Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-12-26

Scof at vanquish'd honor's claims
Keep your cool and quiet veins
From excitement free. [
Only hearts of orders low
Fer with sympathy glow
No, Superior Glasses, no!
Fiddle-ol-dedee!
On a Contrary Wife.-BY TIM.
A waggsh chap, whose vixen wife,
By drowning. lost her precious life;
Called out his neghbors all around
And told IN that his spouse was drownd
And spite of search, could not be found;
He knew, he said, the very nook
Where she had tumbled in the brook,
And he had dragged along the shore,
Above the place, mile or
''Abore the place. 20 the people cried
why, what dye mean !'' the man replied
6 Of course you don't suppose I'd go
And waste the time to look beloU
I've known the woman quite spell,
And learnt her fashions tO' BILE we'll
Alive or dead, she'd go, swow.
against the current, any ho'0 -
The Census Tables have made their appearance,
and their results such surprise persons. In
regard to the iron produced it has been asserted
the domestic consumption has fallen to $50 900
Now, compare pig alone by the two census of 1910
and 1850.
Tons pig IRON produced in the United States:
Pennsylvania 9S,595 2s5oo2
4 4Sd ca toHS 1850 " Soo'9o' s7 7I5
ss7 500
So, then, the actual production of pig alone in
1850 doubled that of 1870 The price of American pig
iron in 1910 S33 per ton it is S2l per ton.
Improved means OF transportation to market and OF
production have caused the product to double at
lower price. Next to Pennsylvania, the most re-
markable increase is in Maryland The deliveries
of iron the canals and great avenues it is said.
show larger production and consumption of iron
than do the census returns.-Bdlt Sun, 18th inst.
GIRLS ON RoLLERs-It is stated that at large
beer drinking house in Berlin Prussia, the customers
are waited on by female skaters. The instant
customer takes his seat one OF the damsels darts
from the end of the skins the floor, des-
crbing graceful curves, and in moment is at his
side, and requests to know his wishes One of these
female walters will collect number of orders in her
round, carry her beer vessels to her customers
without ruflng their snowy froth. The motions
performed resemble skating and strangers are likely
to be deceived but the act is performed by employ
ing small iron rollers, set into the soles of strong,
but neatly fitting boots. This is all the mystery
1t takes time and practice to execute the movements
we'll, and the work is somewhat fatiguing The
floors which they glide are made of very smooth
hard boards.
| The operations of the U. S. Mint for the week
ending the 18th ult., follows:
Deposits Coinage Payments
Gold S3S2600 1,142.395 l,238753
Silver 4,500 5000 6O23
Total s3S7,1OO 1,15O,395 1,244,776
IL Is Sitlu IudO IIe yeif lou; Guere were
ffty-three steamboats, lost on the western waters,
and sixtyf seriously injured In these 700 per-
lost their lives, and million and half of prop
erty was destroyed. Morgan Journal.
This, observes the Louisville Democrat, is about
the strongest argument in favor of railroads. The
immense loss of property to say nothing of the hun
dreds of human lives lost by accident upon the river
is sufficient to induce everybody prefer the rail-
road system.
BLACK NosEs.-A resolution has been introduced to
the Kentucky legislature which provides that the
keeper of the penitentary shall procure suitable chem
ical dye, such as will stain the cutcle or outer sur
face of the skin perfectly black, that it cannot be
washed off in any way be removed until time shall
wear it away, and nature furnish cutcle sur
face and that with this dye he shall have the nose
of each male convict painted thoroughly black and
new the application often may be necessary 10
keep it so, until within month of the expiration OF
his sentence, when it shall. be discontinued for the
purpose of permitting nature to the feature 10
IFS original hue preparatory the second advent OF
its owner into the world" Pike, of tie Kentucky
Flag. in favor of the resolution with an amendment
that the sheriff of each county be required catch
every delinquent newspaper subscriber in his bawick
and black his nose and keep it BACKED until he pays
up.
CURIOUS CASE OF Observation-Disclosures Shearer
youth of seventeen, brought up at Brooklyn, or
the 28th ult-, charge of abandoning his wife
He compromised the matter by agreeing to allow her
dollar a week for her maintenance
The COMPROMISE IN ALABAMA-A series of resoIu
tons acquescing fnality in the compromise mea
sures enacted by Congress- have heen adopted by the
Alabama Senate by majority of two, the vote being
Is ayes 10 IA nays.
The rogues of New-York now call at stores, with
request that the proprietor will subscribe for tickle
10 ball which they getting up for Madame Kossu;h
They have no tickets and ask no money; but tn,
real object is to obtain for forged checks banE
notes, orders, &c.
From article in the Dublin Nation, written BY
George Fuller, Catholic, it appears that thirteen GU
of the eighteen Roman Catholic Bishops of Hungar,
addressed memorial 10 the King, in 1s4s, favorin:
the cause of Kossuth The five Bishops who did no
sign the address detained from the Convention b,
e circumstances beyond their control.
: OMNIBUS BUSINESS IN LoNDoN.-The number o
omnbuses in the capital of Great Britain is three thou
sand, which said 10 carry less than 300 900 00
of passengers yearly. amount equal TO third
the population of the worId-employing 900 men
and working a capital Of one million, with an anua
: expendure of 100000, much as all the stag
coaches in the empire contributed before the establish
ment of railways.
A man is thirty years old before he has any settle
thoughts of his fortune il is not completed before fiji
"; he falls building in his old age and dies by III
time his house is in condition 10 be painted and gla