The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-04-16

| expresses the same idea IN an apologize of
exquisite beauty. zone day, as | was in
the bath, a friend put into my hand piece
OF scented clay. | took it, and said to it,
Art thou musk or ambergris, for | am
charmed with thy perfumes 2 1t answered,
was despicable piece of clay, but was
sometime in the company of the rose; the
sweet quality of my companion was com
munlcated to me, otherwise / should be
only bit of clay, as appear to be- y
How much more interesting and impressive
is truth clothed in such garb, than in the
honespun OF the English proverb, Z" Evil
communications corrupt good manners"
An amusing story is told in the sketches
OF Persia, of an adventure that occurred to
two English gentlemen at KaZeroom.-
Their curiosity was highly excited by the
accounts they heard of two strange crea-
lures that were kept at house fifteen miles
from Kazeroom. They were told that these
creatures looked somewhat like birds, hav-
ing feathers and two legs, but that they
were baTe-headed and had a fieshly as
pect, and one of them had long beard on
his breast. The singularity of their voice
was also mentioned, and one old Persian
pronounced it Arabic, although he candidly
confessed that after minute attention, he
had been unable to understand what they
said. Away posted the two Englishmen, to
the prodigies, the door was opened, and
out marched turkey cock and hen The
former delighted with his release, instantly
commenced his .4rabic. The Englishmen
judlciously kept their temper, and laughed
at the result of their journey. On inquiry
it appeared that the turkeys had been saw
ed from the wreck of an European vessel,
| to astonish the Persians by their knowl-
edge of .4rG6ic.-.Neto York Courier.
LoCUsTs. Captain Andrews, an English
man, in noting his journal from Buenos
Ayres through several provinces of South
America, gives the following account of
plague which travellers in tropical climates
sometimes meet with. After stay of two
months at Cordova, as Upper Peru was
wholly cleared of the Royalist troops, by
the defeat and death of Olaneta-our au-
thor set out for that province. In the course
OF this journey the plague of locusts came
across him in very formidable array
"On the Goth we breakfasted upon goats
milk, and started early in the morning. At
ter few leagues were passed, we got into
a fertile country though now barren. This
seeming contradiction is explained by my
stating that a flight of locusts had laid it
waste. | had never before witnessed such
sight. Of all the plaques of Egypt, |
think that of the locust must have been the
most horrible This pest, which we had
previously seen before us like dense cloud
upon the horizon, became upon our arrival
in contact with it, a serious impeachment to
our progress.
The locusts struck the faces of our hors-
es and poems with such force and in such
numbers, that they could scarcely grope
their way along. Every bush was alive
with them, and in an instant looked dried
up and dead from their devastations. Their
appearance, three or four feet from the
ground, resembled corn under the action of
the wind, when glowing in a meridian sun,
or the undulating vapor of the mirage, or
the prismatic waving of a summers sea.
What an awful visitation to the country
over which they pass, is the flight of these
insects, before whose baleful influence,
q The full blown spring
Through all her foliage shrinks,
Joyless and dead, wide detected waste
A scene in the morning rich in verdure,
and bursting into blossoms, is at night
dreary, profitless, hideous waste.
On the next morning, not green blade
nor leaf meets the eye, where yesterday
nature reveled in luxuriance of beauty.
1t cost us full three hours to get clear of
these marauders. We calculated that they
must have extended full twelve miles from
north to south, how far in the lateral direc-
ton we did not know. We came to a
nofob Of etorilo hi1I,y oo,pfrv ooo;n md
there we parted from the insects, who seem
ed passing to the westward, preferring the
valley. Never had | before seen, and
hope I never shall again see, such district
of utter desolation as we passed this day,
during which we passed sixteen leagues"
HoRsE BUTcHERIEs OF PARIS. We
have Just been looking into a new French
work, lately published by the civic author
tiles of Paris, with the singular title of
RechercheS ct Considerations sur penleUe-
ment ct PempIoi des chevauG naons"-that is,
Researches and considerations on the re-
moval and disposal of dead horses !" which
| furnishes us with some curious facts.
| 1t appears that there are in Paris num-
I Der of Horse Butcheres; and that in only
two of them as many as 12,775 horses have
been slaughtered in single year. Ofthese
about one fourth had died in the city, and
the rest had been worn out with labor, ex-
hausted by disease and old age, and sold
by their owners, for few francs, to these
establishments. Here every part Of the an
! imal is turned to some account. The hair
of the name and tail is taken off before he
is killed, and sent to the upholsterer, &c.
After he is dead, the skin is sold to the tan
ners. The flesh is then cut up and sent
about for food for cats and dogs, and possibly
some morceaur of it pass through the hands
( of skilful cooks into the stomacbs of men
and women Some other parts are dispos-
ed of to the farmers for manure. Occasion
ally, the small intestines are manufactured