Missellontic. 189 
Another case occurred in the same place, a few years subsequent, 
in which arsenic was taken through mistake, by a sick person, and 
she employed tobacco with the like success. She, too, had always 
loathed the article, but now chewed it and swallowed the saliva, 
without producing sickness at the stomach. No emetic was admin- 
istered in this case, nor any other remedy. Happy will it be for 
our race, should this insidious poison, now the slow death of so ma- 
ny, be employed only as an antagonist to those other deadly poisons, 
for which it may have been provided by the Creator, as a sure and 
speedy remedy. 
The above facts I lately received from Dr. Eastman, of Holles, 
the father of Sophia, and from her sister, at whose house Sophia 
committed the mistake. Yours truly, 
Rate Emerson. 
Andover, Mass. May 26, 1836. 
12. Shower of Falling stars in Russia, on the night between the 
12th and 13th November, 1832.—The following extract of a letter 
from Monsieur le Comte de Suchteln, to Monsieur Feodorou, was 
_ communicated to the “ Royal Academy of Sciences” at Paris, in 
which mention is made of numerous meteors which were seen in the 
neighborhood of Orenburg, in the night between the 12th and 13th 
November, 1832. ‘In the night between the 12th and 13th No- 
vember, 1832, between three and four in the morning, the weather 
being calm and serene, and the thermometer being at 55° of Fahr. 
the heavens appeared to be bespangled by a great number of 
meteors, which described a great arch in the direction of from north- 
east to south-west. They burst like rockets, into innumerable small 
stars, without producing the slightest noise, and left in the sky, 
what was long of disappearing, a luminous band, having all the vari- 
ous colors of the rainbow. ‘The light of the moon, which was then 
in her last quarter, obscured this appearance. It sometimes seemed 
as if the heavens were cleft asunder, and in the opening, there ap- 
peared long brilliant bands of a white color. At other times flashes 
of lightning rapidly traversed the vault of heaven, eclipsing the _ 
light of the stars, and causing these long luminous bands of varied 
colorstoappear. These phenomena continued to succeed each other 
without occasioning the slightest perceptible noise. They were in 
their greatest splendor between five and six o’clock in the morning, 
and continued without interruption till sunrise. They were observed 
