American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-01-18

On our arrival at Worthing, we dined with our
, friends the Tomkins family, where We had the
scapata Of the oris, or shoulder of mutton, with
a sauce of macerated cope two birds OF the gna-
ceous tribe, served with ssymbrium,, waercres-
ses, and the customary vegetables Of trassica lactu
ca and spingia, through none of which the aque-
GUS fluid had been sufficiently allowed to percoate.
There was also soup, which contained consider
able portion of calorick that it scalded my palate
epidernis, and the piper nigram, or black pepper,
with which it was seasoned, occasioned very IN
pleasant degree Of Utilization in the whole OF the
oral region. In the afternoon, the water in the
kettle not having been raised to 2l2 OF Fahrenheit,
or that point at which evaporation commences. Inc
thea ciridis or green tea formed an imperfect de-
tcoction, in which state / believe It's diaphoretic
Qualities are injurious. Mrs. Tomkns declared
that she never drank any thing herself but the sim
|ple element; but informed her that if she meant
water, it was by no means simple element, but
compounded OF oxygen and hydrogen, and avail
ed myself Of this opportunity for instructng her
that atmospheric air is also mixture, containing
about seventy three parts of azoc, and twenty
seven of oxygen gas at which the Ignorant creature
only exclaimed, I" Well, have seen myself good
many red gashes across the sky, particularly at
sunset" She dressed in gown woven from
the 6amens of the phalgna bombyG, or silkworm,
dyed in red tincure Of the small insect called
c0ccns ihcus by Linnaus, which is found on The
the conversation, which was turning upon Miss
T-'s proficiency in music, asked her in all
fusion to the geological controversy, whether she
preferred the Vulcanian or the Neptunan systems,
when the silly girl replied with stare, that she had
not heard either of the tunes
But, my dearest Maria Louisa may confess TO
you, that am daily more and more Mortified by the
sad bunders Of mamma, who has not like US,
ceived the benefits OF scientific instruction, and yeti
while she sits at the window knitting, will every
Inow and then catch word which she fances she
understands and betray the most pitiabe ignorance in
her attempts to Join the conversation For instance,
while was this morning explaining to Miss Tom
lkins the difference between hydrogen and oxygen,
she exclaimed, without taking her eyes from the
work "Well it's liquor | never taste myself, bue
in my time Booths was reckoned the best GIN,
We had been visiting house in which COM
planned OF unpleasant empyreuma Child y
cried mamma, 3" think an empty room a very
unpleasant thing certainly, but you may depend
upon it, there was not one in the whole house."
While was maintaining that bismuth and cobalt
were different ores, she imagined in her imperfect
hearing, and still more deficient comprehension,
that l was talking Of the two London coaches, and
added with nod, Yes. my dear, they start at diff
ferent hours, the Sidmouth at 6 in the morning,
and the Co5ourg at 8 in the evening"" Alter DIN
liner took occasion to observe that cheese OBJ
Itaned from curd by separating the whey by express
sion, when she told me there was no way OF express
sion, no. not all the talking in the world, that would
ever make cheese Abiding to a short essay had
written upon the reflection of light, she interrupted
me by desiring would not indulge in light refec-
tons, as / should he only sublectlng myself 10
similar remarks from others; and when was de-
scrbing resinous matter obtained by precipitation,
she shook her head and exclaimed, "impossble,
child; nothing is ever gotten by precipitation:
your poor dear father always telling you not TO
do things in such violent hurry" Upon my ex-
fplaning friend that anthony derived its name
from lis having been INDUCED in TOO freely by some
monks, she cried, I" There, my dear, you must be
:. mistaken, for monks, you know, can have nothing
to do with marimony \" and once when the profess
sor showed me lump of mineral earth, and i'm
quired whether it friable, she CALCULATED Fri
, able, you simpleton no, nor boable neither-why
4 it isn't good to eat.'' These but few speci
! mems Of her lamentable ignorance. In poin; of
,, acute misapprehensions she exceeds even Mrs.
1 Malaprop herself and you cannot conceive the
painful humiliation TO which ON constantly sub
jected by these exposures.