The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-03-27
ITEMS OF FACT AND FANCY.

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Or Agres, many human beings dig th(is
graves with theirteeth.
0 Itwas a saying Of Napoleon, that !,
is necessary to allow the night to pass over
the injuries Of the evening.
or The Yankee has been styled "a we'll
developed interrogation point"
or Lafayette said Of Marie AntOinetts,
that"a Purer being never lived. nor a more
heroic one ever died..
DIscovkRrEs IN Arr. A letter from
Paris to the New York Picsyune, says that
lady has discoveries process for liquifying
ivory, and casting 4 in mOulds. s-
0cr The police expenses Of HaVanna, Gu
ba are said to amour: to S4oo 900 per an
mum.
or The average amount paid the Meth.
odist preachers in Indiana last year, was
S39l.
6rA game of checkers was played by
telegraph, between Boston and Province
town, the other evening, Cape Cod winning.
o. ]. G. Percivai, BY many regarded as
the first Of American poets; is now state gs-
ologist in Wisconsin, where the settlers call
him sold rock snSsher"
W A youth without enthusiasm Of some
kind would be as unnstlral thing as spring
time without wild abwers. .--
+ - rher. ARE 4i.sss,ooo bushels of
Wheat manufactured into -four in Philadel.
phia, per ahndm. ? .'' r'r .
or The State election of Connecticut
is to be held on the frst Monday in April,
and in Rhode island on the Wednesday
following.
0r DR.. Thomas Boyd, the Oldest ply
sician in New York city, expired yesterday
morning at one o'clock, at the ripe age oI
s4 He had been in practice about sixty
years. ALMOST the whole Of which were spent
in New York.
OF $4,000 Of Indiana Bank Paper
have been returned to the Indiana Banks for
redemption within the past fifteen days, by
the Brokers and Business men Of Cincinnati
Kansas sArFArRs.-Gov. Reeder and Gen.
Lane have been elected to the U. 3.
Senate, from Kansas. What Dexti
OF A correspondent Of the Boston Atlas
says that Col. John C. Fremont is a mem
Der of the Roman Catholic Church. II
there should be fusion Of the Know Moth
ings and Republicans it will be apt to end
the gallant Colonel's chances for nomina-
tion by that party.
OF The Sandusky Register says the Free
Love mania hss broken out among the stu
dents of the Antioch College, Ohio-an
institution where both males and females
are admitted as students. 1t was introduc-
ed by DR.. and Mrs. Mary G. Nichols, who
are among the earliest apostles ofthe move
ment.
OF For THE WEsT.-Several families oil
our city are preparing to move West this
sping. They are mostly bound for Iowa.
The whole number is said to be about forty
that will leave within two weeks Chili-
coths Advertiser, .. -.
T On Thursday night last, shock Of
su earthquake, said to be Of Is minutes du-
ration occurred at Madison, Conn. .,
The ice dealers of Boston are now taking
the third crop. ice this season from the
ponds in that vicinity.
ErThe newspaper editor is sometimes q
queer fellow. He often snys he is sorry,
when he is probably glad; and that he is de-
lighted, when the very reverse is no doubt
the truth Of the matter.
6rA winter store Of provisions for q Chi
nese family consists of a quarter Of horse
bushel vf birds nests, and two barrels Of
bull dogs
F A Farmer out West, in announcing
his willingness to take wife, declared that
as he is himself in clover, he has no objec-
ton to tax ing lady in ,Oeeds.