The Iowa patriot. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1839-1839, 1839-07-25

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ed in front of house in Front street
below Market, their countenances in
ldlcatlng the most painful and intense
anxiety. We looked up, and on the
root OF the house beheld a small boy
creeping from the dormant window
down towards the spout, in order tc
catch a little pet bird, that released
from It's letters, had taken refuge in
that apparently inaccessible spot. He
had gotten about half way when feal
oyercame him. He advanced little
more. We held our breath and clos
ed our tee1h with excessive sympa.
thy. Another step, and convu|siive
shudder ran through the crowd. The
bird moved a little further. The BOY
made one unsuccessful grasp-the
crowd shrieked with apprehension
and the boy, horrible to relate! fell
INTO the hands Of his father, who pull.
ed him in the window by the breech.
es, and severely whipped him for his
temerity.--Philo. Paper.
IMPORTANT DECISION TO TRAVELLERS.
The Quincy, (Mass.) Patriot, gives
notice OF a novel decision, in an &C.
ton OF Noah Fifield VS.. the Braintree
and Weymouth Turnpike Corpora.
ton, determined at the last term Of
the Court of Common Pleas for the
County Of Norfolk, Mass. 1t was
settled that a person travelling over
said Turnpike upon the common and
ordinary business Of family concerns
going to a grist mill, etc.-is ex-
emp:ed from the payment Of TOLL
These exemptions extend to procur.
ing fuel for the fire, and other neues
sarles for the use Of a family, and such
other business as necessarily apper.
talns to the support thereof. 1t was
adjudged IN this case that the plain
till recover back the amount of mon.
.ey paid the defendants for toll. while
passing their toll gate for the purpo
ses aforesaid.
4 London paper states that Gu.
rlous exhibition, under the name OF the
''Eccaleol,ion," is about to be opened
in Pallnall. 1t is machine heated
by steam, and divided into various
compartments for the hatelnng Of
birds by artificial heat. There is an
other machine, il which eggs OF eve
ry date, from the time of being laid
until 2l days old, are SO placed, that
by means soi strong artificial light
they are rendered transparent, SO
that the spectator can observe the
progress OF Matching, from the origin
OF lite in a chicken until it's complete
formation. One side of the large
room in which the exhibition is pIa-
ced is set apart for the chickens when
hatched, and bears. the appearance of
a miniature poultry yard. The con
trlvance is an Improvement on the
Egyptian mode of artificial Matching
in ovens, and is said to be well wor-
thy the visits OF the naturalist and
the curious.-Alerander's MESSENGER.
On Monday.eveningafter shutdown
we were walking in the western part
of the city, and passed a row of sew
eral elegant houses yet unfinished.
The workmen had gone, and middle
aged gentleman. as his neat suit of
black indicated, was surveying the
structures with evident complacency.
He was the owner of those fine dwell
lings. A poor, little, sickiy, ragged
boy was under the scaholding, gath
erlng few chips into basket. The
brow of che rich man lowered upon
the unhappy child, and pushing him
into the street, he said in an angry
tone-''C.o away,.g go away! what bus
mess have you here?'- When the
spirit Of that man appears before the
Of the best, the guardian
angel will reject it saying-s'go away,
go away! what business have you
here?"- ,Phl. Nat. GU.
Natural History--Lunacyi IN Fleas.
A descendant and namesake of the
great philosophical author Of the in
ductive system, recently puzzled mo-
dern man Of science by asking him if
he had read DR.. Won Sheinmycher's
Treatise on the Cause of Lunacy in
Fleas!-'sNo,' replied the hoaxee;
"but it is very interesting subject,
and it must be curious to trace the
disease among the lower insect tribes.
But" added he after a pause, show
has it been ascertalned that feas are
liable to insanity?'' ssOh, very easily y
rejoined B s'since somany of them
die crackedro
A Coon DEEn.- Miss sedgwick, in
her Mean and Ends, Ia book which
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