The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-01-23
CINCINNATI, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY %, 1860.
Morris CT
PEN AND SCISSORS.


Gs-The Italians ray "ths earth covers the
mistakes Of the physicians"
G8-The steam fre-engines of New York
City are now quite in favor.
&ayTh Italians say very often "a lean
agreement is better than a fat lawsuit"
~Itis now stated that the cost to vir-
ginia of the Hrpsr's Ferry affair: will not
exceed $1oO 900.
9s- Mr.. H. Steers, of Fairfax County, Va,
lately found thirty rats in his corn bin with
their throats cut. The assassin was weasel.
lS- There have been heavy falls of snow
in several parts Of Algeria, thing which has
not happened for more than fifteen years.
Gs- An exchange tells of laborer whose
employer raised his wages 90 high that he has
never been ablo to reach them.
Gs- The total exports of Mobile, Ala,
mostly cotton, for three months past, hayea
amounted to over $12,OOO,OOO.
Ga- -Rumor has 1t that a fair niece of Mayor
Wood, of New York, is soon to be led to the
hymeneal altar by a Cuban millionaire.
GS-We can sometimes love what we do not
understand, but it Is impossible completely to
understand what we do not love.
@s- Mr.. Hyatt has deposited tven,y-f,e
hundred dollars in tho Savings' Bank for Mrs.
John Brown and family.
@D- Governor Newell, of Now Jersey, con-
demued the John Brown raid in his message.
Why should he not?
&M-Ou sweet illusions arc half of them
conscious illusiOns-like effects Of color that
We know to be made up Of tinsel, broken glass
and rags.
Eg-We learn ,oords by rote, but not their
meaning; that must be paid for with our life
blood, and printed In the subtle fabrics Of our
nerves.
Eg-A correspondent says that woman is
twice as good as man, and proves it thus by
the very orthography- W-o-m-a-n-dOu
you 0 man.
Gg- Oliver Howe, of Lyme, N. H., ieft for
Calitornis, it 10 supposed, by the last steamer,
leaving behind him, tits said, sonic SlO, 900 in
forged paper.
no Tha present annual circulation of the
American Tract Society is one million Of
books, nine millions Of tracts, and six millions
Of papsys.
wrThe Providence (R. ~ Journal an >
noyIncss the death of Mr.. Thomas A. Tefft, @
ence, Italy, at the age of thirty'two years.
@B-The New York correspondent of the
Mobile Register says that Gen. George P. Nor
ris looks twenty years oldar since the loss of
his wife.
Mg Bsrnum is making money with the
Draytons and their parlor oper,s in New York
The parties have just divided $2S,40O profts
on the New York season.
MS-A new order, called "Daqghters of the
Forest" has just been organized il Baltimore.
The objects of the new organization are similar
to those Of the Daughters of Temperance"
Gg-Some day it will be found that to bring
up a man with genial nature, good temper
and happy frame Of mind, is greater effort
than to perfect him in many accomplishments.
n9- "Shun doctors and doctors drugs, II
you wish to be WE'LL" was the seventh, last,
and best rule Of health laid down by ths
famous physician Hoffman.
Ng- The loo In the harbor and rivers near
Baltimore has had the effect to curtail the
daily supply of oysters, and tho prices have
risen there considerably in consequence.
Ng- Tho total value of coal s1ipments
from the mines Of Pennsylvania during the
past year, at So so per tun, amounted to abont
| $35, 100000.
lS-The New Ysrk importations from Porto
Rico, q small Spanish Island of about 1900
square miles, are about $5,oOO,0OO per anEum,
while the exports thither amount to only
about $2,OOO,O00.
N4rFornsy's Occasional" thinks there
will be two Locofooco nominees, one by the
boilers Of the Charleston Convention, and one
by the Convention, and that Douglas will be
one Of them.