Show umi A family of the name of holt in the state of new york oil on instituting ancestral researches in order to complete a geneale genealogical 2 I 1 history have recently tre found themselves selves to be descendants and legal heirs of sir john holt lord chief justice of the rings kings bench who died at his country seat at belgrave england leaving an estate estimated at thirteen millions of pounds sterling still unsettled awaiting proofs of A yankee down east has invented a machine that will reap thrash and grind also spin cotton scrape potatoes rock the cradle whittle shingles whistle yankee doodle play eckers checkers cli ell P see visions dream dreams and puff it self seif in the papers mrs isaac of washington IV massachusetts gave kirth birth birth a few days since to the twenty fourth child she is only forty five years of age her husband ought to be possessed of a fortune to support supper t such a family at the tile present price of provisions Vicksburg Ilie The merald herald ald says there is at daviss bend a great experiment in progress of what tile the freedmen may be expected to do hereafter there are about seventy five farmers working land on their own account and making about 1200 acres of cotton beside as much more corn this trial is a success they will make on in an average from 2000 to each this tills year there till ere is scarcely one failure among the seventy five les Is sees many of whom were slaves three years ago tile tiie smallest steamboats on the mississippi river cannot get over tile the rapids at keokuk the constitution claims that Keo kukis the licad of navigation the pastor of tile the first presbyterian church in chicago rev zephaniah M humphrey was lately garroted garro ted te d and robbed of a valuable gold watch which had been presented to him by his former parishioners in milwaukee the present congregation of mr humphrey on learning of the loss immediately presented him im with another watell watch and also with a revolver and a solid hickory cane in order that he may hereafter deal literal apostolic blows 8 should octa ocea occasion sion slon demand rev ira D clark dark pastor of the baptist church in northampton mass accepted the offer of a j parishioner arish loner ioner to give i him a load of wood if he would cut it yand and with a little more than a days labor there was a cord cordana and a half of wood at ilie the parsonage all cut by the ministers hands for the first time in our varied ex ermence eri ence we saw on tuesday a barrel of lour hauled up government street in a hearse the public stared but the driver drove on when we came to recollect that flour was five and six hundred dollars per barrel and that the struggle for bread was one for life and death we better appreciated the connection between the hearse and the barrel of flour richmond examiner I 1 why does the operation of hanging kill a man inquired dr whately A physiologist replied lied because inspiration rei res is checked checke circulation stopped and blood suffuses and congests the brain bosh 11 replied the doctor it is because the rope is not long enough to let his feet touch the ground 1 in 1862 Sofi southern thern cotton was imported into england to the extent of of pounds last year the amoun amount was another statement makes the increase from to bales of 4 cwt cat john how I 1 wish it was as much ti the ae fashion fashio n to trade wives as to trade horses 7 why so dick id cheat somebody most shockingly before night with a double vigilance should we watch our actions when we reflect that good and bad ones are never childless 1 and that in both cases the ont oft offspring sprin aprin goes fe oes beyond tile the parent parente every gooc boog begetting getting begetting a better every bad a worse A madman had been addressing letters in cypher to the king of prussia he could not for some time be discovered and some consternation was felt as no man could find a key to the cypher he was however accidentally discovered and gave the required key which showed a great deal of ingenuity in the construction of the cyphers and that they were respectful letters and rather elegant in thought A chunk of lead weighing 1000 ibs lbs was lately taken from a mine in iowa 1 I have haven plage for everything everything and you ought to know it I 1 I 1 sai hai said sald a married man who was looking for liis his bootjack boot jack after his wife was in bed yes 11 said she and I 1 ought to know where rp e you keep your late hours but I 1 dont the famous swallow painted by carl en on tile the ceiling of tile the cafe foy paris is the cause of a law suit the landl landi landlady landlady adf opposed at a late bankruptcy sale of the t le tenants tenant Ps effects tile the r right ig lit the latter claimed to sell it the th e tenant founded his claim on the fact that the swallow was painted after the lease he holds was way signed and the landlord contends that by being painted on tile the ceiling the swallow has las become P ariete riete i e c a fixture tile the affair has been provisionally proviso nally decided in favor of the plaintiff who should he gain his suit will not have much to boast of for tho the original swallow has long since disappeared under at least twenty different coats of paint the rebel general hood is describe described 4 as a thin stooping man inan with a wooden leg and a wilted arm and an expression 0 of f settled melancholy I 1 it t is said that he is never known to smile certainly he has had of late no great reason to be hilarious A committee called upon a flourishing licensed licen ced victual ler to solicit a subscription for the support ofa clergyman cant do it gentlemen was the reply 1 I gave five pounds to tile the rev bev mr P however Ko yesterday et erday ll 11 after much persuasion however Wever they succeeded in getting him to put down a like amount for hetting fetting or the rev liev mr E R and departed with thanks but a minute afterwards lie he was overheard giving the following directions to an assistant draw off five pounds worth of liquor and fill with water take it out of the rolof row of casks next to those that y you 0 u watered yesterday for tile the rev mr P 1 I 1 A new species of silk worm which feed on the leaves of the oak has hag been introduced into france from cashmere over 1500 worth of pearls have been found during the past two weeks in inthe the winooski river near montpelier vermont the book of nature is always beautiful but it gets short of leaves in aut atit dmn it is now distinctly ascertained that in many parts of australia leads as they are termed by the miners of awash wash dirt consisting of submerged river beds exist hundreds of feet below the present surface of the earth and many companies are now engaged enga in goila profitably bly working these extraordinary sed ted inary I 1 deposits ep 0 sib sit 9 than t the e lowest deep there is yet in the opinion of the miners a lower deep of auriferous gutters and they manifest now little respect bior for the teachings teaching of geologists who until corrected by later experience were in error in asserting that as a rule gold would never be found in large karge large quantities far from the surface the london punch although it views the matter in a jocose light tells some home truths in summing up some of the sweet uses of adversity this is the catalogue you wear out your old clothes you are not troubled with visitors you are exonerated from mati maki making ng calls bores do not bore you sponges do not haunt your table tax gatherers hurry past your door itinerant bands do not play opposite your windows you avoid the th nuisance of serving on juries bries A child speaking of his home to a friend was asked where is your home look looking n with loving joving eyes at his mother hereR herek he replied led where mother is A man who practiced somewhat at the bar baron banon barof zao zoo of a saloon saloan asked a lady why she was wag so fond of peeping into a looking g glass lass sir said she the glasses that I 1 I 1 look into help me to improve my appearance while those you look took into injure yours |