The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-12-05

| 1t is difficult to take mp country paper al
this season Of the year without encOnnteFing q
venerable parsonage, under the title Of the
Oldest inhabitRnt, whose business It is never To
remember any thing. He has never seen the
like of the late drought, or the late harvest,
and every food to him isa novelty Of the. first
! mater. Hewas ia particular animated state
iof forget niness during the late heats. But his
principal talent lies in the nOn-recollectiOn oil
lail-stoFms. thundeF-storms, &c. The tragic
is requisite to stir up his old blood. swell /!
| of all the sights Well! never in my born
| days did see''--" Well I 1 don't believe that
'Oithin the memory man" &c. Thushe stands
gaping and exclaining /; on which somebody
claps it down in the newspaper, and we are:
| to believe that no such storm was ever heard,
because the oldest iahobitnnt in A, B, or C.,
cannot remember any. The reason is very
| obvious. He has lost his memory! His fac
| ultles are sHperanuated. 'gd e
IN Affair Of HonoHr. - London paper re-
marks that white elephants are rare 10 nature,
and so greatly valued III India, that king Of
Pegu hearing that tIie king of Siam had q
PAIR OF these valuable animals, sent a formal
embassy desiring his royal brother to sell him
one OF them, and name any price that he
pleased. The Peguan sovereign being refti-
sed, declared immediate war to chastise the
insult. He invaded Siam, and after losing
SOC, 000 ofhis men, obtained the elephant, and
retrieved his wounded honor. 50.
Ghiltotlne. Joseph Samson, the celebrated
French exccutioner before and during the
Revolution, died last month in Paris. It was
he who guillotined Louis XVI, Maria Antoi-
nette, and, by a singular retributiveness, Cou-
thon, Brissot, Rohespierre, and other chiefs Of
the revolution. MERCER once called him the
President Of the Grand Butchery Of the Hamd,s
Race. For the last 25 years he enjoyed a
pension from government, and led very ex-
emplary life. He was so years old when he
died. Thecharacter and conduct of this man
is fit subject Cor reflection. He split more
aristOcratic blood than any other human be-
ing. Like Death himself, whose prime minis
ter he was, all ranks and ages were alike to
him. The king and the beggar, the coward
and the hero were alike to him. Youth, beau
IT., virtue, talents, as well as age, vice, ugl-
ness, and stupidity, fell PROSTATE and headless
before him. If the French people had pos
sessed but one neck, he would have been its
Caligula. There was time that he might
have feared that he would be left the last man
in Paris. The guillotine spared him only be-
cause he was a part of it, Yet his conscience
was atease. lie went to the opera regularly
and slept each night well.-N. u. Eng.
A paper printed at Warren, Ohio, filrn-
ishes a recipe to pay for, and take some
valuable newspaper. It's thus expressed:
LET each family who are in, the habit of
drinking spurious liquors every day, deny
themselves of one gill day, and lay out
the amount to purchase newspaper or
some other useful publication, and the thing
may be accomplished with ease. This
quantity. at ~ cents per gallon, will pro-
duce no less than sos. Noone Of the fam
lily will be likely to be injured by small self
denial; but probably every individual will
be essentially benefited by il. Parents
and children will be often grati6ed by the
information they will receive many pre-
cious hours will thus be saved which other
wise would be worse than lost.--The
younger members ofthe family will acquire
habit of reading, which will probably be a
benefit to them as long as they live more
property win be saved and more earned.
Please try the experiment, and make report
Of your success at the end Of the year,
NEw-YonK, Nov. Is. Z
Young Villains.--Itwill be remembered
that there have been great many stores
broken open and robbed in this city, within
the last six months, without any detection
of the thieves. A few days since the arrest
Of one ofthe gang led to the discovery Of
the whole. The Police once in the track
soon found the rogues, and in two days,
seven of the ten were safely lodged in pris-
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