The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-02
PEN AND SCISSORS.

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PEN AND SCISSORS
g1- The most infallible remedy for fits is
to buy your clothes at slop-shop.
@- A Tennessee paper says: "The inaug-
uration Of the Governor was celebrated by the
firing of minute guns every half hour"
@s- Samuel Harding of Ravenna, O., was
lately thrown from his horse in that village,
and his neck broken. Da
Ns- If an egg could speak, and you were
to ask it whence it came, what sweetmeat
would it name in reply? Ma-me-laid.
Ir The very vulgar phrase, "Giye me
none of your lip" would never be used by
man, however proletarian, to pretty woman.
Gs- Noseda, the wealthy banker of Milan,
has contributed 100000 lire to the Garibaldi
Fund.
Luigi Ricci, the composer, is afflicted
with alteration of the mind, and is now in
confinement in the lunatc asylum at Prague.
GS- There were six runaway couples on the
steamer which left San Francisco on the 9Th
of October, and ON the steamer of the goth
there were five.
BS- In the ranks Of the volunteer companies
now at Charlestown aud Harpers Ferry are
eight printers from the establishment of the
Richmond Enquirer.
rBrunet's Manual du Libraire is to be
printed next year. 1t is to be in six Volumes
octave. The author, though eighty years old,
reads and re-reads every line of it.
rs Howitt and Dickens are quarreling
about ghosts-the former asserting their ex-
istence, and the latter resolving them into
"thoughts."
| %s- DR.. Charles Mackey, the poetaster, has
laid aside his pen and gone into the library
furnishing business, offering to select books
from S. TO $4,000.
| GB-A moralists, writing on sympathies and
antipathies, says: "PeOple do not like to con-
fess how often love at first sight becomes hatred
on better acquaintance.
ms Wednesdays Dayton Journal fills its
editorial columns with the "story of Russian
Serf." We presume it is not the first story
toldathere. How is it, provincial neighbor?
as-Farini, the Dictator of Modena, has
assigned pension of 5000 to the veteran Ital-
ian poet, Pietro Giannone, who resides in
Paris.
gg~ LoRis Napoleon is said by the French
papers to be highly pleased with a new cannon
of his own invention, on the system of Colts
| revolver
| @1- Miss Evans "Adam Bede" is initiated
to a great extent, but none of them come up
to the original. Her clerical noighbors have
just walked up to tho fact that they are all
DaguerreOtyped in her works.
rs "The only liberty cap" says clever
and witty author, "is a night cap. In it men
visit, one-third Of their lives, the land of sleep
the only land where they are always FREQ
and always equal"
| G5-No man can tell whether he is rich or
poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart
that makes man rich. He is rich or poor
according to what he is--not accordingt to what
he has.
was riding along that memorable morning, on
one of those beautiful western prairies, with
my dear old wife, who has gone to heaven in
o. buggy"
Gg- The Mayor of Fernandina, Fla, dined
week ago on new peas, first crop) grown
in his own garden, and he fully calculates to
eat fresh tomatoes on Christmas, raised in the
same place.
ls1- Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, son of
Prince dc Canine, lately married at Rome to
the Princess Ruspoli, has arrived in Paris
with his bride. His age is twenty, and that of
the Princess seventeen.
@- There may be worse apologies for
newspapers in the world than those of Nash
vile, Tenn, but if there are-no, there can't
be-we won't outrage the cause of journalism
by the monstrous hypothesis.
gaB-The reason why that compositress at
Cleveland attempted to shoot young printer,
was because the latter had remarked that
"somebody would have to get another font of
SMALL CAPS for her before long"
| NS-Col. Jefferson Davis is said to be the
author Of the popular expression: "He is fine
man-just as good man as ever was, but he
can't keep hotel" The Colonel introduced
it into stump speech, and it "took."
>Empis, director Of the Psrs Theater
Francais, has been dismissed, because he
would not employ an actress, who is one of
the cheres amies of the Unsuitable M. Fould.
He is succeeded by Edward Thierry, the lite
rary critic of the Msniteur.
| Ms-A little son of Judge Ham, tho new
California Senator, who arrived on the last
steamer, died in New York on Sunday. The
boy had been ill of sore throat on the passage,
and when they arrived at that port it was too
late to save him.
Nr "Ma, didn't the minister say, last
Sunday, that sparks flew upward ?" eyes,
my dear how came you to think of it?"
"Because yesterday saw Cousin Sally'a
spark staggering down the street, and he fell
downward"
| Gr Among the passengers who arrived at
New York by the steamship Africa, is Rev.
DR.. Cahill, Of Dublin, famous as priest, q
scientific man, lecturer, and politician.
He inteIds to lecture in New York, Cincinnati,
and other citiesin the United States.
lNA Venice letter announces fact which
all lovers Of art will hear with regret. The
Hall of the Doges threatens to fall; the frescoe
on the ceiling is cracked across, and o portion
Of it has fallen. This hall is the largest in any
European palace.
N8-The married ladies in Honolulu have
petitioned for the suppression of the theaters
and circuses, on the ground that they keep
their husbands out late at night. In this part
of the world, great many women would ad-
vocate their continuance for tho very same
reason. 'S he,s
N3-The Bangor (Me.) ,Ie6smonian says:
UThirtv sY ahina have hean hrIilf In th;e Stot IN