Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-11-13
Something for Everybody.
| From the Crescent.

From the Crescent.
A sale of four inches of land, on Main street
Buffalo, was made lately at $500 per inch.
q can't paint, but I can draw" as the Span
Ish fly said to the sick artist.
Several children in Boston have been baptiz-
ed in water brought from the river Jordan.
As man cultivates his intellectual faculties,
he learns to mistrust his instincts.
1t has been discovered that where lot of
boarders are fed upon sausages for some time,
they begin to grow.
"One of the rarities of life,' said Eliza Cook,
sis woman thoroughly satisfied with her
daughter in law"
"Corneiius, how do you define corn9' ga
corn-why, it is something which troubles a
man who gets tight in his boots"
The last case Of absence of mind, is that of
a ship carpenter, who bit off the end of spike
| and droue plug of tobacco in the vessels
bottom.
Youth may sometimes afford lesson to ma
turity. All horse pistols have been superseded
by a Colt.
A grave friend of ours tells US that he and
his wife always. 60 to bed quarreling. "And
yet," said he, ''with all our difference, we never
fall out.
The last wsrds of Daniel Webster are re-
ported to be-, still live'' They will form an
appropriate epitaph on his tomb, and motto to
his works.
A Southern editor, in giving an account of
some rascals who stole two horses belonging
to preachers at a camp meeting, says it should
advise clergymen to swatch as we'll as pray"
Vermonters live to great age, as is we'll
known. There are two men in that State so
old that they have forgotten who are, and there
are no neighbors who can remember.
A correspondent says that when the law
says he can't marry his grandmother, or aunt,
or his wfe's mother, it makes an ass of itself,
for when a man marries nowadays, he marries
the whole family.
The popularity in politics is to see your
name in large type posted to a fence. Some
body will inquire who you are, and when the
first rain comes you will disappear.
The marble quarries in Vermont are becom-
ing important; 100000 worth Of stone was
sold from one of them last year. Statuary
marble, said to equal the Italian, has been OBJ
tained
The aggregate wealth of the United States
amounts to $l2.O0o,0OO,O and tina popula
ton to 24,OO0,000 souls. The wealth divided
by the population, gives $500 to each person,
young and old,
When the venerable Pebbles Worthy was in
New York, he asked pipe smoking old Dutch
man the origin of the name of Tammany Hall.
"Vy, you see, said Hans, "yen de beebes has
meeting in de Hall it holds tam many"
A disspated "medum" in this city, who re-
turns home in bilious state aeven nights out
of the week, offers as an excuse in having his
eyes black and nose broken, "that it was done
by spirit" What spirit he does not state.
A prudent man advised his drunken servant
to put by his money for rainy day. In few
weeks his master inquired how much of his
wages he had sav we'd. "Faith, none at all"
said he, sit rained yesterday, and it all went"
The young man whose ambition lowered so
high that he would not follow his fathers pro-
fesson upon any consideration, finally obtained
a situation commensurate with his talent--that
of grinding street organ for monkey.