always elegant in your dress, but never expensive; or, I would rather say, never suffer yourself to be profuse; but your own good sense will tell you that this article ought entirely to be directed by the state of your husband's purse. In the management of your family, be regular to exactitude and always pay every bill yourself: by this means you will avoid many impositions; for it will prevent tradespeople and servants from combining to cheat. Be kind, and even affectionate, to all your domestics; but at the same time never suffer them to be guilty of the slightest disrespect. Let your conduct set them an example both of religion and morality; and above all things, avoid the practice of running in debt. Cultivate those talents with which nature has endowed you, for the purpose of rendering your society more pleasing to the object of your choice; for though beauty may, for a time, delight the eyes of a husband, it is mental qualifications alone which can insure the possession of his heart.

taken by the people, from the junction of the Welsh mountain and Conewago hill, several miles along the Welsh mountain, and along the Conewago hill, as far as Colebrook Forge, within twenty miles of this place, (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.) They were of dif ferent sizes and kinds. The dam of Spring Grove forge, the seat of Cyrus Jacobs, Esq. in Lancaster county, was filled with them, and they were shot without difficulty. It remains for philosophers to account for this fall of ducks.

ORIGINAL ANECDOTE.

Not long since, a silly fellow observed to a friend of his, that his brother had removed to North Carolina, where it was very proba ble he would prosper, as he was a man possessed of good talons. No doubt, replied a wag, who was standing by; he will, I dare say, find considerable use for them, as there is a good deal of the gouging business carried on there.

FALL OF DUCKS.

About the beginning of May, the persons residing along the Welsh mountain and Conewago Hill, were astonished, on rising in the morning after a thunder storm, to observe large numbers of wild ducks unable to fly, on the ground, and in ponds of water. They were

GOUT.

A new virtue is discovered in the loadstone. The severest fits pf gout will, it is said, be cured, by the sufferer wearing a magnet enclosed in a flannel case next his skin.

As a certain Right Honorable Lord, who is in the Irish list of Irish Barons, was lately shooting about the environs of his house in the country, and observed a gentleman of the neighbourhood in the field, hastily and insolently accosted him with a' d--n you, sir, if ever I see you here again, I'll send you to H. To which the gentleman, with great coolness, in. stantly made this laconic and significant reply: If you do, my lord, I'll tell your father what a fool he has left behind him.'

This rod for the fool's back, accompanied by pungent pickle for the character of a wicked 'father,' came fresh from the tough old cask of 'mother wit.'

It happened during the war,' said Patrick, commencing his story

"What war?' said one of the company.

What war?' reiterated the old

THE VISIBLE GHOST.

While two men were employed in the interior of a family vault, about seven miles from Leeds, a meagre figure, black from head to foot, glided into the sepulcharal mansion; the man whose eye first caught the spectre became instantly petrified with horror, his speech forsook him, and it was only by a vigorous effort that he could jog the elbow of his fellow, and point to the object of alarm. Like the shock of an electric spark, the terror was communicated by the touch; but the symptoms were not so strong in the second as in the first subject: taking courage, he addressed the ghost in a faltering accent, and said, "In the name of God, what is your errand to this world?" "I have no errand; I was going past and I thought I would look in." These grateful sounds instantly dispelled the illusion, and the workmen recognized in them the well known voice of a neighbouring chimney-sweeper!!

LADY'S MISCELLANY.

NEW-YORK, AUGUST 4, 1810.

The City Inspector reports the death of 46 persons in this city and suburbs during the last week.-viz. 14 men, 7 women, 12 boys, and 13 girls.

Dayton, (Ohio) June 28.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.

The following melancholy occurrence happened near Troy, Miami county, on Sunday the 17th inst. A boy between 9 and 10 years old, the son of Mr. Joseph Beedle, was found in an elm tree, suspended by the neck. It was supposed that in ascending the tree, and attempting to force himself between the trunk and a

branch that grew almost perpendicular, he lost his foothold, and was caught by the neck between the trunk of the tree and the branch, One of his arms was confined, and being thus unable to extricate himself, his own weight soon choaked him to death. The child's parents were at meeting about two miles off. His younger brothers were at the house, which was near; they heard the noise, and ran to the tree, and from thence to the meeting; but before the unhappy parents could come to his relief, their child was no more.

Frost-Letters from Chenango county, state that they experienced a severe frost on the night of the 18th ult. which had greatly injured the crops of corn. Ice in many

places was found the eighth of an inch thick.

The wife of Mr. Bellinger, a rope-maker of Monfleur, N. York, was delivered in March last of four daughters, all living, with the mother, and doing well.

Captain Porter, of the brig Triton, from the Isle of May, informs, that there had not been any rain for four years; in consequence of which all the Jackasses had died, and that all the salt was brought by human hands for a mile and a half.

On the 5th July, Dr. James Niblocks, a native of Ireland, but for six or seven years past an inhabitant of Brunswick county, Virginia, was shot, and instantly ex. pired. The next day a coroner's inquest was held over the bodythe jury found, that he came to his death by two bullets and a buck shot being fired in his left side or breast, from a gun or pistol, by some person to them unknown. A Mr. Benjamin Edmund was taken up on suspicion of having committed the murder, but no evidence appearing to authorise a commitment, he was discharged.

Francis Perry, post-rider between Staunton and Fauquier court house, Virg. has been committed to the Staunton gaol, upon the charge of robbing the mail.

At Granger, Dutchess county by the Rev. Mr. Cobel, Mr. William Allen, aged 18, to Miss Betsey Kells, aged 11.

On Thursday evening, the 26th ult. at Belville, by the Rev. Mr. Sanford, Nır. Jeremiah T. Brower, son of Mr. John Brower, of this city, to Miss Phoebe Dow, daughter of the Rev. Mr. John Dow, of Belville, N. J.

On Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Howe, Wm. M. Johnson, Esq. of N. Orleans, to Miss Sarah Rice, of Nova Scotia.

MARRIED,

On Monday evening, the 23d ult. Mr. William W. Hyer, silversmith, to Miss Sarah Hagstaff, both of this city.

On Saturday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Cooper, James Dewitt, to Miss Catharine Heyer.

On Wednesday evening last, by the Rev. Dr. Richard Moore, Andrew Graham, Esq. of Montgomery, Orange county, to Miss Hester Hardenbrook, daughter of Mr. Abel Hardenbrook, of this city.

At. New-Orleans, on the 14th of June, by the Rev. Philander Chase, Beverly Chew, Esq. of that city, to Miss Maria T. Duer, daughter of the late Col. Wm. Duer, of this city. On Monday evening last, by the Rev. Dr. Romeyn, Mr. Abraham S. Egerton, to Miss Martha Anderson, daughter of Col. Anderson, all of this city.

DIED,

On the 17th June, Mrs. Janc Kipp, widow of Capt. B. S. Kipp, aged 32 years

On the 30th ult. in the 81st year of her age, Mrs. Taneca Mandeville, after a tedious illness, which she bore with christian resignation.

On the 25th March last, on his passage from Havanna to Monte Veido, Mr. Samuel S. Taylor, in the 26th year of his age.

On Wednesday morning, Mr. John Alexander.

On the 29th July, Mrs. Marga. ret Dwight, aged 74 years, widow of the late Capt. Joseph Dwight.

In England, Mr. Windham, a distinguished member of the House of Commons. His death was occasioned by receiving a blow on the hip, which gave rise to an indolent

tumor.

And rosy virgins throng'd around to hear:

Farewell ye swains! ye nymphs adieu ! Tho' I, unwilling, leave these fields and you,

Still may sweet music bless your happy shore,

But Colinetta you must hear no more. O Lidia! then if wayward tongue should blame

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