Literary and Scientific Mirror.

Nantwich-E. Jones;

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Prescot-A. Ducker;
Newcastle-under-Lyme-J.Mort; Preston-P, Whittle;
Newcastle-u-Tyne-J. Finley;
I Wilcockson;
Newtown-J. Salter;
Ripon T. Langdale;
Northwich-G. Fairhurst; Rochdale-J. Hartley;
Nottingham-C. Sutton; Sheffield-T. Orton;
North Shields-Miss Barnes;
Ben-Oldham-J. Dodge;

Ormskirk-W. Garside;
Oswestry-W. Price;
Penrith J. Shaw;

TUESDAY, APRIL 5. 1825.

instincts, inseparable from humanity, and affecting alike | foot-path through a crowded city, until every trace of rude and polished society.

midnight intrusion of the surgeon's caterer, prove that to lay it out according to his own fancy, the new cemetery
the disposal of our bodies after death is by no means a would, in process of time, resemble in picturesque ap-
matter of such indifference as we have supposed; and the pearance, the celebrated Père la Chaise, near Paris, the
sentiment which suggested the inscription on the monu-founders of which appear to have been actuated by the
ment of our Shakspeare is probably in unison with the
feelings and prejudices of the majority of mankind:

"Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear

To dig the dust inclosed here;

Blest be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones."

If, however, it were otherwise, and men were totally re

gardless whether their bodies, after death, were committed to the earth, after the manner of their fathers; or to the flames, according to the practice of some countries; or whether the decomposing process were effected by the fish or the worm ;-if, in short, the mode by which they may be assimilated to our parent clay, were a matter of perfect indifference to men when living, still it must be recollected that it is by no means so to surviving friends; and, as it is our business to legislate for the living, and not for the dead, we must consider the subject solely with reference to those feelings, which appear to be deeply implanted in the breast of man, in all ages and in all countries.

It has long been the custom in this country to consign the dead to the earth,-" Dust to dust and ashes to ashes;" and such is the force of habit and prejudice, that the earnest solicitation of a dying man, that his body might be disposed of in a different manner, would in all probability be overruled by his surviving friends and relatives. Instances, indeed, are not wanting to prove that the slightest departure from the ordinary forms observed in the disporal of the dead, will not be permitted, even in compliance with the last injunction of the deceased. We have always understood, that it was the wish of the late Mr. John Horn Tooke, that his remains should be interred in his own garden; his friends, however, did not conform to that wish, although, on any other point, the simplest request of such a man would have been scrupulously and religiously complied with.

same liberal spirit upon which we have just complimented
the projectors of our native establishment.

The Parisian depositary for the dead is thus described
by a contemporary. "It is a spot without the walls,
where the ashes of Jew and Christian, Catholic and Pro-

visited the spot, was wafted over the whole churchyard.

was then the full flush of summer. The garden had been Planted but a month; but the lady had tended, and propped, even more in the dusk of evening returned to her tender t so that they had taken their removal kiudly, and grea flourished as carelessly round that cold marble, and in that

and watered those gay strangers with her own delicate hand

sheltered nursery.--Blackwood's Magazine.

Dead."

cemeteries interesting to the country at lugt, we shall feel obliged by any original communications er god selec tions on the subject.

field of graves, as they had done heretofore in their own It appears, from an article in the New Timer, that testant, repose in charitable vicinity. The ground is laid some spirited projectors have it in contemplation to out with taste and elegance, diversified in position, beau-vide, in the vicinity of London, a most extensive recept tified with shrubs and flowers, and appropriately adorned cle for the dead, to be named Necropolis, or "City of tha with monuments, some interesting from their historical We have in our possession some interesting articles on recollections, some touching from the simplicity and ten- this subject, which we shall introduce in a subequant derness of their inscriptions, but all neat, decent, and number; and, as we consider the establishment of resis appropriate to the solemnity of the scene." Whilst we entirely approve of the proposed measure of submitting all epitaphs and monumental incriptions to the inspection of a superintending committee, in order to prevent the intrusion of any thing ludicrous or absurd, which would ill accord with the character of the place, we are at the same time decidedly of opinion, that free permission to follow the dictates or even the caprices of individual taste in the embellishment of the graves would add much to the interest of the cemetery, by rendering it less formal than it must be if any uniform mode of laying out the ground be enforced. With a view to draw the attention of the proprietors to this part of the subject, we shall, by way of conclusion, solicit their perusal of the following extracts:

Prussian Burial places.-The cemeteries in this part of Germany are kept with great neatness. Every grave is in general a flower-bed. I walked out one morning to the great cemetery of Berlin, to see the tomb of Klaproth, which is merely a cross, and announces nothing but his name and age. Close by, an elderly-looking woman, in decent mourning, was watering the flowers with which she had planted the grave of an only daughter-(as the sexton afterwards told ne)—who had been interred the preceding week. The grave formed nearly a square of about five feet. It was divided into little beds, all dressed and kept with the utmost care, and adorned with But whatever diversity of opinion may prevail, respect-the simplest flowers. Evergreens, intermingled with daisies, ing the modes or ceremonies observed in the disposal of the body after death, the places selected for the interment of the dead, în every country, have been as far removed as possible from the busy haunts of men.

The burying-grounds which deface our native town ap. pear to form, indeed, a striking exception to this rule; but we must observe, as some apology for the unsightly appearance of graves and tomb-stones in the immediate vicinity of our streets, that the living have obtruded upon the dead, whose dormitories were not formerly, as they now are, in the very centre of a dense population.

The foregoing observations naturally suggested themselves, on a recent visit to the Low-hill Cemetery, a perspective view and general description of which are adjoined. We look upon this extensive establishment as forming a new era in the history of Liverpool, whether we consider the grand scale upon which it is laid out, or the very commendable spirit of liberality which has actuated those gentlemen, to whose exertions the town is much indebted for its completion.

It is much to the credit of the Jews of Liverpool that they were the first to set the example of burying the dead out of the town; and the Independents have also an enclosed burying ground in the immediate vicinity of the Low-hill General Cemetery.

Natural History.

LETTERS

ON THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE GLOBE

BY M. ALEX. B.

La legère couche de vie, qui fleurit à la surface du pike, a couvre que des ruines.—Paris: printed, 1894. Translated expressly for the Kaleidoscope from a recent Free work LETTER IX.-CONTINUED.

OF FOSSIL ANIMALS.

Permit me, Madam, to retrace every particula history of the fossil bones of elephants, that we may das deduce some inferences respecting their past existencs

The superficial position of these bones, and their ps sence in layers of light alluvial soil, which seemed to lan formed the bottom of ancient valleys, prove that the were ranged round the borders; little clumps of violets and mals whose remains they are, whatever country they forget-me-not were scattered in the interior; and in the cen-habited, must have been the victims of one of the last tre a solitary lily hung down its languishing blossom. The broken-hearted mother had just watered it, and tied it to a volutions that have contributed to change the surfan small stick, to secure it against the wind: at her side lay the their soil. weeds which she had rooted out. She went round the whole spot again and again, anxiously pulling up every blade of grass then gazed for a few seconds on the grave-put the weeds into her apron took up her little watering-pot walked towards the gate-returned again, to see that her lily was secure-and, at last, as the suppressed tear began to start, hurried out of the churchyard.—Tour in Germany in 1820—

21-22.

The custom, so general in Switzerland and so common in our own principality of Wales, of strewing flowers over the graves of departed friends, either on the anniversaries of their deaths, or on other memorable days, is touching and beautiful. Those frail blossoms scattered over the green sod, in their morning freshness, but for a little space retain their balmy odours and their glowing tints, till the sun goes down, and the breeze of evening sighs over them, and the dews of night fall on their pale beauty, and the withered and fading wreath becomes a yet more appropriate tribute to the silent dust beneath. But rose-trees, in full bloom, and tall staring lilies, and flaunting lilacs, and pert spriggish spirafrotexes, are, mewhich should prevade the last resting place of mortality thinks, ill in harmony with that holiness of perfect repose Even in our own unsentimental England, I have seen two or three of these flower-pot graves. One in particular, I remember, had been planned and planted by a young disconsolate widow to the memory of her deceased partner. The tomb

But did these elephants, whose remains have been diss vered in Europe, in all the north of Asia, and even in dis coldest regions, formerly live in the countries where they found; or were they transported thither from other counte by the waters which destroyed them? There is every to believe that they lived in the countries where they found. The various natures of the layers containing bones attest, that they must have been the victims of rent revolutions: we must, therefore, reject the se they were dispersed by a single great irruption. Bas if they had been transported by the waters, they worn by the friction they must, in that case, le gone, and would have the appearance observed that have been rounded by the action of the wav they are in so excellent a state of preservation, a bones of young animals are found amongst the tuberances. If we were to suppose that the ske retaining their most delicate and fragile cartilagine having been transported entire, each individual bene therefore, remained uninjured, we should have a mountable difficulty to encounter. It could not the

There is only one point in which it occurs to us that the itself was a common square erection of free stone, covered explained why all the bones of one skeleton are b

new establishment will admit of improvement; and we take this occasion to mention it, because we are assured that many persons think and feel as we do with respect to the desideratum we are about to suggest.

Unless we have misunderstood the regulations of the committee on the subject, the purchasers of graves in the new cemetery will not be left at liberty to consult their own tastes in the embellishment of the spots selected for the last resting-place of themselves or their relations. If every proprietor of a lot of ground were left at full liberty

over with a slab of black marble, on which, under the name, in the same place, and why the heaps are
age, &c. of the defunct, was engraven an elaborate epitaph, of the remains of animals belonging to differe
commemorating his many virtues, and pathetically intimat-cies, and even different races, promiscuously collects
Eugenia. The tomb was hedged about by a basket-work of necessary to recompose the complete skeleton of my li
the same marble would receive the name of "his inconsolable gether; as a single heap never furnishes all the
honeysuckles; a Persian lilac drooped over its foot, and at ticular species.
the head (substituted for the elegant cypress, coy denizen of
our ungenial clime) a young poplar perked up its pyramidical
the ring-fence, plentifully interspersed within the fragrant
weed, the Frenchman's darling, whose perfume, when I

ing, that at no distant period the vacant space remaining on

form. Divers other shrubs flowering plants completed

The fossil elephants have, therefore, lived in the tries which are now the coldest upon the earth, ever uninhabitable regions of the polar circle. But we temperature of those regions the same then that i a

where they were discovered, their flesh could not have been
preserved.

It may be added, that elephants have also existed in
America, where their remains are exceedingly abundant.
Why, if the change of temperature was sufficiently slow to
permit them to retire to warmer countries, did not the
elephants of that great continent effect their escape, as
well as those living in other parts of the world? Why
did they not take refuge in South America, where Mexico,
and the neighbouring countries, would have afforded them
a temperature certainly as warm as they could have sup-
ported, and land sufficiently elevated to save them from
the marine inundations, to which many of them must have
fallen victims?

= cannot suppose that it was; because, as they supply
vegetables fit for the nourishment of elephants, those
mals could not, in that case, have subsisted there.
avellers inform us, that, at the 68th degree of northern |
itude, the birch and ash are no longer seen; even the
at fir tree, and the larch, which are natives of northern
ntries, dwindle to the size of shrubs, upon a soil gene-
frozen, even during the summer. Crantz assures us,
in all Greenland, a single tree is not found, more
a six feet high. As for the animals living under this
ade, they either gradually become extinct, or are in
egenerate a state that their species can scarcely be re-
aised. The white bear, the rein-deer, and the white
destined by nature to live in these climates, and pro-
1 by her with very thick furs, can hardly support their
r. Beyond the 68th degree of northern latitude, the
of the country is little else than one expanse of
yet, even under the polar circle, and beyond it, fossi!
hants are found, which certainly could not have ex-gions.
d there, if the temperature had, at that time, been
at it now is. Besides, as animals of the same species
→e been discovered in Germany, France, and even Italy,
must, in the case that no change of climate has taken
ze, suppose the elephants of former times to have pos-
ed the singular faculty of accommodating themselves
all sorts of climates. Man, and some of the species
ast useful to him (the dog, for instance) are now the
ly animals endued by nature with that happy flexibility
temperament. The human species alone is diffused
r all known countries, from the most burning regions
the torrid zone to the polar circle."

Finally, we could not, in this supposition, account for the destruction of the elephants in the temperate countries of Europe, particularly in Italy, since there are so many proofs that they were adapted to live in much colder re

that horses would, in the course of time, produce asses, or that dogs would produce foxes.

M. Deluc, in an interesting memoir, has given very plausible reasons in support of the opinion, that elephants did not, at the same time, inhabit the whole of Europe, and the North of Asia. He supposes that these countries were divided into islands, subject to frequent inundations of the sea, more or less durable. He remarks, that the bones, found scattered in different places, were probably the remains of animals that died naturally in these islands; and that the bones, collected in large quantities, belonged to animals that were destroyed by some sudden inundation in the places whither they had fled in flocks to seek refuge. He remarks, also, that, in some instances, the sea may have rolled before it the bones scattered upon the surface of the soil which it inundated, and have buried them together in the lowest places.

Although I have so much enlarged upon all circumstances connected with the history of fossil elephants, do We may conclude, from all that we have just said, first, not fear, Madam, lest I should enter into details as minute that the elephants whose bones have, in our days, been of each of the contemporary species, whose remains we found in a fossil state, formerly lived in the places, where have discovered. The general considerations, discussed in their remains were deposited; secondly, that the present ele- this letter, respecting the position of the fossil remains of phants are not their descendants; thirdly, that all explana-elephants, the time when these animals lived, the climate tions of their destruction by a slow and gradual decrease of of the countries they inhabited, and finally, the nature of temperature, or by a progressive encroachment of the the revolutions by which they were destroyed, are applicaocean upon the continents, are entirely inadmissible. ble to most of the other contemporary species; consequently, my remarks upon them will be more brief.

"

The Housewife.

Housekeeping and husbandry, if it be good,
Must love one another as cousins in blood:
The wife, too, must husband as well as the man,
Or farewel thy husbandry, do what thou can."

HEALTH.

It is a remarkable circumstance, that marine shells have, in some instances, been found, fastened, or rather incrustated upon the bones of fossil elephants. It may thence be inferred, that these bones were already divested The elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus of the pre- of flesh, when the countries where they lay were inunt time, are the animals most resembling those found in dated by the sea. This may casily be accounted for, by asil state; and to them nature has assigned a very supposing that the bones of elephants, which had died ited extent of country, beyond which they cannot exist. naturally some years before the inundation took place, reIt is, therefore, evident, that the countries now sub-mained scattered upon the soil, after their flesh had been (From Str A. Cooper's Lectures, p. 68.) to the rigours of a perpetual winter, had, formerly, a devoured by the carnivorous animals of that time. In the "The means by which I preserve my own health, re ch milder temperature; and the revolutions which have same manner, it often happens in our country, that the temperance, early rising, and spunging my hody every sed this change in their climates have, without doubt, dead bodies of horses and other quadrupeds are left ex-morning with cold water, a practice I have pursued for thirty years; and though I go from this heated theatre many places, occasioned the sudden destruction of the posed upon the surface of the ground. into the squares of the hospital, in the severest winter imals living there. nights, with merely silk stockings on my legs, yet I scarcely ever have a cold; should it happen, however, that I feel with four of cathartic extract, which I take at night, and indisposed, my remedy is one grain of calomel combined a basin of hot tea, about two hours before I rise the fol disposition soon subsides.

As two species of elephants now exist, that have been There is another opinion prevalent on this subject, which known since the beginning of the times recorded in hisill state to you, that it may not be the means of leading tory, namely, the elephant of the Indies, and the elephant 1 into error. It might be supposed that a slow decrease of Africa, perhaps, Madam, you may be curious to know temperature compelled these animals gradually to emi-which of these two species the fossil elephant most resem-lowing morning, to excite a free perspiration, and my in

te to warmer regions; and that, having abandoned the bles. It appears that it was much more nearly allied to the nates which were growing cold, they were finally all species of Asia, than to that of Africa; it had, in fact, pect, and whom I frequently met professionally in the city, An old Scotch physician, for whom I had a great reslected in the places where they are now found. like the former, a longer cranium, and a more concave used to sav, as we were entering the patients' room toAccording to this hypothesis, which has been adopted forehead than the elephant of Africa. These two charac-gether, Weel, Mister Cooper, we ha' only twa things to Buffon, the animals whose remains have been found teristics were even more strongly marked in the fossil ele. keep in mind, and they'll searve us for here and herca'ter st have been the last that remained in their primitive phant than in the clephant of Asia. Its head differed one is, always to have the fear of the Laird before our een, dde; and the progressive change of climate must, in the from that of the two living species, in the more obtuse that 'ill do for hereafter; and the t'other is, to keep your arse of time, have caused their furs to increase in thick-form of the lower jaw bone, in the superior size of the bowels open, , as the skin of the dog, though entirely bare in warm molar teeth, which were also distinguished by longer and untries, is, in northern countries, covered with an abun-narrower rubans, and still more, in the enormous cant coat of hair.

The first reason opposed to our admission of this system asists in the very perceptible differences existing bereem the skeleton of the species of fossil elephants and of le two species now living; differences much too strongly aarked to have been produced by mere variety of cligate. A second reason is presented in the fact that there re found buried with the remains of the elephants, several inds of animals, that were evidently contemporary with hem, and that were certainly destroyed by the revolutions, f which indubitable traces remain. Why should the elehants alone have escaped disasters capable of entirely detroying other species coexistent with them?

Besides, the revolutions, which proved fatal to the animals of this period, happened suddenly. I'need not here repeat, that, if the body of the elephant bought by Mr. Adams, and others that have been found, also covered with their skins, had not been suddenly frozen in the places • Neoguack, a Danish settlement, is situated under the 72d degree of north latitude; and the Greenlanders live still nearer

to the pole.

pacity of the alveoli, in which the tusks grew As for the
rest of the body, it seems to have been somewhat larger
than the elephant of the Indies, but its form was, in
general, more squat,

and that will do for here.""

To Cure the Tooth-ache.-Rub between the hands some strong brandy, and snuff up the effluvia strongly. This, may relieve in some cases, on the principle of counter we are told by one who used it, is infallible. We think it stimulus; the nerves of the nose and those of the teeth are from the same branch of nerves, the maxillary paira. -Medical Adviser.

Represent to yourself this animal, Madam, not covered with the almost naked skin of our elephants, but protected in a letter to the editor of the Lancet, affirms, "that almost Cure for Worms -Our worthy townsman, Dr. Johns, from the cold of the countries in which it lived, by a dou. every case of worms, if not every case, may be cured by ble fur of wool and hair. The hair upon its neck, and the internal exhibition of finely-powdered glass. I have, upon the spine of its back, was sufficiently long to form a he adds, been in the habit of using this substance for many sort of mane; its tusks, composed of very fine ivory, and uniform success. In cases where symptoms of irritation years, in the treatment both of children and adults, with rather longer than those of the present elephant, were in the intestinal canal ixist, and which are more readily to spirally bent, and slightly directed outwards; finally, the be detected by a careful observer than to be expressed in large dimensions of the alveoli of its tusks, not only ren- words, I have found the powder of glass, given as shall be dered its appearance very different from that of our ele-presently mentioned, accompanied by the most marked phants, but must also have had a considerable influence give them two scruples every morning for a week; a few improvement of health.-In children, it is sufficient to upon the organization of its trunk. grains of calomel may be included in the last paper to be As you perceive, Madam, this ancient elephant differed taken, but this is not essential to its success. I must not more even from the species of the Indies, than the horse here omit to mention the case of a merchant, whom I had under my care in Calcutta, to whom I gave about double differs from the ass or zebra, or the dog from the fox; the quantity every morning, during the time mentioned, consequently, it cannot be admitted that one proceeds and succeeded in removing most distressing case of worme from the other we might, with equal propriety, supposo ' --Manchester Courier.

Poetry.

STANZAS.

Tell me not of jocund Spring,
Fair though be her dappled wing;
Tell me not of myrtle groves,
Fays and fairies, sportive loves;
Far from Pleasure's haunts I fly,
Mirth but wakes the mourning sigh.
Call not from her starry sphere
Music, heavenly Music dear!
Delphic strains for aye be mute,
Silence brood o'er harp and lute;
Music, heavenly Music bland,
Strike thy lyre in happier land!
Let me dream of yawning graves,
Raving winds, and whelming waves;
Echoing wide, from pole to pole,
List the pealing thunder's roll;
While Megara's demon form
Shall mock the fiercely-yelling storm.
Let me on yon desert shore,
Where the billows ceaseless roar,
Where the eagle builds her nest,
Where the curlew sinks to rest,
Where, to mar the quiet scene,
Form of man has never been.
There, in yonder frowning den,
Where no prying eye shall ken,
Where no foot has ever trod,
Where was never man's abode;
There let me my dwelling make,
Stormy world, my farewell take.
False thy dazzling vizor fair,
False thy promise, "light as air;"
Beaming Love's seraphic form
Shrouds the woe-denouncing storm,
While, to rend the heart in twain,
Friendship lures with smiling mien.

Circe bland, of Proteus form,
Let me fly the howling storm;
Calmly in yon lonely nook,

Though tears may dim awhile thine eyes,
And grief oppressive weigh thee down;
Yes, though thy breast is fraught with sighs,
And all around wears sorrows frown;

Oh! yet before sweet nature's gown

Is moist with ev'ning's pearly dew,
Those tears thy cheeks may trickle down,
And thou may'st bid all cares adieu!

Just so, surcharg'd, the gentle flow'r
On nature's lap reclin'd its head,
But potent Sol's restoring pow'r
Its stem again with vigour fed;
Again it bloom'd, again it spread

"Its sweetness on the desert air,"

And those who thought the flow'ret dead
Beheld it blushing, fresh and fair!

We should here remark, that the distance betwent hands appears rather too great in the engraving; the s tual distance at which the performer places them beg as we are informed, two feet eight inches.

The Beauties of Chess.

"Ludimus effigiem belli”......
[NO. XXXIX.]

VIDA

BALL DRESS. Over a white satin slip, a dress of Japanese plain gauze, or tulle, with a full rouleaux of gauze next the shoe, entwined by narrow straps of etherial blue satin in bias: at some distance above this ornament are bouquets of blue China astres, without foliage; the stalks of white satin, and each bouquet confined at the extremity of the stalks with a full rosette of white satin, which gives a richness to this simply-elegant embellishment. The corsage is of white satin, with the bust beautifully marked out by crossed bouffont draperies of the same light material as the dress; the space of the corsage next the tucker part is laid in small plaits across, and a narrow ornament of Vandyke blond finishes it where the neck is but very partially displayed; the sleeves are short and very full, and their ornaments correspond with that of the roleau at the bottom of the skirt. The hair is arranged very full, with curls and bows, and very short at the ears. A string, formed of several rows of pearls, crosses the upper part of the forehead, in an oblique direction; another, of the same description, divides the bows in front, on the summit of the head; bouquets of blue China astres are placed at detached and equal distances, in the most becoming manner, among the curls and bows. The ear-rings and necklace are of turquoise stones. Some ladies introduce the French fashion of wearing a bouquet, composed of the same flowers that ornament the dress, with a few sprigs of myrtle, very near the hollow of the arm, on the left side of the bust. WALKING DRESS.-A pelisse of lavender-coloured The white to move, and to give checkmate in five gros de Naples, trimmed next the hem with two full rouleaux of the same material; above which is a border composed of detached bouquets of the leaves of the water-lily richly grouped together, fastened at the base with rings formed of narrow rouleaux, and each leaf edged round by a rouleaux of satin. The collar of the pelisse is narrow, but stands up somewhat in the French style. A kind of full robing comes from each shoulder, and narrows, en beguine, at the bust, till it terminates in a point under the belt. These robings are confined in several places by small puffs of satin; and the mancherons, the fullness of which is not is not perceptible, are finished with the same ornament which composes the robings. The sleeves have three narrow bracelets, or straps, close to each other at the wrists, fastened each by a button of the same material as the pelisse. The hair is arranged in the Grecian style, with a cornette of Urling's lace, with a very full border; over which is a bonnet of lavender-grey gros de Naples, with bows of crape of the same colour edged with white blond, broad, and of a handsome pattern; two very long and broad lappets of the same material, and edged also with blond, confine this tasteful bonnet under the chin. The shoes are of kid, the colour of the pelisse.

Gymnasia.

How often have I bless'd the coming day,
When toil remitting, lent its turn to play;
When all the village train, from labour free,
Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree;
While many a pastime circled in the shade,
The young contending as the o'd survey ed;
And many a gambol frolick'd o'e: the ground,
And sleights of art, and feats of strength, went round
Goldsmith.
"It is a call to keep the spirits alive.'-Ben Jonson.

NO. XXI.

EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCES.

We last week gave a description of the astonishing performances of Monsieur Decour, who appeared one evening at the Circus. The annexed engraving represents his attitude in one of his Herculean feats, the written description of which we repeat

"A single rope being suspended from the top of the stage, and made fast through the floor and tightened, he grasps it and ascends a few feet; when, with one hand at some distance above the other, he raises himself into a straight

Black.

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H

ERRATUM IN GAME 36.-A correspondent has pointed out
us an error in the solution of No. 36 of the games of thes
we have extracted from Lolli's Centuria di Partici
sequence of which, the game, which might be concluded a
three moves, is lengthened out to five moves. In the f
move, the knight at D 4 gives check at B5, opening
upon the black king, the check of the bishop at £ 3 The
author seems to have overlooked the check given by the
knight, for instead of moving the black king to A 8, the
move by which he can escape the checks both of the ki
and the bishop, he interposes the pawn B 7. Had the
white knight been moved to F 5, whence, as well as from
B 5, he might, in the fifth move, have been removed to
D 6, the answering move of the black would be corre
but, as the author cannot be supposed purposely to har
avoided giving the double check, it is probable that
there is an error in the statement of the position of the
game, and that there may have been some white piece
B 5, which prevented the knight from moving to th

square.

Dancing Pigs. We give the following extraordinary account from The Bath Journal, not asking for it, on the part of our readers, any portion of credit beyond what they rious Circumstance.-A short time since the servant are themselves disposed to award it: The following r. W. Tuppen, of the Marine Library, Brighton, circumstances I believe few will credit, but I nevertheless at a linnet, and put it into a cage, but not wishing to boldly state it as a fact, and refer those who doubt it to the the bird, Mr. T. let it loose. In a few hours, how-place where this wonderful singularity of nature now exists, it returned, was again set at liberty, and again after and where they will find persons possessed of rational fadays absence, came back. A third time the door of culties ready to corroborate this statement. A sow of Mr. ge was opened, and the bird set free; but after being Abraham Wintel, of Stourhead farm, near the seat of Sir two days, the willing captive re-entered its prison Richard Colt Hoare, reared eleven pigs about a month Mr. T. struck with the circumstance, now deter- since; all which, ever since their birth, have, unless while ed to keep the bird, but the door being accidentally asleep, been dancing; they possess all the regularity one open, it flew off, and after an absence of several days, would naturally expect from rational faculties; they all ned once more, accompanied by a female bird, and couple off so as to form a regular dance, while the odd one are now seen contented together in the same cage.- appears to be beating time. The people of the village at. ghton Herald. tribute it to the circumstance of a band of musicians, who, Miss M, a young heiress of considerable personal at the latter period of the Christmas holidays, performed at attractions, chanced to be seated, the other evening, at a the door of the dwelling-house where this sow was confined dinner party, next to a gentleman remarkable in the fain its stye; and that she was so frightened at, or so ena- shionable circles for the brilliancy of his wit, who had long moured with the music, as to produce this singular propen-made one in the train of her admirers. The conversation sity in her young." turning on the uncertainty of life, "I mean to insure mine," said the young lady, archly," in the Hope.".

ust about the time that Mr. Sheridan took his house in ille-row, he happened to meet Lord Guildford in the et, to whom he mentioned his change of residence, also announced a change in his habits. "Now, my r Lord," said Sheridan, "every thing is carried on in house with the greatest regularity-every thing, in rt, goes like clock work." "Ah!" replied Lord ildford, "TICK, TICK, TICK, I suppose."

"I often hear of people being knocked down in the evenings and robbed," said a well-known convivialist; but I never run any risk of being used so. I never go home till the morning, when all the rogues are gone to bed."

Solid Objection.-Henry the Eighth, it is said, after the death of Jane Seymour, had some difficulty to get another wife. His first offer was to the Dowager Duchess of Milan: her answer was, that she had but one head; had she had two, one should have been much at his Majesty's service.

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In the hope of what 2" said her admirer; "a single life is hardly worth insuring; I propose that we should ir sure our lives together, and, if you have no objection, I should prefer the Alliance."-Hereford Independent...