Litchfield enquirer., 1833-08-08

S25. which lle offered to bet on the soFrel horse. against all Lowell. Our jockey covered it instantly, and asked the country man E he hadn't g more. Another and another sum was squeezed ont by tho 0wIi- CT of tho sorrel, till something like @2OO on side were bet, and put in the hands of a gentleman as stake holder. The unhahdy man then offered to bet, tho black hofso iR addition to his other risks, on the speed of ihe sorfel, against any reasonable sum- '' ' For, ;" said he. stifthey st beat the sorralI am an uHdone man any how, and lheJM never see my face in Varmount; and 1.-the sorrel beats, I shall make my forth. Our jockey assured the by-siandefs that thero kas no risk, for Oll the horses that had Tua against sorrel, had thus far been held in 'check by the riders, who had been special4 ly instructed always to allow the sorrel
 horse t. win; aud that the sorrei, ohsiha contrary, had run on a slack rein. Nobo- dy, however folt inclined to bet casllagainst the black horse -and the parties went oh to the ground to compete for the purse, of something likef 400, that is. POO on n side.
 Arrived ats the ground for the race, the stranger got upon sorrel but was admon7 ished that hc was too heavy to ride, aaId
 that the race would not be m equal one,
 unless each horse bore tho same wcight.-- ]" ,' Never mind, my friends. 2 said the Eer- monter,- ,---sst this ere shoss aint used the salt water people, Whentiiey talk to him, he d0n'. khow what they mean. am go- ihgto ride myself, and if any oh ye want to mako your fOrtins, nowS your time for iiiia one n,inlta after they give the word, sorrreel beats, lio is jest the darndest keen feIler to go it, wsIen you, 1sally, git his couraee up, that ever you dsd see. Tho word was Ut length giyhn, and botl. ttors6s started to. gether. When about two thirds of the groand had been gone over, she stranger 'rosc ap in his stirrups, and looking round at his qaMpetitor, who was d long way ba.: hind, E. pired whether ss he wasn't going to ride kster.' ss For,'' says he. yo.i haint got Gp yet to what we call clever 5oaney jog in Yarmouth, where l comb froiii!, ,.,,',74s @ss,s ts,.3sa N ,,ass \ After inc question was fairly settled and sorrel had been decIared victorious by some half dosenrodS, it is said that the ,1n- handy gentleman whispered to his friends on the ground this maxim, viz:- MGRy % oa.t for sooOl and cone Home shorn: ~
 x, ,.. s,,,,, LoUen Iisrcwy.
 ANEcDoTE.- Dudley possessed in ta
 remarkable degree an unpleasant peculias- iiy--that of thinking aloud. On one occa- sion, he was driving his cabriolet across
 G1osyenor Square, in his way to P ark lane,
 whom he overlook an acquaintance, Mir,
 LatFel. It was raining rather sharply, and
 his lordship good -haturedly invited tho pe- destrian to ride. They drove along until they were nearly at Lord Dudley's man. sion, where MT. T.. having given no hint of wishing to alighi, tho Earl unconsciously exclaimed aloud, wllat many would havO thought under similar circumstances-- to the extreme horror of his fashionable conn ,panion, "D--n this fellow, I suppose ! must ask him to dine with mss N N s'
 Singing. .-The Amissrican pIiy l;iss yssician. pr.
 Rush, thus speaks of t6e utility of singing, not only as an accomplishment but as U corrective oflhe too common tendency ts,
 pulmonic complaints. q Vocal music.''
 says this celebrated writer, < should never
 be neglected in the education of q young la- Isdy! Besides preparing her to join in that part Of public worship which consists in bpsalmody, it will enabls her to soothe the
 cares of domestic life !; and the sorrows
 that will sometimes intrude into her own
 bosom may all be relieved by q song, wbau'
 sound and sentiment, ,unitS to act upoa tho
 mind. 2 here introduce aifaes, which has
 been slge6sfed t6 me4by my professioI,
 and that is, that the exercise of the organs
 of tho breast by singing contributes very much t6 defend them from those diseases to which the climate and other causes expose them. The Gefn,ans are seldcm atTEicied with cOnsnmptions; nor have f ever known but one instance of spitting blood among them. This, believe. is in part occasioned by the strength which their langs acquired by exercising them in vocal, music, for this constitutes an essential
 branch of their education. ThS dissic-'
 master of our academy has furnished me
 with ain observation still more in favonr of
 this opinion. He informed me that he had
 known several instances of persons, who
 were strongly disposed to consumption,
 who were restored to health by the exercisg
 of their lungs in singing" a ' I CoyagaI A1sction- Easy Deash. An 4 old lady, residing not far from Exeter, was I perhaps ono of the most brilliant examples
 of coIjugai sendefness that tlte last century
 produced. Her husband had long been dy- l ing, and at length on the Clergyman .of ghe