The Wilmingtonian., 1823-12-25

: A congressman who mished to adjourn the ses.
sion when there was no money in the treasury.
THE SPIDER.
As the following trait in the history OF
the Spider, may be new to most ct your
readers, you are at liberty to publish it if
you think it worthy place place in your
paper:
"As was standing on scaffold at the
top of an unfinished house, | observed
common black Spider descending one of
the ralters. When he came within reach
of me, stopped his progress with stick
i held in my hand; and after making sew
eral fruitless attempts to pass down by
me, he ascended again to the highest part
of the rafter, whittier | followed and
watched him. After arriving there, he
fixed his feet in affirm position, and erect
ing his body, hogan to emit substanceI
from it, which, when taking the air, ascen-
Ided as fast as discharged. lie continued
this stream till it had attained the height
Iof about so feet from the top of the house.
las it assembled, it divided into thousands
Iof the finest fbres, which, being reflected
upon by the rays of the sun, presented a
most brilliant sight. The Spider now quit
ted his hold on the rafter, and ascending
his web little, which huoyed him up to
that height, was waited away by the breeze,
in quest, l suppose, of a more hospitable
Iplace Of abode e.--.Nat. Intel.
i A BEAR SToRy.-l.emuel Martin, esq.
of Sullivan county, Pa. informs me (says a
Newburgh paper of Dec. o) that on the
c7th ult Mr.. VIM. Fisk and his son. while
,Ihuting in the town Of Rockland, in that
county, discovered the tracks of three
bears, which they pursued about three
miles to den. They urged their dog, but
! in vain, to enter and attack the feroclous
beast. 1t being near night, fire was built
up, and they watched until the next morn
ling, when they collected number OF the
, neighbours, and about twenty dogs, three
.only of which had courage to enter and at
: tack the bears; and after a serious fight
sItwo cubs presented themselves at thu
5 mouth of the den and were shot, while th
d old bear kept possession OF the tastness.--
k The dogs, satisfied with their partial con
+ quest, could not be prevailed on to renew
a the fight. Mr.. Fisk gothi Green Noun
a tain spunk up, and determined not to Civ
up the victory. lie accordingly assisted
eIby William Gray with light, entered til
cave, and after crawling more than fit
/, feet, discovered the glaring eyes and hear
d the threatening and gnashing of his poten
s adversary, he discharged two rifles, tn
,flsmoke drove them from the cave. On er
tItering afterwards, they discovered tha
= their adversary had expired, and they Dire
shIfron tie extremity of the cave -sixty-fiv
is feet an enormous she bear.
e, LITERARY FERTrLrrY.-Great surpris
IS. has been frequently expressed as to the RI
or pidity with which the author of the W
e. verify novels presents those fasclnatir
u. works to the public. We aprrehend, no,
ed ever, that this surprise will in some d
gree subsde when the following statemc
from Weber's Northern Antiquities
considered:-Hanse Sacks was born
ra- Nuremburg, in the year l494; he W
on, taught the trade of shoemaker, and
,er, quired bare rudimental education, res
ave ing and writing; but being instructed
the master singers of those days in
ltta praisewortly art Of poetry, he at tourtt
ans began the practice, and continued to ma
the verses and shoes, and plays and pun
ives boots and books, until the 77th year of
Jug age. At this time he took an inventor,
CON ibis poetical stock in trade, and found
ho- cording to his own narrative, that
4 is works filled thirty folio volumes! all W
per- ten with his own hand; and consisted
the four thousand two hundred master:
osed Songs. two hundred and eight coined
ents tragedies and farces, some of which
ran tended to seven acts; one thousand Sc
cli-Ihundred fables, tales and mscellane
most poems; and seventy-three devotional,
'ring ltary, and love songs; making sun
com tal Of six thousand and forty eight pie
tand great and small: out of these he eullet