The Litchfield County post., 1827-04-19

patience and submission, till the time ap- pointed for her release. Thus, religion fills the cup with pleasure, that was full of gall converts the veriest hovel in pal- ace, and adapting the spirit to it's Iodgment, makes it happy. Thus, the hope of heav- en, if that hope was dream, smooths her passage to the tomb, and renders religion essential to her happiness.
 Ingenuity of the Be00er in cOmtenement M. Godfrey de St. Hilaire relates the following fact "A few years since there was in the royal menagerie, in the Jardin des PlanteS, in Paris, beaver belonging to the family of the Rhone beavers, which live solitary like the water rats. The ob- servations on this animal which had oc- casion to make, placed it beyond doubt, that this variety of the beaver species can, upon emergency, exert their instinctive sa- gacity, as resource upon unforeseen diffi- culties and mishaps. As protection from the rather severe cold of winter, our bea- yer was furnished with nothing but more abundant supply of straw. The nights grew colder; and the falling door of his cage had so many chinks, that the animal was forced to set about preparing better defence against the inclemency of the wea ther. It was usual to give him, as we'll for food as for employment in the night, { quantity of green boughs, the bark ofwhich was always found gnawed off in the morn ing; and every evening, regularly, before his door was closed, he received a certain 1 allowance of other articles of food, consist ing of fruit and garden vegetables. On one occasion, after it had been showing all day, a good deal of snow had accumulated in the corner of his cage. Such were the mate- rials which the beaver had at his disposal, and which he diverted from their proper destination, to employ them in the forma- ton of a wall, which should defend him from the external air and cold. With the boughs he interlaced the bars of his cage, with as much regularity as is displayed in the work of a basket-maker. The plated branches, however, were not so close as not to leave open spaces, for filling which, the animal had recourse to his other supp plies. For this purpose he employed the turnips, apples, and straw and the former was gnawed or cut into pieces, suitable to the vacancies. Lastly, as though the ani- nal was sensible that he needed still clo- ser shelter, he used the snow to plaster the whole, and then filled all the little remain ing interstices. The wall covered two- thirds of the aperture of the door. and all the provisions with which the beaver had this time been supplied were expended in it's construction. The next morning, the door of the cage was found by the keeper frozen fast by the snow to the new wall.- It was not without some trouble that it could be detached and opened, and then the contrivance of the inhabitant was expo sed to view. The man was so astonished that he left it untouched, and called me to look at it. From the Albion.
 An anomalous form of speech has lately crept into our language, which, though it sets at defiance all rules of syntax, and all sound principles of criticism, has still spread itself, by soft of epidemic power, through a great part of our country and has even found advocates among those who would be thought the literat of the land. allude to a strange confusion of singular and plu. : ral, in mentioning several persons of the f same name: as The Messrs. Brown''- - ne WIT. DrOWDS ~ OG MISSc
 Brown," &c. The fashionable world, tho they are not usually quoted as authority or questions of philology, are, however, SUI. preme law-givers, as to the mode of ad- dressing a card {: and their decree is, that in addressing two ladies of the same name, you must not speak grammatically. They kindly give you leave to choose which ot the words you will write correctly; but the rule is absolute that there must be viola ton ofsyntax somewhere. Thus you may say, The Misses Brown" or |" The Miss Browns" but by no means be so vulgar as to make the address correct through. out.
 The writers in the public prints, who at- tempt to vindicate this barbarism, tell us that if one of the words is in the plural num- ber, that is sufficient to show that more than one person is intended; and that putting the other in the same number is, at best altogether useless; and perhaps some o them fear that two plurals, like two nega- tives, may neutralize each other.
 The concord, which it is thought neces. sary, in all other cases, to preserve between f the different members of sentence, is here uneeremoniously rejected, without leave