Among the bills passed in the Penn
sylvania Senate, a few days ago, was
one to legtlize the marriage contract
between R. !•'. Brunson and wife—
they being uncle and niece, without a
knowledge of that fact, until a consid
erable peri >d after their marriage.
Remorktbic Anecdote nJ a fowl
At the Naval battle on Lake Ci'ani
plain, in IS 14, a cock an board the
Saratoga flew up into the rigging st
the commencement, and continued to
crow until victory crowned our Ame
rican tars. The incident is mentioned
in Cooper’s Nava! History, and is ver
ified by a private letter from the gal
lant sailing master Brum to his wife.
Brum is de.nl, and his poverty siricken
i w idow is now seeking a pension from
Congress. We earnestly trust she may
obtain it.
Strawberries.— Ripe Strawbrries,
grown in the open air, have a'tvady
made their appearance in the Mobile
and New Oaleans markets.
Great Speed.—The distance from
London to Bristol, one l>’»nJrCv.l and
eighteen miks, itas been passetl over in
ninety minutes on the railroad by the
locomotive Great Western.
Common Savings.—•• Take care of
thcp vnt,” ns the French gu is say when
a gentle:'..an goesto kiss them. ‘•Mu
sic and drawing taught here,” asihe
man said when be was pulling a wheel
barrow thr e<jh the slreets without
tnv oil on its axle’. "I’m laying down
the law,” as the client said when he
lloored his counsellor.
Qvicker anv Qrt. m.—M. Arago
the great French astronomer, recently
announce d Io the Acalamy of Science,
m Paris, liint Daguerre ts now enabled,
by an improvement in his apparatus,
io take impressions in the thousaudui
part of a second.
