Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-08-03

III We are aware that fashion has a vocabu- /
larry far different from those OF nature, science
and phlosophy--a vocabulary whose excessive
decacy gives to ladies feet full three feet long,
in spite of anatomy and the shoesmakers; and
will permit no degree. of heat on tie scale,
though it should rise above the boiling, and make
us all broil like pigeons on &. gridiren, TO be any
thing beyond ''quite warm, thank you"
We take the above from the American, and
would be obliged to our cotemporary, as we
doubt not would others, for little more nforna-
ton about that Vocabulary which makes ladies'
feet three feet long, in spite of anatomy, s..
ARIsTocRATIC INuUMAAITY is strikinnly ex-
empfcd in an affair which has just come TO
! light. Last year when the Sultan OF Turkey
subscribed $4,000 tor the relief Of the famine in
| Ireland, he proposed to give $4,000, but the
! English Ambassador suggested to him to give
I the smaller sum, as Queen Victoria only gave
| $4,000.
BETTER co TwfcE --KEES--Two old gentle
men were compimenting each other on the ha-
| bits oftemperancc.
did YOU ever, neighbour said one, "scc me
with moro than could carry!"
"No, indeed, was the reply, mot ]. But,
have seen Won when | thought you had b ter
have gone twice after ii.
The QUEEN AT 4 BALL -GoinG Il wih
rtLsh.-The writer Of the "Noltopoi,nn
Gossip" in the Liverpool Albion, and Il
very clever gossipper he is, thus he speaks
ST the Queer, on the night of The ball at The
Duke of NorGok's:
"Iler Majesty danced nearly all night
long, and an admirable dancer She is-noD
going through the affair rs if she were at Il
funeral, but dancing for genuine love Of the
thing. Before very long she danced her
hair ont Off Neutrality-suspicious. do'you call
lis tackled and il fell down her back; but
she did not stop to have il arranged (Which
was subsequently done by Two of the ladies'
I.enoX, The d. he of Richmonds daughters. }
but went through the waltz with the prince
afterwards she danced one of her car rings
out: it was picked up by the Marchoness OF
AyIcsburv and given 10 the Duchess OF
Kent, who restored it 70 Prince Albert.
AN INCIDENT OF THE CHoLERA.-We
are credbly informed lhlt ut Columbus Ia
where the Cholera has been very fatal, Il
lady of about fifty years OF age, was seized
with the cholera on saturday moring last AMI
died as was supposed about O'Clock in the
afternoon.
She had had administered to her calomel
and opium.
In the evening her son,n law was attack
ed by the same disease, and was lying and
being treated for it in the same room where
the old lady was laid ont in the habiIimcDis
of death About daylight on Sunday
morning the old lady rose up and desired 10
know what all the excitement was about,
and ii she hadn't slept n long while.
She and her SOn-ln.law are now doing
we'll Cincinnati Enquirer.
A CuMoslrY.-Inst Sabbath evening rs
we were walking oul we passed the stump
of an oak tree, but lately cut upon one OF the
vacant lots OF the town, that exhibited quite
curiosity. The stump was, by rougIi
measurement, two Ieci and few inches in
dametor, and perfectly sound, with the
exception OF SIX inches i'll the centre, which
contained the stump OF Il tree of the size OF
the one which was cut before the present
tree grew. The axe marks on the smaller
stump were rs plain as wien irst cut. as
was also the portion broken rs the tree FELL
We counted one hundred and City rings in
The larger stump betecn the smaller one and
, the bark Oshkosh Democrat.
.4aecdofe of Gen. UoU.-It is said oil
Wolf, who fell morally wounded in kinq
the city of Quebec from the French, thai
when Il colonel in The English army in 7i5
and while acting as aid 10 his hiGhneSs The
Duke of Cumberland, who commanded the
royal forces at the memorable battle of Cul
Iodcn, that after the fate of the day had been
determined. Wolf, in company with the
Dake, was riding over the field viewing ;hc
carnage, when a highlander MORALLY wound
ed raised himsefupon his elbow and seemed
to look defiance at the Duke. who thereby
nctIed to madness, turned to his aid and
said" Wolf, Kill me that Highland dog"
10 which he rcpled--"Mv commission is
at your highness' service; can never con-
SEM to become an execulioner." If son {
Of or politicians at the present day, instead
of laWning to power, would act upon this
principle, how much more il would redounG
to lEeir praise!
Nun q Nphemmicai Being.-The
an 5rth Hridgewater Mass Reporter and
Union" IS laborng 10 prove that main Has :
rule for every thing and is mat hemaIca
being. Says INC Reporter, lie cats aaC
drinks by Addition, and Sleeps by means o
Position; gets markedly Compound Fellow
ship, rears family by Multiplication, get.
office by means of Intercstiand ifhe belong,
to the Profession, relies upon Practice loI
hts support"
Siavers Cap'ured-Cart. Fog Of ship
Carthage, arrived at this port on Sunday
from Batavia. last from ST. Helena, juno
Z, reports that a Brazilian brig ofaboul 100
tons, had been bro't into st. Helena with
$50 slaves on board. She was captured by
a British cruiser. Another brig, with 800
slaves, had been previously captured and