The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-23
Various Items.

The chain cables of the steam ship Great
Eastern weighs seventy pounds per link.
"Don't harrow up my feelings" as the
worm said when tho plow was passing over
him.
Betting Is immoral, but how oan the man
who bets be worse than the man who is no
better.
AT Pctersburgh, Va, last week, party of
factory girls administered an unmerciful thrash
ing to a libertine.
The census to be taken next year will show
the population of the United States to be over
30,000,000.
The man who ate his dinner with a fork Of o
river has been endeavoring to spin a mountain
top.
Whose best works are most trampled upon
A shoemakerj because good shoes last longer
than bad ones.
1t is always a waste of raw material to put
five dollars worth Of beaver on ten cents worth
of brains.
The young man who was forbidden the
house by his sweothsart's papa, feels very
much put out.
Death bed bequests are not valid in Canada.
Bequests, to be valid, must be made six months
at least before the death Of tho testator.
One of the policemen, yesterday, arrested a
clock for striking the hOur--the hour lived
only sixty minutes after the blow
An exchange paper begins forciblo appeal
to its delinquents with this touching sentence:
owe must dun or must be done"
What is tho difference between carriage
wheel and carriage horse9 One goes better
when it is tired-the other don't.
"Do you know who built this bridge?" said
n N Hnok NNn ~ rapIiad HnnL. Nhuf &c
you go over you'll be tolledl"
Somebody says there are two kinds of family
jars:-in one you put your sweet-meats, and
in the other you put your foot.
Soulouque's prime Minister is said TO have
cheated the ex-Emperor out of his ill-gottOn
money, and is enjoying it at present in Paris.
At the New Tyne Docks, in England, a
steamer was recently loaded with 400 tuns Of
coal and trimmed for sea in So minutes.
The Prussian frigate Gedon, which has ar-
rived at Norfolk, Va, has on board 500 men
and officers, including prince.
Commander j. S. Paine, of tho United States
Navy, died at his residence in Portland on
Monday week, aged 80 years.
An Irish lover has remarked that it is a
great pleasure to bealone, especially when you
have your sweetheart with you.
When Lord Erskine heard that somebody
mad died worth two hundred thousand pounds,
he observed, "Well, that's very pretty sum
to begin the next world with"
The Shasta California Courier records that
one day last week, a Chinaman working on
Flat Creek, five or six miles from town, took
out lump of gold worth $500.
"I curse the hour when we married." ex-
claimed an enraged husband to his better half,
to which she mildly replied, "Don't, my dear,
for that was the only happy one we have seeu!'
John asked Julia if she would have him.
"No," said she, "I will not have you," but
before John could recover. from the shock,
she archly put in, "but you may have me-"
| Itis announced, for the benefit of those per-
sons who did not get sight of the comet, that
it will again appear before the public, for a
few nights, in the autumn of 2l47.
The only liberty cap" says clever and
witty author, sis night cap. In it men
visit one-third Of their lives; the land of sleep
the only land where they are always free and
equal"
The entire cost of the Sickles trial to the
the Associated Press of New York was 49,
682 20; Of which sum $4,000 was for telegraph
tolls. The whole number of words telegraphed
was 1875
| The London Times says that there are 5000
cost G3l5,0OO,O0O or 5,OOO,OOOl The
average interest which they pay is about 81
per cent.
If you would learn to bow, watch a man
when he talks to a gentleman of wealth. A
narrow minded man can no more stand upright
in the presence of money bag than he can
throw a somerset over the moon.
A New York paper says that the spies who
reported to the Governor General of Cuba that
the Sons of Malta were seriously organized for
the acquisition Of that Island, ought to be pu,
through an excursion over "the rugged path"
If there is a man who may eat his bread at
peace with God and man, it is that man who
has brought that bread out of the earth by his
own honest industry. 1t is eankered by no
fraud, it is wet by no tear, it is stained by no
blood.
A druggist sent his Irish porter into dark
ened cellar; soon after, hearing q noise, he
| went to the opening and called out: "Patrick,
keep your eyes skinned" "0ch! duce an
eye" rOared Pat, "but its my nose that's
skint intirely."
The Printer-the master of all trades He
beats the farmer with bis fast hoe, the carpen-
ter with his rule, and the mason setting tall
eotamH'j he surpasses the lawyer and doctor in
attention to his case, and beats the parson in
his management Of the d.pH.
A singular and swift retribution occurred in
Huron county, Ohio, few days since. An
ugly fellow in fit ofpassion, Intentionally de-
stroyed an eye Of one of his horses. The next
day while driving nail, piece of it lodged
in his eye, completely destroying the sight.
A New Yorker finds comfort in European
war, because it will exile from Germany, italy
and France, many of the best operate artists
who will come to America for the next season
when we expect to have made plenty of money
to pay them.
A child's hand, in petrifed state, was found
in barrel of limo, in Newport, r. l., OF
Thursday. Three fingers were missing, but tn,
remainder Of the hand was perfect, and thu
hand heavy as stone. The lime came from
Maine.
Mrs. Swisshelm, in her letters TO young In
dies, says that "every country girl knows how
to color red with madder." This We believe b,
be an chronological fact, as we have always no
ticed that with all girls the madder they get tn
redder they are.
John Wesley svys "When / was young,
was sure of everything in few years, 6av
ing been mistaken thousand times, 1 was no
half 30 sure of most things as 1 was before q
present | am hardly sure of any thing bu
what God has revealed to man."
The Judson girl, who married the neoro 1,