The prodigious surface over which the combined and ceaseless toil of these little architects extends, must be taken into consideration in order to understand the important part they play in nature. Rights and lefts, 216. Waggery, ancient bit of, 191.
This is not the only instance in which words in their present general acceptation bear a very opposite meaning to what they did in other times. Scattering water, 332. This insect is supposed to have a "fondness" for getting into the human ear, the effect of which, it has been believed, is to penetrate the brain and cause madness. For any follower visiting the cook, 1d. The writer says that in the year 1801, he visited Glasgow, and, passing one of the principal streets in the neighborhood of the Iron Church, observed about thirty people, chiefly women and girls, gathered round a large public pump, waiting their turn to draw water. In 1741 M. Vaucanson made a flageolet-player, which with one hand beat [Pg 105] a tambourine, and in the same year he produced a duck. "—Evelyn's Diary, Feb. 10th, 1685. Acrobats and puppets in queer iliad launch pad. In the "Gentleman's Magazine" for September, 1775, Mr. Clayton, a wealthy farmer of Berkshire, is related to have died at the extraordinary age of one hundred and fifteen years, during which time he rented the same farm for ninety years. When Isaac Habrecht invented this wonderful clock, he meant it to run forever, always displaying to the good people of Strasburg the days of the month, phases of the sun and moon, and other celestial phenomena; and while he lived it worked admirably, but when he had been dead awhile, the clock stopped; and as nobody else understood its machinery, it had quite a vacation, which lasted until 1681, when it was repaired and improved.
The bottles were then covered with bladder and set in a place frequented by rats. One of his lordship's horses being brought out in his body clothes, Mr. Wildman mounted the horse, with the bees all over his head and face (except his eyes); they likewise covered his breast and left arm: he held a whip in his right hand, and a groom led the horse backwards and forwards before his lordship's window for some time. They are also employed to give cattle an appetite for food and clear houses from flies and other vermin. Among some of the tribes in Africa if two babies come to a family at the same time they think it a dreadful thing. —The Cannibal has escaped from his den. Acrobats and puppets in queer iliad launch video. The verse is a description of a lost baby, by the town-crier, or bellman, who still plies his trade in out-of-the-way parts of England—. On the top and down the middle cross are our Saviour's expression, "My God! Its being little, straight or crooked, is prophetic of the size and shape [Pg 234] of the grand object of all their spells—the husband or wife. As she was walking with the Mogul upon its banks, they perceived a thin film upon the water, which was an essential oil made by the heat of the sun. Hair cutting in Russia, 183. This incident is stated to have happened on the 22d of July, in the year 1376, and since that time the people of Hulberstadt permit not any drum, pipe or other instrument to be sounded in that street which leads to the gate through which the children passed. They are said to have originated as far back as the middle of the eleventh century, in a ring presented by a pilgrim to Edward the Confessor, which, after that ruler's death, was preserved as a relic in Westminster Abbey, and was applied for the cure of epilepsy and cramp. His sight having failed with age so as to prevent his reading the Scriptures, though printed in the largest type, he incurred [Pg 11] the expense of this transcription that he might enjoy those sources of comfort which "are more to be desired than gold, yea, than much fine gold.
The Arabs claim that their finest horses are direct descendants of the stud of Solomon. Rowlands, author of Mona Antiqua, while superintending the removal of some stones near Aberfraw, Wales, for the purpose of making an antiquarian research, found a beautiful brass medal of the Saviour in a fine state of preservation, which he forwarded to his friend and country-man, the Rev. At Coln, on the third bell—. The crocodile appears to be conscious of this kindly office, for it never offers to hurt its little feathered friend. The complaining party offered to make oath of the fact before a magistrate, on which the husband of the poor woman, in order to justify his wife, insisted that she should be tried by the church Bible, and that the accuser should be present. Phantom menageries, 60. Acrobats and puppets in queer iliad launch site. Lottery, ancient, 64. Treasure, fairy, 220. The nest in the centre is sometimes as large as a man's head, and is continually growing larger, as it is formed of successive layers of the old webs rolled over each other, sheet after sheet, into a ball. Antipathy to red hair, 72. Near the entrance of the Kaaba, at Mecca, is the famous Black Stone, called by the Moslems Hajra el Assouad, or Heavenly Stone. Fineness of India muslins, 174. There was a singular custom at Rome in connection with the purchase of provisions.
Chinese ladies use the juice for dyeing their hair and eyebrows. It is a foot high, oblong in form, and made of mixed metal. Lottery of women in India, 64. Roving tinkers, 168. In 1735, John Harrison, a rural clock-maker, invented a time-piece which scarcely ever lost five seconds in six months. Acrobats and puppets in queer Iliad launch | | Merimbula, NSW. Image © Joel Devereux. No lasso finis, ||No lass so fine is. The performance surprised and gratified [Pg 219] the earl and countess and all the spectators who assembled to witness the bee-master's extraordinary exhibition. These shells are formed of carbonate of lime, and are so extremely small that it has been calculated that it would require 10, 000, 000 of them to make a pound of chalk. Abysynnian tradition, 213.
There were disposed of—300 quarters of wheat, 300 tuns of ale, 100 tuns of wine, 1000 sheep, 104 oxen, 304 calves, 304 swine, 2000 geese, 1000 capons, 400 swans, 104 peacocks, 1500 hot vension pasties, 4000 cold ones, 5000 custards, hot and cold. To Otterton, Sidmouth, A. Only, it will be ominous to London, unto her merchants at sea, to her traffique at land, to her poor, to her rich, to all sorts of people inhabiting in her or her liberties, by reason of sundry Fires and a Plague. That's meant the creation of puppets the size of cars, and fight scenes with incredible aerial feats.
A man who has arrived at the age of fifty years will have lost, by hair cutting, about thirteen feet, which, multiplied by the number of hairs (eighty-nine thousand two hundred and eighty), will amount to one million one hundred and sixty thousand six hundred and forty feet of hair tubing, or about two hundred and twenty miles. They therefore reduced their extracts to fifteen, afterwards to ten, then to four, then to two dromedaries, and at last there remained only enough to load a mule of ordinary size. The following is an account of the destruction of game in Bohemia, by a hunting party of which the Emperor Francis made one, in 1755. After death the bodies were carefully embalmed and buried with great ceremony, and it is not uncommon at this date to find crocodile mummies in their tombs. By often washing with this spirit of rosemary, when in the seventieth year of her age, she was cured, as we are told, of the gout and an universal lameness; so that she not only lived to pass eighty, but became so lively and beautiful that she was courted by the king of Poland, who was then a widower, and who wished to make her his second wife. Eccentricity, Kant's, 44. The luxury of the present time does not equal, in one article at least, that of the sixteenth century.
After showing them to the company, he took them out upon the grass walk facing the windows, where, a table and a table-cloth being provided, he set the hive upon the table and made the bees hive therein. "When you wish to enter where there are dogs, that they may not hinder you, make a tin image of a dog, whose head is erected towards his tail, under the first face of Sagittary, and say over it, 'I bind all dogs by this image, [Pg 333] that they do not raise their heads or bark;' and enter where you please. Kircher's speaking trumpet, 198. Chinese giants, 162. The hand-bill, of which the subjoined is a copy, was circulated by the keeper of the public house at which the gluttony was to happen, as an attraction for all the neighborhood to witness—. The foregoing is engraved on a copper plate, on the reverse of which is written, "A similar plate is sent to each tribe. " Sportsman, royal, 215. Lie awake; and some time near midnight an apparition, having the exact figure of the party in question, will come and turn the sleeve, as if to dry the other side of it. A reliable gentleman who witnessed an execution, wrote as follows: "It appears to be the best of all modes of inflicting the punishment of death, combining the greatest impression on the spectator with the least possible suffering to the victim.
Dignity dwelt in the mysterious symbol.