The weekly Placer herald., 1854-08-19

Wtt0in IIS IlttlttS tudl Citu 9TI1'I ITOih &COO
to 5000 pounds of barley, or other grain,
per day. With but little additional ma
chinery, excellent -four can be produced
at this mill.
The ladies of Marysville, KY, recently
presented pair of pantaoons to Miss
Lucy Stone i'm due form Miss Lucy ac-
cepted the pants, hut says she would nave
done so with much better will If they
had only had man in them.
PRETrY FAIR.-We heard chap, says
the Picayune, trying to spout Cowper,
the other day. He cominenced:-
"Oh for a lodge in some vast uido,os nest'
And we heard the echo continue:
"With eagles feathered and with gems inlaid,
Where bills. and duns and sheriff sales
May never veX me more"
AYouNG B'HoY.-A little ragged urchin
had curiosity to see the Museum the
other day, and quietly stepped in by the
door keeper, who caught him by the arm
and asked him for his dime. The little
'un drew his full hight and told him he
didn't want To bug his museum, he only
wanted to see it. The door keeper passed
him in, and offered him his cap in the bar
gain. Ph'la Intehhgencer.
The proceeds Of the Benefit, given to
the Fire Department by Oe Bull and
Strakosch, last Saturday evening, amount
ed to trihe over $500. S. F Nears.
An inquisitive landlady, recently, on
discovering that one OF her boarders had
left, exclaimed, addressing the servant
CIR "Bess me, that genteel foreign gen.
b.,v thDI, inn
months board, and left his trunk with
nothing in it but bricks. wonder how
he got them therei" The servant girl
suggested he had brought them up stairs
in his hat.
SNAKE SToRY.-AccortIin to the Rich
mond Bulletin (and it says its authority is
reliabIe), Mr.. VIM. H. Coel, of Caroline
County, Va. lately killed in his field
huge black snake, and upon cutting the
reptile open, found snugly slowed away
in the stomach five young hares. But the
most wonderful part of the story remains
to he told. One Of the hares, which must
have been but recently swallowed, revived
shortly after it was taken from the body
of the snake, and ran atvay into the
bushes!
LITTLE TO DO. The Cleveland Plain
dealer says An athletic specimen of
man from the Emerald Isle ca led into the
counting room of one of our River street
merchants He took off his hat to make
his best bow.
The top % the mornin' to We, MiSther
P, I've been told ye're in want %
help
'l've bnt little to do replied P,
with mercantile gravity.
H'm the very hoy for yees. It's hut lit
tie | care abount doin' - sure it's the
money Pm afther.'
The naive reply procured him a situa-
ton.
A correspondent of the Boston Post
states that at an anti slavery convention in
that city, one of the 5000 New England
cergymen who protested Sin the name of
the Almighty God" against the Nebraska
BIZ, "In answer to the argument some
times put forth, that slavery is sanctioned
by the Bible, and Is certainly sanctioned
by the Constitution, Uses this language,
word for word: 'rell me- said he, that
the constitution sanctions slavery, and I'll
put my heel upon it, Tell ne that the
Bible sanctions slavery, and f'Il put my
heel on that. Tell me that God sanrtions
slavery, and ri put my heel on HIM.
A REMARKABLE CASE OF rAUToLoGY.-I
In the course of debate, one Of the op-
position charged one of the other party
with an ungrarnmatical use of the word
that. coadjutor of the offender rose,
and thus addressed the chair: "Mr. Pres
ident, feel it my duty to defend my col
league from the charge of false grammar:
and in so doing, | shall prove by any
gramrnarian you please that thar that that
that gentleman used, was in strict accord
ance with every rule Of grammatical con
structon"
IMPORTANT TO LADIEs.-In an action
recently tried in the Court of Common
Pleas, IN London, it transpired thar there
is a custom in the 81 k trade of what is
called 'topplng," which means that the |
outer ends of pieces Of silk are frequently
made Of "A better quality than the interior
After the publicity given to this mode Of
impoStnre, the fair sex will do well not
only to turn everything upside down when
shopping, but also to turn everything in
side out.
Lord Byron very truly said, IF a man
he grac Gus to strangers, it shows that he |
Is citizen of the world, and that his |
heart is no island cut off from other lands.