Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-03-20

driven BY connexion with. the capstan, which,
under such circumstances, the crew would
most willingly turn.to escape from their wea-
risoIpe inactivity. Delay in large vessel
with ,roups ON board often costs hundreds OF
pounds per day, and may retafd the execution
Of imnortan, projects. The propeing OF he
ship in calm, however, seems by no means the
most important purpose which such Wheels
might serve. If IRON disease, f,tigae, or otis
er cause, the crew were Inadequate TO existing
necessities, two wheels affixed 10 the ex'remi-
ties OF an axis running across the snip miSn'
be equivalent inmany cases to additional names
or 10 steam engine of great power: being
acted upon by the water as the ship saileei,
they would turn with he force Of water wheels
on shore, and might be made TO move the
pumps, TO hoist the salts, and to do any Work
" hich steam engine could perform. Many
gallant vessel has persisted because The exhaus-
ted crew could no longer labour at the pumps,
aud where such water wheels or windmill
wheel III The rigging would have performed the
duty most perfectly.
CoNvEYAYcE OF SOUND. The wide spread
soil of a ship, rendered coucave by a.genllc
breeze, is also a good collector OF sound. I;
happened once on board ship sailing along
the coast oil Brazil. lGo miles from land, that
the persons walking on deck, when Passing a
particular spot; always heard most distinctly
the sound Of bells, varying as in human ieJoic:
inas All On board listened s were convinced,
butthe phenomenon was mysterious & intxpii-
cable. Months afterwards, by Comparing note
i, was ascertained that at the time Of ohserya-
ton The bells of the city of St. Salvador, on The
Brazilian coast, hal been ringing on the oc>
cason of Z festival; The sound, therefore, fas
,oured by a gentle wind, had travelled over 100
miles of smooth water, and had been brought
10 foe US by the sail in the par ocular situation
on The deck where il was listened 10. II APP
pears from this tina, machine might be con-
s,ructed having the same relation 10 sound
,ha; telescope has 10 light
SINGULAR CASE, AT one flhe late sitlings
of the Philomathic Society, NJ. Cloquet, second
surgeon at the Hospital S, Louis, reported a
really curious fact, which We hasten 10 men
lion, certain that il will excite the astouish.
ment of our readers. ag-galhPrer, in a
state Of complete drunkenness, and not know
ing where he bent hi, steps, laid himself down
in fc near se,era! dead horses which had
been laid there bv the knacker He sicp, there
for twenty four hours Or awaking he felt
as if h. were swelled out, and experienced
pain which he did not usually feel under simi-
shortly numbrr Of swe lingslike blIs'eIs rose
on his head, and worms crawled Oh, OF his nose
and ears, and other natural openings OF the
BODY. Alarmed at This phenomenon, he re-
paired TO the Hopital ST. Louis The swellings
on his head were then opened, and prodi-
giouS quantity Of worms c'awled from them;
his skin produced them every instant; and
nurse placed TO collect them as they appeared,
sstf.sfa ns rs SIS many as three plates Of them.
to destroy these worms, such as lotions and
bath OF suiDhsrous vapour, but fruitlrssy. VI
Cloquet then proposed friction with mercurial
ointment, and by this treatment he was COM
pIeteIy cured. Blu, the unfortunate man has
los, his eyes, whick have Seeu destroyed BY the
worms, which are exactly like those vulgary
known by the name Of aslicats. 1t is coniec
tured that the flies which were upon the de ad
horse laid their eggs dnring the mans sleep in
the pores Of his skin aud the natural Openings
Of his body, and tina, the warmth ha,ched the
eggs, which produced the enormous quantity Of
worms that have been gathered from his body !
The rag ,gatberer is now In good health; |
and although blind. as gay as ever, promising |
himself 10 get as gay as heretofore, but not
ain 10 sleep in the fields