News in Brief
SINGULAR NOVJLTY.-On'Friday last, a vessel built and invented by a gentleman of Selby, passed tlrough th2,t towu inde. pendently of either steam, wind, or water. The appearance was not only noveL, but highly interesting. M%lany were spectators to witness so curious a vehicle, which promiseg, on a more e:tensive scale, to be of great popular utility and importance.-ZOonc,rste, Gazette. A PASSIONATE MfAN.-Fletcher, of Saltown, is well known to have possessed a most irritable temper. His footmran de- sired to be dismissed. " Why do you leave me?" said he-,; Be- cause, to speak thie truth, I cannot bear your temper." " To be sure, I am passionate, but my passion is Tno sooner on than it ig offn." " Yes (replied the servant), but it is no sooner oXF than it A ROYAL GLUTTON.-The Duke de Berri, who died on the 4th of IlMay, 1714, abridged his life by his extreme intemperance in eating and drinkbing. He had concealed, besides,thatin felingfrom his horse he had burst a blood-vessel. He threatened to dismissany of his servants who should say he had lost blood. A nutnber of plates were found in the rielIc of his bed after his death. Wher he disclosed the accident, it was too late to retnedy it. As far as could bejudged, his illness proceeded 'rom gluttcny; in consequence of which emetics were so frequently administered tc him, that thev hastened his deatlh. He said to his confessor, the *-ere de la Rue, "Ali, father, Tarn mvself the cause of mv death." He repented of it, but not until too late.-IMenzoirz of thb Cou7t of Lzois- Ay