and another two inches long. The wit was now called upon for his. "No, gentlemen," fays he," its unneceffary to trouble the waiter to write mine, fince you all know, I believe, pretty well, that my name is a FOOT long.". A A DROLL MISTAKE. N English Jack-tar telling his fhipmate the other day that there was a likelihood of war breaking out again on account of the definitive treaty not coming," The definitive treaty (exclaimed the other) and who the devil is he?"! "Why (faid the former) 'tis the Spanish ambaffador, as I am told, and I hope the fon of a whore will stay where he is." T A SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. HIS fummer a pair of jack-daws attempted to build their neft upon the weathercock of the Exchange at Newcastle upon Tyne; but by every change of wind their fabric was deFroyed. The birds perfevering in their attempts, carried clay up to the weathercock till the fame was prevented from turning; they then finished their neft, in which two young jackdaws have been hatched, and one of them is now in the poffeffion of a magiftrate of that corporation. ANECDOTE of Dr. GM and his APPRENTICE. THE HE doctor having an apprentice, whom he employed in domeftic and even culinary concerns inftead of difpenfing phyfic, the boy remonftrated with the mafter, and bluntly infifted on being inftructed in the Jecrets of the profeffion. The doctor complied, and told him he should go with him that afternoon to a patient in a very dangerous fituation, where he might have an opportunity to fee his grand method of difcovering the diagnoftic of a difeafe. The doctor with the apprentice entered into the room of a patient almoft exhaufted. After feeling the pulfe, &c. he flew into a great rage, and accufed the nurse with having giving the fick man eggs, which he pronounced fatal to bis diforder, and hurried away to fend, as he laid, a specific antidote. The apprentice took this opportunity to interrogate the VOL. II. 36, 2 G doctor: doctor: "Fray, Sir, how did you know the nurfe had given the man eggs, for that must be a great fecret ?"-" Why, Jack, (fays the doctor) because I faw the egg-fhells under the bed," The apprentice was inftantly fent off with the antidote, but too late, as the patient was dead. On this information the doctor expreffed great aftonifhment, to relieve which, the apprentice, with great eagerness and fimplicity, affured his mafter, that during their abfence the patient had eaten a horse. "Impoffible!" faid the doctor. True, by G-d, (replied the boy) for I faw the bridle and faddle under the bed." REMARKABLE INSTANCE of the FIDELITY of DOGS. ON N Wednesday the 24th of July laft, a child, thirty-five months old, belonging to the Swifs, a porter to Monf. de Caumartin, preveft de marcha, or mayor of Paris, difappeared between fix and feven o'clock in the evening; at the fame time the father miffed a favourite lap-dog. The few hours that re mained of the Wednesday, and the whole of the following day, were employed in fearch of the child; every hole and corner was looked into, but to no purpose. At length on the Friday, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, the valet de chambre bethought himfelf of a refervoir of water, fituate at one of the ends of the dwelling-houfe; on the back of a terrace that leads to it, ftands the door of a ftore-room; from whence the fervant heard the howling of a small dog; he opens the ftore-room, the liberated animal being tormented with thirft, goes immediately to the water, and returns in hafte to the ftore-room. Word is brought to the Swifs that his dog is found: but how light and infignificant fuch a comfort to the parents who were lamenting on the lofs of a child! but it foon appeared that the child and the dog had been fhut up in the ftore-room ever fince the preceding Wednefday. The faithful animal, feeing that none of the gas be made were underflood, returned to the room where the babe was plunged in the deadly flumbers of inaction. The little dog gently drags it to the terrace, and thinking to have fecured the child's life, he runs fkipping to the porter's lodge, now and then turning his eyes towards the place he had juft left. His mute language was at laft understood: he led the way, and the joyful parents were fo happy as to arrive time enough to reftore life to their long loft and almoft expiring child. REVENUES REVENUES of the CLERGY. R. WATSON, bishop of Llandaff, values the ecclefiaftical Dpreferents, or bland in moremain, of the kingdom, as under : The valuation of this, by Dr. Warner, is, 1,680,000 Ditto, by Dr. Burn, Ditto, by Mr. Young, 1,500,000 1,600,000 The number of parochial clergy in the kingdom may be fet down at about 10,000 or 10,500 and of them a moiety have not, and by the operation of queen Anne's bounty, cannot have, in the lapfe of a century to come, 100l. a year! In the diftribution of ecclefiaftical emoluments what can be more criminally unequal than the allotments, as they now ftand exhibited above?-100,000l. a year confumed by two dozen bishops, and but 110,000l. a year among the whole body of parochial clergy. HINT relative to BLEACHING of YARN. HE horfe-chefnut is employed for the purpose of bleaching yarn in France and Switzerland; and it is recommended in the Memoirs of the Society of Berne, as capable of extensive ufe, in whitening not only flax and hemp, but alfo filk and wool. It contains an aftringent, faponaceous juice, which is obtained by peeling the nuts, and grinding or rafping them. They are then mixed with hot rain or running water, in the proportion of twenty nuts to ten or twelve quarts of water. Wove caps and ftockings were milled in this water, and took the dye exceedingly well; and fuccefsful trials were made of it in fulling ftuffs and cloths. Linen in this water takes a pleafing light fky-blue colour; and the filaments of hemp fteeped in it for a few days, were eafily feparated. Made into cakes or balls, it will answer the purposes of foap in washing and fulling. The fediment, 2 G 2 after after infufion, lofes its bitter taste, and becomes good food for poultry, when mixed with bran. 1. ASIATIC CITIES enigmatically expreffed, by S. M. O. of Shaftesbury. GREAT curiofity in Derbyshire, expunging a letter, and half of a measure. 1AGREAT 2. The two first letters of a precious metal, and two fifths of an intrigue. 3. Two fixths of one of the furies, a confonant, and two eighths of one of the muses. 4. A liquor, a confonant, and the river the fon of Apollo was ftruck into by a thunderbolt. 5. The initial of an apostle, a word fynonimous with fafe reverfed, and to cripple tranfpofed. 6. A vowel, a famous village for baths in Germany, and three fourths of a part of the body. 7. Half of to challenge, a confonant, and half of what death deprives us of. 8. A ferpentine letter, half of a fragrant tree, and two ftvenths of the nymphs of fountains. An ENIGMA, by S. M. O. of Shaftesbury. O Goadby's bards I'll dedicate my verfe, And my own acts and wond'rous deeds rehearse; But fay, ye gents, perhaps you will not credit How oft did I when troops furrounded Troy, "Tis true that Hercules great deeds atchiev'd, #7 But I am not " thou art an ancient then"-that's true; I always was, and fill am to be seen. "Thou art amphibious then"-perhaps you're right- ** The Editors have no objection to Mr. Quant's Moral Tale, but wish to receive the whole before they infert any Part of it. POETRY. |