Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-26
VARIETIES.


sarily inelegant.
The number of deaths in Baltimore last
week was ninety-four.
The most necessary effect of elegance is a
concealment of the means.
How to keep ones memory green-sur-
round 1t with plenty of bays.
We see the soul of the mistress as soon as
we cross the threshold of her house.
The Central Railroad, of Texas, is offer
ing $500 year for the services of negroes.
The man Of taste should always know how
to reduce his needs to the simplest possible
The slightest fault in ball-dress can con-
sign an unknown duchess to the last rank of
society.
A French authoress says: San equipage
is Q, passport for any thing woman wishes
to dare"
The toilette does not consist so much in
the clothes as in a certain way of wearing
them.
Shirley Brooks is about to begin new
serial tale in the next number of Once
Week. ,,-.ae ,-..-.. .- ...... % ~
Phillip Mcclure and three other men,
probably, were hanged recently at Council
Bluffs for horse-stealing. -@
Lady Franklin will soon leave New York
for California, where, it is expected, she will
make her future residence.
Wilkie Collinss novel of the Woman in
White is said to be the most successful En-
glish book of the season.
A woman in Rochester, New York, re-
Gently roasted alive poor cat that had crept
into her oven to sleep. ..., ...r ...r
The post of honor in procession in which
there are carriages, is the right of the back
seat in the leading carriage. ~. ,.--
A man who strives earnestly and per-
severingly to convince others, at least con-
vinces us that he is convinced himself
The notorious vessel, WGpderer, was re-
Gently at Havana, on the eve of going to the
coast of Africa for another cargo of slaves.
The statue of the great painter Murillo by
Medina, the Spanish sculptor, designed for
public square in Madrid, is nearly completed.
A few nights since widow, Rachel KILN,
blind and aged, residing at West Union,
Tennessee, was accidently burned to death,
If people stare at you attentively, said
Beau Brummel, you are not well-dressed;
you are too well, too stifHy, or too carefully
dressed. r. F
The tobacco crop in Kentucky has been
seriously injured by frosts, and 1t is estima-
ted that one-eighth of the whole has been
ruined.
The life of elegance, says Balzac, being a
skilfuI covering Of selfloye, every thing
which too plainly reveals vanity produces a
pleonasm. .-..
The news of Walkers fate had, at last ac-
counts, been received at Panama, by way of
Havana and New York, and created some
excitement -..-....,....., ...
1t is currently reported that large part
of Humholdt's library, and many of his Curl
osities, will soon be offered for sale in New
York.
Tom Taylors last drama, TIE Brigand and
the Banker, is declared to be laundering
theft from About's novel of The King Of the
Mountains. ... ...-. .-...rg a-r
The headquarters of Republican Club in
Baltimore were broken into, and the furni-
ture demolished, the other night, by gang
of rowdies. #+
J. W. Forney was burned in effigy, the
other evening, at Reading, Penn, by some
juvenile Democrats, for the course he took
in the late State election.
The familiar question Chow do you get
along2" becomes in England, Show do you
get on? and, strangely enough, in Scotland,
"How do you get endwaysr
Throughout Missouri the total failure of
the bees to swarm during the summer just
past, attracts considerable attention, and eX-
cites much speculation.
DR.. J. w. Palmer, well known as literary
man in this city, has become attached TO the
Philadelphia Inquirer, in the staff of which
he is to occupy prominent position.
Abraham Paterson and Sarah, his wife,
were cruelty butehered in their beds at their
residence near Picton, O. W., the other
night, by persons who robbed their house.
Ifa rich Dean has $4,000 per annum al-
lowed him, does he not enjoy a surplus in
come? Ifhe has saving faith, how much
money is he likely to leave behind himP
For bet of 9lOO, Charley Nally, in an
English town, undertook to walk 900 miles
but is likely to die in consequence.
The step-son of Matthew Goulding, in
Fairlain, ireland, kicked him in the throat,
bursting his windpiPe. The poor man is in
the hospital, not expected to recover.
A Mr.. Lankford has been punished with
thirty-nine lashes, in Mobile, Ala, for giving
pass to negro who worked for him, but
whom he did not own. a1t oas
The statue of Oehlenschlager, the Danish
dramatic poet for which subscriptions have
been collected since his death in 1850, is to
be erected at Copenhagen next summer.
Every thing which the toilette seeks to
hide, to dissemble, to augment, or increase
more than nature or fashion orders or
wishes, is always considered vicious.
Barring Brothers, the London Bankers,
have obtained Judgment OF $4,000, 900
against the Grand Trunk Railway Of Canada,
and the concern will probably collapse.
The Marquis de Raigeeourt, recently de-
ceased at Nancy, in his one hundredth year,
was born in the reign Of Louis XY, and
served as an officer in one Of tile Kings
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