Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-08-29
SCOTCH ADVENTURES.

SCOTCH ADVENTURES.
The character which the Scotch have
acquired, beyond almost any other people
for the art of pushing their fortune a.
broad, was never perhaps more singularly
illustrated than by the following anec.
dote, which DIR. Anderson relates in his
" Bee" Oh the authority Of baronet oil
scientific eminence.
The Russians and forks, in the war oil
1889, having diverted themselves long
enough in the contest, agreed 10 treat for
peace. The commissioners for the pur-
pose we're Marshal Gen. Keith. on the
part OF Russia, and the Grand Vizier on
that of the Turks. These personages met,
and carried on their negotiations by means
of Interpreters. When all was concluded,
they rose to separate. The Marshal made
bis bow, with his hat 10 bis hand, and the
Vizier his salam, with his turban 90 his
head. But when these ceremonies of TAX
ing leave were over, the Visier tnrned
suddenly, aud coming up TO Marshal Keith,
took him cordially by the hand, and 10 the
broadest Scotch dialect, declared warmly
that it made him "unco happy TO meet a
countryman in his exalted station" Keith
started with establishment, eager for an
explanation OF the mystery, when the vi
zier added, Dina be surprised, mon,
I'm o. the same country VII yourself, ]
mind weel seeing you and your brother,
when boys, passin by TO the school at Kir-
kaldy; my father, sir, was bellman of
Kirkaldy." What more extraordinary
can be imagined, than to behold 10 the
plenipotentiaries Of two mighty nations,
two foreign adventures, natives OF the
same mountainous territory nay, of the
very same village What indeed more
extraordinary, unless it be the spectacle
of a Scotchman turned Turk for the sake
Of houours, held on the tenure Of ca
price from which even Scotch prudence
can be DO guarantee
A duel of an extraordinary and unpre-
cedented nature took place lately 10 the
house Of Mr.. Collins, respectable inn
keeper, at Maui, Ireland. The parties
concerned we're Hen Of the game species,
and Rat of the middle size The Hen,
10 an accidental DECENTRALIZATION ro,and a
spacious room, accompanied by an only
chicken, the sole surviving offspring Of a
numerous brood, was reused to madness
by an unproyoked attack made by vo-
racious cowardly Rat, on her uDsuspeci-
ing chirping companion. The shrieks Of
the beloved captive, while dragging away
by the enemy, excited every maternal
feeling in the affec,ionate bosom Of the
feathered dame she few at the corner
from whence the alarm arose, seized the
lurking enemy by the neck, writhed him
about the room, put out one Of bis eyes 10
the engagement, SO fatigued her opponent
by repeated attacks Of spur and bill, thai
in the space of IL minutes, during which
time the conflict lasted, she put a fina
period to the nocturnal invaders exist
ence nimbly turned round 10 wild rri
umphant distraction to her palpitatin!
nesting, and Rugged it in her victorieu
bosom.
BURNING OF SMOKE.
The method cl burning the smoke Q
steam engines has now been happily dis
covered by Mr.. Davies, of Dankenfield
who bow practices is. Those who hav
falling doors TO their furnaces may do
without any expense or alteration. TIL
person attending the engine should, befor
supplying the engine with coal, push th
fire forward, then lay the Goals Cd III
place from whence the Gre was pushes
and Immediately close the door to With
about an inch and half at the bottom
the air rushing through the part left ope
has the effect Of burning the smoke con
pletely. A little smoke will rise while III
Goals are laying on, but the moment III
door is put down, and left as before slates
very little smoke can be seen; the doc
may be closed 10 about a minute.
A letter from Palermo says, that III
Academy Of that city had sent some pei
sous TO Mount Etna, Who affirm tina
while they stood on the crater Of the Vo
cano, they heard from il the .hunderin
Of the late eruption Of Mount Vesuviu'
which gives room to conjectures that Ties