Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-28

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Gilded roofs and silver door-locks can not
shut out sleepless nights.
The sponge gathering at Key West, Fla,
last year, amounted to $4,000.
Berangers poems and Goethe's Faust have
recently been translated into Hungarian.
The finest emeralds come from veins of
clay-slate, in the valley of New Granada.
Bats in India are called Aying-foxes, and
measure six feet from tip to tip.
Three millions of cocoanuts are exported
in single year from the island of Ceylon.
Texas derives its name from an Indian
word, signifying "beautiful."
The wild-duck and wild-pigeon fly be-
tween four and five hundred miles in day.
True worth, like the roses, will blush at its
own sweetness.
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is
flower without perfume.
That's but an empty purse that is full of
other persons money.
One might as we'll be out of the world as
beloved by no one in it.
He that knows useful things, and not /
he that knows many things is truly wise.
As we must render an account of every
idle word, SO must we of our idle silence.
Praise to generous minds is the germ and
| the aliment to emulation.
Worldly Joy is a sunfower, which shuts
when the CLEAN of prosperity is over
Honor, innocence happiness time and
| money lost are never regained
There are thirty newspapers published in
| the Empire of Brazil some Of them OF large
circulation. ~
AT the late Fair in Scott County, Iowa,
three contributors had among them lO3 va
rieties of apples.
Tartary and Persia are presumed to have
been the original country of wheat rye and
oats.
To married men we would strongly re-
commend one piece of thrift let them get
good quarters for their halves.
Gray hairs, like honest friends, are plucked
out and cast aside for telling unpleasant
truths.
Conscience, be it ever so little a worm
while we live grows suddenly to serpent
on our death-bed. Doubtful
1t has been said that we can earn genuine
manhood only by serving out steadily and
faithfully the period of boyhood.
Captain Robert Conway, one of the ode
tenders" of Baltimore, in the war of lSl2-l4,
recently died in that city. .--
The English literary journals are debating
vigorously the relative merits Of Webster's
and Worcester's Dictionaries. 10
The 80,O00OO0 lire which Garibaldi re-
Gently found in the Bank of Naples, are
worth in our currency $l4,4o90oo.
There are forty-two periodicals published
in San Francisco-thirty-one in English, hve
in French, four in German, one in Spanish,
and one in Italian.
A poaltiee of onions, tobacco and salt cured
carpenter in Petersburg, Va, of bite from
rattlesnake. Such a poultice ought to
kill the devil.
, A negro was recently arrested near Lafay-
. ette Springs, Miss, for violating the person
of a little girl, the daughter of his owner,
: John Bangle.
4 If you want to be admired for your attain
ments, do not exhibit the several steps oi
] your progress. Fools have little respect fol-
q what they can measure.
.. Mr.. Yancey plainly intimates that if he
o and his party fall in this election, he has
: lived long enough. Many persons will agree
with him.
DR.. G. W. Grant of Iona Island, in the
? Hudson River, has expended $4,000 upoI
a barren island in the propagation o
: grapes.
Kossuth was expecting to meet his sons
one aged nineteen and the other fifteen, a
Turin, early this month. The young mel
were at Milan.
|, A Mississippi editor the other day said tina
the negroes of Texas were dancing to tn
| no Aoff fhn L. rfnrr nf fhn 10 nF
Yankee Abolitionists.
!. The black tongue is prevailing among tn
cattle in Pike County, Indiana, and il /
feared the disease will kill large quantit
of stock.
9 Three songs two Of them written by Acto
p Bell and one of them by Ellis Bell, the sister
of Charlotte Bronte, have been set to musi
in England, and are highly praised.
z: The Troy, New York; Times records tn
iH arrest of an incendiary in that city, after a
y almost ceaseless surveillance Ofhis movement
4. by three officers for more than year.
q; Alexaad Dumas has just finished al
other work. entitled Les MOhicdns de Pdri
The scene is laid in Paris, of course, froI
-, 1920 to 1880. The work is semi-historical.
-. Walter Savage Lander has begun his Sin
"a aginary conversations again. The last on
S =. is between Garibaldi apd the President
" Sicilian Senate. VIZ
/ BlaekUOods Magazine has increased i
circulation 500 copies during. the preseT
year. The circulation Of the OOrHhiD is ul
m ward Of 10000 copies per month.
= On the 18th inst. fire broke out in Il
= town Of Port Hudson, La, in the northeI
4 part Of the parish, and the entire plac
j., duced to ashes. il'I8 lliHWH'lfila
n Charlotte Cushman recently pronot!nc,