The constitutional union., 1861-02-08
All SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

oaye him sweet smile and replied, < No sir, I am not in bussing humOr this evening. The agent dropped his memorandum book, hastily retired to the baggage ear, and sad he felt unwel
 A wife was robbed of $50 by her hus- band, at Philadelphia, on Wednesday. lie was arrested and told where the money was buried, when the wife efused to prosecute.
 ONE of the Southern Representatives in Conoress. who had become irrtated at his ln- ability to get the floor of which the Speaker possibly thought he could not make a good use. was heard to exclaim the other day in | fit of passion. q I have been in Washington all winter and caught every d-d thing Tn town, except the Speakers eye.
 A YOUNG LADY asked the meaning of the word surrogate, and the gentleman explained 1t to her as a gate through which parties have to pass to get married. "Then l imag- inc" said the lady, < it is a corruption of sorrowgate" You are right replied her in- formant "as woman is an arbrlatlon ot woe to man."
 LISTEN went to Paris in 1929, and was one day noticed walking in front of the Hotel Maurice, with his tongue hanging out of his mouth. "What are you doing that for? asked his intimate friend, Potter "Why," replied the eccentric man, "Im learning your language and l want to catch the ac- cent"
 A COUPLE of Kentuckians, lately visited Boston, and sat down to dine at the Revere House Goldfish balls were served at the ta- blc. and one of the kentuckians taking them for corn dodgers, proceeded to break one in two. Getting the scent of 1t, he turned to his partner, remarking in the most solemn manner-.. Something dead in that, Tom"
 It being hinted to a barrster, who was wearying the court with long dulI argu- ment that he ought to bring it to a close, he angrily replied. = l will speak as long as 1 please.' You have spoken longer than you please already" said his antagonist.
 TIE London Saturday Review says: .:T The difference between the two sexes may often be stated thus: A man gives two shiI- iings for an eighten-penny thing he wants and woman gives ci9hteen-pence for two shilling thing she does not want.
 \ POET was once walking with TaTeyrand ill the street, and at the same time recitng some of his own verses, Talleyrand percev- ell, at a short distance a man yaWning, and pointing him out to his friend, said, < Not so loud; he hears you.
 s:You had better ask for manners than money" said finely dressed gentleman, to a beggar-boy who had asked for aims. :. asked for what l thought you had the most off," was the boys reply.
 TINE FOR ALL THINGs.-" Mrs, Briggs" said a neighbor, who stepped into the house of the former, just as she was in the act of seat ing herself at the table. Have you heard of the dreadful accident 7"
 Why, no-what WIS t?"
 "1Ir Briggs has fallen from his wagon and is killed"
 "Is it possible? well just wait until finish my dinner. and then you'll hear crying"
 PRENTICE says he heard of but one old woman who kissed her cow but lie knows of many thousand young one who have kissed very great calves.
 TIE deaths in New York city last weel, numbered 425 anincrease of torty-eight over the preceding week and decrease of severn ty-seyen from the corresponding week of last year.
 TIE following dispatch, says The Toledo Blade, went through by telegraph, recently ' Charley and Julia met at S- yesterday -quarrelled and parted forever-met again this morning, and parted to meet no more met again this evening, and were married
 A man carried another ten miles in two hours and twenty minutes, at Haverhill, Massachusetts, few days since, for one dol lar.
 The Philadelphia Press says that Plymouth church OIenry Ward Beechers) is the only place of amusement allowed to be open in Brooklyn, on sunday.
 The population of Pekin China, is about | 100000. In 1915 the proportion of deaths was one in forty-two, not including children A cat in New York recently caught a mouse and carried 1t to an upper chamber where she nursed it as tenderly as woman would her babe.
 A scientific youth has discovered the cause of the potato blight He ascribes 1t to the ro-tatory movement of the earth.
 Florence Nightingale, the heroine of Scu- tar, Is still suffering from the effects of her severe experience in that military hospital.
 By railway accidents, in 1860, there were ) killed, in the United States, seventy-tour per sons, and three-hundred and fifteen wounded the smallest number in any twelve months 5 in the past eight years. David Dunlap, of Galloway county, Mo-, lately caught a full grown catamount in a trap.
 A quaint writer defines time to be-''a vehicle that carries everything into nothing. At the last distribution of public charity f in Cork, Ireland the town clerk says he got sick giving out blankets to drunkards." The hospitals consumed 720 glasses of wine and 607 glasses of whisky at Cork, Ireland ? for the week ending December eighth.