Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-02-23
"THE ScHooLuAsrER ABROAD. "A w,

- i HE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD. "A wrI-
ter of graphic "Sketches of Modern Re-
forms and Reformers," in the National Era,
understood TO be Henry b. Stanton, Esq,
in a sketch of Lord Brougham gives the ORR
gin of this popular phrase.
No orator of our times is more success
full i'll emhalming phrases, full of meaning,
in the popular memory. The well known
talsmanlc sentiment, "Ihe sch0oimasfer is
Abroad" is an instance. In speech on
the elevation of Wellington, mere "mii-
tary chieitain,' to the premiership. after tho
death of Canning, Brougham said: Field
Marshal the Duke of Wellington may take
the army he may take the navy--he may
take the great seal--he may take the mitre.
| make him present of them all. Let him
come on with his whole force, sword in
hand, against the Constitution, and the Eng
lish people will not only beat him back, but
laugh al his assaults. In other times, the
country may have heard with dismay that
the soldier was abroad Ii will not be so
now. Let the soldier be abroad if he will;
he can do nothing in this age. There is
another parsonage abroad--a parsonage less
impOsng--in the eyes Of some, perhaps, i'm
significant. The schoolmaster is abroad
and trust to him, armed with his Primer,
against the soldier in full military array"
The derivation of the word California has
become the subject of discussion. 1t is va
riously given, some saying that the Jesuit
missionaries call it Caifornaia--a compound
of two Greek words, Kaie and Formia--
meaning rich or beautiful net fishing. This
is a mistake, however; they spell the name
as it is now spelt. Another derivation 10
that it is a compound of the Latin words
eoHda and forrdr, hot oven or furnace.
Another is from the Spanish words col,
lime, horno. or ,fornO, furnace, oven or
kiln. Either of these is more likely TO be
correct than the first.
The COOLEST MAN ExTANT.--We heard
of man, the other day, who, while tho
California fever was at its height, very grave
ly and deliberately promulgated his senti-
ments somewhat i'll this wise: {" If was a
poor man, without family, and didn't own
any house, OF spot. of land, and had no
business, and was without cent in the
world, and never expected to have any, and
no father, nor mother, nor sister, nor BROTH
er--I wo,ddnt go to California ~ He may
safely be considered as in no danger of catch
ing the Infection Salem Register.
"GoNE TO MILL" We notice the mar
riage of Mr. Joseph Gone TO Miss Amanda
A. MIL.
Snow BALLS IN Horses FEET.-David
Thomas in the Albany Cultivator says that
soft soap well rubbed into the bottom of the
hools when clean and before the horses
leave the stable, will pre- sent the collection
OF balls ofsnow.
The Baron Bassanes, who was arrested
for feIonously taking jewels of Lewis Phil
ippe worth s 10000, came off with flying
coIors. The charge was Withdrawn.
1t is the gossip of Londen that Count
D'Orsav managed to raise 1000 sovereigns
for LOUIS Napoleon to carry on the contest
for the Presidency.
Six hundred slaves were murdered lately
by the chiefs at Palma, because they conld
not sell them.
The farmers in Hampshire, England, be-
| fore sowing their wheat steep it in strong
solution of arsenic, to prevent the ravages of
| the wire WORMS ne consequence is, tnat
thousands ofpa,rages are found dead setting
with their heads erect and eyes open, as if
they were alive.
small boat containing four
men, named Dickson, Stevenson, McMur.
ray and Ecbert. was upset in the Niagara
River, near Black Rock, during the nigh of
February 2nd, aud all board drowned
The men were engaged in smuggling,
Lieut.. Thomas Mills died at Dunbarton
n. H., on the 18th ult., aged go years.
He was the first person in the town who
enlisted to join Gen. Stark, at Bennington,
in I777, and among the first who went over
the enemy's breast-works in that battle.
THE VERY LAST GoLD SToRr-A coored mar
in Philadelphia heard so much of gold, that h,
dreamed there heap of it buried 10 his cellar
and dug a hole about 40 feet deep to find it-ant
bis old granny fell into the hole and broke her neck
ave don indulge in horrid anticipations," a
the henpecked husband said when the parson toi'
him he would be joined TO his wife IN anothe
world, never 10 separate Parson, SAID be. +"
7 beg you wouldn't mentioa that ciecunstanc
1 again"