The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1828-09-04

L Ht reach uVii2 IL III any OCCUR eHCe una
may gently affect The feelings Of Joy or Sor-
row---a public lnuo,al, Il marriage, Gia-
rdfe, or Lord Cochr&ne. John Bull has
harder nerves, and is less sensible to mild
Ell impressions, he requires Stou.er DOSE
---the fall of the Brunswick Theatre, VII
hanson, ThiStlewood, Bellingham, Thur
tell, alone can make him feel property :;
while the Germlns are ever striving afier
the sublime, and nothing will content them
bu, the wreck of matter and the crash u
worlds A laundering Teutonick astron-
omcr discovered, recently, that the Come
which will be seen in 1882, would come il
contact with the earth but like true Ger,
man comforter, he would persuade us tn a
! the injury it would cause our globe wouI
not be general. Part of Russia, Poland
Prussia, Germany, and ConStantinople,
might so perhaps; or we might lose oul
East India possessions, and have to give Up
the use of the tea from China: the labors
of General Jackson might be rendered I'M
necessary however, at all events, the
world would gain very considerable ad-
ditiOR of territory. This idea might be
congenial to the gloomy fancy of German
but its expression spread terror and dsmay
in neighbouring countries; and within my
observation, its effects were neither trivial
! or pleasing.
The Comet of 1882 will certainly ap-
proach within $4,000 leagues of the earths
orbit; and as Salande had calculated that
! d comet at that distance from the globe,
might produce sensible disorder on earth's
concerns, the German threw down his
pen, with being enabled to horrify the ma
tons; and fearful, by entering on further
detail, he might but spoil good story
We're the globe to be at the point of its
orbit at which the comet will be at Pc
riod gifts greatest approximation, it would
be dangerous; but when its vicinity to the
earth will be closest, instead of 14.OOO
leagues,its least distance will be Is 100000
leagues---a slight difference, calculated to
calm the fears of the timid and nervous,
and to disappeint the expectations of the
sublime German.
Light ofthe wOon.---When we look at
the full moon in clear night, the light in
short time becoms painful to the eyes {:
because, say some philosophers, reflected
light has more effect on the eyes than d.
rect. M. Bongeur and De la Hire found
the proportion of the moons light to that
of the sun, to be to 100000. When con-
centrated to focus by means of "a burning
glass, the light of the moon affords no
warmth.
CockrO0ehes. A respectable profess
sional gentleman informed US yesterday
that he has recently discovered that the
spirits of rurpentine is an effectual remedy
against the depreda,ions of Cockroaches.
He recommended to put little of it upon
the shelves, or sides of your book cases'bu-
reaus, armor, or other furniture, in which
they take shelter which may be done with
feather, and these troublesome insects
will soon quit not only the furniture but the
room. The remedy is simple and easily
obtained by every person who wishes it. 1t
is not unpleasant to the smell, soon evapo-
rates and does no injury to the furniture or
clothing. Nat.Jow.
Selections from English Papers.
A Hermit.-Somewhere in the township
of Goodmanchester, there lives an old Dutch
man who, without any stretching of the word
may be called Hermit. When he first came
to live there. the place was as wild and as
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