Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-05-21

DEFINITIoN.- Sidney Smiths definition Ct
the Popish ritual: Posture and imposture,
Hections and genufections, bowling to right
curtesying to left, and an immense mass of
man millinery.
Edgar Poe used to drink strong tea to ex-
cite him to poetlcal inspiration. Tommy
says it 10 no wonder that T should make
Poe Poet.
| KILLED BY SlGN.--A woman walking in
the street at Chicago couple of lays since
was killed by the falling Of sign blown
from its fasteniDgs.
Many people drop tear at the sight OF
distress who would do better to drop dime.
| AID TO MEMoRY.-An exchange states that
q man who came very near drowning had q
wonderful recollection of every event which
had occurred in his life.
There are few Of our patrons, we fear,
who never came anywhere near drowning.
| TUSCALOOSA Herald
ssMother,'' said an inquisitive urchin, a
few days since, "would we have been any re-
lation to me, If father hadn't married you?''
A little friend of ours, aft,r undergoing
the disagreeable operation of vaccination,
exclaimed-"Now | won't have to be baptiz-
ed, will II"
Washerwomen are said to be the most in
consistent women in the world, because they
look for soft water after it has been raining
hard.
The suIest way to prevent q young couple
from marrying is to oppose them. Tell them
you would sooner see them in their graves
and twelve months afterwards their baby will
pass you twice day in a willow wagon.
Winchell, the humorist, tells story of a
dog, who undertook to jump we'll in two
There are great many people just like that
dog-folks Who think they can Jump across
we'll in two Jumps. They undertake it, and
usually bring up in the water.
The New Haven Register records the death
of public character or that city in the shape
Of horse, fifty years of age, the property Of
Elihu Sanford. The animal sdi tinguish-
ed himself'' at the Presidential Inauguration
Of J. Q. Adams. II, was buried with all
honors.
HYDRoPHoBIA.-The correspondence of
the Eddyville Free Press informs us that
three persons have been bitten by mad-dogs
on the prairie between Salem and Fairfield.
The young men who were bitten applied a
"mad stone" to the wounds, and some of
them have gone to Pennsylvania to consult a
physician. who is said to possess the secret
of curing the hydrophobia.
Gov. Reeder arrived in Washington on the
4th. He has had heightened interviews with
the President. The correspondent Of the N.
Y. Courier says: Gle does not move to amend
or modify his speech at Easton, and declares
that it is in substance, true narrative of
late occurrences in Kansas
Intelligence has been received Of the loss,
in the China seas, of the ship Living Age,
owned by VIM. Appleton & Co., of New
York, together with large and valuable
cargo of teas. She was insured for $500, 900
in Boston and New York Offices.
Capt. James G. Daman, late Of the brig
Grey Eagle, is on trial for his life at the u.
S. Circuit court in Philadelphia, for landing
a cargo of slaves on the coast of Cuba by
, bribing an officer.
Lucy Stone no more Philadelphia En-
quirer.
Don't be quite so fast. Perhaps she is in
fair way to be several more Louisville
Journal.
/, 1He DaltOD w. VI lltHtS says tnat, III
that region more than half of the people are
without corn or money, and are suffering al
most famine.
) The enormous expenditures of war begin
, to be felt, in English pockets. Besides the
heavy taxes already imposed, there is de-
ficiency of nearly hundred and twenty NIL
lions of dollars to be met.
A lady of color, but who is almost white
has recently taken to herself the title of the
"Black Siddons." Her me is Webb. and
her readings from Shakespeare have been "a.
vorably spoken Of in the Philadelphia pa
pers.
, 1t is very dry here at this tima-nery ev,
i erything is "dried up"-with the exception
= of the Know Nothings, and they are ssdryins
up,s Democracy as fast as they can stand it
J By next August sold line'' democracy will b.
gone s'farrow. "-Oskaloosa Herald.
The floating tonnage Of the civilised worl,
n excluding only China and the East consist
of 136, 900 vessels, of Is 100000 tons. Th
= number of seamen is set down at 800, 900.
The AMERICAN OSTRICH, caught near Fl
4 Demoine, Of which an account has been 60
: ing the rounds Of the press, is now in pos
Q session of q. w. Dresser, of this place.
Q measures about feet from tip to tip, an
resembles the Patagonan ostrich in some re
srects. Barnum should buy it by all means
lDemoine Courier.
q Rev. John Wesley is said to have preache
t forty thousand times in fifty years, and W
2 never heard that he was troubled with tn