Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-09-01

aal: length Of ditto, s; weight Of The ami.
nal $4,000 lbs; weight Of The oil. 40,OGo;
weight OF the rotten flesh burledi the sand,
10000
The upper jaw IS fitted up with 500 faHons
or whalebone, From The calcul tioB made
hy Monsieur lie Baron CiIvier and the pro.
fes.oss Of the King Gallery. that enermsus
et4ceons animal must have lived eight or ten
centuries.
The whale was found floating in the North
Sea between Belgium and England, on the
ID Of November, 1921, by crew Of fisher
men. Their boat being too hight OF tonnsge
4nd sail TO move such an enormous mass,
hey hailed two other boats to their assist
ance, and the three together towed the whale
on shore and arrived in sight Of Osiend har-
bour at . eek on the morning OF the lth
Of Novems r, 1921; being then high water.
At the moment the whale was going TO enter
the barbour, the cable with which it was ias-
tened 10 the boats broke, and ii was cast on
The sands Oh Tie east side of the Harbour -
1t was there that the preparatory operations
were made - Lo.don paper.
Tie piQ Of Count Diebitsch,-The late
marshal Diebitsch has left property 10 the "a
mount Of abont 500, 900, Half Of this he
has left to hi. brother, Arnold Diebitscb, a hat
manufacturer in Prussian Pomeranla, the o,
Their half to bis sister, nun of the convent
OF st. Ulrina, near Koningsbarg. He has
,eft his diamond cross of Niadlmer TO NJ.
Sebastian
gPtat is he use it2 This is the question
IN every mans mouth, but it would be well
for the community were II Oitener put How
man7 hours of pains taking would Is save us?
dow many yexati0ns? how many disoppolnt-
menis' Hundreds OF men plunge into dill
cniHrs headlong without even putting the
question. the solution o! which can do 10
good The grsnmarlan Ddymus rIote 1000
hooks, ~ inch he seeks 10 discover where
Homer was corn, who was Erea's true mo
ther. and whether Anacreon was greater
orunka q % isbauchee. Critics puzzle their
brains to knew how many cars Ulysses had
or whiril was written first, the Had or the
Odyssey.
That IS The 1859 Of u2 When man veXes
himself with rifles, and is IN a tempest Of
passion Tor nothing? A bad cup of tea viii
deprive ssne men Of whole ngbt's sleep.
! sElglc lnattention may make man or
woman unhappy fer a week. Every body
Las heard the story Of the lady who drowned
herself because her gallant said chow dye
d. instead of saying chow do goa do. =
j.haS some men arc perpetually working
themselves into fever because they think
that thcy are Neglected, or sighted 0ne man
pFldes hmseif on being neat and a 5peck Of
dirt would shock bis sensiblity, perhaps into
fits. Another 10 saying a little thing in line
way and vulgar word let slip would shock
n 40 hoo 1T
ally cantng about words, and will put short
sentences together like masses Of granite 10
Dorlc church Others are Of the Colinthi
an order-pretty- hee like, wandering hither
thlther, slipping from every flower little no
ney for Their cell. thousand Of volumes have
been written about substantial forms, yegeta
bic souls. intentional species. A'c &c Some
men lavish l'ie Oh such fripperIes They
use words as GladIators do swords to fight
with. We have always been amused with
Bioa's diemnia. who proved all neu sacrile-
SlouS, and al the same un9e proved thatthere
was no such thing as sacl,lege. Gle who
takes to himself Isar, hel what belongs 10
God, commits sacrile ge-grapt il; bat all
things belong ~ God--graat it-welI then.
be who applies any thing to his own use,
commits sacrilege.n Now TO prove, The rifle
OF temple no sacrllege, h. a.gues that it is
only The taking Of something DOT Of one
place that belongs 10 God, and removing if
another that belongs to him also" A very
ingenious sophisni, but acaas is The use of az
- Po,l Hand .4CtUertiser.
FEARFUL DfsCovERY-We were favored
by yesterdays mail with letter from New
Orleans of May list. (says the Jacksonville
Observer in which we find that an import
ant discovery had been made few days
previous in tddt city. The following is an
extraci:-"Four days ago, as some planters
were digging under ground, they found a
square room containing eleven thousand
stand OF arms, and fifteen thousand cartridg
es; each oil the cartridges containing bull
let The negroes, it is said, intended to
rise as soen as the sickly season began, and
obtain possession of the city, r1assacreing
the planters and white population The
same letter states that the Mayor had pro.
hlhl''ed the opening of Sunday Schools for
the instruction OF Blacks, under a penalty of
dollars ior lhe FIRST offence, and for the Sc
coGd, dtab
OFFlCIAL-FRoM THE GLoBE, Aug. "a.
We learn from the Mississippi that OH the
3lst oil July, two or three hours before day,
E.drty OF from so to 100 Sacs and Fox In
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