CURIOSITY.

If pryers into futurity were to put a stop to their curiosity by reflections similar with those of Cæsar, they would avoid much ridieule, much useless uneasiness, and settle a very troublous spirit.

The following thoughts were written on the tablets of that great man the night before his death, when he had retired to his chamber, rather discomposed by the presages which his wife Calphurnia drew from her ominous dreams.

"Be it so. If I am to die to-morrow, that is what I am to do tomorrow. It will not be then, because I am willing it should be then; nor shall I escape it, because I am unwilling to meet it. It is in the gods, when, but in myself, how I shall die. If, Calphurnia's dream be fumes of indigestion, and I take panic at her vapors, how shall I behold the day after to-morrow? If they be from the gods, their admonition is not to prepare me to escape from their decree, but to meet it. I have lived to a fulness of days and of glory; what is there that Cæsar has not done with as much honor as ancient heroes? Cæsar has not yet died; Cæsar is prepared to die."

SUSPICION.

Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy, to the actions of those around him: but it requires loftiness of mind, and the heaven-born spirit of virtue, to imagine greatness, where it is not; and to deck the sordid objects of nature, in the beautiful robes of loveliness and light.

EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON.

The following account of a singular phenomenon was communicated by Dr. Telfair of Grenville, North-Carolina, to the editor of the Raleigh Star, under date of the 6th October last.

Mrs. was delivered of a female infant, of the following description: The length from the apices of the heads to the inferior lateral extremities, is one and a half feet; two heads with their appropriate necks and shoulders, with four arms perfectly formed, constitute the superior part of the body, as far as the ensiform cartilage; here it becomes single and apparently natural, except that the abdominal viscera terminate in an anus, turned very much inward for the purpose of receiving a central thigh, &c. which seemed to have its atachment in the articulation of the os coccygis. This supernumerary member was pretty well formed until it arrived within an inch of the ankle, when it became abruptly bent interiorly, terminating in a club foot, with six small toes in their usual positions, with a double one on the centre of the instep rather towards their insertion. This case, I am happy to observe, has terminated favorably, and the person restored to her usual health. Mrs. had eight well formed children previous to this, with no, unusual symptom marking her labor.

Weight of the child, 15lbs.

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BEET ROOT....DISCOVERY....DYING....MAXIM.

PROPERTIES OF THE BEET ROOT.

It is known, that to make sugar, the red beet was preferred to the plants and fruits which have the same property; but we were ignorant that the red beet served also to make excellent coffee. We read in the "Annals of the Manufactures," that the red beat cut in small square pieces, dried in an oven, which is burnt and afterwards reduced to powder like coffee, gives a very clear liquor, and which has the fine color of coffee. It is added, that it is superior to all that has until now been attempted in imitation of coffee, and that two thirds of the liquor of red beet mixed with one third of coffee in liquor, forms a delicious coffee, and such, that Mocha would not surpass it. These are two very precious properties. Besides these, still a third has been discovered in the red beet; the "Patriotic Journals," published at Vienna, contain a memoir which teaches to make beer with this root. Thus the red beet, which furnishes at once sugar, coffee, and beer, is going to become more precious to Europe, than the cocoa nut or bread tree are to America.

USEFUL DISCOVERY.

An intelligent gentleman in the vicinity of Boston, who is a prac tical farmer, has recently discovered an excellent substitute for molasses. He had a quantity of sweet apples ground, then took the juice immediately from the press, before the fermentation had commenced, put it into a large boiler, and boiled it down to a syrup, which in taste is pleasanter than the common West-India molasses, and appears as little liable to ferment. From four gallons of juice he obtained one gallon of syrup-by boiling longer, its quality and consistency would probably be improved.

MODE OF DYING COTTON NANKIN COLOR.

Mr. Hess, of Zurich, gives the following process for dying Nankin color: boil leaves of the willow in very clear water, afterwards pass the decoction through a linen cloth strainer, and add isinglass till the liquor is entirely limpid. The willow leaves, besides the coloring matter which they contain, have still a property that would weaken the coloring matter, and render it unsolid if isinglass was not added to this preparation. This water can serve to dye thread and cotton stuffs, and the shades of it can be varied, at pleasure. To render this dye more perfect, the stuffs will be soaked in a wash of nitrous acid covered with water, which renders the color more brilliant, and prevents it from turning pale. Besides the beauty of this color, the process is so simple and gives so fine a dye, that any one can prepare it without the assistance of a dyer.

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XXII.....OF THE LORD.

193. There is one God, the creator and the preserver of the universe; who is therefore God both of heaven and earth.

194. There are two things which constitute the life of heaven in man; goodness, which is the object and the offspring of love; and truth, which is the object and the offspring of faith. This life is communicated to man entirely from God, and he receiveth no part of it from himself. Wherefore it is a fundamental of the church to acknowledge God, to believe in him, and to love him.

195. All who are born within the pale of the church ought to acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ, both as to his divine and human nature, and to believe in him, and to love him, inasmuch as all salva-· tion is from him. This the Lord teacheth in his gospel: "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him,” John iii. 36; and again, " And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one that seeth the Son, and believeth on him, inay have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day," vi. 40; and again, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believe th in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth, and believeth in me, shall never die,” xi. 25, 26.

196. Wherefore they who live within the pale of the church, and do not acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ, and his divinity, can have no union with God; and of consequence can have no place with the angels in heaven; for no one can be united with God but by the Lord, and in the Lord. That no one can be united with God but by the Lord, he himself teacheth in these words: "No mau hath seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him," John i. 18; and again, "Ye have neither heard the voice of the Father at any time, nor seen his shape," John v. 37; and again, "No man knoweth the Father, save VOL. II.

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