Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-07-28
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Charles v, when he abdicated the throne, and
retired to the monastery OF ST Juste amused HIM
sell with the mechanical arts, and particularly with
that OF a matchmaker. One day he exclamed,-
" hat an egregious fool must have been to have
squanderel so much blood and treasure in an abb
surd attempt to make men think alike when can
not even make lew watches keep time together"
JACK AND HIS LADY LovE.-A curious crcum-
stlnce was lately witnessed by gentleman, while
on a tour in The west OF England. sailor repair
Ell to Plymouth Church with his lass for the purpose
Of being married. When he arrived at the place
appointed, the usual questions were put TO him,
a1f amongst the rest, the name Of his fair As
of that, sad Jack, hang me if know; all know
about her is, that took her in tow yesterday after
noon and that they call her Bet
Brooklyn contains fifty churches, and not one
the tire.
A good name is like Venice glass, quickly crack
ed never to be mended patched it may be-
OF the st and I'd regiments of Tennessee volun-
teers numbering 2040 men, only 10 returned to
then homes
A man who had live much in society said that
his acquaintance would fill cathedral, but that a
pulpit would hold all his friends.
Swear my dear" Fuse is reported to have SAID
you greatly"
Whcn the potaoc first came to be used some
goo years ago 1t was regarded as a rare delicacy,
and eaten splceJ in wine
3. 3 Preach, Esq. of Washington City, has been
e.ccteI President OF the Telegraph Company, in the
place oil Amos Kendall, res gucI.
The gross revenue OF the Post Office within the
United Kingdom Of Great Britain. for the year end
ing 9th January last, was Gl3792l9
There are rosaors Of an H. ceiling between Rome
d Naples and the Minister of the latter at the
Court OF the former is SAID 10 have gone home.
No less than 50 medical men are now employed
IN the existing hospitals at Liverpool and addition
al accommodations are preparing at Klrkdale in
that neishborhood for 1000 patients,
Upwards Of 100000 francs were withdrawn from
the savings banks in France in three DAYS, at the
commencenento of May, principally by people with
drawing their little eannss to seek with them a
Transatlantic home
4 little gr! walking in the cemetery of perela-
cHa e At Paris. and reading one after another the
praises upon the tombs OF those no slept beneath
suddenly exclamel-@I wonder where they bury
all the snners!'
1t is proper for all to remember that they ought
not to RAISE expectations which it is not IN their
poser 10 satisfy and lhat 1t is more pleasing to
smoke frightening into flame, than flame sinking
into smoke.
SETTING A You've Man AFLoAT-It is said,
and truly that setting young man aloat in the
word with money let him by his friends and relA-
t,,es, is like tying bladders under one who cauaot
swim, in setting him ahoat on the ocean-ten chan
ces to one he will lose or break his Aappers and go
TO the bottom
The Great Western Company are about to adopt
engines OF novel construction which are to insure
greater steadness TO locomoton, and travel at a
speed equal to 81 miles an hour
CANAL BoATs--We notice five splendid new
Canal Packets, on the South branch made express
y for the navigation of the Illinois and Michigan
Canal. They are beautifully finished, both inside
and out and are TO be furnished when they start in
excellent style We have no doubt but they will
equal II not excel, packets on older established ca
nails CChicago Dem.
The Rev Ezekiel Thurey, of New York his wife
and three daughters, were poisoned so that their
lives were despared of by having several of their
teeth plugged with substance called 'amagam,'
by fashionable dentist in that city The teeth
extracted, and then carelcSsly thrown by ser
want, mo a cistem used for watering horses Sew.
eral horses watered at the cistern were killed by
using the water Amagam is said to be the dead
Lest of posCn'.
THREE GREAT PRoJEcTs-Three of the greatest
projects in contemplation at present are, Canal
across the lsthmus OF Darien another through the
l,hmus of Suez, connecting the waters of the Med
Iterranedn with those OF the Red Sea and the third
a Railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific
Deem. The completion of either of the would
constitute an important era in the history of trade
and commerce
Joan JAcoB AsToR.-Mr. Astor has in his will
lef nearly half million of dollars for the establish
mcut of free library in New York city. He made
this legacy, not expecting from his great age, to
survive long.
Thlrty-sc,eu steamboats, were built and register
el at Pittsburgh during the last six months.