The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-08-07
FACTA AND FANCY.

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pert will stop itself. 49,,
Or A railroad is talked of from Chicago
to. GelVeston-distance, one thousand and
twenty miles. 49, -
SoFTENING THE ExPREssIoN.-"Thats a
laundering big lie!" said Tom. ..--
"No," replied Dick. "it's only fulmina.
ting enlargement of elongated .veracity"
. OF Eleven thousand dollars have been
subscribed by the New York merchants for
the reliefof the sufferers by the inundation
in France.
6T A little boy upon whom his mother
was inflcting personal chastisement, said
"Give me two or three kicks more, moth.
er, don't thing can behave well yet"
.0Er A little girl observing goose with
a yoke on exclaimed, "why, ma, there is a
goose got corsets on, it walks like sister
Sally"
o. The loss by fire in the United States
for the last six months IS set at $S,9S2 900;
not including any fires by which the loss was
less than $4,000.
OF. Swedish papers state the number Of
Russian ships taken by the enemy during
the late war to have amounted to eighty
nine, with an aggregate of nineteen thous-
and and twenty tons.
0F The Auburn Advertiser says the cher.
ry crop this season is enormous. Thous.
ands upon thousands of bushels will 60 un-
touched upon the trees of Cayuga County
alone.
0CF A man named Rever made q balloon
ascension from Havana, Cuba, on the 10Th
ult., and has not been heard of since. This
is the second missing eronaut, within q
year.
o. The New Orleans Crescent expires.
ses the opinion that sugar and molasses will
advance, in all probability beyond rates at
tanned at any time during the last twenty
five years.
" wag thus concentrates his descrip
ton of visit to the White Mountains:
"Nine weary up hill miles we sped
The setting sun to see;
Suky and grim he went to bed,
Sulky and grim went we.
Seven sIecples hours we tossed. and then,
The rising sun to see,
Sulky and grim again,
Suky and grim rose he.''
" Punch says that the editor Of coun
try paper says in a beautiful fulminatin!
leader: "When the Provisional Governmen
promised The laboring class that they SHOULD
want neither work or high wages. them asse
actually believed it." We thought this rath
er strong, and little ungrammatcaI, wher
the next weeks paper contained the follow
ing: "Erratum-for them asses in our last
read 'the Masses"
A CURIOUS FAcr.-The blubber on fat
whale is sometimes in its thickest parts from
fifteen to twenty inches thick, though seldom
more than foot; it is of coarse texture anC
much harder than pork. So very full of oil
is i! that cask, closely packed with the
clear raw fat of the whale, will not contair
the oil boiled from it, and the scraps are
left besides; this has been frequently prov
ed by experiment.
GFAn Irishman went fishing. and a
mong other things he hauled in large tur
tie. To enjoy the surprise of the servan
girl, he put it in her room. Next morning
the first that bounced into the breakfast room
was Biddy, with the exclamation
"Be jabers, I've got the divilp'
"What devil!" inquired her master.
"Why, the bull bed bug that has beer
eating the childre for the last six months!'
The BEST ANEcDoTE OF THE SeAsoE.-A
man with an enormously large mouth, call
ed on dentist to get tooth drawn. Afte
the dentist had prepared his instruments ant
was about to commence operations, the MAJ
of mouth began to strain and stretch hi
mouth till he got it to most frightful ex
tent. "Say sir" said the. dentist "don'
trouble yourself to stretch your mouth an,
wider, for intend to stand on the outside o
it to draw your tooth.'
AN UNPREcEDENTED PRocEEp1NG.-At til,
funeral of an aged and respectable citizen
of Warren County, N. Y, on Sunday, th'
18th of July, the officiating clergymen, afte
the close of his sermon, presented a large
package of Black Republican papers, ant
laying them upon the table requested tn,
audience each to take copy as they left tn,
house. We have this from a relative of tht
deceased who was present, and took copy
Of the paper. This is the first instance WI
have ever heard Of where minister of tht
gospel so far forgot his sacred calling as tt
distribute political documents in the house
of God on the Sabbath.
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