by Barkham Burroughs
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Sudden alternations of heat and cold are dangerous (especially to the young and the aged). Therefore, clothing, in quantity and quality, should be adapted to the alternations of night and day, and of the seasons. And therefore, also, drinking cold water when the body is hot, and hot tea and soups when cold are productive of many evils.
Never visit a sick person (especially if the complaint be of a contagious nature) with an empty stomach, as this disposes the system more readily to receive the contagion. And in attending a sick person, place yourself where the air passes from the door or window to the bed of the diseased; not between the diseased person and any fire that is in the room, as the heat of the fire will draw the infectious vapor in that direction.
MOTHER SHIPTON'S PROPHECY.--The lines known as "Mother Shipton's Prophecy" were first published in England in 1485, before the discovery of America, and, of course, before any of the discoveries and inventions mentioned therein. All the events predicted have come to pass except that in the last two lines.
Carriages without horses shall go, And accidents fill the world with woe.
Around the world thoughts shall fly In the twinkling of an eye.
Waters shall yet more wonders do, Now strange, yet shall be true.
The world upside down shall be, And gold be found at root of tree.
Through hills man shall ride, And no horse nor ass be at his side.
Under water man shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk.
In the air men shall be seen In white, in black, in green.
Iron in the water shall float, As easy as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found 'mid stone, In a land that's now unknown.
Fire and water shall wonders do, England shall at last admit a Jew.
And this world to an end shall come In eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
CAPTAIN KIDD, a notorious American pirate, was born about 1650. In 1696 he was entrusted by the British Government with the command of a privateer, and sailed from New York, for the purpose of suppressing the numerous pirates then infesting the seas. He went to the East Indies, where he began a career of piracy, and returned to New York in 1698 with a large amount of booty. He was soon after arrested, sent to England for trial, and executed in 1701.
VALUE OF OLD AMERICAN COINS.--1793--Half cent, 75 cents; one cent, $2. 1794--Half cent, 20 cents, one cent, 10 cents; five cents, $1.25; fifty cents, $3; one dollar, $10. 1795--Half cent, 5 cents; one cent, 5 cents; five cents, 25 cents; fifty cents, 55 cents; one dollar, $1.25. 1796--Half cent, $5; one cent, 10 cents; five cents $1; ten cents, 50 cents; twenty-five cents, $1; fifty cents, $10; one dollar, $1.50. 1797--Half cent, 5 cents; one cent, 5 cents; five cents, 50 cents; ten cents, $1; fifty cents, $10; one dollar, $1.50. 1798--One cent, 5 cents; ten cents, $1; one dollar, $1.50. 1799--One cent, $5; one dollar, $1.60. 1800--Half cent, 5 cents; one cent, 3 cents; five cents, 25 cents; [Transcriber's Note: The original text reads 'ten cents 1'] ten cents, $1; one dollar, $1.10. 1801--One cent, 3 cents; five cents, $1; ten cents, $1; fifty cents, $2; one dollar, $1.25. 1802--Half cent, 50 cents; one cent, 2 cents; ten cents, $1; fifty cents, $2; one dollar, $1.25. 1803--Half cent, 2 cents; one cent, 2 cents; five cents, $10; [Transcriber's Note: The original text reads 'ten cents, 1'] ten cents, $1; one dollar, $1.10. 1804--Half cent, 2 cents; one cent, $2; five cents, 75 cents; ten cents, $2; twenty-five cents, 75 cents; one dollar, $100. 1805--Half cent, 2 cents; one cent, 3 cents; five cents, $1.50; ten cents, 25 cents. 1806--Half cent, 2 cents; one cent, 3 cents. 1807--Half cent, 2 cents; one cent, 3 cents; ten cents, 25 cents. 1808--Half cent, 2 cents; one cent, 5 cents. 1809--Half cent, 1 cent; one cent, 25 cents; ten cents, 50 cents. 1810--Half cent, 5 cents; one cent, 5 cents. 1811--Half cent, 25 cents; one cent, 10 cents; ten cents, 50 cents. 1812--One cent, 2 cents. 1813--One cent, 5
