Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-19
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In Ireland (as in South Carolina) the post
office does not pay its expenses.
]. BIS policy with the Secessionists-A
great deal of Boo, and very little Cannon.
The rent of the Philadelphia Academy of
Music is at the rate of $4,000 per annum.
At the Italian opera in Berlin the artistes
are said to be natives of every country, save
Italy.
The Law and Conover $4,000 ex-Post-
master Fowler surety case is on trial in New
York.
A man gave another a black eye, and
wasn't thanked for it. What base ingrat-
itudel
The Ground South Carolina wishes to
Take-That on which Fort Sumter now
stands. tr
Miramon, x.President of Mexico, escaped
in disguise from Vera Cruz and arrived safely
in Havana. .- .-.....-.
England has now, for a wonder, but one
war on her hands, and that is with the New
Iealanders. f'S1 rICIL E o.
Andrew johnson, the patriotic Senator
from Tennessee, commenced life as a prac-
tical shoemaker.
Anger wishes man had but one neck I;
love but one heart grieftwo ears and pride,
two bended knees. $500" - m
Since women have commenced the practice
of medicine, the health of young men has
become very delicate. -.
Un BalIo en- Masehera, verdi's last opera,
has proved an unqualified success at the
Theatre Italten in Paris. or,-.y-7-r ass. -
!Carneades, the Greek sophist, declared that
women, without the aid of men, would never
have an idea, or hold an opinion. & stl
The revenue derived from the Pittsburg,
Penn, Water-works, last year, was ST.
726 40; the expense being $3s,37o II.
The Bowlinggreen (Ky.) Gazette says that
a hen in that vicinity recently Matched q
chicken with four perfect legs and feet. :. '
But sixty-eight and half miles are lacking
to complete double track throughout the
entire line of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
In the eyes of women, said Gibbon, every
thing is Valueless, except what contributes
in some way to their comfort or selflove.
The severity of the English Winter is
shown by the fact, that in London alone, the
mortality per week is 500 above the average.
The Spanish have this proverb: "a wo-
man subsists on gold, aud when she assumes
to love, she requires more than at any other
time." @ .F -N F =
Byron said, in one Of his misogynistic
moods, that nine out of ten women COM
mitted outrages that deserved death, every
day Of their lives.
The Orleanist party in France is asked by
some of the CATHOLIC Prelntes to join its for
k.rNaa xrrsft tha hRrno aud fHYxa
the present dynasty.
The business into which the Benicia Boy
has entered in New Orleans, is said to be OF
the geological sort having an intimate re-
lation with "tbe tiger" 3 tl- .E
The import of gold into France, during
1860, was 1865, no hectogrammes of gold,
and 6,464,l73 of silver. A hectogramme is
3,2l6 ounces troy weight.
The mortality in London, for the week
ending January 10, was 1926, or 500 more
than the usual average, fact attributed en-
tiIeIy to the cold weather.
Tax. payers in New York are driven al
most frantic by the Albany scheme, which
will take $500,000 out of their pockets, on
pretense of farming the State"
The London merchants complain of expos.
ure in their meetings in the Exchange, from
the want of protection from the weather, and
talk Of glass roof for the rotunda.
"a Bohemian" says Charles Astor Bris-
ted, "is man with literary and artistic
tastes, an ineurable procliYity to debt, and a
strong disbelief in Mrs. Grundy."
A New England woman declaresfn print
that Fanny Fern" has done more to injure
her sex, and make men disrespect them, than
any female writer since the world began.
William Il. Polk, brother Of the Ex-Presi-
dent, after the Tennessee election, sent this
telegram to Senators Douglas and Oritten-
den; Tennessee is saved save the Union"
Schopenhauer, the pessinuistic philosopher,
believed not only that this is the worst world
that ever existed, but the worst world that
could by any possibility exist. He is hall
right.
Immense quantities of Swiss watches are
exported TO China. In some of the Chinese
dwellings the whole side of room is covered
with them: A large number of people wear
two at time.
Inundations in Spain have recently taken
place, as disastrous ia their character as those
In Holland. The Ebro, Douro and several
other rivers have swept away their banks,
and whole villages. -,. .... .
''Pop goes the weasel and "Dixie's Land''
are the most wretched and detestable OF
tunes, which probably accounts for their
popularity. It should be Penitentiary Of
tense to sing or play either.
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LINEN, LINT AND LovE.-The South Car
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