The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-25
PEN AND SCISSORS.

PEN AND SCISSORS.
gSA lot has been purchased at Richmond,
Va, for Seaman's Bethel.
MH-The number Of deaths In Brooklyn, N.
Y, last week was 1875.
NarIn Italy, this winter, tho marcury has
been eleven degrees below zero. ~
Ma-Ths first railroad in the United States
was constructed in 1881.
MA-The number Of interments in st. Louis
during the past week was seventy-eight.
ns-"Let the light beam on mo-" as the
fellow said when soantling struck hin.
GarA dead king Is his country, for is he
not king-dumb ,.....
NE-Of all the sweet uses of Prosperity, the
sweetest is in knowing how to use it.
ne A map Of China, made one thousand
years before Christ, is still in existence.
Mg- There are thousand hands at work
upon the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
@sr The muscles of the human Jaw produce
q power equal to four hundred and thirty -four
pounds. #' Aet
me-! After q tongue has once got the knack
of lying, 'tis not to be imagined how impos-
sible ills almost to reclaim it.
@e-If you wish to offer your hand 10 q
lady, the best time is-when she, is getting
out Of an omnibus. t Er
N9- There is many man whose tongue
might govern multitudes, If he could only
govern his tongue.
Mg- Ellen Bulgsr. girl Of twelve, fell
into vault in st. Louis the other day, and
was smothered to death.
Ma- Pierre G. Sere, an elderly French
gentleman, destroyed himself recently in New
York, on account Of his ill-health.
@- Verdi's new opera, "Aroldo," was
failure at Naples, although the principal parts
were sung by excellent artists.
aas- The large cafe called Eldorado, in
Paris, near tho Boulevard st. Denis, is about
to be transformed intt, theater. M
Mg- A young man named Dewitt, Of East
New York, was shot on Sunday morning, by
Mr.. Reed, who mistook him for burglar.
Mr. Mr.. Ball, the Boston Sculptor, is en-
gagged on a colossal statue of Washington,
which is to be placed in the Boston Common.
Ms-In the time that men waste in bewail-
ing the perverseness of their fortune they
could gain competency.
Ms- Charles J. Foster, formerly of the Co.
lumbus Ohio Statesman, has, it is said, written
a very creditable novel.
M8-The Italian hand"organ grinders of
Boston have subscribed $35 to aid the Law
renee sufferers.
Mg- Catharine Pendorgast, q young woman,
fell through hatchwsy in New York, day
or two since, and was killed.
Mg-A negro boy at Plymouth, N. G., at
tempted to commit suicide few days since,
under the influence Of disappointed love.
ms-The Boston Post says that the fur trade
81, 200 for sable cape.
Mar Libraraies are tho shrines where all
the relics of the ancient saints, full of true
virtue, and that without delusion or impos-
ture, are preserved and reposed.
.ls- A woman in South Troy, N. Y, has
given birth, within thirteen months, to two
pairs Of twins, all Of whom arc alive and doing
we'll.
M@- W. Gilmore Sims is to deliver the ad-
dress on tho occasion of the Inauguration Of
Mills's equestrian statue Of Washington, on
the I'D Of February.
N-Among the passengers in the steamer
| Orizdba at San Francisco was the wife OF
| al vhn had kknI T..
the day before she arrived there.
MA-The amount of taxable property in
Kansas, as shown by the report Of the Terrific
rial Auditor, is $15 100000. The indebtedness
of the Territory amounts to $4,000.
M9- During tho year 1859 the Western
Boston, Mass, carried 570, 900 passengers, not
one Of whom received the loast injury.
MS- Galignani says that Dr.. Hartung, in
Paris, has successfully applied nitric acid Ia
the cure of rheumatism. 1t kills both disease
and patient. ~ ~
ls3-A saloon keeper named McCully was
| literally cut to pieces, day or two since, in
an atftsy with some soldiers at Leavenworth,
Kansas.
M8- David Wheaton, of West Killingly
Conn.,, collected over 900 picksrel on small
plot Of ice, just below q dam belonging to him,
one day last week.
e8r The Philsdelphis Pre-" has reason Ia
believe that G. P. r. James intends leaving
| Venice and returning to his former Office Of
British Consul at Richmond, Va. g
MrIt is announced in the fashionable
world that the handsome Madame Bodisco
widow of the late Russian ambassador, will
shortly wed Captain Scott Of the British navy.
Nsr Silk worms are sent on speculation
from San Francisco and China to Italy. The
steamer africa recently took out from New
York $4,000 ounces Of Chinese silk worms.
Esp. T. Bsrnum, the great Snowman,
was nearly suffocated night or two since Ia
New York, in consequence Of having neglected
to turn off the "register" in his sleeping room,
the house being heated by furnace.