Des Arc citizen., 1859-02-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


 TUnKs AND THEIR NforHErs.--Mr. Lyon, in his recent lecture, mentioned thatthe Turks were remarkable for theirI6I piety. OHcs whom he had seen, took the death of hiswifsz with great indifference, but tore his hair and would not be ccmforted when his mother died When askad why this was, he said-sF l "A man can have thousand wives, but only one mother."--[Hom Journal. ssaE oyl ae
 ----It is said that the hogs in Iowa hare such long noses that the settlers employ therns to blow the fields. The practice is to burys corncob on one side of the lot and place the
 hog opposite to 1t on the other side, when tho 2 porker scentingit, immediately digs his snoats into the soil, and pressing forward, turns ay furrow equal to that of the best blow, right lup to the cob. If a stump should lie in the
 direct road, the Iowa hog does not hesitateaor work around it, but splits is open with sHis snont and goes on. This isfollcwing tho nose 1 to some purpose. Y
 -- A down easter describing an oppohchs says, Istell you what,ssir, that man don't amount to a sum in, arithmetic; add him sprM there's nothing 10 tote to another column 'zs,ag
 - "Taking them one with an other,D said the Rev. Sidney smith, sI believe my. congregatlonto be most exemplary observers of the religious ordinances, for the poor keep all the fasts, and thesrich all the feasts. Niis
 - As in nliterature we shallfnd some things that are true, and some that are new. but few things that are both true and new; so also in life, we shall find some men that are great,and some men that are good, but few men that are; bothgreat and good - sI
 --W Women are called the ssofter sex'' be- cause they are so easily humbugged. Out of one hundred girls. ninety-iye would prefer ostentation to happness--a dandy husband toa a mechanic. ss..s,
 ----A fellow coming out of q tavern, oneq frosty morning, ralhertopt heavy, fellIon the door step; trying to regain his footing, hs1ers marked: If it be true, that the wicked standa on slippery ground, must belong to A difsrT9 ent class, for it's more ti.an ! can don aa sa 1 The elective franchise has bceusconfersi trcd upon fifty women owning real estats,isndp upon thirty doing business on their owns account, by the authoritiescf atowns fh swe-i den.. Thisis what we would call "woman'sa ! Irghts.v sse
 - It is generally observed that persons If about forty especially young ladies cf that age- are very forgctful of those with I.whom they were acquainted in childhoods ~ This remarkable dimness of memory, has, been appropriately styled sThs darkness If the middle ages'' v sap Ta sasE ..'.s
 Extremes meet. Civilization and Bar sarism come toge her. Savage Indians ard fashionable ladies paint their faces. (, .ss.
 ---A beautiful rl--beautiful in youth and health and purity--who wakes from sleep, ate touch of morning light, as the flowers dos with < a cheerful grace; whose first tones, like those of the birds, are the most musical of the dayi from whose brow every trace of yesterdays wear and last nights care is swept away, even { as the face of nature is renewed brighteaed by the summer dew--such girl is worth tho winning. ss- .s..s.s. ssssg N, ssS ss
 If dull weather affects you, marry sagt warm -hea rted girl, and make sunsh ne for yourself. Bachelors will find this farsuPe- ! rior to etherbilliards or burgundy. aeSA z
 - Without friend the world isa wiider< ness. Winter finds ont what Summer con-3 ceals. Wit once bought is worth twice taught i, Without pains no gains. .s fs4 | - Not what men do worthtly, but that which they do successfully, is what history. makes haste to record. . I - Good-nature is the very air of good j mind, the sign cf large and generous soub.. and the peculiar soil in which virtue prospers
 
 WEBsrER's CouRTING.- Daniel Web ster married the woman he loved, and tie
 twenty years which he lived with hsr
 brought him to the meridian of his great ness. An anecdoe is current on this sut- liect. which is not recorded in the books T MT. Webster was becoming intimate with
 Miss Grace Fletcher, when skein of silk,
 which he was holding for her to wind, was
 getting into a knot. MT. Webster assisted in unravelling the snarI-then looking up ' to Miss Grace he said ,"We have united q knot, don't you think we could tic one?" < Grace was litle embarrassed, said not word, but in the course of few minutes she tied knot in piece oftape and ham ded il to MT. w. This piece of tape, the
 thread of his domestic joys, was found af-
 ter the death of Mir. Webster, preserved as one of his most precious relics. i : Nor QluTE A FicuT.-The Washing. ton correspondent of the New York Er- !. press gives the following specimen ot street 2 ru.nors and incident at Washington:
 It was rumored last evening that MT. ], Tucker, of New York, had expressed . deliberate determination to cowhide Hon. Daniel E. SickIes, of New York, when he : met the latter gentleman on the. street: ; IL was reported that MT. Sickles had stated IS that he fels il. be his duty tockaslise MT. ss Tuckeral the earliest opportunity where lthe nunishment could be witnessed by ths