The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-09-10

~ csterday morning and afternoon
Madame Grisi and Signor Mario with
some friends took short ride out Of
the city"
As Grisi and Mario came to exhibit
their powers in song, we do not SEQ
what concern the public have with
their sleeping apartments" or with
their bed curtains. Such stuff, pre-
pared to crafty MORBID appetites, is
disgraceful in the columns Of an
American paper.
A WoMAN's PR1v1lEGEs.--We
cannot imagine why women should
hold conventions to obtain greater
privileges than they now enjoy
What would the dear creatures have ?
A woman can say what she please9 to
You without the risk Of being knocked
down, horse-whipped or challenged.---
She can 60 to all the places Of amuse.
ments without paying cent She
is waited upon with utmost obseqnious-
ness by the lords of creation, who
doif their beavers to her in token OF
homage, and kneel at her feet (some-
times to sue for love. She can run
up bills at dry goods stores, the militia
ers' and the jewelers. which her hus-
band (unless he had previously nd
vertised her u Ia Lawrence) must
pay.
She can take a pleasant snooze If
ter dinner, while her husband is hard
at work. She can 60 out and spin
street yarns when the weather is fine.
without the fear Of being asked to
drink or to treat. She can paint her
face if too pale, orlilyswhite if too red.
She can stay at home in war time,
and marry again if her husband gets
his quietus in battle. She can screw
herself up if too thick, or pad if to-
thin. Surely with all Of these piiy,
leges, she ought not to insist upon
wearing the only evidence man has, Of
belonging to the masculine gender
the forked establishment society h7a
given him by common Consent, g
cover his neither extremities.
Clocks Eon CHINA AND JAPAN.---
The New York 7r1buue says:
awe saw on Sunday the latest
piece Of Yankee clock ingenuity,
clock for the japan and Chinese mar
kets, that measures time as the hours
are counted 10 China and Japon, The
hands making a diurnal revolution
within Il Chinese hours The elor-
a,tcrs upon the dial plate arc Chire.e,
The inside circle has four character,
showing sun rise. meridian, sun st
and midnight. The next circle ex-.
hibits the odd and even hours me
even hours are designated by a bod
figure, and the ode hours by snail
ones. The dial there had the corn.
mon minute marks, ard at the tx
IRENE optside was the Chinese nu,ner-
ais, running from one to twelve.
70 That Sterling Commercial pa.
per, the New Orleans Bulletin cones
to us with review of the New Or
leans markets for The past year ending
lst September. This sheet of he
Bulletin alone is worth to the ner-
chant and planter, double the amount
Of cost for the whole paper a ycar-
AS specimen Of the art typogray phi
cal the columns Of the Bulletin will
compare favorably with any paper in
the world.
A DARK DEED.--Our vieo'ent
Chief Of Police-ConstabIe Cousin
ard broke in suddenly upon q small
social game Of drag on Saturday
night last. Three darkies, had taken
possession ola small dark room, near
the Ferry Landing and were islulg-
ing in that innocent amusement, at
he dark hours Of the moon; when
he chief pounced upon them and
put an end to their Dragging. They
we're dealt With, as is provided in the
statute.