The constitutional union., 1860-12-07
CTRRENT ITEMS.

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 Twenty-two physicians in New York city are said to earn annually from Slo,oVO to $40 900, and of this number four are homeo- pathists.
 The world, though rough, is after all the best schoolmaster-be than study, tor It makes man his own teacher.
 In Philadelphia since the 2d of July, 1860, about 5000 births have been registered at the office of the Board of Health. A glutton at Oyster Point, Connecticut, ate bushel of oysters last week as fast as an exss pert negro could open them.
 For Monroe (Old Point Comfort Virginia,) is now said to have been rendered one ot the most formidable fortresses in the country.
 They get up presentation canes in Philadel- phia, from wood of the Independence Hall, and set with Cape May diamonds.
 A woman and her five children were found at Topeka, K. T., on the 14th ult., dead from Starvation.
 Edward Everett lectured in Lowell, Mas sachusetts, Wednesday evening, on The Ear 1 lv Life of Franklin" and attracted an inn mense house.
 It is only in France that all men take off their hats when a funeral passes them in the streets-a beautiful and poetic custom.
 Crebillon the younger, says, in his famous novel of Sophie, that the woman who can look steadily into mans eyes can never love him.
 Judge Mcclure. of Pennsylvania has dec ded that an agricultural society has no right to grant permission to sell liquor, upon grounds, without the usual license
 Rarey, the horse-tamer has accumulated not less than S50,000 by his exhibitions and schools in Europe.
 Rain never falls in Peru The trade winds blowing across Brazil condense all their mois- ture upon the Andes.
 Garibaldi is said to look very pale and hag- gard from the weight of his cares, but he con- tinues as energetic as ever.
 As Gibbon the famous historian, said :: Every person has two educations-one which he receives from others, and one which he gives to himself"
 Caligula used to whip with his own hand, even upon people who by talking too loudly at the the theater, spolt his enjoyment of the players. Served them right.
 The steamer Ellen Gray, engaged in the Kanawha river trade, was sunk in the Ohio last week Loss Sl3,000.
 The sum expended for spirituous and malt liquors in Pttsburg, wholesale and retail, every year, exceeds S5.0O0O00 There are seven hundred and sixty-eight licensed tav- erns in the smoky city.
 The yellow fever has broken out on board the British sloop-ofwar Icarus which cap turcd Walker, and is sweeping tLe decks"
 The New Orleans barbers have been com pelled to return to old prices. notwithstanding the heightened visagos of the defeated.
 Pierre Antoine Beryer is considered the greatest Trench orator. He is seventy years old.
 The Presidential Electoral College of the several States were to assemble on last We'd nesday.
 The first Methodist Church in America wa, erected in l1G0; there are now l4gUV- an average of three week.
 Gen. Walkers remains are to,bc brought from Honduras, and buried at Nashville Ten ncssee
 There are now on the docket, of the Su- preme Court at Portland Maine, 4orty-two suits for divorce,
 Americans are at a premium in. Italy They meet with the most partial consideration from GaribaIdi.
 The number of foreign emigrants arrived at the port of New York, from the first of last January up to Wednesday, IS 93,392.
 Every drop of milk brought into Paris is tested at the barriers by the lactomcter tc see if the :, iron-taled' COW has been guilty of diluting it.
 Dr. J. J. David, Surgeon Dentist, commit ted suicide in his own house in Atlanta. the other day, by shooting himself with a pistol
 A new paper, daily and weekly, is projected at Washington, District of Columbia, to be called The Republican Era. It will support the next administration
 A Chemical Congress, attended by one hundred and forty chemists, from all part; of the world, was held during the month o September, at Carlsruhe, in Germany.
 In all the aspirations of this life aim high He who is constantly rapping at sparrows vii never shoot an eagle
 A man can be fattercd is not necessarily : fool, but you can always make one of him Punch's advice to people about to marry don't
 Daniel Coyne native of New York, i . said to be the wealthiest merchant of Athens Greece, having accumulated fortune O $6,000 900. Every man must of necessity have mas ter and so you had better be your own. A change of fortune hurts a wise man nc more than change of the moon. Next to God, we are indebted to woman first for life itself, and then for making i worth having. The Governor of Maryland will perempto rily refuse to call an extra session of the Leg islaturc to consider the Southern question unless the movement shall become general.