Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-09-08

ike, however, to have paid dear for his
iemeriiy. Feeling rather chilly, ow.
ing to the state Of the room, he put his
head under the bed clothes to increase
his warmth. He bad not continued
longer than five minutes 10 this si,ua
lion, when, on removeing his head
from under them, he suddenly felt, as
it were, q severe blow on the sholders,
neck, and head, and the pain seemed
to run along the spint; at the same
moment blue flame flashed from his
eyes, and a permanent circle OF lam
bent light appeared to irradiate their
sockets. Perfectly certain that no per
son was in the room but himself; he
sat up in bed for a moment to reflect
on the cause; as The light still continued
to flow from his eyes, he Immediately
recollected that the bed and pillows
consisted Of new feathers, aud that
they might be in highly electric state,
and that the shock he had received
mus. have been from them. No soouer
had he formed this conjecture, bot lie
leaped onthe floor, and found il we're.
fed; The light in his eyes gradually di-
minished, and before five minutes had
passed it was totally gone Having
no desire to repeat the experiment that
night, he ent 10 another room for the
remainder ofthe evening Some nights
afterwards, when fire bad been in
troduced into the room where the phe
nomenon took place, and matters had
been more comfortably arranged, he
went to bed as before, and surprising
to relate. he experienced the same re
suits. He had now 90 doubt of the
facts, and he was convinced that the
shocks he had received were owing to
the electric state OF the feathers in the
bed, as they were precisely similar to
those he remembered to have received
from an electrical machine, or Ley
den jar. This is given on the author
lily of The Glasgow CHI onicle.
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Ne,o Holland. anomalous
character OF New Holland is striking
iy illustrated in,he following extract
from Geographical Memoirs of New
South Wales, by Baron Field, ESQ"
bot this is New Holland, where
It's summer with us when it is win.
ter in Europe and vice UerSa; where
the barometer rises before bad wea
Their and falls before good; where the
North is the hot wind and the South is
the cold; where the bumblest house is
fitted up with ceder (cedrela toona, ac-
cordipg to Mr.. Brown;) where the
fields are fenced with mahogany(cu
calytus robusta and myrtle trees are
burnt for tirewood; where the swans
are black and the eagles white; where
the kangaroo, an animal between the
squirrel and the deer, has five claws
on its fore paws & three tallons on its
hind leg like a bird, and yet hops on
its tail; where the mole (ornithorhyn.
chus paradoxus) lays eggs and has
ducks bill; where there is bird (me-
lipha gay with broom in its mouth in
stead ola tongue; where there is fish
one bali belonging to the genus zasa,
and the other to that of squalus; where
the pears are made ofwood (x'lome.
lum pyreforme) with the stalk OF the
broader end; and where the cherry
(exocarpus dupressiiormis) grows
with the stone at the outside"
Masonry and Religion We are
well aware that the union otthese two
names will startle manya plous reader;
and per adventure may draw forth the
anxious inquiry-"What! is the Ed
itor OF our Herald a Mason2" We
hasten to allay their fears, by saying
that we have never yet been initiated
into the sublime mysteries that art.
Nevertheless, we are not inattentive
observers of those who hold various
stations in the order Among them
are many whom we love and venerate,
for their Christian benevolence, ardent
piety, and holy walk and conversation.
There are others it is true, whose lives
contradict their professions, and bring
reproach upon the order TO which they
belong. And we have observed with
sorrow, that many pious and consci
encious people Judged the former by
the conduct of the latter, and thus con
denim the institution as immoral and
profane. Would these persons be vii
ling that our holy religion should be
judged by the same rule. We ven
ture TO say they would not Let them
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