A female ventriloquist, named Barbara Jacobi, narrowly escaped being burnt at the stake in 1685, at Haarlem, where she was an inmate of the public Hospital. The curious daily resorted thither to hear her hold & dialogue with an imaginary personage with whom she conversed as if concealed behind the curtains of her bed. This individual, whom she called Joachim, and to whom she addressed a thousand ludicrous questions, which he answered in the same familiar strain, was for some time supposed to be a confederate. But when the bystanders attempted to search for him behind the curtains, his voice instantly reproached them with their curiosity from the opposite corner of the room. As Barbara Jacobi had contrived to make herself familiar with all the gossip of the city of Haarlem, the revelations of the pretended familiar were such as to cause considerable embarrassment to those who beset her with impertinent questions. CALMUC OPINION OF LIGHTNING. The Calmucs hold the lightning to be the fire spit out of the mouth of a dragon, ridden and scourged by evil Daemons, and the thunder they make to be his roarings. THE HEADING OF THE EXPIRING PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL. Journalism has had its trials and difficulties in England as well as in America; but we do not remember to have ever seen a more quaint last Number, than the subjoined _facsimile_ exhibits:-- [Illustration: The TIMES are Dreadful Dismal, Doleful Dolorous, and Dollar-less. An Emblem of the Effect of the Stamp Of the Fatal Stamp Adieu Adieu to the LIBERTY OF THE PRESS Thursday, October 31. 1765 NUMB. 1195 THE PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL; AND WEEKLY ADVERTISER. EXPIRING: In Hopes of a Resurrection to LIFE again. I am sorry to be obliged to acquaint my Readers, that as The STAMP-ACT, is fear'd to be obligatory upon us after the _First of November_ ensuing, (the _fatal To-morrow_) the Publisher of this Paper unable to bear the Burthen, has thought it expedient TO STOP awhile, in order to deliberate, whether any Methods can be found to elude the Chains forged for us, and escape the insupportable Slavery; which it is hoped, from the last Representations now made against the Act, may be effected. Mean while, I must earnestly Request every Individual of my Subscribers, many of whom have been long behind Hand, that they would immediately Discharge their respective Arrers, that I may be able, not only to support myself during the Interval, but be better prepared to proceed again with this Paper, whenever an opening for that Purpose appears, which I hope will be soon. WILLIAM BRADFORD.] NOSTRUMS.