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5 Maim no iron to ru-t, and no sptingaor roller, to
ft out of reniir. Ii will do twice aa much waah-
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ic lite inventions, ami whit I. ol greater impor.
nice, it cokU but lil'le over half a. much aa other
ashing machine.
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lumberlaml. Union. L Cuming. Columbia, I.u-
rne and Clinton counties. Price of .ingle m
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,Tha following certifirato ia fiora a few of those
jo have there machine, in use.
Sunbury, Aug. 24, IR44.
We, the auharrihera, certify that we have now
I ue, in our f.miliea, "Shugeit'e Patent W..b
i.g Machine," and do not hesitate aiying that it i.
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will avemore than one half the usual labor.
(Sat it doea not require more than one third the
mat quantity of oap and water ; and that there
no rubbing, ami consequently, little or no wear
1 or tearing. That it knocks off no button., and
.at the fine.t clothe., auch as collars, Ucca, tucks,
ill., dec., may he washed in a very ehnrt lime
jilhout Ihe least injury, and in fact without any
parenl wear and tear, whatever. We therefore
leerfully recommend it In our frienda and to the
iblic, aa a moat useful and labor saving machine.
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(ilDEON MARKLE,
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UENJ. HENDRICKS,
UIDEON LEI8ENRINO.
csa'e Hotcl. (furimrly Tremonl Houaa, Na.
IIS Cheanut slieet.) Philadelphia, September
3lat. 1844.
I have used Shucert'a Patent Washing Machine
my bouts opwarda of eight months, and do not
sitata to fay that I deem it ona of the most use-
I and valuable labor-savtnc macbines ever inven
1. I formerly kept two womea continually oc-
pied ia waahiug, who now do as much in two
ya aa Ibey than did in ona week. Thar ia bo
rar or tear in waahing, and il requires not mora
aa one-third iba uaual quantity of soap, I have
a a number of other machines in my family, bu.
is ia so decidedly superior to aver thing alae, and
little liable to get out of repair, that I would not
without one if they (bould coat ten times tha
tea they ar sold tor. UAPMEL, MCKK.
7 t AlaTl EEB-Tha bighaaicaw&Ps
" aiva for Flax Seed, al the store of
Xog. 1845 HENRY MA88ER.
Absolut acquiescence in the decisions of tha mnjoriiy, the vital principle of Republics, from which
Ry BlRsscr & Elaeir
r From the Water-Ctire Journal.
; TKA A POSITIVK POISON. ,
, It maybe said perhaps, to treat of ten ta both
medicine am) pniaon, is to make a distinction
without a difference, eince every efficient med
icine ia a poiron nf course. There is troth in
the supgeation ; nevertheless, it ia morn conve
nient to arrange my thoughts on the subject
under f wo aeperate head. 1 -
One evit?ence that tea ia poiennotta, la found
in the fact that, like alcohol, etramonitim, bella
dona, and many other medicines, it prottiir.ee
its specific disease the tea iinratc, Thia
nirt of our subject will be heal illustrated by
the experiments and deductions of Mr. John
Cole, distinguished member of the Royal
College of Sur neons in London.
Mr. Cote does not, indeed, attempt to show
that every tra drinker has the lea disease; a
point aa difficult to establish as that every one
who uses alcohol drinks of any kind lias the
drunkard's disease. All who use tea however,
are on the high road to the tea disease, just
as every dram drinker, and in troth every wine,
cider and beer drinker, is on the road to deliri
um trement.
There is one thin?, moreover, which seems
a little peculiar in relation to the effects of tea.
Though it disturbs, moot readily, those consti
tutions whose tone has been lowered from the
healthy standard, by fatigue, debility, loss of
blood, &.c, yet it has also the power, when ta
ken a long time in excessive quantity, of. re
ducing the healthy constitution to that state in
which it becomes accessible to its own deleteri
ous influence. The tol low in jr ia his descrip
tion of the progress of the disease, in those
whore systems were already prepared to be in
juriously affected by it :
"In a longer or a shorter time after taking
the beverage, (from a few minutes to two or
three hours,) an uncomfortable feeling arises in
the stomach a craving, sinking emptiness
which soon acquires a degreo of intensity that
is almost insupportable. The hunger-like gna
ingand craving are described aa being to the
last degree painful to endure. The stomach
being full, has no effect in preventing ita seces
sion ; neither doea eating releive it. . This is
often all that is felt for long time : but by de
grees a fluttering, as of a bird, in the left side,
is superadded; and a feeling of fulness pervades
the chest, with broathless and frequent aighing.
Thi fulness is more especially felt about - the
clavicles, (or collar bones,) and the root of the
neck,
"When black tea or coffee has been taken,
considerable excitement often ushers in this
succession of phenomena ; the face becomes
flushed, the eyes sparkle with unusual brilli
ance, all the earlier effeetsof intoxication from
alcohol are ob-ervnble the pulse being full and
throbbing, anil considerable quickened. If
green tea have been taken, the previous ex
citement is less, or perhnps not at all percepti
ble; tho skin soon becomes pale, the eyes be
come sunken, the pulse feeble, quick and flut
tering. "Whichever may have been taken, the
hands and teet often become cold as marble, and
bedewed with a clammy sweat. . Efforts to
warm them are mndn in vain, even in the hot
test weather ; a feeling of coldness and numb
ness also invades the back part of the head.
"Thia is the milder from of the disease, (if I
msy so term it,) the one which is most common
ly seen ; but occasionally a variety of aggrava
ted symptoms arise. To the coldness and be
numbed feeling of Ihe back nf head, thete ia ad
ded formication of the scald, (a sensation aa if
ants were creeping in it,) violent pain in the
head, dimnesa of tho sight, unsteadiness in
walking, and vertigo; and thee are accompan
ied by a fluttering, feeble pulse. To the feel
ing of fulness of the chest and about the clavi
cles, are added threatening of suffocation, in-
insensibility, and convulsions. The sufferings
felt in the stomach are aggravated to violent
spasms. The fluttering al the heart becomes
pain, violent palpitation, or enfeebled . action,
bringing on a syncope. I may add, here, that
the. mind does not escape injury, but partakes of
tho disorders of the body, as is seen by the tem
per becoming peevish and irritable, so as to
render the sufferer a torment to all about him."
Who does not see, in a substance that can in
duce all those mischiefs on the living system,
a less severe though certain poison! Is there
a possibility of mifctake ?
But Mr. C brings forward a list of ten cases
of disesse from tea drinking, of which the fol
lowing ia en abstract. ' It should be premised,
however, that except during what he calls tho
peroxyams, thia distinguished surgeon was not
in tha habit of giving medicine relying solely,
for a cure, on total abstinence from the drinks
which produced the mischief.
' Ilia first case waa that of a female, thirty-
five yeara of age, who complained of great
pain in the stomach after eating, with a sense
of sinking and emptiness, and such feeling of
faintneaa that she could hardly walk, ' followed
at length by fluttering in the aide, fulneas about
the clavicle, and vomiting.
AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL.
Sunbarjr, ftorthumterltwdl Co.
The second was that of a female, forty years
of age. She was just recovering from catarrhal
fever, when one morning,.rieMBking her break
fast, was eeixed wiiVsymptom similar to those
already mcfttkmerf, except the vomiting. It
sppeaci,Tn inquiry, that her tea that morning,
(it was black tea,) had been made stronger than
usual, and that she had also drank more than
was cuetomary with her.
Ilia third case was that nf a female thirty
years of sge, who had long been in the use of
very strong green tea, in large quantity. For
a year before Mr. C. was Called, she had been
subject to violent spasms of the stomach, which
had at length become so freqnent and severe,
that the slightest exertion, even a little walk
ing, was sufficient to bring them on. When
Mr. C. arrived she wss suffering from spasms
of usual violence. She had likewise the other
usual symptoms of ten disease. On inquiry, he
wss fully mtirfied 'that all the tro-ible, in
this case, was thf) rffVel of tea. She was
directed to abstain from It; and for several
weeks had ho return nf the spasms, nor other
symptom of disease. Hut one day, on ' ventu
ing upon a single cup of her favorite beverage,
she had a slight attack of her. old complaint.
She resumed her abstinence, and remained
well.
The fourth case was another female, thirty
years old. She had the usual symptoms of tes
disesse, or tea poison, with the usual nervous
suffering. The tea she had used was green tea.
She had been in the use of digitalis and colclii
um a fortnight, with no other effect than to add
to her sufferings, as might have been expected
from the addition of two more poisons to the
one which was already undermining her const i
tion. She abstained from tea, and in three days
recovered.
The fifth case was that of a female, twen'y-
five years of age, famoua in her profession of
tea drinking. Mr. C prohibited tea as usual ;
but was surprised to find, after having made
hie daily visit fur a week or so, she was no bet
ter. On a more rigid search, he found her still
indulging herself clandestinely. She complied
at length, with his prohibition, and in a few
days was well.
Case s xth was that of an author and parlia
mentary reporter, of middle age. He waa a
green tea drinker sometimes using it stronger
as his common drink, for five or six hours to
gether, to keep up his mental strength. He
had become so enslaved, that two or three times
a week, he was found lying in a state of insen
sibility on the floor
A middle-aged mother was the seventh Sh
had been subject for some time to occasional
fits of insensibility, which occurred in the even
ing. one nau used D'ack tea. twice a any.
'which Mr. C, suspecting to be the came of I
mischief, forbade her, and she quickly recover
ed. I should have ssid thst she had taken the
strongest medicines without success.
A shop keeper, forty years of ngp, is next
mentioned. He wss not only a great tea drink
er, but also a coffee drinker. His head was
more affected than that of the others. To total
j abstinence from every drink birt water, was ad
ded, in thia case, for ten days, a little valerian.
The ninth case was that of a young man of
twenty-two a great drunkard, even at this
early age, on black tea. . In addition to tho
other symptoms of disease, he was at length at
tacked with bleeding at the nose. He was cu
red in tbe urual manner, in a very short time.
The last case mentioned ia that of a female
a most devoted slave of the teapot. She had
long been a sufferer, but would not abandon the
cause nf her suffering, till a severe cough,
with a bloody expectoration, compelled her to
doit.
Mr. C. cencludes his remarks by observing
"I could extend the number of cases en as to
form a body of evidence which it would bedit
ficnlt to resist Those I have brought forward
are, I think, sufficient to excite considerable
doubt aa to the harmless qualities of.
The cups that cheer but not inebriate.'
Mlf it be true,' he adds, 'that the continued
disturbance of the function of an organ wi'l in
duce change of structure, what are we to ex
pect from the use of tra twice a day, when it
deranges the function of the heart for three or
four hour, alter each time of its being taken?
If the answer be that it may be expected to
produce some structural disease, then there
arises this other question, Msy not the grea
ter prevalence of catdiac (or heart) disease, of
late years, have been consiuggably influenced
by the increased consumption of tea and cot
fee V ' ; ' ";'
But Mr, Cole ia not the only individual who
haa auspected tea of containing poison. Dis
tinguished men of both hemispheres have en
tertained the same suspicions ; and several
have verified them by experiment.
"As early aa 1767," says Mr. Graham', in bia
Lectures oa tbe Science of Human Life, "Dr.
Smith, of Edinburg, demoosteted, by a aeries of
careful experiments, thst aa infusion oi green
lea haa the same effect as henbane, tobacco,
cicuta, &c, on the living tissues ot the animal
there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and
Pa. Saturday, Sept. 19, 1846.
body ; in allcases first diminishing and finally'
destroying their vital properties. In 1772, Dr.
Loltsnm, ol Ireland, made a aeriea of similar
experiments, with similar results. Ar.d still
later. Dr. rtt'dilnee. nf Poirlnn.l l,t
. , ... ...... ...
experiments, several times repeatod, complete
ly demonstrated that tea ia as powerfully dee-
a a : a i a . ...I
ruciive.oiue as laurel water, opium, or U.gi-
talis. . Indeed it is entirely certain that a small
quantity nf a strong decoction of tea or coffee
:fl J t .1
decoction of tea to hearts just ts ken from living
frogs, which extinguished their vitality almost
instantly.
ArrttopRfATiojts bv Conor The official
statement of Ihe appropriations made at the late
session of Congress, prepared by the Clerk of
the House of Representatives, shows the nggre-
gate to be 476 191 1ft The various heads
of appropriation are as follows!
Civil and Diplomatic expenses, $4053.012 63
Indian Department do. 1.106,698 GO
Naval service, 7.440,703 33
Army,- - 6.873.02 C7
V iilunteere and other troops, 11 ,057,3T)9 00
Prosecution of existing war, 10.000,000 00
Regiment of moun'.cd riflemen, fl 500 00
Sappers, miners and ponton ic re, 25.000 00
Military Academy, ' ' : 123 076 00
Fortifications, - 1.440,000 00
Defensive works," 170 000 00
Post-office Department, '4 079540 75
Pensions, 1.714.535 40
Deficiencies of 1840, 1,700014 09
Smithsonian Institution viz :
Interest on fund of 515 1B 00
which may ha ve accrued on 1st
day of July next, 242.129 00
Miscellaneous 42913S6!)
$51,470,191 13
R All. roads in Caromfu and Georoia. The
Macon Messenger gives the following state
ment of the Railroads now inoperatinn in these
two States, vix: miles.
Central Railroad, from Savannah to Slacon, 190
Macon and Western, from Macon to Ata-
lanta, 101
Stste, or Atlantic snd Western, e0
Georgis, from Agusta to Atalanta, 171
Athena branch, 40
Augusts to Charleston, 130
Rrsnch road to Colombia, 5S
Making a grand chain of communication of 77fi
Thk Deaim ok Ho. Fki.k McOonneli. The
Raltimore Sun gives the following account of
the death of Mr. McConnrll, member of Coneress
from Alabama: "He returned to bis lodgings at
tbe St. Charles Hole!, about noon, apparently
much depressed, called for a pen and ink, and
said he intended to write to his wife. Refore the
messenger returned, however, Mr. McConnell
had locked hia door, inflicted two cuta around hia
abdomen, long, but not deep, and several arnund
the throat, severing, as i. supposed, the jugular
vein. After an hour and a half bad elapsed, one
of the family went to hia room door, and finding
it still locked, looked through a glass over it,
when the dead body of tbe unhappy man was
seen lying on the floor. To all appearance he
must have died instantly. Kvery body here wiM
understand the cause to be intemperance."
- Accidents on Railroads Scientific insti
tutiona in various parts of Europe are engaged
in making up statistical retiroaies of accidents
on various rsilroads. It hss been ascertained
thst the year 1842 was the most unfavorable in
France : and where ono accident occurred to
25000 traveller, in 1844 only one accident ic
cur red to 1.321 .000 travellers. In England, it
IHW, there was one accident to tii.ts.iti; in
IS 13. one to GO .000. This is favorable to France
From 1811 to 1815, there were 1057 scci
dents in England, from which 300 persons di
ed. In Belgium, in 1344, there was one to 88,
000. In 1815, one accident lo 102,000 travel-
lers. From 1835 to 1911 only 58 persons were
killed, and 103 wounded, on the Belgian roads
The German railways seem to have been most
fortunate from 1841 to 1845, inclusive. There
were only four killed and three wounded.
Powin or E.NDrm.v.0 Hiiat. The last four
or five days we thought sufficiently tested Ihe
power of 'he living body to endure extraordina
ry heat, but some experiments in Europe prove
that the power runs higher up the scale than
any degroa of atmospheric fervency thst we
have yet experienced. Sir Francis Chantrey's
workmen used to enter the oven employed in
baking the moulds, an iron apartment fourteen
fao! I .in rw t sou a 1 as A cant kink sift t aSUrtl aO " t
broad, the' temperature of which, with closed
survival aU at TlTafl s4anaaaa at rial tkaa asfiM flnAP TAf
. . n. . . - , ... i...,
hot. They were guarded agaio.t tha heat of
the floor by wooden clogs, which were of course
charred nn tha anrfaee Thnaa ni!v individuals
wbo find themselves freely perspiring 07 de-
... . ... , ..I
greea will calm their alarm at the consequen-
ees until they ace the mercury bubhliog up to
the top of the thermometer.
w, ueemiy numan nte, in one unaccustomed 0rour Union, In a ravino fitly yards wide, be
to the use of it, as quickly as an equal quanti- tween two mountain., spurs from the Rocky
ty of laudanum." Hr. Bcddncs applied a strong Mniintains. is Hot Sfrinos Vii.i.aoe. comnn.fd
immediate parent of despotism. Jsrrtasoa.
Tol. O no. ftt-.Whole Wo, 313
lint Springs of Arkanaaa.
An officer in tho Kentucky Cavalry Regi-
ment, now on ita wny tlirotiffh Arkamma to
Mexico, gives the following description of the
celebrnted Hot Springs near Little Rock, in
Arkansas;
With some eight or ten officers of the regi-
ntent f srriv.,1 at this ooint last ninhi. .i.i.
miles rom Little Rock, and twenty tmm .,.
road, and I now can seo about th third nJ
.i.va
of about thirly rudely constructed log and board
htioses. The mounts ins run nearly east and
west, nnd close in at the northern one the hou
ses are built, whito before them, sweeping the
bsse of the other mountain, runs a rivulet as
clear as crystal, of 75 degrees temperature be
fore snd 110 degrees after its intermixture
with the water from the springe. The springs
eighty-four in number, sre confined to the
southern motintsin, and gush its side from the
base a hundred yards up. The greatest heat of
any which I measured. (and there is none hot
tei) was 149 degree, the least ,110 degrees.
Their temperature ranges generally from 135
to 145degrees. The" water is strongly impreg
nated with lime, as is seen by the incrustations
of carbonate of lime formed as it flows alonr :
with this exception it must bo very pure.
Though so hot thst one hss to drink it by small
mniiihfuls, it is very paltsble, quickly assusges
thirst, siid never nauseates! snd, the more
strsngc, when s little' salt and peper are added
tastes very much like chicken broth. Here is
food for r flection: the philopher msy come and
analize the water, note the composition of the
rock, soil, snd detritus, and then make many
uncertain theories to account for the eternal
fire that boils the caldron from which issues the
many streams. The mountsin is composed of
very porous liinstone,' and strikes one aa ha
ving once been fuxed and heaved up a molten
mass, to take whatever shspo its weight
snd pliability might give it, whilo the earth, in
the interstices of its projections, appears as if
charred by a great heat. Its fellow of the op
posite side is firm and has regularity of arrange
ments, strs'a, and veins. Doubtless the same
causes w hich make a burning volcano also sup
p'y this phenomenon.
Some forty or fify invalids are now hers,
most of them sfferted with rheumatism and
mercurial complaints, in which disease tho ns
tonishing efficacy of the baths is discernible. I
see several who art ived a tew weeks ago, so
heplrs, crocked, and deformed that they had
to be lifted as inanimate beings, now walking
with agility. There are others who had taken
a great dral of mercury, and whose systems
were not cleansed of it until they bathed here
some weeks, when a profuse salivation occur
ring, and continuing from two to four or six
weeks, every vestige of the disease wss remov
ed. Tho baths sre thirty steps from the rooms;
one of vapor, snd another by shower from a
s'reani an inch in diameter, snd falling ten or
fifteen teet, slwsys being under the same roof.
The vapor bath is made by pulling an air-tight
room over a spring, protecting the feet by trel-
li-i work ; their temperature is from 140 to 130
degrees. I he bather generally first lets the
spout pour upon him, then goes to the vapor
tail), and remains from ten to twenty minutes,
returns to the spout, which washes him off, then
wipes dry and dresses, repeating the last in a
half hour, on seenunt of the clothe becoming
saturated with perspiration. The bath ia very
enervating, ami it require discretion to govern
ait individual who wishes to indulge in it; it is
quickly futal to consumptives.
Many curiosities and abundance of game are
to be found in the neighborhood to occupy the
attention of the naturalist and hunter.
T here is one chalybeate spring within a
hundred yards f tbisi house, and another three
miles off. so large that its stresm propels a mill'
wheel; by it ia a publ c house for the accommo-
Jfc(inn of visiter. Beautiful crystals of quartz,
obtained twenty or th tv miles off. pieces of
magnetic iron ore, and sulphate of iron have
been offered tor sale to us ; and not far distant
is a quarry of hones and whetstones, which ia
worked, and the product carried to the Eastern
msrki ts. Barring the snakes, centipedes, (I
saw the first one this morning.) tarantulas, and
licks, this isaa pleawnt a place as one need
wish to be at. There is very little of the fe
ver here, which is to generally prevalent every
where else on our road, as to mark the children
Truly, yours, A. M. B.
Literary I xtsu.iok.ics. Washington lr-
vjng, who will soon return home, will immedi-
Pu hUu"' f Mohammed,
his residence in Spain, from the Moorish msna-
cri and , pmeM h re,Jf hi-
Conquest of Peio, which will be followed by a
I .ita of Pttllia) th Second. Mr. Bancroff hss
completed the fourth volume of h.s n ''" '
the United States, which will soon appear. Ja-
R . eng,1(red Jn riUr)p , Hi.tory of
lmj American Revolution. Tha Hon. John 1.
1 Kennedy is engaged upon a Ufa ol Wirt.
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. Appestranees flr Death.
It frequently happens that the features of the
desd retain their entire form and individual
likeness for many years after their burial. Ex
perience, however, has proved, that after expo
sure to the air for some minutes dust returns
to dust again. The following circumstances
occurred at the disentermentof the body of Ro
bert Burns, the poet, sometime in '.he year 1815,
lor the purpose of its being entombed beneath
a splendid monument.
A report having been spread that the princi
pal coffin waa made of oak, a hope was entertai
ned that it would be possible to transport it
from the north to the east comer of St M ichncls,
without opening it, or disturbing I Ik ?cred de
posit it contained. Rut this hope proved falla
cious. On testing the coffin, it was found to bo
composed of the ordinary materishj and ready
to yield at the slightest pressure ; and upon the
lid being removed, a spectacle was presented,
which, considering the feme of t' mighty dead,
has rarely been witnessed by a single human
being. There lay the remains of the great po
et, to appearance nearly entire, and retaining
varione traces of vitality, or rather exhibiting1
the features of one who had bttt recently sunk
into the sleep of death the lordly forehead,
arched and high, and the teeth perfectly firm
and white. The scene was so imposing W
most of the workn.en stood bare and uncovered.
as did Dr. Gregory at the exhumation of the
hero of Bannockburn, and at the same time felt
their frames thrilling with some undefinable e
motion, as they gazed on theashesof him whose
fame is as the word itself. But the effect wan
momentary ; for when they proceeded to insert
a shell or case below the coffin, the heud separa
ted from the trunk, and the whole body, with
the exception ot the bones, crumbled into dust.
Lord Nugent, on opening the coffin, contai
ning the body of John Hampden, found it per
fect, after a burial of two hundred years ; evert
his features were preserved. His hair of a ra
ven blackness, came off at the touch of the hand.'
and then was discovered an infinite number of.
little red worms of great activity, p'aying nporr'
the cranium. No insects were found on other
parts of the body, aa if the brain contained a li
ving principle, which was engendered by its
own corruption.
It is a fact not extensively known that whet
the body of General Wayne, which hnd been
buried at Presqu'tle, Erie, Pa., in 1797, wa
disinterred forty years afterwards, for the pur
pose of its being removed to Chester county.
Ps., where it now lie, the corps had undergone
so little change as to be readily recognized by
those who were familiar with the General in
his life time. Its perfect preservation was at
tributed to the character of the soil, which was
agillaceous earth, strongly impregnated with
alumine.
Hioh PRifn'RR Politics. An editor down
east, referring to some of his fellow citizens of
opposite politics, uses the following strong
language :
They talk of their holy religion j but their
robes of righteousness are woven at Lowe!) and
Manchester; their Psradise is a high per cen
tum on Factory stock ; their psaltnaof rejoicing
are triumphs over a rival party in politics on.
tho question of banks and tariffs; they would
turn Heaven into Birmingham, and make every
angel a weaver, and with the eternal din of
looms and spindles drown all the anthems of
the morning stars'
Vrur Small. A distinguished politician, al
luding to the sie of the State of Delaware,
once threatened to put it in bis breeches pocket.
This wss making a sovereign State appear in
significant indeed, but the Stateof Rhode Island
is still less, fur a Boston papers says, tho reason
why the earthquake that broke the old womens
china in Massachusetts, did not visit Rhode Isl
and, was that it is not largo enough for an earth
quake to shake in. There waa once a littlo
man sick of a fever in that State, and he died
because it had not room to turn him in.
Thi Womeji or Peru never, it is said, nurse
their children while angry, for fear of importing
to them a choleric temperament. Theie ar
reasons for the omission connected with tha
bodily comfort and hesllh of the child whidi
should have iqual weight under the circum
stances. A Satisfactory Answer. 'Halloo, stran
ger, you sppesr to be travelling
Yes, I always travel when on a journey.
I think I have seen you somewhere
Very likely, I have often been there.'
'And pray what might your name be 1
It might be Sam Patch ; but it isn't.'
Mlavejrou been long in these parts
. 'Never longer than at present 5 feet 0.'
'Do you get anything new V
Ye, I bought a oew whetstone this mining '
'I thought so, you are the hrpjt blade 1'vo
aeen on thia road,' '