Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-04-24
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Inc Wlnus are Responsible tor many an un-
lucky blow. '.i1.s -..'- 7 3. .5airl
Tranquil pleasures last the longest. We
are not fitted to bear long the burden of
great joys. ........ .-.,.. ...,r ...,.r
The wasp attacks the ripest fruit first; so
will slander attempt to wound the most
honest fame. fr
Accustom yourself to some employment
for every hour you can prudently snatch
from business. -a ~ ~ -N- L
A billiard table is to be placed in the South
Carolina State Lunatic Asylum at Columbia,
for the use of the inmates.
In the time that men waste in bewailinp
the perverseness of their fortune, they could
gain competency. A'' 'v'
A drummer is the fastest man in the world,
because time beats all men, but the drummer
beats time. .tt't.F .tlG. Bi,.0
A lad, Benjamin LEVEL, shot himself
through the head, near Nashville, Tenn, on
Thursday, while playing with pistol. ,JNg
Richard Mines killed his wife with an Ak,
in Bangor, Me-, last week, while delirious
from liquor. -
Edward Reid, convicted at Charleston, S.
O., of robbery on the highway, has been
sentenced to be hung on the first Of June.
Miss Hutton, of New York, is soon to be
married to the Marquis de Portes, the only
male representative of Toulouse family, of
which the nobiliary rank dates from l74T.
Week before last 2,2l4aliens arrived in New
York, making a total for the year thus far of
IL, lao, against S,248 to the same date last
year. .. ..tr. Hsm iJG.f
A. L. Nan Hoose, Solicitor of the 7th Ju-
dicial Circuit, Of Alabama, was recently
thrown from a buggy, near Tuscaloosa, on
the 7th instant, and instantly killed.
No man will excel in his profession if he
thinks himself above it and commerce will
not flourish in any country where commerce
is not respected. ...
The Ashley steam -four mills near Charles
ton, S. c., were entirely destroyed by fire a
few days since. Loss $25, 200, on which there
were $4,000 insurance. - ERgg#5art
"How do you do2' said gentleman, seiz-
ing lady's hand and squeezing it rather
rudely. "Oh, l am suffering, sir, from the
pressure" .......-,, ..,.,... E y. 90.
Do not always refuse to weep with those
who weep, because their cause for tears does
not appear to you to be precisely adequate to
the effect. 'a A5H kl. H8 -
Persian poetry is luxurious, dreamy, fra
grant; sometimes flashing like scimetar
with passion, and sometimes meek-eyed as a
fawn when it lies down in its loveliness on q
bed of white roses.
A deaf and dumb card-writer, Henry
Phelps, was arrested on the steamer Marion,
at New York recently, for stealing $4l5 in
gold and a gold watch at Charleston, South
Carolina.
Liberty will not descend to people; "a
people must raise themselves to liberty; IL
is a blessing that must be earned before it
can be enjoyed. -...r... -,-,,. -.-rer.-,
Temperance, like, diamond of the first
water, shines more brilliantly the better it is
cut. With a man the reverse holds good; he
ceases to shine the moment he gets cut.
81 can notl" is often gentleman; while
| "Tll see P' is generally sneak. Very few
who promise to ssee," ever mean what they
promise. It is q way the heartless have OF
evading duty. - (. n33 b.. ~
The announcement of the marriage at
Auburn, N. Y, of Mr.. Edward Straw to Miss
Eva Smiley, suggests the probability that
he tickled her with proposal, and that she
| smiled a consent.
When Rachel, the great French trage-
dienne, saw her stout sister Sarah dressed for
the part of shepherdess, her comment was,
Sarah dear, You look like q shepherdess
who has just dined on her fock."
VIM. Guizot, son of the distinguished
writer and statesman, is about to marry a
| daughter of one Of the Oldest houses of the
South of France, Mile Gabrielle Verdier de
Claux, of Mines.
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