The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-08-03

ly asks you to lend him a '!evy." Giving
him shove you hide yourself in the crowd,
when to your sorrow you find yourself in the
vicinity OF group of young laughing phi
losophers. All their eyes are fixed upon you
while you overhear their phrases and litter
ings, and discover the pointing finger of the
eloquent speaker, who makes remarks upon
you. "That fellow looks like our monkey:
sick"-says one. "His stomach is tostih-
Gated" says another. NO" says third,
she is depressed with drunkation OH the
mind" This is intolerable to you, and NOV
ing boldly up to them, in an ironical tone and
scornful look, you say, Il thank you gentle
men for your remarks"-'You are wei
come," replies one, almost before the words
are cut of your mouth, while se-laugh
from dozen mouths overwhelm you,
and you are forced to shrink from the
gaze and ridicule Of hundreds. You then
iud yourself near couple of quiet sensible
looking lads, who have placed themselves
close by some timid females, who are ex-
trcmcly fearful that the boiler gvW burst
The lads affecting woful countenance and
dolorous tone, converse loud enough to be
heard by the fearful ladies of the danger of
steam engines; reciting all the accidents that
have ever occurred, and inventing more !;
speaking of broken rivets, defective shafts,
careless fremen, scalded bodies, manged
carcascs, and all the horrors attendant on
the explosion of crowded Steamboat. The
tender sex almos. dissolve with tear when
| lust at that moment the steam rushes from
small vent, and shrek from the ladies
rouses the attention of the passengers, while
the two lads, hiding themselves, laugh
heartily at the effect OF their Ingenuity
You next locate yourself near a coterie OF
would be thought very intelligent natural
philosophers and mechanists. Their theme
is steam aud steam engines, and they discant
as inteligiblv on the force Of steam, as a Hot
tentot would upon Metaphysics. A dry,
quisical sort ofa fellow with an ugly face,
but keen eye, having spoken his assent to all
tae wonders and praises about steam, tell
the following fucHas confirmation ct the eX-
pansve power OF steam
"Oncc travelling" says he, Gin the steam
boat from New-York to Albany, we had hot
mullins (nearly red-hot) for breakfast
Having carelessly placed piece in my
mouth it burnt me horribly, when with prop
er presence of mind, seized my cup of cof-
fee and literally thrcyo its contents into my
mouth. But fatal measure for the instant
the water touched the muffin, it was con-
verted into steam, my jaws were forced
widely asunder, the steam rushed from me
like thunder, and the masticatcd and pal
boiled fragments of muffin, and all my front
teeth were tost in sad confusion from me, like
melted lava and pummice stones from the
crater of Vesuvus, and grapitated them
selves upon plate of toast just before Inc
Here was one of my teeth which, like most
poets, had an erratc genius, and taking ar
obiaue direction stuck fast in the left cheek
. of very pretty female, seated at distance
from me: With much difficulty it was ex-
tracted. but the scar yet remains as in
tubitable evidence of the erhansiDe .forc'
of steam"
would tell you much more, but atte'
+ this incident remember nothing (but M,
going down the forward cabin to pay my
addresses to the ba) until next morning
| at o'clock, when l found myself at home
in bed. +. ID. w.
Commerce miM Cu,ada. a.--The Quebec Mcrcu
ry of the 22d inst. Says many lots of the cargo o
? the Eunicc Lewis, from Boston, have been sol'
= to advantage, at an advance of from So to 2o'
per cent. on some of the goods, having been OBJ
tained at public sales. The cottons are consld
cred of much superior quality to the English i'm
: portatons as regards durability.
Emperor NicholQs. July No ofthc Chris
tian Advocate, contains an tkase issued the l2tl
of April last by the Emperor Nicholas OF Russia
ordering the President and all other officers o
the Russian Bible Society, to suspend operations
4 and to furnish him with an account OF all proper
ty, movable, and immoveable, i'll houses, books
land or money, belonging to the Society, imme
| I,liately