Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-07-06
From the ". Y. Commercial Advertiser.
81 AM TIRED OF TICKING"

" nne mornng it suddenly stopped. The dial plate
changed countenancc with aarm-the hahus nhaue
vain effort to continue their course, the weights
hung speechless-and the clock itself was SO angry
that it would have struck-if it could. An invesu-
CATION was had, all parts protested their ihhocence
excepting the pendulum, who frankly acknoweos-
ed that he was the cause Of the difficulty, andassSn
ed as the only reason that he aoas faTed 81 nch"S
Upon hearing this excuse. the dial plate commehceu
expostu!ang with the lazy wire. But tsie Pe enn1
lum insisted that he was ured 0, ms way " Tsli
+. Andif YOU wish Mistress DIAL" continued ne, Ali
tell you now took this disgust at my employment
| happened this morning to be calculating how many
times shoud have 10 tick in the course OF ohiJ .lo
next twenty four haurs-perhaps some OF you ABOVE
there can give me the exact SUM" Inc nnu'0
hand being quick at figures presently IePiie u
Eighty six thousand iour hundred times.
acty SOP replied The pendulum. . Wen appear
to YOU ALL if the very thought Of this was not enough
to fatigue enc, AID when began TO multiply 'Ae
strokes Of one day by those OF months aho years.
really it is no wonder if / felt DISCOURAGED at me
prospec-so- after deal OF reasoning ana hes s W."
thinks to myself, I'll stop;' Now 1t has often oc-
Cured to u.s. that poor editorial weights who are COM
PEELED to toll for the daily press are much IN the STU
. alton Of the ishearened pendulum, day alter Gay,
week after week, month after month, and year ass
year they are compelled 10 toll on, wi'h as macl
uniformity Of employment. as the pehaulona, otteh
y without e power Of pleasing themselves, and never
with 1he hope Of pleasing the whole Of Their readers
.,ut no matter for that. ---Tho' his brains may %
worked as dry as the remainder biscuit and the
mails in as barren OF moving neiuehts Wy iio
and field as the larparan rock OF veseta'ioh' yes
lie FAUST tick aaeay and every day prang sof' so,a-
thing new nov and then his labours are ilShened ny
nlurder committed to his Lands, the kidnapping u
! family OF negroes a battle at the foot OF Pindus,
or resolution in the land of lucas freshet 10 'he
spring and ial serves FOR semi-annual artlcie--a
swarm Of hassian flies answers tor paragraph Wheh
~ we have a bad administration, and the vlfsshiahs
wish to raise the price Ut wheat, and column can
be made up Of pulls OF tat oxen anu nall haheo oPci~
ny dancers at time.
But these are small matters aud Bonapartan bat
ties. earthquakes and volcanic eruptlons are aDso
y lutey unknown III these degenerate DAYS. aet'
he paragraphs must be made Something Wise or WIZ
ty strange melancholy novel, must be sad and
that too e1orially, or tile paper will be thrown aside,
N as insufferably stupid, and its editor written down
~ as an ass. Nor can cease lab0rs with as niue
ceremony as the pendulum for if we stop we
ut shall sturue Is it any wonder, them that when We
look forward for days, and weeks, and years. cacu
ny late how many qures Of fooscap must be scrloDed
"a "a. we should become discouraged and grow t'redoi
" thinkiug? Nor does the comparison stop here
III AS the pendulum is shut up i'll ITS dark closer; 10
wac backwards and forwards without thanks for ITS
We service so il it with the editor shut up IN his CLOS
ct, he may spin Ills brains to the texture OF sossae,
~ in writing for the edihcation and amusement Oh inc
curses than thanks, and when he dies the good nc
has done is inferred with his bones. And YET nun
~ 1reds of halearned mutton-heads are crowdng IN
y to the profession with as much easerness as though
is Mahomet's paradise was fool to printing office,
TX while Fortune is ever ready to strew their paths
with gold, Fame to crack her trumpet IN sounding
% their praises But assure these asprants'
that the editorial pillow is made of any thing else
es- than down that If they ever reach the emnehce
of fortune, they will be able to tell, from SAD ex
w pcrience show hard it is TO climb = and that, II
ne thew attend to their business, like the pendulum
a. they will soon groao tedof ticking" For ourselves,
however, inasmuch as the pendulum was induc-
W. ed to return to its labor by the consideration that
ss though it might think of million OF strokes in an In
stan it was required to execute but one, and that,
EN- however often it might hereafter have to swing,
DOL moment would always De given II 10 sWiis ~,
Il we have resolved not be weary In we'll DONG
ing from the thought of having much to do, believing
ea that it is not fair to burden moment with the
;sb weight of the next and that sufficient unto the
rds day is the trouble of making up newspaper,
md To the above lively article have only to add,
ed that we should be less tired Of ticking, II our
Tot subscribers were less fond of gong on f'ch.
is CeJor .9DnyeA respectable citizen of this coun.
le y who was for long time troubled with the tape
ed worm and tried various medicines without benefits
rs was finally advised to try the Ceder Apple. He
We procured about dozen from of shops, tonk
three of them each morning, obtained Immediate re-
vi lief and now considers himself entirely free from the
disease He ascrbes the entry to the virtues or
=, the Cedar Apple, and his certainly furnishes
,st strong why this medicine should have fair
trial. toTH HecoTdef.
Another instance of death by suffocation from
or burning charcoal, has happened at the eastward
II occurred on board OF vessel at Bridgeport,