The Columbian fountain., 1846-08-22

There are 1000 lbs. of horse flesh brough
into Paris every day. duty on which is paid a
the larriers, ostensibly for dogs meat, but il
reality Tor cheap restaurants
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1T is very curious said an old gentleman .
few days since TO friend, that a watch should
be perfectly dry when il has running spring
inside
1t is a trite figure that woman is like the
moonbeams, which touch nothing that they
do not adorn. The cottage and the palace, the
dairy and the saloon, the bower and the gar
den, alike declare the glory of her works and
the impress of her instinctiyely tasteful mind.
"A man by the name Of Wisdom in the
western country is 80 ignorant that he cannot
tell his head from pumpkin Philadelphia
Omnibus.
The above is a fair specimen of the wit of
the Omnibus Should the editors head ever
be indicted as pumpkin the indictment
would evidently be s-quached.
The people Of Connecticut carry their tenn
perance principles SO far as to declare that
they will never eat pork that has been corned.
Phil. Omnibus.
If such is the fact, the editor Of that paper
can now venture into Connecticut with impu-
nifty.
Hon. Sanford Kingsbury, Of Kingsbury, Pts
cataquis county, Me-, has been nominated as
the Whig candidate for Congress, for the Pc
nobscot and Pisca,aquis district.
LARGE CALF. A two year old heifer belong
ing to Mr.. Jonah Rogers, of Orange, last week
gave birth to calf which weighed IS pounds
measured S feet inches in length, 2 feet 9
inches in height, and well proportioned every
way, though it did not live. The hide weigh
ed nine pounds and eight ounces. New Haven
Palladium.
PRoLIrIc. Benjamin H. Blake, of Harps-
well, is now the owner Of a cow, yShich is on
w IA months old, and which has within a
week or two produced a calf.
Col Shoulder, Of the Lowell Courier, who
is travelling in Ireland, says that the prejudice
against yellow meap is very great. He con.
versed with woman who had the care oi
Blarney Castle as follows:
'She had very high opinion of America,
but she was most bitterly opposed to the in
PRODUCTION Of our Indien meal into Ireland. She
said that it 'was rank killing, and was killing
all the poor people in Cork
The death of the Rev. DR.. Wilson was pre-
maturely announced by the Cincinnati Atlas
He is dangerously i'll.
The city Of Boston has been measured ans
found to be a little more than two miles an,
three quarters long.
Fatal ACCIDENT. A lad named Samue
Frost. jr. about IA years Of age while gatherin,
pears in Somerville on Thursday last was pre-
cipitated from the tree by the breaking of
limb, and fell upon picket fence, injurins
him 50 severely that he died on Saturday.
GWhig.
The trial Of Spencer for the murder Of hi
wlfe, IN New Jersey, has been postponed t
the 9Th day Of September, in order to give hi
counsel time Dr preparation. He was arraign
ed on Thursday, at the Hudson county court
and plead not guilty.
The Bunker Hill Engine Company, No.
OF Charlestown, intend to make visit to Pro
vidence on Friday next.
!he Bank Of Salisbury The Worceste
Snield states that the Bank of Salisbury ha
stopped payment.-Balt. American.
A public vessel will be despatched from N
York 10 Chagres in few DAYS. Letters 70
the Pacific, sent 10 the care Of Captain 8. H
S,ringham, commandant navy ward. N. York
during the present week will be forwarded.
SUICIDE. Mrs. Margaret Henry, widow
J .nfew herself from the widow of her dwellins
mNew Orleans on the 10Th instant, while Ia
1onng under a 6t of temporary insanity. Sh,