The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1827-12-17

never, sud SIT, he any thihE o4t
philosopher a foel, vino tolls aud
glapues himself to death, that people
nav talk of hun when he IS no more"
Eigm Courier.
OuaIrr VITA Quaker invited a
tradcsman To dine with him, whom he
treated with m excellent dinner, bot
lie Of wine and a pipe 81 tobacco. Ills
guest, after drinking pretty freely, be-
came extremely fnae aud abusive TO his
most, lnsomucb tnat the qudker's patience
uas At length quite exhausted, aud he
rose up and addressed him IN the iol-
lowing words " Friend, | have gwen
| thee a meat offering, drink offering
and a burnl-ofieling, and for thy mlscon-
duct I will now give thee heavc-otier-
Ing :" and Immediately threw him into
the street out of tho parlor window.
Steam Gun.-Tthas lately been shown
that gun-barrel may be connected with
a high pressure steam boiler, as with a
| chamber of condensed air and, IL the
steam can be supplied rs long as waller
remains IN tho boiler, II bullets be allow
I'D 10 fall into tho barrel fast enough,
from a chamber or magazine above 1t,
| 4 hundred may be thrown every minute
wi h the same force and precision as #
each issued from common piece Of ar
iillery. The rapid succession may be
sad almost to resemble the issue of wa.
Ter from jet pipe; aud II such an on
| 9inc could be used in field OF battle,
| he barrel of death, made to point along
L Inc OF mon, would nov them down
Ike corn-stalhs before the scylhe-noHe
could escape. The horrible idea and
proposal have been excused, by saying,
that to prove tho possibility Of such ma
voc must have tho effect OF putting an
end 10 VIZ altogether.
Efcets NJ Riding on Consumption. -
TIE cure | am going TO mention was Of
a gentleman who is related 10 the Doc
tor, and is now living in Dorsetshrr,
Who WIS brought 80 low by consnmp-
ton that there seemed to be no possible
~ Of recovery, either by medicine or
exercise but, il being too late for the
first to do any good, all that was 10 be
dono was to be expected from the latter,
though the doctor did not think that g
ven riding would then do. However,
the poor gentleman, seeing there were
no other hopes left, vas resolved to at
tempt to ride into the country but was
80 extremely iargone, that, at his setting
out Ol town, no was iorc d 10 be held
upon his horse by two servants, and
when be got to Brontford, or Houus-
low, the people of the inn n which he
stopped were unwilling to receive him,
thinking he would die there, and they
should have tha trouble of a funeral.
Notwithstanding, he persisted in riding,
by small lolrnies, to Exeter, and got so
much strength by the way, that, though
one day, his horse, as he was drinking,
laid down with him in the water, and
he was forced to ride part Of the DAYS
Journey III that wet condition, vet hc
sustained no harm by II, but came 10 the
aforementioned place considerably re-
covered when, thinking he had then
eaard his point, he neglected to ride d
nv more for some time. But afterwards
finding himself rciapslnc, ne remembers
ed the caution which Or. Sydcnham had
gwen him al his setting out, that, if he
should be SO happy as to begin to reco-
yer, he should not leave off riding too
soon, for he would inevitably relapse
and die, if he did not carry on that mra-
snro long enough; so he betook himself
10 his horse again, and rode until he OBJ
tanned perfect recovery.
A Story rather amusing than crrdi-
btc.-Fhe French papers beat the En-
gllsh hollow in matters Of the strange or
the horrible, suited to the taste of news
paper readers. The Courier Francois,
OF a recent date, confirms a story, of
which the following is the purport -
The scene is MarsolIlcs. An adventu-
re- arrived there and introduced him
self to Mr.. -. Being plausible, he
succeeded in obtaining his good will and
-" '''''tt ''"fC vi hia lduI'1. his II
eanto the first. The second shows the
adyentnrer fallen in love with Mr., IS
daughter, and Mr.. IS daughter with
ne ad,enturer The next is the cream
Of the story, The adventurrr enters
Mr.. IS dining room one day, in the
costume OF savage prince. and tell. a
long story about his having been king of
flmbuctoo, from which royal dignity he
escaped with his treasure, TO avoid sub
hitting to lose his nose, IA necessary
part of the ROYALTY of Tmbnctco. Mr..
= is represented as such an egregi-
Gus ass that he credited this nonsense,
aud the treaty Of marriage proceeds.
Last canto. The ex-king of Timbuc-
too borrows Of Mr.. - 10 OOo frs