Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-03-06
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u1GflnDOHV. OHe OIL tnt EHl'a
delphia editors has been al the trouble
and expense of emhellishing the ny
mental department of his paper with
the cut of mouse trap; and lest the
reader should be al loss to smell his
DEVICE he has ,urmounted it with the
adage, marriage is like mouse trap,
easy to get in, but hard TO escape -
The trap is represented to he foil of
prisoners, dissatisfied with their locus
n, quo; and, ike Yprrlck's starting.
they are trying to get OUT but cant
We have often heard clever things
said about mairinony, but we never
before met with such a practical Jest as
the above. One of our city papers
coniectures that it has been done up by
some old hunks of bachelor; who,
despairng of ever reaching that Gar.
den of the Hesperides has chosen
this method of venting his dssaiisfac
ton. IT such be the case, we shall
set Major Noah al him without loss of
time. But we doubt this superstition,
and for an obvious reason. 1t is the
bachelors who are the unsophisticated
and unwary mice for whom the trap is
set If there be any deluson on the
subject of matrimony, it exists among
them II is they that are restless until
they get into letters, and rush head.
long into the toll of which the above
is an image. 1t is not until they be
come Benedcts e. e. married men)
that the scales fall from their eyes 49,
OF course, the cOntriver of this ad
monitory picture must be Tor have
BEEN 10 The class of prisoners Bot
added to these deductions, we have
good authority in support of the posi-
ton, The Margarine of Anspach,
sliVley biographical dowager says
''mariiage is like masonry--it is only
those who are IN, that know h Sc
cret.' The conclusion is irresistible,
that those who are out could not have
originated this piece of Philadelphia
pleasantly
Bot, to speak gravely on subject
whose importance hardly admits of the
ievities that are often broken upon it
are not disquet marriages rather owing
to i'll assorted and disproportionatc
unions, than to any irksome quality in
the thing itself? Or, if there really
be burdens and privatIons in that state,
are they not more than compensated
by augmented comfort? by coDjugal
tenderness in sickness, by smiles in
health, by confidence and counselat all
times, by the endearments of the fire
side, and by all the entertainments of
home9 The truth is, that in every
state OF life there is matter enough for
repining to such lugubrious people as
love to be unhappy; and touching the
relative merits of the single and mar
ried states, we take it for granted that
the chances are about equal
N. Y Statesman.
An Able, who was very fat, com.
ing late in thee evening to fortified
city, and meeting with a couniryman,
asked him il he could gel in at the
gate; 'Ibelieve So said the peasant,
looking at him loosely, for | saw a
wagon load of hay 60 in there this
morning
Cure for Deafness. Equal parts
of the juice OF house leek, brandy and
sweet oil in phial, to be hung up ex.
posed to the sun for month or more
This dropped in the ear at night, and
on wool to be kept in the cara Ger
tain cure for deafness.
Mr.. Clay was born in the county of
Hanover, Virginia, on the 18th day
of Apr~ 1777; was the son Of
Baptist clergyman. His father died
when he was lad, and his mother
was married to Dr. Watkins, and at
present resides 10 the county OF Wood
ford, Kentucky.