Weekly Messenger, Volume 1, Number 47, Vevay, Switzerland County, 7 August 1832 — Page 4

JONATHAN S VISIT TO THE GENE

UAL COURT. 1 guess you wont be a little struck up when jcu find that I'm in Boston. I went up to ihs- Sta!- House to Fee what was going on there; hut ! thought I'd get off my tipple sauce o! my way and teeing n sign of o!J clothes b.uu r.(J. I stepped in and made a tiado, n:;d git a wlole suit of superfine black broadcloth from top to toe, for a Jiikin of apple sauce, (which diiTnt cost me much ' i;uss at home.) Accordingly f rigged my-

s 11 up in tnc r.nw suit, and you d hardly hnown mf. I did'nt like the set of the shoul- , they were fo dreadful puckery; but the imn said that alt was right. I guess he'll !v,J the apple sauce full as puck.Ty when he gpts down into il but that's between our stives. When I got up la the State House I for ad thni all at work on the rail road )u?y enough I can tell you the) got a part of it undo already. 1 found most all i!ie folks kept their hats on except the mm who was talking out Ion I and the man he was talking to all the rest s?emed to be buy about their own eonsarns. As I did'nt see any body to talk to, I kept my hat on and took a scat, and look'd round to see what was going on. 1 had'nt be;n comfortably there long before I saw a slick-headed, sharp-eyed little ma. , who seemed to have the principal m i;iagemei.t of the folks, looking at pretty sharp. Are you a member! says he sartin says I. How long have you taken your seat? says he. About ten minutes, says I. Ate you qualified? says he. I guess not, Says I. And then he left me. But he soon returned and said it Was proper for to be qualified before I took my seat, and I must go before the govenor! By jingo! I never felt so before in all my born days. As good lack would have it he was beckoned to come to a man at the desk, and as soon as his back was turned 1 gave him the slip. Just as I was going off, the gentleman who bought my turkies txk hold of my arm, and I "was afraid at first that he was going to carry me to the governor. How long have you been been in the house t Says I, I hav'nt been here long. Then says he in a very pleasant way, a few of your brother members are to take pot luck with me to-day, and I should be happy to have you join them. Sayg I, ye j, and thauk ye too; how long before you'll want me, sa) si. At 3 o'clock, says he, and give me piece of paste-board with his name

jthance for me to pa; n a word- ilr ! caleu-jlMe'ew tli6 power f caring iisiM.s?s n::.laMated I knew as much about raising stock and rieouslv. Finally.

lated I knew as much about raising stock and

Keeping over as any of fin. Says ( to Mr. , there's one thing I've alwaxs observed in my experience in stock just as sure as you try to keep over more stock than you

have fodder to carry them well into Api'.j, one half will die on jour haud3, to a sar'.uity and there's no remedy for il I've '.ried it out and out, and there's no law that can make a ton of hay keep over t&'i cows, unless )ou have more carrots an' potatoes than ymi can throw a stick at. This made some

; me ioiks 6iare. wnouia ni Know mucn about slock and Sieve g'.ve me a joe, as much

as to ? keep quiet. He thought I was get

ting into a quagmire, and soon after, giving me a wink, he upaiicd the door, and got me

out me loom. MEASURING FOIl A SUPI'ER.

A tall, ru'joned, black headed fellow, of

no ery prepossessing appearance, stopped awhile ago mi one of the hotels in Boston,

and asked for sunner. Shfler, the famous

dancing master, who, we are tori, is one of

the

greatest va2s

on i!, and the

name of the street, and th

house, and said that would

After strdlirrr round and

seeing a great many things about the state

nu nber of hi

shw me the way

inusc, I went into the street they call B

Street, an J my stars! what swarms f 11 1 ...

io'ks 1 saw, nit .j rest up us lt thcjp Were g0 ipg to meeting. Yot, tan tell cousin I'olly Saobum, who you know is no pink stern, lhat she need'nt Uke on so about not being' genteel in hr sh.ipns for the greatest la dies here beat her as to size all hollow. I don't btiieve one of Vm could get into our fore d Cr ,id a- fr ihiir arms " I .1 1 J'

' ciiuuiu III want be e. mea?m e for a besSel of meal han one o( u.ejr !eeve wu!d hold. I look out the piece of pasteboard and began to inquire my w ,v and got alo ,g complete lv, and found the no o er the first li.r.c-but the door was locked, a id there was no knocker, and 1 thump- ith my whip handle, but nobody come. And says I to a man going by, don't riobodv ilVe here, and says he, yes." Well, how do yon get in! Wh, Hys ,e, ring and says I, ring what? And says he, the bell. And e)s I, where's the rope? and says he, pull that little brass nob: and so I gave it a twitch and I'm sure a bell did ring; and who do you think opened the door with a white apron afore him? You could'nt gucs for a week-so I'll tell o. t wa, Stephen Furlong, who kppt o n district school last winter, for 6 dollars a month, and kept bachelor's null tn aunt Jeru.ha's tether end of the old house. We was considerably struck up al trst, both of Ui; ;n)d when he found that I

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v . ' '"' ie inougtu it qaeer kind of uotngs-but, says he, I guess it will be as well for both of us not to know each other a bit more than we can help. And ays 1 with a wink,you're half right, avd in I went. has about as nimble a tongue as ycu ever heard, and sould say ten words to

ray cne, and I had nothing to do in the wav

in the cjuntiy, hting pre

sent, Boniface tipt him tne wi.-.k f j iume

pr$ lem. the duties of the landlord. Shaffer

putting on such an air of importance as becaire tfte master of the house, told the stranger he could have supper, iad desired to know what he would choose. "Su:agt;s," replied, the other. "Very well, sir," taid the temporary landlord, str.pping U;i to him,

"Til take your measure, if jou please.' i) j measure'.'' ejaculated the stranger, and began to draw back. "Yes sir," continued the wag, 'e alwa)s take the measure of p o pie before we get them a meal of victuals." "What! measure a man for a meal of yictu Rlsj'the same as you would for a toat or pair o trowsers? By jingo! that beats me, I lell ye." Then surveying his 6tout frame i h a rueful countenance, he concluded nn i -take supper, but content himself with a n-u-ple of crackers and a glass of cider, "O, ve ry well, sir," said the lover of fun; and tne man having osp itched the crackers aud sent the rider after them, asked if ho coold have abed. I'll see piesenllj," said the counterfeit landlord, and casting his eje busily over a slate that hung up in the bar, he resumed, "Yes, sir, we can accommodate you we have one that has but eleven in it." "What! rleven in one bed, and mere to be stowed in yelt By hoket ! 1 should like to know how they sleep in Bostown." "Well, you shall soon have an opportunity of trjing it. Here, Thomas, light this gentleman to

jbed, in No. 1340." St.p, stop, Mister I jsay, landlord, I should like to know first how

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neously. Finallv. tierfection ie lixftred tt

7 times purified in the fire. POLICE COURT.

A poor old negro man came hobl'ftg into

court, and stated that he wished to make a complaint; on which the following dialogue

took placo. Complainant. I wish to getta de search warrum. Court. Do you mean a search warrant? Com. Yes, massa, a search warrum; I loss 'em and I like to hab 'em. Court. Well, what have you lost? Com. 1 lossa my wife, massa. Court. Did any body steal your wife? Com. Oh, for sartin. Da carry 'em away, an ! no can fine 'cm. Oh, de bominashum! If I getta 'em, I pot 'cm in de house ob correcshum.

Court. Well, as yoti wish tc get lid of

her, you had better not trouble yourself about her. Com. Dat no good law, mnssa. i come for justice done 'em, an I getta justice. Court. How old is your wife? Coin. She forty lebben massa. Court. I suppose you mean fifty-one. 1 you should get a search warrant, what value would you set upon your wifef

Lom. nouingatsi, maasa. 1 sella no

value on a ting wort notting.

Court. Then you had better g9 home,

and think nothing about her. , Here Quambo left the court in g'eat grief, muttering, "ne law, no satisfaeshum, no nott'B at all." Turning at the door, he very p ;ou.ly said "when yon wife run away, b:i tot? no can 6e 'em, I tink den you will pitty poor niggar. God breesa you, massa." A long tnd ttdiown walk. We all know Wathew's joke of the Chelsea pensioner, who ould not move on when ordered by the polio t the lord mayor's show, as his timber toe had got fixed in a water plug; but there is nothiug which fancy can imagine in the

world, not surpassed by reality the following true narrative will shew: A Door fellow.

who recently suffered the amputation of a limb in St. George's hospital, was turned out cured. Exilerated by the open air after a long coi.finement, he sought a public house, and, we are sorry to say, got very drunk, in

which condition he left to find his way home. Ui. luckily for him, his wooden pin, like the

M Hut 2. ! A HcTSt."1 f.'e have iten uir ou unerdiiWs lately going the roor.iis if the papers, illustrative i-i the noodeiful S;'gacii

STmetimea exhibited -y i-cera! auim tis; but .c

hink notie ate rn-ne i i:'!iai k;il!e than tr.e lot

lowing fact- furnished bv a credible correffn

dent: A farmer in StiifTon! Co. N. II., had a horse, which he oidmary kept tied in the stable with a baiter. He ba frequently been known !o untie the haller with hi teeih, open the stablo door, which was f.is!er;Cd with a hasp en the outside, ami get into the barn yard ; then Ik would open the great bain doors, by disengag.nr from a bolt a htick four or five feet Jong, cn'.ei(he barn and ill) himself with hay. Afterwards, becoa ing thirsty, be would open a gate, which was thought tn Le eccumly fastened, go to the. well, wheie the water va usu.tily diawn v.Ub, a bucket aiid s-weep, dia-n a bucktt vf rofcr zr.fl drink; then for the eake ol variety, he woul'J take dovn the field bars, help himself bountili,'ly to clover, and return to the stable; wheic his master would find hun next morning, locking as demurely as anew married damsel.

The worthy matrona of New York, it seeins Weie lately in great alarm, lest the woild should come to au end before strawberry time. Their apprehensions aie calmed by this time as to the Strawberries; but as the Comet is only continu-

led over, as the lawyers say, till October, many

one pippins, j mm?, una pears, are sun in aaoger. The old planet seem to be pietty nearly

Idr.ii locked by the 'wicked arts of the Astronomer?; but it she ca3. oat weather the point now ahead, and get out if her present "tight place," who knows but shs may live as long as the youcgfcat of us? Flay or .Pay.--The lollowiog incident occasioned much couv ersatioo. A discussion arose on Monday in a coffee-house od the Boulevard des llahens. between aD elderly geu'lemao and a young man with blnck mutachui, which was followed by a challenge rived by the latter. When the parlies arrived on the spot, the seconds measured the distance and loaded the pistols. During these pieparatioDs, the yoncg

mustachois hero kept walking about humming a tone. The gray headed gentleman said nothing, but when every thing was ready suggested that an explanation might even then prevent matteis proceeding to extremtiies; but his antagonist, encouraged by this forbearance, indignantly refused to listen to any thing of the

kind, iiis adversary then coolly took up bis

jiio dilFculty, at all, sir; we pile them up injthis work sometime, for he imagined he had

pensioner's, discovered a wooden hole in Pi-: pistol, and, seeing a bird flying in the air with cadilly; but, unlike the pensioner, the drink great rapidity, he fired at and killed it. The made him suppose he could move on notwith- lyonng man tnrned pale, on which the skillful

; standing. He accordingly performed a re-! marksman saicl, You have now seen a proof

volution with his other ler round the fixed of ny an 0,081 e,lher stand my ru or

point or pivot, and mast have continued at 'add one hundred JNapoleans to the subscription-

layers, four lengthwise, and four crosswise, and then the same number lengthwise again, and so on till we get the bed fall." 'Is that the way you fix 'em?" Then by the holy spoon V (making towards the door,) "you

j don't catch me to stay in Bostown this uight, i I know!" ,V. Y Conttellatiort.

NUMBER SKVEN. Seven is composed of the two first perfect numbers, eirual and unequal three and four for the number two consisting of repeated unity, which is no number, is not Peifct.

Hippocrates says Ihnt the sepeutnry number, !man' groom and organ blower, keeper of the

by its occult virtues, tends in. the accomplish

walked about five miles; till, alas for his per

severence! he was thrown down aid broke his other limb. In this lamentable predirameut he was picked up and reronveyed to the hospital, ofter an absence of less than twenty-foir hours. Curimm Advertisement. In the Pottery Gazette appeared recently the following nnnoancement: " James Scott, whitesmith, gardener, fishmonger, schoolmaster & watchman; teerti drawn occasionally ; shoemaker. l I r . - '

eunpei cieru. crier oi me town, running foot

opened tor the unfortunate cholera patients Decide quic kly, aod recollect that the larger the bird, the more it ii to hit him.1 The proposi tion was accepted, and we understand that the money was paid on the same day to one of the arrona feinents of Fans. farts Paper, CROSS HEADINGS. A tooth was extracted, a few days since, from the mouth of a gentleman of this city weighing 450 pounds. A young lady desirous of obtaining a situation in some respectable family, as a private instructress, would be glad to receive 26 kegs

of making talk. I heard a rinoimr. :tA sir

phen was busy opening the door and letting la the General Court, who all had their hats CI; and looking pretty scrumpst iou, vou may depend, I did'nt see hut 1 could stand .il'..ig.le 'em without disparagement, except fny boots, which had just got a luk f hers was ai.d tallow. All at once, two doois flew away from each other tight into the wall, and what did 1 see but oue of the grandest tianksgiving dinners you ever laid your eyes on and light on the table, and silver candle sticks and gold lamps over head I guess more than o:,e of us stared at lirsi, hut we soon found the way to our mouths I made btepheu tend oat lo me pretty sharp, and he g )t my plate filled three or four times with soup, which beat all eVer tasted. Thr-

was couMueratue talk

hrntioht fnril. f "

a great loss on stock, thosghUbis n good the ih

ment of all things, is the dispenser of life, and fountain of all its changes; and like Shakespeare, he divides the life of man into seven Hges. In 7 mo.iths a child may be born and live, and not before; and anciently it was not named before seven days not being accounted fully to have life before lhat periodical day the teeth spring out in the 7th year, when infancy is changed into childhood at twice 7 jears puberty begins; al thrice 7 years the faculties are developed, manhood commences, and we become legally competent to all civil acts at four times 7 man is in the full possession of his strength;

at nve umcs 7 he is ht for the badness of the

;ix time? 7 he becomes grave and

wise, or never at 7 times 7 he attains his ipogee, and from that time decays at eicht

times 7 lie is in his first climactark at nine

times 7, or 63, he is in his giand climacteric,

or year ot danger and ten times 7, or three score years and ten, has been pronounced by the Royl Prophet the natural period of human life. The 7th year, as well ai the 7th

day, was directed to be a sabbath of rest for all things, and at the end of 7 times 7 years riimiTii'rif-irt tUa ,ri.,n,l :..t- i - ..

fcii"u juuuee. i. very in year there was a general release from all debate, and all bondsmen were set fiee. Every 7 years the law was directed to be read lo the people -and by that law. every man was commanded to forgive his offendine

orotner 7 times seven; but the meekness of

tne last revealed religion extended Ms h

mimy ana toiDearance to 70 times 7. If

tain shall be '.avenged 7 fold, truly Lamech 70 times 7." The Rabbis say, that God employed this number to pei Sert the greatness of Samuel, his name corresponding to the value of the letters in the Hebrew tongue, which signify 7; whence Hannah his mother,' in her thanks. savs.Mhat th

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Town-hall, letter carrier, brewer, winder ofiof Pr,me cncwinfi "co.

the clock, toller of the eight o'clock bell Greatful for past favors, and the liberal pat

waiter, and bill poster, fire bucket maker to!rona8e hegs 'eave 10 announce the arrival of 14

the I'rotertor Fire-tffi. e, etreet springer, aB-

sistant to a Staffordshire potter, fire-lighter

to me dancing master, sheriff's officers' deputy, ringer of market bell, toll-taker to the

bahtTof the hundred, and keener and deliv

erer of the fair standings, returns his most

gratetui acknowledgments to the inhabitants

of tstoke, for the many favors already received, and begs to assure them that it shall be his constant titudy to merit their patronage. N.B. Athil j'scaul for sale. An Irish lawyer had a client of his own country, who was a sailor. During his absence at sea, his wife had married again, and he wag resolved to prosecute her: coming to advise with his counsellor, he was told that he mutt have witnesses to prove that he was alive when his wife was married again 'Arrah, by my shoul, but that will be impossible," said the other; "for my shipmates are all gone to Bea again upon a long voyage, and will not return again this twelve month. "Oh! then," answered the lawyer, "there can be nothing done in it; and what a pily it is that such a brate cause should be lost now, only because you cannot prove yourself to be alive."

A certain citizen, who had suddenly rin into wealth from a very low condition of life, standing up in the pit of the opera one evening, with his hat on, a lady whispered to ,-in-other, "We must forg ivc that man; he has been so little used to the luxury of a hat, that he docs not know when to pull it clT."

A countryman, passing along the strand, saw a coach overturned, and, asking what the matter was. he was (old that three or four members of pailiament was overturned

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cases of remarkable occurrences suitable for spring and summer wear. Found, a few days since a two story Brick house, situate in a lady's fashionable sleeve. Why is a lady while decorating her fingers in distress? Because she's wringing tier hands. TThy is P in the alphabet like the most cruel Homan? Because it's Xear-O. Why is there only 46 weeks in this year? Because the other six are Lent. A provident Grave digger.- The Eastern Ceo titiel of yesterday says; We understand that our worthy grave digger, Charles Hay, on Wednesday morning last provided himself with new spade, in anticipation of the cholera." The leading editorial in the last number of the Wellsbonn'Rh Pi.cenix, is as follows- ' No paper -.11 be .led from this office next week. A wn,k and D pav m,kes Jack a dull boy.' The Ivy, must go a thing A painter, inten.lii g to describe the miracle of the fishes h-tenicg )0 thP preaching of St. Anthony of Padua, painted the Liters stretch! ing out of the water red. having pmbably nevescei, them in their native state, being questioned on this, and asked how he could justify his representing the lobcter sis loihd, he extracted himself l.j obteiving, "that the miracle s:as the g eater. n

To increase the durahility of pvsts H i aui that by boring-a hole of half an inch in dhmcter, near the surface ff the eround. an,! ,t

angle f 45 deg. with the same, nearly through the part, and filling the same with rait tint thf ir durability will he greatly increased'. As the experiment is ilmi.L ... n i

my father nlway. advised me not good farmers will try it, and give there-,T

ne pnonc -ma. ta-nr.

says he, "there let