Star.
London, England, 1830-09-22 00:00:00

SCINTILLIE.

THE .SECRET.
In a fair lady's heart once a Newt was lurking,
It toss'd, and It tumbled, it long'd to get out ;
The lips half betrayed, it lay smiling and smirking,
And tongue was impatient to blab it no doubt ;
But honour look'd gruff on the subject, and gave it
In charge to the teeth so enchantingly white,
Should the captive attempt an elopement to save it,
By giving the lips an admonishing bite.
'Twas said, and 'twas settled, and honour departed,
Tongue qulver'd and trembled, but dar'd not rebel.
When right to its tip secret suddenly started,
And half in a whisper escaped from its cell.
Quoth the teeth, in a pet, " we'll be even for this,"
And they bit very smartly above and beneath ;
Bat the lips at that instant were brib'd with a kiss,
And they pops out the secret in spite of the teeth.
ABSENCE OF THE PULSE—The pulse is in some in-
stances entirely absent, without interfering with health. This circum-
stance occurred in the mother of Dr. S. of New York. The pulse dis-
appeared during an attack of acute rheumatism, which did not appear
to retard her recovery, and it never returned during her subsequent life.
She was active in mind and body ; and possessed unusual health. In
no part of the body could a pier be detected,-. .dattrieas Journal
.ftdioU Menem.
MYSTIFICATION.—The following is a specimen of Irish
logic :—.“ His landlady was what was termed a ' general dealer,' and
among other things sold bread and whiskey. A customer entered her
shop and inquired if else had any thing to ate and drink ? To be
sure,' she replied; ' I have got a thimbleful of the cratur, my darling,
that comes ounly to two-pence • and this big little loaf you may have
for the same money ? Bed:two-pence ? Both the same--es I'm
a Christian woman, and worth double the sum.'—' Fill me the whiskey,
if you plase.' She did so, and he drank it; then rejoined—' It comes
to two-pence, my jewel; I'm not hungrp—take back the loaf,' tendering
h.-4 Yes, honey, but what pays for the whiskey Why, the loaf,
to be sure I But you haven't paid for the loaf.'—' Why you
wouldn't have a man pay fors thing he hasn't eat ?'—A friend going
by was called in by the landlady to decide this difficulty, who gave it
against
her; and, from some deficiency in her powers of calculation,
jamitted the rogue to escape,"—Bernard's Retrospection,.
TURLEY, THE GERMAN ORGAN-BUILDER.—(Freer
the German.) —A singular instance of successful self-instruction is
afforded by the late Johan Tobias Tuley, the German organ builder.
This ingenious man was the son of a peasant, and was born at 'l'reuen-
briezen on the 4th August, 1773. On the death of his father, which
happened when he was twelve years old, in compliance with the wish of
his mother, he learnt the trade of a baker; but at that time, so great
was his inclination and aptitude for music and mechanics, that he de-
voted all his leisure hours to those pursuits. His greatest delight was
to make instruments to facilitate the labours of the household. In 1793.
he became a master baker and burgess of his native place, and, without
neglecting his business, pursued his favourite occupations with greater
&Dienes than ever. lie made pipes for musital clocks, and having
bought an old worn-out organ, he took it to pieces, and constructed a
new one. This instrument stlll exists in the church of Brackwitx, near
Treuenbrimn. The success he had already met with encouraged him
to further exertions, and he undertook the repairing of organs gratu-
itously. In 1814, he abandoned altogether the baking business, and
devoted himself entirely to an art which be had acquired without any
instruction, and by the mere force of his observation, talent, reflection,
and indefatigable industry. Even the instruments necessary for his
own use were of his own invention ; and among these the press-ma-
chine, which contributed so greatly to expedite his labours, and give
durability to his organs, particularly deserve to be mentioned.
—ln 1816, Turley was alled by the government to Potsdam, to build
a new organ for Hohenbruch, near Cremmen, under the supervision o.
the music-director and organ-builder, Herr Wilke, of Neu Ruppin.
It was to this disinterested patron and encourager of the ingenious in
general, that Turley was indebted on this occasion for the first Im-
portant hint for the perfection of the art in which he afterwards made
such great progress, that every new work surpassed the one which had
preceded it. Tuley bad constantly great difficulty to content himself
with the smoothness of the metal plates for his pipes, and to such a
pitch was his fastidiousness in this respect carried, that in 1823, he
caused upwards of a hundred weight of metal plates to be melted down,
bearing the loss himselL Herr Wilke, who on this occasion gave a new
l proof of his disinterested attachment to the arts, advised him to procure
the required evenness to the metal plates by means of • cylindrical ma-
i chine; and on that hint, Turley went to Berlin, visited different ma-
• chines of the kind In the city, made a sketch of a new
one, and afterwards a model of it in wood ; and from this
an engine suited for his purpose, was cast in the Royal
Foundry in Berlin. He spent two years In bringing his machine to
perfection, and in seeking the best material in which to cast his plates
In moulds of small size. He remarked, however, that the best cast
plates, even when they came forth most smooth and perfect, had need
I of an especial stretching machine; and such an instrument also he In.
vented which exactly suited his purpose. He thenceforth, until the
time of his death, devoted himself; might and main, and regardless of
expense, to the production of perfect organs. Of these he built twenty
to the satisfaction of all connoisseurs. The largest formed with cylin.
drical pipes, is that of Joachimathal, which has twelve registers. He
t completed besides the repairing of thirty other organs, and was engaged
in the construction of two great ones for Perieberg and Pritrwalk at the
, time of his death by apoplexy, which happened in April last. His son
Frederick, who for the previous three years had worked and assisted his
father, is charged with the completion of the organs which the deceased
had commenced, under a testimonial as to his capacity from the before-
! mentioned Herr Wilke.

SwEDBB.—Tho commission appointed to examine into
the returns has made its report for the year 1828 ; and the
result that that year contributed far less to the increase of human
souls than the eight preceding years, inasmuch as there was an excess
of seventeen thousand thadis beyond the average of those years. This
arose from the fatal ellkenCef malignant fevers which prevailed In all
parts of Sweden. The :mensal Increase in the population did not,: for
this reason, exceed twenty thousand souls, which Is one half less that
the usual average. The year 1829 exhibits a far more cheering result;
the increase during which has not been short of forty thousand. At the
end of 1828, Sweden alone contained 2,848,002 inhabitants, which is
above twenty-five thousand more than that country and Finland toge-
ther contained in 1786. In the year 1816, the population amounted w
2,482,164 souls, exclusively of Norway : and in 1823 it was as follows.
Sweden, 2,761,682; Norway, 1,060,132. Total, 3,801,714.
Wan CIRCUMLOCUTIOI4.—Observing one day an un-
usual commotion in the tweets of Deny, I enquired of a bystander the
reason ; and he, with a mellifluous brogue, replied in the following me-
taphorical manner s—" The rason, Sir ? Why, you see that Justice
and Little Larry O'Hone, the carpenter, have been putting up a pic-
ture-frame at the end of the strata yonder, and they are going to hang
one of Adam's copies in it." What's that ?—" Why. poor 6lurdock
O'DonnelL" Oh, there's a man to be hung ?—" Do they put up a gal-
lows for any other purpose?".—What's his offence ?—"No offence, your
Honour; it was only a liberty he took." Well, what was the liberty?—
" Why, you see. Sir, poor Murdock was in delicate health, and his physi-
cian advised that he should take exercise on horseback, and so, haring no
borstal his own, be borrowed one from Squire Doyle's paddock ; and no
NOW was he on its shoulders, than the Devil put it into the creche?s
head to go over to Kellogreen cattle fair, where be had a good many
acquaintances; and when be was got there, Murdock spied a friend
at the door of a shebeen house, and left the animal grazing outside,
whilst be went in to have a thimbleful of whiskey ; and then you
see they got frisky, and had another and another, till poor Mur-
dock went to slape on the binch ; and when he woae up, 'he found
the creche, gone, and his pocket stuffed full with a big lump of
of money." In short, said I, you mean to say he has been
" Why, Siff," he replied. stammering and scratching
his head. " it so in England."—Berward's Retrospection,.

BIRTHS.
The 80th inst. in Wimp°leatreet, the lady of 0. Wigram, Esq. of a
daughter.—At Brighton, on the 18th inst. the lady of F. 0. Trent, Zaq.
of a son-....At Brixton-114 en the 29th inst. Mrs. Lawrence Phillips,
of a son.

MARRIED.
Monday, the 20th inst. at Thighbone Church. Somerville William
Harcourt Ramsbouom, youngest son of John Ramsbottom, Req. of
Woodside, M.P. to Charlotte Jane, third daughter of Thomas Chun-
k; Emji. of Nottingham-place.
Monday, the 20th inst. at Marylebone Church, by the Rev. George
Preston, Rector of Lesdan, In Esse:, Mons. De Cerqueira Lima, At-
tache mut Legations de 8. M. I'Empereur du Brasil. to Harriet Ann,
youngest daughter of Thomas Chamber, Esq. of Nottingham-place,
they having been previously married according to the rites of the Ca-
thdie Church.

At St. Mary's Church, Bryanston-square, C. Chichester, Esq. of
Lincole's.ian, youngest sou of the late H. Chichester, Esq. of North-
ova-bore, in the county of Somerset, and Wood-house, Fars, to Mir
Caroline Manners flattop, youngest daughter of his Grace the late
of Canterbury.—Friday, the 17th inst. at Market Hobo.
A.....a.r01f* a • Rogers he+ of Newport Pared, Backs. to Maths, only
of J. Goddard, req. of the forma place The 21st inst. at
W. Webb, Req. of Litscebes.ien-ilelds, to LeddlN eldest
daughter of N. Gress, Res. lug His Majesty's Corneal at Nice.

DIED.
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Iwo; IL* late of Stag4tall, ambles, sad at 6
Ith last. at Levet, Sulam, J. Hatrtaaa, Ea+ Itt glisa77l=
edfaaLoquars, in his OM yake.

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