=Children's Books=
Neatly printed, and adorned with elegant Cuts, are sold by
_T.C. CUSHING_, at the Printing-Office in Salem--viz.
LITTLE ROBIN RED-BREAST.
Memoirs of a PEGTOP.
The SUGAR-PLUMB; or, sweet Amusement for leisure hours.
The JUVENILE BIOGRAPHER, containing the Lives of little Masters and
Misses.
Be MERRY and WISE; or, the Cream of the Jests, and the Marrow of
Maxims, for the Conduct of Life.
The HOLY BIBLE abridged.
History of little KING PIPPIN.
History of GILES GINGERBREAD.
History of TOM JONES.
History of Master JACKEY and Miss HARRIOT.
History of CHARLES CAREFUL and HARRY HEEDLESS.
Mother GOOSE's Melody.
The Exhibition of TOM THUMB.
Tom Thumb's SONG BOOK.
The FATHER's Gift.
The MOTHER's Gift.
The BROTHER's Gift.
The SISTER's Gift.
Nurse Truelove's NEW-YEAR's GIFT.
Death and Burial of COCK-ROBIN.
The ROYAL ALPHABET.
The HERMIT of the Forest, and the Wandering Infants.
_Salem Mercury._
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A new way to cure insanity.
_A CURIOUS IDEA._
KNOWLEDGE is attained with the greatest difficulty; we have
it not by intuition, but acquire it by many unsuccessful
trials and long experience. One gives a hint, and the other
improves it; but prejudice and ignorance too often stand in
the way: "_That cannot be,_" or "_I cannot believe that,_"
has crushed many an useful project. How incredible did the
recovery of drowned persons appear at first! When the report
reached England, that many abroad had been brought again to
life, after laying under water some time, who gave it
credit? But experience has since convinced us of its
possibility.
Now, from the great success attending the recovery of
drowned persons, I would offer a hint to the public, and
leave it to be improved by them, respecting the recovery of
those who are mad, and given up as incurable.
When madness breaks forth, the first care of the physician
is to reduce and keep his patient low, in order to check the
velocity and whirl of his thoughts; and if possible to
procure sleep, by quieting the internal turbulency. If all
his skill and efforts fail, such a person is as much lost to
society as if he were dead. Now if such an one were plunged
into water, and there kept until he was apparently dead, and
was then recovered by the usual methods (and of which
recovery we have now a moral certainty) I am apt to believe
we should behold a perfect cure. There is, I own, something
shocking to nature in the experiment; but if the patient be
already lost, and dead to society, why should we hesitate a
moment to make the trial, when the probability of succeeding
is so flattering?
_Salem Gazette,_ July 12, 1791.
It would be interesting to see the punch-bowl out of which the members
of Congress drank in 1811, on the day succeeding the marriage of Mr. and
Mrs. Pearson.
At Washington, Hon. JOSEPH PEARSON, Esq. (Federal
Representative from N. Carolina), to Miss ELEANOR BRENT,
daughter of Robt. Brent, Esq., Mayor of the city.-- --> _The
greater part of the members, the next day, left the business
of the nation to attend the punch drinking, so that the
House adj'd at an early hour_. Dec. 13, 1811.
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As the following lines have the indorsement of a Hartford paper, we
venture to reproduce them:--
From the New-York Daily Advertiser, May 10.