Litchfield enquirer., 1833-11-28

ndS NOT changed IN seventeen centuries
they did not want admirers who compared
them 10 Venuses who have descended with
them to the MuSeO Borbonico.' The ell
dest son is on horseback in armor. Ii is
one of the finest equestrian statues in the
world. He is noble youth, ofgrave and
handsome features, aud sits upon the su-
perb animal with the freedom of an Arab
and the dignity of a Roman. 1t is beau
liful thing, If one had visited these Bal
bis, warm and living, in the time of Angus
tus, he could scarcely feel more acquainted
with them than after having seen their stat
ues as they stand before him here.
Come little farther on 1! Bacchus OH
the shoulders of fauna child delighted
with grown-up play-fellow. have Civ
en- The same pleasure TO such another bright
picture in little of human beauty. 1t
moves ones heart to see it.
Pass now whole gallery Of Dians, Gu
pids, Joves, Mercuries and Apollos, aud
come to the presence Of AriStideS-him
whom the Athenians exiled because they
were tired Of hearing him called The Just.
Canova has marked three spots upon the
floor where the spectator should place him
self to see to the best advantage this re-
nowned statue. He stands wrapped in bis
toga, with his head inclined, as if in refec-
| ton, and in his face there is mixture of firm
ness and goodness, from which you read
his character as clearly as fit were written
across his forehead. 1t was found at Her.
culaneum, and is, perhaps, the simplest
and most expressive statue in the world.
~ Y Mirror
Hon. to get into Prdctice.-A recent
number Of The Charivari, Partisan journal,
contains striking autographed portrait Of
the :ate eminent DR.. Portal, and makes
brief reference to the mode by which he
first attained celebrity, as recounted, we
understand, by himself. 1t appears that one
Of the principal expedients resorted to for
that object by the doctor was to hire cer@
tain number of equipages, cabriolets,. fla
ores, &c. which arrived in constant success
sion at the door of his residence through
out the day. Another branch of the mys-
tification consisted in bis employing men to
repair to his house after midnight, and to
knock with such haste, violence, and loud
ness as to alarm the neighbors. That point
attained, the doctor appeared himself at the
window TO demand the cause of the dist0r-
bance, when the agent below would sud-
denly reply, :" Sir, ii is the Prince A. the
Duchess Of B., the Marquis of c., or the
Countess Of d. who requires your immd-
diate attendance" So constant aud SO an
noying was this system found in the neigh
borhood, that the doctor was not allowed
i. to remain lodging in the same house fol
more than six months but contemptible
as was the trick, it answered the end Of its
contriver, for Doctor Portal became ulti-
mately Physician to Louis XVIII. and to
Charles X, and their courts respectively.
The above reminds us of a circumstance
which occurred in one of the towns short
distance from this city some eight or ten
years since. A very deserving, quiet young
fellow went into the town with the inten-
ton Of establishing himself in the practice
of medicine. The old physicians showed
him no favour. He was there six months,
and as he had had but two calls, one OF
which was to pull tooth, he became dis
couraged, and threatened to 60 to the West
His friends advised with him, and decided
that he must pursue more busting course
| tHut tnuSt ut OlCC dSouNIC ou IA Ouob'
ness. They lent him a sum of money
with which he purchased horse, and be.
ing extensively acquainted in the town, he
made from twenty to thirty friendly call:
daily, driving from house to house as though
old Nick himself was after him. In two OF
three weeks business began to come in up
on him, !; and he now has practice which
enables him to support family in very
genteel manner. This is veritable state
ment /; and the article we quote above may
be Of infinite service to the yonng physi-
clan, if he will remember the lesson il in
culcatcs.-BostOn Com. Gaz.
Dc0tA.-The London. Quarterly Re-
view, in noticing book Of Sir Henry Hal
ford on Death and Insanity, has the follow
ing striking passage -
"Whatever be the cause Of dissolution,
whether sudden violence or lingering mall
ady, the immediate modes by which death
is brought about appear tt be but two. In
one, the nervous system is primarily attack
ed, and there is sinking sometimes an in
stantaneous extinction ofthe powers Of life
in the other, dissolution is effected by the
circulation Of black venous blood 10 the ar
teries Of the body, instead Of the red arteri-
al blood. The former is termed death by
syncnon or faintinU. the latter death hv