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Southland Times, Issue 1652, 22 October 1872, Page 3

The ex-Empress Eugenic still seems anxious to turn all her effects into hard cash ; she is not only selling her jewels, but all her Spanish estates. Several Rhode Island women voted at a recent election in that State, whendisguised a3 fathers and brothers who were beyond the seas. Toilees ov the Sea. — Opticians. Fleeting Jots. — Moral thought by Mrs Malaprop (after sharing with a lady friend a bottle of Veuve Cliquot) .- " Ah, dear me, the pleasures of life are aweefc ; but how soon they pass away ! How effervescent they are ! " How to Dwarf a Towk. — Horace Greeley presents the following as a sure means of destroying the prosperity of the most promising town : — If you want to keep a town from thriving, don't put up any more buildings than you can conveniently occupy yourself. If you should accidentally bave an empty building, and any one should want to rent it, ask three times the value of it. Demand a Shy lock price for every spot of ground that God has given you stewardship over. Turn a cold shoulder to everj mechanic and business man seeking a home with you. Look at every newcomer with a scowl. Run down the work of every new workman. Go abroad for wares rather than deal with those who seek to do business in your midst. Fail to advertise, or in any other way to support your paper, so that people abroad may know whether any business is going on in that town or not. Wrap yourselves up within yourselves with a coat of impervious selfishness. There is no more effectual way to retard the growth of a town than actions like those enumerated, and there are people in every town who are pursuing the same course every day of their lives, and to whom the above remarks are respectfully offered for their consideration.