The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-07-01
Foreign & Domestic Gleanings.


A new boat named The Encyclopedia, of
Albany is now afoat on the canal, which
it is designed to navigate, containing Book
Store and Lottery Office. The National
Democrat says, sit will move up and down
the canal, bearing the riches OF science, as
we'll as the gifts of fortune, to their respec-
tive favourites.
1t is said that by ringing fruit trees you
increase the quality and size OF the fruit a
gentleman who has tried the experiment,
states, that for the first season 1t Will have
this effect, but afterwards the branches that
undergo the operation will rapidly decay
The practice deserves place by the side OF
the fable of 8 The Man and the Goose that
laid Golden EGGS
|. The Secretary of War has informed Mr..
Little, of Baltimore, that the United States
board of engineers will explore the route
between Pittsburg and the Susquehanna,
with view to canal communication.
A young man in England lately killed his
father in consequence of his objecting to a
marriage with young woman to whom he
had become attached. He was tried for the
murder, and was acquitted on the ground
that the constable who arrested him, had in
duccd him by promises, &c. to confess his
guilt.
II wise conhie.-It is said that the days
of courtship, arc the happiest that life can
afford, and if it be true, the following couple
may be said to have closed life OF unparal-
lelcd wisdom, with an act ofunparalleled
folly. "An English paper gives all account
of the marriage of couple after courtshiP
of Sirty years-Each of the parties had
reached the eighty sixth year OF their earth
ly pilgrimage"
Humbolt states that the number of differ
cnt tongues spoken in Mexico by the ma
tves, is upwards Of twenty, of which four
teen have tolerable complete grammars and
dictionaries. 1t appears that the greater
part of these languages, so tar from Delng
dialects of the same, differ as much from
each other, both in their words and in the
construction of sentences, as the Greek does
from the German, or the French from the
Polish.
Curious circumstance in Ornnhbloyy.--At
the house of Mr.. Duncan, who lives at the
post road between Bush and Havre de
Grace, Md. young robin was lately Kept
in cage, and hung out in the porch every
day, near place frcquented by some wrehs
One of the wrens somehow nnbibed an al
fection for, and commenced passing through
the wires of the cage and feeding the cap
tive robin, which it continued to do Tor many
weeks. The fact is well attested.
II business toypn.-The editor OF the
Georgetown, S. &. Gazette states, that the
streets of that place have assumed ga yer
dQnt hue" and expresses hope, that there
may be enough people remaining during the
summer, "to stone the Rabbits as they gam
boil near the Market House"
anatomical Dissection.-The act lately
1aecoj in Eonnecricut Subiprts ViOlntOrS O
the grave to imprisonment and fine not ex
cecdng $4,000. 1t provides, also, that the
! bodies of prisoners dying in Newgate lstats
prison may be delivered to the Medical Col.
lcgc for dissection.
: The antiquity of the husbandman's art Is
not to be contested by any other. The first
three men in the world, we're gardener, q
ploughman, and grazier; and II any mar
object that the second of these was mur'
dercr, l desire he would consider, that a:
soon as he was SO, he quilted our profession
and turned builder
God the first garden made, the first city Cam.
We may talk what we please of lilies and
lions rampant, and spread eagles, in dor OF
d'argeut, but if heraldry were guided BY
reason, a plough in a field arabic would be
The President has left Washington City on {
: short visit to his farm, in Virginia.
Joseph Lancaster. the Teacher, arrived at Ca
races on the 29th uit
, TTTLfa,n M'Ree, late Colonel in the army o.
the United States, has been appointed ny the
: President of the United States, to he Surveyor
neral of Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas, vice
E ITIlEam Rector
U1LYam Irimble has been appointed by th'
/ President of the United States, to be Judge 10
the territory Of Arkansas, vice Joseph oefden DC
Il ceased y,
1 Major Gen. SOFT, commanding the We'ter
4 Military District, arrived at Washington City ol
d Friday evening. lie is direct from the Fails Q
St, Antony, the most remote post, on tour OF IN
spection, which he has recently performed
!. The Society Islands, dscove'ei by Capta'
l. Cook, form such paradise (says the Nantucke
;, Inuuirer) as enEghtened man, engtossed III pue
C rile luxury abcundiny in invention, ana osten''
is tions of artificial skill, has never yet cohsiac'e
rs CT even fanci Under sky always Prup
r tious, breathing an untainted atmosphere an
!" dwelling ON a soil exuberant beyond imagini
tion. the Lappy natives of this reg on are as yt
eyempt from the vices and foil es of thtlr npo1
!, civilized contemporaries
II Lacoa.-During the residence OF Mr. Co
= ton in Charleston, he occasionally amuse
III himself by giving his thoughts to the publ
le in the columns of the Courier, i'll the tori
&c of Queries, full of sound sense, ndpropouni
le ed in tbe terse manner, for which his wr