The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-02
PEN AND SCISSORS.
y 9rIn Falmouth, Mass, $4,000 bushels o.
onions were raised the past season.


garI Falmouth, Mass, $4,000 bushels Of
onions were raised the past season. Y
N4rThe fellow who cut an acquaintance
was seen shortly afterwards cutting capsr.
~ The only true woman. hater Is said to
boa woman. 90 +ihs -. y rfilfl
@SA receipt for washing faid--six gal
Ions Of warm Watsr and plenty Of soap. y2
Mr One farmer in illinois has sold 2,5o0
head Of cattle this fall, yielding him $75, 900.
Ns-A Richmond (va.) paper reoommends
ths establishment Of o hoop-skirt factory in
that city. - +a.'. h}gts5 A. e}HI ~ - 10
gs-Ths New York Post says that six hun
dred thousand pairs of skates have been sold
in that city the epresen!! season.
GrJ John Streeh, lad Of sixteen years,
was seriously shot in Danville, KY, day or
TWO ago by his father, who has been held for
trial. ~ fas 10.
r 9T On DIT that Lola Montes has written a
drama Of considerable merit, which has been
accepted by one Sfthe leading New York
theaters and which will soon bs produced. n
The London Gazette states that in the
hrat ten months Of the present year iron val,
ged Of flO, O,7S5,6& was exported from the
United Kingdom. "'' 70 'si'o -bl
NS man who won't take paper because
ne can borrow one, has invented machine
with which he can cook his dinner by the
smoke OF his neighbor's chimney.
~ Rembrandt Peale, the venerable and
distinguished artist, is lying i'll at Stonington,
Conn.,, where ne stopped on his way home
from visit to Boston. N
lD The New Yorkers have wsy Of OBJ
serving Sunday, all their own. On Sunday
there We're 5000 persons, including 2,000
women, skating on the Central Park. X, sdi
gESoms Of the people Of Staten Island,
anticipating the completion Of their local rail-
road, propose to make the Island port Of
entry.
@I 1t has been estimated that q work like
the Great Pyramid could not be constructed
at the present day with all the aids Of modern
science, fer less than hundred. and thirty
FIVE millions Of dollars. = asy, Z. .' - ,
@A Philadelphia paper says that several.
students who left Jefferson College for .Richa
mond have returned and resumed their studies,
stating that they only joined tho stampede to
have Christmas frolic. "a
gB-T am rejoiced, my dear husband, to see
You in such good health, - said Mrs. Smith to
the veritable John. "Health7" was the quick
rstort; "why, have had the plague ever since
] was married" z s. E,/f HDtt z
@- Captain, what's the fare to st.
Louis2" "What part Of the boat do you wish
to 60 on, cabin or deck?" "Haag your cabin"
said the gentleman from Indiana, 'I live in
cabin at home; give me the best you've got. q
gss- The Georgia Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference lately reprimanded q minister for at,
tending CIRCUS, and subsequently unani-
mously resolved that a minister or layman
who visited show of any description should
be excluded from the church.
zaS-"Papa," said little boy to his parent
one day, "are not sailors very small men?"
''No my DEAR" answered the father "pray,
what leads you to suppose that they are 80
very small'" Because, replied the young |
idea, smaItly, al read the other dp- of Q
'ailorg ling esyl his watch