Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-24
VARIETIES.

Suitable newspaper for malt-drinkers-
" "PoTters Spirit"
Many complain that they are not appreci-
ated properly, simply because they are.
New York is considered the finest game
market in the world. rt.
The city clerks of Chicago, Illinois, receive
about 500 per hour for the amount Of labor
performed. rry, ..rl..-,-rr
An old woman living in Putnam County,
Ind, Patsey Allen, died the other day, being
lie years Of age; having been born in l744'
Mr.. Grote, the historian, is engaged in the
study of Grecian philosophy, preparatory to
a work on the subject.
The Rev. Charles Kingsley has recently
became Professor of Modern History at Cam
bridge University, England.
The sum total of subscription received by
the committee in New York, for the relief
of the Syrian sufferers, is $25,979 SO.
A lad not fond of fun and frolic may
possibly make tolerable man, but he is an
intolerable boy.
Minnesota has this year a surplus of
100000 bushels of wheat, andas much more
of other grain. -..
Col. Bruce of st. Joseph recently received
eighteen ounces of " dust from Pixies Peak,
an1 which he sold for SIC so per ounce.
Constantly lounging men are disgusting.
By day be vertical, by night horizontal, but
in no case diagonal.
A correspondent of an Alabama paper
suggests Westinghouse as the name of
the proposed Southern Confederacy.
The earnings of the New York Central
Railroad, in 1860, will probably foot up
$5000000.
A new cockade appeared in Washington
on Saturday, with thirty-three stars and the
word "UniOn on it.
John PEBBLES, while working in brick
yard, in Pitt Township, Pennsylvania, was
fatally injured by the caving of large bank
of clay.
Some of the new volunteer regiments in
England are talking of inviting the New
York Seventh Regiment to come over and
make visit.
Maggie Mitchell, who has been chanting
the "Marseillaise" at the Montgomery (Ala)
Theater, was presented on Friday night with
LOAN Star" flag of Alabama.
They are talking very seriously in. New
Orleans about new Vigilance Committee,
to arrest the doings of the present outrageous
so-called body.
A loving friends rebuke sinks into the
heart, and convinces the judgment; an
enemy's or strangers rebuke is inVective,
and irritates, not converts. .TE GTa
When two loving hearts are torn asunder,
it is a shade better to be the one that is
driven away into action, than the bereaved
twin that petrifes at home.
At the recent trade-sa of Murray, the
English publisher, Motley's History of the
United Netherlands was the book in greatest
demand.
George Horton, late anews dealer at Chi
cago, H., has been convicted of an attempted
outrage upon little German girl, and SEN
fenced to three years in the Penitentiary.
Some Doctor thus advertises: "Consump-
tiyes cough while you can, for after you have
taken one bottle Of my medicine, you can't"
True, death never coughs.
Hereafter the Cadets at West Point are to
be divided into five classes, with special
courses of studies for each. The change is
calculated to turn out the very best scholars.
Caleb Cushing and Sidney Webster pro-
! pose 10 open law offices in New Y FORK, though
the former intends TO retain his residence in
Massachusetts,. FIJI -.-
An immense white swan was killed in
Bristol, Tenn, one day last week. So large
bird of the kind was never before seen il
that quarter of the State. ......r-. ..-rr
The Province of New Brunswick contain!
10000 900 acres of land not yet cleared, about
100000 of which are still in the hands o.
| the Government
Robert Marshall, mate of the steamboat II
| d. MeGrs, was killed in desperate affray al
bagnio, in Vicksburgi Miss, on Saturday
night. ,a.-
A Methodist preacher accused Of promul-
eating anti-slavery doctrines TO the slaves
about Osceolo, Ark, was to have been hanged
last Friday. rt1 80
:. A very ignorant young person supposed
Mr.. Burch was going to open a bowling
saloon, because she was going to live by
ali mony.
The Lowell (Mass.) mills are not reducing
their amount of work. They are securing
large stocks of cotton at the present low
prices.
A provoking error occurred in the com
munlcation of a correspondent in a cotem-
porary. Wishing to speak of the election OF
ian obscure man as President" the types
made it an o" obscene man P'sif
UnRonted care is the creature Of useless
indulgence or wanton extravaganza; the
really needful in life can be obtained with
out il. an..I.ri. mo ma
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A little daughter of John King, in Mem
phis Tenn, recently swallowed some medi-
cine 70 be used for rheumatism, and died in
few hours
Most natures are iusolvent; can not satisfy
their own wants have an ambition out Of
al proportion 20 their practical force; aud
SO do lean and beg day aud night continually.