A CURIOUS WOMAN.
We have often heard it said that men are curious, and we can well believe it; but now we find it recorded that there has been at least one curious woman. Read the following extract from the "Salem Gazette" of 1795:—
Married at Andover, Mr. Aaron Oſgood to the curious Miſs Eſter Wardwell.
"AWFULLY GOOD."
In our opinion the oft-repeated words "awfully good," "jolly fine," and similar expressions, which sound so "charmingly sweet" from the lips of interesting young ladies, are quite cast into the shade by language used in the following extract from the Portsmouth, N.H., "Oracle of the Day," Nov. 24, 1798:—
MARRIED]—In this town, on Sunday evening laſt, by the Rev. Dr. Haven, MARK SIMES, Eſq. Deputy Poſt-Maſter, &c. to the elegantly pretty and amiably delicate Miſs MARY-ANN BLUNT, youngeſt daughter of the late Capt. John Blunt, of Little-Harbour.
Genius of Hymen; Power of fondeſt Love!
In ſhowers of bliſs deſcend from worlds above,
On Beauty's roſe, and Virtue's manlier form,
And ſhield, ah! ſhield them both, from time's tempeſtuous ſtorm!
A few years ſince, a young gentleman at the Univerſity in Cambridge aſked of a Collegian the loan of his Wirgil. The inelegant pronunciation of the word Virgil was burleſqued by the young Collegian in the following ſtory, with which his invention readily ſupplied him:—Lately (ſays he) I ſet out on a woyage to Werſailles, with one Captain Winal, in a Britiſh weſſel called the Wiper; but we ſoon met with a wiolent ſtorm, which drove us into a port in Wirginia; where one Capt. Waughn, a wery wicious man, inwited us aboard his weſſel, and gave us ſome weal and weniſon, with ſome winegar, which made me wery ſick; ſo I did womit like wengeance; (and added, reaching out the book) You may have my Wirgil, and welcome. This humor had the deſired effect; the young gentleman ſaw the abſurdity of doing ſuch wiolence to the letter V, and has ever ſince ſpoke like other people.