the Indians and the detachment to which Captain Ross belonged. Among the dead bodies she quickly recognised the object of her search. He was wounded and senseless; but she discovered a slight pulsation of the heart. She applied her lips to the wound, from which she sucked the flowing blood, until it was staunched. This remedy restored him to life. She had sufficient presence of mind to restrain her impetuous joy, well knowing how fatal sudden emotion might prove to one in his weak and languid condition. During forty days she watched over him with the most unremitting attention, completely disguised by her dress and the artificial coloring of her complexion. During his illness, the young officer talked continually of the object of his affections, and repeatedly expressed his fears that he should not live to be united to her. When his health was sufficiently restored, the lady made herself known; and if she was tenderly beloved before she made such sacrifices, it will readily be believed that she was idolized now. They departed together for Philadelphia, where they were immediately married. But alas, the perfect happiness they enjoyed was not to be of long duration. A languor, which resisted all medical art, attacked the system of Mrs. Ross, and threatened to terminate her life. It was soon discovered that her lover had been wounded by a poisoned arrow, and the venom pervaded all her blood. Her husband watched over her with the most tender solicitude; and as he saw one remedy after another fail to restore the health that had been so affectionately sacrificed for him, his hopes gradually settled into despair, and he died broken-hearted in the spring of 1778. The widow's grief was softened by the certainty of soon following him she had loved so fondly. She summoned sufficient fortitude to cross the Atlantic again, in order to implore the forgiveness of her parents. With them she languished a little while, and died. Her spirit rejoined her busband in July, 1779, when she was twenty-five years old. A monument is erected to her memory in Hammersmith church, recording these interesting events. Two instances of a similar kind are recorded in history, in which the victims were perfectly aware that they sacrificed their own lives to save their husbands: QUEEN ELEANOR, wife of Edward the First, being informed that the king was wounded with a poisoned arrow, drew forth the venom with her own lips, and died for him. Charing Cross, in London, takes its name from a cross which Edward erected to her memory. Some antiquarians say it was so called from the village of Charing, in which the monument was built others deny the existence of any such village, and contend that it derived its name from being the resting-place of chere Reyne, or the dear queen. : SYBELLA, wife of Robert of Normandy, showed the same courageous attachment to her husband. The prince being wounded in this shocking manner, was informed that recovery was impossible, unless the poison was sucked out. The amiable son of the conqueror resolved to die, rather than allow any one to make the dangerous experiment. But while he slept, Sybella, his duchess, gently applied her lips to the wound; and before he awoke, the deadly venom had passed into her veins. She did not long survive this proof of her love. No. 11.-QUEEN ANNE, WIFE OF GEORGE OF DENMARK. The Princess Anne, younger daughter of James the Second, who married Prince George of Denmark, was likewise a most amiable and affectionate wife, and a very judicious mother. During the illness of her husband, which lasted several years, she would never leave his bed, and often sat up half the night with him. Lady Russell, speaking of the few days that preceded the death of Prince George, says: "Sometimes they wept, sometimes they mourned; then sat silent, hand in hand; he sick in his bed, and she the carefullest nurse to him that can be imagined." The prince died in 1708. As her eldest sister, Mary, died without children, Anne was proclaimed Queen, after the death of William. She had a numerous family, but none of them survived her. It is a singular circumstance, that the grandmother of Queens Mary and Anne was a poor country girl, employed to carry beer from a brewery in London. She was handsome, and the brewer married her. He left her a young widow, with a large fortune. She applied to Mr. Hyde, the lawyer, to transact her business. He became enamoured of his fair client, and married her. Mr. Hyde became Earl of Clarendon: his daughter married the Duke of York, afterwards James the Second, and became the mother of Mary and Anne. No. 12.-EPONINA, WIFE OF JULIUS SABINUS. Julius Sabinus, a nobleman of Gaul, revolted from Ves. pasian, and allowed the troops to address him as emperor. Being defeated in his bold undertaking, he set fire to his house, and caused the report to be spread that he had perished in the flames. After this he hid himself in a large cavern of white marble and granite, about fifteen miles from Rome. Two of his freedmen were intrusted with the secret: and to their kind attentions the fugitive was for some time indebted for the most common necessaries of life. Eponina, believing her husband was dead, gave herself up to most heart-rending grief. When the freedmen told Sabinus she had passed three days and three nights without food, he authorized them to inform her that he yet lived. These joyful tidings restored her at once to hope and happiness. She could hardly summon sufficient prudence to wait for the approach of night, before she set off for the cavern. The delight, which her husband felt at seeing her, was mingled with anxiety and fear. He strenuously resisted her wish to remain with him in the cavern, on the ground that her absence from home would lead to detection, and involve them in ruin. This argument had its effect; Eponina contented herself with visiting him privately, and providing every thing she could for his comfort and amusement. But as time passed on, and the fate of Sabinus seemed to be forgotten, she acted with less caution; often venturing to stay with him several months, under the pretence of visiting her relations. Always affectionate and cheerful, she enlivened her husband's dreary abode, and made him almost contented with his lot. Twin children were born to them in the cavern; and the innocent prattle of these little ones was a new source of pleasure. Thus nine years past away, and their fears had settled into quiet security. But alas, the frequent absence of Eponina was observed by her husband's enemies, and her footsteps were traced to the cavern. Sabinus was dragged from his long concealment, and carried before the enraged emperor. His wife followed in a state bordering on despair. She fell at Vespasian's feet, with her children, and begged for mercy, in a tone inspired by deep love and bitter agony; and the little twins affected by their mother's sorrow, joined in her supplications. The people could not refrain from tears at this heart-stirring scene; and even the emperor turned away his face to conceal his emotions. Then arose the loud voice of the multitude, Pardon! Great Cæsar! Pardon this wretched and faithful pair!" Vespasian was angry at this public compassion towards a rebel, and he ordered Sabinus and his wife to be immediately beheaded. When Eponina found there was no hope of mercy, she burst into a strain of impassioned eloquence. "Know, Vespasian," she exclaimed, "that in fulfilling my duty, and prolonging the days of your victim, I have enjoyed, in that dark cavern, years of happiness, which you, upon your splendid throne, will never know." The only favor she could obtain, was leave to send her poor children a lock of their father's hair, her own picture, and some papers giving an account of their love and their misfortunes. After the death of their parents, the orphans were confined in a tower on the borders of the Tiber. The affectionate little ones refused all consolation, and absolutely pined away with grief. Day and night they moaned for their father and mother, and one morning they were found dead in each other's arms. This affecting story has furnished a subject to many tragic poets. A painting representing the interview with Vespasian, received a prize from the National Institute of France. "NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN." What is hath been, what hath been may ensue, ANTIPATHIES. Zimmerman, in his curious "Treatise on Experience in Physic," gives the following relation :-" Happening to be in company with some English gentlemen, all of them men of distinction, the conversation fell upon antipathies. Many of the company denied their reality, and considered them as idle stories; but I assured them that they were truly a disease. Mr. William Matthews, son to the governor of Barbadoes, was of my opinion, because he had an antipathy to spiders. The rest of the company laughed at him. I undertook to prove to them, that his antipathy was really an impression on his mind, resulting from the determination of a mechanical effect. Lord John Murray undertook to shape some black wax into the appearance of a spider with a view to observe whether the antipathy would take place at the simple figure of the insect. He then withdrew, and soon after came in again with the wax in his hands which he kept shut. Mr. Matthews, who in other respect, was a very amiable and moderate man, immediately conceiving that his friend really had a spider in his hand, clapped his hand to his sword with extreme fury, and running back towards the partition, cried out most horribly. All the muscles of his face were swelled, his eyes rolled in the sockets, and his body was immoveable. We were all exceedingly alarmed, and immediately ran to his assistance, took his sword from him, and assured him that what he had conceived to be a spider, was nothing more than a piece of wax which he might see upon the table. He remained some time in this spasmodic state; but at length he began to recover, and to deplore the horrid passion from which he still suffered. His pulse was very strong and quick, and his whole body was covered with a cold sweat; after taking an anodyne draught, he resumed his usual tranquillity." TRUE WISDOM. 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