Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1847-02-20

tossed one into the stream, and the other
he forced to surrender. lie conducted his
prisoner to camp, where the latter was
tried by a court martial, condemned as a
spy, and shot !--EeUeUc
A. U. s. SCHOONER OF A TURNED INTO
A sbAvER.-Mr. Wise, our Minister to Rio
Janciro, says the United States schooner
Enterprise, that was condemned OF the
navy yard (Brooklyn) two years ago, has
made three successful voyages to Africa
after slaves, and Is now on the fourth. She
| sold for $1,000, and in three months clear
ed her owners, to hrs knowledge, $4,000
| [JcOcrsonjan.
JuDY's Hrrrs no DYspEpT1cs.-Judy
gives her dyspeptic readers the following
hints
There is no better stomachict than q good
E%curry. You may curry a fowl, chicken or
rabbit but if you desire i first rate aPpc-
lite, curry a horse. /
"Colnter irritation" has been recon-
mcndcd with success in dyspeqtic cases
To test this practice, engage yourself as a
statesman At anydry goods store.
Cheerflness and exercise are the hand
maids of health spend your evenings
tthcreore, with your loquacious female &C
auaintances, and betake yourself early IN
the morning to yourdnmb bells.
An old man who had been dreadfully
hcnpeched all his life, was visited on bis
, death bed by a clergyman. The old man
appeared very indifferent, and the parson
| tried to arouse him by talking of the King
of Terrors. "Hout, tout, man, I'm no
- scarf. The King of Tcrrors I've been
It liyingzsax and thirty years with the Queen
c Of them, and the King Gamma be muckle
waur.'@
WONDERS or PurLosopHY.-Tho polypu'
G receives new Iif, from the knife which is 1T
n ted to destroy it. Tie h~y-spider lays an egE
Is az large a 5jtsclG. There are 4Ofl muscles
in a caterpillar. Hook discovered $4,000 mif
= rors in the eyes Of 9. drone; aud to effect tn
respiration Of a cGfp, $4,000 arteries, vessel
II, veins, and bones. etc, are necessary. The b.
- dy of every spider contains four little mas'e
&c MERGED with a multitude of impereeptibIe hole
lie each hole permitting the passage of a sIngI
y, thread; all thesthrcads, to the amount OF loo
r.. to each mass Join together when they com
ur out and make thread with which the spdE
w spins its web;so that what we call a spider
"a thread consists Of more than 1000 united. Ut
enhock, by means of a microscope, observe
"a spiders no larger than a grain OF sand WI
srm threads so small ttook 1000 Of them
i9 equal in magnitude a single hair.
YANKEE Doodle gives the following ca:
Of conscience: A celebrated liquor import
8, in Boston. recently had his pockotbook, CO
cEtaining d large gum Of money cut from /
Pocket, while entering church. A few. da
subsequent lie received the pocketbook throu
the post (postagc ~unlald) accompanied "
\ note, in which the writer stated, that al
leif uscing the money, he discovered to bis vi
7ls- horror that he had been making use of fttf
obtained in the infamous. liquor traffic. /
but therefore, returned the s2ckotbook, and wo'
der do the same by the money, should he be a
i'm to lay hands on it again.
the Coo11se PEppERs.-A gentleman at one
With the hotels in an eastern city sat beside a col
~trynan, who from appearance, had just eco
49,, down" He used 'slitted spoons,' as he tern
silver forks, with remarkable agility and
| OF ~fricasse dc pouIot, and other vianda were 5
lkes to their long account at magnetic speed.
the opposite side of the table stood a plate
peppers, the genuineared hot ones, strong
nough to shake man to pieces, which
countryman eyed for a moment, and t
plunged his fork over, and conveyed one en-
ago to his mouth, munched and munched, and II
ak, 5ched away until he could stand it no long
for he was the"'coIor of crimson, and the tf
,ver- poured down his cheeks. He hastily tool
from his mouth and laying 1t down aside 0
his plate exclaimed, there lay there and cool
you?"
nice 4 man lately put his dog to bed, and kic
~ h@S2self down stairs; he did not discover
9iI ,,,t;l +l,oy hror1,rhf him the doy's m