Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1829-08-06

ditiOn who, as models of fine form, were
brought forward for the purpose of putting
me to silence" "One is astonished.' $
says Socrhmering, sat the number Of dis
eases which corsetts occasion. Those
have subjoincd rest on the authority of the
most eminent physicians. Tight lacing
produces in the head, headache, giddi-
ness, tendency to fainting, pain in the eyes,
pain and ringing in the ears, and bleeding
at the nose. In tho thorax--besides the
displacement of the bones, and the injury
done to the breast, tight lacing produces
shortness of breath, splitting of blood, con-
sumption, arrangement Of the circulation,
palpitation of the heart, and water in the
chest. In the abdomen-Loss of appetite,
squeamishness, eructatiOns, vomiting of
blood, depraved digestion, flatulence, di-
arrhoea, collie pains, induration of the liv-
or, dlopsy, and rupture. 1t is also follow
cd bymelancholy, hysteria, and many dis
eases peculiar to the female constitution,
which it is hot necessary to enumerate in
detail" 1t may not be amiss to inform
the ladies that according to our medical in
stractor, the red pointed nose which glows,
rather inauspiciously, on some female ia
ces, is in many cases the consequence Of
tight lacing."
A mechanic once located himself in a
village where his neighbors (as is usually
the case in villages) were tormented with
hens Sin few days he was waited upon
and informed that unless he shut up his
hens they would be killed In the kindest
manner imaginable he replied, "all / have
to say to your message is that, when you
kill one Of nag hens you would bring it to
me that may cook it."-The next day
hen was brought, which was received by
the family and served up for dinner. The
same process was gone through with day
after day, for several weeks, when it was
accidentally discovered that the mechanic
aforesaid did not then, or ever before own
any such animals. Upon being remon-
strated with by the man who killed them,
for thus eating up the property of others,
he drily replied, "you said they scere mine,
sir, and / make it point never to contra
dict stranger !"-..Am. Ado.
From the Vincennes (Ohio) Sun.
Judicial Digmity.-The following con.
versation is said to have passed between
venerable old lady, and a certain presiding
Judge Of this state. The Judge was sup
ported on the right and on the left by hi
humble associates. and the old lady wa
called to give evidence.
President Jadgs.-Take of your bon.
net, madam.
Lady.-I would rather not, sir.
+. J. desire you to put off your bon
net. r
LII am informed, that in public assem-
blies, the women should cover the head !;
such is the cust0m-and Of course / will
not take Off my bonnet.
P.J Why, you are pretty woman
Indeed think you had better come and
take seat on the bench.
LII thank you kindly, sir--but Ireal-
ly think there are old women enough there
already.
Singular Marriage.-A company OF
strolling players were performing in vii
lage in Columbia County-the play we
believe was Othello, and while the senate
was waiting for the arrival Of the fair Des.
demona from the Sagitary, minister rose
and commenced reading the marriage SER
vice, and actually married a Mr.. Uriah r.
Harvey to Miss Abigail T.. Cloyes, and
pronounced the nuptial admonitions. The
audience doubtless thought il was part oil
the play until the blushing bride took her
seat among the audience, and Othello con-
tinued his address TO the senate. A more
singular act or scene of bye-play we ven-
ture to say was never witnessed on any
stage. The clergyman after that act
should have thrown of his cloak, and cried
out in the language Of the poet " here am
/, Hamlet the Dane" The minister was
the Rev. Mr.. p.
INDIAN TALK.
The following speech IN answer to the
"talk," which President Jackson sent to the
Creek Indians in Georgia, short time since,
advising them to reasove beyond the Missis-
sippi, is very much to the purpose, although
professedly fictitious. We copy il from a
Savannah paper.
At a council Of the Chiefs, head men, and
warriors Of the Creek nation, convened by
authority. the talk of the President was COM
municated by the Agent. Alter a profound
silence Of many minutes duration, Speckled
Snake, a warrior whose head was whitened
with the frosts Of more than hundred win