The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-02-10
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

The Mayor of Baltimore has received -.
from Gen. PIERCE, declining public rooos,. ,.,''f
on his passage through that city. Tho PUoa
tee appointed by the council to molo
ments, has been discharged. Hge'
Sss-The late Amos Lawrence of Boston -,
away during his life more than $500 ooo gave
his pocket book was inscribed. ..Kba. :, IN
profit man if he gain the whole wor,a -,+ -',1'
his own soul ?" lose
nsA- When did Egypt resemble 5rr l.
After the Je'rs had left it, (DIGGs of the D..
ton Carpet bag, is under indictment r,r 1'''
trating this pun.) F''P''
BSlE"T The President of a debatinc s,,..
west lately decided that sthe milk 0u'
kindness" literally meant milk punch with ar-
tie nutmeg in it. Ill
HsA-We are pleased to learn, saws the p;...
burg Union Feb 3, that the Hon, VII ,'''' ~
Candless has arrived home from Hav.no ;.
proved health. IL IN
BE General PIERCE viii leave for wosb;n-
ton about the 18th inst. He has deo,;aal
public ceremonial receptions on the route
S@s one oi our country exchanges saws
"An old sheep gave birth yesterday 70 . L.,
belonging to young widow lady in the viTTar,
with six legs"
Bsg- The latest application of India Rrbb..
is for hOrse shoes. 1t is stated that xperimept,
made previous to the present cold weather in
dieate that they viii prove fully as durable .,
lion, having all its toughness without its br..
tleness or weight.
BSS@''lf man is seated on broken bc,r.
and can't rise without running pitchfork i'm,
his head, which had he best to do-contiDue f.
squat or undertake to get up?'
Some cool headed philosopher saws. if pot7-,
designed man to be drunkard he would b,7.
been constructed like churn so that the ga-,
he drank the firmer he would stand.
nssAA young lady residing in Boston onr
Is years of age, died on Tuesday, Of erysire.-.
after q sickness of only two or three days. S5.
was seized with the disorder while in the ae.
being measured for ball dress. and faiptel,.
way. Before the ball took place she was in her
shroud
Hssg The New York Times calls Billy Bowler,
"Mr. William Cruikshanks." This is carving
poiteness some considerable distance
ia An idea may be formed of the immense
business done at the St. Charles Hotel in New
Orleans, when we state the fact, that on sin
gle day, Monday, Jan. oath, there were 239 ar
rivals! We presume theirs is not another hotel
in the world that does so large business as the
st. Charles,
BET following is supposed to be the num-
Der Of newspapers in the Morld: ..Ten in Aus.
tria, fourteen in Africa, twenty-four in Spain,
twenty in Portugal, thirty in Asia, sixty-fye il
Belgium, eighty five in Denmark, ninety in Re:-
sia and Poland, three hundred in Prussia three
hundred and twenty in other Germanic Statas
i've hundred in Great Britain and Ireland. and
eighteen hundred in the United States.
~ Vell-Pacha, the new Turkish Ambassa-
Tor, in Paris, is 80 years of age, and so in
nensely rich as to be called the Mussulmau
Rothschild. 1t is said he spent fifty million
rancs on his Journey from tie Sublime Porteto
he Barrier de rEtolie. All his attendants wore
Turing the whole trip, the Turkish costume
lie gave away twenty thousand dollars in graft
ude to servants, postillons and chambermaids,
rom Marseilles to Paris.
RsS~ 'De66y, the door bell rings, and you
aust run, light the match, and touch the sha-
ings, and let the burnt stick and brands getou
re in the fireplace, or they viii think we don't
eep fire in the sitting room, and that would
ot be genteel.' ''Yes'm-there-iti is all r5a-
ing, and the bell rings again-shall Igo noW!"
oh! Lordy, marm, it was only pedler" a
edler! Confound him take the fire apart,
nd get ready for another alarm"