the danger the poor people were in, he set off in a little boat and never minded the storm. He got safely to the tollhouse; but he had to go three times, before he brought away the whole family. Just as he was landing the last load, the arch gave away, and the house was carried down the river. The poor father and mother and their children were too happy to speak, when they found they were safe. The Count then offered the poor man who saved them, the purse of gold. 'No,' he said, my life is worth more than money, and I do not wish to be paid for doing right.' The Count urged him to take it he still refused it for himself, but said to the Count, "I wish you would give it to the poor toll-man, who has lost all his clothes and furniture, and who has so many little children to feed."-Child's Friend. PARENTAL DEPARTMENT. Street School. There are many things learned out of school, and no where is there more learned than in the streets. Bad boys almost always live in the streets. There they are out of the way of parents, teachers and masters. There they see plenty of entertaining sights. There they meet with many playmates, especially with those that are older and worse. There they can halloo and shout, laugh and sing, without restraint. Especially at night, all these things are worse, and then they learn very fast. The street school is very much a night school. When boys are sent on errands, they sometimes stop by the way to take street lessons. They go out of their proper course, stand at corners, and gape at new sights. There are classes of the street school at the doors of the theatre and circus, and whenever there is a fire, a procession, or a training, or when a crowd follows the constable and his pri soners. The street lessons are various. Idleness is the first and chief. Curiosity about evil is the next. Boldness and impudence are also taught. Then come profane and filthy words, vile jeste, unclean songs, quarreling, fighting, and even drinking. After a while, the pupils in the street schools are far enough advanced to go to the upper institutions, such as the gaol and the almshouse. Thousands of parents favor this school; and some who pass for good people. It is less troublesome than any other. If you should wish your boy to be entered as a street scholar, all you have to do is to let him alone. Take no care about his company. Never rebuke him for coming late from school or an errand. Do not trouble yourself about the way he passes his evenings. Never mind what times he comes home at night. Especially do not trouble yourself in sending him to the Sabbath School. The street school is very expensive. The price is not paid in advance, or in ready money, but it is sure to be demanded with heavy interest. The payment is loss of conscience, loss of character, often loss of health, and sometimes the loss of the soul. -SEL. The mother's heart speaks in her child principle will be strengthened by another consideration; he that is punished or rewarded, while he falls or rises in the estimation of others, cannon fail to do so likewise in his Own.--LACON. ENIGMA No. 43. I am composed of eighteen letters. My 1, 13, 4, 11, 16, is a county in Missouri. My 2, 12, 14, 15, 5, is a blacksmith's tool. My 3, 6, 2, 5, is a wild fowl. My 4, 13, 9, 5, 11, is a very useful article. My 5, 15, 6, 10, 3, 11, 12, 13, 12, 17, is an officer. My 6, 14, 11, 12, 3, is an incident. My 10, 12, 15, 4. is a small number. My 15, 12, 5, 11, 17, is an entrance. My 16, 10, 5, 17, 2, 12, is a foreign ruler. My 17, 7, 10, 5, 7, 10, 16, 6, is a city in Europe. My 18, 3, 5, 13, 16, is much used at school. My whole was one of the most desperate battles ever fought. RARITAN. NEW YORK CITY, June 4th, 1847. French Proverbs, Bon mots, &c. 19. Aucun homme n'est inaccessible à la crainte; celui qui dit: Je ne crains pas la mort, du moins craint de la craindre. 20. Le hasard fait souvent plus pour notre bonheur que tous les soins et toutes les peines que nous prenons pur nous rendre heureux. Translation of French Proverbs, &c., p. 384. 17. Do you desire never to meet resistance? Establish the reputation of being irresistible. 13. A man of wit may commit as much folly with money, as a fool can make money with folly. THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE, AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER; With numerous Engravings. Edited by Theodore Dwight. Is published weekly, at the office of the New York Express, No. 112 Broadway, at 4 cents a number, or, to subscribers paying in advance, $2 a year. 7 sets for $10. Monthly, in covered pamphlets, at same price. Rare seeds sent to Subscribers. Postmasters are authorized to remit money, and are requested to act as agents. Enclose a Two Dollar Bill, without payment of pos-> tage, and the work will be sent for the year. Instead of a saddle, this enormous animal, when properly trained, as he is in India, bears upon his back a large plat form, surrounded by rows of seats, guarded by sides and shaded by curtains, in which a family, or even two or three, may travel for a considerable distance and in perfect safety. These howdahs, as they are called by the Hindoos, are made in various forms, and sometimes decorated in an elegant and costly manner, as they are the favorite riding car of the nabobs, and often used by citizens in pleasure excursions, as well as by natives and foreigners in hunting wild beasts in the jungles. The howdah requires much care in fastening, as it is kept in its place chiefly by girths drawn round the body of the elephant, though braces may be made to pass under the cloths and trap. pings, which are usually spread out so far as almost to conceal him. Many of our readers have seen elephants thus caparisoned, and some of them, no doubt, have been personally acquainted with this manner of riding, as our travelling show-men, with their caravans of curious animals, have made this a favorite part of their exhibitions for several years. The principal dangers in this amusement seems to arise from the motions of the animal in rising: for he is usually made to kneel down to receive the howdah and its occupants, and, when all is ready, he is ordered to stand. As might be presumed, the effort then made, is such as to produce a violent agitation of the loaded vehicle on his back. The appearance of the howdah and of the party it contains, as we have looked at them at such a moment, has reminded us strongly of a small vessel, full of passengers, suddenly struck by a heavy surge at sea. All is commotion and alarm: but in a moment the motion becomes easy and uniform, and the riders soon learn to look down with composure and even with plea sure, from a height which at first seems dangerous in the extreme. We have before in several instances, given interesting anecdotes of the Elephant, in the tame stale, (see vol. i. ps. 135, 619;) particularly in extracts from Bishop's Heber's Travels, in which he minutely describes a hunting-excursion on the back of one, in pursuit of tigers. (See vol. ii. ps. 73, and 102; also vol. ii. pages 287, 366). We shall now add an animated picture of the wild elephant in those regions of Southern Africa where the inhabitants, it appears, are prevented by their superstitions from all thoughts of taming him. The following is from "Kay's Caffrarian Researches, Part I. chap. vi." "Hunting is a favorite pursuit of the Kaffers; but in no part of Southern Africa, that I have seen, is game so exceedingly scarce as in Kafferland. Scarcely can a buck or a hare start from its sylvan retreats without being immediately put to the chase. The moment they are discovered, 'zingela' (hunt) becomes the general cry, and this is vociferously extended from one to the other, until a host of sportsmen and dogs are collected. Very few seconds elapse before all are on full stretch. Their usual practise is to throw themselves into a complete circle, whereby the poor animal is wholly surrounded, and escape rendered almost im possible. While busy in the mission ga den one morning, I was suddenly surprised by the clamour of a number of voices raised simultaneously and in an instant; and I had hardly time to look around me before scores were flying in every direc tion. Some were armed with the konto,' and others with clubs: and in a very few minutes we heard the pitiful screams of a small antelope, that had become the prey of its ferocious assailants. un On these occasions, the 'inja' (dog), although of the most wretched description, appears to render essential service. Troops of them accompany the Kaffer wherever he goes. The immense swarms indeed of these animals which we everywhere meet with constitute one of the chief nuisances of the country. Instead of the noble crow of chanticleer, which cheers the European farm-yard, and enlivens the little villages of civilised soci ety, the dissonant sound, or dismal howl, of the canine tribe ever and anon assails one's ears on approaching a native hamlet. When the chiefs call their men together for the express purpose of hunting, the 'inglovu' (elephant), and panther, or 'amaputi,' most frequently constitute the objects of the chase. On those occasions, which, however, do not occur very often, the concourse is considerable; and they sometimes remain in the fields or woods for several days together. Connected with their pursuit of the first mentioned animal are various particulars that may, probably, be interesting to the curious, as they furnish further evidence of the strength of their superstitious prejudices. By these they are literally kept in bondage unto fear; from which dreadful chain nothing less than a knowledge of that Divine and gracious Providence which mercifully presides over the children of men can possibly deliver them. For lack of this knowledge, they are perishing daily. On Saturday, the 6th of May, 1826, a numerous herd of elephants was discovered in the immediate vicinity of the sta tion, which gave me an opportunity of witnessing the astonishing excitement produced by circumstances of this nature, and the manner in which they are accustomed to pursue those prodigious creatures. The signal was given by certain individuals, perched on the different highlands round about, whose stentorian powers served as telegraphic mediums of intelligence, each responding to the shouts of the other. By this means an immense concourse of men and dogs were speedily assembled near the deep and bushy ravine, in which the animals had taken refuge. The clamour of the hunters and the howling of dogs, reverberated by the precipices, and echoing in the disturbed recesses, now became tremendous. Just after we arrived at the place, a circumstance occurred, which I cannot remember but with feelings the most grateful. One of the natives, from his elevated station, perceiving that I was standing in the track which some of the elephants were pursuing, instantly came to my help; and, with the utmost anxiety portrayed in his countenance, hurried me away from the spot. I was not fully aware of the danger until my sable friend had placed me beyond its reach. His? |