Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-04
....~JANUARY 4
VARIETIES.

could soon make fortune if he would go
South.
The schooner Prince of Wales, loaded with
salt, while attempting to run the blockade at
Georgetown, South Caralina, was chased by
"a Yankee cruiser, beached and burned.
A little Edwina Booth was born to the
distinguished American tragedian in Man
chester, England-say letters by the last
steamer.
Fanny Fern says, to her eye, no statue that
the rich man places ostentatously in his
window, is to be compared to the little ex-
pectant face pressed against the window
pane, watching for its father, when his days
labor is done.
Daniel S. Dickinson was not far out of the
way when he told client, who tremblingly
asked him, in case of Importance, how he
thought the jury would bring in" "My
fried" said the illustrious Dan, don't ask
me; if there is any one thing uncertain to God
himself, it is what the verdict of a petit jury
will bel"
When DR.. Franklin was making his first
experiments in electricity he wished to try its
effects on hen, and while holding the wire
to the bird it struggled, and he received the
| whole charge himself On recovering from
| the shock he good naturedly remarked that,
instead of killing hen by electricity, he had
nearly killed goose
The New Hampshire editor whe wrote his
editorials with chalk on the soles of his
shoes, and went barefoot while the boys set
up the copy, has purchased ream of second
hand envelopes, and engaged girl to turn
them inside.
If all our faults, our little tricks, our petty
cozeniDgs, our bo-peep moods with truth and
justice, could be sent upon us in the blankets,
all embodied in feas, how many of us with
lily skins would get up spotten scarlet
First Old CodRer-"My voice is still for
war"
Second Old Codger-"Yes, too alfred
still"
The cedars of Lebanon are probably the
Oldest trees in the world, except the elder
trees.
II tell you, my wife, have got the plan
all in my head"
Sab, then it is all in a nutshell"
If man is doomed to the stake, he would
generally prefer that it should be beef or
venison.
The number of murders committed in New
York city during the last year was fourteen,
decrease of six as compared with the preyi-
GUS year. Number of bonicides forty nine,
an increase of twenty-one over 1860; suicides
thirty five, decrease of eighteen.
Mr.. Johnstone is erecting a large paper
mill at Burnside Farm, near Alva, England,
for the manufacture of paper from wood
ground to dust The invention is French
one, and has been patented.
1t is believed that we have saltpeter in the
Mammoth Gave, in Kentucky, and other
parts of the country, which, if properly
worked, will render us independent of Eng.
land.
The debt of Allegheny County, Penn in
cludipg Pittsburg and Allegheny City, is
nearly $T7oo,OOO, and the value of taxable
property is but $2s, 100000.
Since the beard and mustache followed
the wake of lager and meerschaum aud
became AmericRnized, the number of barber
shops IN Philadelphia has fallen from over
two hundred to about eighty. There are
not over one'sixth as many shaving brushes
manufactured, and the importation of razOrs
has declined in corresponding ratio.
A correspondent OF the Glosgow Herald
mentions that in a certain chu, ch the other
Sunday, the singers might have been heard
proclaiming an chronological pursuit in the
following line of hymn:
ii
And we'll catch the flee,
And Wen catch the feet.ing hours"
LEAD.-The price of lead has advanced to
the sum of $34 per thousand, being an in
crease of $l4 since May last.
Almost every young lady is public spir-
tied enough to be willing to have her fathers 8
home used as court house.
The laying on of hands, one of the old
forms of healing, some times proves an ag-
gravation in cases of love sickness. -,
Wordsworth cautions studious fHfeaa
against growing double" but the giria
think it is the best thing a nice young man
can do.
The cup of patience is carved by angelic
| hands, set round with diamonds from the
mines of Eden, and filled at the eternal font
of goodness.
M. Learned, of Oxfordville, N. II has
three twins in the army, Two of them,
| twenty-thIee years old, are in the Massachu
sets Fourteenth. The third, whose mate is
| girl, is nineteen years old, and is in the
New Hampshire Fifth Regiment.
The Delta says that the banks of New Or
leans have agreed to lend the State of Louis
lana $4 000, 900, at the rate OF eight per cent
interest to enable it to pay the Confederate
tax and meet its own obligations.
DaAel Hagar, of Walingford, VT, hai
made some maple sugar from sap drawnfrou
his trees on the 10th of December--a case
without parallel within the memory of "the
Oldest inhabitants" of Vermont.
SUDDEN DEATH,-Edward Clark, an insur
| apce agent of Cleveland, was found dead in
his bed on Monday morning.
He who knows the world will not be toe
bashfuI; and he who knows himself will
never be imprudent. rFH
A good man regrets more keenly an in
| justice he has inflicted en- others than any
that can be put upon him.
Art is the revelation of man; and mo-
| merely that, but likewise the revelation o
nature speaking through man,
A pretty girl complained of a cold Apt
chaps on her lips. "Thee should not allow
them there" said broadsim. a
Children wouldn't cross their parents 81
often when they are grown up, if they wer'
TO cross their parents knees little oftene
when they were little.
There are times when our souls are rest
less, and q voice sounds within us like thl
trumpet of the archangel, and thoughts
long buried, come out of their graves.
ThAra III an affected humanitv mora nm