Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-28
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Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words
cost Zacharias forty weeks silence.
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, and
coquetry by true love.
Calcium-lghts have been tried with sue
cess on the New York skating-pond.
The number of deaths in Baltimore last
week was 81.
There are upward of thirty widows re-
siding in one short street in Bristol, r. l.
Why is a wig like Whig2 Because it is
false attachment to the crown.
The best way to retain a womans affec-
tions is not to return them.
Why is money like the letter Pr Because
it makes an ass pass.
A sensible epitaph was that on a clown;
it simply said; "Here | amp
Why is a coach going down a steep hill
like St. George? Because it is always
drd'on with drag on. aa
The total population of the United States
is 3l,000,o00, an increase since the census of
1850, of upward of 100000 persons.
Martin Farquhar Tupper of proverbial
philosophy fame, has written laudatory
sonnet to Abraham Lincoln.
The first of all virtues is innocence the
second is modesty; and neither departs
without being quickly followed by the other.
A patent-medicine vender in an Eastern
city advertises pills that will cure the worst
fit of any pair Of boots.
Why is newspaper like the blood of a
healthy man. Recanse livery much depends
upon the circulation.
Lord Lyons has been created a Knight
Commander of the Bath, and Sir Edmund
Head has received the same honor.
A man dropped 81 900 overheard at Ports.
mouth, Va, last week. A negro diver
brought up the bag and received fifty cents
A heartless monster threw his horse into
the dock at Machais, Me-, on Wednesday
night, to save the expense of keeping him.
Rarey advertises for vicious horse ia
experiment on, and offers 800 for the
worst.
NJ. de Rothschild has purchased, fol
100000 francs, the magnificent hotel in the
Champs Elysees, where the late Duchess o.
Alba breathed her last.
Every year, France imports between
1l,000 and l2,000 horses, at an expense o
somewhere about 100000 francs, and still
the supply falls short of the demand.
The Grand Duke of Baden, by ordinance
of the 4th, pardons all the persons who were
condemned for high treason or rebellion in
lS48 and l849.
Lord Cowley, so long the English Minister
to the French Court, it is rumored, will
shortly be appointed Governor General ol
India.
The entire military staff of Gov. Morgan,
of New York, have resigned. No cause is
stated, but it is probable that the dinner to
the Prince of Wales is at the bottom of it.
A clerk in q dry-goods store in Oswego,
N. ", was recently arrested there, having
embezzled fifteen hundred dollars worth OF
goods from the establishment. s
An eminent liverpool firm of tea brokers
Scott, Powell & CO.. stand charged with
forgery; Powell is in jail, and Scott has alb
sconded.
One DR.. BY, in London, reads writings
without seeing them, and occasionally makes
the names which are given to him in sealed
papers appear in red letters on his wrist.
The Emperor Napoleon, as soon as he shall
i have completed his History Of Jgligs Cesar,
intends to present himself as a candidate for
the French Academy ~'
Samuel Lennox an English actor Of &C.
lebrity, died recently. The deceased was
for many years member of the Liverpool
Manchester and Hull theaters.
Joseph Proctor was playing at York, De.
cember 8. He will return to London early
in the spring, and produce new tragedy
and a new drama, Written'expressly for him
The extreme pleasure most persons take in
talking of themselves should mako them
fear that they give very little to those who
listen to then.a IA wUIuT 1eT
qWhat part sflsbeech is'hEt?n AsEea .
sehool-mistress the other day. HMasculine,
replied the scholar. Indeed; then what;
the feminineT "Wby, bonnet, 70 be sure. :
A physician stopped At the shop OfS sOun'
cepaia. SSH, ~ said the apprentice, ~ know
OF no sueh farmer living about these parts. I
Why is native Of the capital of Italy
smiling over the remains of a grilled hen
like an ancient performer in the ampithea.
teri Because he's a Roman glad he ate her
II think you must allow, said a pompoul
gentleman, "that my iests are very fair.
''Sir, your jests are like yourself was the
quick retort. Their age makes them re-
spectacle" 70 ~
A new fve-act comedy has been produced
at the Washingten ID. o. Theater with sue.
cess. 1t is entitled The Fashion and FolIiss
Of Washington LIE. r COCOON Z.
The letter A is in fair way to become
royal. Queen Yictoria's first Christian name
is Alexandrina, her husbands Albert, and
their four children are Adelaide, Albert
Alice and Alfred. si.s, l..s
aNo one would take you to be what yor
other day to a dandy who had more hail
than brains. ''Why2" was immediately
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