Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-05-13

18Th CT Aprii, itE@, tneTc arose
a storm at Girgcnti, in Sicily.
during the haiIstones weighed twenty
ounces. and killed great numbers of
cattle, and eighty four persons were
killed by the lightning. The com.
mandment of the castle, in order to
dispel the cloud, fired several cannon;
bet fresh lightning issued from it, and
killed many of the gnnners
There are some philosophers bent
upon accounting for every thing ply
sicaliy. Upon a certain occasion,
gentleman tainted at the sight of some
eggs; away runs the philosopher down
to the neighbourhood OF this gentle
man, to enquire the secret history of
his family, and finding his GRANDPA.
Their had stood in the pillory he distinct
Iy traced the why and wherefore of
the grandson's aversion to eggs.
Et;queHe.-It is almost painful to
give ones attentions TO these stiff af-
fairs, which go very ncarly to extin-
guish the sociAlities of lie, for the
mind is fet;ered aud bound up, as it
were, III stays, manufactured by the
ceremonial masters OF mankind,
Who're gravely doll, insipidly serene.
Aud carry all their wisdom in their mein.
This gravity has been defined by a
French wit, as a mysterious carriage
of the body, to cover the defects of
the mind. Locke, according to his
biographer, always praised Roche.
foucault maxim, "that gravity was
but the mask which stupidity wore to
cover its defects" DR.. Young says,
And be til truth eternal, ne'er forget,
Soiemnity's cover for the sot
Some people make mystery Of every
thing, (he, must bid you good day
IN a gchisber,) looking exceedingly
wise, even about trihes.- Statesmen,
a race-of beings who occasionally COM
NIT the most remarkable blunders, but
still retained the name of statesmen,
havea great prediction for this nnys-
terry. So affected was the Court dc
Viry in this way, that, when he d.
ed, some person inquiripg after him,
his secretary said, "He is dead,
bat he does not wish it to be KNOWN"
and the king of Sardinia (his MASTERY
said "that he would have made mys-
terry of it, if.he could. We have seen,
where cunning supplies the place of
intellect, and an handicraft mechanism
the substitute from the mind: where, in
Curran's peculiar phrase, "men be-
gin to measure their depths by their
darkness, aud to fancy themselves pro-
found, because they feel they are per-
plexed.@s
But let us give few instances Of
etiquette, and the love of presidency.
This first Marquis of Huntley on his
first arrivalas court, forgot the usual
tribute of obeisance, and was asked
why he did not bow? he begged his
majestY's pardon, and excused his want
of respect, by saying, he was just
come from place where every body
bowed TO him.
Miss Bennett was great beauty in
the Days of Swift and Arbuthno
The latter speaking of her presenta-
ton at the French court, says, "among
other things, had the honor to carry
an Irish lady to court, that was add
mired, beyond all the ladies in France,
for her. beauty. She had great no.
n0rS done her: the husSar himself
aoas ordered to bring her the Kings
cot to lass. y" Perhaps kissing hands
came into the fason after the salu,iug
of tabbies' went out,
A French author considers, that
one nation ought TO excuse another,
that ancient and long custom may make
thing innocent in one country, that is
indecent in another. He instances
the case of English women aoaiking
acith other MEN than thei, husbands.
THE FIELD OF WATERLOO.
As / looked over this field, now
green with growing corn, l could
mark, with my eye, spots where the
most desperate carnage bad been mar
ked out hy the verdnre of the wheat.
The bodies had been heaped together;
and scarcely more than covered. And
so enriched is tie soil, that in these
spots the grain never ripens; it grows
rank and green to the end oiihe har.
vest This touching memorial which
endures when the thousand groans
haze PXOirpd and yybpn fhp ctain or