The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-06-25

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"a few touch the magic string,
And noisy fame is proud TO win tlem,-
Alas for those that never sing,
But die Nth all their music in them"
According to the Koran which is as binding
as the laws of the Modes and Pcrsians, with all
Mahomedans--and the higher they are in po-
litical station, the more exalted is their cccle-
siastical pOsition--nO Mahomedan. whether
prince or subject possess more than four wives
at any one time; and if Sultan desires to have
more than that number or Il new one he must
first divorce one of his old ones and the one
divorced can marry again only with the con-
sent of her late lord ond master.
\ traveller went into an inn after shower.
and asked the landlord to show him good fire:
for" said he, g I'm very wet - and then turn
ing to the waiter. he said: Bring me tank
ard OF ale Immediately, for l am plaguey dry"
The difference between Saltpeter and Peter
Salt has at last been explained. In Ohio, re-
Gently, Peter Salt was ridden on rail by his
neighbors for abusing his wife. Saltpctcr would
have preserved her.
a young naval officer, when asked what pc
Rod of his first battle was most appalling, re-
piled THE few hushed moments when they
sprinkled the deck with sand to drink the blood
as yet unshed!
Praise the fincncss of the day when it is end
cd; praise woman when you have known her:
a sword when you have used it: maid after
she is married the ice when you have crossed
it.
4 QUEER SERMON.-An old preacher once
took for his text, Adam. where art thou -
and divided his subject into three parts. lst-
All men are somewhere. 2d-SOme are where
they ought not to be; and 3d-Unless they take
care. they will soon find themselves where they
would rather not be.
"THE DAUGHTERS OF THE HORSE LEECH'-
The Washington correspondent of the Ohio
Statesman, leading democratic organ.
draws the following picture the office begging
tribe, who have been besieging the White
House and the Departments with their impor-
tunltes, for some months past
There is not a politician of any note, or
want of note, in the Democratic ranks from
Maine to Georgia. that is not candidate for
something, and who is not by himself orfriends.
daily DIGGING the President or some member
OF the Cabinet, for a loaf or crumb"
NEW YORK EyHIBITIoy.-The London Times
states that eight hundred British exhibitors,
comprising the leading houses in important de-
partments OF British national industry. have
sent contributions to the New York Exhibition.
AN Awful SrEEcH.-The Washington Re
VI H..
OF the counsel engaged in the trial of the Gar
diher case, would, if published entire, contain
Us hluch matter as can be set up in seventy CO.
iumns OF that paper! He was somewhere near
,hree days in grinding it out The court nu,t
nave felt like saying what Wyandot once said
"hen bored by long-winded speech-maker, at
trcaty-meeting =" Waugh! No good
White man all over jaw.''-Scioto Gag.
swat you call zem tings Wit long bills, zat
ny and make noise, b-z-Z-Z!" said q French
man the other dav
hoodcock,' was the reply.
En- bien? kill zis morning before break
fast twenty-five woodcock'
The deuce you did where did you come
across them
- In mine chambcr-bed''
twenty-five woodcock in your chamber =
lou mean mosquitoes
SAID heavy sided but clear headed old Ger.
man, Democratic member of the Legislature
Lease de public works and pass dis Maine Lip
uor Law. and wouldn't give d-n for tn,
Democratic party
PRECOcITY OF THIS Go-AIIEAD AGE-Wc ncv.
or read accounts of extreme advance in life with
out thinking of the remarkable progress tn,
present age is making, and to help it along the
precocty ofmodern youthhood- illustrated
Grandfather said saucy little INN. tn,
other day, show old arc you?''
The old gentleman. who had been soldier
in the Revolution, and was much under the or
binary size, took the child between his knees
and pattng him on the head with all the ford
ness of a second child of life, said
'My dear boy am ninety.fpe years old,
and then commenced to amuse the lad Will
some incidents of his life, at the conclusion o.
which he addressed the ycungstcr ':But my
son, why did you ask such question ?''-whcr
the little rascal, with all the importance O
Napoleon. strutted off, and hitchng up the
hrst par OF pantaloons he ever wore, after ap
proved sailors fashion, replied:
well, 1t appears to me you are da,ned small
There is none of the right kind of birch that
grows round in sufficient quantities where smell
boys are raised.-Chieago Journal
There is very charitable old gentleman re
siding in Williamsburgh. He never induloc
in luxury of any kind without thinking of thu
poor. Whenever he has peas for dinner, he in
variably forwards the pods to the Orphan Asy
lum.
A young poet in Iowa. in describing the voic
OF his lady love, says it is an "airefOrm bridg
connecting dream land with reality \ fan
clful young man that Cupid. What pity h
deals so extensively in verInillion.
To Cure DYspEPsA.-Give hungry dog
piece of fresh meat. and chase him till he drop
it. You will find this far superior to any fun
mix mixture that has yet been concocted.
We notice the death, at Albany. on Sunda
week, of Charles II. Andrews, printer, wei
known to most members of the craft. lie wa
nearly related to the associate editor of the Jer
sey City Telegraph. The Printers Union O
Albany attended his funeral.
A mayor is on a strike at the South. MI
Stubbs Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, it is stated
refused to run unless his salary was raised t.
$4,000.
Chief Justice Shaw, of Massachusetts, VIII
fer nearly half century has filled his presen
Office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, i
about to depart for England, and intends to b.
absent three or four months.