The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-15
Miscellaneous Items.

A stump orator, wishing to describe his oIponcn!
sou!yss man, said: 81 have heard some er-
hold to the opinion that just at the precise mo-
ment one human Icing dies, another is born, and that
the soul enters and animatcS ,sc new born babe
Now, have made particular and extensive inquiries
concerning my opponent there, and find that for
some time previous to his nativity nobody died.
Fellow citizens, you may d.aw the intercnce.''
The English quarter Of ain is lwI to Ell hi and
quarter Of our bushels not eish bushels is gn-
orally supposed. This fact is WORT, remember ing Iy
dealers in grain.
% Whenever you find yourself in 'mimny with
man who is constantly asking You treat the best
thing you can do is to retreat
There is living in the town of Cornith, in this
county, says the Bangor (Ale.) Mercury, ga woman
who his attained the renla kable age of ll2 years.
She is paupcr, and nvctcrate snuff: takcr, using
on an average three boxes full per day, with pros
rect of continuing to do so for some time yet b fore
her candle of life is snuiled out.''
Different nations have dinc t kinds of L,ac.rS-
The Italian icacr spends his time in sleeping, the
Turks in dreaming, the Spanish in lr,yns. the
French in laughing, the English in swearing, the
Russian in gambling, and the Hungarian in smoking,
the German in drinking, and the American in talking
politics.
From Tic ranks of tn, bar have sprung the ncblcSt
defenders of imocencc-the ca,li, st and most stead
fast champions of right and freedom. From the
ranks of the bar, also, have sprung nearly every cam
didatc for the gallows since the world began.
o. The word Gar, more properly Tar, belongs
to the Slovenian tongue, and is found in books writ
ten long before the time of tile Grand Dukes. The
name of BoIlsarius is evidently Greek mo,li ication
Of the Russian words rei.ksar meaning ssGreat
Captain''
0c;- Missouri paper tells the following fish sto-
ry. 1t states tia: disciple of Izaak Walton caught
fish from Sac river, in that state, measuring over
six feet in length, and weighing nearly two hundred
pounds!
o. Many true heart, that would have come back
like dove to the ak after its first tansgrcssion,
has been frightened beyond call by the angry look
and mcnance, the taun., the savage charity of an .
forgiving soul.
o. Whiskey never conducted wealth into a mans
pocket, happiness to his family Or responsibility to
his character. Therefore whiskcy is non-conduc-
tor, and it is best to let it alone.
o. 1t is remarkable, says a correspondent of the
Boston Atlas, that the only governments Of the worlI
which have excess of receipts their expenses
are repubcs-thc United States and Switzerland
W- When you happen to have dinner, and no
money to buy one, just sit down and read cookery
book. Capital feast Of imagination, that.
Eastern Journalists like very much to give their
readers items of real pretended occurrences in the
West-desigacd to show that Western arc moo
dies. They relate that Western magistrate selling
his iarm executed together with his wiIe) the deeds
took the acknowled sment of his own act-cxanl-
ned his own wife, separate and apart from her hus'
band, SC.
Well this is right, and all very funny, but the pa
rers prove that such things are by no means confined
to the West. A few days since, Sheriff of of
the counties in Massachusetts was tried, ned and on
refusal to pay the fine, was by mimus committed to
his custody.