Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-04-29

Swiss CLocKs-"The funniest thing
saw at BASIL was the clock upon the bridge
All this Switzerland is indeed remarkabl,
for q fancy in clocks, and for queer devices
Geneva, you know, sends watches all ovel
the world This clock here, in an embra
sure of tower of the bridge facing Germa
nv, is connected with head cnctured with
diadem, which continually protrudes and
draws in its long tongue, moving the eyes
at the same time. The object of such fig
ure, was to bully the people who lived across
the Rhine, when the people oil BAIL were
in hostility with them Over the river, a
bully often came out to mock, and make
grmaces at the citizens of Basil. The clti-
zens of Basil not daring to come out oil their
walls to meet the bully and his hostile
friends in hostile array, put up this image,
so fantastic, to bully for them night and day
and thus its tongues and its eyes were
ever hooking the living DULLES on the Ger
man side AT Soleure, they have another
fantastic clock. Death stands on one side
ofthe face of the clock, and man on the
other Whenever the clock strikes, death
slightly moves his spear and the man strikes
his heart and shakes his head, as if to say,
"Oh you'll have me at last !" Here, at
Berne there is clock tower, almost in the
centre of the chief street, with two fine dark
dials, with gilt cyphers, marking the hours
and minutes, and a.third dial indicating the
phases of the moon, the signs of the Zodiac.
and the months of the year. Near this is a
piece of mechanism, curious enough, and
which was the chef dGurre of its day A
pheasant, Tin woody crows twice minute
before the hour sounds and twice after ii
has sounded A funny figure with bauble
head dress, also announces the hour, by stri-
king with two little knockers upon two little
bells and at the same time troop of
bears, Qhe emblem of Berne) in different
postures run around little circle. Anoth-
er figure sitting on IA throne, counts the hour
by opening his mouth and at the same
time he drops his sceptre, and turns the
hour glass in his hand Yet another figure,
a little lion, IA, each hour, bends his body,
and slightly bows his head Far up in the
steepe, an au,omaton is seen, all armed,
which strikes with hammer upon the
clock, and sounds aloud all the hours
have seldom been more amused than in OBJ
serving this ludicrous play Of machinery"
CURIosITY.-The following elegant SEN
fences are from liule work called THE
Whole duty of Woman" NOT much known
we believe, in this country.
AS the first of all evils, as the source of
calamity, as the beginning Of pain, avoid, O
daughter Of Eve, the bewiiching charm of
curiosity
Seek not TO know what is improper for
thee thirst not after prohibited knowledge
for happier is she who knoweih but little,
than she who is acquainted with too much.
Remember thy mother, the daughter of
heaven, arrayed in the whitest robes Of in
nocence forget not the fatal consequence of
her disobedence.
How much happier in the bowers Of par
adISe, feastlng on the luscious grape of glad |
ness, than wandering in the wilderness of
care, TO chew the bitter weed of repentance |
BE thou contented, therefore. with knowl- |
edge iitting for thee; for in the acquaintance
of many things ieth not wisdom but in the
OF that which is meet
Let the threshold Of thy neighbours door
secure her family let her window tempt not
hlne eye 10 see, nor the open easement
hlne ear 10 hear the secrets of her house.
The pryng eye is foe to itself, and the
listening ear will hear itself slandered.
Art thou inquisitive after deeds of scandal
md reprooi, inquire of thysclf and thou
wilt find employment within.
AIT thou virgin, doth the bloom of health
glow lively on thy cheek study not to know
he ways OF man.
As the way of a serpent in the grass, or
! traveller in waste, in dark night, so
he ways OF man are dangerous and hard to
ind out
Thy ignorance Of his cunning may Law
hee open TO his deceit but the knowledge
hereof must be the consequence of thy be-
ng deceived.
Learn, therefore, o woman, what thou
'houdst know before thou seekest farther
knowledge.
MENAI BRIDGE--In that wonderful
structure, the Menai suspensionbridge, the
Effect of the expansion and contraction of the
'hains by heat and cold is ingeniously pro-
'lded for, by passing the chains over rollers
placed upon the top Of the towers over which
hey are slung In 1880, when the mercu-
~ was lS degrees below the freezing point,
t was found that the bridge, which weigh
I'd more than twenty thousand tons, had ris-
IN SIX inches and half above its level. and
he extremes between its relaxing on the
hottest and its contraction on the coolest
lay more than foot.
CHARACTERISTIC TRAITs.--Every ma
ION has its traits The Spaniard sleeps on
every affair of importance the Italian 6d.