Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-12-06
INTERESTING ITEMS:

Concerted to Professionalism excite
ment has been recently caused 10 foreign cir
rIes by Nine. Henri Rodrigues, the wife Of
rich lsracIitish exchange brokers OF Paris
publicly a~bjuring Judaism and embracing the
Roman Catholic religion. There is a report
that the wife Of Baron RothschiId concentrates
a similar apostacy.
A great breeze has been raised in Detroit in
consequence of the discovery Of horse beef in
aausages, msde by a German in that city
According to French authority, horse beef i o.
good as any; and in Paris at the present time,
sorrel steaks, iron grey chops and roam sausa>
ges are eaten with great relish.
/. Since the adoption Of the constitution, The
people Of the South have voluntarily emanctpa.
ted about two hundred and fifty thousand
slaves, worth at least one hundred and twenty.
five millions Of dollars.
The new electric light recently patented BY
the American inventor in England, and yielding
tile moat intense ana beautiful illumination
vet attained by science, will, it is stated, be
used on board the steamship AdriGtic. Those
who have investigated this important discovery
assert that, under favorable circumstances. the
electric light can be seen at q distance Of forty
miles.
The following Is The official vote Of Vermont
at the recent Presidential election Fremont,
99,s63; Buchanan, 1857; Fillmore, SAC; scat
tering, rs.
The Largest Clock in the World. The dials
Of The English Parliament clock are lwcnty.two
feet in diameter, and are the largestin The
world with the minute hand. Every BALI min.
ute, the point OF the minute hand moves seven
inches The clock will go eight days, and
strike only for seven and a hall, SO as to indicate
by it's silence any neglect In winding it up
The mere winding of each of the striking parts
will take two hours. The pendulum is fifteen
feet long; the wheels are of cast iron; the hour
bell is eight feet thigh and nine feet in diameter,
weighing from fourteen to fifteen tons. The
weight Of the hammer is four cwt'
The Parisians bave been amused of late by |
a man who walks u1the water. He is. sup
ported BY small air>tight boxes strapped to his
feet, and has > pole in his hands, with a bladS
der at each end, with which he touches the
water, and restores his equilibrium when about
to tip over. He walks with the greatest ap.
parent ease up and down the Seine.
Thirty millions of bricks-more Than enough
10 supply all the hats in the United States
been manufactured in Milwaukee during
Ehe last year. rr
People who go upon surprise parties ought
BY all means to send notice. One of these
called upon a respectable merchant in Albany
.he oiher night, and were very much surprised
y unI a'n1 lnebFiated on the front stairs, while
n.s w.e with . black eye and a bruised face
was DaIaing MS temples with ice water. The
'NsP''Ss party no doubt, speedily retired.
Naturaiists have remarked that the %souirrel
chats to his fellow squirrels il The woods
This, we have every reason to snnnose ar;.oo
rom that animais's love of gossip, az he Il
aOtoriously one Of the greatest tail bearers 20
1ong bic tribe. ae iaa. a|5G5e
III don't care so much about the bugs" said
Ar. Wormiey, to the head Of the genteel pri.
sste family in which he resides, "but the fact is,
oAaFH' l haven't got the blood to spare; you
can see that, yourself"
One Moment What an effect It produces
lPon years. One moment! Virtue. crime
slOry, shame' woe, rapture,res upon III Death
tselF is but q moment, jet eternity is it, sues
sssoF. aH 65 G
Cowles in his excellent history Of n,ante.
lotices the virtue Of hemp thus laconicalIv.-
BY this cOrdage i made, ships are guided.
ellis are rung, and Fogues are kept in awe" J
Jean Paul d: aNo man can live piouslv Dr. II
% rightously aithout a wife" !.
"A EacG--CorpuIent persons desiring to les, I
~ their circumference should apply to some
'WspaPeF establishment for the Office of coIr