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GATHERINGS AND GOSSIPPINGS. A snapper up of unconsidered trifles." Lazy rich girls make rich men poor, while industrious poor girls make poor men rich. Remember this, ye affected fair ones, whose antipathy to putting your hands in cold water is always getting your husbands in hot. AN ALIEN WIFE SHOULD BE NATURALIZED.It was decided by Judge Kent, in the New York Circuit Court on Saturday, that a wife born abroad, and not naturalized, cannot inherit property devised to her by her husband. A late English paper says, "it is again hinted that the family circle and domestic ties of the Queen are in a fair way of being multiplied." The Arkansas Intelligencer, published at Van Buren, says that it has over four hundred Choctaws and Cherokees among its subscribers, many of whom are not only readers of the paper, but also contributors to its columns. On the recent marriage of one of the Russian princesses to the crown Prince of Denmark, the Emperor presented to the bride a set of diamonds valued at $75,000. An old man as he walks, looks downwards and thinks of the past. A young man looks forward and thinks of the future. A child looks everyhow and thinks of nothing. The British minister has broken off the Oregon negotiations. He will go no further, if the Texas treaty is pressed, till he hears from his government. Mr. Curtis, the collector of New York, has been requested to resign, but he refuses positively to do so. A gentleman in Shelby county Kentucky, fell desperately in love, the other day, with a girl at the first sight and attempted to kiss her, whereupon she knocked him down. He was first smitten with her and then by her. Two dollars the minute is the interest on the national debt contracted by the Whigs; instead of two dollars a day and roast beef. Quite a difference! The Arabs ,nelt their butter over a slow fire which expels the watery particles, it will then keep without salt; and the Irish have adopted a similar mode for exportation to the East Indies. always think," said a Rev. guest, " that a certain quantity of wine does no harm after a good dinner!"--"Oh, no, Sir, "replied the host, "it is the uncertain quantity that does the mischief." A' bill has passed the Assembly of New York, for the establishment of a Normal school, in that State. It allows five years for testing the experiment, and appropriates $10,000 for the expenses. A bellman of a seaport, not one hundred miles from Whitby, in announcing a teetotal meeting to be held in Temperance Hall at that place, said that the meeting would be addressed by DIN fo males, who had never spoken before. Some anti-temperance genius--the noblest RUM-UN of them all we suppose-has observed that as long as the ardent is kept in Hogsheads it does but little damage, but when it gets into MEN'S heads it plays the very mischief. MAXDI-Som one says; that an old coquetto is like a rose bush in winter; the flower and the leaves gone and nothing remaining but the thorns. Take care of the paint," as the city girls say when a fellow gees to kiss them. BANK RASCALITY.-F Miller, late cashier of the Phoenix Bank, Columbus, Georgia, has been arrested at Charleston on a charge of swindling, connected with the failare of that institution. COUNTERFEIT HALF EAGLES have been offered in Baltimore. They may be detected from the fact that the period after the words Five D," is entirely omitted; the stars are likewise larger than on the genuine coin, and its weight somewhat deficient. (3) is said the wheat looks fine throughout Missouri and Illinois, and that thereis a prospect of a very abandant crop. "Sally," said a lover to his intended, " give No shan't said me kiss, will you, Sally? Sally,"help yourself!" A gentleman upon being asked whether he a steam is said to have was so to blown mere was ded, being seriously injured up by replied, when his wife, that that he boiler explo- steam used had no effect upon him. To weep for fear is childish; to weep for anger is womanish; to weep for grief is human; to weep for compassion is divine; but to weep for sin is christian. There is a story told of a man who had a ragged coat, that he went to a quaker meeting, because, where least is said, is soonest mended.' SHAWNELTOWN BANK SUSPENDED--Wo learn that the Shawneetown Bank suspended specie payment on the 28th ult., that is, it declined paying the prorata which was 20 cents on the dollar, on that day.--Cin. Enquirer. PRINTERS.-The Mayors of the followingcities are printers:-Londo Edingburgh, Glasgow, and Washington. Also, the Mayor elect of New York is printer. CRAMP.-Two or three spoonsfull of strong ley made of oak ashes and mixed with molasses are recommended as a positive cure for cramp. d The birth day of the Father of our Country was celebrated with great eclat, by the Ameriicans in Paris. Cotton has experienced a still further decline in Liverpool, and holders in New York are begin ie ning to feel an anxiety to get rid of their stock. Rice is raised in upper Arkansas by the Creek y Indians. It is equal to the rice produced in North Carolina. S A person observed to his friend who was lear-