The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-02-05
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OYOVer S4,UUO,OOO worm oil slaVes were
sold in Baltimore last year.
0TMrs. Writ, wife OF the late William
Wis, died recently at Annapolis. $50 {
GThe Chinese Of California are rapidly
adOPtng the American style Of dress.
0THc loves you better who strives to
make you happy, than he who strives to
please you. ..... .-..
6TForty houses were burnt in destruc-
tive FIRE which occurred in Savannah, Geo.,
on the 26lh ult. s..Es , ..
rWorrying continually about seme-
thing or nothing Is pOPular mode of con.
mitting suicide. E rr
0-A fellow caught stealing, excused
himself on the ground fhst he did the act in
q ft Of abstraction. 7Ft
HrYt is said that the omnibus drivers of
Covington, KY, charge double price for
ladies wearing hoops.
ETJamcs a. Bayard, United States Sen.
Gtor from Delaware, is said to be the best
billiard player in America.
0TIn population Of over half million
in Iowa there are only two lmndred and
scventy-one cUlored persons.
0TAt Cincianss&, the Democrats have
exit down their hickory poles and distributed
them oNeRg Uhe.poor for fuel.
6-0ne of the "fashionable" ladies' Of
Buffalo recently eloped with an actor, leav.
ing huseand and two children.
6TWaterrown, N. Y, carries of the
palm for cold weather. 1t was forty de-
grees below zero at that place this winter.
OrThe Archbishop of Paris was recent.
ly assassinated, while performing religious
duties in the church Of ST. Ertienne du Mont.
Gran editer, describing a lecture to the
fair sex, exclams with enthusiasm, "three
thousand ladies hanging on the lips of one
mani"
GFThe first woman who appeared on the
English stage was Mrs. Coleman, in 1896.
Previously, @en enacted the women's char
acters. .-.
GTA bill is before the Kansas Iegisla-
ture to compel all free negroes to leave the
Territory, under penalty @: being sold into
slavery. ..
6FFo succeed in the world, il is much
more necessary to possess the penetration
to discover who is fool, than to discover
who is clever man.
0JMiss Jeanette Waters, Of Hunting.
ton, CT, has obtained verdict of So 600
against William B. Bristol, of Derby, CT,
in breech OF promise case.
GAn exchange paper says that the girls
in some parts Of Pennsy y!vapia are SO hard
up for husbands that they sosnetiAses take
up with printers and lawyers.
! Crit is asserted that magnets lose alaaost
their entire power in the vicinity Of grave
yards, and electric machines are similarly
affected under the same circumstances.
Three buildings on Lake street, Chi.
cago, which were occupied by music and
dry goods stores, were burned on Tuesday
night. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
6TThe average duration of human life
throughout the world is thirty three years.
One quarter die previous to the age of scv.
en- years; one half before reaching seven.
teen. r-a
0TConscence-A merca ntile house in
St. Louis lately received a letter enclosing
one thousand dollars without signature or
date, with this staple remark, "This be-
toHgs to you" ..
9TThe Albany Express has the follow
ing advertisement: "Wanted, an able. bodied
man to hold mv wife's tongue--she and
being unuble to keep it quiet. Constant
employment given.
0E-A carpenter who had given up good
job in powder mill, in Saco, Maine, last
week, on accoa0t Of The hazard to life, fell
through the scuttle of building he had ea.
gagged to repair, and died the next day.
@The laws of Virginia require every
man who marries te give security for the
support Of his wife and childreu. Many
lovers who find this inconvenient, 90 to
Maryland to have the ceremony performed.
6TA modern writer, who is probably fit
only for "reasoU, stratagems and spoils,"
snys that Everything is very fine until you
have got it. A singing wife is like piping
bal6nch, great fun for. your friends, but
deuced tiresome to yourself"
W The SteubenviIe Herald srys that for
several nights Of late, some of the most re.
sfectable ladies Of that city, have been
caught up on the streets and uncere@oni.
ously kissed by "culled gemm am Us dark
as "mud" and twice as ugly. eg,
GFA man who was brought to the Bos-
ton hospital as an invulid, nude love to one
of the nurses during his sickness. When
he was able to leave the hos pital, he married
her at one of the hotels, and the next morn.
lag left, takiag all the money his wife had,
to wit: $500, and leaving her to pay the bill.
HThe Office Of the Morning Post, in
Pittsburg, was nearly destroyed by fire, on
WednesdaY morning last. The lob Office.