The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-08-19

the paper to-day, is there, dear ~
"No, love, but hope there will be,
one day when we shall both be inter
ested."
Angelica blushed, sighed, and hung
down her head--A witty CORES
pendent from the free State, says:
"You may set Livingston down at
100 for the State ticket, and 200 for
DAVIDSON. He has Pond to wade
through, and has but one leg but no
matter, it is not very deep"
He has pond to wade through be-
fore he comes to "Preston," a pond SO
full of his own political iniquities, that
had he the strength of Ajax in his
legs, he could not wade out of it, to
come at Preston" Talk of Jordan's
being a hard road to travel, if Mr..
Davidson can get out of the meses
he has voluntarily woven for himself,
then indeed is there no such word
as impossible the way
there, MIR. Hans Wagon las run
away:
Mine Cot, de sorrel Wagon has
run away init de green horse, and
proke de axletree Of de brick house
what stands by de corner lamp post
across de telegraph. Mine Cot, what
a PEBBLES !'--Never let people
work for you for nothing. Two years
ago, the editor of the Hard Scribble
Republican" had a man to fetch a
bundle for him, and he has been lend
ing him quarter every week since.
We have gentleman now, in our
minds eye who is feeding on" gild-
ing steaks anticepatory. He expects
to be named by the Democrats on
Wednesday next to "run -
The number of publications circula-
ted last year by the London Religious
Tract Society was 2s,242,194, show
ing an increase Of nearly one million,
and making the entire issue of the So
ciety, in 1l2 languages and nialects,
about 637, 100000. The good they
have done may be calculated by null.
tiplyying the figures 900, by 8, ard
dividing the same by al
The POPULATION OF BosToN.-It is
stated that the census Of Boston,
which is now nearly completed, will
show population of 100000. If
this is SO it will be gain Of %, 900 in
five years. And yet there does not
seem to be sober sense enough in this
modern Athens to keep fanaticism
within the bounds of insane propriety.
1t said there were forty cholera
deaths in the Lunatic Asylum at Lex
ington, KY, last week.
--e~o~~
10 Well, we do mt want to 20
any farther with invention just now.
1t is time to pause aud consider, where
we are. I,
The 18th August number of the
Scientific American, has, among other
Of valuable inventions; a
drawing Of Alphons Myers, N. D., Of
Longport Indiana, hooks, lines and
traps for fishing after tape worms in
The human stomach. DR.. Alphons,
has Of course, taken a patent and no
one has right to bob for cells with
bis apparatus without getting the pa.
tentees consent /; which can be had
for-the price in dollars, has not yet
been fixed. The American gives
US picture Of the process Of fishing.
A very ugly, old, and worm eaten I
sinner, with his head thrown back
and his mouth open-the line is let
down with silver hook on its other
snd, and the fisherman rests his
numb and fore finger on the apex of
he patients nose. If a small Doctor t
8 called on to fish in the stomach of
! large man. the inventor recon. /
nends " Merryweather's square toed
boots, so that, should the fish be Of
unusual size there is no danger, Of
he M. DIS loosing his equilibrium o
When he goes to fetch him up.
re- Mr.. N. b. Reed Of Alabama,
Engaged by the city Of New Orleans ?