The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1825-12-01

"S~fS s1S ''S "as unic ofPayineHt, ne ASK
ed, with all due humility, whether they
could oblige him with the loan Of twenty
pounds? "Certainly, Sir" said the clerk.
Would you like any mcre--hfty or hum
drcd'" Sheridan, all smiles and gratitude.
answered that hundred pounds would be
ofthe greatest convenience to him. "Per-
haps you wonld like to take two hundred,
or three ?" said the clerk. AT every in
crease oftbe sum, the surprise of the bor-
rover increased. "Haye you not then re-
ceived our letter ?" said the clerk on which
it turned out that in consequence OF the
falling in OF some fine, a sum Of fl200 had
been lately placed to the credit Of the Re-
and that, from not having
opened the letter written to apprisc him,
he had been left III ignorance OF his good
luck" a> fe
IA curious instance Of the care with
which he treasured up the felicties Of his
wit, appears in the use he made Of one Of
those epigrammatic passages which the
reader may remember among the memo
randums for his Comedy Of .a6triaiion, and
which, in its first form ran thus :--' He GER
tainly has great deal of fancy, and ve-
ry good memory but with perverse in
genuiy, he employs these qualities as no
other person does-for he employs his FAM
cy in his narratives, and keeps his recollec-
ton FOR his wit when he makes his jokes,
you applaud the accuracy Of his memory,
and 'tis only when he states his facts that
you admire the flights Sf his Imagination
After many efforts to express this thought
more concisely, and to reduce thclanguage
Of il TO that condensed and elastic state in
which alone 1t gives force to the projectiles
Of viii, hc kept the passage BY him patient
ly some years, till he at length found an
Of turning il to account, In ro-
ply, believe To Mr.. Dundas, in the House
Of Commons, when, with the most extern
poraneous uir, he brought it,forth, in the
following compact and pointed form -
: The Right Hon. Gentlemen is indebted to
his memory for his jesA, and to his imagi-
nation for his facts
His best bon-mots are in the memory Of
every one. Among those less known, per-
haps, is his answer to General T, rels-
tive To some differences Of opinion bstweeA
them on the war in Spain 80 We'll, T---s
are you still on your high horse III was
on horse before, an upon an elephant
no%.' No, r, you were upon an ass.
before, and now you are upon mule
Some mention having been made inbis
presence Of a tax upon mile-stoncs, Sheri-
dan said, Such tax would be unconstitu-
tional-as they were race that could not
meet 10 demonstrated,
"hs an instance Of his humor, I have
been told that In some country house where
he was on visit an elderly maiden lady
having set her heart on being his compan-
ion in a walk, he excused himscIfat first on
sccouh. Of the badness Of tho weather.
Soon afterwards, howeysr, the lady inter-
cepted him In an attempt to escape without
her:-'Well,' she said, il has cleared up
see.' why yss;' he answered, it has
cleared up enough for one, but not fof
two.'"
The "Ednburgh Philosophical Journal
for October, has good table Of contentsl.
Mr.. T. Tredgold, civil Engineer, has sup
Piled it with a valuable paper on Steam.
boats, the object of which is to find the re-
sistance at different velocities in still water,
and the best velocity for the paddles; th6
disposition and number of the paddles; the,
resistance at different vclocitics incur
rents and streams, and the velocity for the
paddles in such cases. The 9Th article
consists Of description Of q .Sitometer, or
for measuring grain, which il
is said that farmers and corn dealers would
lind very convenient machine The next
IS an accsant Of a "Hydromctrograph," or
4 machine for measuring and recording
he quantity OF water, or any other fluid
discharged within q given time from cons
luit pipes. II can be constructed upon
my scale either for measuring the larges'
quantities Of water or other finds, or tho
smallest. We need not specify the nume-
;ous instances 10 which such an apparatus
might be highly useful in this country.
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