Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-05-02


The New York Evening Post Of the 18th,
says:
We notice no change in the leading. features
of the money market, which consists in an
ample abundance of money, with an even di-
minishing demand, from the contraction of
business.
Keep neat and clean about your dwellings;
for cleanliness, you know, is the handmade Of
health, and distant cor sin Of wealth.
A correspondence of the Gardeners Chron-
icle, says:
Every one finds great dificulity in eep-
ing garden seats mo,e than year without
painting. Gutta purcha thinly laid on, and
turned round the sides and nail d, will last
forever; it looks garden like, and costs no
more than one painting.
Under the new Jaw, ninety se-en unpaid
letters had accumulated in the Albany post
Office on tho 10Th inst. Aputlic spiritel man,
happening in the post Office, inquired the a.
mount Of postage due on the whole lot, and
finding it to be - "a, paid it and sent them
on their destined way.
The Davenport Gazette says a man was
beaten to death at Dutch dance house in
the lower part Of the city on Wednesday Of
last week.
A TRUE SNAKE SToRY.--Mr. John Bale ON,
Of Pepperkill, killed twenty.slx black srakes
in the sou part Of thetown. ON the 18th inst.
They we're taken from one den. Their
average length was four feet and half-mak
ing one hundred and sevent cen feet OF snakes
Beat this, if you CAM Boston Atlas.
The British coal mines yelled last year 80,
400, 900 tors Of coal. This is an enormous
amount. DR.. Bucland says the coal fields
in South Wales are alone cal able of suppling
ali the demand Of the United Kingdom for
t~o thousand years.
A party in Wisconsin, approving the posi-
ton of Governor Barstow, in vetoing the
Prohibitory Liquor Bill, takes occasion to
recommend him s'for the highestofice in the
gift Of q free people," Governor Barstow
m y, therefore, be considered on the track
for the Presidency.
As a proof of the hardness Of the times,
there is man in Ohio who kills only half q
pig at a time.
Men are made in the image of God. Gen.
tlemen are manufactured by to lors, BARRIERS
and boot blacks. "Woman is the last and
most perfect wolk of God' Lad es are the
productions of si.k-worms, milliners and
dress makers.
Doctor Charles Wilson has written n vol
UNI of some hundreds of pages, to explain
the Path oloey OF d ,unkenne>s. We would
define it in two syiIables.- g.-Diog
enes.
The editor of the Kansas ssFree State
49, ~ II. ~ N
ritory cost the Missourians from $50 900 to
$15 200.
You may insert a thousand excellent things
in IA newspaper, and never hear word OF APP
probation from the readers; but just let a
paragraph 81 . in of one or two lines that is
not IN good taste, and you may be sure of
hearing about that.
Remember ye who ridicule young man
for his parsimony that b. and by he can be
generous, when you have nothing to give.
Vermont produces four staples: namely,
men, women, m pie sugar and horses.
] he first arc strong the last are feet.
The second and tn I'd are exceedingly sweet.
And all are uncommony {" hard to oeat."
A FABLE.-ssMy dear children" said an
old rat to his young ones, 'sthe indrmitiee of
age are pressing SO heavily upon me, that l
have detrrm ned to ded cate the remainder
Of my days to modification and pennance, IN
a narrow and lonely hole which have lately
discovered, but let me not interfere with
your enjoyments. Youth is the season for
pleasure; be harry therefore, and only
obey my last injunction, never come near me
in my retreat. God bless you ALL" Deep
y affected, snivclling aud bly,, and wiping his
pa'ernal eyes with his tail The old rat with
drew, and was seen nd more for several days,
WI n the Youngest daughter, moved rather
with affection than by that curiosity which
has been attributed to the sex, stole to his
cell Of modification which turned out to be
a hole. mad, by his own teeth in an enor-
nous Cheshire Cheese!- Lanes Essa