The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-12-27

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down in Damascus and indile letter 10
Bsgdad-or indeed 10 sny distance whatso-
ever83 Another comma udcd the lightning
70 come down to him out Of the heavens,
and i came at his call, and served him for
= playthi0g when i came. Another took
two loud sounds and out Of them made 4 Il.
ience. Another constructed deep dark.
ness ont oftwo brilliant lighis.FG Ahhsh-
er made ice 10 red-hot furnace Anoth-
ct directed the Gun 10 paint bis portrait,
and the sun did,t Another took this Iu-
minary with tho moon and the pIa nets, and
having FIRST weighed them with scrnpolous
accuracy, probed into their depths and
found out the solidi.y of tho substance Of
which they nre made. But the whole ma
ton Is. indeed, ofso surprising necromau.
tic ability, that not even their Infants. nor
their cofnmoucst cats and dogs have any
difficulty in seeing objects that ID not
exist at all, or that for twenty thonsand
years before the birth Of the nation ITSELF
had been blotted out from The face Of crea-
tion.'. 70 ~ n ~
'Preposteroue.r said the king. asfs
I 1.-THE wives md daughters Of these "a
comparably great and wise fnaeii,s contin-
ued Scheherozade, without, being in anv
manner disturbed. by these frequent and
most nngent'emanly interruptions On the
part finer husband-'the wives and daurh.
tiers OF these eminent coniufefs are every
thing that IS accomplished and refined and
would be everything that Is interesting and
beautiful, but for IN unhappy fatality that
besets them, and from which not evef, the
miraculous powers Of their husbands and
fnthers have, hitherto, been adequate to
save. Some fatalities come in certain
shapes. and some in oihers@-but this 1t
which ! speak, has come in tbs share BfA
crochet @ II
"a what?" said the king.
"a CROCHET" said Scheherazade. Ono
Of the evil eenii who .rs perpetually upon
the watch to infiict il, b . put il into i'd
heads Of these accomplished ladies' that the
thing which we describe 40 personal beauty,
consists altogether in the prntuberance Of
the region which lies not very far below
the small Of the back. Perfection Of love-
Liners, thep ssy, is in tho direc, ratio Of
the extent OF this hump. Having been
long possessed Of this ides, and holsters
being cheap in shnt country, the days bsve
long gone by since Il was possible to dis:
tinguish q woman from dromedary-ns
"Stop!" said the king-"I can't stand
that, and won't. You have already given
me dreadful headache with your lies.
The day, too. perceive is beginning 10
break. How long have We been married.
Thy conscience Is getting 10 be troub-
lesome again. And then that dfnmedary
touch---do you take me Tor fDoli Upr,
the whole you might a. we'll get up and -
throttied."
These words rs / lcarn from lsitsoornot.
both grieved and astonished Scheherazsde;
but, a. ahe knew the king to be If sesupu-
lous integrity, aud quite unlikely to forfeit
bis word, she submitted TO her fate with
good grace. She derived, however, great
consolation, during the Tightening Of the
bowstring,) from the reflection that mlci,
Of the history remained still untold, and
that the petulence Of her brute ofa husband
had reaped ~ him a most t.gh.eous rs.
wnrd, in derriving him Of many inconceit-
able adventures.
MThc Electro Telegraph PTin ing Appsratus.
SfCommon experiments in Natural Phll,sc-
phv. s
*Plaee a plntina crucible over spirit lamp.
and keep il a red heat; pour in some sulphuric
acid, which though the most volatile Of bodies
at common temperature. will be found 10 be.
come completely fixed in hot crucibe, and not
q drop evaporatcs--being surrounded by nm at
mosphere Of its ownj it does not in fact touch The
ced, when the acid Immediately coming in con-
tncs with the heated sides Of the crucible, flies
otfin sulphIrous acid vapory and so rapid is its
progress, that the caloric Of the water asses
Oft with it, which falls lump Of ice to the bot
tom; by taking advantage of the moment before
il is allowed to re-melt, it may be turned GU. .
lump Of ice from red-hot vessel.
the DaguerreOtype.
tAlthough light travels 200 900 miles 10 sees
ond, the distance OF what we suppose to be the
nearest f1ed star (Sirius) il 70 inconceivably
great, that its rays would require at least three
years 10 reach the earth. For stars beyond this
aO--or even 1000 years--would Be moderate 90.
innate. Thus, If they had been annihiiated 20.
or 1000 years ago, we might still see them to-
day, by tho light which stsvted from their surfa.
ces 20 or 1000 years to the past time. That mas
ny which we see daily are really extinct, is not
imposs bte--nor even improbable. t,sss
NEwsrAPERs.-'rhe reading Of good and
well conducted newspaper, even fot the
short space Of one-quarlef Of a year; bfihgs
more sound instructions, md leaves deepl
er impression, than wonld be acquiredt
probably, at the best fchool Ii twelve
months. Talk 10 the members OF family
who read the papers, and compare their
Information and intelligence with thoss
who do not. The difference is beyond