Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-03-15
A StrinR Of Items.

| a Otr10g Of 4tom1s
In Europe, people take off their hats to great
men; in America, great men take off their bats
to the people.
A man who is not ashamed of himself nee
not be ashamed ofhis early condition.
A tomb stone in Jersey bears the following
eptsph "Died of thin shoes, January, 1882"
"WeIl meet at the Ha,ters," as the beaver
said to the otter.
There are l9,5o0 practising lawyers in the
U. States.
1t is reported that hundred fugitive slaves,
or less have left Boston within short time
Rents are enormous, as the poor fellow said
when lookingat his last pair OF torn pants.
The Death Penalty has been abolished In
Iowa, and Imprisonment for life substituted.
Clerks in the California Legislature receive
GIG per day.
A solution of alcohol with very little cam.
phor, brushed over the backs of books, will
keep them from mildew.
A happy home is q glorious and instructive
sight; one which it does the heart good to see,
and which once beheld, leaves an ineffaceablo
impression on the mind.
A promise, and its performance should, like
the scales of true balance, always present q
mutual adjustment.
A genius in Troy has just invented stove
that saves three-quarters Of the wood, Wills
the ashes pay for the remainder. Here's q
stove as is stove.
More than 10000 Russians of the first fami.
lies have asked of the Emperor leave to 90 to
London during the Worlds Fair.
Abbas Pacha, the ruler of Egypt, has sunk
into imbeciity. This fate seems to attend all
the descendants of Mohanmed Ali.
Space in the Crystal Palace has been grant
ed to :he Bible Society to exhibit specimens Of
their Bibles in no less than $50 languages.
Of all the fine arts, music is that which has
the most influence on the passions, and which
the legislator ought the most to encourage.
Silence is poteness, and to listen respect
fully, the most delicate kind of flattery. The
reason of this is, that we take pleasure in
talking and being heard.
Mr. Mitchell, an Edinburg engraver, intends
sending to the Exhibition piece of gold so
small, that an ordinary pins head will cover it;
yet it contains the whole Of the Lords Pray
or. $3.50.
Louis Napoleon gets about $50 letters daily.
asking assistance. An old soldier who had
served ii years under the Empire, lately got
polite refusal to such petition. The refu.
sal was Autographed, and numbered l4,26a.
A young barrister, of Berlin, oppressed BY
pecuniary difficulties, eaped with two children
into the river Spree. The children were drown
ed, but the instinct Of life caused the father to
struggle and call out He was rescued, and
is in custody awaiting his trial for the act.
We met, few days since, two individuals
who are cousins, having the same name,
whose fathers were brothers, whose mothers
were sisters, and whose wives were sisters.
We challenge the whole world for similar
coincidence.
Jewelry is becoming quite fashionable again.
One OF our contemporaries says he met lady
on New Years who had farm on each wrist,
a four-story house around her neck, and at
least six life memberships to the Bible Society
attached to each ear.
There is man in California, who has &C.
cumulated so much gold dust, that he cannot
SSs ~ away VShsy Va Will l0Ik0 vobs
sells would be required to remove it; unfortu-
nately, no vessel can get near it, and the roads
are impossible. The man has in his possession
fifty thousand tons!
The first person who carried the news Of
the accident Of the steamer Atlantic to London,
was Mr. Abbot Lawrence, Jr, one of tho pas.
sengers, who arrived at the Legation, to the
utter astonishment Of all in the house, at mid.
night on the 23d ult.
A movement is already on foot, in New York,
to present splendid service Of plate to Cap
| tain West, of the Atlantic. An American
gentleman residing in London has promptly
forwarded draft for one thousand dollars to-
wards the object in view.
r In Montenegro, though it is one of the wild
est regions of all Europe, in order to travel
safely, nothing is requisite but the presence of
awoman. Even robbers never lay hands on a
woman, and the party which has one in It's
company goes safer than with passport from
the Prince.