Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-11-19

| eight shemers, Allowing that of these sixty-tw,
thousand seven hundred and forty-eight skew
ers, the odd two thousand seven hundred ant
forty EIGHT were accidentally devoured with TIL
meat by the most voracious of the animals sup
| plled 1t followed that sixty thousand skewer
| per day, or the enormous number of twenty-on'
| millions nine hundred thousand skewers annu
| ally were wasted in the kennels and dust-hole
OF London; which if collected and warehoused
would in ten years time afford mass of timber
more than sufficient for the construction of q
flrst-rate vessel-ofwar, to be called '7He Royal
.Sheecer,' and to become, under that name, the
terror OF all the enemies of England
another statists belonging to the 'associ-
alton had paid particular attention to another
branch OF statistics equally important. He had
ascertalned, from the most authentic data, that
the total number of legs belonging to the man
ufacturing population of a town in Yorkshire
was, i'll round numbers, forty thousand while
the total number of chair and stool-lcgsin their
houses was only a fraction over thirty thousand
which, upon the conceded and very favorable
average OF three legs to a seat, yielded only ten
thousand seats in ALL
''From this calculation it would appear-not
taking wooden or cork-legs into the account, but
allowing two legs to every person-that ten
thousand individuals Tone half of the whole pop
ulation) were either destitute of legs entirely,
or passed the whole of their leisure time in sit
ting upon boxes!
Now like to see long columns of figures
that add up to good round sum, when they
are in favor of our government, in strong
leader in political paper: rejoice to see such
column i'll my bank account; and absolutely
gloM over an array of contributions to beneyo-
lent objects-such as the sufferers by yelow-fe-
yer in New Orlerns, for instance; but save me
from all such statistics rs these!
"DID you ever attend Golden Mar
rtage2' Do you know what a Golden Marriage
Il will tell you.
''When a man and his wife has lived together
for fifty years, it is the custom in some countries
as i'll Sweden, and, | believe, in Germany, to
hold a second wedding, ut which all the old
friends OF both partics-their children, and their
children's children, to the remotest degree--are
invited to be present on the occasion.
81 was present at a 'Goden-M Marriage cele-
bration in this city only few weeks since; and
l want to try to describe it to you.
GA gentleman who had been married for fifty
years, all and every part of which had been
passed in uninterrupted domestic happiness,
sent out in the name of himself and his aged
invitations to attend their Golden
Aou Will tltlS piEuStut anu
beautiful custom admirably described in do
nestle novel called The Neighbors.) The eve
ming arrived, and was privileged, as an old
friend to be present.
Fathers, mothers, children, grand chid,
great grand-chid sons-in-law, daughters-in-law
and their children, were present. The aged
couple in excellent health. and with faces as
happy as good hearts, and good deeds, and a
consciousness of years well spent, could make
them, imparting happiness to all around them,
in the room, odorous with numerous flowers
Oh, it was a most beautiful sight; and hope is
a custom that may hereafter be followed by
those married couples who are so fortunate as
to live in perpetual peace and happiness together
for half century. How truly might that still
happy couple represent the lovely characters
of John Anderson and his Jean:'
John Anderson, my 10, John,
We've seen BARNS BARNS,
But yet, my dear John Anderson,
I'm happy in your arms;
And so are You in mine, John,
I'm sure you'll meier say no,
Though the days be gonc Mdt zee haze seen,
John Anderson, hny 10!
"sJohn Anderson my 10, John,
LIES Hill we've comb thegither,
And mony canty day, John,
We've had VII ane anither:
Now we naun totter doun, John,
But hand in had We'll go,
And we'll sleep thegther ut the foot
John Anderson, my Joe