The northern tribune. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1847-1855, 1848-02-22

exclaimng, Z" Tam!'
Al the last accounts, the King of the French was
sick, and the French were sick of the King.-John
Donkep
Why is hundred dollar biIlke an anvile Because
it's hard to raise.
When n young lady signs til e PLEDGE
It's just as good as two
For when her sweetheart fiads 1t out,
HE'S got to sign 1t too.
Mr. John R. Scott, the actor, who has been in Lon
don the last year, of the passengers in the
Hbernia.
Hon Henry Clay is expected to arrive at Pmladel-
phia in few drys on legal not political business
Crea, preparations are making for his reception.
The President gave a large dinner party on the 10th
inst which was attended by Mr.. Clay, and a large
number of menbers of Congress, without distinction
of party Nearly every state in the Union was repre-
scented.
Judge john J Daniel, of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina, died at Raleigh on the 10th inst.
A gang Of counterfeiters, six IN number, were ar
rested lately on the Ohio. They in an empty fiat
boat floating down the river So says exchange.
Three or four failures only have recently taken place
ia this town. of dealers in dry goods. We state tins
bee ause the number has been greatly exaggerated.
In Augusta a half dozen more failures have re.
Gently taken place, and in Gardiner three or four
Hallo,cel Caltudtor.
The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia
North American positively, that there are let
tiers in that city from Gsn. Taylor, saving that in the
event of Mr.. Clay or any other Wing, being selected
as the candidate of the party, he would not permit his
name to enter the canvass. #t".
"I wish you would give me that gold ring on your
finger" said village dandy TO country girl, "for It
resembles the duration of my love for you-it has no
end "Excuse me, sir ;" said she, 81 choose to keep
it, for it is likewise emblematcal of mine for you-it
has no beginning"
Theodore Hook once dined with Mr.. Ratchet.
sAh, my dear fellow said his host deprecatngly
Il am sorry to say you will not get to-day such
dinner as our friend Tom Moore gave u.s.
Certainly not replied Hook, from Hatchet one
can expect nothing but chop
A Western paper contains advertisement o: a
farm for SALE and as an inducement to purchase it
says-'There is not an Attorney within fifteen miles of
Which is the swif;est runner-Polk or Scott
Polk-because Scott couldn't catch Santa Anna, while
Polk passed him.
The unparalleled enterprise OF the magnetic tele-
graph constructors is exhibited in the fact, not gener
ally realized, that the wires already extend from pole
! to pole
u S. ship of the line Columbus, Com. Bddle, from
the Pacific, last from Valparaiso, Nov. !, was at Rio
Janeiro, Dec 81 having arrived previous to the 25th,
and was to sail January 10, for home.
| A man who retres from business and lives the
interest of his money may be said to be resting his
owers
| A lady, who made pretensions to the most refined
feelings demonstrated with her butcher his cruel
practices. ow,' said she 'can you be so barbarous
as to nut innocent little lambs to death' 'Why not
madam p said the butcher; you would not eat them
alive, would you?
rruALAr1oN OF ETHER NOT A RECENT Discovery.
In Middleton's tragedy of ''Women beware Wo-
men, published in 1851 there is the following passage
"f'll initiate the pteis of old surgeons
TO this lost limb who, ere they show their art
Cast one asleep; then-cut the diseased part"
The Santa Fe Republican of November 10, says that
the Potatoe grows wild in the mountains near that
place The largest about the size of hens egg,
and the Indians preserve them for winter 1t is pr,
posed they be used for seed in such districts of the
country as are subject to The potaoe rot.
Il say, Horn,' can you tell us of what material that
cracker box is made" inquired an individual who
wished to puzzle the wag 'Why, replied Horn, Il
should think. from the depredat the lats have
mitted on it, that it made of the KnaU-a0ay
Norway PINE
Musical Legislature.
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