Comical Idea

The Journal de Calais sl.i!e6that an inhabitunt of' Southampton has recentiy been omnsing himself by OJling 14,000 boules with 6,000 copies of at? abndgement of 'Universal HUlory.' These boules, well corked and 6eaJed, have, by his order, been plticrd in deep cavities in the icy caverns of Greonland, 'm theliope, shouM a partial destruction of tie globe agnin ensue, that they may survive vhe wreek, und enliohten future ages, who wou ld otlierwise be gnorant of ihe events which háve come to pass in Ihis worlJ. It is not staled in what language this bottle conjuror hns chosen to preserve the knowledgeof the present race of mankind.