Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-04-15

THE ELoQUEscE OF MoroN.-W. c. Preston
Every one has read of the 'acton," "action, sac
tion rof Demosthenes, and what variety OF emotions
AMI passions R9scus could express by mere gestures
let it not be supposed, however, that such periec-
tons OF art belong to the ancients only. The fol
lowing anecdote OF VIM. c. Preston, Is Illustrative
of our remark.
Some wears age, among Thousands Of others, we
were listeners to one of4s splendid harrangues from
the stump. Beside US was one as deafas post in
breathless attention, catching apparently every word
that fell from the orators lips. Now the tears oIde-
obt would roll down his cheeks, and now in an UNI
yoyernable ecstacy, he would shout out applauses
which might have been mistaken for the noise of
small thunder storm.
At length Preston launched cut into one Of those
passages of massive defamation which those VINO
have heard him know him to be capable of ut
terinr In magnificent splendor 1t was what Byron
has described as the mountain storms of Jura. Its
effect upon the multitude was like whrlwind. Our
deaf friend could contain himself no longer: but bawl
inc into our ear, as if he would blow it open with
tempest, sWho's that speakng!' cried he.
eWm. c. Preston replied we-as loud as our
lungs would let us.
"Who ~ enquired he, still louder than before
"Wm C. Preston, Of South Carolina. replied we
almost splitting our threat in the effort.
"Well well ~ returned he 81 can't hear darn
word he or yoa arc saying, but great Jerico !!
don't he do the motions spleadidr-S. Carolinian.
SINGULAR MARRrAGE-A widower at Camden
who was not very young, became smitten with
young and beautiful girl, and married her. short
time after the son of this man by former wife, be-
came also in love- not with younger person, but
with the mother of Lis fathers wife, widow la
DIV still in the bloom of life. He offered himself, and
soon the young and widow were united In the
bonds of matrimony, that in consequence OF these
two connections, father became the son In-law OF
his own son, and the wife not only the daughter
in-law of her own son-in-law, but still more the
nother-in-law of her own daughter; while the hus-
band of the latter is the father-n-law of his own
mother-in-law, and father-in-law to his father
Singular confusion may arise, if children should
spring from these peculiar marriages.
DoING IT VERY BRowN.-An exchange paper,
speaking of the reflection of the suns rays from
the ice on the boughs of the trees, says:
"There was not warmth enough in the sun to melt
away the castings. that EVERY hue reflected light
can give" was thrown around though chiefly the
rich white light, tustrous and unstained as acomans
rirtue but with all its beauty, cold as mans graf
itude.
Passive THE BUrrER-"Wy," said a doatinp
parent at the breakfast-table, to an abridged
edition of himself who had just entered the gram
mar-eIass at the High School; "Willy, my dear
will you pass the butter q
essThertainly, Thrift takes me to parthe any
thing Butter it'll thubthantive, neuter
GENDER agreeth with hot buckweath cakhes, and it'll
governed by thugar houth molasses understood"
DESCRIPTION OF THIN GENrLEMAN.-Two cab
men recently saw very spare gentleman walking
in the street of London, when of them remark
ed to the other:-"I say, Bill, look at ere thin un
Pm blow'd ifhe isn't trainin' to go doun gas
pipe" ~