The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-07-17
other Things.

Tho lessee OF Cigar stand IN the
saloon Of the Union Hotel, San Fran
cisco pays $500 a month for the privi-
lege Of his corner.--Mr. Seba
Smith. the original "Major Jack
Downing, has just started 9 new
paper in New York, called the Week
~ Budget.-.--When | gaxed into
the stars, they looked down upon me
with pity from their serene and silent
spaces, like eyes glistening with tears
over the little lot Of man. Thousands
Of generations, all as noisy as our
own, have been swallowed up by Tine,
and there remains no record, Of them
any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion,
Sirius anti Pleiades, are still shining
in their courses, clear and young, as
when the shepherd first noted them il
the plain Of Shinar Carlyle.--
At the late Woman's Rights Conve-
ton, resolution was reported and
laid over for the next meeting that
if justice was not fully done to the
ladies, aud SION, then they would
stop the population ofthis country.
CANCELS and ministers Of grace defand
u.s." They'll have us there.--
The fame of Colts revolver seems
to be extending in all directions.
The London correspondent of the
Berlin National zeitung speaks of the
great favor it has met with at the
Cape of Good Hope. He says, letters
thence state that the kaffirs are so
much pleased with the operation of
the revolver that they have given
to it the name of Goods Pistol an
expression not unnatural, perhaps in
an enthusiastic Pagan.---In a
fashionable novel, the author says,
Lady Emma trembling, grew pale
and Immediately tainted. > The
printer putting 7, instead off. render
ed it, "The lady grew pale and imme-
diately painted. -" Womau's
Right" TO have husbands end child
rem. Women's wrongs-be compel
led by the force of public opinion to
obey the former and take care Of the
latter. Hard. but honest. What
says Mrs. What s-her- name, who hav-
ing survived her bloom, takes to
"bloomers, and talks about enlarging
her "sphear '--InFE OF AN H.
Illustrated PApER.--An American
illustrated paper returns thanks to
the different Railway Companies, shy
ing, in its great eandor, 1--WE really
don t know what we should do for
illustrations if it wasn't for the rail-
way accidents. "--ArPolNTMENT
By THE GovERNoR.-eMr. A. b.
James, late a member of the extern.
sive dry goods firm of Marshall &
James, of this city, has been appointed
by the Governor Director, on the
part of the State, in the New Orleans,
jackson and Great Northern Rail-
road.--Picayuus.
In pursuance Of official orders, re-
eeived from the city of Washington,
by George r. Nesbitt, Esq, a large
quantity Of the United States prepaid
envelopes were shipped from New
York on Thursday, June 3M by Ad-
ans Il Co.'s Express, no the post
masters at the principle cities in the
Southern and Western sections of the
United States.---The Piny Woods
man is the name of neat little paper
published at Springfield La.
The census in Great Britain in
1851, has just been published. The
increase of population during the last
decade was not as great as it was be-
tween 1911 and 1921, though it is
proclaimed that the last census indi-
Gates stable and progressive national
prosperity. On the 3lst of March,
1851, the number of the people Of
Great Britain returned was q, l21,-
g67 The females exceeded the males
more than half million; about the
same proportion as was found half
century ago A hundred and four
boys were born to hundred girls
the rate of increase during the half
century has been 95a per cent. it is
calculated that the population will
double itself every fifty two years.
Half generation of men of all ages
passes away in thirty years. The
people of Great Britain are dispersed