Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-12-03

EEcoUSTERING THE ELEPHANT "a correspondent
OF the baltimore Patriot writing from AtheLs coun-
y. Ohio. on the 18th instant, relates the follow
ing: = 49,. III +. S .1t.. 81.
. have just been wandering about the country in
search of land belonging to clients Of mine, and
in doing SO hare met with many amusing incidents
Only the other day, caravan of rare animals,
GLIDING one that travelled with trunk, was passing
up, net Federal Hill. but Federal Greek, in Athens
county. Ohio, it encountered q sturdy Buckeye dr
wing large bull. Now, this bull. unlike some peo-
pie, had never SEEN the elephant before, and when
the crtter came in sight commenced making his
fore feet familiar with the free soil and his lungs
familiar with their accustomed exercise. His driver
and owner warned Barnuns agent to get his elephant
out of the way. But Mr. Barnum,s agent said he
would risk his elephant if would risk his bull
Wbereupon the Western Taurus renewed his below
ing and made desperate lunge at the huge mon
ster of India. The contest somewhat similar to
certain political for the elephant with blow
from his trunk stretched the bull upon the ground,
breaking three IF his ribs and driving the breath
far from his body that it utterly refused to return
My Buckeye friend obliged to be content with
Mr. Bulls beef, tallnw. and hide whilst the elephant
went en- his way, driven by his whislling aud whit
Ting attendant True, the beef owner consoled
himself by saying that he bad been saved q great
deal of trouble, and the fight had turned out ust as
he expected" co. e'a=5 e3-.s- <
J. {: Daniel Websters resting place." says the Cou-
rier and Enquirer, e. where it should be; in the
fields which he has TILED; the haunts alike of
his hours of sublime contemplation and his brigh-
ter and more genial moods, within sight of the win
dow from which he looked in the pauscs of his study
upon the white tombstone which he placed over ali
of his family-fo they had all gone before him. =
The wind. as it blows through the elm beneath
which he reposed and gazei upon the Heavens.
thinking the thoughts of Judah's royal poet will
sigh his grave, until that noble form shall have
crumbled into dust and in the distance the mighty
will lift up it's voice to chuunt his fitting never
ending requiem r54s- .t-a s-a
A HuGE MAN oF-WAR-The English are busy
employed in introducing screw propellers into lheii
men-o war and far their navy is concerned
| deiemimnd 10 be always ready for action. The hrs
class British line of hattie ship, Windsor Castle,
three decker originally constructed for battery
one hundred and twenty guns, short time since
cut asunder amidshos and heightened twenty three
feet, 10 furnish suitable space the accommodation
of screw-propel!ing machinery. She has just beer
launched, and her name has been changed 10 that O
Duke of Welngton' She measures nearly 1000
TONS and mounts 40 guns With her steam facilities
she is probably the most formidable well III,
largest man of war a1oat. The largest ship in TIL
French Navy is the screw propeller Napoleon
What are the Yankees doing: ~-.~ "a.
r The SNAIL TRADE IN FRANcE.-We learn from
our Partisan contemporaries that the snail is becom
ing fashionable article of diet, and that for sevea
months past particular place has been appropriate
for their sale in the Paris fish market, in the South
east angle, the Holsters and fresh water fish.
$ " SnaiIs,'' says of the French journals. "wer
highly esteemed by the Romans. our masters in gas
tronomy, and are now raised in many of the depart
mehts with In the sixteenth century the Ca
puchns of Fribourg discovered the art OF fatenin
C snas, an art which is not lost in day, for i
e Franche Connie, Lorraine and Burgundy they rails
. excellent snas which find demand in the Pari
d market. There now fifty restaurants, and NOR
/ than twelve hundred private tables in Paris, wher
snais accepted delicacy BY from eight to lie
: thousand consumers. The monthly consumption
, this moluscan is estimated at half million, Tn
market price of the great vineyard <naiIs from 81 50
ST SOC per hundred, while those OF the hedges. wool
and forest bringing only Of 10 Of %. The proPle,t
of one snalery in the vicinity OF Dion is said 10 ne
over 1000 francs annually.
o PATIENT Son.. You want a fogsing: that
what you want said parent to his unruly son.
l. Il know it, dad, but Ill try to get along wthol
- i it. Is said the brat :s