Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-23
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We propose, as an appropriate name for
the Southern Confederacy, "Gasassia."
If women never died until they perished
of broken hearts, the sex would be immortal.
The hooks on which womens hearts are
caught, observes French author, are hooks
of gold.
II woman have pretty foot, say the
Italians, she will stand on her head to be
admired.
"0nly make a woman believe she is un-
happy" says Balzac to lover, 'and all the
rest is easy"
A child of Edward Colver, residing in
Newark, N. j., died on Saturday from eating
lucifer matches.
An English physician recommends an
abundant use of horse. raddish as q cure for
early dyspepsia.
The man who has the greatest capacity for
popularity has the least ability to make a
genuine friend.
A diner at London restaurant, recently,
died in spasm from eating mustard in ex-
cess upon his food.
A dead child was almost entirely devoured
by rats, in hovel in the Five Points, in New
York, few days ago.
AS the sword of the best-tempered metal is
the most flexible, so the truly generous are
the most plant and courteous.
The amount of money annually lost at
Baden. Baden, the famous German Watering
place, is estimated in our money at $l0,-
10000.
The moment you find fault with woman,
however beautiful, she becomes hideous
through wounded vanity and ungrateful
hate.
Cincinnati and Paris are the only cities
that support daily papers devoted exclu-
sively to the drama during the theatrical
| season.
The wife of the artist Page, of Venus fame,
is soon to appear upon the stage in New
York City. She is said to be beautiful-of
course.
A child FIVE years old swallowed piece of
a fine-tooth comb, in Coos County, New
Hampshire, few days since, and died three
hours after.
Marriage" said an unfortunate husband,
"is the churchyard of love-" sand you
men," replied the not less unhappy wife,
''are the grave-diggers."
On the 10th instant, James Maypel, in
WaBulla County, Fla, while delirious from
liquor, killed his father and his brother, and
then cut his own throat.
Stephen Curry drank preparation of cor
rosve sublimate, instead of whisky, in Wilma
Parish, La, the other day, and died in great
agony in four hours.
The French women have less beauty of
face than those of any other nation in Eu-
rope; but their figures are, with the aid of
art, decidedly attractive.
An old women, Mrs. Oatharine Quad, died
in Birmingham, England, on the Sd inst, of
consumption, after having suffered from that
disease for forty years.
Within the past two years there have
been more instances of murder of husbands
by their wives than in the twenty years pre-
vious. The sex is improving.
The latest trick of Paris rogues is, for one
to seek quarrel with gentleman, and the
other to assume to come to the rescue, and in
the struggle rob the poor victim.
The interest of most French women is de-
rived entirely from their sentiment; their dis
carding in society all the practical relations
OF life, which are always bore.
A handsome mulatto girl fatally stabbed,
last week, with fair of scissors, an overseer,
in Talladega County, Ala, while he was at
tempting to violate her virtue.
George Holcomb, aged sixty-two, died in
Waincott, Mich, on the night of the 18th in
stant, from the use of chloroform, which he
had taken to cure the toothache.
In Cass County, Nebraska, on the 9th inst,
three, horse thieves were captured by q
Lynching party who had given them pursuit.
and hanged to tree in the woods.
Albert NJ. Elmer, young man of talent,
having eaten hasheesh in Montreal, Canada,
recently, for experiment. leaped out of q
hotel window, and broke his neck.
An odd lawsuit was recently tried in Ca
lais, France, in which man claimed 1000
francs of his neighbor for services rendered
by plaintiffs wife as defendants witness.
1t has been recently discovered in Haber-
sham Co., Ca, that a woman, held in
slavery for twenty years, is white, having
been kidnapped when a child from Balti-
more, Md. .ti5i
A German author IF book of travels
says that there is no difference between the
manners of a refined Partisan and American
lady, and that they greatly resemble each
other in style. a-.s. ..s.r r-.r
Peter Mugan died in Dane County, No, on
the 18th inst, from a stab received in q
quarrel two years before the wound having
never healed, and having caused him con-
slant pain. rlr. Hi-EaJ Ltt rEu
Alta apost-mortem examination Of a deceased
horse dealer in Dublin, it was shown that al
his ribs had been broken for more than
twenty years, and that he had suffered very
little from that cause. ~ -t4It H
S. A woman Of thirty Eve was recently seni
TO the Poor house In Schoharie County, N
Y, who, ten years before, was the accom-
plished wifeoi the best lawyer in that region