The Arkansas advocate., 1831-05-25
NO. 9.


 for sages and heroes, regarded bv his friends martyr for Liberty, and by all the good men as one Of the worst char. aeters who have appeared in modern times.
 Bat mark the changes of human opin. lon! This man who was inferred so sumptuously-this nan, whose ret,;,;;,- .lon stood so high, was denied a grave. Ills superb coffin was torn from the vault lh winch II had been placed. and brok- enan pieces while his carcass, draogcd from 1t by the mob, was thrown like s.or. ron into ono of the public sewers which runs into the Seine.
 T Litlng C7ock.-Miss Hamilton. in her book on education, gives il very re- markable proofthat the memory of ner- 'cePtion may be enjoyed in high perlec. ton, where all the other faculties are. defective. Ane ediot so utterly dcsti> tetc Of the faculty of conception, as never to be capable oi acquiring the use of speech (thGigh, 1t did not appear that hs organs, eithcrof speech or hear ing, were all defectiye) was for Il great number ot years confined 10 an apart ment, where he was occasionally visited by his family and friends. In this apart ment stood a clock, to the striking of which he evidently appeared very at tentive, and it was the olIly sign of atten.. ton, which he ever displayed. Every tune the clock struck, he made q cIuck- ing noise,in imitation of the sound and tms he continued ito do as often as the hour returned. After several years. the clock was removed when to the sur. pflse of all he continued, as the hour come, to make exactly the same noisc.- lie was perfectly exact in the calcula- ton of inc time, and never missed an hour in the day or the night; nor d,d he eror ctaek one loo maly or loo fer. To the hour of his death he continued to give exact notice of the lapse of time without the slightest variation!''
 GQlooaisa'.-The Boston Palladium relates an amusing and singular incident which IS sald 10 have occurred. a few evenings ago, at Lecture room in Bos> ton. Some Gafyanic experiments we're to be made, and large dog being se- lectcd for the purpose, he was cxccut- ed fifteen minutes before the commence ment of the Lecture. It being neces- sary to expose muscles or nerves to the action of the battery, the dogs tail was then cut off. At the first application of tho Galyanic power, poor Tray, wlro had been stunned by theblows he had rc- ceived by the cxecutfoncr, reused him. sell, and, with q jump and growl, seiz- ed the first man in lis way by the calf if of the leg, and then in spite of canes and umbrellas, he ran, spattcring blood profnseiy upon every body, to the door which the scientific company were very glad to open for his escape.
 Royalty n 1830.-This has been m omnous year for Princes. Three have died-the Kings of England and Na- pies, and the Pope of Rome. Three have been driven from their dominions the Kings of France and Saxony, and the Duke of Brunswick. Queen Donna Maria bas been refused admittance into her kingdom. and the King of Holland has lost half of his, while the two thrones Belgium and Greece, are goin,. a-begging.
 SarJt's 7ast HaeS.--in one of those iu- cid intervals which varied the course of Swifts's unhappy innacy, his guardians took him out 10 give him an airing When they came to the Phoenix park, Swirl remarked new building which he had never seen and asked what it was designed for? Dr. Kingsbury answer ed, that, Mir. Dean, Is the magazine for | arms and powder for the security of the city, sOhl Oh,' says the Dean, pulling out his pocket book, let me take aIi item of tiraf. This is worth remarkipg, my tables as Hamlet says, my tables-mem- ory, put down that He then produced the following lines being the last he cy- CT wrote:-
 Behold q proof of Irish sense. Here Irish wit is seen
 When nothing left for OUT defence,
 We bnild magazine.
 The Dean then put up bis pocket book, laughing heartily at the conccit. and clenching it with, after the stecd is stolen, shut the stable door
 Advisor remarks that the dog has been the companion of man more than 5000 years, and has learned of him on-