The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-06-09


could eat it at single meal" The fesher, sur
prised at the assertion, surveyed him from horn
to hoof, and offered to bet him half-crown,
and also forfeit the meat, if he actually devour-
ed at one meal a lump of beef sufficient to sup
per starving Panther. The bargain was
promptly settled, the iesher and some friends
adjourned into the market tavern-the landlady
went instantly to work with the frying pan. and
in less than half an hour, to the indescribable
establishment Of all present, the last bite of the
whole lbs of beef followed the first, into the
young mans capacious nav. While dsvour.
ing the beef, he drank two tumblers of small
beer, ate penny loaf and half, and concluded,
his repast with half pound of cheese.
Edinburgh Scotsman.
A PaIzE of some value to the finders was dis
covered few days since, on the farm of the
Rev. Thomas Kennerly, near White Post, by
his slaves, while engaged in blowing rocks. 1t
was $240 worth of gold, in joes, half joes, and
quarters. The farm was formerly the residence
Of Lord Fairfax, and the gold was doubtless de-
posted by some of his family in the place where
it was found. 1t is remarkably pure, of very
ancient mould, and is not in the slightest de-
gree oxydized Tor corroded) by its long conine-
ment in the earth. Many of the pieces are
clipped and plugged that is, parts had been
cut off, by which the weight was reduced be-
low the standard, and the same quantity after
wards inserted elsewhere in the coin to restore
the weight, in consequence of law of England
infcting a severe penalty upon any person hav
ing light coin in his possession. We under
stand the amount, after exchanging it for bills,
was divided by MIR. Kennerly, among the slaves
who had found it.
Winchester (Va) Republican.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE. Last week, in the
Steamer Rushlight, between Newport and Prov
idence, general alarm was spread among the
passengers, by the piercing cries of lady, who
said that worm or some other insect had crept
into her As the lady somewhat sea
sick, il was at first supposed, that all was imag
NATIVE, and the result of an hystercal affection.
She, however, continued her cries of distress,
and appeared to be in the most excruciating
agony. Amos Briggs of Providence, being
informed of the lady's situation, obtained tum-
bier of liquor and prevailing the lady to suffer
him to drop the liquor into her ear, he succeed
ed in relieving the anguish which she endured
He had not infused more than four or FIVE drops,
before bug, almost an halt inch long made his
appearance on the surface of the ear, and thus
was the distracted sufferer relieved from the
most excruciating anguish, and from the antici-
patton of the NEST horrid death.
PoLITIcAL REWARDS AND PUHIsHMEYTs. The
following !" Trait of Bernadotte," from the New
York Ga Courier des Etat Unis," shows how the
SrUedish Military Chieftain punished his per-
sonal enemies:
Swedish peasant spoke contemptuously of
the King, saying don't care fig for Ber-
nadotte." The peasant was arrested and under
an ancient law of the kingdom, condemned to
death. The king Immediately pardoned the
peasant, and ordered the law to be repealed.
60 But" said the King to the Judge. =" | do not
like to be insuted, and cannot let this man of,
without some punishment, you will therefore
please to go TO his house and say to him in my
name" Since you don't care fig for Berna-
dotte, Bernadotte don't care fig for you"
CAoUTcHoUc, OR INDIA RUBBER. This pc
culiar substance first came into notice about the
beginning of the last century. Some account
of it was sent, in 1876, to the French Academy,
by Condamine, one of the Academicians who
went to South America to measure degree of
the meridian. II is the product principally of
two trees of S. America, the HaVea Caoutchouc,
and Jatropha Elastica. When these trees are
punctured, they yield milky juice, which, by
its exposure 10 the air, lets fall concrete sub.
stance-this substance is Caoutchouc il is
soft and pliabe, destitute Of taste or smell, and
exceedingly elastic and adhesive when perfect
ly pure, it is white. In its common state, it is
OF blackish color, owing to the manner in
which II is dried this consists in spreading
thin layer of the milky juice over mould form
ed of clay, and then exposing il to the action of
smoke, which gives it thin coating of SCOT
Another layer Of the juice is then applied, and
dried in the same way, and 80 on for any num-
Der Of layers, until the coat has the requisite
thickness. Caoutchouc is not altered BY ex-
posure to the air. 1t is perfectly insoluble in
water but if boiled for some time in this liquid,
il becomes somewhat transparent, owing to the
abstraction Of the sooty matter, and so soft, that
two pieces, when pressed together, may be
welded into one. This property which it pos
sesses, enables the artist to form tubes Of il
withfaclity; for il slip Of il, of uniform thick
ness, be wound spirally round glass or metal
lie rod, SO that its edges touch accurately, and
then boiled for some time in water, the whole
will agglutinate 50 Is to form tube"
BGchs's Chemistry.
A METEoRIc SroEE fell at Taunton, eng
on the 18th Of Feb last, at about half past in
the evening. A laborer saw the meteor de.
scend into some newly dug earth in garden,
which 1t penetrated about foot The explo.
sion was violent, and person who heard il at |
TwyfoEd, about four miles distant from Laun.
ton, compared il to the discharge Of a tyiDLe.
barrel gun, there being three distinct, but ran |
idly following reports. A gentleman at Buck. |
ingham has fragment OF the stone, which |
was about lbs weight in his possession.
English paper
A scorpion, when he finds himself enclosed,
and no way left him to escape, will bend his
tail round and sting himself through the head J
And il is remarkable that this is the only ami. |
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