The Wilmingtonian., 1824-03-18

ephant up to the spot where he was lying,
On the banks Of small river, under some
bushes. that he might get a fair shot at him.
On his elephant getting within few yards
Of the tiger, the latter rushed out and
charged, ,andiust as he was about springng,
the captain fired and wounded him which
drove him back to his den. The tiger then
tried to retreat across the river, when the
captain fired another ball into him, which
made him fall back among the bushes
The mahaot now thought the tiger was
dead, as he saw him laying at full stretch
and he told his master of it; but the lat.
ter could not persuade the mahaot that the
tiger far from being dead, was only "sham-
ming Abraham" The mahaot persisted
i'll pushing the elephant close up to the
tiger, and the consequence was, the latter
sprung up, and before the captain could
fire, sprang upon the elephants head, go,
his fore paws on the houdah, pulled it all
on one side, and wounded the mahaot on
his thigh, pulling the elephant down at the
same time, when out flew all the guns
from the boudah, except the one that cap
tain r. had in his hand. The poor maha-
ot was so much alarmed land not without
reason) that he got off the neck of the eIe-
phant, and ran away into the jungle. In|
this state captain r. managed to get the
muzzle of his gun against the tiger and
blew him off the elephant. She instantly
got up, when the tiger laid hold Of one ol
her hind legs, and mangIed it considerably
He then quilted her, and was going away
to the Jungle, when he met the unfOrtuna,cl
cody belonging to the elephant coming
up, whom he Immediately ran at andl
wounded so severely that he died few
days after. However the captain havingI
got the mahaot to come back to the ele-
phant, went 10 pursuit of the tiger again
and at length killed him. He commencedl
the battle with the tiger at p. NJ. and
hand not killed him before sunset. The
elephants head and proboscs were much 8
torn. and the tiger had thirteen balls in
him.
Hints to Fpmales.-A London paper
speaking of ladies' dresses, says: I'VE :
have Of ourselves a still greater fault to'ss
find with revival of the system thigh
pressure" as an engineer would call it's
we mean the odious screwing in of the
waist, now springing up. lfwomen fancy''
il graceful they are woefully deceived, and
if they do not find it preiudicial to their
health, why, we are deceived and not
they.
We believe il is owing entirely to the
ease and freedom of the female dress for
the last few years, that our young girls
are all so healthy, 50 well formed, and so
forward in their growth. All this will be
in and torturing of the body.
TO talk about health to girl in oppo-
s;t.on to fashion, we fancy is useless aud
therefore we will take up the screwing
system, upon its effect, which is to make
fat elderly ladies look like oil Jars, and
young ones like hour glasses. Four or Eve
years ago, we had fools among our men. SO
supremely fools. as to squeess in their
waists; and this, during the time the ladies
had abandoned the torture, as if they were
wearing out the corsetts Of their female
relations, and to strengthen this SUPPOSE
ton, as soon as these persons have aban-
doned the folly. our fair country women
adopt it-a folly which has not the merit
of being either pleasant or becoming.
Simplicity in dress is its greatest beauty
and we seriously recommend an imme-
date abandonment OF the vice in question:
sssuring our fair readers. that ladies un-
like ships, are much best ",chen slack III
stays"
Extract from the Navy Register, for 1921.
Jeremiah UBrien and Joseph Wheaton.
On Saturday. 9th May, l775, vessel