The Arkansas advocate., 1834-08-15
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 FOREIGN IrEMs.--A Miss Farthlng, iii Oxford street, died offright, in consequence of breaking looking glass, from a supersti- tious apprehension of some calamity. The superstition Is just as applicable lo any other article subject to being broking.
 A woman who used to skin cats for living, stole child for the purpose of get- ting it's clothes. From her cat skinning and | ehlld-thlevlng appearance at the Bar, the court said she looked more like lcitch than human being.
 1 In London improvements, MT. Smirke suggests tearing down entirely that part of the city known as .tthe Rookery,' and "tho Holy Land," places answering to our Five Points. The expense of variety of fhand- some improvements, is estimated at S7o0s 900.
 "A dfan1-drlnking woman by the name of l Wilmington, claiming to be descendant of the famous Wilmington and bis cal, was brought before the Lord Mayor as a Hare ap, but commuted with his Lordship for Q shilling and a pair of shoes, on a positive promise to go into the country, and not dis-- grace the memory ofher sober, industrious, and distinguished ancestor. by such beastly exhibitions.
 A man was arrested for murder in Ire- land, after au absense of 3G years.
 .1oiin Ducrow, ifle celebrated clown, and brother to Ducrow the equestrian, died lately, much regretted. Mademoiseiie Gri- si pronounced greasy, o la .anglaise, is the great star of the Italian opera in London, and Is playing with Rubini, Carador, I'am- burini, &c, at the Kings Theatre. Mac- ready took bumper benefit lately at Drury Lane. Matthews IS on his passage to New York. Sheridan Knowles IS in Limerick
 A NIT. Dominlck OIivera left is0,00O in real estate to three natural sons, on con- dltion of their forteiting the same if they married Scotch women; but as the sons were proven to be aliens, the houses fell to the share of the King.
 Morning concerts of the Italian Compa- ny, are crowded to suifocatlon.
 A bill has been introduced to abolish n tax of 2s Sd per annum, paid by every sea- man for Greenwich Hospital, on the ground II. tax amounts to l22,000 annually.
 No fights arranged for the last month by the fancy. Ifthey had the weather as hot as it was on Tuesday of last week, fight ing would have been out of the question.
 Madame La Duchess du BeTi, now Comtessee de .Lachesse Palli, IS well re- ceived at the Court of Tienna, although her caro ansago IS not permitted to sit at the royal table. Louis Philippe Is kept on his good behaviour by the attentions shown to Henry 5th and his mamma, maugre tho events at Blaye.
 The Sultan is intriguing to get back AL giers, and wishes the French to abandon that territory.
 A woman and two daughters died almost iinstantaneously ill France, on drinking from a barrel of cider a year old, ill which dead serpent was found. The reptile had prob- ably crept i'll the bung hole, left open for the liquor to ferment.
 A person buying some maccaroni in tho fauxbourg Montmarte, discovered that 1t was wrapped in an original letter from Yol- tarie to the Minister of Finance, reques- ting that half his pension should be given to La Harpe, who was poor.
 MT. YeIpeau exhibited, at the Medical College, a man who had the extraordinary faculty of making himself two inches taller or shorter, Standing erect, ne can elon- gate the spine, and contract it again, by mo- wing the sacrum, which plays like wedge between the bones of the pelyis. In early life he was injsred by carriage running over him.-.N. Y. Star.
 Ancient custom. On Holy Thursday the young Queen of Hungary performed, in the name of the Empress, the ceremony of washing the feet of twelve old men and twelve old women. Of the old men, the eldest was lol years of age, the youngest sl; the age of the twelve together, l0l9. The eldest of the women was 97, the young. est S6, and the F together l075 years.