THE AGUE.-(From an Evenin...
The Times, 1824-10-08T00:00:00

TIiE AoE.-(Prom an Evening paper.)-Thirty years ago, a lady had the niisfortune to be afflicted with an ague, which baffled the attempts of the best medical assistance of her neighbour. hood for inore than two years, when a stranger, accidentally coming to the house, spoke with gxreat confiden e of a Yery simple remedy, namely, two teaepoons.full of the best flour of brimstone, taken in a gill of port winte, wheneverthe fit comne5 on, the patient going to bed immediately, and wrapped up in blankets. This the !ady was in- duced to try, as the remedy wa.s innocent in its nature, an no possi- ble evil could result. The eff'ect was a most profiuse perspiration, and the supprexsion of the fit for that time; two days afterwards it came on again, and the remedy not being resorted to, the fit had its Xsual course; again in two other days, on the symptoms up earing, the mixture was taken, and it not only gave immediate relief, but entirely removed the complaint. The lady in guestion is desirous of making the circumstance public, for the benefit of such as May be afflicted witlh this distressing complaint; and she is the more induced to do so, because she has, in Humerous cases, recommended the same remedy, and has not, in the experience of thirty years, known a single failure. The first application generally effects the cure, and few instances have occurred that required the repetition more than twice. Wrhere wine could not be procured, the sulphur mixed with waler has been fotind to answer the atime purpose. In the reign of Queen Elihzaeth, at the assize at Oxford, July, 1577, one Rowland Jenks, a Popish bookseller, for dispersing scan(lalous pamphlets defanmatory to the (Queen and State, was arraigned and condemnctd; buit on the sudden there artse such a damp, that almost all present were in danger of being smothered. The jurors died that instant; soon after dlied Sir Robert Bell, laord Qhief I3aron, Sir Robert de Oly, Sir Wm. Babington, Mir. de Ol, nigh Sheri, fI; r. Wearmain, Alr. Danvers, 11r. Fittiplace, tr. Harcourt, Justices; Mlr. Kerle, Mtr. Nash, Air. Greenwood, ir. Foster, gentlemen of good acCoutt; Sergeant Barham, an excellent pleader; 800 presently sickened and died within the towi ; and 200 mnore sitkening, died in other places; amongst all of whom there was neither woman nor child. Stephen Kemble, coming onieiight from a concert at Edinburgh, called a chair: two eons of St. Patrick immediately dragged the vehicle to him, but while he was preparing to *queeze himself into it, a friend who was just stepping into his carriage called out to himnlt; Keemble, I go by your door, and will set you down.' He gave e chairman a shllifng, and was going; when one of them, scratching his head, said he hoped his honour would give them more than a shilling. " What, you scoundrel ! when I never got into your chair ?" "True; but consider the fright your honour put us into," replied Pat. The late Rev. Mr. Neil, one of the Ministers of the West church, when ta%ing a walk in the afternoon, saw an old woman sitting by the roadside, evidently much intoxicated, with her bundle lying before her in the mud. He immediately recognized her to be one of hisrarishioners. "Will you just help me up with mv bundle, go s man ?"' said she, as lie stopped. " Fie, fie, Janet " said the pastox~ to see the ISke o' you in suoh a plight. Do you know where-anll drunkards5 go to?" "Ay, sure," said Janet, they Just go whar a d,ap o' gude drink is to be got."-Scotch paper. ANCIENT RELIC.-About a fortnight since some work- men employed in the improvements carrying on at Sand7well Park, the seat of Walter Lawrence, Esq., dug up, at some distance froml the surace, a very curistr relic of antiquity-being evidently the head of a " bwyelt-arvan," or ancient Britishbattle-axe, (a plate of which may be seen in " MeyrickLs Ancient Armour.") It is about five inches in length, .J ini breadth in the centre, but upwards of three incles in the sweep of the axe, and of nearlv half an inch thickness at the most solid part. It retains the mark8c of rude carving, and at the broad end gradually slopes down to a thin sharp edge.- Cheltenhaun ClYrezicle. [AdyertisemenLI]ROYAL FAaMILIES OF FRANcE.-As at the present moment whatever relates to the French Monarchy possesses peculiar Interest, it may not be displeasing to our rea,ders to be in- Forme-d, that in a little work, entitled Aroore's 5listory of France, are tables of the families of the Sovereigns of tne various dvystieaF Independently, too, of this feature, whicelPonferson it a value not always possessed by iarger publiiations, this volume may be recom. menlecd as afrording a good preds of Frenci history, especially as an elementary work for vouth2 for whom it is more immediately de- signed. Published by ttIldwin and Co., Paternoster-row. 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