Year: 1859




IT is said that many persons during the late
Auroral displays, ianced that they smelt brim-
stone We suspect that their consciences were
not quite right. There is such thing as seeing
with the eye of faith, and we suppose there is
also such a thing as smelling with the nose of
apprehension.


PARsoN BRowNIoW is still at the Virginia
Springs seeking restoration of health He has
almost entirely lost his voice, but he says he in
tends to raise it against Locofocoism as long as
he can, and when he can no longer speak, he
intends to make mouths at the rdscaHy concern!


a WOMAN in Middlesex, England, named New
to, recently bit Off the nose of Thomas Saverand,
who attempted to kiss her. But he can now kiss
her as much as he peases, saying to her as the
pig said to the boy that had cut his tail off, you
cant do that again"


IT is said that Grund, the notorious Hessian
is now President Buchanan's most confidential
adviser. We don't suppose the intercourse can
do much harm. The President might as well act
upon Crumbs opinions as upon his own.


WE think that the only smart thing about Mr.
Douglas essay in Harper was exhibited in bis
having it copyrighted His true policy, whether
he knows the fact or not, is to have it read as
little as possible.


THE New York TriLuns says that "Mr. Dickens
is not coming to this country after all" We have
NO uOuDl. tudl, ii uc ever COMES, lie Will COllle
" after all' he can get


A MAN, hung recently in North Carolina for a
great crime, ascrhed all the ills OF his career to
high living. High living sometimes leads to
higher dying


Why DON'T YOU LEARN TRADE This ques-
tiOn was propounded in our hearing, few days
since, to young man who had been for several
months unsuccessfully seeking employment as a
clerk or salesman i'm of our LEADING hons
Complaining Of his i'll luck, one of his friends,
who knew he had a mechanical talent, but doubt
ed whether he could make himself useful either
as clerk or salesman, put the interrogatory to
him which we have placed as the caption of this
article. The reply was, Z" it is not respec table
as a mercantile oecupation." Under this deusive
idea, our stores are crowded with young men who
have no capacity for business, and who, because
Of the iancied rcspectabilty of doing nothing
waste away their minority upon salaries which
cannot possibly liquidate their expenditures.


Late, too late in life, they discover their error
and before they reach the age OF thirty, many of
them look with envy upon the thrifty mechanic,
whom, in the days Of their boyhood, they were
accustomed to deride- Er.


EFFECTs OF AN EDITORIAL RUsr"-Tho editor
OF the Amador Sentinel went to the State Fair, to
the neglect of lis own business and fighting, and
On HIS IctuIu Iouuu tHlhSo bcItci-shcltCl' llc
says:


We, the editor OF the Sentinel, are at homn, and
if the good Lord will forgive for this time, we
won't leave home again soon, unless we take
home" with us. We find everything " t'other
side up in and ont of the office, three or four
unfinished quarrels on hand, and seven or eight
blank challenges lying upon our desk, and not
red to meet nylhlng with. We have spent
all our money, run in debt wasted our time, i'm
paired ourhealth by samplng liquors at the Fair
and, finally, cannot fnd an idea in our head


A RIBBON WITH A BONNET TO IT.--A very
sprightly correspondent of the Mountain Democrat
observes that the latest style of woman's head
dress is confused mass of straw, laces ribbons
and flowers, and though dignfed by the name of
bonnet, more suitable appellation would be
a ribbon with q bonnet to it. And then the sighs
for the {" days of yOre, when of bonnets there
were more when women did such dresses wear
as would not make the people stare to know phat
was coming there !"


OLD NEwsPAPERs.-Man people like newspa.
pers, but few people preserve them yet the most
interesting reading imaginable is file of old
newspapers 1t brings up the very age with all
its hustle and every day affairs, and marks its
genius and its spirit more than the most labored
description Of the historian. Who can take up II
paper half a century back without the thought
that almost every name there printed is now cut
upon tombstone at the head of an epitaph