The constitutional union., 1860-12-07
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

Old age is to us dream-childhood the recollection of dream.
 The concluding volumes of Carlyle's 'Fred- eric the Great" are announced
 Hopes and Fears" is the name of novel 1 by the author of '' The Heir of Radcliffe"
 The Rev. Samuel Lysons has written a Life of George Fox, the founder of Quakerism.
 A lady sometimes gets as much intoxicated at her glass as toper does at his.
 The talk of women is generally about the men. Even their laugh is he. he. he!
 In all noble enterprises the ladies are like the electric telegraph-far in advance of the males
 Edwin Booth is said to have accepted play written for him by Fitz James O'Brien, and called Blood thicker than water" A man in love has very little need of vict- uals So if your landlady doesn't give you enough to eat, fall in love with her daughter.
 A brother lawyer once told John G. Sake that beard was unprofessional. Right said Sake, "a lawyer cannot be too bare faced"
 Brown, the factotum of Grace Church, New York, being asked why the Prince did not visit that tabernacle, replied, "Well, you know we are rather select herew
 It is said that out of one hundred and nine ty-tiye duels fought in Paris during the past year, only two have proved fatal to the com batantS.
 Rudd and Carelton will shortly publish < The Little Annoyances of Married Life ; the second of their edition of Balzac translated by Wight and Goodrich.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes says belief depends in great measure upon what one eats-upon his digestion and constitution The faith of Onion-eaters must be strong.
 Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation; because men have dis covered that is far more convenient to adulte- rate the truth than to refine themselves
 Marshal Ryndcrs states that the census will show New York proper to possess about S55,- GOO inhabitants and with Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hoboken and Staten Island, ,125 000
 Frederika Bremer's new work on Italy and the East has been translated by Mary Hewitt, and will be published in this country before 1t appears in England.
 Lieutenant Maury is soon to visit England to arrange for the publication there of an im- portant work on which he has long been engaged-the Meteorology of the Ocean.
 There died at South Shields, on the 18th of October, a man named William Hudson, ninety-threc years of age, who was with Sir John Moore, when that gallant officer was killed at Corunna.
 Where shall put this paper so as to be sure of seeing it to-morrow" asked Mary Jones of her brother Charles <On the look ing-sass, to be sure,' was his very prompt reply.
 The young wife of an old pawn-broker at Philadelphia, tried unsuccessfully on Wednes- day night of last week to palm off a spurious infant, borrowed from the alnls-house, on her husband.
 Never be critical upon the ladies'" was the maxim of all old Irish paper, remarkable for his homage to the sex; the only way in the world that true gentleman ever will look at the faults of 8 pretty woman, Is to shut his eyes,
 Punch says that Garibaldi is an Irishman, and Was born in Cork or Connemara, it is not certain which; and, after his father, was christened Richard Murphy, a name which he has now contracted to Dick Tator.
 The new dimes and halfdimes for 1860 have appeared. The thirteen stars are omit ted, and on the reverse the piece is encircled with a shef of corn, and the other native products.
 "TD teach you to play pitch and toss, I'll fog you for an hour, 1 will" < Father" in stanty replied the incorrgible, as he bal anced penny on his thumb and finger, "Tu toss you to make it two hours or nothing"
 The Clayton (Alabama) Banner says that on Sunday last, the Rev. Alexander McLen- non of the Methodist persuasion, preached in the Methodist Church of that town with the tri-color rosette conspicuous on his vest.
 A gentleman having a horse that ran away and broke his wite's neck, was told by a neghbor that he wished to purchase it for his wife to ride upon. No" said the wretch, l intend to marry again myself.'
 \ passenger car has been built in Philadel- phia for the Brinkhead (England) street rail- way. The builders intend to put in estimates for the construction of all the cars to be run on the English passenger road.
 In the West India Islands there are two hundred Baptist churches, with ninety-six thousand two hundred and fifty members There is also theological institute, for the training of native preachers.
 The Swedish Government has abolished the passport system Any body may hereaf- ter enter Swedish territory, travel through, or leave it, without any moIestation from the civil authorities, or any police interrogating them.
 The Cleveland (Tennessee) Banner learns from farmers in that county, that the horses are dying with something like the blind stag gers. A good many have already been lost, some of them very valuable and the disease has not abated.
 The annual report of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce shows that all the expensive experiments made in India to raise cotton,