The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-03-23


stranger came up to Washingtonian with
the enquiry:
"Can you tell me where can get any thing
to drink p,
"0h yes.-said the other-follow me-"
The man followed him through two or three
streets, until he began to be discouraged
"How much further shall go?" said he.
"0nly few steps further-said the Wash
as The pump z"
The man turned about and showed his
boots"
EE- James Davis, of Wayerly, of Ross Co,
o., cultivated 1900 acres exclusively Indian
Corn, and has this winter corn crib filed
which is three Dates long, ten feet high, and six
feet wide. We presume this is one of the lar
gest corn fields in the world, owned by sin
gle individual. On the great Miami Bottom
adjoining Lawrcnceburg, Ia, about 25 miles
below Cincinnati, there is one field seven
miles long BY three miles broad, extending in
fact TO Aurora, which has been regularly plan
ted down to corn for nearly half century. Al
though corn is one of the most exhaustinp
crops, no manure is ever used, and the soil is
as fertile as ever Cincinnati Gazette
E 'What Consorious Liar" exclaimed
paper, an account of a new counterfeit which
was said to contain three women and a Bust
of Washington on each end "What," said
SIZE, "Gen. Washington on bust it's not so,'
and the old lady lifted up her specs and de-
clared that she had known the old gentleman
for the last thirty years, and she never heard
OF his being on a bust-much less with ''three
soomea'
DIAMOND Dusr.-The friendships of the
world are often eonfederacies in vice or leagues
of pleasure Life is the hyphen between mat
ter and spirit A breaking wave is the only
thing in nature which is most beautiful in the
moment ofits dissolution The fetters of rhyme
are no more than bracelet to the true poet
As well pass a kaleidoscope from hand to
hand, and expect no trembling touch will al
ter its aspect as to think to hear a story from
mouth to mouth literally and accurately re-
peated. When hearts are filled with holy af-
fections, and home is happy then do the young
dwell in charmed circle, which only the nat
urally depraved would seek to quit and across
which boundary temptations to error shine out
feebly. Eliza Cooks Journal.
E Mr.. Sawyer, member of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, from Berlin is the stage
Berlin every morning with his stage and rea-
ches Action in season for the first train of cars
| from Fitchburg, which arrives in this city
about O'Clock, giving him two hours to deli
yer his packages, flor be it known he runs an
express in connection with his STACEY AT ele-
ven he is always found in his seat, ready to at
tend to the affairs of State, so far as Berlin is
concerned. He is an enterprising legislator.
EE"I wonder how they make lucifer match.
es," said a young lady to her husband, with
whom she is always quarrelling. "The process
/ is very simple-I once made one," he an
swered. "How did you manage it?'' "By
leading you to church,
Eg How many fond mothers and fruga
housewives keep their pretty daughters and
! preserves for some extra occasion, some "bie
bup'' or other, until both get old and soar
This seems to us rather poor economy.
E@ 1t is not what we earn, but what we
save, that makes us rich. 1t is not what WE
eat, but what we digest, that makes us fat. l
is not what we read, but what we remember
that makes us learn. All this is very simple
but it is worth remembering.
H The word MURDER contains in itsel
the secret mine times in ten, where used) O
Its existence In our language, backwards, i
spells redrum OF how many murders ha
rum been the chief cause
ZS 10 soften mans manners there i
nothing like love. We care not how boorsh
fellow may be, get him inhamed, with calico
and in less than four weeks you will see hin
studying Byron and indulging in ruffied shirts
Eg 1t is not always a mark of kindness t
possess an open countenance. An alligator
a deceitful creature, and yet he presents al
open countenanee when in the very act of ia
king you in.
E We read in Sheffield paper that tn
"last polish to piece of cutlery is given by tn
hand of woman" The same may be said O
human cutlery, that "the last polish to a youn
blade is given by his mixing with female soc
5 ety."
@ A prodigal son belonging to one
the first families in Boston, having shipped a
a common sailor, and departed, as it was he
ped, forever, has recently returned with 500
600, made as partner in house in Califorr
ia, and is again restored to society
1 w Barnum is exhibiting at the Baltimor
Museum member of one of the second fam
5 lies in Virginia.
Gw We shall not love our own househol
less, because we love others more In tn
beautiful words Of Frederika Bremen "rh
human heart is like Heaven; the more ange
the more room.''
w Ofall melancholy sights, a bachelor
home is the most so. A house withouta W.
man, is like world without sky, or a SIX
/ without star-dark, desolate and drear'
! With the exception of the lady who 'miIked til
f COW with the crumpled horns we know of n,
. thing more forlorn' and melancholy.
c EE Two hundred tons of saItpetre hav
: been lately sold in Providence, r. l., held o
j speculation ever since the last war with Gre,
: Britain, period of S5 years
~ A woman quarreling with her husban
> told him she believed If he was to die, Ii
: : would marry the DEVILS daughter 'TThe la
does not allow man to marry two sisters,
Z replied the tender husband
j ~ To ascertain the length of the day an