Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-07-12
Items, not News.

Items, not News.
| CHANGE IN THE ECURRENCY-Solonon says
that when flour is down to $3,4O barrel, and
wheat 80 cts. per bushel, it takes more than ten
mills to make cent.
Among the other high sounding titles, the
King of Aua, has that Of "Lord Of twenty.
four Umbrellas" This looks as if he was pre-.
pared for long reign'
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN-Lve temperately
go to church-attend to your affairs-love
all the pretty girls-marry one of them-live
like man, and die like christian
"What did you give for that horse, neigh
bor?"
"My note.'
"Well, that ,cas cheap"
boy in school who inherited his politics
and his intelligence from democratic father,
refused to cypher in Federal money.
Sober thoughts can hardly be entertained BY
a tipsy man.
There is firm in New York, under tho
mild and smoothing name of" Snap d Bite"
An editor in Georgia, who has just "busted
up," says he did it with the honors of war.
Although he retired from the field il was with
flying colors-a sheriff's flag futtering from
two windows and door. =
A young man who has recently taken q
wife, says he did not find it half as hard to get
married as he did to buy the furniture.
Why is fine woman like locomotive +!
Because she draws train after her, scatters
the sparks and transports the males.
Why are potatoes ana wheat like the idols
Of old? Because they have eyes and sec not.
ears have they and hear not.
The Yucatan Legislature earnestly invokes
the aid of Mexico to terminate tho Indian
war.
The Connecticut boy, who was struck in tho
Chest by the Elephants trunk lately, is recov.
ering.
News has been received at San Antonio Of
the death Of the notorious Seminole chief.
Wildcat 1t is said he was murdered by band
of Camanches.
Henry c. Webb, mate of the ship Francis
P. Gage, has been arrested in New Orleans for
abducting slave, found on Board.
THR1vlNG.-An editor out somewhere on
Lake Michigan felicitates himself on an in.
creased prosperity and rapid growth of the
place as follows: "Trade and commerce are
rapidly increasing; a schooner under full sail
passed our village yesterday"
1t is said that the man who first introduced
a tanning mill into Scotland was denounced
as an atheist, for getting up gale Of wind
when Providence intended calm.
The Norfolk Courier says that President
fillmore ond Cabinet rno,nhora will visit Old
Point during the summer. .....-
There are great many things which per-
son feels ashamed not to know, and yet never
derives any advantage from knowing.
LuNAr1cs-Poor Devils who are shut up in
prison, because God has deprived them Of q
blessing that one half of the rest of the world
never enjoyed. ..
The young lady who speaks nine languages
like native, and can excruciate piano most
scientifically, would like to be informed which
is most easterly, Boston or st. Louis; also
whether human system and solar system mean
the same thing.
FEMALE LoouAc1rY.-Jean Paul says that
a lady officer, if she wanted to give the word
"halt," to her troops, would do it somewhat in
this wise: "You soldiers, all of you, now mind
| order you as soon as have finished speaking,
to stand still, every one of you, on the spot
where you happen to be don't you hear me
halt, say, all Of YOU" r Il -.-.
Two country attorneys overtaking wagon
er on the road, and thinking to crack joke on
him, asked why his fore-horse was so fat and
the rest so lean! The WAGNER knowing them
to be limbs of the law, answered-"That his
fore-horse was lawyer, and the rest were his
clients. e
1t is a singular feature in the present Con.
sttution of Virginia, that the powers Of tho
Governor cease the very moment he passes be-
yond the limits or the City of Richmond or in
the language of the Constitution, as soon as he
leaves the seat Of Government. .....
At Graham boarding house, the bill Of
fare for breakfast consists Of shingles fried in
pump-water-dinner of the soup left by the
shingles, thickened with saw dust.
Several Of the Wing papers Of Missouri
have declared their preference for Millard Fill
more, as candidate for the next Presidency,
Thomas Sims, the whilom fugitive slave,
has been sold for $1,000, and taken to Hava-
When are women fathers! When they are
,igher., {sires) which is not unfrequently tho
case.-Post. al i f. 7@f .N'
Punch says it is aggravating to see good
looking man wrestling with your wife in
waltz, without having the privilege of going up
and tightening his neckerchief. Ef
TOMATOES, CucuMBERs AND MELONS FROM
curr1xGs-Perhaps it might be interesting to
some Of our readers to know that tomatoes,
cncnmhers and melons grown from cuttings