SEASONABLE ADVICE.
"Learned men, Now and then, Have some very odd vagaries."
IN the Almanack published by the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge, the diary of each month is concluded with some pithy moral maxim, or timely aphorism of practical utility: for instance, in August we are admonished that "In warm weather meat and vegetables should be carefully examined; —meat and vegetables that are frozen should be soaked in cold water se- veral hours before dressing."
So struck were we with this seasonable hint, that we immedi- ately turned to the Companion to the Almanack, (a little work which is intended as a commentary upon it,) in the hope of finding some further information upon so interesting a subject; but we are sorry to add, without success. Our anxiety, we need scarcely explain, did not arise so much from any immediate apprehension of our meat being frozen in the month of August, as from a desire to learn where the cold water, so familiarly spoken of, is to be procured in that ardent season. It has we believe not been observed more than a million times, that there are few people from whom nothing is to be learnt; and one useful hint, at least, the present profound almanack-makers might have taken from their despised predecessor, Mr. Partridge ; who being interrupted at dinner by his printer's inquiry what he was to set down in the Calendar, as the weather characteristic for the month of July, hastily exclaimed, "Say what you please, ex- cept that it snows:'
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