The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-26
PEN AND SCISSORS.

9r The cost OF the new park at Hartford,
Conn.,, is said thus far to exceed $4,000.
&s- The cost of the new Parliament Houses
at Ottawa, Canada, will be f144,75O. They
are built by contract.
@g-A man was killed in Charlotte County,
Va, on Sunday last, by drinking a quart Of
whisky without stopping.
@4T Timo takes step, and arbitrary sys-
tens are overturned; the statues of their
authors alone remain standing over their ruins.
ne Bulwer's "What will he do with IT."
has been dramatized in London, and is played
at the Surrey.
G@-Jamss Fatrell killed Whit Martin, in
Trigg County, KY, on Monday of last week
by stabbing him. Fatrell was arrested.
Gs- In the Mississippi Penitentiary are
confined one hundred and seven convicts !;
twenty-one persons have been pardoned in
less than one year.
G3- A. hunter in Tolumne County, CAL,
in climbing down into ravine after q bear,
struck lead which yielded, in one week,
$1,000 worth of gold.
@- A retired schoolmaster excuses his
passion for angling by saying that, from con-
slant habit he never feels quiet himself unless
he is handling the rod.
M3- Edmund Keeue said, on one occasion,
that the number of persons in the pit made
his Hamlet either the Prince of Denmark or
The Prince of Darkness.
~ There were 25,115 tuns Of shipping in
the waters of Savannah on the 18th of this
month, represented by forty-seven vessels and
one steamship of 1,50O tuns.
@-A new brand of flour has heen intro
duced into the New Orleans market, under
the style of "Flora Temple, 2:2l 19-It can't
be beat
GS- Nine persons are now in the Baltimore
Jail awaiting trial for murder; and if Justice
were served the number would be increased
to ninety.
re- Bigamy in Pennsylvania il merely q
misdemeanor, not felony, the highest pm
ishment for which is imprisonment in the
Penitentiary for two years.
G9-A fire broke out in John W. Blan-
chard's furniture store, in Federsl-street, Bos-
ton, day or two since, and did $40, 900 worth
Of damage to the stock.
MY-Three hundred sparrows, selected from
the hedgerows. in England, have been lately
sent to New Zealand; the necessity Of small
birds to keop down the grubs that devastate
the crops in that colony, has long been felt.
@JWe have all heard of asking for bread
and receiving a stone; but young gentleman
may be considered as still worse treated when
he asks for young Iady's hand and gets her
fathers foot
&g- Michael Rhoades, hotel keeper, died
in Lafayette, Ind, a day or two ago, from
bleeding at the nose. All efforts to stay the
efusion of blood was Intellectual, and he ex-
pired in few hours.
5Ns~ Alfred Crawford, conductor, was in
stantly killed on the Northern Central Rail
road, running out of Baltimore a day or two
ago, by an accident, causing the cars to leave
the track.
gs9-A chap in New York, named Souther-
land, the other day, kissed somebody's wife,
against her will, 80 affectionately that he cut
her lip. Ho was arrested and fined 500, but
whether for the kiss or the cut it is not stated.
G9-F Further spread Of crinoline is not to be
dreaded. Paris DEGREES short waists and mar
row skirts this season, and the absardities of
the first Empire are to be restored. All ac-
cording to the Paris correspondent Of the Lon
don Literary Gasette.
gs-A late letter from st. Petersburg states
that ship-builder in that city is to construct
by next spring $50 screw steamers, intended
for the navigation Of the Neva. Steam navi-
cation on that river is being considerably de-
veloped.
NS- Every day of the week is observed as
a Sabbath by some one Of the nations of the
globe. The Christians keep Sunday; the
Greeks, Monday; the Persians, Tuesday; the
syrians, Wednesday; the Egyptians, Thurs
day; the Turks, Friday; the Jews, Saturday.
@g-The store of Messrs. Byron Greenough
& Co., of Portland, Maine, was lately robbed
of 81 500 worth Of rich furs, consisting Of man
tillas, capes and gloves. The robbers either
entered the store by ..meaus of false keys or
were concealed in the cellar at the time the
store was closed.