The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-08-06
Miscellaneous Items.

ousng excitement.
Daguerre, the celebrated inventor o
the " Daguerreoiype," died recent.
near Paris.
ANOTHER " BLooMER THE Lynch
burg Virginian announces that on Mon
day, TIE main street of that town wa:
adorned with a new edition of Bloom
erism, revised, corrected and greatly
abridged. The copy like the original
was bound in Satan, stamped with guilt
and dedicated to the public.
4 Inland Hall, OF Vermont, has been
offered the appointment Of Commits
sioner to settle land claims in California.
FROGS IN EGyPT.-Mrs. Loudon, in
her Entertaining Naturalist" says ;
Frogs are generated in such NUM-
bers in Egypt, in the fields and mead
ows, that did not storks devour them,
they would oyerrun every thing. These
storks are protected, and are so numer>
Gus that the fields are white with them"
1t is reported by the Journal Of Cons
merce, that Mr.. Webster has been sum.
moncd to repair to Washington in con-
sequence of the Cuban difficulties.
+ John G. SAKE, Esq, of Vermont, il.
rusicatng for few days in our viciui.
ty. lie has recently delivered poems
before the societies of three COLLEGES,
and has added greatly to his wel-earned
fame. At Dartmouth, by n happy al.
fusion to Daniel Webster, a graduate of
that institution. MIR. SAKE " brought
down the house " in style seldom seen
the enthusiastic applause was SO conlin-
ued, that ii was nearly ten minutes be.
fore the poet could proceed. -Bo,ton
y Ncps.
The Indiana Sentinel, abiding To the
fact that South Carolina has adopted
the rattlesnake as the emblem upon her
flag, reminds her that the American ca
gle is death OH snakes.
EMBARRASSMENT. "A gentleman
meeting one of his friends who was in>
solvent, expressed great concern Tor his
embarrassment. You are mistaken.
my dear sir" was the reply, d" It's not I,
II is my creditors who are embarrassed.
Rev. b. SUNDERLAND, Of Batavia, n.
Y, has received aud accepted a call TO
become the Pastor Of Church in Syra.
cuse.
1t is supposed that the Mexican gov
eminent will demand the amount of the
money paid on the Gardiner claim, ir
the investigation now in progress result
III establishing its fraudulent character
The money out Of which these claims
have been paid was deducted from the
amount of indemnify for the territory
surrendered lay Mexico at the peace.
An advertisement in the London
Times seriously announces new song.
with The modest request, Oh, give me
back bnt yesterday !" A companion
10 the above, :" Oh, could you spare TO-
morrow, love ?" is in preparation tn
be afterwards followed by the sequel
lyric of You han't got such thing as
next week about You, have you p
VIM VI hNI IN IROGRESS.--lt Is
reported that Senator Douglass, of Hi
nois, has employed an artist TO paint for
him portrait of Gen. Cass. 1t IS un>
derstopd the Hon. Senator is himself
engaged, meantime. in making a bust of
the Gencral.-N Y. Fee. Post.
A letter from Vera Cruz states that
British influence is at the bottom Of the
suppression of the Gnray which
is not at all improbable.
An advertisement appears in a West
ern paper, which reads as follows Ran
away-A hired man named John, his
nose turned up, fire feet eight inches
NIGH, and he lad on pair Of corduroy
pants much worn.
PnlLANTHR"Py MADE EAsY.-It APP
pears from statement made by Gerri,
Smith that he has paid SI2, 273,l Is for
the hall aud expenses Of Chaplin,
charged with negro stealing in Mary
land, and been repaid but s9,56I 1871.
ne Tree soers are very free with their
words aud promises, which cost nothing
but careful that their philanthropy is
not peculiarly burlhensome.
DEPLoRAnLE EFFECT OF UoT Wealth.
Err IN New ORLgANs.-A correspond.
ent of the N. o. Bulletin gives the fol-
lowing illustration of the effects of the
hot weather in that climate:
The summer is upon US now in
earnest, and | sympathize for our friends
IN New Orleans. who can't get away.
l remember it was so hot at this season
some years ago. that the most Of the
INK on the newspaper would usually
transfer itselfto the hands of the read.
ers, and on one occasion a gentleman,
arraYed for GOODNESS in a jacket and
"h'te panlaloons. CHANGING TO sit down
upon a copy Of the Bulletin, greatly
edlhed the spectators by rising with a
fdc s'mife OF steamer vignelies, cotton
sale advertisements etc, upon the seat
OF his Boomers"
A married lady aluding in conyersa>
ton to the l4Sth psalm, observed, that
while young men aud maidens, old
men and Children" were expressly men
TONED, mol a word was said about mar
req women. An old clergyman, whom
sue was addressing. assured her that
'ney had not been omitted, aud that she
would find them included in one of the
preceding verses, under the description
VI ooPors and storms.
rArAL'sr.-A western newsnaper
publishes the following IL, Iii