Newbern weekly progress., 1862-05-03
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

The Newfoundland coast is still completely
jammed with ice, many foreign vessels close
by cannot get in, and their crews arc in q
starving condition. About fifteen sealing YES
sells are known to have been crushed. Their
voyages have been most disastrous.
The London Moraing Chronicle, expired of
inanition on the Goth ult. in its 93d year The
Chronicle for mere than 80 years the
leading journal OF England, if not of Europe
but has latterly undergone many vicssitudes
of fortune
Passing along the street a few days ago, we
observed III the window of a partially vacant
house, the following notice: 81 The upper part
Of this house to let, containing three rooms, o
cellar, k tchen and back yard.
Why is O sheet of postage stamps like dis.
tant relations
Because they arc but slightly connected.
What the Queen of Spain want to introduce
into Mexico. The Isabella grape.
The edtress of a paper in Michigan. was asked
by A contemporary if she wore hoops She re-
piled, that she didn't wear thing else
The greatest height at which visible clounds
ever exist does not exceed ten miles.
It has been finely observed that men socrefice
others, women themselves.
A man % years old was recently married in
Sewburyport to a woman ,f65, " lio' had outlived
two previous husbands. The minister asked the
man if he fully understood what be was doing
He replied in tho affirmative and the knot was
tied.
Lord Bacon mentions that he knew states.
man VINO, when he came to Queen Elizabeth with
bills to sign, always engaged her in conversations
about something else, to distract her attention
from the papers she Was signing.
HerscheTl states that three hundred and forty.
i've miles is the greatest known distance to
which sound has been carried in the mir. This
was when the awful explosion of the vulcano at
s.. Vincents vas heard at Denarara
Tho population of Berlin, according to the last
census, wAs $780, .360 souls
The arming of the fortress of the island of NAL.
ia is rapidly progressing. But whyf
The thousandth birt hday of the Empire of
Russia will be celebrated at Novgorod in August
next
Archbishop Hughes, at his reception by the
Emperor Napoleom, had the plca casure Uf blessing
his son, ''tLe Imperial boy" who WAS brought in
for that purpose.
During the late Eruption of Vesuvius the peo-
pie for miles around had to use umbrellas TO
ward of She showers of dust which fell, rsachinC~
Tar bsynnd Capri nd salsrno,
Tho Papai government pays ten thousand sol.
liers. and is war budget estimates the expense
If this army at ten million dollars, while itn wub.
ects number only million of souls.
The London Press announces that the opening.
IF the great international exhibition " i'll not be
on account Of the death of Prince Al.
pert, but that the Queen will open it in person,
u she considers that by doing so she will bssE
ulfl the wishes of her deceased cousort.
The Lewiston Journai has the isspudence to
ldmit the following "A gentleman informs rs
hat he knows OF one accomplished belle in
Portland. who drinks whiskey ad. i,Gitsm, as
weak tonic"'
The New Orleans Delta says the people will.
etire to the swamps and mountains and there
MAINTAIN warfare that must ultimately prove
uccessful.
Money is despetic queen, and binds her
laves with fetters.
The greatest truths are the simplest; and so
re the greatest men. g
Be what yon are. This is the 6rst step toward
ecoming better than you are. s ssssf
Crimes soastines shock Us too much; vices
most always too little.
You need not t.li all the truth, unless to those
no have a right to know il NIL. But let all you
III be truth. -aF - .r.s -
Most men work for the present. few for tho.
ltnre The wise work for both. for she future
fne present, ane for the preseut in the future.
The greatest pleasure Of life is love; the great
e treasure. contentmens; the greatest poso6e-s
on, health the greatest esse, sleep; and thel
COS medicine, tluo and faithfsl friend.