Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1808-03-07
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FAIR PLAY.

ItlN PLAY.
During the late VIZ in Germany, there was
An officer much more di(tiuguilh for his ex-
ecu:ion al table than any il the field When
ever any thng fcarce o. rice was brought to
dinner L was with difficulty lis brother off
GERS could parfake.- Finding all hints Of bis
81 manners Intellectual, they mad recourle 10
the following icLeme. Il being cuGum with
the othGr, OH account Of The weather to dine,
bald headed one day, when fine turtle was
brought 70 table, the company procured
black boy who ulually attended behind his
chair, ftsew 4 h,te pounded Iupar now and
then upon The crown Of his head, which pre-
ient.y Gazing ny means Of the fun, the flies
came in twaims TO feed on it, and gave him
continual employment, for as foon a. he had
buFetsd them away, The aguy meets return
ed again 70 their lufcious banquet This wit
ty device was Pra6i.ed with The desired fuc-
eefs til he end Of the campaign.
In anto, ieaI Aaeeaste ty5zsiats5 from he EtLeas-
etiJeJ.
On the 18Th February, l549, Ca;harine
Howard, the wife OF King Henry the Eighth
suffered death
Catharine Howard was the ffth wife Of
Henry the Eighth, ana second that he sent to
TIE scsfold.
That Prince had fri married Catharine of
ArragCn, aunt % The Emperor Charles the
eth. This marriage, however, he dissolved
IN order 70 spouse the fair Anna Bulen. Soon
cut Of love with this unfortunate object of his
frantic passion, he caused her 10 be beheaded
thar he might chuse Jane Seymour, who, not
long strer, died il ch,dhed- was succeed
n her Arr 4 Il I
marry Cstharine Howard, a lady born in the
common ranks Of sooiety-Having discovered,
tHD~ever, that she had had several lovers, he
soon resolved her death, 10 expiration Of an Of
fence which he ought to pass over unobser-
we'd.
Smiled with two divorces, Rained with the
blood ofrwo wives, he made aw, the ridicule
and shameful cruelty Of viii could only be
surpassed by rs impracticabiuy Thelaw or
damed THAI any one who might be informed
OF the queens ga''a ant intrigues was to de-
nounce her, under penalty Of high treason f.;
and that girl who marned King Of England
NUT be virgin. or make her declaration to
the cca.rary, under The same penalty.
L va observed, then, that the king ought
70 marry widow, and SO he did, by chusing
Catharine Parr. She was bis sixth wife, and
very fortunately survived the monaer
LoNoEvITY.-The Oldest man now living in
scotland.r Il supposed to he a Highlander of the
name Of Alexander Macrae re was born III
the parish 2; Kinsale, in tie year 687, and is
now " courle Jun 100 years Old n 1919.
ne ioughf under lord Seaforth, al the battle ~
G'entheal and in 1924, ne entitled a. A nri
vate 70 The Ssots brigade, fervine II Holland
where nc continued leven years, The la1 two
Il which was fpent in a prifon il E1une to,,,
IN France tbe name Of which lie does nor -
member. In 1871, he returned To his f,rr,
and married lecond wife, who died fs,,,
years after In l7e5, he fell into flch lew cir.
cuinitanres that he was forced 10 procure /,
iahhitence by going about the country from
h9uie 20 houie, reciting OfIn's Doemsin "a
enc. ia 1873, he married his prelsnt wife.
by whom he has three children; the Ian of
'nen' porn when he was aged 90. About 2
years ago, when ihil very fout, he was de-
pnved Of The afe Of bis limbs by violent f.
yer' AID ever fInce has been unable 70 walk.
lie IS now hedrid, deaf and blind bur ~,
memoTy \ IfilI very correct His general a
mHiene0t - tinging and repeating OGias %
ems IN Gaeiies but he repeats 70 fat. thar !,
4 imPoillhie 40 write them down, and IF II
terrupted mutt again return to the BEGINNING
o. TIE poem He appears TO have been ltoui
made middle fixed man, and lill looks uncom
monty well.
A deHtiit At Paris has made an immenfe for
tune within the two ait years He had agents
IN the late war, to ex,raG the bsi TEETH ID
the field Of battle. BY The battle Of Jena, a
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