The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-08-21
Odds and f. ndS.

A lady objected to giving her son collegiate
education after learning that profane history was
one Of the studies.
A writer in the North Carolina Sentinel ex-
presses a wish tina: the devil had all the South
Carolina traitors We can't see what the devil
u TO do with them. They such fre-eaters
that they would probably eat him GU, Of house
and home.
Temperance pnts wood on the FIRE, -four in the
barrel, vgor in the body, intelligence IN the
brain, and spirit in the whole composition Of
man.
Is the United States Mint any better for juleps
Than the common mint
II is said that the cergymen intend getting up
a protest against the new tbree-cent pieces, be-
cause as people generally put the smallest piece
Of silver in the contribution box which they have,
they will put these pieces in, whereas they used
to give the five-cent pieces, consequently the
churches will lose two cents upon every such con-
;r.bution.
TO neglect advertising, is about as bad as for
getting to open your store
They have y new plan for the demolition OF
bed bugs in operation in North Carolina. 1t Is
done by steam; enc wheel catches them by the
nose, another draws their teeth, while neat
piston rod pushes arsenic down their windppes
A married lady abiding in conversation TO the
lissh psalm, observed that while ''young men
and nisidens, old men and Children" were ex-
pressly mentioned, not word was said about
married women. An old clergyman, whom she
had been addressing, assured her that they had
not been omitted, anu that she would find them
included in one of the preceding verses under the
description Of "vapcrs and storns.'
"Boy, why did you take an armfuI of shingles
on Sunday 20 ''Why, sir, mother wanted some
kindling wood, and did'n want to spin wood on
Sunday
"Bob, ," SAID youngster 10 his fathers porter,
''Do you that butchers wagon loaded with
calves: / wouIdnh be butcher for all the
world ''Ahem." - Bob, cycling his en-
ployer's son from head 70 foot II had plaguy
sight rather be butcher that a calf"
In Hudson, ". Y, the committee who wen
over town to get subscriptions to defray the ex
penses Of the Fourth Of July, inscribed on theI
book. ''O.r foreflthers BLEED, why shouIdn'
we:'
In certain village in Massac setts, rum Jug
are labelled washing Fluid - This is very APP
propriatc, for rum has washed many man cleol
out Of house, home and humanity.
The man who climbed freshly peeled forty
FIVE feet high poplar pole, and then drew the pol
up after him, has been engaged by the Science
tady circus company to ride swiIcii-ta,ied horse
chestnut tree round the ring with s,rrups
WHY is a bird greedy creatures Because
never eats less than peck.
On farm in Providence, r. l., there is NAL
turkey, who has, the present season, set upon 2
eggs, and Matched Is Of them--having driven h
better half from the nest, and taken upon himse
al! the female OF domestic life, and spur:se
MI interference from the gentler sex. When b
turkey ship got his own brood out Of the shell, h
found tina, some of the women folks Of the oil
flock had also been at work, and that there we,
in al. sixty-seven young turkeys to be taken Gil,
Of All these he has taken Of, and is now
scrt Of lord mayer Of the whole tribe and knocl
down all the interfering old ladies that come mi
his presence.
Webster says that caucus is word used
America TO denote meeting Of citizens to agrt
upon candidates to be proposed for election TO o
fees, or to concert measures for supporting pa
~. The origin Of the word is not ascertaine
e A correspondent Of the Springfield Mass J 20
says the word originated in that city in the follow
ing manner: Samuel Adams's father and abo
20 other ,ship-JSilders used 10 hold caulker
meeting regularly before every election, and co
cert TO form their own plsas as to candidates {
Office. Hence arose the word caucus.
The Montrose (Ps) Democrat says that m
teoric stone, weighing nearly or quite 200 To-
was found few days since, on the farm Of N
Newton, in Srringville. II was deeply limbs.
ded in the earth, and the turf Of The ground "
still fresh under it. 1t had fallen through ire
breaking the branches.
A married couple living il the uppe. part
Queen Anne's county, Md, who have been
wsdloek twenty years, have had twenty oh
dren.
The state o. Maine contains IL 900 more ma
than females.
The editor OF contemporary is so thin II
only one Of bis political opponents can blacksu,
him at the same time.