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which a man enabled to speak wisely from the principles of nature and his own meditation, loves rather to be thought to speak by inspiration, like a bagpipe.”—Preface to Gondibert.

FALSE ornaments in poetry-the public are taken by them as larks are caught by doring-a net and a looking glass.

AARON HILL, Vol. 1, p. 41, describes the raptures of a rural walk from Buckingham Gate to Tothill Fields.

Aaron Hill sought to reform the dresses of the theatre, vol. 1, pp. 141-2-3.

His scheme for an academical theatre.— Ibid. p. 194.

CANNIBALS who have tried both, assure us that white men are finer flavoured than❘ negroes, and Englishmen than Frenchmen. -LANGSDORFF, vol. 1, p. 141.

BADDELEY, the comedian, left to the theatrical fund his cottage at Hampton, in trust, that they should elect to reside in it, four such of the fund pensioners as might not object to living sociably under the same roof. The house has two parlours and four bedchambers, and that they might not appear in the neighbourhood like dependents, he left a certain sum to be by them distributed in charity. There was to be a little smoking summer house built for them of wood from old Drury, bought for the purpose, and so situated as to command a view of the Temple of Shakespeare erected by Garrick. He also left the interest of £100 3 per cents, for an annual twelfth-cake with wine and punch in the great green room, to make the future sons and daughters of Thespis remember an old friend and member of the profession.

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A MS. note in a copy of the Coll. of Verses on the Cotswold games, in the possession of Mr. Octavius Gilchrist, says, "Dr. John Dover was born in the sixty-second year of his mother's age, as his own daughter now living (1747) attests, who is wife to Mr. Cordwell the city carpenter."

WHEN Woodward the Comedian was in Dublin, and lodged opposite the Parliament House, a mob who were making the members swear to oppose an unpopular bill, called out to his family to throw them a Bible out of the window. Mrs. W. was frightened, for they had no such book in the house, but he threw out a volume of Shakespere, telling the mob they were welcome to it. They gave him three cheers, swore the members upon this book, and afterwards returned it without discovering its con

tents.

INOCULATION - opposed in America by Dr. Douglas, a Scotchman. See Boylston, ALLEN's American Biography.

LONDON is annually supplied with about 4000 dozen larks from the country about Dunstable.

At Leipsic the excise on larks is said to produce 6000 dollars yearly! about £900.

CARDINAL ALEANDER'S epitaph, written | kindness. He lived to be replaced, and died by himselfat 80, at the house of his eldest son, at Hammersmith, much respected.

Κάτθανον οὐκ ἀέκων, ὅτι παύσομαι ὢν ἐπι

μάρτυς

Πολλῶν, ὧνπερ ἰδεῖν ἄλγιον ἦν θανάτου.

RICHARD ALLEINE, the Somersetshire Nonconformist, who was ejected from the living of Batcomb, in that county, wrote a book called Vindicia Pietatis, or a Vindication of Godliness, which was published in 1665 without a license, and therefore the copies were seized, and sent to the King's kitchen for waste paper. This was done upon an information of the king's bookseller (his name?), and this fellow then bought them up at a cheap rate, and sold them himself! For this he was brought on his knees to the council-table, and the book again sent to the kitchen and bisked,-inked so as to be illegible.

ALLELOPHAGI, so those flies are called which eat each other, and under this term are many of our authors to be classed.

ALERION,' an invention in heraldry of the French to insult the empire, -a spread eaglet without beak or feet.

MIKEPHER ALPHERY. Toward the close of the sixteenth century, this prince, with two brothers, being of the imperial line of Russia, were sent to England to save their lives, in consequence of the state of things, and consigned to Joseph Bidell, a Russia merchant. He sent them to Oxford, where the two brothers died of the small-pox. The survivor took orders in the English Church, and had the rectory of Wooley, in Huntingdonshire. From thence he was invited to put himself at the head of his friends, and recover the throne of his ancestors, but he preferred his own humbler, happier, and holier life. The Puritans used him ill, and ejected him; but the Presbyterian who was put in his place, treated him with much

See MENAGE in v. Alerions.—J. W. W.

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ANNOTTO. Odd that what some Indians used to paint themselves with, should be used in Europe for purposes as silly,-by the English to dye their cheese, and by the Dutch as well as English to dye their butter!

Courier, February 2, 1815. CURIOUS India shawl. The admirers of Oriental genius are invited to an inspection of the most perfect specimen of Indian workmanship ever produced; which, from its elegant intricacy of design, and beautiful combination of colours, is justly esteemed as the chef d'œuvre of Eastern ingenuity. Price, 500 guineas, at Everington's India and British

Shawl warehouse.

THERE is at Vicenza a benefit of art, analogous to our benefit of clergy. A criminal who can prove himself the best workman in any useful art, has his life spared for the first offence. This would have saved poor Ryland, and the man who made the selfmoving carriage.

SOME old empirics persuaded certain patients of more rank than intellect, that gold, being a royal metal, was peculiarly well cal

The reader should refer to WALKER'S Suf ferings of the Clergy, part ii. p. 183. It is stated in the Biog. Brit. that " Mrs. Alphery, the last descendant of this family, married one Johnson, a sadler at Huntingdon, and was living in 1764, when she confirmed these facts to the late Lord Sandwich." in v.

" William Wynne Ryland, the engraver, executed for forgery in 1783.-J. W. W.

culated to cure the diseases of royal and bell-ringing, one man learning only one noble personages.

BABOONS have an antipathy to men.

JUDGE JENKINS,' a Welshman, expected to be hung by the Parliament for his zeal in Charles's cause. He had a great desire for this political martyrdom, and had resolved to go to the gallows with Bracton on his left shoulder, the statutes at large on his right, and the Bible round his neck, that these books, as having been his counsellors, should hang with him. "And first," said he, "I will eat much liquorice and gingerbread, thereby to strengthen my lungs, that may be heard far and near."

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*THE changes on seven bells are 5040; on twelve, 479,001,600, which it would take 91 years to ring at the rate of two strokes in a second. The changes on fourteen bells could not be rung through at the same rate in less than 16,575 years; and upon fourand-twenty, they would require more than 117,000 billions of years.

TALFORD knew a cat and dog who, when the family removed house, travelled back in company to the old habitation, thirty miles distant, the cat under convoy.

Cattle.

*THE most important point for feeders is, that they should die well. This is Lord Somerville's phrase.

Some bulls of the middle-horned breed are reproached with being throaty, the skin too profuse and pendulous. The neck perhaps thick and goary in the estimation of strangers, but with this property the oxen are not to be reproached, or they would not labour as they do.

The flesh must be mellow in handling. The coarse square Dutch beefy breed is the basis of the short-horned breed.

The common Lincolnshire are coarse in head and horn, large boned, and high upon the leg. Those that never fatten are called lyery.

Never was a more fortunate cross than between the Alderney and the Northern short horns. They are unrivalled for great milking, and famous for carrying a vast depth of natural flesh, and tallowing within in the first degree. But in fineness of flesh they can never compete with certain other breeds without the entire overthrow of their Dutch basis by a repeated use of some other

cross.

The Holderness are too often the worstshaped cattle in the island, and perhaps the

least profitable,-long, gaunt, deep carcasses, without adequate substance, placed upon high stilts of the coarsest timber, slow feeders, never fat, and the flesh excessively

coarse.

Some of the Glamorganshire cattle cloddy. The Pembroke ox is too leggy, but he becomes early ripe, and will make fat at four years old, and stands his drift, that is to say, his journey, better than any from Wales.

In the Agricultural Report of Middlesex the London dealers in milk are said to keep 8590 cows. They have been driven farther from town by the scarcity of grass land, and therefore carry the milk there in light carts, wherein it is slung in tin jars. One dealer had nearly 1000, worth £23 each, affording annually a return of £38 each, and a net profit of £6000 per year.

Each cow affords about nine quarts per day, 3285 per year.

The retailer by adulteration and cream clears £26.138. 4d. a year by every cow. They divide among themselves an annual sum of

£308,833, and London pays annually for

milk £626,233.

The water adulteration is carried on

openly. One keeper calls his pump from its colour the famous black cow. By this name it is known, and is said to yield more than all the rest of his cows together. Look for the trial upon this subject.

CONUS princeps. One variety of this shell called the King of the South. Three specimens were known in France before the Revolution, the finest of which was in the

possession of Comte de la Tour d'Auvergne:

this came from the Isle of France, and was known by the appellation of Le Cedo-nulli aux Isles. Of the Queen of the Isles, it is contested whether there be one or two specimens, Lyonet's Cedo-nulli being affirmed by some, and contested by others, to be the celebrated Cedo-nulli of La Faille's cabinet; but this last is said to have been purchased at the Hague, about the year 1728, for the

King of Portugal's cabinet. The fate of Lyonet's is not known; but it is believed at present "to enrich one of the Parisian museums."

THE ducking stool was a legal punishment. Roguish brewers and bakers also were liable to it, and they were to be ducked in stercore, the town ditch. Cathedra stercoris it is called in Domesday Book.

DAGENHAM breach.' The injustice of Parliament to Captain Perry, leaving him, after five years of exertion, anxiety, and care, £500 poorer than when he began.

ERGOT, a disease in corn, and especially in rye, which produces in those who eat it dry gangrene and death!

ARTIFICIAL asses milk! The receipt is in the Cyclopædia under the word Eryngo.

A. D. 1809. A BARGE was going along the new cut from Paddington with casks of spirits and barrels of gunpowder. It is sup

posed that one of the crew bored a hole in a powder barrel by mistake, meaning to steal spirits, the gimblet set fire to the powder, and eleven other barrels were driven to the distance of 150 yards; but only the single barrel exploded.

THE Bretons buy from Norway the offal and entrails of the large fish caught in the North seas, which of late years has become a considerable article of trade. These they cut in pieces and strew along the coast, when the wind is not off shore, and this bait brings the pilchards in shoals.

MACKEREL Come to feed on the narrowleaved, purple, palmated sea-wrack,—herrings on an insect called the sea caterpillar.

This irruption of the Thames took place in 1707. The land was recovered by Captain Perry at an expense of £40,000.

2 This is now used medicinally, as is well known; but it has a poisonous effect, and requires the utmost caution.-J. W. W.

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JULY 13. Read two pamphlets by William Hale upon the London Female Penitentiary. His argument that such institutions do more harm than good, is like some of the arguments against the Bible Society, made of right stuff, but spun too fine. But he clearly shows how exceedingly important it is that the parish offices should be served by men of respectability, activity, and principle, who would discharge them as parts of their civil and religious duty. Each parish is in itself a little commonwealth, and it is easy to conceive that before manufactures were introduced, or where they do not exist, a parish may be almost as well ordered as a family. Note this as one of the most practicable and most efficient means of reform. Good overseers would make the workhouse at once a house of asylum, of correction, of industry, and of reform.

Hale's argument, that, reform as many prostitutes as you may, their places will be filled, and the number not diminished, is, I dare say, well founded. According to him, the greater number are single women who work by day at various trades, and try their luck to boot. But these cannot be the rampant whores who render the streets dangerous at night.

JOHN MINNS, of Norwich, at the age of 78, had his coffin made, set it up, and used it as a cupboard. He lived sixteen years. The worms attacked the coffin, and when

he died, his friends were obliged to send it to the carpenter to be repaired.

CHRISTMAS, 1815. The postboy has brought this "shocking news," as Mrs. Lloyd's1 man calls it, from Kendal to Ambleside; that there was a poor man there who had eels in him, and never any poor creature was known to bide so much as he did with these eels. They made a hole in his side to sec if they could get the eels, but it was found that they could not be got out without killing him; and at last he was in such pain that the doctors sleeped him to death. The interpretation of this Mr. Scambler supposes to be, that the man had an aneurism of the aorta, the visible pulsation was supposed to be the motion of the eels, and he died in the usual course of the disease soon after some dose had been given to allay the symptoms. Cupping or leeching may explain the other exaggeration.

"THE Bible," says Mr. OWEN, "as it proceeded originally from the sacred penmen. would (if it were in existence) give us in a manner the autograph of God."

MISS HUTCHINSON's great grandmother was one of a party who sat down to the first pound of tea that ever came into Penrith. It was sent as a present, and without directions how to use it. They boiled the whole at once in a kettle, and sat down to eat the leaves with butter and salt; and they wondered how any person would like such a dish.

Ar Rowland Hill's Chapel is an organ by Elliot, of great power. It is said that on the performance of one of the hymns descriptive of thunder, many of the congregation have fainted.

IN 1806, the United Lodges of Druids

The wife of Southey's friend, C. Lloyd. Mr. Scambler was the medical practitioner at Ambleside.-J. W. W.

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