The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-06-02
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

weeks with full instructions to the Fishery
Question.
BRAINS AND DIGESTION. question ''Why
printers did not succeed as well as brewers 2"
was thus answered Because printers work for
the head, and brewers for the stomach, and
where twenty men have stomachs, but one has
brains.
"A modest cotemporary calls veal ''unfin-
ished beef" This is pretty good, but why not
extend the vocabulary? Suppose we term lamb
s.incipient mutton" and denomnate pig 'spre-
monitory pork"
An old lady, who formerly entertained
travellers in a neighboring county, before her
guests commenced a meal, used te ask bless
ing. She always delivered herself in this wise ::
90, Lord make us truly thankful for the food
before u.s. Nancy hand round the corn bread
first, and then the biscuits afterwards
Amen"
Gen. Arista, who is banished from Mex
leo, but retains his rank and pay in the army,
is openly and strongly in favor of the an
nexation of that country to the United
States.
An American in England, describing the
prevalence of duelling at home, summed up with,
''They even fight with daggers in a room pitch
dark" els it possible ?" exclaimed thun-
der-struck John Bull. ''Possible, sir ?'' return
ed the Yankee, s'why, I've seen themi
The VlrginlanS profess to have a great
horror of underground railroads. but see it
stated that the Parkersburg road has twenty
three tunnels.
How any one can look at the human foot,
composed of A bones, any quantity of elastic
cartilage gill and half of lubricating oil, and
ten thousand other arrangements for first class
kicking, and still believe it's duty to receive
an insult without making a man smell of leath-
er, is one of those eccentricities connected
with the human mind which we never could
fathom.
ALL the gold in the world might, if melt
ed into ingots be contained in cellar twenty
four feet square and sixteen feet high. All our
boasted wealth already obtained from California
and Australia would go into an iron safe nine
feet square and nine feet high.
The Edinburg Witness of late date con-
tains the following as advertisements
SALE OF A WIFE.-By an application for
summons made at the Lambeth Police Court on
Wednesday, it became known that blacksmith
named Turner, lately purchased wife, in the
person of Mrs. Huntley, for pot of beer and a
three-penny pie
In Brooklin, on Tuesday morning a fire
occurred, which destroyed nearly the whole
of the block bounded by Fulton, Willoughhy
and Adams streets. and Myrtle avenue
Forty dwellings were destroyed, Loss one hum
dred thousand dollars.
james NJ. Cooper assumes the charge of
the PennsyiUantan, on the lst of June. VIM. H.
Hope, the present editor, goes to Washington,
having been appointed to clerkship.
Papa" said little boy to his parent,
''are not sailors very, very small men?"
'.No, my DEAR answered the father "pray,
what leads you to suppose they are small ?"
'Because," replied the young idea, smartly,
81 read the other day of sailor going to sleep
in his watch.'
Does it follow that man raised on gin
ger must be ginger bread!" Let some of our
young lyceums discuss this The warmth of the
subject will admit of spicy debate.
Mr.. Cass, our Minister to Rome, is in
Paris, and recently jumped from his horse,
plunged into the Seine, and rescued drowning
female.
The CURE FOR DYsPEPslA.-Close all the out
er doors of a four story house, open the inner
doors, and take a long switch and chase cat
up and down stairs till you steam. Follow this
prescription closely for reasonable length of
time and you will be certain of a cure as
t is possible for you to be of your own exist
ence
A GREAT CARGo-The N o. Delta of the 18th
says-'The steamer II. r. W. Hill, Captain
Newell, arrived yesterday from Nashville, bro't
iown the largest cargo that ever came to this
city. She brought 20 this place sixteen hundred
and SIX tons, among which were 1922 hhdS of
tobacco 260 bales of cotton, 800 bbls. of -four,
besides lots of CORE and bacon, 1000 bundles and !
bars of iron, 81 sugar kettles, and landed on the
coast one hundred and twenty tons of way freight
making in all seventeen hundred and twenty-six
tons.
Hon. LYNN BOYD, late Speaker of the House
Of Representatives, has withdrawn from the Con- |
canvass in the first district of Ken
lucky, in consequence of several candidates be-
ng IN the field. II. c. Burnett, who was also
,andidate in the same district, has likewise de- |
'lined, and both have pledged themselves to take |
10 part in calling a convention to make a nom
nation, thus leaving their party friends to
pursue whatever course they may deem prop
er
AND HAVE THEY CONE TO THIS AT LAST ?-The !
Vhig candidate for Congress, in the Richmond
Va, District, at a recent public discussion said
81 am antt-Bank, anti Tariff, anti Internal I'M
by the General Go0ernspefat, and anti
Distribution Of tie Proceeds fthe Public Lands.
Here We see the whole Wing platform of by gone
lays discarded and blotted out by one swoop, by |
man desirdos of repre- senting the heretofore
trong Federal District of Richmond in Congress.
Principles change not.''
Token OF Recommendations wag of q
Yhig Postmaster in the interior of New York
las sent to the Post Office Department a lock of I
rs hair. sealed in the wax with which his bun
lie of returns for the last quarter was secured.
looked like an intimation that his Tofficial /
Eas ready for the yictors, whenever they chose
0 take it. Those who examined the lock, say
hat the fellow was no Silver Grey but
'hether 'Woolly head or not, they don't