The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-09


( marriage professions, with the bride in a
covered chair and the bridegroom on horse
back, swathed round with garlands as hard
! ly to be seen; tradesmen sitting on the
ground in the midst of their different COM
modities and old men, lockers on, perched
I naked as monkeys, on the fiat roofs of the
houses; carts drawn by oxen, and driven by
wild looking men with thick sticks, so unmer-
cifully used as to undeceiVe perfectly all our
notions of bramin:cal humanity; attendants
with silver maces, pressing through the crowd
before the carriage of some great man or other
no women seen except Of the lowest class, and
even these with heavy silver ornaments on their
dusky arms and ankles; while coaches, covered
up close with red cloth are seen conveying the
inmates OF the neighboring seraghos to take
what is called " the air - a constant creahing
OF cart wheGls which are never creased in India,
constant clarnor of voices, and an almost con-
slant humping and jingling of drums, cymbals,
DC, in honor of some OF their deities ard add
to all this villanous smell of garlic, RANGED
cocoa-nut oil, sour butter and stagnant bitches !;
and you win understand the sounds, sights and
smells, Of what is called the " Black Town of
Calcutta. The singularity of this spectacle is
best and least Extensively enjoyed on a noble
quay, which Lord Hastings built along the
shore of the river, where the vessels of all forms
and sizes, Arab, Indian, Malay, American, En-
gllsh, and the crowds of Bramns and other
Hindoos washing and saying their prayers, the
lighted tapers, which towards night they throw
in, and the broad bright stream which sweeps
by them, guiltless of their impiety, and uneon-
scious of their homage, afford scene such as
no European, and few Asiatic cities, can at all
parallel in interest and singularity.
THE ROYAL GLASS MANUFACTORY AT
PARIS. "The art of manufacturing mirrors
was introduced into France in the year
1884. The glass is chiefly cast at st. Cob
in, in Picardy, and brought to Paris to be
finished. Each plate at first has the appear
ance of sheet of ice. 1t is laid upon bed
ofwet sand, and made fast to it by a sort of
putty, then sprinkled with water, and
very fine powder of red pumice stone af-
ter this it is rubbed smooth by means of
large and very thick fiat piece of glass fixed
at the bottom of great weight, which is
moved by wheel, and kept in constant
motion, till the plate underneath is become
perfectly smooth then is polished on both
sides, which is done by rubbing it with
piece of woollen carpet, with little fine
powder of another sort of stone somewhat
like the pumice, but much softer. The
plate ofglass is then again fixed, and rubbed
gently with this till it becomes quite bright
and transparent. The plates that are for
looking glasSes are then taken to another
thus. A very thin sheet of lead, the same
size as the glass plate, is laid on very
smooth surface; small quantity of quick
silver is poured on it, which soon spreads
all over the lead, and is brushed off after it
has lain about a minute. Then a much
greater quantity is poured on, and the plate
of glass is gently pushed over it, SO close,
that it drives the quicksilver sufficiently off
to leave the plate of glass clear mirror.
1t remains in the same spot for "a hours, in
which time it becomes hard enough to be
removed, and is then set against wall in
cool stove for about fortnight. 1t is now
considered as finished and may be framed.
Formerly the plate glass of Venice was
the largest; but it is now rivalled by the
manufacture in the Faubourg st. Antoine,
at Paris. When the manufacture was con-
fined to blown glass, the greatest size was
far inferior to the present. Since the meth
cd of casting the plates has been invented,
they are now produced ten feet in length,
and six and half in width, and are each
valued at least at $780,"
ASEcDoTE. Just about the time that the
President left Baltimore, where he spent
two or three days last fall, German far
mer from York county, of great wealth and
influence, happened to arrive in the city,
while the favorable impression of Mr.. Adj
ams's visit was the mouth of every one. The
old gentleman was sorry he had come too
late, and felt inclined to go down to Wash
ington and see him of whom every body
talked His wife approved the proposal
the carryall was ordered out-and the next
day they were in the parlor of the President.
They were politely received; but their
mouths were sealed. They sat ten minutes
without uttering a word, when the old Ger
man broke silence by saying to his partner,
in their native language, "come wife let's
go home. We've seen the President. He
can't talk Dutch and we mustn't stay here"
The President instantly replied in the
old mans favorite Dutch, telling him he
was happy to be able to entertain him.
For moment the visiters looked at each
other in amazement, then, by simultaneous
impulse, Embossed their tongues; and such
iabber of Dutch was perhaps never before
heard in the Presidents house. The old
gentleman declared he was no longer for
Jackson Mr.. Adams was his man; he talk
ed Dutch better than any body he had ever
heard, and he would tell his neighbors so,
and they would all give him their votes for
Winchester Republican.
How TO PREACH. "Ithink truly" says
DR.. Owen, that no man breaches that SER
mon well to others, that he does not first
preach to his own heart. He who doth not
feed on, and digest, and thrive by what he
prepares for his people, he may give them
poison as far as he knows; for, unless he
finds the power of it in his own heart, he
cannot have any ground of confidence, that
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