Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-03-03
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SATURDAY, MARCH ..
The following observations are made 10
French paper, in a critique upon new
farce, called There are no more Caildre n
and we are sorry to say chat they are
quite Is appli able here as they arc in
France. Lond. Pap. lTAnd perhaps
no, less 50 in America than they are IN
England. ... -. ...
" There are no mare Children This
assertion is. unfortunately too true.-Chil-
drsn now treat their parents, their relatives,
their masters, with contempt; great rea-
soners before thew have attained the age OF
reason learned doctors before they have
acquired any knowledge great libertines
before they have attained the age Of cor.
rwpsion: they have all thu vices Of that So
ciesy Of which they are nos yet memhers-
Childhood has lost its Character and all its
amiable qualities. Licealiousnsss, pride,
and boldn-,s, have sup rc:dcl nilduess,
tim litv, anl Observation-Disclosures IS as
it were cut off from hun /, lif:, jlst as the
spring has been cut off from the var. The
life of m,n i, % n Dosel 1T two seasons-
he commences it by summer aud his Au-
tumn 10 a winter. W. have overturned
every thing want the fruS before The Slas'
SOM. I. is the modern practice to put
children into hot beds. Every thing is for.
ward, premature, and fored, and nothing
comes to perfection. Prodisiss at 12year
old are fools ut 80"
Important Discosery.-An intelligent
and respectable correspondent, says the
New-York Commercial Advertiser, in.
forms US, that there has lately been found
in the northern part Of this state, a singular
kind Of clay, which BY the heat OF fire, is
converted into pure, fine, transparent glass.
The peculiar properties OF this clay were
thus accidentally discovered. Last sum.
mer, while Mr.. G. orgs Serbia was build
Ing grist mill at Rotterdam, On IN: Onei.
da Lake, in digging a ina t'7 the dunn,
the workmen came TO bed OF clay ut
which, however, no notice was then taken.
In the month of November. a stove was
mt I'D in the mill, 10; the ben f.t OF the men
who were employed in flushing n. interior
of the building. Finding the house soon
.6il.d with smok. the Wprhlnrn applied
this clay To the Crevices oil the stove and
nipe. In the cours, Of few hours, the
clay had disappeared; and on examining
the inside Of tbe s,ove, they found that the
clay had btea converted mo kne and pure
glass. Snce that discovery, several expe-
riments have been madu, to ascertain the
quality CT ,nis new kind OF earth. Two
lett-,s have b.. n received briefly stating
the result.
On. of them saws The melted clay,
rs Il Wa. poured ous of the cruc!ble, sP-
pearrd of III. consIst-nce OF mo'asses ana
wh:n /, had cool-,i, 1t proved 10 D. CT lar
and bcauutul glass, OF a gr-en un1c, ana
s.. .,rung Wat /. vas with sope d'h ulty
broken wlth The hAn4.'
The other Letter savs--"I prepared
letter furnace, before a BIZ ksnl'h's hrIlo
and blew one hour, VII IL l>uud 'he clay
well melted, a.d IN Z, aall state, 50 that IL
RIM out of the crucibl: in strings as th'ck
as straw, and produced solid glass;
which could be thus drawn from three TO
four feet long" :.
AS this is an entire NV discovery, Il
I will doubtless receive the attention o. the
chymis.s aud min-ralosists OF our coun'
try
Congre6 of the United States.