The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-11-11
From Dicks Christian PHILOSOPHER.


enpy 1t frequently and near. The sense OF
smiling was not the only one affected on
these occasions: while that was satiated
wlh the powerful sweet, the ear was con-
staitly attacked by an extremely soft. but
Agreeable murmu-ing sound. It was easy
10 how, that some animal within the COW
ert must be the musician, and the little
nolR must come from some little creature
suittd to produce it. I instantly distended
the over part of the flower, and, placing it
IN fdl light, could discover troops of little
inse.ts filsking, with wild iollity, among
the ltlle threads that occupied its centre.
What fragrant world for their habitation
What aiperfect security from all annoy
ance, IN the dusky husk that surrounded
the scene of action! Adapting micro
scope to take in, at one view, the whole
base OF the flower, gave myself an oppor-
tinity of contemplating what they were
about, and this, for many days together,
without giving them the least disturbance
Thus ctnld discover their economy, their
passions, and their enjoyments. The mi
croscope, pn this occasion, had given what
nature seemed to have denied TO the OBJ
Jects OF contemplation. The base of the
flower EXTENDED itself, under its influence,
to vast plail the slender stems of The
trees became trunks of so many cedars !;
the threads lnthe middle seemed columns
OF massey struftures supporting at the top
their several ornaments and the narrow
spaces between, were enlarged in walks,
parterres, and terraces. On the polished
bottoms of these, brighter than Parian mar
Die, walked il pairs, alone, or in larger
comma nio- fbol xr,ip ahob IL
from little dusky flies, for such only the
naked eve would have shown them, were
raised to glorious glittering animals, stain
ed with living purple, and with glossy
gold that woull have made all the labors
OF the loom coitemptible in the comparison.
l could, at leisure, as they walked together,
admire their elegant limbs, their velvet
shoulders, and their silken wings; their
backs vieing With the empyrean in its blue !;
and their eyes, each formed of thousand
others, out-glttering the little planes on
brilliant; above description, and too great
almost for admiration. | could observe
them here singing out their favorite fe-
males; counting them with the music of
their buzzing wings, with little songs, FORM
ed for their little organs leading them
from walk to walk, among the perfumed
shades, and pointing out to their taste, the
drop of liquid nectar, just bursting from
some vein within the living trunk-here
were the perfumed groves, the more than
mystic g.-tties Of the poets fancy reallzea.
joyful dalliahRasy n the triumph of their
little hearts, skipped after one another, from
stem to stem, nmong the painted trees, or
winged their short flight to the close shad-
af ArnaIc lnaf 70
ed in the heights of all felicity"
GONE ON Tick. There existed not
many years ago, club in the city of London,
the principle lor rather the rant of princi-
ple) of which was, that of never paying. 1t
consisted of twelve members, and the sine
qua non of their qualification was, that
every man on entering the club should
swear he owed five thousand pounds, and
that so long as he continued a member he
would never owe less. The individual
whose turn it was to give the dinner, was
bound to swear that nothing on the table
either eatable or drinkable, was paid for,
or euer should be. One of them pledged
himself never to disqualify, and always to
remain in the society, which he did TO the
day of his death, when having paid one
debt, he naturally retired from the commu-
nifty. These gentlemen wanted a clock
for their room, but were forced to put down
their money before the horologist would
part with his property. However, one cir
feelings, which was that the clock kept on
ticking even after it was introduced into
their society Boston advertiser.
"DRIYK LITTLE" "Drink no longer
water, but use little wine for the stomach's
sake, and thine often infrmiiies."
The following anecdote is a good illus
tration of Paurs advice TO Timothy. Pro-
fessor S. while giving an exegetical lecture
upon the epiStles to Timothy, came to the
verse here quoted. The students imagined
that considerable ingenuity would be requi.
site to explain the text so far as to avoid
collision with the temperate measures. The
professor, after the verse was read, observed
in substance as follows" What remark
ably temperate young man Timothy was
that it should require the authority of an
inspired apostle TO induce him to drink wa.
ter no longer. hut to use little wine ever
when his health required it! Very few a
the present day are so scrupulous as it re-
CARDS drinking wine."
How little reason have the friends o
strong drink to quote this advice of Paul Il
Timothy while propping up their sinking
cause Black RiUer Gazette.
The late Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, a:
soon as the Register had called the frs
cause upon the sitting of the court, toll
him he had received letter with n hanl
note Of 500l. enclosed the letter solicit
ed the Chancellor to determine the cause
in the writer's favor. His lordship, afte
the letter had been read, and he had order
ed the Register to present the note to on
of the public Charities, heard the cause
and decided in favor of the party who hat
really bribed him.
LIFE Of SIR Mdithe,O Hale.