Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-05-28
MISCELLANT.

Aneedote at general W,nyae. : Box REpos is the
French can't for gqod night. Walhinston drank
it for a ignal to break up /; for the moment
the company had twallowed the Generals Jo,s-
,epos, it was take hats, and retire. General
Wayne, who, fortunately for America, UNDER
food fighting much Better than Freach, had,
tpne how other, taken W notion that the
fame ban ,xpeS, to whom Warrington always
gave his lait bumper, mutt have been tome great
warrior of the times of old. Having by fome
extraordinary luck. gotten into his pohc .i,n two
or three dozen of good old wine, lie invited
number of hearty felow-oficers to dine With
him and help him to break them 10 the health
of America. As foon as The cloth was removed.
and he bottles on the table, the hero Of Stony,
Point cried out, I" Come, my brave Comradrs,
Eli your glailes-here's old bon ,s6o5 forcver' 70
The officers were feruck with aitonihment
aid having turned OF thsir gailes rofr up, one
and all, to CO. "heyday what's all dis, gen
remen, what's lthis pc Why, did you hot
drink ba" rGpor, or Good night :'.' " hat I is
that the meaning of it ?"--ss Yes Well,
then fig for ton rfbo5, and TAX, your feats
again for by the life of Wathingtoa you fhAu
not itir peg, till we have Aarted every drop
of our drink
The Legislature of South Carolina, conGdcr-
ing tat KIN owledge is the iufeh BATS Of free
government, and that its attainment ought TO be
facilitated by every cats of Citizens, lave pai-
led law dividing their itate into 40 S.koo,
Dittricts, FOR each Of which they have appro-
priated the fun OF one hundred dollars towards
building School Houie, and one hundred! and
nifty dollars year tor paying mailer to teach
reading, writing and Arithmetic. Each dif.
trot to keep its school fiouft in repair, and 10
rebuild it when neciiAry. To be under the care
of trutees. -
During the year 1903 in the Ruflian Empire
were born ooo, IS male children and ors,4so
girls oSS 374 perfons of both iexyes diea dur
ing the fame year, and the births exceed there
tore the deaths ~ ot5, 4o7; 2o9,o37 marria-
ges were concluded Among The deaths are
mentioned, 1850 individuals between 90 and
05 ; iioS between o5 and !, 90 400 between
100 & ,oS; oc between rc,s and 10; % be-
tween ITO and II5; 3 between lnlsad12o,
between / 20 and i25 q between I2s and
1870 : and near J4o years Of ace,
IRISH GIANT Lately lhe remains Of the
lar8eit perion ever known in Ireland, at leaf
iince The days of Phi Macoul, the famous Jr;0,
Grant, were inferred in the Church yard of 70.
iaunais, IN the Queens country The coffin,
with Its contents, weighed iifty-two ftone, which
amount d exactly to fix hunered. twas borne
on very long bier, by thirty itrong men, who
were relieved at intervals. The name of this
extraordinary perion Is faid to have been Roger
byrne, who lived at or near Burrcs, in Cfory,
and is reported TO have died of no other dill
eaie, but a iuiioca'ion, oeoafoned by an ex-
tremity of fat that topped the play OF the lungs,
and put period 10 his life, in the S4th wear
OF his age. He was thirteen iionc heavier than
the noted Bright OF Madou Whole waiftcoat
incIoied ieren large men. Byrne was married
man, and it is remarkable his widow is very
imail woman, By whom he left four boys.