Star.
London, England, 1830-06-17 00:00:00

MISCELLANEA.

Friday evening the Royal Charlotte yacht sailed foi
Belfast; she was accompanied by the following private yachts going
to the Northern Regatta :—Ganytnede, Col. Madden; Paddy from
Cork, J. C. Bearnish, Esq. Black Dwarf, P. Kelly, Esq. Vary).
pure, Rev. Denis George; Turk, Captain Keane; Juverna, Georg,
O'Kelly, Esq. Peri, 21. Molony, Esq. Sophia, Lieut. Keame
Gannet, T. P. Boland, Esq.
A LAWYER'S LETTER.—" Sir,—l am desired to
apply to you for 201. due to my client, Mr. Jones; if you send me
the money by this day week you will oblige me, if not I will
oblige you."
CANINE FRUITFULNESS.—There is now in the pos
session of Mr. Binwood, of Newton Abbott, Devon, a small bull.
terrier bitch, which a few days ago whelped seven pups, and four
hours afterwards produced a second litter of seven more, all of shidi
are fine and healthy-looking.
LONOEVITY.—June 5, died, at Shepton Mallet, aged
104 years, Thomas Taylor : he obtained his living by driving
donkles to one of the neighbouring coal-pits daily, and disposing of
the coals in Shepton ' • until the last inclement winter, he retained
his sight and other faculties in a surprising manner : his daughter
is now an inmate of the poor-house of Shepton-Mallet, in her
80th year.

FROG MARKET AT BRUSSELS.—There is in Brits
eels a market for frogs, which are brought alive in pails and can.
and prepared for dressing on the spot. The hind limbs, which at,
the only parts used. are cut from the body with scissors, by th.
women who bring the animals for sale.
SINGULAR CHARACTER.—There is now living at
North.moor, near Oldham, Lancashire a venerable old man, nem":
Jonathan liolstencroft, who, for the fast GO years, has regularly
attended the races at Kersal.moor, each day of running. He walk.
from his own house to the race ground each morning, and return
home in the evening; so that he must have travelled, in all, no le.
than 2,150 miles to see the races.
C EA P Fto u it.—An account appears in the Monitcas
of the discovery, by chance, of the means of making flour front
wheat straw. This being chopped small, and passed through the
mill-stones, yields a flour, coarse in appearance, but agreeable to the
taste, and also nutritious. Made into a wash for pigs, or mixed
with oats for horses, it is said to be an excellent article of food. The
bread which is made from it is superior to much of the common
bread eaten by the lower orders on the Continent.
A CERTIFICATE EASILY G0T.—..A.8 M. G—, farmer
at Duddington, stood at his gate, an Irish lad came up, and r!.
quested to be employed. M. o.—Cio away, I will never employ
any of your country again. Irishman.—Why, your boom
sure we are good workers; GOD bless you, do give me a jol'
M. o.—No, I won't ; the last Irishman I employed died upon me,
and I was obliged to bury him at my own charge. Irishman.—
ih I your honour, you need not fear that of me, for I can get you
a certificate that I never died In the employment of any master I
ever served. There was no resisting. Poor Paddy got employed a!
once, and remained a faithful servant until his master's death.

FEMALE WARRIOR.—Next to the captains, the
priests are the chief men in the Afaniate wars, both in council and
field ; and in the quarrels which so frequently occur between_ separate
villages or families, they are generally the promoters and leaders o:
the strife. To pull down the adversary's house is generally the ob.
ject and end of the war. The sufferer is then conquered, ands:Mort.
'ventures to prosecute hostilities. The Manistee shew great courag,
and obstinacy in their own way ; and these qualities are held in the
highest estimation among them. Even the women emulate tle
men in this respect. It is not long since a woman of Mount Tay.
getum stood a siege in her pyrgo, against a body of Turks. Sh,
I fired upon them from the windows, and kept them employed on one
side, while,:at the back, she sent away in safety a female servant
with two children. Though her ammunition was in reality all spent.
the Turks retired, fearing that she would blow up the tower if thet
assaulted it.
MODERN SPARTANS.—An affair which happened tw.)
months since at Vathy, sheers the state of society in Mani. Ti..
see of a priest had by accident killed a boy, a relation of anotlur
priest. The latter papas declared war against the former, which
done in Mani in a formal manner, by crying out in the streets. Ti.,
first pastas went to his church to say mass with pistols in his girdle.
such being a common custom in Mani ; but, as is usual in such
eases, he laid them behind the altar, on assuming the robe in which
the priest performs divine service. The other papas entered the
church with some of his party, and the instant the office was con.
eluded, walked up to his enemy, who was still in his robes, and fired
a pistol at him, which flashed in the pan : the latter then running
behind the altar, seized his arms, shot his enemy and of his ad.
herents, and drove all the rest out of the church. The affair was
then settled by the interposition of the bey himself, in whose vii.
loge it had happened. A composition in money for the balance of
blood, is the only efficient mode of making peace in these cases.—
When one of a family is slain, the person who takes upon him to
revenge the injury often vows not to dump his clothes, shave, or eat
meat, till his revenge is satisfied.—Leaks e Travels in the Ms:Wed.
About a mile from Lynedoch Cottage, the romantic
seat of Lord Lynedoch, in Perthshire, his Lordship has a yard and
workshop for his joiner, who inhabits a neat English cottage on the
borders of a plantation of oak-copse, hazle, and other trees and
shrubs, amongst the branches of which the blackbird, the bullfinch.
and the thrush, vie with each other in chaunting their varied meh,-
dies. But robin seems to claim the peculiar attention of the wrigh•
and his family. It Is no uncommon thing in winter for the red-
breast to be gathering the crumbs from the kitchcn.dresser, or the
floor, while their human friends are breakfasting near the fire. Tin.
gives but a faint idea of the confidence they place in their admirers
one pair of them built their nest inside of a window in the work.
shop, not a yard and a half from the foot of a bench, that was almost
hourly used during the whole period of building and hatching, ard
while the joiner's son had to pay particular attention to the diree•
don of his spars, lest by some unlucky turn he should have cleared
the window of Mrs. Robin's temporary nursery, with all its hair.
feathered inmates !
THE MISER'S PRAYER. —Among a variety of cu-
rious papers of John Ward, of Hackney, Esq. M.P. (who being
convicted of forgery, was expelled the House, and in the year 17
stood in the pillory), there was found, a few days ago, a paper in hi'
own hand-writing, which we think may he very properly entitled th,
'Beer's Prayer—" Oh, Lord, thou knowest that I have nine houses
in the city of London, and likewise that I have lately purchased ar.
estate in fee simple, in the county of Essex ; I beseech thee to pre-
serve the two counties of Middlesex and Essex front fire and
earthquakes • and as I have a mortgage in Hertfordshire, I beg thee
likewise to itave an eye of compassion on that county ; and for
the rest of the counties thou msy'st deal with them as thou an
pleased ! Oh Lord, enable the Bank to answer all their bills, and
make all my debtors good men. Give a prosper° :s voyage and re.
turn to the Mermaid sloop, because I have insured it; and, as the::
halt said that the days of the wicked are but short, I trust in thee
that thou wilt not forget thy romiee, as I have purchased an estate
in reversion, which will be mine on the death of that most profligate
young man, Sir J. L.—. Keep my friends from sinking, and pre.
Iserve me from thieves and housebreakers ; and make all my servanti
so honest and faithful that they may attend to my interest, and neNer
cheat me out of my property, night or day."