The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-07-13

dtiSC I'LL oNCi upi'Ct NSotSti anu 1aid.
bama, more beautiful than their proud
cousins from China.
rWP The New-Orlcans Picayume
cites the following amusing instance
of the bad chirography with which
newspaper correspondents, in too ma
ny instances, vex and annoy the prin-
ter. We hope our friends Of Phila-
dclphia will not be iratc at the fact
that what could be made out was talk
ell almost by common consent to
mean The Philadelphia Riots
Mind Yow Pohoohs.-As an in
stance Of the careless and vexatious
manner in which most communications
u Idressed to newspapers Tor publca-
ton arc writtcn-we refer to their
chirography-we will cite the fact of
Il manuscript being sent to us not ma
ny months ago, the title of which be-
ing examined by Three experienced
judges was decided to be, The Phila-
delphia Riots When the article
came to be set up in type by the
compositor he gave the heading as
above stated. On reaching the second
paragraph of the communication, how
ever, the puzzled compositor discover
cd that the writer was entering into Il
discussion on The Tehuantcpcc Route
\ distinction with difference, and
with a vengeance.
GEoRGIA.-Thc Savannah Rcpubli
can, after giving q number of extracts
of letters from different portions of the
State, says: Our information from
various parts of the State just;ics The
belief, that Of the $4,000 voters in
Geoggia, not 500 are willing to take
Gems: Scott
PnEsERvlNG IRIsu PorAroEs.-A
correspondent of the "Soil of the
South (Wm- Murray. of Catoosa
Springs) gives the following plan for
preserving Irish potatoes
Mix two bushels 81 charcoal with
one bushel OF air-sIackcd lime for eve
ry fifty bushels Of potatoes, and sprin-
kle through the potatoes Immediately
after removing them from the field.
In this way you may keep them per
iectly sound until the spring"
s593 The following advice given by
the great Randolph to one of his
young friends, may be deemed worthy
of a place. On his voyage to merry
England offering the use of some
standard works, he said: Take my
advice, and don't read any of the nov
els; and when You get home, sir,
tell your father that recommend alb
stinencc from novel reading and mhis-
key punch. Depend upon it, they arc
both equally injurious to the braia.
STRUCTURE OF WoMAS.-A hand
some woman is not only the most
beautiful spectacle in The world; she
docs not entertain the sight more
asrccably than any other object what
ever; but she passes inpcrccptibly into
the brain and heart, and inspires all
with love and devotion at the same
time. Inc reason is, her eyes are
quick Interpreters of her thoughts, and
the spiritual rays Of these have the
same influence upon the soul as the
beauty of her person has upon the
S1nsc.
CAN'r USDERsrAND Ir.-Wc cannot
understand how it is that delicate
young ladies, too dclicatc to run up
and down stairs in their own houses,
are able to dalfcc down the strongest
men in a ballroom. 'T'is phenom-
enon of nature of Which no one seems
capable of giving an cxplanaton.-
What young girl ever refused hand
some partner at five o'clock in the
morning, on the score Of being SO
tircd?'
One Of the best disinttcting agents
for damp cellars and other localities
containing foul air is said to be
few pounds of common coppcras dis
solved in water, and sprinklcd over
the place. This will be cticctuaI.
Shanghai China Towls.-Ihomas
S. Gaddess purposes having an cxuibi-
ton of domestic and fancy pigeons, at
Lynchburg, Virginia, in October or
November next. He hns now a curl
Gus assortment of fowls in that place.
and among them are some fine spcc,
mems of the Shanghai or China breed,
raised by himself One pair of these
birds, only ten months old, weighs Is
pounds, and the male, it is-said, can
with great case, standing on the ground,
cat food from a -four barrel. Their
color is of II milkish white, tingcd
with shade of yellow, and they arc