The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-19
PEN AND SCISSORS.


PEN AND SCISSORS.
ns-It is said that New York city contains
"a, ,6l9 houses.
l8-In one week the births of 822 boys and
SO5 girls, in all 1927 children, were registered
in London. M
lr"Whst will you have?" asked Sheriff
Of a culprit whom he was about to hang. "Not
drop," was the quaint reply.
GS-Geo. W. oliver, wealthy planter near
Oxford, Miss, was convicted last week of
manslaughter, for killing one of his slaves.
Gs-A fine buck.deer was caught on the
cow-catcher of an engine on the Erie Railroad,
near Deposit, last week. ....--
&as- They have q curiosity IN Norwich,
Conn.,, in the shape of q Peconic tortoise, a sea
monster Of the turtle specie, weighing over
one thousand pounds. l.
NSrTalk about "mystsrious ltnockings,"
what is more mysterious than the knockings of
two human hearts, set In operation by the
magnetism of youthful love? ts
GS-T The number of patents issued from the
Patent-oficc for the first nine months of the
present year amounted to 1894, and the
amount of fees thereon to $l88, 800. .r.a
G@rA testimonial is talked of in New York,
for Miss Foulke, of Harper's Ferry, who 30
heroically saved the life Of an "insurgent" at
the time of the outbreak.
gs-One of the latest interpretations of the
character of Hamlet is that he YVES gambler,
for ha oh, oIxrta kkn Ia. ss.
must speak by the card"
GS-T The average armed force employed in
the British Colonies during the last five years
has been AZ, ,693 mon, at an expense of e3,182,-
745, are about Sic, 100000.
rs At the Norfolk (Va.) Fairgrounds, on
Saturday, man ran ten miles in one hour
and four seconds. But for the four seconds he
would have received prize of 5000.
Ha-A man in Hartford has made applica-
ton for divorce from his wife, on the ground
of her being lazy. He alleges that she will
not get up in the morning, build o FIRE and get
his breakfast at u seascnable hour.
lD-A gate, believed to be the largest Ia the
world, has been constructed for the Sault Ste.
Marie Canal 1t is eighty-two feet wide
deep, and thirty two inches thick.
gr Walter Savage Landor has said !:
"There are women from whom incessant tears
Of anger swell forth at imaginary wrongs; but
Of contritiGn for their own delinquenciss not
one."
GrA philosophic owl being asked what
line in Shakespeare was most applicable to
certain young lady Of much beauty, but little
conversational power, aptly quoted In reply,
"She speaks, yet she says nothing"
= Mg-lt is said that the French fashions COR
rupt Republican pens, and that after short
sojourn in the "gay capital of civilized France"
American writer's become PARISHES. True
and some Of them go to Rouen.
N@-Ap honest confession that of De Ouin-
cey's when he says that after first tasting
opium he thought happiness might now be
carried round in on's waistcoat pocket, and
peace of mind be sent down in gallons by the
mail coach.
l@-samuel Cubberley, an old and respected
citizen Of Mercer County, N. j., committed
suicide recently by hanging himself in his
barn. He had been partially deranged for
some time before his death, aud had sister
WIZ colahiItou puiOAuo oVho y0uIS dBO.
G1- There have been appointed to the
American Army and Navy, since the orgauiz-
alton of the Government, 256 chaplains, viz:
Episcopalians 1876; Presbyterians "a; Method
lists SO; Bsptists 81; Congregatlonalists u;
Catholics 5, and other denominations s.
@-Two magnificent sales to be added to
the military galleries of the palace of Yer
ssiles are now approaching their termination.
One is to receive pictures representing the
different battles during the campaign in the
Crimea, and the other those of the late war in
Italy. ....-..s... et,5s0e
GarLamartine eloquently says of Mary
Stuart: "All that was not love in her soul was
poetry; her verses possess Greek softness
combined with q quaint simplicity; they arc
written with tears, and even after the lapse of
so many years, retain something Of the warmth
Of her sighs."
N@. The New York Freeman says that
Eleazer Gray, of Coventry, while digging
we'll, recently, found some frogs embedded in
clay, about twenty feet below the, surface.
After few minutes exposure they. became
lively and hoped away. How long must
they have been thereg ..,.'..