The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-07-02

TIL In that bright and happy land
We give o more the parting hand.
ST. PAUL, June 81.
ROYAL WET NuRsE.-Hcr Majesty has again
hOnOred the Isle of Wight by having appointed
a wet nurse for her infant from Cowes:
"This Is no wonder,'' says Roger, says he
"'Tis just what Nature allows;
For what could more appropriate be,
As he is a young John Bull, You see,
Than to give his nursing to Cowes."
-BOstOn Post.
A cynical friend, on entering the public gar
dens at Philadelphia, saw the notice, :" No dogs
let in" Like true cynic, he found something
to bark at -
The keepers duped, beyond doubt,
Or by his senses quite outwitted-
For though he bids them keep DOGS out,
Lo! PUPPIES are In crowds admitted.
A friend of ours says, that he has been with
out money so long that his head aches .'rcady
to split" when he tries to recOllect how a silver
dollar looks. He says the notion that "we live
in world of change, is great fallacy.
The following description of good wife is
given by dOwn-easter:-
She hadn't no ear for music, Sam, but she
had capital eye fer dirt, and with poor folks
that is much better. No man never saw as
much dirt in my house as fly couldn't brush
of with his wings. Boston gals may boast of
their gytars, and their ears of music, but give
me the gal that has an eye for irt,-she's the
gal for my money"
Mrs. Darlington thinks the pillars of liberty
are stuffed with the feathers of the American
eagle. The Superintendent of the United
States are investigating the matter.
An old fogy in New Hampshire was recently
overtaken by a train of thought rhrO skill
full medical treatment it is hoped he may sur
vive the shock
AS proof of the fact that girls are useful arti-
Giles, and that the world could not very well get
along without them, a late writer states it as
TACT. that If all the girls were driven out of the
world, in one generation. the boys would all go
out after them.
faXen-haired youngster of ais little curly-head-
ed playmate.
NO." was the prompt, halfindignant an
swer i've got grandmother
VERY Bah MEMoRY.-The young man who
lately in Washington was suspected of being
guilty of imprOprietics with married woman
and who being in company with the wife. was
shot by the enraged husband. was informed by
his physician that he probably could not live
more than twenty minutes. The young man
proceeded, in the presence of two officers, to
make his dying declaration as to the affair. He
denied, in positive terms, that anything impro-
per had taken place, but being on very init
mate terms with the lady, had ON account OF
the very warm weather-takcn off his coat. re-
Stunning his seat on the sofa about the ordinary
distance for conversation ; he, however, had no
recollection ho,c his pantaloons came off,
Is the Wing party dead or not Boston Post
Put your finger in its mouth, and you will
perhaps find out.-LouisriHe Journal.
QUICK.-The run from New York to Buffalo
was made on Monday in ID hours and q min
utes-the quickest time ever made by railroad
between the two cities
DEAD AND ABOUT TO BE BrRIED.-This is the
opinion which Pierce paper entertains of the
Old Democratic Party in New York The Ma
tional Democrat, speaking of the bunker and
Barnburncr quarrel in the n. Y. Legislature,
says:
1t is said that the monks of La Trappe dig a
portion Of their graves every day. And that is
precisely what the factiOnists at Albany are do
ing every hour.
Mrs. Sophia Dodge, of Lafayette, Indiana,
thus cautions the public against her f,thless
spouse ''He is a william having stolen near
two hundred dollars from me when he left He
Is brute, having been repeatedly proved I'M
faithful to his wife. He is too lazy to work, too
vulgar to be decent, too much addicted to steal
ing to be honest. Said Dodge, was at last ac
counts, in Indianapolis, and expected soon TO
leave for Cincinnati. where he will attempt to
pass OF as a gentleman so long as the money he
has stolen from me lasts
Miss Greenfield, "the Black Swan" who re-
Gently gave several concerts in our Atlantic
cities, is now in England where she is lionized
by the Duchess of Sutherland and her circle.
Inc duchess has given morning concert at
the sutherland HOnse, at which the Swan sang
sererai songs, and was warmly encOred-The
dukes and Duchess ofArgyle, Norfolk and Mon
trose, Lords Palmerston SALISBURY, Grosvenor
the Countess OF Jersey, the French Ambassador,
Ladies Nllliars, BnnsOn, Foley. and many others
were present, as also Mrs. Stowe. who presen-
ted the Swan with splendid dress of moire an
tlque, trimmed with bugles, which she wore.
Mrs. Stowe, and the Black Swan. are certain
iy American celebrities, and we brag of them as
possessing extraordinary talent each in her own
sphere, but we beg our English friends not to
tax either as specimen of American beauty
Cleveland Herald.
young woman lately fell off a railroad
ptldge one hundred feet high, into the Mohawk
river without serious injury. That story has
eo' It's growth, it uever can be any bigger.
=. A spirit rapper has lately had communica-
Ton rom Absalom, in which that prince begs
David s pardon for his RIGHTEOUSNESS, and saws
that his custom ever since his death has becn
to wear wig for fear of another accident sim
liar to the one which befel him ON earth.
The Home Journal says: "Fanny Fern in
obedience to the centripetal force which draws
hither the distinguished has become a resident
ofNew York. She will find here an ample field
for the exercise of her peculiar talent.
VIM. H. Hines kissed Mrs. Gorham, in East
Boston, the other day. She sued him for dam
ages, on value received but didn't appear on
the return day, having been satisfied by cash
payment of SIS. This therefore may be set
down as the Boston market price of kisses
The last decision of New York was IS, and in