Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-01-24

drawn by animals that have no mus
cles OF their own to carry; and are
sometimes so plentiful that they can
be bought for most anything peck
Major Longbow is supposed to allude
to their abundance when he exclaims;
l.Damme lots of muscle!' Turks are
Mussulmen, but mussulmen are not
all Turks, though they are generally
pretty hard set Of christians.
The muscular fibre is the street yarn
which muscleman spins in selling a
load of muscles; but muscular fibber
lis a strong man acknowledging the
truth. or spinning immaginary yarns.
Sinews, or sinners, as they are com
monty called, are the strings which
you pull in order toopen & shut chick
ems feet. They pass over the joints,
and enable US to walk, or kick our
lgrannies, if we like; but the fact OF a
mans passing over a joint of meat, In
the selection of his dinner, is no proof
that he is sinner, nor does it follow
that Joint stools could walk, or kick
any body, if they were covered with
sinners. The sinews OF war are by
far the most powerful kind of sinews,
enabling nations that cannot lift I'm
ger in their own defence, TO raise not
only fingers but arms and armies, and
even horses and ships! They, howev-
cr, always have a tendency to hasty
consumption, owing to the ravages of
voracious kind of animal called con-
tractor,supposed, from its sinuosity, to
be species Of the army worm. The
Laplanders make bow-strings by
twisting together two sinews of the
reindeer, which is thought to be the
origin of having "two strings to your
bows" but that does not account for SO
many dears having TO beaux 10 their
apron strings.
The nerves are the tender little
pieces of meat that make US jump, land
sw so hard, when we have toothache.
They are called the organs Of sensa-
ton; but a barrel-organ has no nerves.
althougb it has plenty of teeth; nor dc
handsaws ever complain Of toothache
though they oftenhave their teeth filed
land filed. The nerves are said to b
Ibraced, when you have two teeth pull
ed at time; though they are general
ly unstrung at sight Of the forceps; bu
a person is not completely 'unnerved
/ till all his worries are replaced by min
eral incorruptibies. The optic nerves
have nothing to do with the eye teeth
probably because people think they
see better with their eye teeth cut
Assafetida, opium and yalerian are
said to compose the nerves; but yot
could not make the tinctures of those
drugs, by holding proof spirit in your
mouth, if your nerves were ever SC
strong; though the attempt would be
strongly tinctured with the essence o
folly. a nervous man is one who
shakes all over like plate of Shaker
Jelly, to tell the truth; and nervou.
writer is one who trembles like an as,
pen, to record lie; but man of nerve
not only strikes the trembling liar, az
Apollo did, but often knocks an apollo
gy out ofthe ass pen.
The bowels are about twenty-eigh
feet of personal hose, not hose for the
feet, which lie coiled upon our insides
Hamlet is not supposed to have refer
ence to the bowels, when he talked o
1 sshuffling off this mortal COLL although
the pause which he says that ac
must give US, may be the colon. The
bowel complaint often carries people
to the tom5s; but it is complain
which no. magistrate will be likely t.
receive, unless he has been eating
: green corn, in which case he may lenC
: it an ear. The bowels of compassion
. often lead US to the beds of the poo
or sick; but the bowels of the earth
J lead to very different diggings-some
times to rich beds of ore, to say moth
J ing of 'yilainous saltpetre,' which, al
Shakespeare says is 'digged out of the
bowels of the harmless earth Infla
nation Of the bowels of the earth
when it reaches the saltpetre, leads tc
earthquakes and volcanoes; and the
question "Will saltpetre explode" j.
often answered by report from Etna
or Yesuvius, which makes more noise
than the report of the saltpetre com.
mittee. Captain Symmes, and other
old salts, tried to work passage throi
the bowels of the earth. but failed in
the end ever; so the existence of such