The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-15
THE DAILY CLARION,
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of San Francisco has signalized his assump- |
ton of the duties of his office by turning |
out twenty-three blatant Radicals, and fill |
ing their places with one-armed and one
legged soldiers. The discharged set say |
that they fear the Government is being |
transferred into military despotism"
WIxpMrIL. PowER.-It has been ascer-
tanned that a windmill with sails of the
best form. and arms of fifteen and a half
feet radius, with the wind moving at the
rate of thirteen feet per secon1, has force
just about equal to an engine Of one horse
power.
THE CHEAPEST AND BEST S3E04lE HOUSE
A hogshead for small family will do
Set a small board IN for partition. and put
the fire on one side, and the meat on the
other. This will enable the smoke to cool
before 1t strikes the meat. Get up IA little
heat as possible, and pure smoke As pos
slble. You want no stencil, no heather
burned, or hair, or wool. Wood chips are
best. Do not scrape mp at random, dirt,
chips, and all. Have besides an unseented
hOgshead For there is much in smoking
ham-more than people are generally aware
of. Cool, clean smoke-and not too much
Give it time to work through. \ little care
here win give you long term of good eat
ing A ham treated in this way, viii pre-
serve better, to say nothing of the superior
eating
In the middle Of stormy Discussion, a
gentleman rose to settle the matter in dis
putc Waving bis hands maiestica1Iy over
the excited dIsputants, hc began, Gentle
men, all / want is common sense" Exact
ly,' JeIrold interrupted, that IS precisely
what you TO JcoRt ~
Miss Mary Walker, the femlae physician,
who has been IA and around Washington Il
great deal during the past few years, wears
the blOOmeT costume and is Often mistaken
for one of the sterneT sex. She appeared at
the dOur OF the Senate gallery the other
day and was about to enter when the door
keeper said Pass to the right this is the
ladies' gallery" I'm lady, Indignantly
responded the doCtress. what do You we%lT
pautaloOns for if you are y inquired the
dOorIleeper. Il guessI have the right to
wear what please" 80 you have, but /
have no manner of knowing that yOu are "A
lady, therefore | can't let you go INTO the
gallery" Mary finally convinced him
that she was female, and she was permit
ted to enter the ladies' gallery.
The French are never tired of ridiculing
English peculiarities. The traditional Is
Lander with his red nose and full of Oaths)
in most of their farces is well known. At
one time the English ministry were so IA
nous for COuntermanding orders given to
their commanders in the field, that farce
was played in Paris in which the harlequin
entered, as an IIuGISn CONTltE- VIII TWO
bundles of dispatches fastened before and
behind him They ask what the one is
..Eh ccs soat MES 0rircs' And what is the
other ''Hajs elies SoHt mes c0RtreOrdres"
The late Bishop Fitzpatrick used to tell
with great JUNCTION of a bill of fare he once
saw in a Partisan eating house, where they
pr0tcsscd to cook becf-s eak like the En-
glish, "Beaf-sich q Ia god DAM
COULDN'T FooL HEE-The Lafayette
II III Z
some ladies and gents of that place who
were taking social walk near the cemetry,
when ghost appeared They all ran, but
one sturdy woman of the stTOng-nlnded
class, who stood her ground till the ghost
got to her. She then thrashed ont of the
irighttul disguise miscellaneous fellow who
had heard the project OF walking about the
graveyards discussed and hid himself to give
the party fright. She led him back to the
house and in reply to the questions that
poured in upon her said: 1" Can't fool me;
I've seen too many men III sheets to be
frightened by them
Senator Wade says, in the u. s Senate,
We can say, with ST. Paul, that we have
fought the good fight" Would to God you
were able to say with St. Paul, also, that
you had finished your course. Old Guard
THE OIL OF "PAM"-Many years ago, GER
tain articles in a certain morning paper were
generally accepted as having either been
written by Lord Palmerston or been COM
posed under Palmerston'S inspiration. 1t is
now said that they possessed dhis two-fold
character, in this wise:
correspondent states that a journalist,
now deceased, who at one time had the
charge of the foreign politics of leading
morning journal, told him that during that
period, a considerable amount of the pOliti-
cal articles which passed from his hands to
those OF the printer, were written by Lord
Il.,lv Il i
then held an important office, might chad he
choson) have said that he was not the writer
OF leading articles for the ---. The ord-
nary way III which the thing was done was
this
The journalist received n long letter from
Lord Palmerstou, commencing, eg. gr., some
thing like this:
My dear ---, the course which the Aus
trian Ministry has adopted iii regard to the
hungarian noDles and their political rights,
Is one which, however it may accord with
the policy of the House of Hapsburg, ii may
not be possible for Her Majesty's Govern
ment to overlook etc, etc, and ending,
Yours very truly, Palmerston'
The journalist simply cut away the head
ing and ending, and the remainder was a
leading article, which next morning APP
peared IN the columns of the -, and very
possibly, spoiled the appetite for breakfast
of the Austrian Ambassador.
MUsCULAT Power OF INsECTs-"As
strong rs a horse is one of our popular
modes of comparison; but the strength of
a horse Is feeble, compared with that of
some insects. A horse, in average con-
dItIon, has a tractilc or drawing power of
rather less than seven-tenths of his own
weight, but there are insects among our
common beetles that have Il muscular power
that enables them to draw fourteen times
the weight of their own bodies.
Mcdonald Clark, known as the mad
poet died recently in the lunatic asylum
on Blackwelrs Island, New York. He wrote
the oft-quoted lines:
Now twilight lets her curtain down,
And pins it with star
John Mitchell writes that the commence
ment of hoStilities by the Feniaus may be
hourly expected, and that a great battle
VIII probably be fought on st. Patricl<'s dav
1t is kind in John to tell England and Can
ada the prcise date.
The report that John Il. Thompson, for
merly editor of the Southern Literary Mes
senger, is in poverty in London, is contra
dlcted. He is associate editor of the Lon
don Herald, and a contributor to the Eng
LSh magazines
:. 5. Nicllum, of Maryland. is now sup
porting eight sets of children-one set by /
his present Wife, three sets by former wives /
three sets belonging to former wives, a set |
belonging TO tue husband of one of his /
former wives by a previous wife-about I
eighteen children altogether.
JOHN CEEARY.