The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 05 (1820)

To such a congregation, after the decease of John Curtis, my friend of the umbrella made a proposition to have a chapel erected. And I question much if a proposal to go to mass...

_Gypsum_ is composed of lime and sulphuric acid. Mayer was the first to present to the public a series of experiments upon it, in its relation to agriculture. Many chymists have...

"When Dr. Franklin went to France on his revolutionary mission, his eminence as a philosopher, his venerable appearance, and the cause on which he was sent, rendered him extreme...

Spring, that delightful visiter, to whom beauty and melody, Zephyrus and Flora, pay their opulent but willing tribute, has once more arrived. Let us welcome the enchanting stran...

Mr. Custis of Arlington, near Alexandria in a letter to the editor dated 1st Feb. last, observes--"Wooden soaled shoes are the very best for labourers that I ever met with. They...

From a late London paper it appears, that a new and easy method has lately been discovered, in England, of preventing the destruction of the young turnip plants by the fly, and...

O, Take the maddening bowl away! Remove the poisonous cup! My soul is sick--its burning ray Hath drunk my spirit up: Take--take it from my loathing lip Ere madness fires my brai...