The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-08-14
FACT AND FANCY.

I or Mr. Buchanan is over six feet high,
and weighs ubOuttwo hundred and twenty.
FIVE pounds. + H
or The population OF California Is gen
orally set down at from three hundred and
fifty thousand to four hundred thousand souls.
OF De Quincy somewhere tells an aned-
dOte Of man who,on being threatened with
assault by eighteen tailors, cried out--scome
on, both of you!"
GcF The subscriptions in New York for
the relief of the sufferers by the late inun-
dctiOn in France now amount to $3.50.
0- An English journal mentions the
fact that pasteboard is now being mannfac-
tured from beet roots.
0cF The Newburyport Herald Says
"Three quarters of the mechanics in Amer
lea are working themselves to death to pay
for the folles Of fashion for themselves and
their families" That's fact, and shame,
too.
OF A clock maker in Connecticut has
made clock. which he warrants to run with
out winding up, until Fremont is elected
In case ofsuccess, he is to receive the pre-
MUM offered to tae inventor of perpetuad
motion.
o. Gen. Wyman B. 8. Moore challen-
ges Senator Hamlin to meet him in every
county of Maine, for public discussion of the
questions before the country. Mr.. Hamlin
has declared his intention of stumping the
State as the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor.
| CF A bear was killed at East Columbis,
Coos county, N. H., on Tuesday morning
Bruin weighed three hundred pounds, and
had been making sad work with the sheep
in that vininity.
0r5- The Democrats Of old Montgomery
have nominated E. G. Forsyth for District
Judge, and David X. Boyer for Sheriff. The
Empire says they are excellent nominations,
and will be triumphantly elected.
0F The, Sultan has given orders to all
general officers in his army, directing, that
when there are Christian soldiers under their
command, they shall be at liberty to sob
serve their religion in perfect freedom"
0TThe result of fsome recent experiments
in burning coal in the locomotivess'of the II.
linois Central railroad is stated to have de-
monstrated that fifty two bushels ,of coal,
costing $3.50, was equal to five cords
wood, costing 1925.
GT They have man in Mississippi 60
lear that he makes no shadow at ALL A
rattlesnake struck at his leg six times in vain
and retired in disgust. He makes all hum
gry who look at him,and when children meet
him in the street they run. home crying for
bread.
6F A bill has been introduced into the
Councils Of Savannah, imposing tax Of
, 5000 each on all slaves or free persons Of
| color brought or sent to that city for the
f purpose of being transported to Liberia or
any other foreign country. The RepablicGp
says " the tax is high one, and, we pre-
| sumo, was intended to be prohibitory in its
operation"
" The Marquis d'Harcourt, walking
arm in arm with Voltaire, person took off
his hat to the Marquis, who returned the sa-
. lutte. "Why do you bow to that fellow!p
r says Voltaire; she's one of the greatest
blackguards of the day." "What of thatp
= replied the Marquis, 81 would not allow
blackguard to outdo me as gentleman"
~ The Nashville Union predicts that
Tennessee will give the democratic candi-,
dates, in November, majority of not less
than ten thousand votes.
: 0EF The Fremont men are SO hard up in
western New York that when they want to
get up meeting they start the cry Of "fire,"
{ and ring the alarm bell. The trick was
played at LIE Roy, Genesee county, last
week.
" 1t is notion of Herschell, that the
grain crops are sensiby Influenced by the
spots on the sun, and that, closely observing
them, the price of corn in the market might
in most cases and seasons be readily antici.
pated.
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