The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-17
QUILL AND SCISSORS.

for England on Saturday last.
Msrold Brown was born in Terrington,
Conn, May Q, 1900, and is now consequently
ifty-nine years and six months old.
| MNrIt is stated that Mr.. Belmont is about
to depart for Europe to take the position of
head Of the Rothschilds clearinghouse.
gS-Two men were ordered from Bucking-
ham County, Va, last week for expressing in
cendiary opinions.
| GrJames L. Gray, ESQ.,, late clerk in the
U. s. Pension Office, died Of yellow fever at
Powder Horn, Texas, fortnight ago.
GT-Jones being asked what was the FIRST
thing necessary toward winning the love Of
woman, answered, "An opportunity"
g%- Nothing prevents person from being
natural and easy, so much so as an extreme
anxiety to appear 80. ono i.F~' .-,
Ga-When q house Is on fire the blaze is
more quickly seen from without thhn within !;
it is the same with the ruin of State.
gS-All men who do anything must endure
a depreciation Of their efforts. 1t is the dirt
which the chariot wheels throw up.
@rA head properly constituted can ac-
commodate itself to whatever pillows the vi
cissitudes of fortune may place beneath it.
@-A monument is to be erected over the
grave of Minister Mason at the Richmond,
Va, Cemetery. lie is buried near President
| Monroe.
N3~ Half the secrets of the world are dis
closed In order that those who possess them
may let their friends know that they hold
them.
| @-A mind might ponder its thoughts for
ages and not gain as much self-knowledge as
the passion of love would teach it in single
day.
@r A young man being asked what made
him so bald, replied that the girls had
pulled his hair ont by pulling him into their
windows. 400. I........ .......
Gag- The engagement Of Edwin Booth, in
Boaton, has lasted four weeks, and been one
of the most brilliant theatrical successes ever
known in that city.
@g- Isaiah Bethel was killed at Null
drough's Hill, on the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, thirty miles from the
former city, by the train going north.
gD-A wagon was demolished and horse
killed at fremont, Mass, Saturday, on the
Cape Cod Railroad, by collision with loco
motive on the psssen ger train.
GEr There is at present no activity in
trade in Venice, and consequently so much
distress, that out of population Of 125,OOO
souls, $4,000 receive aims.
laB~ At the agricultural fair at Columbia,
South Carolina, on Friday, two native Africans
were exhibited and received the award of q
silver goblet. tsg
G1- The greatest thoughts seem degraded
in their passage through little minds. Even
the winds of heaven make but mean music
when whistling through key-hole.
N@-We sleep, but the loom of life never
stops; and the pattern which was weaving
when the sun went down, is weaving when it
comes up tomorrow.
Gs-The Albany IN. W Knickerbocler says
fellow In that city is training a lobster to
run foot race with the one-horse steamer at
the Bath Ferry. The lobster is to carry
weight. .. ,s.....
Gse- Louis Napoleon has spent in war alone,
since the ill-starred day he committed perjury,
above $400,O00,0O0, the cost Of the Crimean
| and Italian wars. What his wars in China
and Africa cost nobody seems to know.
| Recently two young mon named Jere-
mish e. Holmes and Josiah Gouff, were acci-
dentally shot in Rohrersville, Washington
County, Nd, by the discharge Of a gun in the
hands of John H. Blessing. Gouff sabse-
quently died from the effects Of his wound.
Nay- A Mr.. Barker, while hanging door
in the third story of mill in Portsmouth,
Ohio, was standing on the head Of barrel,
and when in the act Of striking blow with
his hammer, the barrel gave away and he fell
to the street, killing him instantly.
NarM say, landlord, that's dirty towel
for 70 man to wipe onl" Landlord, with a
look of amazement, replied: "Well, you're
mighty particular. Sixty or seventy of my
bsarders have wiped on that towel this morn
ing, and you are the first to find fault"
Ms~ Tho Canadian "reform" convention
| has passed q series of resolutions, the most
| important of which is one in favor of disso-
luton of the present union between the two
powers and the formation Of a sort of federal
government instead.
MNeRhe house of Mr.. Michael Gilbert,
erman, three quarters of mile west of
nights Station, in Riga, Mich, was burnt
wn recently, and Mr.. Gilbert was consumed
in it. Mr.. Gilbert was widower, and lived
entirely alone in the house.
MSr The bar OF Paris is in good luck. M.
| NOgent de st. Laurens has received q legacy
Of $SO, 900 from an old client. This is third
legacy left to eminent lawyers in Paris, within
the last twelvsmOnth. M. Jules Favre re-
ived 100000 from an old jeweller, whose
Q unset he had been for great many years.
MN-T There have recently occurred in France
| two accidents from chemical or lucifer matches,
| by which i've children have been burnt to
| death. In one instance the three children of q
farmer not only inundated themselves, but
burnt down barn and its contents, and the
mother has since died from the agitation
caused by tho event. r.
MS-The widow of the late Henry B. Ben
nett, formerly Cashier Of the Bank Of Balm
I bridge, Penn Yam, N.Y., committed suicide
on Sunday morning by taking ylaudanum.
She was living at the residence Of her father,
Hon. B. Bradley, having returned some two
weeks previous to the sad event, from the In
sane Asylum at Canandaigua.
| aD-A salt company is boring an artesian
we'll at Grand Rapids, Mich The Eagle says,
the deeper they go the stronger is the brine
they get They have reached o depth Of
two hundred and fifty feet, and the water
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