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Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

A HARD H1r-Henry Ward Beecher says he
means to vote against the Nebraska bill, though
the ballot-box should be placed in the jaws of
hell. To this the Wheeling Argus replies, that
every man has a right to vote in his own pre-
fJHcf
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

70 The man up in Delphi, thirty ight
years old, who boasts the he never took a
newspaper, says that Santa Anna, if he per-
sists in his struggle with Russia will be
sure to lose all the territory of the Bosphorus,
and be excluded from the navigation of the
Amazon Sea!
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

ANCIENT H1sToRY-" George Smith, do
you recoIiect the story of David and Goliah ?'
:" Yes, sir; David was tavern-keeper, and
GoIah was an Incorporate man"
"Who told you that 2"
Nobody Tread it, and it said that David
fixed sling for Goliah, and Goliah go.
slowed with IL"
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

SWEEP IssocENcE-A young lady of Har-
risburgh, Pa, was out riding few days
since The RECOMMENDED kicking, when
she, in the most simple manner, requested
her companion to get out and hold the horses
leg, or he might iniure the vehicle.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

FAn 1rshman who was once ON a
tourney, said he never liked to see tables
full of newspapers where he stopped over
night, for" said he, 81 can never find any
whisky at such places" shrewd infer
ence
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

r Donald Mckay, Esq. the weIl-known
ship-builder at East Boston, is about to con-
struc: 4 beautiful yacth of about ninety tons,
which he intends as present to the En-
perer of Japan
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

TELLE EST LA VIE In the Boston Even
ing Gazette, of the 18th ult., occurs this
brief paragraph:
Sontag is to appear in English opera at
NibIo,s. Her agent is in England to engage
a tenor and bass She is sure 10 do well.
Alas! On the day that was written, the
enchanting cantarice was struggling with
her mortal foe. So true is it. in the midst
of life we are in death q
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

o. Jenny" said landlady to her
help the other morning. Jenny was
there any fire in the kitchen last night when
you We're sitting up g
Yes, marm,' said Jenny, there was
spark there when Invent down, and soon
famed it into flame"
The landady looked suspiciously at Jenny,
but she, innocent girl, went on scrubbing
and humming Katy Darlnt"
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

How THE FIRE-pRooF SAFE WAS DIscov-
ERED.-A man named Ftzgeral, who made
plaster of Paris images, used to wash his
hands in tin pan, the bottom Of which be-
came coated with the plaster.
One day the pan was set on the fire to
boil some water, but it was soon found that
the water could not be heated, and hence
the discovery of the great Importance OF
plaster as non-conductor and its applca-
ton to re-proof safes.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

A SMART BoY-Dr. Wayland, Of Brown
University, had a boy abou, six years old
who was anything but fool. The doctor
placed him under the care of one of the
students, with the charge that he should
not go out, without permission from his
tutor.
"May I go out % at length enquired our
hero.
"No," was the laconic reply.
A few minutes pause followed.
May | go out @ again inquired the boy.
"No!' was again the response.
The miniature edition of the doctor slowly
rose from his seat, look up his cap, and push
ed for the door.
"Stop," said the tutor do you know
what no means?"
"Yes," said Charley; it is particle of
negation, and two of them coming together.
are equivalent to an affirmatiye."
His wit was his passport.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

% The Newark Advertiser says: The
Clerical Journal (Englshl gives its readers
the following definite and satisfactory piece
of American news Neu Jersey-a neat
and substantial building has recently been
erected in this town, for the worship of
Almighty God. A debt of few hundred
dollars still rests upon the building"
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

o." What an insuferably puppy that
young officer is" said Brown, who had been
rather outshown in the ballroom by the
object of his cutting remark. "Yes," sait
his friend "he is West Pointer"
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

You've AMERICA IN PANrALErs-Here i:
part of letter received by friend from
daughter, nine years old, who IS now at a
boarding school-placed there because she
was one of those who knew too much 10 stay
at home:
"My dear father: I was very glad to
hear from you: and hear you was well; but
| was not a bit glad 10 hear that mother had
baby, because it was boy. should be
very glad if j; were little girl, ou, i hate
boys worse than ever. Now, am going to
tell you what to name him. am going to
chose honely name because don't think
boys ought to have pretty names Boys are
squealing all the time. You don't have one
minutes peace while there is boy baby in
the house; but when you have sister in
the house. you never hear it cry. Name him
Peter; that is good enough for boy. You
must excuse me for writing so much about
boys is because don't like them"
Don't you think she bids fair to become
perfect Woman's Rights woman?
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

Gan eastern paper describing the
effects of a Thunder shower, says: cow
was struck by lightning and instantly killed
belonging to village physician who had a
beautiful calf four days old
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

70 Noggs, ST., speaking ola blind wood
SAWYER, says: awhile no one ever saw
him see, thousands have seen him saw.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

Eagle.
As long as we have, in this region, as
Baron Steuben used to say we had nine
months of winter and three months of id
cold weather." we probably shall have a
North Vermont Patriot
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

Accommodating new planets
have been discovered since the year 1908.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08
The Oregon Pea.

letter from the Commissioner of Patents
describing this new Pea, has been published In
the Richmond Enquirer from which we make
an extract:
The Oregon Pea was brought few years ago
from Oregon Territory. Whether it was found
wild there, or was obtained from the Indians
am not prepared to say. I obtained from the
state of Mississippi year ago last spring, about
teaspoonful of seed, from the product of which
I raised, last season, thirty bushels of peas.
Had it not been for the eut-worm, the ravages
of which were very great, | would have raised
one hundred bushels.
The seed of this plant is very small, less in
size than that Of the Lady, or Sugar Pea"
and Of pale green color, with white * hilum -
or eye. 1t grows on bush from five to six
feet high, with five or six large branches near
the ground; and they, with the main stem, put
cut other branches, until the stalks would make
bunch as large round as a tobacco hogshead,
or near it. 1t grows more like cotton than any
thing else L know of, only it is much larger,
with branches not so horizontal After leaving
the ground little. all these brances, with those
which put out at every joint, bear from four to
ten pods in a bunch with about fifteen peas in
pod, which, as an article of human food, are
superior to any thing of the kind | ever eat.
The stalks and leaves, which are very large
and beautiful, make, perhaps, the finest hay in
the worid-stock preferring it to any other
and yield greater abundance. The hay and
pea together better and far cheaper food
than can be raised from any thing else in the
United States, for horses, mules cattle, sheep,
and hogs. | believe can raise more and better
food for my stock from an acre of land than |
can from five Of any other crop. 1t will grow
on land so poor that it would produce little or
noting else; and toleraby poor land is better
for it, and will produce more thin rich land.
This may appear strange to some, but it is never
theless true. Rich land will produce more
stalks. but not SO many peas. In this respect,
it is like cotton. As an improver of the soil,
consider it far superior to clover, or any thing
known in Tennessee, when fed off on the ground,
and then ploughed in.
If seed is the object one has in view in raising
this plant, let it be sown in drills ~ feet apart,
one or two seeds in place, foot asunder
along each drill. In the course of the summer,
weed and cultivate with the plough or hoe,
after the manner of raising bush beans or Indian
and lightly harrow them in, like wheat or other
grain
In short, taking this plant altogether, it is
one Of the finest and richest productions l ever
saw; and am satisfied in my own mind, that it
is the greatest acquisition to the farmers of the
Valley of the Mississippi and the states adjacent,
that has been introduced into this country
guano not excepted-for the last thirty years.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
CHARLES Mason, Commissioner.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

WANTS ELBOW RooM-"W Where is your
house 2" asked traveller in the depths of
one Of those old solemn wiIdernesses of the
Great West
blouse | amt got no house"
"Well, where do yon live"
II live in the woods, sleep on the Great
Government Purchase, eat raw bear and
turkey, and drink out of the Mississippi
And he added: at is getting too thick
with folks about here. You're the second
man Eve seen within the past year, and
hear there's whole family come in about
fifty miles down the river. Pm going to put
out into tire woods again.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

AN IMMENSE C7LtsDER-On Friday, at
New York, 22 persons sat down to lunch
inside of the cylinder of the steamboat Me-
tropolis, now being finished at the docks of
the Novelty Works, for the Fall River Line.
This enormous cylinder is 104 inches III
diameter working with 12 feet stroke. 1t is
/ 3 feet and inches in length, aud 34,o9p
lbs. in weight. A horse and carriage passed
through the cylinder several times without
difficulty, and it is said it looked large
enough for an omnibus to pass through
After the dinner was over 101 men stood in
the cylinder without difficulty, and il could
have held several more.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

THE FIGURE NINE-A correspondent over
the signature of Ledger" sends Cincin.
natl editor the following:
have just read in your paper what has
often before been published, respecting the
curious proportions of the figure 9. One of
these properties is of Importance to all book
keepers and accountants to know, and which
| have never seen published. acciden-
tally found it ont, and the discovery to me
Though it may have been we'll known to
others before) has often been of essential
service in setting complicated accounts. 1t
is thus:
The difference between any transposed
number is always multiple of g; for in
stance. suppose an accountant Or book
keeper cannot prove or balance his accounts
there is difference between his debts
and credits, which he cannot account for,
after careful and repeated addings. Let him
then see if this difference can be divided by
9. without any remainder. fit can, he may
be assured that his error most probably lies
in his having somewhere transposed figures.
that is to say, he has put down 90 for 80, SO
for %, &c, with any other transposition.
The difference of any such transpositions is
always a multiple of 9. The knowledge of
this will at once direct attention to the true
source of error, and save the labor Of adding
up often long columns Of figures. The diff
ference between 80 and 90 is 60. or times
9; between SO and SO is 45, or times 9
and so On between any transposed numbers.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08
WEIGH Triads.

There are three things which never be
come rusty-the money of the benevolent
the shoes of the butchers horse, and
Woman's tongue
Three things not easily done: to alIay
'hlfst with fire, to dry wet with wafer, IL
please al IN everything that is done.
lhree things that are as good as the best
brown bread In famine. weI-water in thirst
and gray coat in cold
Three things as good as their better: dirty
water to exiInguish fire, homely wife to a
biind man, and wooden sword to coward
Three warnings from the grave; & thou
knowest what was; thou seest what | am
remember what thou art to be-"
Three things of short continuance-a
lady's love, chip fire, and brook flood
Three things that ought never TO be
! from home-the cat, the chimney, and the
| housewife
| Three things in the peacock-the garb
OF an angel. the walk of a thief, and the
voice of The devil.
Three things ii is unwise to boast Of the
flavor OF thy ale, the beauty of thy wife, and
the contents of thy purse.
Three mlserles of man s house-a smoky
chlmney-a dripping root, and scoldlng
wife
Presents TO THE JApANEsE-The bril-
liant success of Commodore Perry, in ne
gotlattng relations of intercourse and amily
with the Emperor Of Japan, is now a settled
tact. We give a list of some of the presents
by which the way of negotiation was paved
by the gallant Commodore Those for the
Emperor consisted of, among other things:
A railway with steam engine.
An electric telegraph.
A surf boat.
A life boat.
A printing press
A fine orgnette.
A set of Audubon's American Ornithology.
splendidly bound.
Plates of American Indians.
Maps of different States of America.
Agricultural Implements with all the
modern Improvements.
A piece of cloth.
A bale of cotton.
A stove.
Rifles, pistols and swords.
Champagne, and cordials and American
whskey.
And for the Empress (presuming there is
one):-
A telescope.
A lorgnette IN gilded case.
A lady's toilette box, gided.
A scarlet velvet dress.
A changeabe silk dress Powered
A splendid robe.
Audubon's illustrated works.
A handsome set of china.
A manteIpiece clock.
A parlor stove.
A box of fines wines.
A box of perfumery.
A box of fancy soaps.
Among the other presents, perhaps the
one most valued was copy of Webster's
complete Dictionary to the imperial inter-
prefer. To the high officers were given
books, rifles, pistols, swords, wines, cloths,
maps. stoves, clocks and cordials, the last of
which they fully appreciated, and, as re-
CARDS clocks, when it was proposed to bring
an engineer from ship -board to set them
goirg, the Japanese, said there was no &C.
casion for that, for they had cIockmakers in
Jeduo who understood them perfectly.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

Worm READING - 10 sufferers from .Screfula,
Wonderful case Of Scrofulous Ulcer, cured
by Hotlouoys Ointment and Pills. Mary Ann
Johnson, Of Batavia, New York, WAS afflicted
for eight years With = ecrofulous ulcer on her
calf. which affected the bone; she resorted to
all kinds Of remedies, but obtained no relief
until she had recourse to Holloway's Ointment
and Pills. The Pills thoroughly cleansed and
purified the blood. and although the wounds
were in most dreadful state. yet by continued
applications Of the Ointment, they have perfectly
healed, and her health is completely restored.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

ANEcDoTE or CHARLES LAaB.-The follow
ing is original Lamb, and was, we be-
lieve, picked up by the poet Fields. Charles
was once walking in the vicinity of one of the
watering places, in company with several ladies,
one of whom, more remarkable for prudery than
good taste, took occasion to call forth the pol
ished satire Of the wit )" after this fashion:
"Dear me, Mr.. Lamb, that's very shock
ing!n
"W-w-hat, madamee7
" Why, there, down on the beach; those boys
bathing"
Charles looked. and saw some half dozen little
urchns gamboling in nudity and unconcealed
delight along the sparkling sands, and thus re-
Dukes his companion
B-b-oys! Those are girls, madam, are they
not7''
why, Mr.. Lamb, no! assure you they are
boys" ..s
J. Are-are they! All, well, excuse me,
madam--at this distance d-d-didn't know the
difference"
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-08

IMPORTANT TO BANKs.-Tks Swedish papers
bring accounts of very important invention
which has been laid before the Commissioners
of Banking at Stockholm by q certain Count P.
A. Spare. The invention is two-fold he
counterfeits with incredible exactness the bank
notes in use, but prints others which he himself
can not initiate. An editor who has witnessed
the process remarks:
"When one sees Count Spare with his simple
machinery, which any one may manage with
the greatest ease and facility, prepare in few
minutes the bank paper in use, which is made
OF three different laminse, and in this give, with
out the slightest difficulty even exerton Of
artistic skill, the finest water marks in perfec-
ton, and then follows the preparation Of the
paper by q simple and merely momentary pro-
cess, but which gives again the printing and
engraving absolutely perfect-he feels strange
sensation at the thought Of being participation
in the secrets of the art which, in less conscen-
tious hands, might ruin all our banks and pro
duse utter and inextricable confusion in our
credit system
Count Spare, in his memorial, states that
his process, if it does not render counterfeiting
utterly impossible, st all events increases its
dhculty to almost that degree, and offers to
furnish the bank with all the notes for the sum
Of q, 1000 thalers ($1s,0o0l per annum, which
Is about one-half its present expense for paper.
The Commissioners have referred the question
to Committee of scientific men. In the mean
time' Count Spare is to visit England in order
to bring bis invention to the notice Of the mer-
camille public.
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-19
A Splendid Invention.

One of the most triumphant and inter esting expert
mens of this century of Labor saving machinery took
place on Saturday afternoon at Green Point, in pres
sebled for the purpose Of witnessing it, 1t the
erected there in "A large building just put up. From
re-Adamite times, the tree Of the forest, when
healthy has been upright, stately, strong, bending,
to IA prover,-"As unbemding the oak of the for
cst.''
This oak has stood through the ages looking
proudly down, but the proverb must now Ike remod-
cled. We saw Saturday, the body Of more than
one tree, shOrn of its bark and planned the shape Of
ship timber, taken out Of steam furnace, and
RED a few feet to machine, where in the space Of
five minutes, bent into the segment Of circle!
This tremendous effort of power and ingenuity was
received with loud applause from the company. All
present most int. es,cd through their professions
the experiment-ship builders and architects cspcc-
ally-were particularly delight and astonshed at
such browning evidence of massive force and genae
skill applied to of the gandest agents of cvza-
tion-wOod. which along with iron has most written
out its history Besides the pOhderOus beams bent
for ships and steamers so that strength and grace
may at single blow form the swelling prov Of the
proudest craft bend in arched strength from the
heights Of hall or cathedral, support its floor
roof, there were other proofs Of the utility of the in
vention. The most inflexiblc wOOd-lOcust-was
placed parallel with an iron machine and its stern
grasped twisted into epses, circles, the fibre becOm
ing closer by the operation. The secret lies in the
force applied to the ends of the timber, and thus the
force and integrity Of the timber is uimpared.-N Y
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-19

-Four only are to be allowed to exist in Paris. For
egners of all ranks are to be admitted without exam
inaton; but French subjects will be compelled to ex-
hibt entrance, not less than five hundred francs
No player is to be allowed to stake smaller sum
than hundred francs at a time but above this sum
the stake is to be unlimited Veron is bound to de-
post sum of forty millions by way Of caution mon
ey, and the first gambling house is to be open with
the same warrant of government approval. and the
same as the Frascati Of oIden time. The locale is to
be in the Rue Droudt, and the splendor and artistic
decorations of the grand sale are inscribed as some.
thing unwi,aessed 10 Europe, An Arab divan is to
be established where the subtle preparations Of
karchsch are to be administered those who delight
in the influence of this drug. marble bath OF vast
proportions and Oriental magnifcence is also talked
of AS novel addition to the luxures of such an es-
tablishment.
The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-19
The Balance of Power.

In the course OF the debate in the House of Com.
mons, which followed the Declaration of War, Mr.
j. BRIGHT strongly deprecated the policy of wasting
life and property in attempts preserve ',hc balance
Of power" IN Europe. Such an attempt by any ma
ton he thought would defeat its own ends. Mr..
BRIGHT is the representative Of Manchester, and
naturally enough therefore opposed to anything that
will affect inuriousy English Manufactures, or the
general peace upon which they depend for prosperity
Among his remarks were the following illusions to
the United States:
s'He wanted to know what was the balance Of pow.
err! There indeed balance of power that this
country might regard, if our statesmen had a little
less OF those narrow views which they sometimes i'm
puted to himself and those who thought with him.
If they could look beyond those old nations Of Europe
and cast their eyes as far westward they looked
eastward, they might there power gro,Cing up ulch
before long UOud teach hee the balance of pouer re-
sided. The struggle might indeed begin with Russia
but it might end with half the powers of Europe for
Austria and Prussia Just as likely to Join Russia
as this country. and probably more SO and we know
not how long alliances which now appeared very sc.
cure, might remain to us: for the circumstances in
which the Government had involved us were of the
most critical character, and the nation stood as it
were upon mine that might explode any day. Give
us seven years Of this infatuated struggle upon which
we had now entered, and let the United States re-
main at peace during that period, and no one could
tell what might then be the relative positions Of the
two nations. Had they read the reports of the Com
mssioners who had visited the New York Exhibit
ton, with regard to the wonderful progress Of that
country in tonnage and exports and imports, and man
uacures, and the development of all resources, and
the means Of transit! Why, there had b Ell noth;s
ing like it under the before. They would, no
doubt, profit to large extent by the caamities that
might bealI US; while entangIed in war, our
trade will decay and diminish and people, suffer-
ing and disconnected in all former times of war,
will emigrate by increasing numbers to a country
whose policy it is to keep itself free from the entan
clement Of European politics-to a country with
whom rests the great question whether England shall
for any long time retain what she processes to value
SO mach-her great supremacy in industry and at