The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-30
WHOLE No. 2ss7.

onoAeS' AAey are to be seen in
almost every street, with bamboo over one
shoulder, from each end of which suspend
SIX OF seven covered baskets, one above
aa anu ana each containing a snake
| When calied upon to exhibit, they squat
oowh on the ground, produce the snakes,
aiio commence kind Of song or rather
chaunt, beating time with st;ck The
| reptlles erect their heads and about half of
their bodies from the ground, moving them
| selves IN a graceful nndulating manner in
cadence with the music. Nothins that 7
ever saw excites such peculiar sensation
| OF horror, such vague feeling of insecnr;-
ty as the sight of these yenonous creatures.
tor most of them are of that species called
the "cobra di capello," or hooded snake.
whose bite is fatal in less than ten minutes.
saw one fellow who exhibited about a
dozen OF these animals at once when he
mad finished he took them up one at time.
ana by Irritating them, made them fasten
upon MS arms, throat and cheeks. Tins
ornamented and with the blood dripning
from the bites, he approached me and with
low salam demanded buxies,' % for presently
He appeared to suffer neither pain Of bodv
nor apprehension of any danger being forti.
ned against the last by powerful antidotes
and enabled to endure the former bv the
hopes of handsome present. He had ike
wise among the rest, young "Boacon-
strlctor," about seven feet long and beauti-
fully colored, and snake about eight feet
long and no thicker in the largest part of
the body than ones finger.
PrOvsdence Journal.
BEGIN TO EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN EARLY
What Is the object of education? To form the
Ic l.
lessons, but principally through the influences
OF example, and circumstances, and situation
How soon is the child exposed to these influ-
ences! From the moment it opens its ewes
and feels the pressure to its mothers bosom
from the hour that it becomes capable of motto.
ing what passes around it, and knowing the
difference OF one thing from another So DOW
eriui are the gradual and unnoticed influences
OF these early months, that the infant if indulp-
ed and humored, may grow into petty tyra1t
at ten months old; and tottle about in two
years selfish, discontinued, irritable thing.
that every one but the mother turns from with
disgust. During this period everv human be.
ing is making his first observations, and acquir,
ing his first experience passes his early judy
ments, forms opinions, acquires habits They
may be lpgralned into the character for life.
Some right and some wrong notions NAV take
with firm hold, and some impressions, GOOD or
bad, may sink so deep as to be with scarcely
any force eradicated. There is no doubt that
many of those incurahle crookednesses of dispo-
sltlon, which we attribute to nature, would be
found If they could be traced, to have original.
ed IN the early circumstances of life Just as
deformed and stunted tree is SO, not from any
natural pervesity of the seed from, .s,h;ek
h.,t fanna shn ign'n'ista nres n' Inc s01A
Journal Of Education.
FIGURE OF SPEECH. At training, in one of
the northern counties of this State, several
years since, the professional merits oftwo drum
mers, certain Ben Morse, drum-maor to the
regiment, and very uncertain Tom Buynam,
a candidate for the same Office, were discussed
very freely by the soldiers over a pint tumbler
of blue ruin, at cake and beer shantee, lust
without the Gentry Some maintained that
Burnau was the best musician; others again
that Morse had not his superior {" in the six
counties" when long, lantern jawed, freckled-
faced chap, standing some six feet four, without
either stockings or shoes, elbowed his way into
the ring, with an old rusty Queen AIMS fire.
lock in one hand and card of rye gingerbread
in the other, and after picking his teeth with
his bayonet, and wiping his face on something
that served as an apology for coat sleeve, adj
dressed one of the company thus 81 tell you
what it is, Corporal Cowan, grant that Morse
can beat Burnam in drumming on training
tunes, but then, when you come to the real Sens
timental-I tell you Corporal, (and he spoka
with great emphasis) Tom Burnam can drum
Ben Morse's shirt tail off,
Scoharis Republican,
SUPERB PURPLE, ROSE AND BLACK
CoLoRs. 1t is stated in the "Annales de
Chime" that the bitter substance of alees,
dissolved in 800 parts of water at SO deg.
F. or in Il smaller quantity at the boiling
point, produces superb purple color; silk
boiled in it acquires the same hue, and
neither soap nor any acid, the nitric except.
ed, effects the least change upon it. AL
though the nitric acid, too, changes the
purple to a yellow, the purple is restored by
simply washing in water. AL shades may
be given to this color by proper mordents,
Wool is died black in peculiarly beautiful
manner by the same process, and light haa
no p, infgenee on the color; but the latter
that this is the only substance from which
permanent rose dye for silk may be ex4
pected.
Social INTERCOURSE. We should make il =
principle to extend the hand Of fellowship To,
every man who discharges faithfully his daily
duties-who maintains good order--who mania
tests deep interest in the welfare of society
whose department is upright, and whose nina
is intelligent, without stopping to ascertala
whether he swings hammer, or draws thread
There is nothing more distant from all patus9t
rule and natural claim, than the reluctant feeis
ing, the backward sympathy, the forced smile,
the checked conversation. the hestating cons
pliance, which the +" well-oh" are to apt 10
+ manifest TO those a little lower down, with
whom, in comparison of intellect and principles
of virtue, they frequently shrink into Insignia
canoe berkshire Star.
UEFoRruEATE CoIEcIDEEcE. Ths inven,
tor of gunpowder was a poor monk, who was
something of chemist, and accidentally stum'
bled upon this important discovery. In The