Thomas's Massachusetts spy, or, Worcester gazette. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1811-1821, 1821-04-11

pretty faVourites Barbara Blue-stock-
ing, asked me how many elements there
were in my Composition. answered
very gailantly, as ] thought, one. Think
how distressed was, when, instead Of a
kind approving glance that was to sane
ton this disclosure of my predominant
ing quality, Ireceived disdainfuI frown
that would have sent chevaIier of the
18th century penitential journey with
peas In his shoes. .sSir," says she,
"there are, to my knowledge, light, car
bon, calOrick, the electrick and magnet
lex huids, oxygen, hydrogen, azote, sui
phur, phosphorus, the prolifick family
Of the radicals, (sans Cobbettl and many
Others" And then assuming several
new positions, which, she observed,
"were true both in concrete and alb
stract," she cited Rhazes, Basil Valen-
tine, Lazarus Ercker, and Couringius,
which, in my opinion, fully proved all
, she had advanced.
by this time there had assembled a.
round US a great number of philosophers
IN petticoats, all eager for the combat.
had merely time to observe that the
attraction Of the ladies present was a
proof positive of the absence of all ca
torack, when an alteration commenced
that came near producing the effect of
an over-charged battery. Miss Bell Ac-
i'd " considered that all bodies were
notifications of one homogeneous pri-
mary substance, whose particles were of
particular fgure,'' and cited, as they
say In law courts, Epicurus as an author
lily. The matter was referred to me-
the judgment SINE die.
Now, sir, it is very plain that / must
learn this fashionable scienee, or | must
unlearn my attachment to the fair sex.
! must acquaint myself perfectly with
all the why's and wherefores of this re-
doubtable lore, and in such event wor-
ship Cupid on galvanick battery, and
ascertain the respective elements of my
intended spouse by decomposition, or /
must renounce all female society in the
city, and seek the oxygen of happiness
with some cherry-cheeked country Girl
that can make me dish of tea without
lecture on the properties of fire, or
quotation from the Transactions of a
learned Society," 1t is tact, sir, that
never had a question asked about 6 nv
elements" until the era Of Mr.. Griscom's.
conUersaziones But now, sir, instead Of
that delightful song, whose burden was
=" love still love" | hear nothing but re-
marks as dull and dry as one Of Shelly's
episodes. | must either talk the ladies
out of their chemical knowledge, or be-
come HERMIT IN NEW-l DIRK.
Extract from a speech Of Mr.. Root. IN the
Nsw- York Legislature.
A great noise had been made a.
bout foreign garden seeds, and none
could be genuine. but such as had floal-
ed across the Atlantick. Experience,
however, had shown that the most val
liable seeds, Scotch Cabbage, Rula Baga
and all, had been selected and planted
here more than century ago. For
eign grapes, too, had excited much at-
teDsion, but it was now clearly evinced
that they were not adapted TO our eli
maze. A friend OF his, at the time that
Cobbett's Long Island farming project
was all the rage, had kindly sent him
a box of Goblet seeds. Fifteen kinds
of grass seeds were included. He
made beds for them all in his garden
Two, the ST. Foin and Lucerne, are
yet alive, but he had let go the thirteen
kinds, finding Them altogether inferi.
our to our American grasses. Passing
across Staten Island not long ago, be
there found a luxurious, but noxious
weed, OF the same kind with one Of
those which had been sent as grass seeds,
and so carefully boxed in EoglaDd.--
Some years ago, we we're acquainted
with the Red scarcity Root # is now
dignifed with the name OF mangle zcart-
eel; Merino Potatoes too, and Ruta Baga,
,has in former times was the plain Swe-
dish turnip, where are they Gone,
and going The same way. He had cul-
tivated the famous Ru,a Baga. He rais-
ed quantity of it, and concluded one
day TO try aud see how his cattle would
like treat from Cobbelt's seed box.--
the cattle, were driven up, and the
Ru,A Baga offered to them. They made
some experiments --threw it about
them--but would not eat it. A was
present, said it was because they had