Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-03-08

THE MEANEsT MAN.-He has been found =
The man who hired his little boy to 60 to bed
without his supper, and then stole money from his
pocket after he was asleep, with which to repeat
the operation the next day, was rather ''clOse,"
and the country customer who brought an egg to
the store to exchange for a needle, and then in
sisted upon the merchants treating him to glass
of wine with that identical egg in it in honor OF
his custom (the egg proving to have double
yolk, he thought be ought to have another Resdle)
had terribly little ouI;-but we doubt whether
more legitimate illustration of downright meanness
was ever known than one that transpired yesterday
in the shop of "JOhn Brown, the Barber, whom
everybody knows.
A certain gentleman" well known hereabOuts,
who makes Cleveland his general abiding place
and who pri6es himself greatly upon his good
looks, his reputation as "ladies' man, and his
unimpeached respeclability, entered Johns es:ab-
lishment, and was put through a tonsorial course
of sprouts by the proprietor: He was shaved,
oiled and brushed, and put in complete presentable
order. Turning to go, he handed RrOwn one
cent
"Six cents, sab, you please" gently insiuuated
our lOquaeious friend.
Look here, my friend, isn't that cent?"
'Yes, sab"
''wel, don't that come within Eve cents of your
regular price?"
Certainly sah."
'WelI, you wouldn't be mean enough to stand
out about half a dime, would yOu7"
The sable philosopher ''allOwed" that that man
could ''perambuate" as suddenly as he wished
He never would ask him for that other five cents.
THE GERMAN STEAMsHIP.-Mr. German gives
his second lecture at Chapin's Hall this evening
The interest, and if true, immense importance Of
his plan, should call out large audience. Mr..
Germans ocean steamboat when built, is destined
to be four thousand feet long, or forty feet more
than three quarters of mile. Twelve hundred
and fifty feet of each end will be wedge shaped the
inclination of the two ends being equal. his will
leave fifteen hundred feet at the centre of uniform
width By this shape it will be seen that the fric-
ton will be triiing compared to the length. To
propel this floating leviathan, six paddle wheels
will be employed upon each side two engines being
provided for each wheel. The nature Of these
wheels we spoke of yesterday. Such boat is
calculated for three thousand passengers and three
thousand tons of freight, and for speed of one
hundred miles per hour. Such stupendous IN
dertaking may well excite incredulity, but facts
and figures are brought to support it. which so fal
at least as theory is concerned, are unanswerable
For the lakes, smaller craft, of only one thous-
and feet, with three wheels upon each side is pro
posed. 1t is said that New York capitalists art
ready to furnish means to build a boat for thl
Hudson river, and that one viii be built before long
Mr. German has studied and labOred for year
upon this subject, and has at length brought hi
investigations to a satisfactory conclusion. All hi
asks is fair hearing and this no one should fail tt
give.
The lecture this evening will be mainly devoted
the consideration of the power of the Ocean an(
the means by which, in navigation, we may ris
above its dangerous and disturbing force. Thr
first lecture was seemingly somewhat dry and sta
tistical This will be much less so, affOrding Op
portunity for a more pleasant phase of the subjec
to the general hearer,