The following improbable ...
The following improbable occurrence is said positively, in au evening paper, to have happened a few (lays since in the neigh- bourhood of Woodford, and( excited very considerable sensation there:-Elizabeth Cale, an interesting voung woman, about 19 years of age, wvhc lived in the service of Porrest, sq., a gen- tleIan residing at M'oodfotd, in corsequence of getting her fctr% wet, caught a severe coll, which brought on a fever. She was contned to her bed several lays, when to All appearaice she died. The next day she was placed in a coffin, and the intelligence of her supposed dleath conveyed to her mother. From her good cDnduct while in the service of Alr. Forrest. that gentleman had resolved to defray the expenses of the funeral, which it was arranged should take place on Sunday last, a week atter her supposed death. On that aay her mother and severalrother relatives caine to pay the last tribute of respect to her memory, and, previous to the coffin being screwed down, went to take a last, " long, lingering look," when one of them observed she had not undergone the chanige usual on such oc- esions, and that her face appeared rather flushed. A surgeon was sea t for, wil9 ordered her to be placed in a warm bath, aud applied the remedies usually resorted to to recover persons apparently drown- ed, and which were happily crowned with complete success, as the young woman in a few hotrs was able to speak, and is now in a fair way of recovory. Though the main body of swallows took their departure from our slhores three weeks ago, a few. here and there, may stUIl be seen lingering round copses near the const That the annual mi- gration rf these bird selicited attention in the earliest times is evi- dent trom the manner in which it is noticed by the prophet Jere- miah. From that migration, also, Cicero has drawn the following ..imile:-" As swallows are present with us in summiier, but are gonein wistser,so false friends attend usin the sunshine of prosperity, bat in the winter of affliction they all flee away." So great a la- vourite was the swaUow among the Greeks, that her first appear. an.e made a holyday for thc Greek boys, and a song hbs been pre- svcrsd by which the yooap mcndicants..--like Eton scholars at their illontem-used to levy conttibudions on the good-nature of their fel- low-citizens. It is remarkable that most countrics bavea similarpro. verb Telating to the swallow's accidental appearancebefore its usual time. The E'rench have tr7ze Hir ndelle neft ps Z Pr-intern ; the Getmans, Eine Shcval be,m'ackt keine Pr-n/ding; th- Dutch, ten wteakw m7naakt geetlt Zomer * the Swedes, Rit Sv,I g gori Fot- mzar; t1e Italians. Uia Rontdinenonie aPriinvere; wictmaybe all literally translated by the English proverb, " One swallow doth nut'nrake a sumnmer." The story is well known of a thin brass plate fixed on a swallow with this inscription, " Prithee, swallow, whither goest thou in winter ?" The bird retdrned next spring, with the'answer subjoined, " To Anthony of Athiens; why doest thou in. quire ?"-Boston Gazeic,.