Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1853-10-28
HreyIties.

Oh the cnurcn at Oietamora.
Brevities.
The following we have met several
times aud copy il. "One boy, with
machine, will make more pa
per in twelve months, than all Egypt
could in twelve months during the reign
Of the Ptolmies. One girl, with pow
err press, will strike books faster than a
million Of scribes could copy them.--
One man, in an iron foundry, will turn
out more utensils than Tubal-Cain could
have forged, had he worked diligently
to this time" MIR. Horace Mann, who
got off the above, might have added that
one distiler could now murder more men
than 500 gludiators, and never have
drop OF blood on his delicate hands!
The Editor Of the Ladies Repository
says he received, along with some ver-
SEES, this delicate note; "Mister Editor,
doctor Clark, if you think these verses
fit for your butiful repository pleas prent
them" That's nearly equal to letter
recently received by the learned Presi-
dent OF Asbury University which opened
thus rich-"Mr. C. J. Berry-Presiden
of Greencastle-Sur, send my Sun to
College," If that Sun don't RISE, it
surely wont be for want of pushing on
the part OF the parent luminary.
The last definition of Pathology" is
"the art of road-making."
In BP. McIlvain's report to the Amer
lean Bible Society, in the last "Record"
is one sentence containing $50 words,
and another of 10 words. We fear the
days of turgid, long, slow, winding sem
fences are coming back. And yet we
hope they can't succeed in so 'fast" an
age as this.
There is to be a woman's rights con-
ventioL held in Richmond shortly. Who
goes from Brookville to represent the
"strong-minded!' A few weeks ago
there was a woman staggering up the
street drunk as Bacchus. Ofcourse she
will be one.
Young ladies, send to the city and buy
Miss Swisshelm's "letters to country
girls" and read them. And some things
in them do, and you will be all the bet
ter by it.
An exchange says that fashion for
bids women going to the grave at funer-
ais in the City of New York. Even the
mother must follow the babe, torn from
her bosom by death, no further than the
threshold, or be Questionable. Now
the mother who will submit to let heI
child be covered up in the cold grave in
her absence, because fashion says so
would make charming hyena with
slight alteration.
The United States Army number:
about 10000 men and costs the Govern
: ment nearly 100000 annually. AnC
: yet the Government cant build the grea'
railway to the Pacific for want o
means! To show for the money ex
pended on the army, we have some rus
: ty guns and bayonets; some ricket,
, forts, and an indefinite amount Of buck
ram and feathers. That's about all!
What does make Alice Cary kill ALI
/ her heroes and heroines! She ough
surely to let one live just for tn luxury
: ofdoing good.
{ Chlorolorm has been considered as on,
+ Of the most spiferous of sub
S stances, and most people consider it n
j. sleep-bringing as sermon with tel
: decisions and forty subdivisions, deliver
ed on hot August day. But somebod
= has got up project for running a loco
motive by its power and says it will eds
lance all natur." Well, if we live lon
enough we'll see.
The literary world is much divided il
regard to the poetry Of Alexander Smith
n The contest wakes warm. Some lau
him to the skies, and place him along sid
: Of Chaucer, Milton and Pope. Other
rank him among the poetasters. II tn
:, publishers send us copy Of the book
! the controversy may be soon settled.
c Some of the newspapers are guilty G
/ bodaciously hooking our "brevities," an
o incontinently forgetting to give us an
= credit. Remember gentlemen, pro
o found and original remark Of the emi
e nent John Smith, STEALING is bad for tn
: morals" We hope you will take time
n ly warning, lest --
!, Bishop Hugh's organ, the Freeman
h Journal, is issued twice week. One @
II the issues comes out on Sunday morning
j.. and thus honors the Sabbath and keep
d it holy.
g The "Home Mission Record" says tn