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died, 1824.

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from America, 1782.

UNBOUGHT EXPERIENCE IS SELDOM WORTH MUCH.

NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.

26.-Perhaps one of the most remarkable adventures that ever befel one of those who "go down to the sea in ships" happened to Joseph Kabris, a French sailor, who had been taken prisoner during the long war between England and France. Having obtained permission to join the

English merchant service, he entered on board a South Sea whaler, which was wrecked off the island of Noukahiwa, in the Pacific Ocean. Falling into the he was doomed for a feast; but while preparations were being made for roasting him, he excited the compassion (or love) of the king's daughter, who interceded

hands of its cannibal inhabitants,

for him, and shortly afterwards became his wife. Being by this means allied to royalty, he received the appointment of chief judge of the island, which office he exercised with reputation.

ease, and equity. But after nine tic happiness, he was carried off Russian navigator. On return

years of legal fame and domes

while asleep by Krusenstern, a

ing to France in 1817, being tattooed in the New Zealand style, he exhibited himself publicly for the purpose of collecting a suffi

cient amount to enable him to return to his wife and family: but while thus travelling he died suddenly at Versailles, in 1822. was the daughter of the Russian Riga, at which place she was born age she married Baron Krudener,

29.-This remarkable woman Baron Vietinghoff, governor of

in 1766. When fourteen years of

who was sent by Catherine II. as

ambassador to Venice; and here the most melancholy event in her

history transpired-the secretary

of legation, charmed with her pleasing manners, fell in love with her, and committed suicide,

on which sad event she wrote For several years she resided in Paris, and mingled with the gayest of the gay; but at length she became a fanatical devotee, wandering from place to place, preaching and prophesying. In 1814 she became acquainted with Alexander, Emperor of Russia, who had before shown a disposi

a romance entitled "Valerie."

tion to serious contemplation, and who was much influenced by In Paris she held prayer meetings, which were attended by several distinguished personages, and at which

her conversation.

she appeared in the background

of a suite of rooms, in the dress of a priestess, kneeling in prayer. She became popular by her predictions, and when the allied Sovereigns quitted Paris, she retreated into Switzerland, where she made the millenium the subject of her preaching, drawing around her large numbers of the credulous mountaineers. Government at length interfered, and she was ultimately transported to the Russian frontier; but not being allowed to go to St. Petersburg, she went to the Crimea, and died there in 1824.

Charcoal powder forms one of the best filters for putrid water, its object being to deprive the water of numerous organic impurities diffused through it.

Of all applications for a burn, there are few equal to a simple covering of common wheat-flour. This is always at hand, and while it requires no skill in using, produces most astonishing effects.

other utensils may be purified from All kinds of glass vessels and smells of every kind, by rinsing them out well with charcoal powder after the grosser impurities have been scoured off by sand and pearl

ash.

to turn bad, a simple mode of keepWhen meat, fish, &c., are likely ing them sound is by putting a few pieces of charcoal into the saucepan wherein the fish or flesh is to be boiled.

them of their foulness.

When you dry salt for the table, do not place it in the salt-cellars until it is cold, otherwise it will harden into a lump.

Be at much pains to keep your children's feet dry. Don't bury their bodies in heavy flannels and wools, and leave their legs and knees naked.

The cheapest and one of the best furniture polishes is a mixture of linseed oil and turpentine, laid on in a thin coat, rubbed off with a soft cloth, and polished.

To keep cane-bottom chairs clean and tight, they should be washed with a sponge and hot water and a little soap, and allowed to stand afterwards in the open air, or where there is a thorough draught.

One bushel of small coal or sawdust, or both mixed together, two bushels of sand, one and a half bushels of clay, made into balls, or bricks, and allowed to set firmly, will supply an excellent fuel, and effect a great saving in coals.

A piece of oil-cloth (about twenty inches long) is a useful appendage to a common sitting-room. Kept in the closet it can be made available to place jars, pots, and kettles upon, thus preventing the table or dresser from getting dirty.

To boil meat to perfection it should be done slowly, in plenty of water, replaced by other hot water as evaporation takes place; for if boiled too quickly, the outside becomes tough, and not allowing the ready transmission of heat, the interior remains raw.

In most families many members are not fond of fat, consequently there is frequently much wasted; to avoid which, take off bits of suet fat from beefsteaks, &c., previous to cooking-they can be used for cooking. With good management there need not be any waste in this respect in any shape or form.

HEALTH can only be secured on the condition of self-denial. The plainest food is the best, and it should be taken in quantities so small as not to oppress the stomach. A man should never know that he has a stomach except when he is hungry. Early rising should be attended to, and late hours by all means avoided.

In order to increase muscular power, food should be taken which has not a tendency to produce fat; for fat, so far from being an indication of health, is frequently a sign of disease. A racehorse is brought to his prime condition by a system of training. So with man, if he wishes to see the full development of his muscular power, he must restrict himself in diet, and exhaust his fat by having a good sweating every day.

lying too long in bed is somewhat The tendency some people have of serious to health. The want of expansion of the chest through exercise, will aggravate or create consumptive tendencies, which all more or less have; and the constant heat of the back or one side, occasioned by cushioning, has a tendency to disturb healthy actions.

Whenever food rises in the stomach, the stomach is speaking to us, and we ought to listen to it, or health will certainly suffer. In due time head-aches will be the result; the liver is oppressed, and cannot fulfil its functions. There has been more introduced into the body than can be conveniently disposed of. Every part receives some of the obtrusive matter; it is forced into the absorbents; the blood is unwillingly compelled to take a part of it; the brain feels the effect of the gross and poisonous infusion; the circulation is impeded; the heart feels it, and labours hard to do its allotted work. By persisting in the habit, life will be shortened.

HINTS.

Excess of food has its opposite. Too little has its symptoms as well as too much. The body will flag for want of stimulus; it will lose warmth; will lose energy; and if it be found that more food restores both, and brings comfort, then more food is certainly wanted. Every one should endeavour to discover his own maximum and minimum allowance, and adhere to it. They will find' health in so doing.

It is said that those who think most, who do most brain work, require the most sleep. Time "saved" from necessary sleep is destruction to mind, body, and estate. Give by compelling them to go to bed at yourself and children, as well as some regular, early hour, and to rise in the morning the moment they awake of themselves, and within a fortnight nature will unloose the bonds of sleep the moment enough repose has been secured for the

servants, the fullest amount of sleep

wants of the system. As to the

question how much sleep any one requires, each must be a rule for himself.

Exercise daily in the open air is indispensable; no one can have too much-short of fatigue.

In taking exercise in very severe weather, keep your mouth close and walk rapidly; the air can only reach the lungs by a circuit of the nose and head, and becomes warm before reaching the lungs, thus causing no derangement. Brisk walking throws the blood to the surface of the body, thus keeping up a vigorous circulation, making a cold impossible if you do not get into a cold bed too quickly after reaching home. Neglect of these precautions bring sickness and death to multitudes

every year.

The amount of exercise necessary for health is variable, depending upon natural constitution, education, sex, and age. For men from twenty to fifty, eight or ten miles a day of walking exercise may be taken as the average; and for women of the same age, about half this quantity will suffice. Less than this will go a great way, but for keeping up high health, the above amount, omitted only on thoroughly wet days, may be considered necessary.

Health depends also upon the frequent ablution of the whole body, and though a bath is the

most

convenient and complete method of carrying out the process, yet, by means of a sponge, or any similar object, it may be effected sufficiently to cleanse the pores, whether by means of one or the other: this should be done at least two or three times a week, followed by strong friction by means of a coarse towel.

Those who use cold water regularly, either with a sponge or as a bath, are certainly able to bear exposure to the weather much better than without its aid.

USE NOT TO-DAY WHAT TOMORROW WILL WANT.

NOTES TO THE CALENDAR.

10.-Margaret Fuller was the daughter of a lawyer at Cambridge Port, Massachusetts, and was born in 1810. She was educated entirely by her father, who finding her a willing and an able scholar, crammed her with learning, early and late, in season and out of season, until her intellect became preternaturally developed, to the life-long cost of her health. Having learned German, she acance with the writings of Goethe, whom she fervently admired. In 1835 she lost her father, and, to

quired a most intimate acquaint

being left penniless, had schoolmistress. Meanwhile, her her brilliant conversation had become so widely known in Boston, that most of its literary ance, and scarcely a traveller of circles had sought her acquaintany note passed through the city without being introduced to her, brated Mr. Emerson paid homage and amongst others the celeto her talents. In 1846 she paid a visit to Europe, long an object of desire; making the tour of Great Britain and France, thence

maintain herself by turning

extraordinary acquirements and

passing into Italy, where she

made a prolonged stay, eventua

ting in her marriage, in December, with Count Ossoli, a poor Roman noble attached to the

Papal household. The conjuncAmerican woman with the slow

tion of the lively and intellectual

and ignorant Roman noble seemand unaccountable; but then, as she said to her mother in a letter,

ed to many especially strange

he has a nice sense of duty, a very sweet temper, and great na

tive refinement. His love for me has been unswerving and most

tender." She was a friend of Maztion overturned nearly all the conthink the day of Italy's redempof Rome she acted as an hospital assiduity, influenced all within

zini's, and when, in 1848, revolu

tinental thrones, she exulted to

tion grew near. During the siege

nurse, and by her courage and her circle. When Rome fell, her

hopes for Italy fell with it, and

with her husband she resolved to

return to America. Beware of the sea!" had been the warning of

a

gipsy to Ossoli when a boy; and

with the oppression of this superstition on him, the depression occasioned by the fall of Rome,

and the idea of being an exile for

ever, he embarked with his wife from Leghorn in a merchant ship. Smallpox was on board, and Os

soli and his infant child were seized and for long despaired of. They at length reached America, and although within sight of land, on the 10th of July, 1849, the ship struck on Fire Island Beach, and for twelve hours did these brave people face death, until at length crew and passengers were engulfed by the waves, only one or two reaching land to detail the mournful story, and to record the death of the Ossoli-husband and wife. The poor babe's body came ashore to tell its own sad tale!