Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-12-21
News Items. &c.


More than one thousand years ago the Chinese
built suspension bridges of more than four
hundred feet span.
Napoleon Bonaparte used to say that "four
hostile newepapeps were more to be feared than
hundred thousand bayonets."
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but
one who fears TO do wrong. He has thousand
who has overcome that one.
Men of the noblest dispositions think them
selves happest when others share their happi-
ness with them.
1t is said that the new Parliament Houses of
England, which are built of magnetism limestone,
are already crumbling into decay.
Prince Napoleon has decided to make a trip
to this country. He will be accompanied by
several men of letters, professors and artists.
"Where are you going?' asked one little boy
of another, who had slipped and fallen on the icy
pavement "Going to get up" was the blunt
reply.
chains. 1t creeps over a man so slowly and i'm
perceptibly, that he is bound tight before he
knows it,
No doctrine is good for anything that does not
leave behind it an ETHEREAL furow, ready for the
planting of seeds which shall spring up and bear
abundant harvest.
Pray, Madam, why did you name your old
hen Macduff2" was asked of a sentimental lady
who kept poultry. Because, sir" she replied,
81 want her to lay on
1t is said that the slave-trade was never so ac-
tive as at present, and that probably $4,000 un-
fortunate Africans have been sold into slavery
during the past year.
In Richland, Kalamazoo county Mich, there
are ten citizens whose ages average eighty years.
and five others whose ages average seventy five
years.
A prominent Democrat of kentucky said the
other day: "If we, of the South, were TO read
Henry Clay's speech at Lexington, without
knowing the author, it would be very generally
ascribed to Seward or Wilson"
John Brown, Jr., of Harper's Ferry notoriety,
it is said, is engaged in the oil business at Mecca
He goes well armed with knife and revolver as
if expecting to meet Gov. Wise.
A young lady in indianapolis, rose in her
sleep the other night and cut off her hair as close
as it could be cropped by penitentiary barber.
When she got up in the morning and looked in
the glass she was Mortified, and loudly complaint
ed that some one had shorn her head while she
slept.
An idiot at Saltzbmg, Germany, being very
fearless, an experiment was made to test his cour-
age, by setting him to watch over a pretended
corpse, but which was in reality living person
enveloped, and as it proved unfortunately, con-
fined in a shroud. As the supposed corpse be-
gan to move, the idiot told il to lay still and
being disobeyed; seized hatchet and cut off
first one of the feet and in spite of opposition,
the head of the helpless impostor, after which he
calmly resumed his watching.
Charles +. Egelman who for forty three years
past furnished the principal calculations for the
almanacs printed in the United States, died at
his residence in Reading, Pa, last week, at the
ripe age of nearly 10 years.
Beautiful things are suggestive of purer and
higher life, and fill us with mingled love and
fear. They have a graeiOusness that wins us,
and an excellence to which we involuntarily do
reverence If you are poor, yet pure and mod
estly aspiring, keep a vase of flowers on your
nifty, and secure for you consideration and deli
cacy of behavior
The Arkansas Baptist says: "We have known
church of fifty members, male and female,
stunted and kept lean and lank on account of
carrying year after year a drunkard Count it
as you may, one member with half gallon of
'red-eye' in him every day, it is heavier load
for a church to carry than three score and ten
Samsons could stand under. Every drunken
| Baptist ought to be turned out out outl"
"A little more animation, my dear whispered
Lady B. to the gentle Susan, who was walk
ing through the quadrille, ado leave me to
manage my own business, mama" replied the
provident nymph; "I shall not dance my ring
lets out of curl for married man /" "Of course
not, my love; but l was not aware who your
partner was. 4.
Miss Ormsbee, a resident of ofWarren r. l., has
been deprived of sight and the power to articu-
late single word for the last ify-fve years.
About three weeksago, as she described il, with
out any extra effort on her part, she began to
converse, and now holds conversation with all
who visit her Miss Ormsbee is now seventy
five years old, and became dumb when she was
twenty years of age.
Alta debating club the question was discussed
whether there was more happiness in possession
or pursuit of an objectl @Mr President" said
an orator, suppose was courtin' girl, and she
was to run away, and ] was to run after her
wouldn't be happier when | catched her than
when was running after her." The Chairman
decided that he would be.