Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-10-07
Mr., Borrow.

Mr.. Borrow.
In a recent number of the Revue des Dcux
Nlondcs, we find the following account of the
life Of Mr.. Borrow, the author Of the Bible in
Spain, aud tie Znculi. - Boston ADJ
Mr.. Borrow says the writer, NJ. philaretc
Chasles, was originally, | believe, a horse
jockey or something of that kind since then,
purtanical devotion having siezed him, he has
travelled over the world to spread gospel light
among the Greeks, Popists, Oitomans, Barbara
ans, and Zincali. To gain souls for Calvin, 10
conquer horses and infidcls aud to wander over
plains, marshes AID forests, are his favorite
pleasures. A Don Quixote of the 10Th centu.
ry, and an English Don Quxote, he travelled
as colporteur among the Alpujarras, at Cintra
Ceutra, Merida, upon the banks of the Guadal.
culver. and the Douro, with cargo Of Bibles ;
some in Arabic, others in the Bohemian tongue.
not that OF Bohemia, but ,ha, OF Hindoslan
(Zncalj) Can You think Of any nddiry more
| strange than this
with vigorous nature, we'll tempered
rios,ty mingled with lively taste for adven-
lures and even for dangers, poyglot mind with
the gift Of tongues, M-. Borrow understands
Persian, Arabic, German, Du'ch. Russian. Po.
lish. Spanish Portugo-e. Swedish, Irish, Nor.
weeian. aud the old scandinavian. moi TO men,
,ion Gaelic, Kymri, or Welsh, Sanscrit, and
Zlncall, the language Of the European gypsics
He ls an athletic msn thirty.fve or ak years
old, with bright black eye, his brow slready
covered with forrs, of premature white hair,
and an olive complexion, as if he belonged orr
ginslly to that Indian race of whom he Is chron :
cler 0nd friend.
He WAS born at Norfolk, and found himself
| no one knows how. and he does not tell, in the
midst Of Pypses, blackRmiths, fortune telers,
rope-dancers, horse iokeys, oId-clothes mer.
chants and beggars from Egypt, who inhabited
this city and It's environs. From these honoa-
ble instructors, he received at an early age his
| first knowledge Of gih5eroh, the udiments OF
| the Zincali language, and the hereditary re-
ccipts relative TO the rearing and support of
=
went through the university course, studied
diligently Hebrew, Greek and Latin, and made
| lrcqucn, excursions into the highlands to learn
! Gaelic Thoroughly What became Of him after.
/ wards No one knows. His friends say he
sowed his wild oats, or as the French say, il
Ieiait sa gourme. Some pretend that the turi
and the occupations, OF Jockey never had a
more jealous servant. lie bought and sold
horses, bet, won. lost, NH probably ran at New.
castle or Derby, This portion of his life lies in
the shade ne afterwards re-appeared, and we
ma ,.Im suddenly converted and engaged il
the service Of the Bible Society, a company or
ganzed for the propagation Of the Bible. III
travels owe. the world, and leaves on his ropt,
Bibles by thousands. When he had seen Aai'
and Africa, it appears TO him that Spain enC
Portugal, those two old ramparts Of Catholicism
are countries new and curious to visit; hJ
pounces upon them, Calyanistic Bible IN hand
is imprisoned, beaten, pursued; he persists
lives in the woods with bandhil, in cavern
with gypsies, in garrcts with picaroS, braves The
.AChucei h'Io"c H' N'it'Hiit l't Nu'a''Fi iii'N ~
at ministers, leagues himself with the Jews
offers his hand TO the Arabs, is neither heater
to death nor hung, which is a miracle, an,
after having lived through the most curious 70
nance Of adventures which could be imagined
This Don QuXote wilhouta squire, this propl
gaudisl WITHOUT fana,icsm, comes back to Lon
don all white, wrink led, old and brouzed"
STATISTICS or lucIFER M,.rcHEs. One {
the witnesses before the Children's Employ
ment Commission, "a England. stated that he
a maker OF tne boxes for containing luclie
matches, and lor the American pine wood, {
which he makes them, he is in the habit OF pay
; ing the large sum of el, ,lO0a year. The week
. ~ consumpron Of ucfer matches amounts
r e1,2OOOO0 or 5.055. .0GoOO0 yearly.
g o GEMlNl.--A pair Of twins, eghty.thre
d years of age, residing in Charlestown, visite
. the top of Bunker Hill Monument on Saturday
i The venerable ladies' claimed to be the revolr
:. ionlry soldiers, and consequently ascended i
: the steam Car gn.t.s,- Bostos Post