Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1823-12-03

doctors gown, finding it little unstich- /
ed, he had ripped it 10 the very girdle.
The doctor observing it, made pause
the Caliph then asked him by what tok-
ems they knew when to bind mad man.
=" We bind him, said the physician,
when he pulls peoples clothes to pieces
without the smallest provocation.''
A Roman being about to repudiate
mis- wife, amongst variety of other
questions from her enraged kinsman,
was asked" Is not your wife sensible
woman? Is she not handsome woman?
Has she not borne you five children p
In an answer 10 all which questions,
slipping off his shoe, he held it up and
interogating them in his turn, 'Is moi
this shoe, (said hey a very handsome
one ? Is it not quite new ? Is it not ex-
tremeIy we'll made 4? How then, is il,
that none of you can tell where il pinch
es %
Mahomet Galadin, Emperor of Mogul
gave audience twice day to his subjects
and had bell which reached from his
own chamber to the street, at which the
poor might ring for justice. The Bene-.
dictine who records this, adds, it is not
known of what sect he was .-"This
Wretched Monk observes Horace Wal
Pole) did not perceive that this Emperor
was above all sects; that he was Of thai
divine religion, HUMANITY"
A long Nose.-A gentleman having
put out candle by accident one night.
ordered his waiting man (who was al
simple being) to light 1t again in the
kitchen; shut take care James, added
he, ''ihat you do not hit yourself agains
any thing in the dark" Mindful Of the
caution, James stretched out his arms
in full length before him, but unluckily
door that stood open, passed between
his hands, and struck him a woful blow
on the nose; ''Dickins!' muttered he.
when he recovered his senses little,
81 always heard that | had a plaguv
long nose, but vow | never thought
that it was longer than my arm before.n
IA .MCor Longbow---At the time when
Mathews is making the world laugh
with his Longbow stories, the following
parallel may amuse - A friend. (says
the .relator) lately returned from abroad
calling on me one morning, inquired if
he had seen any thing very particularly
interesting in his travels +? He replied
No: with the exception, perhaps, of a
curious mode they have in Siberia, of
procuring the skin of the Sable. Their
fur is in the greatest perfection in the
| depth of winter, at which time the hun
ter proceeds to the forest armed with
pitcher of water and some carrion meat;
he deposits the bait at the foot, and
climbs himself to the top of a high tree.
As soon as the animal. attracted by the,
scent, arrives. the man drops some wa
Ter on his tail, and it instan tame ously be-
comes frozen to the earth! On which.
descending from his elevation, with in
credible rapidly, his pursuer with
sharp knife cuts him transversely on the
face. The Sable, from the excess of
pain, taking an extraordinary spring for
ward, runs of, and (his tail being fast 10
the ground) out of his skin, Of course,
leaving it prey TO the hunler!!' Up
on expressing slight doubt as to the
probability of this mode of ski,;ning the
animals, my friend assured me that he
never could have believed it, had he
not frequently beheld it himself'
London Lit. Guz.
A"0ther.---Bishop Horne says. the At
rlcan Ants sometimes set forward in
such muItitudes. that the whole earth