Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1862-04-02
Our elmalbas Budget.

OtASE IesouLCeS oA OdlilOIHid, IAey nave
been lately discovered in Santa Cruze
County.
"A monster bakery has been es-
tablished at Cork with view to selling
bread to the poor at first cost. Cork
bread must be very light.
- We seethat fifteen hundred Con
federate hogs have been taken in Mis-
souri, bound to be a soldier in the
army of the Lard"
"A fre-engineer Of San Francisco,
in order to secure a reelection, attended
forty-one out-of forty-three fremen's
= balls, and danced himself into Office.
- When=a man advises another not
to make an ass of himself he speaks,
it is to be supposed, from a personal con-
soiousnoss of how disagreeable it is to be
an ass.
- Prentice doesn't believe, with the
old WISCONSIN hunter, that we are to
have prevailing winds from the South,
because the South can't raise the wind.
"a man swallowed set of teeth
iateIy,fn Cleveland, and at the last ac-
counts, he was. experiencing, as was to
e-be expected, a terrible gna,7ing at the
stomach. SO
Dog-sledges are employed by ex-
pressrnen in crossing the Sierra Nevada
ridges. Each sled weighs 50 pounds Of
freight and the driver are easily drawn
by theaoanines.
--eTbe London Punch says, I'VE.
see there is a General Wool in the
American army" Had Punch been in
Queenstown, about forty years sgoTi
might have felt as well as seen him.
* It is not in brutes that we find
the most brutality" Mrs. Blifkins cut
this from a paper, with remark that it
applied exactly to Blifkins, for though
he was a brute there were some good
thingsin him.
- Discoveries in France lead to the
knowledge that man lived there more
than hundred thousand years ago, HUI
man bones are found in deep caves, asso-
ciated With those Of the rhinoceros and
Irish elk.
- Pigs, it is said, when attacked by
an enemy, arrange themselves in a cone
shaped body, presenting the apex of the
cone to the foe. The ancient Romans,
in drawing up their. armies for battle,
adopted this form.
- England has spent 81, 100000 in
works for making the Armstrong gun,
but has been compelled to admit the gun
isa failure. Others of like pretension
have also failed. They viii have to
adopt the Parrot, after all.
- There is a=woman in Glen Falls,
N. Y, who has lived three years with
out eating and has fattened on it. "She
lies quiet," the Messenger, at that place,
says, andpeOple of credulous turn think
the editor does, likewise.
The identical pulpit occupied by
Jeremy Taylor is eztant. After having
served as a dogkeanel, it is now used as
a summer-house in the garden Of a build
er near WarrenpOint, County of Down,
Scotland.
- The Emperor of the French pre-
sented four picked rams, from the Royal
flock at RambOuillet, to the King Of the
Sandwich Islands. Mrs Partington is
very anxious to know why they were
picked, when shearing would have been
vast deal better.
That truculent person, PeterCart-
wright, in arecent speech TO some Illinois
cavalry, said" We will fight the rebels .
to the death, if for no other reason than
for breaking up the democratic party at
the Charleston and Baltimore conven-
tions."
- The New York Court of Appeals
has decided that conductor, putting a
man off the cars when they are in mo-
ton. is liable for an attempt to take his
life. A passenger who was thus put off
New Y York road, lately, recovered $4,000
of the company.
There is a wonderful tale of
dog in the Pittsburg papers. He takes
great interest in regimental drills and
dress parades, but he made mistake
once in coming four PAGES in front, be
fore the order to open ranks" owing
e to his having a severe cold, which afec-
ted his hearing.
Heidegger, an old time opera
manager, was so hideous that his picture
was taken for its ugliness. Lord Ches-
terfeld backed him as the ugliest in the
world, but a woman was brought, that
risked his Lordship's wager, when tax
ing her bonnet from her head and plac-
ing it on Heidegger's, the wager was de-