Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-10-09
We take the following anecdotes from the last
x..,ahor Of the I ondnn Onarterly Review:

number of the London Quarterly Review:
"Lieut. Connolly, in his overland journey to
India. having failed in his endeavor to reach
Kbiya. determined to take the road to Meshed,
and Joined company of pilgrims bound on
pilgrimage to the tomb of lmaum Ria. For
eight months in every year, dating from the
yernal equinox, this road to and from Meshed
is travelled by sixty thousand persons, chiefly
pilgrims: and it is to be remarked, that, though
much of the country is desert every little sta
ton on the road furnishes supplies for this num-
Der of persons and their cattle. Stopping at
Bostam. they find one of the Shah's sons there,
as governor. They are introduced TO MN, ana
he asks many questions among others concern
ing Yankeedoonia,' (America) or as it'may
be rendered, $50 says our author) the world
of the Yankees This is an amusing mistake
into which Lieut.. COLONY has fallen and MAUI
raj enough to those who like him, seem to nave
acquired the language by the road side. leng.
doonia. in truth, means the New World. Iengl
in Tartar language is Ne,o. Yankee is, accord
ing to DR.. Webster's Dictionary, a corrupt pro-
nunciation of the word English by the Indians
of North America
aMr. Dunlop, in his History OTTOMAN Litera-
ture mentions as most ineXpllcable, that
sow in Arcadia was so fat that field mouse
had made a comfortable nest in her flesh,
and brought forth its young Now, as eve,
ry TACT III natuTd HlStoly 10 NaIuop'S: ""'
state, that we have witnessed the circum'
stance of a mouse having made its nest COM
Portable or not We cannot say, nor do we know
that it was parturen) in the upper part OF the
neck of fattening boar The animal was
excessively indolent, and was probably gratIfl-
ed by the very gradual irritation in It's prurlent
hide and that prurency, too, Increased ny the
process of healing in one part while the little
creature was making its way in another, to I'M
bed itself in the well stored cells OF the adlpose
membrane"
Mails in Ohio.-We are informed thatvarious
changes will take place in this State. in the
course of very short time, in the mode OF trans
porting the mail. The department having been
rendered perfectly insovent by the misman-
agement of Mr.. Barry, it is found Impossible 10
keep 10 the increased mail facilities" mum,
ttug any longer; and it is hoped that the sign
of a little gold in the hands of office holders
will for the present season, answer every pur'
pose equally as WE'LL Chiticothe Gaz.
Compression.--No one who has not attempted
the task can fully appreciate the difficulty OF com
pressing within prescribed limits the remarks
suggested by a subject affording superabundan'
materials of interest and excitement. Wher
some one asked Sir Walter Scott why ne do
not write his life Of Napoleon in three volume:
instead of nine, his answer was" had not Tune
A reply which is by no means paradoxial 10 any
who have had the least literary experience; a:
it is a truism among all such, that il is much ca
ser to amplify than to condense; to be VERBOSE
on the most barren, than concise on the mos
fertile theme London Literary Gdz.