NE VVSPA PER CHAT. Tan CHANCES on WAR. To those accustomed to the vi- cissitudes of warfare, it is no less curious to remark the many miraculous escapes from wounds than the recovery frotn them. As an instance of the former, I may observe that in the course of the action at Sabugal, I was addressing a passing remark to an oliicer near me, who, in turning round to answer, raised his right foot, and I observed a grape shot tear up the print which it had but that instant leftin the mud. As an instance of the lat- ter, I shall here relate (though rather misplaced) that at the storming of Badajos, in April 1812, Lieutenant Worsley got a musket ball in the ear, which came out at the back of the neck, and though after a painful illness, he recovered, yet his head got a twist, and he was compelled to wear it looking over the right shoulder. At the. battle of Waterloo, in 1815, (having been up- wards of three years with his neck awry,) he received a shot in his left ear, which came out within halfan inch ofhis wound in the back of theneck. and set his head straight again ! El-‘l<‘EC'1‘S or Nrrnous Acrn GAS 0-N Lu-‘n.—A merchant at Lyons stored considerable nitrous acid in his warehouse. He vwas awakened one morning by the howling of a watch dog shut up in the building. On opening the door, the ‘ distressed animal rushed out with burnt paws, and ran to the nearest wa- tcr to quench his thirst. After playing a little time with some other dogs, he returned to his master’s door, and expired. The merchant perceived the odor of nitrous gas‘very strongly, and was driven back by it on attempting to enter. He persisted, and finally brought out two broken cantines, each ofwhich had con- tained thirty--two pounds of aquafortis. At nine o’clock in the evening, having previously expectorated yellowish matter, his body became of a blue color, his respiration was oppressed, a rattling took place in the throat, hiccough followed. with an in- tense pain at the lower boundary of the chest. Delirium suc- ceeded, accompanied with dreadful convulsions, and at six o’- clock the following morning, the poor sufferer died. This should serve as a caution to those who keep aquafortis for sale. EXERClSE.—-Tile skipping rope, a toy which is discarded by the young girl when‘ entering a premature womanhood, but which ought. to be looked upon as a necessary article in every bnudnir, or a private room occupied bv a woman of civilized life and civilized habits, is one of the best,if not the very best, kind of gymnastic exercise that lknow. It exercises almost every muscle in the body. There are -few women who do not neglect exercise. Men—most of whom have some necessary out-of-door occupation-men almost universally walk more than women. Thousands upon -thousands of English women never cross the threshold of their houses oftener than once a week. -and then itis to attend to the public worship of their Ma- ker ; and it is seldom that, in towns, the distance to the Church or Chapel is such as to occupy more than ten minutes in going thither.—-- '1‘:-calise -on Diet and Regimen. CONCIIOLOGY. In the "Excursion” of \Voodsworth occurs" the following exquisite passage: ‘ . “I have seen A curious child, applying to his ear The convulutions of a smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hush’d, his very soul Listen’d intensely, and his countenance soon Brighen’d with joy; for, murmuring from within, \Vereheard sonorious cadences whereby, To his belief, the monitor express’d Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself lsto the earof faith; and doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things: Of ebb and flow, and ever during power; And central peace subsisting at the heart Ofendless agitation.” Uzvivtzrts.-tr. PEACE. Report speaks much of a treaty be- tween the three monarchs, in virt.-ue of which France and England would be invited to join Austria, Prussia, and Russia, in order that. within six months, the questions which now agit- ate Europe may be settled, so that each power may. by com- mon accord, in the spring reduce by one third the military es- tablishments which burden the finarices.---'I'e-mps. Tm: Cami-:stc CHURCH. There are 1,000 temples [in Chi- na. L‘lill:.‘F’l‘f11lC‘tl to Contitmus. THE NORW'ALK GAZETTE. T ‘H " ' fl churches are 5,800 sheep, 5,800 goats, 27,800 rabbits, and 27,- 000 pigs. The luxury of Chinese worship may be imagin- ed by the fazt the more than 27,000 pieces of the richest silks are annually used in the temples of Confucius. Parts Adver- tiser. SCARLATINA. A Syrian physician has published a cure of scarlatina in itslast and all but fatal stage, by covering the abdomen of the patient, a child seven years old, with ice and snow, and renewing thecold application, continually for acou- siderable time. Qu.uu.r—:'s Enrnnmrs. There is an old devotional book en- titled “Emblems,” by Francis Quarles, remarkable for its vigor and energy, the quaintness of its style, and the oddneas of its pictorial illustrations. The following distich is an in- stance of its homely but expressive lines :' “Thus heaven’s best gifts, usurped by wicked ones, To poison turn by their con-ta-gi-ons.” YOUTHFUL FEELING. “As I approve of a youth," says Cowley, “who has something of the old in him, soI am not less pleased with an old man who has something of the youth. He who follows this rule may be old in body, but can never bg old in mind.” FUNERAL }IONOURS.—Du Guesclin, constable of France, di- ed in the midst of his triumphs, before Chateauneufde Randon 1!] 1380. The English garrison, which had conditioned to sur- render at a certain time, marched out the day after his death, and the commander respectfully laid the keys of the fortress on the bier, so that it might appear to have surrendered to his ashes. MUSIC _rN ANIMALS.-—A frcind informs us that he has oflate been several times disturbed in the middle of the night by the sound of music. He thought for some time that it was fancy, heard the sound of the piano. Wondering who could play on it at such an hour, he went down stairs to discover the musician ; and opening the door softly, discovered the cat walking back- ward and forward on the keys for her ladyship’s amusement.- Boston Galaxy. Tm-3 LATE wm. MARSH, ESQ, of Apple Island, once a Lien- tenant in the British N avy-—was a spectator of two remarkable scenes. He was present at a coffee-house and heard Dr. Sam'l Johnson maintain an argument with one of the literary club to which he belonged. He also stood near the place of execution of the beautiful wife of Louis 16th, and saw the barbarous exc- cutioner entwine his brawny fingers in her silken curls, and swing her severed head, streaming with blood, round in view of the swinish multitude, and then cast it_into a basket of sawdust prepared for its rcception.—Boston Galaxy Dr. Johnson being asked by a lady what love was, replied ‘it is the wisdom offools and the folly ofthe wise.'—Dryden be- ing asked the same question said—‘It is a thing I have often seen, felt, and heard of, but never could understand.‘ A chemist of the city of Durham has lately discovered, by , accident. that the sting (venom) of a wasp or bee is an aci , which will yield to an application 'of powerful alkali.—W/zo shall we credit. PHRENOLOGY. It is proposed to examine the head of Mael- zel’s automaton, to solve the mysteryof his skill in chess play- ing. It must be the experitnentum er-ucisof the science. _ During 1834, there were imported into Great Britain over five millions of gallons of colonial spirits, above three millions of which were for homeconsumption. The duties amounting to upwards of a million and a half sterling. The Quarterly review remarks, that as the ancient mytholo- the first of October, in anticipation. . Dr. Maiden tells us that when the fire fly of Jamaca is irri- tated, its phosphoresence is so strong that he was able to read some lines ofa letter by holding the fly over the lines and mov- it along them. ' Voltaire, in his Philosophical Dictionary, tells a beggar ask- ing alms in the suburbs of Madrid. when a passer by said to _him, “are you not ashamed to fol low that infamous employment, as you are able to work '1” To which the beggar smartly re- plied, “Sir, I ask your charity not your advice.” Clocks that have stopped, by misrepresenting the time, be- Tlte annual sacrifices at tlm“~r:_ cnme parrttloxes ; they stmzrl and lir simultaneously. and turned to sleep again; but was at length convinced that he ’ gist appropriated all legendary wonders to Hercules, so the ' modern attribute all stray bon mots, to M. de Talleyrand. —~.l Lotteries throughout France will entirely cease at the end of ' the year 1835. The -offices of Valencieunes were closed about
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