Woful is the case of that man, whose public cares are aggravated with private guiltiness; and happy is he that can enjoy a little with the peace of an honest heart.-The same. EXTRACTS FROM NEWSPAPERS. MUMMY WHEAT.-The mummy wheat, as our readers well know, is taken from the Egyptian mummies, the bodies which, in ancient days, it was the custom to embalm, to prevent decay; many of these bodies have been thus preserved for more than three thousand years; and the wheat which is found in their stone coffins still retains its power of vegetation. The following extract is copied from the "Northumberland Journal:" -"A gentleman in the neighbourhood of Berwick procured a few grains of wheat from an Egyptian mummy, and from one of them, which he has planted, he has reaped a stalk which has no less than twenty-three branches; and from another, which was selected as an average of the whole, upwards of sixty grains were taken." LIEBIG ON "JAW-WORK."-Baron Liebig's discovery in animal physiology, that the excessive labour of the jaws in the mastication of food wasted the beasts' muscles, and retarded his progress, has been fully confirmed by practice; and, instead of feeding as formerly upon hay, and whole turnips, thrown to them, our stock have their food "minced" for them by different descriptions of cutting-machines. Such is the advantage obtained by this mode of feeding, that lambs fed by the aid of a turnip cutter, are worth more at the end of a winter by 8s. per head than lambs fed on whole turnips.-Cambridge Chronicle. INTREPID CONDUCT OF A YOUTH.-A few days ago two lads, named Henry Pratt (son of Mr. R. B. Pratt, jeweller, Haverfordwest), and Arthur Hitchings, nephew of Mr. Potter, High-street, were bathing in the river, near the Priory Mills, Haverfordwest, in company with other boys about their own age, when Hitchings, who could not swim, accidentally got beyond his depth, and shouting for assistance, disappeared. Young Pratt, who is only eleven years of age, and a smaller lad than Hitchings, but who had fortunately acquired the art of swimming, instantly swam to the spot where Hitchings had disappeared, and upon his coming again into view Pratt seized him with one hand and endeavoured to pull him ashore, but, in consequence of Hitchings grasping Pratt by his leg, not only were the courageous efforts of the latter neutralized, but his own safety was placed in imminent danger. Both struggled together in the water, and at length Pratt succeeded in disengaging himself from the grasp of Hitchings, but still seeing that his companion's life was in danger, and nothing daunted by the peril from which he had himself escaped, he made another effort to save him, and grasping him by the hair of his head, actually succeeded in bringing Hitchings safely to terra firma, and no doubt saved him from a watery grave. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received the communications of L. S. R.; S. B.; A Layman; Rev. T. Farley; E. C.; and some Anonymous Correspondents. |