The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-23


true friend, then you may think YOURSELF app
Upwards Of forty tons Of fresh cod fish we
carried over the Boston and Providence raj
road to New York on Saturday. The fish wei
packed in one hundred and seventy boxes.
A witty doctor says that tight lacing is
public benefit, iasmuch as 1t kills off all tn
foolish girls and leaves the wiser ones to b
women
A good education is better safeguard fo
liberty than standing army Of severe laws
A man passes for a sage when he seeks 70
wisdom; but if he thinks be has found it lie
fool
Half-witted people have talent for talkin!
much and saying little.
-Four things come not back-the spokel
word, the speedy arrow, the past life, and th,
neglected opportunity.
It's a fact well established by experimen
that dead animal matter, covered with char
coal will undergo putrefaction and complete de-
composition without the least offensive smell
For this reason it has been recommended BY
DIR. Richardson (Journal Of Health to enclose
the corpse in this substance previous to burial
in large towns. The suggestion might be USE
full for where it becomes, from any cause neces.
sary to keep the bodies of friends for some DAYS
before burying them, as, BY this means all IN
pleasant effiuvia will be prevented. A layer
of powdered charcoal four inches in thickness
will be sufficient.
A new parasite, feeding on man, has been re-
Gently discovered. Its not an agreeable piece
of intelligence this which dr. Zaker Of Dres-
den has just communicated to the world. In
the course Of many post mortem examinations
by himself, he found lodged in fbrous CAP
sule new species of worm on the surface Of
the liver and under its membraneous covering.
where it grows and has its being. Its appear
ance, Judging from the figures which accompa-
ny the doctors description, is that of tiny tu
bercle, of from the eight to the fifth of an inch
in length, filled well with calcareous matter.
with which the animal itselfis increated. With
care, the creature may be extricated from its
crustaceous envelope. Like many other paras-
SIC animals feeding on their fellows, it is we'll
supplied with head crotchets to hold fast its
prey. a nice prospect for the hypochrondriac!
The name is this new visitor is pentaslonum
denticulatum
Miserable People.-Young ladies with new
bonnets on rainy Sundays.
"A smoking nephew on visit to anti-smok-
ing aunt
A young doctor, who has Just cured his first
patient and has no prospect of any other.
"A star actress with her name il small letters
on the bills.
A witness in a bribery case.
And city sportsman at the end Of days
shooting.
1t is mans destiny still to be longing for
something, and the qualification Of one set Of
wishes but prepares the unsatisGed soul for the
conception Of another. The child year old
wants little but food and sleep: and no sooner
is he supplied with sufficient allowance Of
either Of those very excellent things, than he
begins whimpering, and yelling it may be, for
the other. Atthree, the young urchin becomes
enamored Of sugar plums, apple-pie, and CON
fectionery. AT six, his imagination runs to
kites. marbles and tops, and an abundance Of
play time. Atten, the boy wants to leave school,
and have nothing to do but birdnesting and
blackberry hunting. Atffteen, he wants beard
and moustaches, watch, and a pair of Well
ington boots At twenty, lie wishes to cut
figure and ride horses; sometimes his thirst for
display breaks out in dandyism, and sometimes
y poetry; he wants sadly to be in love and
axes it for granted that all the ladies are dy- |
ne for him. The young man Of twenty-five
Fants wife; and at thirty he longs to be sin
Gle again. From thirty TO forty he wants to
,e rich, and thinks more Of making money
han spending it. About this time also, he |
labbles in politics and wants office. AT fifty
le wants excellent dinners and wine, and con-
Iders nap in the afternoon indispensable.
The respectable old gentleman Of sixty wants
. retire from business with snug indepen-
ence OF three or four hundred thousands, to
marry his daughters, and set up his sons, and
We in the country; and then fort rest of his
70 he wants to be young again.