Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1826-10-21
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

EDITORIAL ITEMS.
A young terrapin has been caught Ia
New York, with two perfect heads par,
allel to each other. The heads are DE,
tiact, and perfectly formed with eyes.
&c. as usual. The movements Of the
two, however. are subject to separate
voIilions. aud one head win stretch Of.
aided by the two feet on the same side,
in one direction, while the other head
AID feet will attempts contrary direc-
one will overcome the
resistance made by the other snd draw
off the whole tabernacle. and at 9TH
ers the counter forces produce an equi.
Iibrium. Again. upon q unity Of will !,
they will pursue the same course and
jog on ut a very tolerablc speed.
A writer in the Cincinnati paper es-
Inmates the number Of inhabitants in that
city at forty Thousand itis but few
years, since the city was thought to ex-
hibit mpst surprising instance Of rap
id increase when the population a.
mounted to fifteen thousand.
A child was lately born in New.
Hampshire, weighing from twenty five
to thirty pounds. with full set Of
double teeth all round--his hair hand
someiy braided behind, aud tied up in
the good old fashioned way, with all
eel-skin.
The bars for refrcshment and liquor
at the Bowery Theatre, New-York,
have been rented at the rate Of nine
teen thousand dollars, per aunum
As an instance Of the distress among
the English manufacturers. It is men,
tioncdthata Blackburn weaver lately
Walked forty miles for a warp. which
when worked into cloth, produced him
in wages only 4s:! 80
Out of sixteen missionaries sent TO
Bombay by the American Board Of
Missions, five are dead, and four have
returned. OF fifteen sent 10 Ceyion,
FIVE are dead. OF six sent to Syria and
the Holy Land, two are dead.
John Morey, revolutionary veteran
has been sentenced to six months i'm.
prisonment, in Worcester jail, for hav.
ling two wives. A veteran, indeed!
| The ruins of the Exchange Build.
ings in New.York, are still smokeing
although il is FIVE months since these
buildings were destroyed. :.
| A. youth who had been coniued in
ltbe penetentiary at Petersburgh, Vir-
ginia, for petit larceny. lately shot him.
self A sense Of his degradation, it is
supposed, induced him to commit the
act. - e
A southern paper, instead Of saying
that a man committed suicide. says
that he operated on himself! Proba-
bly, the crime Of murder will soon he
refined into" an experiment upon the
1principles Of existence"
! The New.York Enquirer says II is
no uncommon thing for-the old women
who deal iu potatoes, onions, parsley
and peas in the New-York market, TO
be worth 6fty thousand dollars. These
women are accused Of forestaliing, and
their profits are said 10 be immense.
| A man in New York has invented q
steamboat with machinery to break the
ice before II as it goes, and run at the
rate olive miles an hour. With these
It is expected to run every day during
the winter, from New Y ork to Albany,
One or two going each way every day
will prevent the ice from forming verJ
thick 10 their track. e
Mr.. Macready, an English tragediar
of the first rank has arrived at New
York, and been well received at th'
Park Theatre. Besides being a supe
riour actor he happens to be a. gentle
man and scholar amiabIe in hi