Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1852-08-03
VARIETY,

-"There's a great demand, :" says a Yankee
pedlar, for a species ofpIaster which will enable
gentlemen TO stick to their business"
There is scarcely a week.Passes that some
terrible accident does not arise from filling cam
Phene lamps while they are burning.
AN Irishmau, being in a church where the
collection apparatus resembled election boxes,
on its being handed to him whispered in the car
Tier's ear that he was not naturalized, and could
not vote.
"A boy wenta fishing over &c Potomac
creek, a few days since, and strange to say, he
caught a tOhaIe .ing-but that was after he got
home.
The man who picked his teeth with the
the point of a compass has gone to college and
taken all The degrees of the thermometer.
-.TheodoreTIook says of railroads and steam
boats They annihilate space and time, not TO
mention a multitude OF passengers.
WHY is a printer the most successful la
dy's man we have? Because he always sue
ceeds in making an impression.
Great alamities teach us many beautiful
lessons, and reveal TO us much we should never
have seen from the common level of life.
1t is stated that the Feelings Of cucumbers
placed in the way Of CoCkroaChes for three or
four nights in succession, will entirely clear a
house Of these pests Of the housekeeper.
THAT which we acquire with the most diff
ficulty we retain the longest, as those who have
earned a fortune are usually more careful Of it
than those who have inherited one.
Il tell you what it is, a man feels something
like a man, when he can walk the streets jingling
a spare dollar or SO in his pocket, knowing that
he does not owe a red cent in the world.
THE celebrated stone smasher, Gregoire
has been offered the contract of breaking a mi
serhs heart.
To some men it is indispensable to be
worth money, for without it they are worth moth
ing.
Tile intoxication of anger; like that Of The
grape, shows us to others, but hides us from our
selves.
"A great thought is better than a good for
tune and the blessing Of it is perpetual. The
presence Oft in the soul is.like converse with an
angel. He who has one such guest 10 dwell with
him, will not go abroad for society.
-Thec citizens of st. Louis have resolved in
mass meeting that a monument shall be erected
ln.that city in honor ofHenry Clay.
Abraham Kemp, bitten by copper snake
near Frederick, cured it by an immediate apPlica'
tion of w~hiskey.
-Boston is ornamented with ten fountains,
which, when playing, consume 500, 78O gallons
of water id an hour.
-John Day, guilty of manslaughter; in MUIR
dering his wife at Washington city,has been SEN
fenced to 8 years in.the Penitentiary.
Mr.. Isaac P. Frost, of the firm ofFrost &
Lynch, at st. Louis, died suddenly on the 9th inst.
1t is said the price Of Mackerel has adyanc.
ed in n. YOrk in consequence of the aPpreheEdcd
fish war.
"A Scotch ptnti is equal to four English or
American pints.
Gen. Quitman has gone to the Hot Springs
o fArkansas.
- Miss Dobbs says the first time a coat
sleeve encircled her waist, she felt as if she was in
apavillion built of rainbows, the window stills of
which were composed of EoIian barPs.
-" Just step into the street and I'll give you
a cowhiding."
Be jabers and 1 wouldn't do it if you'd give
ne twoo fthem."
The Chinese think that the soul of a poet
passes into a grasshopper, because it sings till it
starves.
If two hogsheads make a pipe, how many
would make a cigar.
An Irishman being charged with stealing
a wagon, swore he had had it ever since it was a
wheelbarrow.
THE Washington Monument is going on
slowly. Out of funds.
Take frequent additions; don't mix anv
brandy With your water; wear a clean shirt, and
preserve a clear conscience. This will put you
Ihropgh-the summer.
Pennsylvania would get 3,4oO, 600 of the pub.
lie domain, as her portion.