ee 
3) Ribwort ufed for Hydrophobia.... Weather at Norwich. 
A perfon of confiderable note in the 
gay world will fhoot himfelf, becaufe he 
has nothing left but his piftols. 
Several hundred novels will be con- 
demned by the reviewers, and read with 
pleafure and approbation in all circu- 
lating libraries, boarding-fchools, fer- 
vants’ halls, and other feminaries of 
learning. 
A moft grotefque fafnion in drefs will 
beadopted, and it will be foon difcovered 
to be moft wonderfully ufeful and con- 
venient. 
Several ftage-coaches will break down, 
owing to the number of outfide pafien- 
gers, a circumftance which will be dif- 
ferently canvafled by the fufferers, and 
by their furgeons. ; 
A few elopements from boarding- 
{chools will afford the newfpapers an op- 
-portunity of being extremely witty at 
the expence of decency. ‘The fame ef- 
feét will axife from cafes of crim. con. 
feduétion, and other affairs of gallantry. 
A porter will engage to over-eat. him- 
felf for a wager, die in the experiment, 
and the éctters will look a little grave, 
but not more wife or humane. 
Two or three very ofulent'men in the 
city will die, and be buried with pomp, 
before it 1s difcovered that they died in- 
folvent. 
Robberies—fuicides— bankruptcies— 
Jaw-fuits —unfuccefsful battles — long 
fpeeches — political pamphlets — and 
other cafualties, will come in courfe. 


Thefe, fir, are fome of the moft 1m- 
portant occurrences which have been re- 
vealed to me. J have chofen to confine 
my prophecies chiefly to matters of the 
domeftic kind, and regarding principally 
the bufinefs of civil life. ‘This I do for 
the reafons already hinted, namely, that 
in affairs of a. political kind, there has 
of late been fo vreat a contempt thrown 
on what is paft, that it is not worth any 
man’s while to inform our great men of 
what is to corre ; yet, it may beafferted, 
without any rifk of contradi€tion. that 
he who defpifes expertence, is neither fit 
for the office of prophet, prieft, or king. 
Iam, fir, yours, 
OLp LILty. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Mazazime. 
SIRs 
N the Magazine for December, p. 916, 
mention is made of the hydropho- 
bia having appeared among Colonel Rol- 
[ Jarte 
lerton’s hounds, near Rofcrea, in Here- 
fordfhire; that twenty-two of them had 
been carried off by this difeafe, and that 
the remainder of the pack were cured of 
or preferved from the difeafe, by having 
the juice of ribwort, or ribgrafs (plan- 
tago lanceolata, Linn.) adminiftered to’ 
them. 
It appears to me, fir, to be a matter: 
of confiderable importance to have this 
Faét well afcertained ; and though I be- 
lieve your Magazine may in general be 
depended upon for the intelligence it- 
contains; yet, in a matter of fo much 
confequence, as determining the efficacy 
of a medicine in preventing the hydro. 
phobia, we fhould be cautious of giving 
credit to intelligence vaguely mentioned 
among country occurrences. I cannot, 
therefore, abftain from expreffing a with, 
that fome correfpondent would give you 
more particulars relative to the aboye- — 
mentioned article ; this will by no means, 
I believe, be contrary to the intentions 
of your Magazine, and will, I doubt not, 
give much fatisfaétion to many of your 
readers, as wellas to 
Fan. 12,1797. Mepicus U. 
P.S. It is fcarcely neceffary to fay, that the 
mixed juices of horehound, and of a {pecies 
of plantain, have been celebrated in Ame- 
rica as a cure for the bite of a rattlefnake; 
Whether or not they deferve fo much praife, 
I have no means of Knowing. 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
REsULT OF OBSERVATIONS UPOY 
THE THERMOMETER, AT Nor- 
WICH, FOR THE YEAR 1796; BE- 
GINNING JANUARY 8TH, TAKEN 
AT OR NEAR TWO O'CLOCK IN 
THE AFTERNOON. THE THER* 
MOMETER IN THE OPEN AIR, 
witH A NortH-EasT ASPECT. 
Month. Awercg:, Coldefi Days.  Ho'tefi Days, 
JA. 493 ° 8 & gth at 45° x3that 55° 
ee ig 2gth 32 ,r9th - ‘so 
Ma:ch 433 7th = 3ry 16th «= S53 
April 32 r2th 46;  Badawes 
May of 3 48 26th. 614 
June 3 3d 495 26th 75 
2 
2d & 4th §83 1sth 95 
eal 
ja 
ras 
POA DADANWN bp 
sh 28th... 555) <a - 
Septem. 622 29th 54 17&18 7 
Odisber 51 25th 50 ee 1) ee 
Novem. 4435 30th 34 2d 532 
Decem, 35224 & 25th 36) 40im ~ae= 
_ Average of the year, 522 
A une 26th 
Fiurseft days of the year, if : 75 
Coldeft dite . . ar 24 
