The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-10-17
CHIPS AND SHAVINGS.

. Y. during the late storm.
We recently overheard the following
short dialogue between two loafers:--t.I
say, Bill, amt this weather most extern
sively warm! My eyes! feel just as an
ola wet dish rag looks-I'll 60 home, I
blleve, and get wrung out and hung up
to dry" Guess you'd better, Sam-vou're
been soaking it for more than month.
and rather think if you don't do so You'll
get widowed aforelong."
An old fellow down east has a single
bladed knife which he has carried for thir-
Ivy years-summer and winter--year in
and year out, he has carried that knife.-
lie wouldn't take any sum for it because
ne has had it so long--in the course of
which time it has had nine new blades
and thirteen new handles.
An American who writes from .s,The
summit of the Cheops, the highest of the
Pyramids of Egypt on the 3lst of jan
uary, dined with nine Americans at Cairo.
on the 3Oth, the largest number that ever
assembled in that place, at one time.
{ A wag. after reading that the State Pri.
son in Connecticut produced profit to
the State of about $4,000 per annum, re.
commended that all the citizens of the
State be imprisoned on speculation.
The whole inside roof of st. Paui's,
Church, Montreal, fell recently, with
terrible crash, destroying nearly all the
)pews-
Musou1ToEs.-The Quarterly Review
speaks of a traveller to the northern re-
gions, who placed upon his fire a large
piece of what he conceived to be peat
In short time, the room was filled with
mosquitoes. 1t appeared that the sup
posed peat was, in reality, frozen mass
of these insects. and that the warmth Of
the fire had revived them from their tor.
pidity.
An Irishman said in reply to .dues-
ton, that there was something in the air
Of Ireland that made the people make bulls,
and added he, "if an American were born
there, he would do the sames" es.
The king of Prussia has caused ten.
thousand temperance tracts to be distrib-
uted among his people. go
An Irish tailor, making gentleman's
coat and vest too small, was ordered to
take them home and let them out. Some
days after, the gentleman enquiring for his
garments, was told by this ninth part of
an lrishman, that the clothes happening
to fit countryman of his, he had let them
out at a shilling week -..s....
The Norfolk Beacon learns from gen.
tleman who arrived at Norfolk from N.
Carolina on Monday evening, that the
gale was very destructive in Tyrrell Co.
n. c. The tide rose to such height
that the inhabitants were compelled to
seek safety in their garrcts and on trees.
Nearly all the cattle in the lowlands of
the county were destroyed. -
The eastern girls complain that the
young men are so poor down there that
they can't even pay their addressesl
The Boston Post calls shoe manufac-
turer a 'corn MAKER
PLEASURES OF LlFE.--Having to be
funny with sick headache, or having to
write column or two of spice under a
perfect prostration of spirit, engendered by.
bodily illness. =.
ga little more strength in your tea and
not quite so much in your butter,'' as the
lady boarder said to her landlady.
The Germantown Telegraph states that
since the appointment Of new agent on
the railroad at that place, the receipts have. I.
nearly doubled, while the travel remains
about the same. The old agent grew RAJ {
pidly rich.
Most insects play on some instrument. .
The mosquito blows an octave trumpet
the doe-bug a bassoon--the cricket turns
grindstone-and the bullfrog plays the
Scotch bagpipe.
EX.sherif Parkins noored two sher
ifs officers who attempted 10 arrest him,
in the marine court, on Tuesday. He
was held to bail in $500 for the assault
n. Y. atlas.
It's estimated that the Office Of II. s.
District Attorney, for this district, will be
worth about $4,000 this year, ON account
of the custom house seizures-and that
Jesse Hoyt, the collector will clear more
than million of dollars by the opera.
tion.-D.
Among the questions that will come ear.
ly before the next Congress, will be the
practical operation Of the revenue laws, &
and the practice of the U. S. Court in this
district in empanneling juries.-1b.
The Express says that the present rev.
enue law system operates as a direct bride
to the collector of the customs, to seize
all small invoices, as the owners will gain
by not defending them. a
Do 'counter-jumpers know that the ell,
or yard measure, was fixed by Henry the
Flrsts arm, in the year ll0l. Such is
the fact, whether they know it or not.
Boil heavy red onions down with sugar
and make thick syrup of it, drink as
much of it as you please daily--it is
certain cure for the gravel or stone.
A little girl about five years of age, ma
med Jane Breeznelle, fell into trough Of
boiling swill few days since in New Y
York, and was SO scalded that she sur
viyed but few hours.
The Rev. DR. Bates, President of Mid
dlebury College, has signifed his inten.
ton to RESIGN his ofice a. soon nc :, e,,;tas M