The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-06-01

a dead whale in the harbour, and Of . liz
ID prince in our western metropolis. Gu
10 Irish contemporary seems to have . strang
y notion Of comparative magnitude. II . Twin
le dog is better than dead lion, surely . liy
Ii prince must be better than dead whale e.
is pecially when that Prince i the Prince I
70 Wales. Punch.
A GRACE GRERNwooD on HoRsRsAcK.--
y "Oh! mot all the pleasure that poets ma
o Not the wildering waltz in the ballroom
o blaze, 81 - ~, e.sS hT-...ss
Nor the chivalrosus joust, nor the daring race
Nor the swift regatta, nor merry chase,
Nor the sail high hsaving waters Ger,
Nor the rural dance on the moonlit shore
Q Can the wild and fearless joy exceed
Ola fearless leap on q fiery steed"
= Tho unfinished monument to Mary tn,
: mother Of Washington, at fredericksburg
! Va, is fast going to ruin, and is badly dis
figured with bullet and shot marks, being
used by the boys a. q target
Superveille and Aubert, two Louisiana
E editors, lately fought duel at Fort Adams,
Miss. Aubert was wounded, and his oppo
nent, perceiving that he would be compelled
to remain at Fort Adams, politely offered to
edit his paper for him in his absence from
. home.
:. Longfellow's beautiful phrase, ssuffer and
be strong is now familiary rendered grin
. and bear it.
i Men are like buglss the more brass they
contain, the further you can hear them
Women are like tulips; the more modest and
retiring they appear, the better you love
them.
A boat was upset on Sunday at PASSPORT,
Me-, and Mrs Gideon Seely, Jr, and Catha-
rine Cunningham, daughters Of James Gun
bingham of Eastport, also son Of Afre Seely,
aged about six years, were drowned.
"Wonderful things are done now-a-days,'
said Mr. Timmins. "The doctor has given
Fiack's boy new lip from his cheek"
"Ah J! said the old lady, ''many's the time /
have known pair taken from mine, and no
very painful operation either
A Spanish writer, speaking Of lady 5 black
eyes says They were mourning for the muir
ders they had committed.
The young lady who caught cold by
drinking water from damp tumbler, is
convalescent
In Windsor Locks, May g. by Rev Mr. AL
len, Moren S. Cowles, of Hartford. and
Lucy A, daughter of J. w. Wood, Of Wind
sor Locks.
Lol what all consuming flame
Is the love passion of two souls:
For here you see piece Of wood
In just two minutes changed to Cowles. |
Hartford Press.
DR.. Adam Clarke says the hog was cursed |
under the old law, and never received a
blessing under the new.
81 declare, mother" said petted little
girl in pettish little way, "tis too bad mo-
ther; you always send me to bed when am
not sleepy, and yoa always make me get up
when | am sleepy"
A Southern Methodist minister, detailing
ms experience on certain circuit, counted
twenty-six children that were named after
him, and added that during the year he re-
celved as compensation, just thirteen dol
lars.
There is one evil that doctors in length Of |
time do efectualiy cure US of-and that is,
the faith we place in their nostrums.
"Patrick, dear, come in and 90 to bed
jist," said the wife of Jolly son of Erin,
who had just returned from the fair in a de-
cidedly exhilerated state. "You must be
dreadtully tired, shure, wild your long.walk"
"Arrah! git away wild your nonsense" said
Pat, "it wasn't the length Of the way that
fatisued me at all, at ALL twas the breadth
of it
One OF our finest writers says that "the
nightly dews come down upon US like bless
lngs. HON very differently the daily dues
come down in these hard times.
A youth, with a turn for figures, had five
eggs to boil, and being told to give them ,
three minutes each boiled them a quarter of
an hour all together.
pat, buy trunk, to put your clothes in" ]
said his Yankee companion.
What, an go naked this cowld wealth
II z asker the honest spalpeen of Killar- .
1ey.
LEFT HANDED COMPLtMENT-When Mr.. =
Nhiteside finished his five hours Grafton on $
Aars, Lord Palmerston replied that the hon y
raoie gentlemanS speech was highly credit @
bile to his physical powers Il
"Whiskerettes" is the name given to a
au-catchers'' worn by girls this spring g
or lack OF WHISPERS, moustaches, or goatees. d
hey are made by drawing down little tufts
t hair from the temples, and forming
hem into scollops.
II any Of the pretty young girls would like
nave hne moustache upon their upper
ps, they shall be INDUCED just as soon as :,
urs has time to charlottesville Jour
al.