Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 19, Number 5, Vincennes, Knox County, 8 March 1828 — Page 4

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COMMUNICATED FOR THE SUN. How diffident the beaux have grown, In fact they're perfect churls ; Such shameful coldness now is shown, They never hug the girls. But females have devised a plan, In lieu of these cold elves ; They now O shame upon the gil ls, With corsets hug themselves. K. N. FROM A RELIGIOUS PUBLICATION. Not in the sohtiide Alone may man commune with heaven, or see Only in savage wood And sunny vale, the present Deity ; Or onlv hear his voice

Where the winds whisper & the waves rejoice, parts yield at every stroke."

Even here do I behold The observations upon the Centre Thy steps, Ahhighty here, amidst the crowd 0f Qravihi are illustrated by more Through the freat city rolled ' i With everlasting murmur, deep and loud, CUriOUS examples . , Choking the was that wind kind. A body, we have seen, is totter-

longst lueprouu pues, me worK ot numan :ny n nrnnnrtinn no U line crrt nlt.

. Thy golden Sunshine comes flies, tUUC anu narrow base: but it 15 the

From the round heaven and on their dwellings noble prerogative and distinction of

For them thou fill'st with air the unbounded skies, And givest them the stores Of ocean, and the harvest of the shores.

bend ; bul, unless in very thin plates

indeed, it will not bend far without breaking " An ivriry ball, let fait on a marble slap, rebounds by its perfect elasticity nearly to the height from which it lell and no mark is left on either. If the slab be wet, it is seen that the ivory had been a good deal flattened at the point f contact, for a

considerable circular surface of the slab is found dried by the blow. Billiard balls scarcely lose their polish

by long wear, although the touching

man to be able to support his tower

in?: figure on a very narrow base with great firmness. This facility is ac

quired slowly because of the diflienl ty. A child does well who walks at

(Voices and footfall's of this numberless throng,) the end Ol ten 01 twelve months.

JbiKe tne res-mnamg sea, Or like the rainy toOipest, speaks of thee.

Thy spirit is around, Quickening the restless mass that sweep along ;

And this eternal sound,

And when the hours of rest Come, like a calm, upon the mid-sea brine, Hushing its billowy breast, The quiet of that moment too is thine ; It breathes rf him who keeps The vast and helpless city while it sleeps. Extracts from arnott's natural PHILOSOPHY. Dilation and contraction of sub

Stances by heat and cold ;

while the vouno- of quadrupeds

which have a broad support, learn to

little versed in such matters offered

ten guineas for permission to try, un der these circumstances, to possess himself of a purse of 201 laid before him : he of course lost his money." Ti e painful aflection called seasickness has a i elation also to this topick ?ilan requiring always to maintain his perpendicularity, insensibly regulates and ascertains that

point by the fixed and known positi

on of objects about him. " Hence; on shipboard, where the lines of the masts, windows, furni ture, cc. are constantly changing, sickness, vertigo, and other affections

of the same class are common to per sons unaccustomed to ships. Many experience similar effects in carriages and swings, or on looking from a lof ty precipice, whose known objects being distant, and viewed under a new aspect, are not so readily recognized : or in walking on a wall, or a roof, in looking directly up to a roof

or to the stars in the zenith, because then ail standards disappear: on walking h"io a round room, where

there are no perpendicular lines of light and shade, as when the walls 6c roof are covered with spotted paper, without regular arrangement of spot: on turning round, as in waltzing, or

been seventy years ago to anticipate what has now come to pass that the common time of travelling from London to Edenburgh would be 46 hours At the opening of the railroad near Darlington last year, a train of loaded carriages was dragged along by one little steam engine, a distance of 25 miles within two

hours ; in some parts of the journey the speed was more than 20 miles an hour. The whole load was nearly equal to a regiment of soldiers, and the coal expended was under the value of a crown. An island with such roads would be an impregnable fortress ; for in less time than an enemy would require to disembark on

any part of the coast, the forces of the country might be concentrated to defend it."

stand and move almost at once

" The supporting base of a man con

sists of the feet, c the space between ; on a wheel : because the eye is not

them. The advantage of turning out the toes is, that without taking much from the length of the base, it adds a

good deal to the breadth of it,

If there be art in walking on two perfect feet, there must be still greater

" Dilation. A rod of iron, which, art in walking on two wooden legs,

When cold, will pass through a certain with narrow round extremities. Opening, and will lie lengthwise be- This we see done nevertheless, by tween 2 certain points, w hen heated many mutilated soldiers and sailors, becomes too thick and too long to do ih 15ut surpassing in difficulty any either. of these instances i? the practice ot " For accurate measurement, there walking on stilts, which is general afore, the rods or chains used as the mongthc inhabitants of the sandy measure, must always be at the same plains in the south-west of France1, temperature, or due allowance must called Les Laude- Those plains af

be made for the difference. lord tolerable pi

then allowed to rest on the stand

ards. The author, however, observes with truth, that sea sickness also ari ses from the irregular pressure of the bowels anainst the dianhranm. as

their inertia varies with the raisinsr

j and falling of the ship. Theie can

be no doubt ot this fact, inasmuch as that many persons who can resist the feeling of vertigo on hoard ship, find the stomach affected (long before sickne-s taUes place) with flatulency, or what i? called heart burn. The treatise upon fiietion, leads

.Dr Arnotl to a discussion of the in jveniion of rail roads, which he con

ceives to he a species of machinery

furze I

their deep loose and thick

The natives lessen the annoyance from all these causes by lengthcnini their natural legs about five feet, through the addition of stilts menu oned, which they call des celws'ses These are wooden poles attached to the legs, and put on and off as r-.-gu-lariyas the other part of the dre?s liaised upon them, the people appear to strangers a new and extraordinary race of long legged brings; thev march over the loose sand, or thro' the water without any inconvenience with steps of 8 or ten feet in length ; their walking speed is that of a trot ting horse, and they easily perform a journey of 30 or 40 miles in a dav The shepherds, while watching their e.hargc.post themselves in convenient stations, and with a long staff supporting them behind. t their rough sheepskin cloak & cap covering them above like a thatched roof they have the appearance of little watch-towers or regular lofty tripods, scattered o ver the face of the country." Two thirds of our ordinary modons are governed by the habitual neeessity we find of preserving the ecu-

tve of gravity :

ontge lor sheen

" The wall of a building had berrun but during one season of the year

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al 1 a m I i I . I. . I . I a 4 - -

to Dinge out, so as to tnreaten its mey are nan coeieu wnn w;ner. cv yet very iar short of the perfection Stability No force triedijcould re- during the other u is must f atiguing v!hch they are likelv to attain. On . . it .i i I

turn it to perpcnuiculanty, until the to wane upon then:. oy reason l 1 i,c ucce? s A combining the steam

idea occurred of connecting it with the opposite w all by bars of iron: these wrere then heated alternately by lamps placed under them, and while lengthened in consequence, nuts were screwed tight at their extrcrncties ; so that on again cooling and contracting, they pulled the wall back to its place. 'The iron rim of a coach wheel when heated, g'es on loosely and easdv and when afterwards cooled, it binus the w neel m st tightly giving

incttdihlc firmness and strength.1' P rosity in bodies apparently solid : Cone is a tissue of shells and partitions, as little solid as a heap of empty packing boxes Wood is a congeries of parallel tubes, like bundles of organ pipes It lus lately been proposed to prepare wood for some purposes, as for mak ing the great wooden pins or nails used in ship building by squeezing it to half its bolk betw een very strong rollers. It thus becomes nearly as heavy and as strong as metal. A piece of wood sunk to a great depth in the ocean. & exposed to the pressure there, has its pores filled w ith water, becomes as heavy as stone. Tims the boat of a w hale, fishing ship, which had been dragged far under Water by a whale, on being after wards drawn up, was supposed to be bringing up o piece of rock with it.'' Elasticity: " Ulastic bodies vary vety much in the extent to which they yield without breaking, and in the degrees of perfection with which after the betiding or displacement of atoms, they return to the former state India rubber is very clastic, for it yields far; but it is not perfect ly elastic, for when stretched much, or often, soon becomes permanently elongated. Glass, again, is perfectly

engine with the railroad he is san guiue, and dwells at great length up. on the advantages to be derived from such an union. "Without in reality changing the distances ot places, it would have the effect of bi iiiging all parts nearer to each other, and would give to the whole kingdom the conveniences of both town and country. In any one part, a man might consider himself as very near to any other part, for at the expense of as little time and mo ney as tie now spends to go a short distance, he might, go a long one. The overcrowded & unhealthy parts ol towns w ould immediately scatter their inhabitants to the country ; for a man with such cheap and spet dy

conveyance at his command, would

be as near his business, although liv ing several miles off, as he is now in an adjoining street. A m in living in the remote mountains might considthe ocean as only beyond the nearest hill, for he would only have to wish it, and he would be there. In like manner, the inhabitants of the coast, for a small sacrifice, might visit the countries of the interior. The pre

sent heavy charges lor bringing pro

Dr. Moore (author of Zeluco) used to say that. At least two thirds of a physician's fees were for imaginary complaints" Among several instances of this nature, he mentions one of a clothier, who, after long diinkirg the Bath waters, took it into his head to try the Bristol hot wells Previous, how ever to his setting off, he requested the physician to favor him with a letter, stating his case to any brother Galen. This done, the patient got into a chaise So stai ted After proceeding about half way, he felt an itch to pry into the contents of the letter, when the following words presented themselves; Dear sir, the bearer is a fat Wiltshire clothier; make the most of

him." It is unnecessary to add, that his cure was at that moment effected, as he ordered the chaise to return, and immediately proceeded home. Dr. Sharp, ol Ilait Hall, had a ridiculous manner of prefacing every thing he said with the words, 7 say. An under giaduate having, as the doctor was informed, mimicked him in his peculiarity, he sent for him to give him a jobation, which he thus began : " I say they say you say I s.iy I say when, finding the ridiculous combination in which bis speech was involved, he concluded by bidding the young satirist begone to his room. Groses Olio.

A rural abode is the most happy and moral situation in which a man can be placed ; he, there, finds turnself under the immediate influence of nature, interested in all its operations, connected with all its vicissitudes

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diriiiiiMrator-s Notice. AVINCl administered on the estate of

James Noble, (te of Dubois county

r'-eceastd, and having ascertained hat ihrassctsae not sufficient to disci. are the claims airunst said estate, it is declared ir.sohcM t, ; nd settlement will be claimed of said estate as such, at the next term ot the Dubni Circuit. JOHN NIULACII. Jdm. l'cbrtnry 15. 1828 3-cVKtp-3t

Administrator's Notice. TUL underpinned, idministi ator of the estate of William Cobin, deed, having ascertained said decedani's estate to b. inm vpnt. llPl ebv t-'lVCS nfit'rf ihnt )n x.i11 Mtim

- ' ' - J O wr " J. .11411 1 a settlement of the same as such, at the next court of Probate for the county of Pike. Wm. COLVLWJr. Adm. February 19, 1823. 5-3t

When a man rises from a chair,! duce to market from meat distances

he is seen first to bend the bodv tot

ward so as to bium the centre of navity over the feet or base, and then he lifts it up. If he lift too soon, that is before the body be sufficiently advanced, he falls back aain. ' A man standing with his heels close to a perpendicular wall, cannot bend forwaid to pick up any thing

that lies on the ground near him,

being thus nearly saved, the buyer every where would purchase cheaper, and the producer would still be better remunerated. In a word, such a change would arise as if the whole ofUritain had been compressed by magick into a circle of a few miles in diameter, y:t without any single pait losing the least of its magnitude ;

and the sea would be but a little way

without himself falling forward, be-, south of the metropolis, and Edin

cause the wall prevents him from burgh but a little way north, and the

throwing part of his body backward mountains oi Y ales but a little way

to counter balance the head arms that must project forward. A man

to the west. This appears visionary ; but it is less so than it would have

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TO TRAVELLERS, THE subscriber has lately taken the

Tavern Stand, Formerly occupied by Judge Rogers, situated near the corner of

market & water streets. His house and stable arc well supplied, and lie hopes by a stiict and careful attention to business, to merit, and also receive a share o! public patronage. SOLOMON RATH BONE. Vinccnnes. Feb. 26, 1827. 4-tf Jilackinithing. THE subscriber l.as engaged Mr B Weiman, to superintend, and carry on his Blacksmiths' So;, at the old stand, formerly of Smith Thomsonthe well known qualifications ot Mr. Wclman as a good workman, will insure a liberal share of public patronage All kinds of Edged tools made and warranter!. N. SMITH. February 14, 1827. 2-tf