Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-11
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Many persons know when they are knaves,
but none when they are fools.
The fete. day of the Empress Josephine is
now religiously celebrated in Paris.
Gsribaldi is very mnch annoyed by the
constant throng Of visitors.
1t is now said that Verdi has abandoned
the stage, and win make politics his study.
Words are an amazing barrier to the re-
ception Of truth.
The Legislature of North Carolina has Of
fered the entire military power Of the State
to Virginia.
Conquest hes explored more than ever Gu
Iiosity has done; and the path for science
has been commonly opened by the sword.
Susan Durant Is an eminent English scalp
tofess, and Is just now attracting much at.
tention in London.
The San Francisco Herald says the Chi
nese population COf California at the present
moment may be set down at $4,000.
At meeting held at Peterboro, N. Y, last
week, Gerrit Smith subscribed $4,000 aid
the'families Of Volunteers. eA
: Many q one never arrives at fruit for no
better reason than that he persists in pluck
ing his own blossoms.
Those we call odd people are often merely
such as freely disclose what the rest of us
CAREFULLY conceal. x L < +
Fancy restrained may be compared to a
fountain which plays highest by diminishing
the aperture. -.s-
The New York Bible Society have already
supplied Tesiaments to members of twenty
one of the volunteer regiments. -it
A French writer remarks that suicides
never put any, dates to their letters We
know, this TO be incorrect.
One of The best methods OF rendering
study agreeable, is torlive with able men aud
to suffer, all those paDgs of inferiority which
the want OF knowledge always inhiots.
We often see the scarlet poppy growing
in cornfields, as ifitwer foreseen that where
ever there is hunger to be fed, there must
also be pain to be soothed.
vIfyou would be popular, by all means get
married. 1T you have one person to exhaust
your fretfulnesson, you can probably man
| age to be civil to all the rest Of the world.
The amount of paper manufactured in
| Great Britain the past year was 223, 575, 285
pounds. The net produce of the duty was
about Sc, 800 600. az 4.-1 90 IA
Brevity is in writing what charity is to all
| other virtues. Righteousness is worth
nothing without the one, nor authorship
without the other. r. .g '1l rfI %
People may talk about General SCOTS age
| and infrmities but we notice that, by the
help of his staff, he gets over a great deal OF
ground, and that quite rapidly. '' .'-
The Salic law was a most sensible and
valuable institution, banishing gallantry and
chivalry from Cabinets, and preventing the
Amiable antics Of grave statesman.
The lottery known as that ofthe Napoleon
Museum at Paris, offers prizes of one hun
| dred thousand francs, the chances for which
cost five francs each., Il E-sl y > q
| A report has reached Keokuk that COM
paDy Of Missourians had gone into Taylor
| County, 1owa, and burned the town of Ami
ty. The Gate Gtydoes not give it full credit.
| Swedish gloves, sometimes sold in this
country, are to be bad in Paris at retail for
not quite thirty cents onr money, per pair
They have "two buttons"
The Evening Argsts, of Philadelphia, o
| Democratic paper, has been discontinued.
There is not now asingle Democratic paper
| published in that city. ! ,r=s,At ss,-a- =
For five propellers of Cromwelps line, the
Government paid the New Workers five hun
dred and eighty thousand dollars.-a profit
to the owners of over a hundred thousand
dollars. gyT #rF.Es> HJ HflH IL
"A few days ago, Henry Winter Davis fled
! from Baltimore TO save his life from the pas
sions of the Secession mob. Now he is back,
and rides and walks the streets in safety
daily. reE-es-s ars voEf Es1EU
The great leading builders in London have
| r1rrnI In-a H., I,
the hour, instead of the day; fifteen cents
an hour for experienced hands, and nine
cents Tor laborers.
The fashionable hair. cutters in Paris charge
two francs for cutting hair, "with elegance,
! judgment and certainty" which are not,
they say, to be met with at the houses at q
| vulgar price. ..f..,-l..