Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-25
VARIETIES.

at Lyncnpurg, fa.i ON rrloay nlgnt.
However small q society may be, if it is a
human one, jealousy will creep in.
~ would never think Of DEATH" said Epi-
Gurus, Gas an embarrassment, but as bless
ing" --.., .. -.....,,. ,.-.
Great men lose somewhat of their great
ness by being near usi but ordinary men
gain much.
Sir Thomas Browne says ITO me avarice
seems not so much vice, as deplorable
piece of madness" u1Trrr r.f.
Barkeepers in Memphis, Tenn, are sworn
not to sell liquor to minors, slaves, or to per-
sons already intoxicated. '.T ..s '-.ss-
Good-conduct medals are now given to the
British Royal Marines every three, instead
of five years, as heretofore.
The long pending suit of Mrs. Gaines is to
come again before the Supreme Court of
the United States in January.
They who dispute for the management of
q State, resemble mariners wrangling about
who should direct the helm.
A Mile Crolista has been doing some ele-
waited walking from the house-tops of St.
Joseph, Mo-, la Blondin.
Montalembert has Just given to the world
a work entitled, The Monks Of tie Vest,
from Saint Benoit to Saint Bernard.
Hon. James Cooper (late of PENN now
resident of Maryland, is spoken of for the
Generalship under Lincoln.
/ Massey, the New York pugilist, indicted
for assaulting an officer, has forfeited his
$4,000 bail, and has fed to Europe.
A suit for $4,000 damages has been insti-
tuted against the Sheriff of Chicago, Ill,
growing out Of the Bissell farce trial.
The extensive Ripka Mill, at Manayunk,
near Philadelphia, was fired the other day
by nail falling into the cotton-picker. E
I Paris has twenty three telegraph Offices
employed in transmitting messages between
the various quarters of the capital
Cotton and woolen manufacturers of Phil
adelphia run their mills half the time for the
present, on account of the over production.
Boys properly reared are men, in useful
ness, at sixteen, while those brought up in
idleness are an annoyance at twenty-one.
A sick man was fatally burned in Phila-
delphia, day or two ago, by his bed taking
fire from hot brick placed in it to warm his
feet.
An Eastern lecturer designates Elizabeth
Barrett Browning and Charlotte Bronte as
the Shakespeare and Dante of feminine
thought.
Alexander Mann, formerly editor of the
Rochester On. " american and Albany
Statesman, died recently in st. Augustine
FLORIDA. II q kD o. q
An exchange asks: "Who is there that
some body does not -contrive to like ?" A
great many are there, and some the best Of
persons.9 90 sfs.-Ea@
A politician at the West claims the sup
port of the Catholics, on the ground that he
burned Roman candles on the Fourth of j uly
evenings. ~ - - - - LA -.-a
At Randolph, Ala, young man, John
Smitherman, shot and killed, recently, with
dOuble-barrel gun, two brothers named
Hill ~'-@
A proposition is on foot in Seneca County
| N. Y, to erect a monument to the Indian
Chief, Red Jacket, who was born in thai
county, -....r.. .sr
Mr.. Breed, the newly-elected Mayor Of
Lynn, Mass, is shoemaker, and quietly oc.
cupied his bench for the greater part of the
election day, '
The overseers of the poor of Berkeley
County, Va, were poisoned, few days ago
at dinner at the peor-house, but have since
recovered.
A negro in New Orleans recently served
turkey for dinner, having seized him, as he said
for rent of the fence on which the fowl haC
perched. .s.l.s s..
The Hartford Comm Times notices thu
present brisk trade in weapons of death
Col. Colt turns out 300 reVolvers day, com
plete. - -'rar r~f.u ..rtHr
Great suffering prevails at Nova Scotia, il
| hat In IF ha iurr
The Legislature has taken the subject il
hand. ......r
He who learns not from events, rejects tn,
lessons of experience. He who judges from
the event, makes fortune an aocessOr in hi
judgments.
Queen Victoria Is a good woman-in
small way-she bought dozen iron bed
steads and presented them 10 the poor peopl
Of Balmoral.
i There is undoubtedly sensation in travel
ing into foreign parts that is TO be had no
where else but it is more pleasing at til
time than lasting. - ar EzL 17-- .
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, author of Passio
FLoloers, and of the play of The World
Oi0R, is the Boston correspondent Of th
New York Tribune.
A correspondent of the Boston Post sul
gests that Ex-President Pierce be selected
, mediate between the North and South
the present crisis. ,.r-t --l
Prince Alfred of England, has left th
.Ea7S,dltss and Joined the tSt. George, a large
vessel. Which is about-to- visit the West II
dies and North America 40 -,rfon
AT Vienna Austria, recently, SO heav
|. was the fall of snow that the city was cut o
from all communication with the OUT
world for forty eight hours. . b., ias. !.t
. Jacob Ernst, well-known farmer, VIZ
recently assassinated by some unknown PEI
son in Simpson County KY; being shC
! down while riding along the road.
The Washington papers say there hay
, never before been so few visitors at Il
Federal capital on the opening Of Congress
The hotels are not more than half fuh.
/ Sir Archibald Allison ia said TO have :,
: oeived larger sum for the copyright Of b
: History Of EaFope than was ever paid an