Star.
London, England, 1831-07-14 00:00:00

SCINTILLIE.

POLISH PRON UNCI AT lON .—Some of the news-
papers ate good-naturedly teaching their readers Polish
prosody. Nothing can be more beautifully ain:pie than
their directions. For instance, Sacs is to be pronounced
like Shch in English. But some cavillers may ask, how
Is shch to be spoken P—Wby, tike S:cs in English, to br
sure.

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ROT AL T aisli STEAM Ens.—ln a place called the
Green Island, which is more particularly mentioned in the
Parson's I 1 orn•Book, there is an " Established" Rail•rosd
to the celestial regions, upon which several Royal Steamers
have been plying, without any passengers worth talking of
for some ears; and as the uselessness of them is now ap.
parent, they will be set up for public cant in a few months,
and will be found well worthy the attention of Lecturers en
Anatomy desirous of being supplied with diseased sublet%
There are several smaller engines to be disposed of called
Parsons. They will be found particularly useful in the
wilds of Canada, where the settlers suffer great inconvenience
from the distance at which they find themselves from the
toll mills. Nothing ever Invented could exceed the capabi.
Hiles of these engines in the winding system, at which they
are amazingly dexterous. The South Sea Islanders would
do well to attend the sale, for the purpose of taking off the
low rate engines for missionaries. They are called Curate,
and possess many good qualities,which render them of mare
real utility than the larger more expensive veraels.—they are
remarkable for the art of breeding by steam, which would
render them a great acquisition to an uninhabited island.—
N.B. The inhabitants of the Green bland being determined
to get rid of these useless engines, will, if no bidders offer,
give large premiums to any ship captains who will take
them off their island, and land them in foreign parts.—
' Dublin Comte.

T 11E NEW MATRON OF EPIIESUI.-411 a Pais
paper there is the following anecdote, said to have its origin
in fact: for my part,—
" I know not how the truth may be,
I tell the tale as it was told to me."
In the Cimctiere of Pere is Chaise (the burying.ground)
there is a simple monument remarkable only for the paw
liar care and neatness with which it is kept ; so much so,
that you incline to the opinion, that some afflicted son,
daughter, wife, widow, or friend, is in the habit of taking
a pious station before it day by day, or fain would do so, at
all appropriate seasons.—This is not, however. exactly de
ease, for the story is said to run thus.—ln 1822, Madoill
de Casse had the misfortune suddenly to lose her busload.
The grief attendant upon this melancholy event ass of the
most hcart.moving description, and fears were already or..
tcrtained for the poor lady's life, who frcm her own wont
could not survive a loss an cruel. But 24 years, and 2500
litres of tent, plead with a lively eloquence in favor of life
with those who are so fortunate as to possess them both to.
gether. The fair disconsolate, as the story goes, enjoyed
rhis double advantage, and having lost her better part, she
adopted at length the wisest course, by consenting to the
on.—Alas ! and Mack-a.day !
Grande pane, mass grande consolation.
A man of business, not far off, one of the monument/I
alabaster craft, tentitred his services, and was received gm.
ciously one night, as most say—at least in a tone of welter.:
eagerness, no: very usual upon such occasions. The young
widow proposes (for violent grief is ever in extremes) to bie
erifice the larger moiety of her estate in erecting a suitable
monument to the memory of the dear departed object of her
regrets. What an engaging, pathetically.amiable trait is
here! Whereupon, and without loss of time, views, mo•
deb, plans and devices out of number are submitted to the
taste and inspection of the new Artimesia. Nothing ap-
pears to her sufficiently noble, nor handsoMe, nor cooly
enough. Recourse is had to fresh designs, in which all the
elegance and cunning workmanship of statuary art and de.
cotation are formally exhibited before her eyes. The wider
desires time to reflect ; considers long and frequently ; turns
the subject over in her mind again and again ;—still
tares—and at last cow MANDS a Mausoleum of fifty-erowni !
—Disons tostkeontinues the writer ; pending the negocis•
Lion the lady in weeds has full leisure and time to make one
very Important discovery, namely, that the man of business.
the artiste in funerals, was like herself, without dispangt•
mint, both young and handsome. He, on his part, pooling
narrowly to the depth and length, extent and shadowing',
of a demise, of no every-day occurrence, such as this, Ind
measures accordingly, and performed his part with so much
alacrity and good fortune, that he became at length de
second husband elect of the inconsolable relict !
" Idiot Saul goujat debout quo 'emptreur enterrent-
Better a foot soldier with lift., than a dead emperori—ii,s_
good provisional precept of old Petronius, and Madame 0,
Came followed the injunction of this noted fabulist to the
letter. Meanwhile this man of czar: undertakes to pot
form all the solid burthens of conjugal piety ; saving thus
a world of fruitless pains, sorrows, and trouble, to die
quondam widow; builds up a funeral monument to the
late lamented partner, and carefully watches over its yre•
servation, as the order and arrangement of it to this day on
fully attest—The tale is told.-0 Wages lonelier
La femme est toujours "femme! so says another 611,
writer :—but Ls Fontaine • was ill assorted in his nrawinet
and this satire on the sex should be looked upon theeille'
as coming from him, with all due precaution, if not of mis-
trust.—Conclusion :—Having himself become a competent
eyewitnessto the instability of human afflictions; and Ire*
souring, it may be, a little on the mutability of all worldly
affairs,—Number 2, (:Its HUSBAND) purposes, it is sot!.
to forecast his funeral pile during his life.tune, lest, peraj•
venture, his own simple memorial, ' HIC SACS'S
might by adthe fatal mischance be omitted—in Coto.
Jul 10, 1831. F. E
• Vide,y 4.4 La Natrona d'Ephese," written by him.

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