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Day
16
Month
December
Year
1844
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Franklin on Spelling. - Dr. Franklin in one of his letters says - "You neednot be concerned, in writing to me, about your bad spelling; for, in my opinión, what is called bad spelling is generally the best, as conforming to the sound of the letters. To give you an instance, a gentleman received a letter in which were these words: "Not finding Brown at hom, l delivered your messeg to his yf." The gentleman called his wife to help him read it. Between them they made out all but the yf, which they could not understand. The lady proposed to cali her chambermaid, "Because, Betty," says she, "has the best knack of reading bad spelling of any one I know." Betty carne, and was tnuch surprised that neitherof them.could teil what yf was. - "Why," says she, i:yf spells wife- what else can it spell?" And, indeed, it is much better, as well as a shorter method thon douUeyoui.j. e. which in reality spells doublé wife. No Jewish Synngogue or Schoul can be built n the same streetöfSt. Petersburg with a Greek Church, at a less distance from the laiter than six hundied' feet. The government sfPolaiul at Warsaw has prescribed this addition to the lorm of oath io bc taken by recruils in tho Rssian orniy: 1 swear to bo faithful to my colors, and never tu desert them. not even thouh. the should cörno' the earth." Oaj's majority iti Tcnnossoe ís now sUted t WlvA Man in the Boiler. - Many of our readers doubtless recollect Hoffman's thrilling story of Ben Blower, or the man in the boilerrpTThe following counter part in reality to that story 3 related in the last Pittsburg Gazette: - "One day last week one of the stoamboats on the Allegany trade - we forget which - was iyingat the Allegany wharf for some rej pairs. A gentleman, not belonging to the j boat, was walking on deck, when suddcnl ly his attention was arrested by the most horrid and dreadful shrieks. They seemed to come from some person in the verv agonies of death, and so faint they betokened a person at his last gasp. "John! John! for God's sa.ke put out that fire! Oh, John! put ii out for God's sake! put it out!" Dreadfully alarmed, our informant hurried down to seeand rescue the suiFerer3 who seemed to be broiling over a slow iire. He couM see nothing. Still the awful and faint screams wére heard - 'John put out that fire - for God's sake, put it out!" Running around he finally discovered the individual and the cause of his torment. He had gone into one of the boilers for the purpose of cleaning it, and finding the cold rather unpleasant got "John" to put some fire in thefurnace. - "John" had put rather too much in and as he had got farther nto the narrow boiler it becamo very hot. There be was in imminent danger of being burnedalive, and henee his alarming cries. We need hardly say that he was got out in doublé quick time." Slatislic8. - The vnst extent of the United States may be eslimaied from the following facts. Comparison, says Dr Wutts, is the best method by which to judg.e of the 6izc of ony thing. Wegivethe number of square miles in Great Britian and Ireland: England and Wales contam 58,335 Scotland 39,500 Ireland 30,000 Total 127,835 Virgii.iti, Alabama, I lllnois, Missouri, Arksnsas, and the territorios, are each of them iarger than England and Walea. The Advantage of Gdling a "Sub."- ft is stated 111 the Natchez Free Trader, that Finí Greene, now one of the oldest Printers in Virginia, was drafted for service in the Revolutionsry war; bnt believing with Jack Fulstaff, that "d'.ecretion waa Ihe better part of valor," at ihe expense of a watch nnd a prt-tty round sum ofmone)r, he p'rocured o substitute, wfïo nnswered at the first enrollment to the name, as well as the place, of Tim Greene. In the first battle affer the enrollment, Greene's substitute was killed, and ihus the name of t he principal went upon the oooks of the war deparlment as slsin. Under the pension law, ihe children of that old sluin soldier, Titn Greene, who is even now ahvei have foryears received the substamiul gratitude of their country. Sixly Bacheloron horseback! - Remarking 11 pon the grand Whig procession, a correspondent at New York to the North American says - 'When all was elegant to parlicnlarize would be running great risk; but the great hit was made by a club of sixty gentlemen from the Crotón Hotel, all bachelors. They were splendidly niounted, the horses' heads decorated with American flogs and rosettes, with snddle-cloihs nihdeof Uni;ed States fiags. - The Standard bearer wore for a cap the skin of the old coon, os large aslife. The standard was of while linen, Irimmed with biue, surmounted by a gold cagle. Device, 'We're nil bachelors; when Harry's elected, we are roady to marry.' The sight of this flag was greeted most heartily by the spectators, the ladie.f siiowering down wreaths, boquets, &.C., with the greatest liberaliiy. And the firet question with the ladies now is, did you eee the bachelors from the Crotón?' Taghtmi is positively coming to this countiy. She get $25,000 for her trip. Shp is consulered the greatest dancer in the world. nd dancing, ]ike singing, is a language understood by every taste of every nation, ever siuce "the morning sia's sang together" the great hymn of the creation. Magnelic Telrgraph letweer. JVeio York and Boston. - We are highly gratified to learn, that arrangements are in progress, whicii bid fair to be cntirely successful, for esiablishing a Magnelic Telegraph op ihe plan of Prof. Morse, and under his directioa, bet ween New Vork and Boston. It would no do bt be followed by tbe eátallishment of a similar commnnication belween New York nnd Baltimore, through Pljiladelphia: thus connecting oll tliese and intertnediatc points with the seat of government, by this almost mirnculous invet) - tion.- A'. Y. Tribune. An Amazon. - Aletter from a resident of Leicester, Livinerston county, to his friend in this county, states that a female. dressed in men's clothes, svvore in a Locofoco vote a the recent electiun in that town. She subsequently stole a horse, wos pursued, arrested and is now in jnil. - Schenectady Cabinet. In three vaars, in England, 361,394 mariages took place; consequently 110 fewer than 723,788 entered into weklock; and of the parties, 704,836 could not sign the names! ff? We mentioned the other day, that an editorial duel had taken place near New Orleans. A letter received at Louisville, says the parties were one of the edl'.ors of the Picayune, nnd one of the editors of the Couritr. The" letter says: "The Courier raan'e pistrl tnissed fire; the Pietiyune man's bal grazed the abdomen and, and took nway the left thumb of l!ie Coorier man; the spconds then interfered, and the combatan ts were reconciled. "Sir," said the Courier to the Picayune, "I am very glod my pistol missed fire." ,"Sir," replied ho otthö Picayune, "So am I."The Mayor of St. Louis lias determined to enforce a clause of the city ordinance, which forbids negroos and mulattoes to hold any bal or reljgious mee'.ing without a wriuenpermisston trom che Mayor. A leadinnr tnctropolitin joiirnal, a few. days back said: "We havo henrd it mentioiied as u pusitive fact that an American gentleman of most unblemished character was ret'uded ad missicm into one oflhe Jargest clubs in London, on iho solé ground that lie bluuged o e repub'ic that dul nut fulfi! its enjjageimls. Conlentmenl - Tho fonniain oí content mus; spring up n the mind and lio -vio luis ao liule knowldgo of human Ii aturo as to séR bappiness by chnnging nv.y thing but his own dïspOBÏUon', will waste his lif in fruiili'.ss eflorts, and inuitip'y ilie griefs which !.e purposes to remove.

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