Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-20


Musician immediately sent for, and DIR. Z. sup
moses that he arrived in about half an hour after
the noison was swallowed. He Immediately adj
minstered pow erful emetic, thirty grains OF the
SIMULATE of ring, as we understand, which caus-
cd sliuht and Intellectual vomiting, bringing up
no perceptibie portion of the audanum:
The Stomach Pump was then applied, hrst' oy
;n;ectinr = opantity of tepid water, and then By
exhaustino the whole contents Of the stomaclh-I
The onera.ion was so successful, that in lew
hours the patient was able to GO about her ordl-
nary business. -Porismomh IN H. Journal
-saasS5s0~
In appears from an article IN the London Court
Journal that in the Mazurka, as danced IN the
Polish province of Mazovia, whence 1t derives
its origin and name the dancers, male anu ienaie.
wear ..colored bouts wth large spu:,.' Some OF
our American papers nave stated that mere nave
been seen in 4 neighb0rng CITY, iashionaoie Ia
dies with mimetic whiskers and wha'ebohe Walk
ing. sticks If there be indeed any such. they
have only to adopt this latest fashion OF ''5'ots
and spurs," TO ompIete the picture OF truly TENT
nine refinement and delicacy.-N. +. Gdz.
-zxHeaeb-
50 EnGcemept."-One Of the newspapers re-
ceived at this office, ends an elaborate definition
of the above word, with the following authority.
II is comprised in an anccdote of a sailor, who,
giying testimony in Boston Court about an as.
sault and battery, stated that Jack (the travers-
er) had powerfully eaficed Sam, (the complain
antA lacks counsel asked him to explain what
he meant by the word entice2 {. What do mean
Strip said the honest tar WHY, sir. | mean
,his-Jack tonk dcvsh big handspike and
drove it plump in Sans back-that's what
calls enticing."
Sv,ames's Ghost.-'rhe doctrine of Jnc. Cleves
Symmes, that the Earth is hollow, is not explod-
ed. The Portsmouth Journal states that it yet
lives and improves. in the essays Of cores
pondent of the Gardiner (Aie.) Intelligencer
According to the improved theory, the interior is
not only habitable, but inhabited-and then, as
the Polar Ice and White Bears make the en-
trance somewhat hazardous, he has recourse to
miracle in order to get the people IN, and to an
other to get them out.
"This discovery, (adds the JournaD IS happy,
on more than one account; for while it disposes
of the earth's centre in most pleasant manner,
it brings TO light the long lost " Ten 1itbes'
mot of the "Jews," as the author If the essays
will have it, butt Of Lsrae! which Tribes, he
gravely and soberly locates inside the aforesaid
she'll OF the earth-buding his fabric on a text
in the Apocryphal Book of Esdras. which he sup.
poses to mean, that these tribes entered the Ded
of the rivers Gozan amt Euphrates, the waters of
which dried up before them; that they passed Oh
through the sea on dry land, toward the south
pole, and finally reached the inside where their
posterity now live, and from whence, at future
time, they will return, in like miraculous man
ner, to take possession of the land of their ia
Tiers.
snow lest the reader should laugh at all this,
the author anticipates him, and admonishes us
all not to think him insane, and then knocks us
on the head with an unanswerable question to
this purpose, If The Ten Tribes be not there
then, where are hey?"
Cure for Consumption The inhaling of nj
trio acid gas, for the cure of consumption, has
been found to be too much lauded. ii has the
effect only to lessen and ease the cough Temporal
rily. The gas hath this extent no more, III the
healing of consumption. We saw at the estab-
lishment of Mr.. White. in New-York, who pub
Ished the paragraph which has been SO widely
copied gentleman who informed US that the
relief afforded by the experiment in the case men
toned, was transient and unsatisfactory. Con.
Mirror
Some of our most distinguished and success
ful farmers, from present appearances, Will not
reap more than the seed that they committed to
the earth In some instances. it is said that the
crop will hardly repay the expense of gathering
it. The cropSon James River were never known
to be so unpromising. The Lynchburg Jetfer-
sonan remarks that the crop will be greatly short
ened in that ncigbborhood by the same cause
and adds - Many fields in this vicinity appear
yellow and unpromising-and we do not remem
Der ever to- have seen more gloomy prospect for
wheat at this season Of the year." The Staun-
ton Spectator remarks that the dry. cold weather
for several weeks past. has proved serious in.
jury to vegetation in that county. Some fields OF
grain wear quite yeilowish cast. which is more
especially the case where the fly has appeared.
Charlottesville .Adv.
-INsS
A Biie-Aifonso Lombard. celebrated
sculptor of the Emperor Charles v. was great
coxcomb. He got punished one day BY young
lady at BoIogna. to whom he took it into his head
to make love in foppish manner. She was his
partner at ball in the midst of which he turned
to her. aud. heavng profound sigh, said as he