The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-16

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THE PUIsE.
TAs pulss Of hsaithy child, of from one day
to ons ysax old. II between l08 and lao, aud
Thu rsptdity Il no indication Of fever. Between
one and two years, from 80 TO 100. Third year,
from 80 to i08. Fourth. ffth and sixth, the
ssmA. The seventh. tho pulss becomes about
equai u that Of adults, which 10 from 60 10 =
little shove 90. Unless these natural variations
are attended to, parents, nurses, and physicians
will b greatly nislsd by the pu'se-
cHILLlHowoRrH.
Aubray in letter to Antony Wood says Of
The learned Chilingworth, that ~He was treated
inhumanly in his sickness by Doctor Cheynell,
who when he was to be buried. threw his book
Into the grave with him, saying, Rot with the
rotten; let the dead bury the dead " Ia the
same letter Aubrey says Of q book of poems by
the Rev. George Herbert, IT'S an honor to
the heavenly and ingeniose contemplation Of
this good man, who was pious even TO prophe-
sie."--E. G.
'Reiigion now on tptos stands.
''Rsady to 60 to the American strands"
BEN yossoH.
The same writer says, the epitaph of 20 rare
Ben Jonson," .was done at the charge Of John
Young, afterwards knighted.) who, walking
there when the grave Was covering, gave the
fellow eighteen pence TO cut it."
GOLD PENNIES.
Gold pennies, as they arc called, were coined
in England in the reign of Henry 3D., and were
valued at 40 pence. They must have been much
smaller than our gold dollars.
JERUSALEM.
L. g y. ,yb~ ~ 10 rosnt
out the precise sites Of all the "Holy Places"
critics, or labor under delusion. That city was,
according to Christ's prediction, completely de-
stroyed by Titus, who left nothing standing but
a piece OF the western wall, and the towers of
Hippicos, Phasael and Marianne. Sixty-fve
years after, Hadrian completely demolished what
Titus had spared, and sprinkled salt on their
sites. Not long after he built new city Of
smaller dimensions, taking in parts not included
in the ancient city, and leaving out others which
it had formerly contained, and placing the like
meas Of swine oyer the gate, opening towards
Bethlehem. He also strictly prohibited the Jews
from ever entering the city, or looking towards
il from the neighbcring hills. Under these cir
cumstances it is extremely impossible-to say
the least--that tradition should have preserved
the sites of Christ's sepulchre; the houses Cal
aphes, Tebedee, st. Mark, st. Thomas, the foun-
tain Of the Blessed Virgin, and more especially
the recollection of the precise spots, c0nsecrated
by various insignificant acts Of the Savior, the
Apostles, and others connected with the primi-
tive ages of the church. The monks of Jerusa-
lem, Mount Sinai, and other places, connected
with the mission of the Savior, and the miracles
Of Moses, have done their best to undermine the
baaia of the truths of the gospel, by corrupting
them with blunders and falsehoods, which great.
" tend to weaken their authority. Egmont in
his travels relates, that, after being shown the
rock from which Moses brought water by the
application of his rod, his attention was called to
Q cannon, which he was assured was cast in the
time Of Justinan.
PALACES TURNED INTO BRIDEwELL's, AND HOS
PITALs INTO PALACES.
The name of Bridewell, given to receptacles
for the lower classes of offenders, has a curious
derivation. The first building so called was a
palace of Henry W., situated near spring in
London, called St Bridget's, or st. Brides well,
which was given to the city by that prince in
1853, a. a work-house. st. James palace was
at first hospital for lepers, which being fore.
ibly surrendered to Henry WILL, by the monks
to whom it belonged, he turned it into palace,
or built one on its site.
WEAVING.
The English have been great weavers from a
very early period, according to Gervase, of Cam
terbury, who wrote in the year 1900, and who
says: 1.-THE art of weaving seemed to be Pc
cular gift bestowed on them by nature" Poor
fellows! they have almost been starved out by
power looms.
aPROPERTIEs."
The following ia list of the properties" OF
a Mystery played at Lincoln, in Queen Eliza
beth's time, called " The story of old Tobit in
the old Testament"
1lst. He'll mouth, with neither chap.
Item.--A prison, with covering.
Item.-Sarah's chamber.
Item.-A great Idol, with club.
Item.-A tomb, with covering.
Item.-The city of Jerusalem, with towers
and pinnacles-
Item.-The city of Kaiges, with towers and
pinnacles
Item.-The city of Nineveh.
Item.-The kings palace at Nineveh.
Item.--Old Tobye's house.
Item.-The Moabite's house, and the neigh
boris houses.
Item.--The kings palace Mt Laches.
Item.--A armament, with fiery cloud, and
double cloud-in the custody of Thomas Fub-
bick, alderman"
MEMORABLE EvErrs-May 9th, l8l4-On
this day Bonaparte, who had been nearly ten
wears emperor of the French, landed at EIba as