Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1859-09-24
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A man should learn to sail with all
winds. @=-l-. s.s-se z.--- ..-
No entertainment is so cheap as read
ing, nor any pleasure SO lasting.
"There is no place like home"-except
the girl you are after s~
An editor says that when he was in
prison for libeling justice Of the peace,
he was requested by the jailor to give
the prison puff
The man who travels thousand miles
in thousand hours may be tolcrably
quick footed, but he is not touch to the
woman who keeps up with the fashion.
In Mexico everybody is supposed to be
an ex-president who wears clean shirt
and keeps his hands washed. And in this
country, every politician expects to be
President, whether he has shirt or not.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger says that drachm of .sulphuric
acid mixed with pint of Hhiskey, and
taken in gills four times day, win com.
pletely eradicate the disposition to the
Incorporate use. ofardent spirits, by ex-
citing disgust to all spirituous liquors
In the formation of a single locomotive
there are over five thousand pieces
to be put together and these require to be
as accurately adjusted as the works Of
watch. Every watch consists of at least
202 pieces, employing probably over 200
persons, distributed among 40 trades
to say nothing Of the tool-makers for all
these. za .--...
REMARKABLE PRINTING PREss The N. Y.
Sun hasnow in process Of construction, at
a cost of forty thousand dollars, presa
that possesses this advantge--namely, it
will feed itself and print both sides Of the
paper at the same time, and with tho
same rapidity that4one side is printed on
the mammoth Hoe presses now in use
by the Times, Herald, and Tribune.
:. MARINE LOSSES FOR AUGUST. There were
fifteen American sea-going vessels repor.
ted during the last month as missing.
wrecked, or otherwise lost. The list com
priscs seven ships, two barks, five schoon-
ers and a steam tug. Of these, three were
burned, nine wrecked, one sunk, one ab-
andoned and one missing. The total value
of the above vessels is estimated at
1926, 900, exclusive Of their cargoes.
SINGULAR TEsAc1rY OF LIFE.-On the
l9 inst. at Fraklin, N. H., Mrs Betsy Dam
forth, who naysteriously disappeared on
the Gath of July was found alive, but re-
duced almost to skeleton, in slough
hole, mile from the house where she liv-
ed. She says the only sustenance she had,
for twenty-six days, was water. Mrs. Dan
forth is seventy-four years Of age, and is
partially insane. She was unsuccessfulIy
searched for by large parties Of citizens
for two weeks after her Disappearance,
when all hopes Of finding her were aban-
doned. ~ s.ss. I'D. s.=z..s s.ss-a s...
s9r The Franklin (st. Mary) Regis.
ter, of the 10th, says: z. .f.-sss.. y..
We learn that Mr.. j. G. aver, now in
this parish, has taken the necessary
step to procure q patent for an improve
ment in the cultivation Of sugar cane,
corn and cotton, which ia calculated to
obyiate the great labor necessary in
blowing. The inventor claims that by
using his Master Plow, I'VE think that
is the name he has given his invention,)
a saving js made Of one half the labor
now expeaded,