The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-03
OLLA-PODRIDA.

gOuSn medt we CtT6 uOb uUW lud}Sluu'
tive man may be, let him eat two
picked pigs feet and he will feel as IMAM
innate as q sack Of Goals. What we often
think in mind, is half the time gristle.
A poor fellow says:-'In an evil hour
became addicted to drink. From that
moment have been going down, until
| have become an outcast-a loaier--a
thing of no account: tit for nothing else
on this earth but to be member Of Con-
gress.."
The applauding clamor of the vox
populi-let disappointed men say what
they willis, after all, the elimination
and apothesis of fame. Yet the same
clamor rushes with unreasoning lavish
ness after books and persons which have
no more claim to fame, than has the
smallest newspaper critic who processes
to dispense it.
Judge Day, Of Ireland, was re-
markably tall man. and an intimate
friend of Sir. Arthur Clarke, who was
almost dwarf 1t was standing joke
with the wags of Dublin to liksn the
colossal Judge and his diminutive COM
panion to the twenty-frst of June, mas
much as they jointly constituted the long
est Day and the shortest knight
-"Ain't there no exceptions to your
law about punching a fellow?" said a
scamp TO ajudge. "No,sir; no exceptions
whatever. Now, judge, l guess you
are mistaken. Suppose, for instance, !
should brandy punch man, what then2'
--"No levety in court sir. Sheriff, expose
this man to the atmosphere"
AS we grow older, it is with hearts
as with heads of hair-it is not easy to
distinguish the true from the false.
--Tallyrand, speaking of a well-known
lady, said emphatically, "She is insult
ferable!' Then, as if relenting, he added
But that is her only fault
"A man was recently fined for cheating
himself lie was charged with using i
steelyard chat Nas incorrect 1t turned
out that the inaccuracy Of the steelyard
defrauded the man himself
1t is a groundless fallacy to suppose
that a child because he kicks up dust
is like a carpet, that requires to be in
stantly pulled up, and throughly beaten,
before it can be put down.
"A gentleman was condoling lady on
the loss Of her husband, but finding that
she treated it with Indifference, exclaimed,
"Oh, very well, madam, if that be the
way you take it, care as little about il
as you dol!
"A well,known London printer being
called on to reply to toast, said, "Gente
man, L thank you most heartily. / can
make speech but | can print one a.
long as you like"
Mrs. Partington, hearing that a young
man had set up for himself, said, "Pool
fellow! Has he no friend that will set up
for him part Of the timer And she
sighed to be young again.
"A woman in Florida, named Cross
lately gave birth to an infant son which
weighed only one pound. That Gross
wasn't hard to bear
Two men, Joseph Sparks and Osca,
Flint, were assailed in the supurbs o.
Baltimore, few nights ago, by gang ol
shoulder-hitters. Flint was knocked
down, but his companion escaped by fight
When the scoundrals hit Flint, Sparks
flew.
MIR. William Hood was robbed neal
Corinth, Ala, on the 18th inst. The
COrinth paper says that the name Of the
highwayman is unknown, but there is nc
doubt that he was Robin Hood
Mr. Henry A. Rule says, in {
Mississippi paper, that he has "workeC
zealously for the Administration" Nov
let him turn and work faithfully agains
it. 'Tis poor Rule that won't worl
both ways.