Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-01-14

Roger, James, Matthew, Jonas, David,
and Ezekiel. The husband had but
me leg, his wife but one arm. Solo,
non was born blind of the left eye
aud Roger lost his right eye by acct
dent; James had his left ear pulled off
ny boy in quarrel, and Matthew was
born with only three fingers on his right
hand, Jonas had stump foot, and David
was hump-backed all these, except
David, were remarkably short, while
Ezekiel was six feet two inches high,
at the age of nineteen. The stump-foot-
ed Jonas and the hump-backed David
got wives of fortune, but no girl would
listen to the addresses ofthe rest. The
husbands hair was as black as jet, and
the wife's remarkably white, yet every
one of the children's were red. The
husband had the peculiar misfortune OF
falling into deep sawpit, where he
was starved to death, in the year 1901,
and his wife, refusing all kind of.susten.
ance, died in FIVE days after him. In
the year 1903, Ezekiel enlisted as a
grenadier, and although he was after
wards wounded in twentythree places,
he recovered.-Roger, James, Mat
thew, Jonas, and David, died at differ.
ent places, on the same day, in 1918,
and Solomon and Ezekiel were drown
ed together in crossing the Thames in
the year 1898.
| Man is strong-woman is beautiful
Man is daring and conident-woman is
dlfident & unasuming. Man is great in &C.
tion-woman in suffering. Man shines a.
broad-woman at home. Man talks to
convince-woman to persuade and
!, please. Man has a rugged heart--wo.
man soft and tender one. Man pre-.
vents misery-woman relieves it. Mar
has science-woman taste. Man ha:
judg ment-woman sensibiity. Mar
is being Of justice-woman of mercy
Singular regrcts-A Chinese Of forty
years of age, who had very passionate
mother, frequently received from her
sound beating, which he always bore
with exemplary patience. A frienc
, who knew the life the poor fellow led
1 calling on him one day just after h,
: had received a severe drubbing from
his mother, found him dissolved in tears
and quite inconsolable. "What," sale
the friend, "can be the cause of thi
immoderate grief?" "Ah!" replied
the poor fellow, " my dear mother die
not thrash me halfso soundly to-day a.
she used to do. Poor creature he
strength is fast declining am mucl
afraid that shall soon lose her,
A Portrait of Sir Helter Scott-Fron
: the "rnREE rrRILs OF WOMEN" BY james
Hogg y
Father-And mair than that the brait
Scots was never in sic repute SIM tn,
days of Davie Lindsey, thanks to m,
good friend Waffle Scott
Daugh.cr-Dear Father will ever
| see this Walter Scott in Edinburgh?
Father-How can tell ye that
daughter? If ever you come neal
where he is, you will see him. He i.
as weel TO be seen as other fox, though
perhaps no just sac often. You Can see
him every day from the Gallery of the
ParliameDt-House and I'll tell you how
I've may ken him look into the round
pew, close in before the Lords, and 70,
will see three or four black gowns sit
ting round table, and among them il
We see carl that sits always with his
right shoulder to you, with hair of g
pale silver gray, a head like "a tower
braid shoulders, and lang shaggy e'e.
brees--the very picture of an aulC
gruff Border Baron-that's Wahie Scott
= DEF1N1TIoN.-When Lord Sandwich
said, he did not know the difference be.
tween Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy, War
burton, the Bishop, replied, Orthodoxy
is my dory, and Heterodoxy is onothe,
mans d0gy.
The effect of Music on the senses was
oddly and wonderfully verified, during
a late Court morning. A tailor had a
great number ofblack suits, which were
to be finished in short space of tine
Among his workmen there was fellow
who was always singing RuIe Britannia,
and the rest of the journeymen joined
in the chorus. The master made his
observations, and found that the slow
time of the tune retarded the work; In
consequence, he engaged a blind fiddler
and placing him near the workshop,
made him play the lively tune of Nancy
DawsOn. This had the proper effect