The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-01-13
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But fat is we graveyard
When Christmas is green.
The greatest of all distinctions in civil LIE
is that of debtor and creditor; and there
needs no great progress in logic TO snow
which is the advantageous side
The number of drinking saloons in New Or
leans, with population OF 10000, is esti-
mated at 2,265.
Accounts from Stockholm state that the
government contemplates raising loan of
e, 900, 900 for the construction of railways.
Some of the ministers recommend that a
larger sum should be raised in order not to
have occasion for second loan.
There are great many beams in the eyes
of the women, but to their admirers they are
all sunbeams.
A rascally old bachelor says a man fire.
quently admits that he is in the wrong but
a woman never does-she was only "mis-
taken"
The last number Of the Gazette Rose, I"
which devotes itself to the Paris Fashion,
says "long and full basquines are still worn.
They are generally braided; some are made
with rounded capes reaching half way down
the back. These are also braided to match
the basquine The shape of the sleeve has
not changed"
Two French naturalists, NM. ItIer and
Gervais, have announced the discovery of
a fossil hedge hog in the soil of the Island of
Rotanneau, near Marseilles. This is the first
instance on record of the finding of the re-
mains of this animal in a fossil state. The
specimen found is about one-third larger
than any of the largest species now living in
Africa and India. 1t is proposed to call it
Hysterix Major on this account.
LONG FAcEs.-A farmer told a barber that
he ought to reduce his prices now corn was
cheap.
aNo sir, " replied the shaver, "for when
corn is low, farmers make such long faces
that have twice the ground to 60 over"
Too MUCH IcE.-A correspondent of the
Vicksburgh Sun, writing from Bolivar Coun-
ty, tells of chap at Napoleon, Arkansas,
who was drinking at counter, and withal
being telerably tight, after several ineffectu-
al attempts to raise the glass to his lips, sue
ceeded in getting it high enough to pour
the contents down his shirt, set the glass
down with the exclamation, "Thats good,
but little too much ice, Mr.. Bar-keeper."
An Englishman of recent importation
dropped into a restaurant in New York q
few days since, and made hearty meal, in
tending to top off with piece of pie. Upon
testing the pie he found it to be cold, and
calling the Ethiopian waiter, he said to him;
=" Take this pie to the fire and eat it." His
CONSERVATION was great when Sambo walked
to the fire and quietly devoured the pie.
One WAY TO BRING FATHER TO TERMS
About year since young girl, residing
in Endicott street, had the misfortune to
love ''not wisely, but too well, and the
was lusty baby, which the
father refused to acknowledge or provide
for. Since the birth of the child the mother
has turned her attention to cheap rotations.
Every time she gets elevated she carries the
child to its fathers boarding house, and
pitches it into the entry and leaves it.
When papa returns to the house he is re-
quested to change his quarters and take the
baby with him. 1t is thought that the
mother will triumph if the constitution of
the child only holds out.-Boston Herald
The London literary world is soon to be
startled by a new poem by a noble Lord,
the eldest son of a popular peer. 1t is re-
ported to be of such surprising beauty as to
perfectly enchant all who have read it. It
is at present IN manuscript, but it is under
stood that twill soon be submitted to the
ordeal of the public through the medium of
Mr. Murray, the well-known publisher
4 Orestes is the name Of the poem.
Several colored damsels, while at party
in Baton Rouge, La, fell to quarreling. The
strife of tongues finally became one of fists
Summing up the results of the encounter,
the Gazette says: The principal damage,
however, was to the dry goods some of the
point lace became pointless, some of the silks
were converted into Lutte strings, and one of
the victors left the battlefield with a tri-
air and nothing but hoops"
EaE- A writer in the Georgia Constttu-
tionaliStis out in favor of resembling the three
fifths rule, and basing representation inCon-
gress, per capita, on all the slaves in the
Southern States, and declares that the South
should not be satisfied unless this be done
right d,cdy He is also out in favor of
new Fugitive Slave law, making the FEEDER
al Treasury responsible for the value of the
fugitive, if not recovered; of revenue
tariff upon such articles only as are used
North and South, and of Federal law
allowing masters to carry their slaves into
every State of the Union, and to keep them
there if they choose to stay.
A DEATH GRIP-A sea captain related at
prayer meeting in Boston, snort time ago,
a thrilling incident in his own experience
A few years ago 1 was sailing by the
island of Cuba, when the cry ran through
the ship " man overboard!" 1t was impos-
sible to put up the helm of the ship, but
seized rope and threw it over the
ships stern crying out to seize it for his life.
The sailor caught the rope just as tine ship |
was passing. / immediately took another |
rope, and making aslipnoose of it, attached |
It to the other and slid it down to the
sailor, and directed him to pass it
over his shoulders and under his arms, and !
he would be drawn on board. He was |
rescued but he had grasped that rope with
such firmness, with such a.death grip, that
It took hours before his hold relaxed, and |
bis hand could be separated from it. With |
such eagerness, indeed, had he clutched the
object that was to save him, that the