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A SINGULAR INSTANCE OF TERROR.
lowing day it was supposed to die ; and it was then brought
to the Place de la Madeleine, with its tail forwards, its
eyes and its wings totally immoveable, and there de-
spoiled of its flowers and trinkets by the populace. This
custom was observed so late as the year 1728. The curate
of St. Pantalion was the first who refused to countenance
this superstitious proceeding any longer, by refusing it.
AN INCOMBUSTIBLE PASTEBOARD.
In the Literary Journal of 1785, of Petersburgh, there
is a new discovery mentioned for which the inventor
had obtained a premium from Catharine. It is a kind of
pasteboard which no fire can consume, nor water soften.
He proposes it as a necessary lining for the wooden houses
of his country, and for clothing ships of war. As to its
second property, it is no secret at present; the former has
been examined by a chemist, and found to be nothing
else than a preparation of alum. This secret, however,
like the Telegraph, had been a very ancient one, and
used in the time of Sylla, at the siege of Athens. The
words of Q. Claudius Quadricarius are :—“ Sylla then
brought his forces to set fire to a tower, which Archelaus
had placed there : he came, he piled faggots; he set them
on fire; and after an obstinate labour, he could not make
the tower take fire, as Archelaus had covered the planks
entirely with alum.”
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF THE EFFECT OF TERROR.
Mrs. JESSOP, the wife of a respectable gentleman at
the east end of the city of Chester, in the year 1792, by a
paralytic stroke, lost the use of her limbs, and the power
of speech. For several years she remained in this state,
when one afternoon all her family being out, except a
maid-servant and a child, who was blind, she ob-
served a fire burst out of a wooden building, which was
very
A SINGULAR INSTANCE OF TERROR.
lowing day it was supposed to die ; and it was then brought
to the Place de la Madeleine, with its tail forwards, its
eyes and its wings totally immoveable, and there de-
spoiled of its flowers and trinkets by the populace. This
custom was observed so late as the year 1728. The curate
of St. Pantalion was the first who refused to countenance
this superstitious proceeding any longer, by refusing it.
AN INCOMBUSTIBLE PASTEBOARD.
In the Literary Journal of 1785, of Petersburgh, there
is a new discovery mentioned for which the inventor
had obtained a premium from Catharine. It is a kind of
pasteboard which no fire can consume, nor water soften.
He proposes it as a necessary lining for the wooden houses
of his country, and for clothing ships of war. As to its
second property, it is no secret at present; the former has
been examined by a chemist, and found to be nothing
else than a preparation of alum. This secret, however,
like the Telegraph, had been a very ancient one, and
used in the time of Sylla, at the siege of Athens. The
words of Q. Claudius Quadricarius are :—“ Sylla then
brought his forces to set fire to a tower, which Archelaus
had placed there : he came, he piled faggots; he set them
on fire; and after an obstinate labour, he could not make
the tower take fire, as Archelaus had covered the planks
entirely with alum.”
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF THE EFFECT OF TERROR.
Mrs. JESSOP, the wife of a respectable gentleman at
the east end of the city of Chester, in the year 1792, by a
paralytic stroke, lost the use of her limbs, and the power
of speech. For several years she remained in this state,
when one afternoon all her family being out, except a
maid-servant and a child, who was blind, she ob-
served a fire burst out of a wooden building, which was
very