Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-09-19

upon your lace, as II they were ulyn ioI love
you and keep MD noddin upon you for great
course. You may gle bit LAUGH at them WI
the corner O. your ee, touch their lit WI yours
aneath the table, and they'll never sac much as
ken yu're in the same seat, and finally, the SOFT
rounded chin draps down towards the bonnie
bosom; the blue veined violet eye lids close the
twilight whose dewy fall it was sac pleasant to
behold; the rosebud lips, slightly reveal teeth
as pure as lily leaves, and the bonny innocent
is as sound asleep as her sister at hame in It's
rockin cradle.
North My dear James, there is so much feel
ing in your description, that, bordering though
it be on the facetious, it yet leaves deep i'm
preston on my mind Of the Sabbath service in
one of our lowly kinks.
Shepherd-Far be it frae me or mine, Mr..
North, TO treat WI levity one sacred subject
But gin folk would sleep in the kirk, where's
the harm in sayin, that they do so? My ain OPT
Mon is that the mair dourly you set Yourself to
listen no every BRIGHT discourse, as if you taken
an oath to devour't frae stoop to roop, the MAR
certa!n-sure you are O. fa'in over into deep
lang sleep The vera attitude o. leaning back,
and stretchin' out your leg, and fixing your cen
in ae direction, is maist dangerous attitude;
and then gin the minister has only haction-and
Joking down his head, or see-sawing wi his
hauns, or leanin' over as if he wanted TO speak
wi'he precen1or, or keepin' his cen fixed on the
roof, as if there were hole int letlln' in the
LIGHT O. heaven-or ttfrnin first to the ae side
and then the ither, that the congregation may
have an equal share O his front physiognomy
as weel's his side face---or stauin bolt upright
in the vera middle o. the poopIt, without ever
m fbauo he a
setup on end by some cantrap, and lettin' out
and monotonous grin-oh! Mr.. North, Mr..
North. could even an evil conscience keep awaik
under such sopori6ces, any MAR than the hon
estest O. men, where the bauns cried for the
third time, and he gaun to be married on the
Morning?
North.-Yet, after all, James, believe coun-
try congregations are in,general very attentive
Shepherd.-Ay, ay, sir; if twa arc sleepin' ten
are wauke; and seriously think that mair than
half O. them that's sleepin, enter into the spirit
O. the sermon. You see they "a hear the text,
and the Introductory remarks, and the heads;
and fa'in asleep in serious and solemn mood,
they carry the sense alang wi them; neither can
they be said no to hear an accompanying sound,
so that it wadna be just fair to assert that they
lose the sermon they did listen to; Tor thouhts
and iGeas, and feelings, kept floatn' down lang
the stream O silent thocht, and when they ava
ken at the amen,' their minds, if no greatly in
sturcted, hae been greatly tranquilleezed, they
JOIN loudly In the ensuing psalm, and without
remembering many O the word, carry hame the
feek O the meaning o the discourse, and a the
peculiarities o the doctrine.
Recount Of q Singular Phenomenon in Piston, ~ Mr.
Thomas Smith, Surgeon, Kingussie.
On the 10th of February last, was repeat
ing with candle-light some experiments which
had made before with the light of day, to
observe in what degree the sensation which
luminous object, seen by both eyes on cores
ponding points of the ratina, differs from that
which is produced, when ii is seen by both eyes
on points Of the ratina not corresponding. l
held slip Of white paper perpendicular to the
horizon, about foot from my eyes, and direct
ing them to an object at some distance behind
it, saw, of course, two images of the white pa
per. | was surprised, however, 10 find that the
colors of these two images were not the same,
and neither o. them white like the slip of paper:
but that, on the contrary, they were complement
tary red and green, SO that, when, by changing
thC uiiNCtion vi ny SyCo, ! CduStu Tic TWO ina
ges to coalesce in the middle, the resulting CO.
Tor was white like the paper viewed. For,
moment suspected that these appearances a.
rose from sudden morbid affection of nv ewes.
for, though had often repeated the same ex-
pertinent before, had never observed that the
colors OF the two images were different How
ever, as in this experiment the candle stood on
ly few inches from my right eye, so that it
was strongly acted upon by the light, while the
left eye was entirely shaded from it, and as |
was not ignorant that the action OF strong light
on one part Of the ratina appears to affect the
sensibility of the surrounding parts, l thought
OF trying if that circumstance had any share in
producing the phenomena therefore shifted
the candle from the right to the left side, plac-
ing it SO that it might be seen by the left eve,
but not by the right. Instantly the colors of
the two images were reversed, that which was
green before being now red, and that which was
red before appearing now green; the paper al
ways appearing green TO the eye on which the
direct light of the candle fell, and red to that
which was in the shade
AT my request, several other persons, both
old and young, repeated the same experiment,
and, without knowing the result had obtained.
reported unanimously, that, Of the two images
of the white paper, that which was nearest to
the candle appeard red, and the otheHgreen, or,