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rituous liquors at his colony in Pennsylvania
rS Hon. Lynn Boyd has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the First
District in Kentucky
~ Mr. Joseph Brown of Concord, Nh.
1t is said, sends to Boston and the surround.
ing towns, yearly. 100000 gallons of milk,
worth some $4,000
% While party of twelve ladies were in
bathing at Newport the other day, the horse
ran away with the wagon containing all their
clothes very vicious horse.
70 The Boston Atlas having mentioned
that during last year ST, 600 bushels of canary
seed were imported. costing SI3. 500. a writer
In the Journal Of Commerce adds the intel.
liSence that Al ,000 canary birds are annually
imported. costing Sl7. $50, making total of
nearly SSI 900.
~ whatever be the motive for insult, il is
always best to overlook it; for folly scarcely
can deserve resentment, and malice is pun
ished BY neglect
- The people of Peru are so indolent that
driving horses they always have two men to
each quadrup ed-one to hold the reins, and
the other to holIer & Whoa
u philanthropist in Missouri has in.
vented cradle which, on being wound up
like clock, will rock the baby twenty -four
hours without stopping
~ Instead of obtaining success by de-
ceiving the public, the consciousness. Of anv
man that he is practising deception will in
evlta5ly degrade and corrupt his mind. and
disqualify him for the efficient pursuit of lofty
enterprises
~ 10 increase mans Incidence. double
his salary. Money has very enervating eff.
feet. Give the Collector of this Port $50 600
ayear, and he would not move out of his sea,
from June to January
e 1t seems that Queen Victoria has re-.
fused to allow Mrs. Uncle Thomas Stowe to be
presented at Court, and that the Duchess of
Sutherland is very much put out thereby
-S An exchange tells us of the sad case of
a man who was shipwrecked, and cast upon an
unlnhabited island, acithoatt a shiLitue fu his
pocket
p a preacher who had once been prin-
ter, observed in one of his sermons that youth
might be compared to a comma manhood to
semicolon old age to a colon. to which death
puts period
20 Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the
distinguishing vices of the lowest and bascst of
people. Wherever it is found. it is a certain
mark Of ignorance and meanness: an intrinsic
mark, which all the advantages of wealth
spiendor and nobility cannot obliterate
- The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany having determined to establish line of
telegraph for their own especial use. immedi-
ately along the line of the road. with stations
at points most suitable for their convenience.
the work, is now in progress under the super
vision OF George r. Dodge, esq. The design
OF this line is to give immediate information
along the line Of any accident that may hap
pen, the causes of detention. and whatever
other information that may be serviceable in
the management of the road
% Laws make about as much crime as
they check. Placing duty of 500 per cent
on tobacco has converted half the boatmen
OF England into smuggers If we were en-
trely without laws, We question whether men
would he a particle more vicious than they
are at the present time. California was never
so safe from thieves and cut-throats as she
was when she had neither judges or court
houses-constables or red-tape. When the
only law is the law of the bowie knife, people
put themselves on their good behavior, and
become honest and upright, in order to keep
from being cut down, and rendered horizon
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