{"newspaper_name": "The daily union.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
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The German poet Freiigra,h, has accepted a stu,
alton as clerk in commercial house in London, at
a salary of .f20O per annum. His motive is inde-
pendence and TO be able to write as he thinks. The
public ought by all means to encourage a man TO
write he thinks. How else it enjoy the bene.
fit of his thinking Chronofype.


The following scale Of the average duration oi
animal life is collected from Lnneus, Button, and
other celebrated writers natural history; hare
will live 10 years, cat 10, goat 8, Jack 80, a
horse from 20 to 30, sheep 10, a ram Is, dog
90, bull 15 an OK 90, swine 90, a peacock 25, q
pigeon 8, turtle dove 25, partridge 25, a raven
100, an eagle 100.


A NEWSPAPER PRINTED siLK.-fn Pekin,
China, newspaper of extraordinary size is pub
lished weekly on silk II is claimed to have been
in existence more than one thousand years II is
said that in l727 public officer caused some false
intelligence TO be inserted in this newspaper for
which he was put to DEATH Several numbers OF
the paper preserved in the boys library ofParis
which are ten and quarter yards long.


An amateur OF old books, residing in Vienna,
possesses, in his library, work published in Nu.
remberg in 1888, which contains a number of plates
illustrative of the polka; whence il may be inferred
that the polka has been in existence at least three
centuries.