how often do we find apparent trifles become matters of importance. He is therefore but a sorry economist, whose sole aim is that of making money, without regard to things of minor consideration; for money, even money, cannot procure sometimes what carelessness has neglected. The Gossip will make two neat volumes at the end of the year but, for the sake of economy, it may be bound in one thick portable volume, to which an index shall be given, so that every regular purchaser should keep his numbers free from soil or stain, by not lending them. NEW MODE OF REFINING SUGAR. Mr. Fiddlewood,-Perceiving you reserve a column in your Gossip for Economics, I beg leave to send you the following cheap, easy, and expeditious mode of refining sugar, well adapted for families residing in this country, who can always procure muscovado Sugar at an easy rate. The proportions are as follows: 30 quarts sugar, 10 ditto water. 10 whites and shells of eggs, The sugar and water are to be mixed in a small boiler of any kind; copper should be preferred, and placed over a gentle fire for a few minutes, removing any scum that may be thrown up; then add one half the quantity of eggs, previously well beaten to a thick froth; after these have boiled a little, add the remainder, and continue to skim as long as any scum and feculencies appear on the surface. The pint of milk may now be added, and the heat increased; this will occasion a considerable quantity of scum and impurities to arise, which must also be removed the moment they make their appearance: when skimming is no longer necessary, the liquor is to be taken off the fire and filtered through a flannel cloth into a wooden vessel, or receiver. The boiler is now to be well cleansed and dried and the ingredients returned into it, and put over a brisk fire, until the liquor is brought to the sugar height required. It will be proper for those not skilled in sugar boiling to know the rule by which this point may be ascertained. When the liquor is supposed to be brought to the consistency of sugar, a silver-spoon is dipped into it, and the back of it is to be rubbed with the finger: if the liquor feels rough, and of a thick consistency, and puts on a white appearance, it is at a proper height. You may judge also by threads forming on the ladle. The boiler may now be removed from the fire, and emptied into a cooler; stirring it a little afterwards so as to break the threads; after it has remained a few hours in this vessel to granulate, it is to be put, still warm, into bags made of flannel cloth in the form of a sugarloaf, but a little larger, and suspended with the apex downwards, so that the molasses and syrup may more easily escape into vessels placed to receive them. After 16 hours, the bags must be regularly wetted once a day for 10 days, by dipping a piece of flannel cloth in water, and applying it over the upper part of the bag. At the end of 10 days, when the liquor which drops from the bag is clear, the process is complete, and the bag may now be allowed a week to dry. OBSERVATIONS.-It must be particularly attended to that previous to the milk being added the fire be slow, otherwise the boiling of the liquor will be violent, and circulate with so much rapidity, that the feculencies, or impurities, must be carried down, and embodied with the liquor, before they can reach the surface: whereas a gentle heat would throw them up, allow them to accumulate on the top and be removed with the skimmer. The above process of refining sugar is so simple that any family may put it in practice, and save a considerable sum in that article alone; and I do assure your readers, that I have seen sugar refined in that way, not iuferior to the double refined, manufactured in Kingston. This has one advantage, over home manufactu red sugar-it does not so easily attract humidity. HINTS TO THOSE WHO WOULD BE RICH. 0. The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. For six pounds a year you may have the use of one hundred pounds, provided you are a man of known prudence and honesty. He that spends five pence a day idly, spends idly a guinea more than six pounds a year, which is the price for the use of one hundred pounds, and many men spend fivepence a day for spruce, or such unnecessary articles, the interest of which added to the principal, is eight pounds a year. He that spends half a dollar a day in a tavern spends sixty pounds a year, and a man that does so, beside time and money, may lose reputation and every thing else. Again: he that sells upon credit, asks a price for what he sells equivalent to the principal and interest of his money for the time he is to be kept out of it; therefore, he that buys upon credit, pays interest for what he buys; and he that pays ready money, might let that money out to use; so that he that possesses any thing he has bought, pays interest for the use of it, Yet, in buying goods, it is best to pay ready money, because he that sells upon credit, takes into consideration the loss he may sustain by bad debts; therefore he charges on all he sells upon credit, an advance that shall make up the deficiency. Those who pay for what they buy upon credit, pay their share of this advance. He that pays ready money, escapes, or may escape, that charge. Regularity and Economy.-The first Lord Brereton, who built the stately family mansion in Cheshire, in Queen Elizabeth's reign, had a book, in his own hand writing, containing all the orders of the family, the business of each particular servant and the precise dishes to be served up to table on each particular day in the year. A neighbouring Lord sending him word one morning, that he would dine with him, he called for the cook, and turning his diary, read over the bill of fare for the day, and in the hearing of the servant who had brought him the information of his master's intended visit, he desired the cock, would improve the ordinary dinner, by putting an additional turnip into the pot! How to make a good Wife.-Take a pound of sincerity, and an equal quantity of prudence, mix these with fifteen ounces of good temper, and two or three grains of native wit, (which is worth a pound of anothor person's) to a strong consistency (the preparation of this, and the tasting it, is like the solid part of a trifle) then take a quart of" milk of human kindness," put to it balf a pound of love, a few French fritters or an ounce of gossip (free from scandal) diluted in a point of proper spirit; whip these together with good sense and elegant manners; sweeten with literature to your taste. Unite the above, and add thereto as much beauty as will fill up the Medicean mould then is the lady adorn'd With all that earth or heaven bestows To make her aimable. N. B. The several ingredients must be genuine. Receipt for preserving Shoe Leather.-The following recipe for preserving shoe leather has been highly approved-Half a pint of boiled linseed oil, one ounce of bees' wax; one ounce of spirits of turpentine: half an ounce of Burgundy. 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. Disordered Eyes.-Most of even our local diseases originate in a bad state of the stomach-a truth which cannot be too often impressed upon those who are disposed to dabble in quackish ointments and nostrums. Mr. Abernethy traces nearly all the maladies which affect the eye to this fertile cause of human suffering, and tells the following amusing story in illustration of the vulgar errors on the subject: we quote from the Report of his Lectures in the Lancet:-A lady and a gentleman brought their child to me with inflamed eyes; the pupils could hardly be distinguished; there were ulcers on the corner, and it was very much clouded. They said, ' Sir, we are going out of town, and we thought we would ask your opinion of our child's eyes; he has been under the care of the most eminent surgeons, and he is rather worse than better.' I said, 'Do you expect that I will prescribe an eyewater or an eye-salve, and so on? I tell you that I am persuaded that the cause of irritable eyes is a disordered state of the stomach and bowels.' I desired the lad to put out his tongue, and it was very much furred and dirty indeed. I told them that they must pay great attention to the child's diet, to the regulation of his bowels, to take exercise in the open air, and so on. "Oh !' they said, 'if that was all the advice I could give, they should wish me good morning;' so paid me a guinea and off they went. They were going into Devonshire, and they were about 70 miles from town, when the child was seized with a diarrhoea, which caused them to stop on the road, and in a day or two the child's eyes became very much better; they now began to think that there was some truth in what had been told them about a disordered state of the stomach and bowels, and away they came again towards town, after having travelled about 70 miles, to hear something more of this matter; which, if they had had a little patience, they would have heard at first in a few minutes." Advice to the Nervous.-Walk out every day when fine-eat solid diet, little and often-take a glass of generous wine now and then-keep cheerful company -be charitable to the poor-avoid talking scandal and revealing secrets-regularly read the Gossip-and you will never require the physician nor physic. The Cornwall Correspondent. The most important occurrence at the present time is the death of the Emperor of Russia: this naturally— we say naturally gave rise to a variety of conjecture respecting his death; for Russian monarchs have sometimes strangely shuffled off their moral coil.' Indeed it was rumoured that a similar coil' had been used for Alexander as that for Paul about six-and-twenty years ago. It is not true; and we receive some consolation in thinking that his attendants on this occasion were not Ruffians as well as Russians. A despatch has at last been received by Government, setting at rest all doubt respecting the succession to the house of Russia, the Archduke Nicholas having been proclaimed Emperor on the 26th December, without any further opposition than that of the Regiment of Constantine, but whether with or without his sanction is uncertain. CHIT-CHAT. Equivocal Wit.--In these droll times, it is really difficult to discover at once the pointed satire, and sometimes humour which is hid under the garb of simplicity, An editor in a recent law report states, that a negro, named "Quaw, was found guilty, but recommended by the Jury to mercy, on account of old age and infirmities." But what will the Jury think-what will the Court think, when they find that the poor man is actually reported to have been "Sentenced to be returned to the Estate" to which he belongs!!! The gentlemen of the press have actually reported this very witty turn which the editor has given to the sentence of the Court--without the smallest notice. It is too bad: wit should not be lost! But one's memory will recur to similarities. A jury in one of the Cinque Ports, some years since, being charged with an old woman, accused of stealing a pair of boots, moved probably by the infirmities and miserable appearance of the prisoner, returned the following verdict:-"We find her Not Guilty, and hope she will never do so any more." Smoking." What harm is there in a segar?" says young Puffwell. "None that I know of, replies his companion, "except that smoking induces drinkingdrinking induces intoxication-intoxication induces the bile bile induces jaundice-jaundice leads to dropsy-dropsy terminates in death. Clap that round your segar, and smote it! Faimouth. PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR, BY ALEX. HOLMES, |