The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-10-10

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Dunierm!inr, has had two mice maxim.
read for upwards ofi2 months Each .
them twists and resls from 100 To- IL
threads every day, Sunday not excepted
/" complete This Ia Il, the little pcdcsh
has To run lo1 miles PER day. Il lives five
weeks upon 4 half penny worth of oatmeal
1T l5d per peck, and III that time II makes
$3.50 threads of - inches. At this rnic
the mouse earns qd every five weeks,
which is a farthing PER day or, Is cd PER
yea aud taking off cd Cor board, aud N
lowing Is for machinery, profit of SIS per
year remains. The same mechanical ge-
MUS tried the experiment of making a rat
perform the like Office, but he turned on
mere ldlrr, l Mr.. Hattons ingenuity
could not maize him attend 10 his work
ana the rat mill was necessarily relinqulsh
ed.
singular Fact IA young woman had
Iald wager that she would descend into
vault, III the middle of Iii, night, and
bring from thence skull. The person
who took the wager, had previously hid
himself IN the vault, and, ms the gill seized
skull, cried in hollow voice, "Lca,c
me my head ~ "I'lcrc ii is" sad the
s'rl, throwing IL down, and catching up
another. Leave me my head ~ said The
same voice. F" Nay, nay said the he
lo'c lass, You cannot have two heads
so brought away the skull, and Won the
wager.
Mdtrimony.-N Thos Moore compares
man going 10 be married Ia one who puts
his hand into a sack, in the hope of drawing
ont a single eel from among the hundred
vIpcrs. II is II hundred In one" adds
he, hut he will pick out VIPER Lord
Bacon maintains directly contrary opin-
ion, aud asserts, that IN TINS marriage sack
the eel would be- in a ratio of IA hundred 10
one of the vipers.
II rood .1poioSy-1n the court.of SEES
. on III 5 o and,the Judges who do not at
tend or give proper excuse for their ab
srnce arr, by law, liable 10 fine. This
law, however, Is never enforced but il il
common, on the FIRST day Of The session.
for the absentee to send an excuse to the
lord president. Lord Stoneicld having
sent such an excuse, on The president
mentioning il, the Lod Justice Clerk
BrXlicld said, in his broad diacct,
What excuse eau Il stout tallow like
him haze" My lord" said the president,
" he has lost bis vile" The Justice, who
was fitted with a Xaniippc, replied Has
he that rs a guide excuse indeed | wish
we had a the same
,I""e bofe9h.-tn li0nssaleS MEMOIRS,
VOL /, page 485, llltle circumstance Is
feeorWd concerning the decapltalon Of
lhe unfortunate Anne Boleyn, which Illus
trat.s an observation of Hume. Our his.
i9flan notices, that her executioner way
IN tTenehman, Of Calais, who was sup-
posed To be uneommonly sk1litH; II IS pro
bahle that The following incident may lave
been proved by tradition III France, from
the account oil the eXecutloncr himself
Anne Boleyn, being on the scalIold, would
not consent to have her eyes covered with
bandase, saying that She had no tear al
death. hllthat the munster who assisted
Al Itr execution could Obtain from her was,
that she would shut her Eyes. But as she
WAS Opening ihe4n AZ every moment, the
execulloner was fearful of missing his
ann, and was Obliged 10 invent an eSrCdl-
tnt To beiiean The queen IL" drew oil lns
! shocs, ana approached irrf sli"n'ly "h'le
nc was al hef lelt hand another person nd.
Vanc'a AT hef r'6hl, VINO mHde great
morse IN walking, 50 ilft ihls circumstance
DIRE" The atNpilon OF Anne, she turned her
lace rom TIE ekecn'loh'r Who was enabled
ny ms circumstance ~ STRIKE the ia'al
blow without beng dlsarmed by the sp'rIl
o. affecting resignation winch shone IN the
eye "l The lny@y bat unfortunate victim
.HC'tgnd NJ: .if'$f'=-h work lately pub
hshrd gives the following picture ot THIS
eccentric person =" lie was found ut one
time IN lodging, at Somers Town, IN the
ioli'".nS most extraordinary cireumstan.
cea lis infant Sh'lo' that had been dead
nearly three weeks ay IN the collin, IN one