Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-08-05

being fouf-at the twentieth degree
he has above a million of'ancestors,
and at the for,ieih above millien
million.
We admire no man for enjoying
all bodily pleasure to the full; this may
create him envy, bot not esteem.-
Whereas wisdom and prudence, true
piely and virtue, and all the offices of
humanity charity, and friendship, have
the praise and commentator, even of
those who will DOT INITIATE them. The
wise and good, will I've ever loved and
honored as the glory OF human Ia i,
ture.
EXAMPLES "A coIrfesan taking
notice to Gelog king of Syracuse, that
he had an Ill breath, he asked his wife,
why she did not tell him Of it: l
thought, said she, that all mems breath
was alike. "A lady of Athens asked
one OF the Lacedemonia, by way ofre
proach, what fortune she had brought
her husband. to which the other. an
swered, CHASTITY"
IRIsH TRAvELLiNG-An Irish
MN, who slept lately at the Lion Inn
in Wolverhampton, was going by one
of the morning coaches to ---, but
by mistake getting into the Shrews-
bury coach after he had dined, which
g was standing by that he had Just quit
r ted, was bro't back TO the same Inn
in the evening He frequently re-
: marked on the road, how much the
country resembled that he bad passed
through in the morning; but when
introduced into the same room where
he had breakfisted, in which there
was handsome print Of the projected
iron bridge over the Tunes he broke
on in the following exclam itions-
"Oehl and to be sure, now l never
saw but one picture before Of that
beautiful bridge, and that was where
: I slept las, night aud De sure, the room
was very mich like this, and the pa.
g per, by nv soul, was the very same
pattern; and If had not seen it with
nv own eyes, I should have sworn
it was the SAM room Eater Wli-
teri Arrah, Mr. Waiter, and you are
very ml:n like the other waiter too g
have not you brother now, in the same
Capacity as yonrself, that lives in that
cornical place Wolverham ptcn?' 'Sir,
this is w ,lverh.npton; YOU slept here
last night O. by the pDwers, aud I
thought this must he the same place.
Filth! but it must be eontonndedly
roundabout to 90 thru one town twice;
but perhaps it is better road; so Mr..
w ,ter please to LIT m know when
this coach IS ready, for want to get
my journeys end.
Al the conclusion Of he American
war, a boatSvaln of q Sevcntyfonr that
was paid off on his arrival i'll London,
repaired to M,nn 3uth street, and there
p1rchased a second hand court dress
OF K,,gnt oflhe garter. His hair
was dressed by a skIlfai operator; and
thus eqlioped, he went to Drury Lane
Tl"ater and seated himself ~ one of
the stage boxes. There was nothing
in his behaviour TO betray that his dress
was superior to his condition, and our
honest seaman might have remained
undiscovered in his court disguise, but
for the following incident 1t happen
ed, during the evening that two Jolly
, fars belonging 10 the same vessel were
seated ia the front of the two shilling
gaiIary, and soon thought they recog
nized in the well dressed parsonage in
the stage box, the face OF all old &C.
qoainiance. They both insistes that
it coulo be no other than their boat
swain, and their attention was entire
~ drawn from the play, 10 contemplate
the metamerpnosis of their old ship
mate 80 astonishing change, the
more fully they considered it, begat
some doubts ir their minds: and they
determined to hail him, as the ONLY
me ,n- of solving their doubts. One
OF them cred out, Iio.' tie bodfSluain
Of 4chuee ahOe.' 70 this ell known
s"'utalion, the hoatsw am forgetting his
Iine clothes, answered ;; Hod0G.'
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Co. GsoRCg CRoGHAy, late of the ar
n" Of The U. states, has been appointed
Post Master AT New-0rl.anS