Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-02-26

is your neighbour In the Gospel, is he whom you
can serve; in other codes, it is he vino can be OF
service to you.
Information for English Ladies "A modern
French physician, NJ. Banau, treating OF the eX-
cellence of vlpers in medicine, quotes another
French physician, NJ. Lefcvre, who tells. US
'Enslish ladies make no scruple Of drinking WINE
in which whole living vipers have been suffocated
in order to keep their embonpoint and gaiety'
prevent wrinkles, and preserve their health.
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Before the disappearance of the comet IN 1911,
many believed that the world was then to have oeen
at an end An old man in Vermont,frmly bellev-
ing this. accordingly procured himself gallon
of rum on the morning, drank until he could
drink no more, and in consequence tell asleep
A wag observing this, & knowing that he thought
the Day of Judgment had come. procured some
dry hides, and LAYING them on him. covered HIM
over with straw and green hemlock boushs, to
which he set fire. After gowlng pretty warm,
he awakened, and thinking he was no longer All
nhabitant of this earth, he exclaimed-"Just as
Ie1pecied, IN H-Nr'
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By The Job.-A farmer hired man to break
fax by the day, and he said he could hear all day
long the slow sound-By-the-d-a-y Blythe
day, By-the-d-a.y. He afterwards hired
him by the Job; the music was then changed to
quick timc-By the job, By the JOB, By the 100,
job, JOB.
A pretty girl was lately complaining to a TREND
that she had cold, and was sadly plagued in her
lips by chaps. "Friend," said Obadiah, " thee
should never suffer the chaps to come near thy
lips"
A witty Barber in New-York prison, las writ
en- over the door of his apartment, plaintiffs
SHAVED gratis"
Burns the POet.-'' went to sec him laid out
for the grave" says Mr.. Allan Cunningham;
several elder people were with me. He lay in
plain unadorned coffin, with linen sheet drawn
over his face; and on the bed, and around the
body, herbs and flowers were thickly strewn,
according to the custom of the country. lie
was wasted by long illness; but death had not
increased the swarthy hue of his face, which was
uncommonly dark and deeply marked; his broad
and open brow was pale and serene. and around
it his sable hair lay in masses, slightly touched
with gray. The room where he lay was plain
and neat. and the simplicity of the poets humble
dwelling pressed the presence OF death more close
lv OIL the heart than if his bier had been embel-
iished by vanity, and covered with the blaZonry
of high ancestry and rank. We stood and sazed
on him in silence for the space of several minutes
we went, and others succeeded us; not a whis-
per was heard This was several days after his
DEATH
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Treatment and Condition Of ,connen IL, former
times. From the subversion of the Roman en-
pire to the 14th or 18th century, women spent
most of their time alone, almost entire strangers
to the Joys Of social life they seldom went Abroad
but to be spectators of such public diversions and
amusements as the fashions Of the times counte-
nanced. Francis |. was the first who introduce
ed woman on public DAYS to court; before his
time nothing was to be seen at any the courts of
Europe, but gray.bearded politicians. who plot
ted the destruction of the rights and liberties of
mankind, and warriors clad in complete armor,
ready to put their plots in execution. In the
l3th and l4th centuries elegance had scarcely
any existence and even cleanliness was hardly
considered as laudible.
The use Of linen was not known; and the most
delicate of the fair sex wore woollen shifts In
Paris they had meat only three times week; and
one hundred llvres, about five pounds sterling,
was large portion for a young lady. The bet
ter sort Of citizens used splinters Of wood and
rags dipped IN oil, instead or Candles, winch IN
these days was rarity hardly 10 DC met with
Wine was only to be had at the shops of apothc-
carries, where it was sold az a cordial; and to
ride in atwo wheeled car, aong the dirty rugged
streets, was reckoned grandeur of so enviable
nature that Philip the Fair prohibited the wives
OF citizens from cnjoyingt. In the time of Hen
~ VIII. of Enga d. the peers of the realm
carried their wives behind them on horseback,
when they went to London; and in the same man
ner back to their country seats. with hoods of
waxed linen over their heads, and wrapped in
mantcs of cloth to Sc ure them from the cold.
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Italian Ladies. Their fine dark eyes and eve
lashes and an intelligent countenance, prevent
their being ugly; but in general, there is want
OF feminine softness. They scream in guttu-
raj discordant voice when speaking, their great
gold ornaments render their dirty, untidy ap-
pearance more conspicuous. Their motions are
all hurried: exactly the opposite of that beauti-
tul description which you have read, and so much
admired. asked our Italian master, why the fe-
II ales here screamed so loud, while the men spoke
in moderate and not unpleasing accent? He
said, because the women are 80 Orgogliost,' and
Isl piene di rabbia.' You would have laughed