The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-27

DuIihg tnese TWO experiments the oven
renamed open, and it was nearly three feet
nigh, M: Martinez was able to sit I'D in it.
AT the third, he was placed on board sur
rounded by candles, and in this manner put
IN the oven, which was then closed up.
where he remained five minutes. At the
moment ne came out, thick and suffocat-
ing smoke escaped from the mouth Of the
oven but the experimenter, although a lit
tie affected at first, quickly recovered, after
taking cold bath prepared for the oc-
casion.
The following was the state of his pulse
before, and at the expiration of each trial
First time going in, 90, coming out, 1856 !;
second, l36 and 176; third, 100 and 200
per minute!
M. Martinez covers himself for these ex-
perlments, first with light clothing of cot
ton, then with garment of hatter's wool,
thick, and lined with silk, and over the
whole sort of earick of white wool, also
lined with silk. He wears on his head
species of monks hood, made of white wool
lined He is about As years of age, of
small stature, and appears to enjoy good
health.
"REMINISCENCES. The following is, proba-
bly,, as extraordinary an instance, of the
power of recollection as has ever occur
red -
About fifty years since, Gilbert Stuart,
the celebrated painter, followed his profess
sion in Pill Lane, Dublin. One of our citi-
Zens, then lad, was an apprentice in
a bookstore, nearly opposite to where the
painter lodged. This citizens portrait was
H.,
Neagle, OF this city, who shortly afterwards
making visit to Boston to see Mr.. Steart
TOOK the portrait with him, as a specimen
OF his talents. When presented to Mr.. S.,
he gazed at it for a while, and pronounced
the name of the person for whom it was
drawn, declaring that he had known him
when in Pill Lane. The citizen in question
was in Boston last fall, and went with Mr..
0. c. Greenleaf to see Mr.. Stuart, re-
questing Mr.. q. not to announce his name.
AS soon as he entered the room, Mr.. Steu-
art came up to him Familiarity shook hands,
accosted him by name, and declared that
he had recognized his portrait.
Philadelphia U. S. Gazette.
A curious circumstance occurred about
fortnight ago, at the Assizes for the Lower
Pyrences, in France, on the trial of two
persons upon charge of murder. At the
end OF the days proceedings, when the
judges, bar, &c, quilted the court, an al
tercatlon arose between the huissiers ia
kind of constabies or door keepers) and the
gendarmes, as to which of them should man
acle the prisoners, and conduct them back
to prison. The gendarmes insisted that it
was the duty of the huissiers, and to prove
their conviction, they marched away. The
hulsslers, equally positive of the contrary,
followed their example quilted the court,
and left the prisoners alone and unguarded. !
The prisoners though their lives were still !
in jeopardy, and though the crowds in the |
streets lit being market day. offered them
every facility for escape, very calmly walk
ed back to prison, and presented themselves
to the gaoler. Here another difficulty arose
the gaoler refused to receive them without
being legally authorized by huissier, and
for considerable time these two men, I'M
der charge affecting their lives, remained,
soliciting as favor, re-admission to their
dungeons. This circumstance was, of
course, made good use of by their counsel,
dence was indeed slight, were unanimous
~ oOiuiII0u' puPeF'
INSTINCT OF RATS. A farmers wife in j
Cheshire lately caught rat, and being de-
termined to make an example of the culprit
as terror to the species, with which her
house was much infested, she took the fol-
lowing barbarous method. She put it into
covered iron pot which she placed over a
brisk fire; she then went into a place of
concealment from whence she could OBJ
serve the vessel that contained the martyr.
The cries of the sufferer soon brought into
the room, numerous assemblage of rats.
Each testified its rage and distress five or
six actually climbed the pot lid, and tried
every means within the power of instinct to
relieve the poor victim. When the screams
of the sufferer ceased, the rats dispersed,
and, strange to add, not the least vestige of
these vermin has ever since been seen in
the house. We cannot help thinking, that
the rats on this occasion displayed infinite
ly more of human feeling than the wretch
their torturer.-.NGncheSte Herald.