F. " swept alike of the bones of the hero and of the horse which he rode. Thus collected from every quarter, they have been shipped to the port of Hull, and thence forwarded to the Yorkshire bone-grinders, who have erected steam engines and powerful machinery, for the purpose of reducing them to a granulary state. In this condition they are sent chiefly to Doncaster, one of the largest agricultural markets in that part of the country, and are sold to the farmers to manure their lands. The oily substance gradually involving as the bone calcines, makes a more substantial manure than almost any other substance, particularly human bones. It is now ascertained beyond a doubt, by actual experiments upon an extensive scale, that a dead soldier is a most valuable article of commerce; and, for aught known to the contrary, the good farmers of Yorkshire are, in a great measure, indebted to the bones of their children for their daily bread. It is certainly a singular fact, that Great Britain should have sent out such multitudes of soldiers to fight the battles of this country upon the continent of Europe, and should then import their bones as an article of commerce to fat ten her soil!! Useful Domestic Hints. Comparative Nutritive Properties of Food:-An interesting report on this subject has been presented to the French Minister of the Interior, by Messrs. Percy and Vauquelin, Members of the Institute. The result of their experiments is as follows:-In bread every 100lbs. is found to contain 80lbs. of nutritious matter; butchers' meat, averaging the different sorts, contains only 35lbs. in one hundred; French beans (in the grain) 92lbs. in one hundred; broad beans, 89; peas, 93; lentils (a species of half-pea, little known in England), 94lbs. in one hundred; greens and turnips, which are the most aqueous of all vegetables used in culinary purposes, furnish only 8lbs. of solid nutritious substance in one hundred; carrots (from which an inferior kind of sugar is produced), 14lbs.; and what is remarkable, as being opposed to the old theory, 100lbs. of potatoes only yield 25lbs. of nutriment. One pound of good bread is equal to 25 lbs. of potatoes; and 75lbs. of bread and 30 of meat, are equal to 800 of potatoes. To go more into detail, lb, of bread and 5 oz. of meat, are equal to 3 lbs. of potatoes; 1lb. of: potatoes is equal to 4 of cabbage and 3 of turnips; and I of rice, broad or French beans, in grain, is equal to 3 of potatoes. These facts, we conceive, merit, the attention of the Committee for the Irish Subscription, and may prove generally useful in domestic management. Recipe for preserving Shoe-Leather. Takepint of drying oil (boiled linseed oil), 1 oz. of bees' wax, 1 oz. of spirits of turpentine, oz. of Burgundy pitch. To be melted together, over a slow fire, in an earthen vessel. If new boots be saturated with the above composition, and left to hang in a warm place for a week or ten days, they will not only be rendered soft and pleasant, but also impervious to wet, (at least to a great degree) and will very seldom be found to crack at the sides. Damp in Walls.-An easy and efficacious way of preventing the effect of damp walls upon paper in rooms has lately been used with considerable success. It consists of lining the wall or the damp part of it with sheet lead, purposely rolled very thin; this is fastened up with small copper nails, which not being subject to rust, are very durable, and the whole may be im mediately covered with paper. The lead is not thicker than that which is used in the chests in which tea is imported, and is made in sheets, of which the width is about that of common paper hangings. Preservation of Fish.-Dr. M'Culloch, of Edinburgh, has ascertained that the antiseptic quality of sugar is sufficient to preserve fish in most excellent condition. He states that this substance is so active, that fish may be preserved in a dry state, and perfectly fresh, by means of sugar alone, and even with a very small quantity of it. He has thus kept salmon, whitings, and cod for an indefinite length of time; and by this simple means fresh fish may be kept in that state some days, so as to be as good when boiled as when just caught. It is added, that if dried and kept free from mouldiness, there seems no limit to their preservation; and they are much better this way than when salted. The sugar gives nó disagreeable taste. This process is particularly valuable in making what is called Kippered Salmon; and the fish preserved in this manner are far superior in quality and flavour to those which are salted or 3 2 smoked. If desired, as much salt may be used as to give the taste that may be required; but this substance does not conduce to their preservation. In the preparation, it is barely necessary to open the fish, and to apply the sugar in the muscular part, placing it in an horizontal position for two or three days, that this substance may penetrate. After this it may be dried; and it is only further necessary to wipe and ventilate it occasionally, to prevent mouldiness. A table spoonful of brown sugar is sufficient, in this manner, for a salmon of five or six pounds weight; and if salt is desired, a teaspoon full or more may be added. Saltpetre may be used in stead, in the same proportion, if it is desired to make the Kipper hard. Accidents by fire.-In cases of accident by the clothes of females taking fire, throw a large quantity of vinegar over the clothes the instant the fire is extinguished, without taking any off, and continue to do so for an hour or two-this will lay some blisters, and prevent others rising-then the clothes may be safely taken off. If a blister break, it must be dressed with ointment used for burns; but in general an immediate application of vinegar will prevent all bad consequences. Violently tearing off the clothes causes the tops of the blisters (which rise immediately from scalding or burning) to be broken, and they become inveterate sores. blisters do not fall, lay cloths over them steeped in vinegar, and wet them often. The immediate cure depends on the blisters not being broken; persons ignorant of this, generally let the water out with the scissars-a ruinous error. If vinegar is not handy, throw water over the clothes, and continue to do so until vinegar can be procured. The Gatherer. If In Greenwich Church-yard : ON TWO YOUNG CHILDREN. Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, The following is a variation of the last : When the Margravine of Anspach, the divorced wife of an English Peer, returned from the Continent the wife of a German Prince, she sent a notice to the Lord Chamberlain's Office, that as a Princess, connected by marriage with the Royal Family, she expected permission to drive her carriage into the Court Yard of St. James's Palace on the approaching Birth-day. The Earl of Dartmouth, then Lord Chamberlain, took an early opportunity of referring this demand to her Majesty, Queen Charlotte, who replied If the MarCourt Yard at St. James's, by all gravine has any wish to drive into the Court Yard she must be sensible she means admit her-farther than the cannot come." ENCOURAGEMENT TO MARRY. Your wife is beautiful and young, But then her clapper!-How 'tis hung! "Had I a jade with such a tongue, "I'd pack her off to France, Sir. "Pshaw!-You're too much afraid of strife; "Would you improve your present life, "Look out for such another wife, "Warren Hastings East Indyman, "This cums hopein to find you in good helth as it leaves me safe an "I am but a Gatherer and disposer of chor'd here yesterday at 2 P. M. after other men's stuff."-Wotton. CURIOUS EPITAPHS: In Winchester Church-yard: Here sleeps in peace a Hampshire grenadier, Who caught his death by drinking cold small beer: Soldiers beware from his untimely fall, And, when you're hot, drink strong, or none at all. In Lymington Church-yard :- a pleasant voyage tolerably short and few squalls-Dear Tom, hopes to find poor old Father Stout, and am quite out of pig-tail-Sights of pig-tail at Gravesend, but unfortunately not fit for a dog to chor-Dear Tom, Captain's boy will bring you this and put pigtail in his pocket when bort-Best in London at the black boy in 7 diles, where go, acks for the best pig tail-pound pig tail will do and am short of shirts. Dear Tom, as for shirts only took two whereof one is quite worn out, tuther most, but dont forget the pig tail, as I had not a quid to chor, never since Thursday-Dear Tom, as for the shirts your size will do only longer-I like um long-get one at present, best at Tower hill, and cheap-but be particular to go to seven diles for the pig tail at the black boy and Hear Tom acks for Pound best pig tail, and let it be good -Captain's boy will put pig tail in his pocket, he likes pig tail, so ty it upDear Tom, shall be up about Monday or thereabouts. Not so particular for the shirt, as the present can be washed but dont forget the pig tail without fail, so am your loving brother "T. P. "P. S.-Dont forget the pig tail." PUZZLE FOR LAWYERS.-In one of the counties of Hungary, a case has been produced by nature, which furnishes the Hungarian lawyers with an opportunity to exercise their ingenuity. On a steep declivity of the river Hernath, lay two vineyards, one above the other: the higher one detaching itself from the rock, glided down the declivity upon the lower vineyard, which it now entirely covers. The question is, who is the owner of this vineyard, and who is considered the loser? APPLICATION OF SCRIPTURE.--A nobleman advised a French bishop to make an addition to his house of a new wing in the modern style. The bishop immediately answered him. "The difference, my Lord, that there is between your advice and that which the devil gave to our Saviour, is, that Satan advised our Lord to change the stones into bread, that the poor might be fed, and you desire me to turn the bread of the poor into stones." CURIOUS SUPERSCRIPTION OF A LET TER. In consequence of a wager, a letter was some years since, put into a country post-office, arrived at the General Post-office, and was delivered by the postman. The direction, according to the terms of the wager, consisted of these lines from POPE: "Where London's column, pointing to the skies, Like a tall bully lifts its head and lies, This letter came safe to Mr. BALAAM, who was then a fishmonger near the Monument. ON THE MARRIAGE OF MR. Mudd, TO MISS Lot's wife, we read in days of old, For one rebellious halt, Was chang'd, as we are plainly told, The same propensity for change Advertisements. A CHRISTMAS BOX OF GREAT Just Published, Price 3s. extra boards, LEWIS'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR, adapted to the comprehension of persons desirous of teaching themselves, and intended for the use of Schools, and of young persons in general. To which is added, a brief View of the Discoveries of Mr. HORNE TOOKE, on the formation of Language. By WILLIAM GREATHEED LEWIS. wick GILCHRIST, of Clarges Street, delivered the following opinion, a few days ago, in the course of a lecture to his Oriental pupils. study of your mother-tongue, which is, in fact, "If you have hitherto omitted the careful the most appropriate introduction to the Hindostanee, and the only solid foundation, on intellectual grounds, for future proficiency as Eastern Polyglots, I would seriously recommend the immediate perusal of Lewis's small English Grammar, just published, on the_luminous principles of the celebrated Horne Tooke, but from which the political opinions and asperities of that acute philologer have been judi'ciously excluded. I consider Lewis's Grammar as the most beneficial work of the kind now extant." Printed and Published by T. Dolby, Britannia Press, 299, Strand: sold also by Sherwood and Co.; Simpkin and Co.; and all Booksellers. 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Letters, post paid, will receive the most prompt and respectful attention. 299, Strand, Dec. 13th, 1822. Published by J. LIMBIRD, 355, Strand. (East end of Exeter Change), and sold by all Newsmen and Rooksellers. Printed by T. DOLBY, 299, Strand. ANXIOUS to keep our promise with the public, in rendering our little work a "MIRROR of Literature, Amuseiment, and Instruction," we shall occa sionally give engravings of some of the most remarkable subjects of natural history, accompanied by accurate descriptions. We have selected for our present Number the WAPETI, or Gigantic Elks of the Missouri, which now form one of the attractive exhibitions of the metropolis, and are to be seen at Bullock's Museum, Piccadilly, harnessed and caparisoned as above represented. The Wapeti are very extraordinary non-descript animals, of the cervus or deer genus, but as large as the horse, and nearly as gentle as the lamb; as they will caress their visitors, and receive food from their hands. Four of these elegant and interesting animals were brought into this country in 1817, and purchased by Lord James Murray at a large price. This Nobleman has succeeded in extending the breed, and has now three generations of them at Datchet, near Windsor; nor has he lost a single one in breeding them. It is remarkable that the Wapeti have Even those now exhibiting have lost none of their natural attachment by being domesticated; they cannot be separated for a moment but by force; and the instant they are parted, they express their distress by a shrill low shriek.-The Upper Missouri, whence these Wapeti have been brought, is in the same latitude as England, but its winters are a little more rigorous, and its summers somewhat warmer. These animals, whose aboriginal name is that of Wapeti, are known to the settlers in North America by the name of the Elk, and are supposed to be of the same species as the great antediluvian Elk, whose enormous fossil remains are frequently found in that country; and of which specimens may be found in the British Museum. The head of the Wapeti resembles that of the common American deer and of the horse; but it is pointed, and is in its action like the camel. The legs are admirably formed for strength and activity, resembling those of the racehorse, particularly the hinder legs. On the outside of each of these is a protuberance covered with yellow hair. In this a gland is seated that secretes an unctious substance, which the animal applies to smooth and dress its coat; and when it is thus dressed, it becomes impervious to rain or to water, even in swimming a river. The Wapeti has an oblique slit or opening under each eye, of nearly an inch long, which appears to be an aux iliary nostril. The animal has no voice like the horse or the ox, and his organ seems to be given him as a compensation, for with it he can make a noise or loud whistle. The Wapeti have the cloven foot and chew the cud like an ox; but they have the bridle tusk like the horse. The Wapeti are about twelve years old before they come to maturity, and they are then about sixteen hands high. Their horns, which are nearly five feet in length, weigh upwards of fifty pounds. They live to a great age, so that the Indians, when speaking of an old man, say he is as old as a Wapeti. The food of the Wapeti, in a domestic state, is the same as the horse; and they are, if properly managed, as tractable. Those now exhibited have been tried in harness, in the exhibition-room, where they draw a tilbury admirably. The Wapeti is justly esteemed the pride of the American forest, and is the handsomest and most noble quadruped yet discovered in that country. CHRISTMAS. Amidst the wintry desolation of the present month, the remembrance of a season once anticipated in joyous hope by all ranks of people, recurs to the lovers of "Auld lang syne"-to those who remember with what pleasure they once welcomed its chill atmosphere and snow storms with the vivid rapture of youth. Even in the metropolis the memory of its festivities is not yet wholly extinguished. But in the remote parts of the island it is still hailed as the period of enjoyment-it is still marked by genial appearances; and round the social hearth on Christmaseve, the less artificial inhabitants of the country will be found as Burns describes them: "The lasses feat, an' cleanly neat, More braw than when they're fine; Their faces blythe, fu' sweetly, kythe, Hearts leal, an' warm, an' kin': The lads sae trig, wi' wooer-babs, Weel knotted on their garten, Some unco blate, and some wi' gabs Gar lasses hearts gang startin, Whiles fast at night." In London, as in all great cities, particularly in those which are commercial, where strangers continually arrive, and new customs are daily introduced, observances of a nature similar to those formerly kept at Christmas must soon be lost. That season is accordingly marked here by a few of the pleasantries and simple enjoyments with which it is even now characterized in the country, where we must look for what remains of the customs practised by our ancestors of that season. These relics of old and ridiculous observances, deprived of all their objectionable parts by the im proving spirit, of successive years, are hallowed in our memories, and always recall the vernal season of life and its regretted pleasures. In the North they have yet their" fool's plough,” and in Cornwall their goose-dancers. latter still exhibit an old hunch-backed man, called the" King of Christmas,' and sometimes the “Father:" like customs may be traced in other countries. The wassil bowl was regularly carried from door to door in Cornwall 40 or 50 years ago; and even now a measure of flip, ale, porter, and sugar, or some such beverage, is handed round while the yule-log is burning, or stock, as denominated in the western countries. The wassil-bowl is of Saxon origin, and merits notice on an historical account. Vortigern, Prince of the Silures, fell in The |