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

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during single night. They are, however,
PAID for their pains, and forced to contribute
TO the profits of the concern-for they are
caught and killed for their skins. More
than 26OO of them have been killed in a
day, and 81 900 in four hunts but the larg-
est number ever despatched in month was
16,050.
These Horse Butcheries are chiefly es-
tabllshed at Montfaucon but they have be-
come so noxious, and dangerous to the pub
lie health, that the authorities of Paris have
been obliged to interfere, and the Commits
sloneTs appointed to examine them and re-
port, have found that the business at them
has been managed with so much barbarity
ana disorder as to require whole change
OF the system They admit, however. thai
such places under proper regulations are
necessary, and useful and the business. il
seems, shocking and disgusting as it is. Of
fers chances for making fortunes.
Journal Of Commerce.
The HAIR. A noblemen in Germany
was condemned to die and ordered for ex-
ecutlon In the morning. During the night.
IN ten or twelve hours time, all his hair turn
ed white as flax. The emperor being
informed of this said, she has suffered
enough" and pardoned him.
Since that time, there has been an in
stance of one of our own countrymen, who
beng ship wrecked, saved himself on a
small rock, surrounded by the sea. A boat
took him off after he had stayed there four
hours. But in that space his hair was turn
ed quite white.
Perhaps still stranger Instance of this
kind is related in the duke of Sully's me-
molrs. Henry ~ told the marquis de la
Force, that the moment he was informed
Henry the iii had published an edict lin
July, 1886 ordering all the Hugonots either
to go to mass, or to abandon the kingdom in
SIX months, his mustachios turned suddenly
white on that eide of his face which he sun
ported with his hand"
Its life is a peculiar kind, and approaches
to the nature of vegetation. Hair crows
much as plants grow out of the earth, or as
some plants grow upon others; from which
they draw their nourishment, and vet each
has It's life distinct from the other. So hair
derives its food from some juices in the body 4:
but not from the nutricious juices. Accord
ingly the hair may live and grow, while the
body is starved to death.
That hair may grow, merely as an excre-
scence of the vegetable kind, appears from
that memorable case recited by Mr.. Hook.
OF body which, having been buried FORTY
three years, was found in manner wholly
converted into hair. The woman was buri-
ed in coffin of wood, and lay the lowest Of
three in the same grave. The others being
removed, and this coffin appearing, it was
observed that much hair came through the
clefts OF it: on removing the lid, the whole
very surprising sight. There
was the whole figure of the corpse, exhibit
ing the eyes, mouth, ears, and every part
But from the crown of the head, even to the
sole of the foot, it was covered over with a
very thick set hair long, and much curled.
The people, amazed at this appearance.
went to touch the corpse but the shape fell
away, as it was handled, leaving only a
quantity OF shapeless hair but neither flesh
nor bones, only small part of the great toe
of the right foot.-English .Magaziae.
VICIssITUDEs OF FORTUNE IN THE
ANIMAL WORLD. The inhabitants of
Falkirk have picturesque REMEMBRANCE
of seeing riderless horses, after the battle
of Falkirk Moor, scampering through the
lanes which give entrance to the town on
that side-their saddles turned round be-
low their bellies, and many of them trailing
their intestines ON the ground. A brewer
succeeded in securing a beautiful and I'M
wounded horse, which he afterwards re-
duced to the humble labor of draggino
his professional sledge. One day, some
years after the battle, when the once spir-
tied animal had become patient and worn
out drudge, the brewer was filling the bar
rel with which it was loaded at the public
well, when troop of dragons, which hap
pened to be in the town, was called into
order by the sound of the trumpet close to
the spot where it was standing No soon
er did the poor old hack hear that lively
point of war, than totally forgetting its
present duties, it scampered off along the
street, rushed up to the troop, which was
then just falling into line, and with irresiti-
BILE force, clearing roen for itself among the
bystanders, took its place, sledge, barrel
brewer and all, in the midst of the ranks
The commander of the troop, highly amused
at the scene, patted him kindly on the head
opSSilhS, an, see you nave Deen SOL
der in your day )" and gave orders for its
being gently led out of the line.
Chambers Rebellion
A Sea SOLICITOR MADE CHEF JUSTICE. In
Hayti, "the Grand Judge, Mons Freshnef, is
an inhrm old man of color, nearly eighty years
of age. Until he arrived at middle age, he had
been actively and successfully employed in the
marauding career of a pirate. His legal
knowledge is just what might have been ex-
pected from his previous avocations He is a
modest old man, it is true, for when his present
appointment was offered to him, he declined it.
as he said himself, from his incompetency to fill
it, and to perform the duties it required Boy.
er, however, insisted on his accepting it, and re.
marked that it did not require talent or Legal
knowledge to execute the duties of it J; he was
only TO do as he was directed ("
Franktin's Present State Of Hayti, (1S2S.,
n +. l. n