The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1849-12-01
NUMBER 8s.
The very Last--Ladies with CIGARS.

their months had been covered into volcanic era
ters.
Progress ladies This beats the standing collars
An American lady smoking, ha! hal! How aris-
tocratic, dsstingue, republican.
EN An old political song sung in the days of
Thomas Jefferson, contains the following lines:-
| From Georgia 10 Lake Champlan,
| . From seas 10 Missssippi's shore,' SC.
| How vastly has our country been extended since
What empires have been added to its domain. The
Mississippi longer bounds territory, but from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the St Croix to
the Rio Grande, our flag waves over every foot of
land We should sing now-a-days-
From the Rio Grandss waters to the icy lakes of Maine,
From the broad Atantic's pillows, to Nevedas golden
| chain,
The banner of our country over all dominion holds
Making the million hearts that beat high beneath its
fods.'
"Tom, stand out of the way of that gentleman"
"How do you know that he's a gentleman %
"Why, he wears stand-up collar and swears!"
~ The Augusta (Maine) Banner, says farm
er plowing in his field, in Lubec, struck leaden
box chest which was found to contain ninety-six
thousand dollars in douboons. 1t is not known how
the treasure came there.
That's better than going to California
20 wad some pow'r the giftie gle US,
To see oursels as others see u.s." Burns.
Gw A great spot on the sun has lately been OBJ
served but is fast disappearing. On Saturday last,
the diameter of this spot as measured at the OBJ
servatory in Cambridge, was over $4,000 miles,
and six times as large as the earth.
Eg The production of tobacco in the several
states is thus rated: Kentucky, 6SOO0,OOO lbs;
Virginia, As, 100000; Tennessee, 35 oOo 900; Ma
ryland, 23,ooo,ooo; Missouri 15,ooo,ooO; Ohio,
100000.
Total-l75, 100000 pounds That would make
a pretty good sized "cAaw."
Ew letter from the city of the salt lake, states
that the laws of the community permit the men to
have many wives as they support, and that
some of the older ones have twenty, but the young
men content themselves with five.
This is community of Later Day Saints; at
this rate they will soon arrive to state of per
tection.'
Gw The two fellows who recently robbed the
mansion of Hon. Daniel Webster, in Franklin, N. H.,
have been sentenced to eight years imprisonment
in the New Hampshire state prison.
w The Emperor Of Russia has II ships Of the
line in the Black Sea, The Sultan of Turkey has
IL, nearly all of which were built by Henry Eek
ford and Mr.. j. F. Rhodes, of New York, and are
among the most superb specimens of naval arch-
lecture in the world
@ An exchange paper says, ''the girls in some
parts of Pennsylvania SO hard up for husbands
that they sometimes take up with printers and
LawyerS"
Franklin on asking his would-be mother-in-law
for her daughter in marriage, was repulsed with
this answer :--"Mr. Franklin, how can you support
family there are already Eve or six printers in
the provinces"
E9T It may not be known to all our readers that
the boundaries of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Del
aware, are unsettled and that an effort is now in
progress to settle the matters in dispute. G. H. S.
Key, of Maryland; G. R. Riddle, of Delaware and
J. P. Eyre Of Pennsylvania the commissioners
appointed by the respective states; and they will
meet on the Sd proximo to commence their sur
vey and investigations. Scioto Gaz.
H Were we to judge of mankind by the re-
ports of their opponents, there would be no patri
OTIS in politics. heroes in war; learned lawyers
or ministers, and no honest tradesmen
EF Poussin, in French, means little chick, and
the Louisville Journal supposes that's the reason
why the old hen of the Washington Union took |
him under her wing.
w Some years ago printed handbilI for a
person who had been unfortunate, or worse in bu-
siuess. He had cast about for something novel and |
striking, to serve for a head, and decided upon |
Here she goes and there she goes Imagine his
,hagrin, when he found shortly after posting his
bills that some indefatigable wag had worked upon
hem with his knife until he had made them all
he oes, and there he oeS.'
Eg A celebrated excentric preacher was once
warned that he must be very guarded in his lam
5uage, in a town at the south where he was to
preach, for the people noted for their highly
and moral character, and especially that
he must avoid the most distant ausion to the "pe
,ular domestic institution On observing great
lumber of mulattoes in the gallery, he said as he
:-"Brethren and sisters, have been told !
hat | am to address highly intelligent and moral
congregation; but should just like to as ques-
ion of this moral congregation. Where did all
hem yellow gals in the gallery come from ?"
ET An old deacon in Yankee land, once told
IS good story. He was standing beside frog
Dond-we have his word for it-and saw large
,arter snake make an attack on enormous bull
rog The snake seized one of the frogs hind legs,
nd the frog to be on a par with his snakeshlp
aught him by the tail, and both commenced swal-
owing one another and continued this carnirerous
peration until nothing left of either of them
A letter writer in California pays $50 month v
Or the luxury of bed in dirty the loft b
store, at San Frnecisco, and gets his meals at a