Mr. Carver advises gentlemen never to suffer the operation to be performed, but if the parts are very red and very much swollen, they may be just scarified with the point of a sharp penknife, or pricked with a large darning needle. He concludes with saying, "that the cutting and raising the frog from the ground to keep the foot in health—the cutting out the haw of the eye, to cure inflammation and lockjaw—and the operation of burning for Lampas, can by no means be reconciled to common sense."
Internal Wealth.—A correspondent informs us, that he passed, in Danvers, on Wednesday last, a wagon road of merino wool, weighing three tons, drawn by seven horses, passing from Hanover, N. H. (where it was produced,) to the Factory at Danvers—the value of which was probably from four to six thousand dollars.
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Camels.—Two full grown camels, one eight and the other nine years old, have arrived at Boston from the coast of Morocco.
Paintings.—The paintings by the old masters, which belonged to the late Mr. West, have been sold at public vendue in London. The whole produced 10,027l. The Death of Actæon, by Titian, brought 1700 guineas—a Head of Christ, by Guido, 700—Abraham entertaining the Angels, by Rembrandt, 7 by 9 inches, 200—the Bath of Diana, by Titian, 610—a Forest Scene, by Rembrandt, 200—the Last Supper, by Titian, 435—the Virgin Child, and St. John and Mary Magdalen, by Parmagiano, 350—the Watering Place, by Wouvremans, 560—Peasants with Cattle, by A. Berchem, 450—View on a River, by Hobbima, 290—a Knight in full Armour, by Giorgione, 140—View of a Village, by Gasper Toussin, 210—a Dead Hare, and other Game, Spaniel, &c., by Wfenix, 165—Minerva, with her Ægis, &c., by Reubens, 155—Christ betrayed, by Teniers, 126—and many others, at proportionate prices.
New Hampshire State Prison.—The income of this penitentiary, for the last year, has been derived from the usual sources, the labour of convicts in its various departments, the sale of articles manufactured by them, and the fees of admittance to visiters—the whole amounts to $4660 81 cts. The expenditures during the same period, amount to $4203 53 cts. leaving a balance gained to the institution during the last year of $457.28. The amount of property on hand has also increased $1811.41; and the balance of debts due, $743.14; making the whole income $2553.55; from which deducting the amount received from the treasury, leaves a balance further gained of $454.55. In the amount of debts due is included $3637.03, charged to the state house committee, for labour of the convicts in preparing stone, &c. for that building; which, if paid over to the state prison, would reduce the sum required from the treasury to meet the estimated expenses of the present year to $963.
Anecdote of Lycurgus.—Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, to show his countrymen the vast importance of education, by reason of its influence in forming the minds and manners of a people, caused two whelps of the same litter to be bred in quite different ways; whereby the one became sluggish and ravenous, the other of a good scent, and skilled in hunting. Finding the experiment to answer his design, he soon took an occasion at an assembly of the Lacedemonians to discourse on this subject, and address them in the following manner:
"It is of great advantage, fellow citizens, to the acquirement of virtue, when any one is trained up in the customary practice of wholesome instructions, and precept, which I will presently let you see by example."—On this, he ordered the young dogs to be brought into the midst of the hall, where was set before them a vessel, in which meat had been frequently boiled, and a live hare.—Whereupon, according to their different breeding, one flew to the hare, and the other as greedily ran to the vessel.
The spectators were surprised: and, as they were musing what should be the intent of his introducing the whelps after this manner, he said to them, "This is what I before told you; you perceive these creatures do as they were taught, for, though they are both of a litter, yet the diversity of breeding has made one a good hound, and the other a cur, good for nothing but to lick pots and dishes."