American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-04-24
VARIETIES.
jack sought kiss, and richly earned
The cuff with which his huge ears burned
Yet thought II hard sailor crack

Could not command paltry smack. ..... !.
The Steeple of the Catholic church at Paw
tucket, h. l., was blown down in the late gale
doing damage to the adjacent buildings. 1t was
the tallest and handsomest in Rhode Island but
was built separately from the church year
ago.
MORSE AND BAssErT's straw bonnet factory,
at Franklin, Mass, was burnt on Wednesday
night last. Loss $4,000; building insured for
5000
"A trial is coming before the assizes at Vienna,
which win give rich matter for the chronig,le
ScdndaLeuSe of high life. Mad. Spazer Gentiluo-
mo, a popular prima donna of the imperial
opera, is charged with having robbed Serbian
Bishop of sum of 8, 600 fiorins during moments
when his grace was as needless of his calling as
of his property.
Speaking of the Worlds Fair, Punch says:
4" Every country yokel expects to come up to
Lunnun this year, and expects to find our dirty
streets paved with the traditionary paving
stones of gold, and to see the Queen riding
about all day in a carriage and six, with the
crown on her head, and the sceptre in one hand
and the ball in the other"
TUPPER is in Boston, where, of course, he is
q popular lion.
The question of interest on the Florida claims,
which has so long engaged the attention of the
cabinet, is yet pending Mr.. Corwin will not
resume his seat in the cabinet until the matter
is determined, he having acted as counsel in
certain of these cases, before taking Office
Let the young man remember, there is nothing
derogatory in any employment which ministers
to the well being of the race. 1t is the spirit
that is carried into an employment that elevates
or degrades il.
Winter, which strips the leaves from around
us, makes us see the distant regions they for
merly concealed; so does old age rob us of our
enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect for the
eternity before us.
Terry II. Cahill for number of years cham
cellor of this district died at his residence yes
terday morning.
The Livingston (N Y. Union tells of a gen.
tleman in Gcnesce who killed seyenty-one
pigeons at one shot, with one common fowling-
piece.
A disappointed old bachelor out west SAYS it
makes little difference whether q man COM
mits suicide or matrimony In one case he
loses his life, and the other his independence.
A PRETTY IDEA The sorrowful John Peery-
bingle says, in allusion to by-gone happy scenes:
" No hand can make the clock strike for me the
hours that are past"
About one hundred Of the citizens of one
township in Belmont county, in Ohio, some Of
the most prosperous in the State, have lately
emigrated to Iowa.
To discover how many idle men there are in
place, oil that's necessary is to set two dogs
a-hghting
Lady Franklin, worn out with "hope de-
ferred," is at length seriously indisposed
One of the French bubble companies for
California mining, which has put out teelers IN
every direction, advertises shares in the Turk
ish paper published at Smyrna. So much for
! the march Of intellect
/ Every cup too much is step towards opening
Pandc1a's box and letting out oil distempers Of
body and mind
Sir WILLIAM DoN, the eccentric baronet and
comedian, is in Savannah.
Through the press, discoveries and theories,
once the monopoly Of philosophers, have become
the property of the multitude
A Frenchman, named Pierre Mustierre, killed
himself by blowing the top Of his head of with
pistol, in Brownsville, Texas.
The BufdLo Journal Of Commerce has been
discontinued, owing to the i'll health OF Dir.
Jones, its publisher.