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The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803-1842) (about)
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A01LXCTTX.TUB.AX. REPORT
FOR"
FEBRUA HY, 1834.
ILLAWARRA.
of I Ploughing for the ensuing wheat
sowing has commenced with spirit; no doubt from the t,iir price received for that grain now, and the probability of it being higher.
The maize crop promises well, but has
suffered rather much from the late heavy
rains.
POTATOES.-The summer craps have proved average ones, and the winter crops are finished planting.
TOBACCO.---The plants look well, but the black grub has commenced its usual havoc, and consequently icquires great attention to destroy it.
The country presents a very pleasing appearauco, and stock of every descrip- tion looks well. The weather haß been very warm throughout the month.
EXTINCTION OF FIRES. - Hydrogen gas had been procured by burning coal, sealed up with clay, in tobacco pipes, and on this smallscile exhi- bited in a state of combustion, by way of experiment, for many years before it came into practical use as a substitute for lamp oil. A parlour fire is much sooner put out by throwing on it any kind of effervescing mixture charged with carbonic acid gas, than by the same quantity of water. It is true-that we could not put out a church in flames by emptying a bottle of soda water upon it, but neither could our streets have been lighted up with tobacco pipes. A heap of chalk shot down into the interior of a house on fire, or other- wise conveyed into any of its apartments, and a carboy or two of vitriol smashed over it, might produce enough of this gas so as to damp the ardour of the flames as to give moie time for the rescue of property. A cheap kind of soda water, manufactured from chalk or marble dust, and sulphuric acid (diluted), might be pumped upon houses on fire out of engines, lined M with lead. Copper cylinders of large size, contain
- ing a solution of common soda or potash, into which
seven or eight volumes of gas have been pumped, might be made to jet their contents spontaneously upon houses in flames. By these, or other better con- sidered measures, carbonic acid gas might, perhaps, be employed to arrest the progress of the devouring element, and prevent its spread.-Lancet
PITHY APPEAL.-Swift having to preach a charity sermon to which he had little goodwill, from the -opinion 'he had formed .of his audience, said nothing of the subject until the service was ended. He then told them that this was a mere matter of business, and as such he would talk of it. They knew as well as he, that they had certain poor to provide for, who looked to their purses. He then merely read the text : " He that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the Lord,"-and added, " if you approve of your security, down with your money. ' With this he sent round the plate for collection.-Picken's
Tales.
LENDING MONEY.-Patrick Forbes, bishop of Aberdeen, had lent an unlucky brother money until he was tired out ; but the borrower re- newed his apphcation, and promised security. The bishop consented to the loan -, " but, where is your surety," said he ; when the poor fellow replied : " God Almighty is my bondsman in providence. Ha is the only security 1 have to offer. ' So singular a reply of a despairing man smote the feelings of the bishop, and hu thus replied . " It is the first time, cert utily, that such a surety was over offered to me Î and since it is so, take the money, and may Almighty God, your bondsman, sec that it "does you good."
MUSICAL MEN.--Generally speaking,
musicians are the most intolerant of men to one ano-
ther, the most captious, the best humoured when flat- tered, and the worst tempered at all other times. Music, like laudanum, appears to soothe the senses when used in moderation, but the continual employ- ment of either flurries or excites the faculties, and often renders the best natured men in the world, petu lant, irritable, and violent.- Madden,
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