The American patriot., 1855-12-01

tity about the heart Of q coquette tom he
had foriaerly dissected. He affirmed us that
he had actually enclosed it in All tube 9
made after the manner of weatherass; but {
that instead ofacquainting him withhe varia-
tions of the atmosphere, it showeihim the
qualities Of those persons who eered the
room where it stood. He affirmedlso, that
it rose at the approach Of plume feathers,
an embroidered coat, or a pair Of fried gloves,
and that it fell as soon as an ill-9ped peri
wig, clumsy pair Of shoes or an nfashiona-
bic coat came into his house nayIe proceed.
ed SO far as to assure us that upohis laugh
ing aloud when he stood by 1.-THE liquor
mounted very sensibly, ann immiiately sunk
again upon his looking serious. In short, he
told US that he knew very we'll this inyen-
ton whenever he had a man sense or a
coxcomb III his room. r Is 5tsaa
Having cleared away the perirdium, or the
case, end liquor above mentionl, we came to
the heart itself. The outwar surface Of it
was extremely slippery, and he macro, or
point, so very cold withal, tn upon endeav-
curing to take hold Of it, it gaed trough the
fingers like smooth piece ofce.
The fibres were turned al twisted in a
more Intricate and perplexed pnner than they
are usually found in other fhrts; insomuch,
that the whole heart was wd,d up together
like Gordian knot, and mt have had very
irregular and unequal motie, whilst it was
employed in its vital functio
| One thing we thought verpbservable, namc-
ly, that upon examining alhe vessels which
came into it. or issued out + it, We could not
discover any communicate that it had with
the tongue.
We could not but take ptice likewise, that
several of those little nervi in the heart which
are affected by the scntin nnts of love, hatred,
and other passions, did n, descend to this be-
fore us from the brain, BIT from the muscle
which lie about the eye.
Upon weighing the bart in my hand,
found it to be extrcmelyight, an consequent
ly very hollow, which Ibid not wonder at,
when, upon looking int,the inside of it, saw
multtudes of cells andcavities running one
Nittin another, as our jistorians describe the
apartments of Rosamoh's Bower. Several Of
these little hollows wer stuffed with innumer-
able sorts of triHes wlch shall forbear gi i.
ing any particular accant Of, and shall there
fore only take notice what lay first and up
permost, which, upopour unfoldiud it, and ap-
plying our microscop to it, appeared to be a
fiamc-coourcd hood
We were informedhat the lady of this heart,
when living, reccivetthe addresses of several
who made love to he, and did not only give
each of them encouragement, but made every
one she converscd With believe that she re-
garded him with an ye ofkindness; for which
reason, we expectsdto have seen the impress
sion of multitudes faces among the severa.
p'aits and foldings + the heart; but, to our
great surprise, noh single print of this ma
ture discovered itlG, till we came into the
very core and cent? Of it. We tn re observ-
ed little figure, 3ich, upon applying our
glasses to it, appeatd dressed in very fantas-
tic manner. The rore I looked upon it, the
more thought hid seen the face before but
could not possibly ecolect either the place or
time; when at lengh one of the company, who
had examined thisignre more nicely than the
rest, Showed us panly by the make of its face
and the several tuns of its features that tn.
little idol which WIS thus lodged in the very
middle of the hear, was the deceased beau
whose head l gae some account of in m,
last Tuesdays paper
As soon as we bad finished our dissection
we resolved to nike an experiment of the
heart, not being ple TO determine among our
selves the natureof its substance which dif
fered in SO many PARTICULARS from that Of tn,
heart in other females. Accordingly we lai,
it into pan of blrning Goals when we obser
we'd in it a certain salamandrne quality, tina
made it capable 4 living in the mi LIST of firt
and fame, without being consumed, or SO mucl
as singed.
As we were atmiring this strange phmno
menon, and standing round the heart in Gil
Gle, it gave a most prodigous sigh, or rathe
crack and dispersed all at once into smoke an
vapour. This imaginary noise, which mt
thought was ouder than the burst of a car
non, produced such violent shake in m
brain, that it lissipated the fumes of sleep, an
left me in an instant, broad awake-ADDIso
Pretty Goop.-The Columbus Miss Eag
tells the following story:
We understand that country gentlema
residing in the western part of this countr,
while on his way to this city few days SIM
met upon the road valuable house servant
Col. J. B. Cobb, named Governor and inquire