Litchfield enquirer., 1836-02-25
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"" A'"uGo UT HOIS mortal wounds
 will be apt to kill, and he that is sick With
 old age, will have disease harder to cure
 than the humps or chin-cough.
 The celestial aspects indicate that po- litical parties will not agree for some lime to come but, whoever is President. water will run down hill and ducks will waddle as heretofore.
 Cabbages, this year, will be rather round than three-cornered, and carrots will be decidedly yellow. Goals will be as black as ever; cats will love fish, but hate to wet their feet, and all on account of Halley's comet.
 The world, this year, will turn upside oo"n: put not in consequence of the Gov ernor's proclamation. The crop of hay will depend upon the weather; but whe:h- CT 1t rains or not, there will be plenty of sand at Cape Cod.
 Whoever sells his house to buy moon- shine. will hardly get his moneys worth. Whoever runs to catch the rainbow, will get out of breath for his pains. For all that, eastern lands may be had for the buying. Locomotives and auctioneers' tongues will run fast. There will be mortal war l between cats and rats, as we'll as between aldermen and roast turkeys. People will talk about the end of the world, but it is ten to one that the solar system will not run against the dog-star between now and next December.
 Sea Serpents, this year, will be hard tc catch, and noDe but eonjurer will be a. ble to get quart into pint pot. Those who have wooden legs, will suffer little when they freeze their toes. Wigs are ex- pected to be fashionable among the bald, but blind folks will have some difficulty in seeing.
 Divers steamboats will blow up this year, yet it is hardly probable that any southern slang-whanger will be able to set the Mis- sissippi on fire. Apples will ripen about October, sooner or later but that is all one, provided we have cider enough. Fox es will pay particular attention to poultry there will be very few old birds taken with chaff, and wild geese will not lay tame eggs.
 But, most of all, there will prevail this year, horrible epidemic, worse than the cholera, small pox, or plague, which there will be no. escaping, and for which there will be no cure. The Italians call it pocO dnn0ro:, the Germans, kess geld the French. faute d'argent; in this country it goes under various appellations, but is most commonly known by the name of empty pockets Boston Courier.
 SCIENTIFIC H1NTs.-Ice is the natural state of water; it is only by the addition of caloric (heat) that it becomes Auid.- The reason why water in freezing bursts Il s.~ :~l sA g.. or rises in the form of bulb in an open one, is because ice is more porous than wa ter, and therefore occupies more room.- A single cubic inch of water, while freez- ing, expands with force equal to thirteen tons. The porous nature of ice accounts for it's swimming on the surface of water.- Were it not for this beautiful exception, to the common law of nature, by which all bodies contract on the application of cold, successive layers of ice would be formed, and sink to the bottom, till the whole fluid mass would become one solid body of ice, by which all evaporation would be prevent ed, and vegetables deprived of their nour- ishment would wither and decay {; animals would perish from thirst and cold, and this single change in the laws of nature would be sufficient to destroy all living substan- 1 ces.-Portland Courier.
 Matrimonial Anecd0te.-About centu- ry ago, saith tradition, when clergymen were not so plenty as they are now, young gentleman and his ducinea were anxiousIy waiting the happy day, which was to see them united in the silkcn bands of mstriuony. They resided on the north side of the Tomhenck creek, and the cler- gyman who had been engaged to tic tho l knot, lived on the south side of this creek. As the fates would have it, heavy rains fell the night previous to the nuptial day. which rendered the creek impossible. Its waters were rising, and its current became more rapid every hour. The clergyman arrived at the time appointed at point where he had been in the habit of fording the creek; but it was as much us his life was worth to attempt to ford it on this occasion. He turned his horses head to return, when he was hailed by two voices on the oppo- site side of the stream-they were those of the bride and groom, who engaged him to stay. After some debate it was agreed that the ceremony should proceed. In the mean time the friends of the betrothed ar- rived, from the brides house in the neigh borhood. Then was presented singular spectacle, the like whereof was never seen before, and probably will not be again. The dominic read the marriage service. on the margin of the creek, while the parties stood on the opposite side. After the cer- al