The Iowa patriot. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1839-1839, 1839-07-18
SCRAPS.

Bishop Berkeley wrote book proving
the non-existence of matter. One night,
when returning home from printing Of
flee with proof sheet, he broke his shins
against some matter--but alas, it could not
break him of his theory.
"seven years fighting" says Jeremy
Taylor, "sets a whole kingdom back in
learning and virtue to which they were
creeping, it may be whole age.''
The Evansville, Ga.) journal, says:
.'John Station, recently from England,
was bitten by a rattlesnake one day last
week, and died within thirty hours there
after, of the wound. He has left a-wi(e
and six young children destitute of the
means of support
The us. Consul at Havana, confess
SEES in a letter, that he has now reasons to
believe that the crew of the American yes
sci imprisoned there on the charge of the
Captain, were innocent, and that the Cap
tain was culpable.
The Baltimore American states that the
city ordinance of the Goth April last,
which imposed charge Of half a cent per
bushel on all grain, other than the product
of Maryland, landed on any of the pub
lie wharves, has been repealed.
The oldest town in the United States is
lSt. Augustine, Florida, by more than for
ty years. It was-founded forty years be-
| fore Virginia was colonized. Some of the
Ihouses are yet standing, which are said
to have been built more than three centu-
ries ago.
The YOUNG 1DEA.-Lord Brougham.
in one of his works, delivers it as his de-
liberate opinion, that s'we learn more in
the first six years Of our life than after
wards, though we may live to hundred.
George II. being informed an ilnpu-
dent printer was to be punished for hav-
ing published a spurious (king's) speech,
replied, that he hoped the punishment,
would be of the mildest sort, because he
had read both, and as far as he under
stood either of them, he liked the spuri
Gus speech better than his own.-BGH
San.
The Scarlet Fever has been very pre-.
valent in Boston for some time past, and
large number of the cases terminated ia
tally. An eminent physician says, tha
where one bad case gets into house the
disease is generally taken by every mem.
Der of the household.
The popular vote against the admins
tration in Virginia, as shown by the late
election, has increased more than 4,COC
within the present year.--Sangamo Jour.
nal.
The dogs in Baltimore and Philadel.
phia are undergoing their annual punish.
ment. Persons are appointed for the pur.
pose Of killing them, and are suitably re.
fwarded for their service.
What is the use Of ones being dissatis.
fed with his or her earthly LOTT Wher
the voyage Of life is ended, it will make
no difference whether we have ENJOYED
the accommodation of the cabin or beer
compelled to submit to the humble fare Of
the Storage.
A curious fact is disclosed in lette,
of Sir John Russell to his constituents
/ It is stated that when the Reform Bill
was very doubtful in the House of Lords
| William the Fourth wrote to the Duke o.
Wellington and some others of the Peers
in opposition, requesting them, as per
lsonal favor, to absent themselves from the
house in order thatit might pass.
ITS ANIL WIND &c.-The feyel
and ague at the West, il it does nothing
lmore,sis a source Of revenue to dentists
Piles Of false teeth may be seen along
1.-THE Maumee, where people have chatter
led them out. Of course they they have
to be supplied with new ones. The
Times says the same effect is sometimes
produced by severe storm in New Or,