Sifting Through the Sands of Time

Mortality on Board Ship

The packed ship Sidons arrived at New York on Thursday from Liverpool. When she left that port she had three hundred and sixty-five passengers, and when she reached New York she had but three hundred and thirty-five, thirty having died on the passage. The cause of this great mortality is not known. It is supposed to be ship fever, arising from impurity of the steerage. Free Schools

The bill levying a tax of $800,000 annually to support free schools throughout the state, passed the case on Saturday by a vote of 69 to 30. The bill apportions one-forth of the amount equally among the school districts; the residue is distributed as the school money, for scholars. Birthday of Henry Clay

Among the items of news from the city is an account of the seventy third birthday of the Hon. Henry Clay. The occasion was celebrated in great style by a supper at Niblo’s Saloon. The New York Herald says that none of the previous anniversaries held in that city could bear comparison with the last, in point of the number of persons who attended, or the extraordinary enthusiast, which prevailed throughout the evening. A Joke for the Ladies

The editor of a paper in Providence lately informed his readers that the ladies always pull off the left stocking last. This, as many be supposed, created some little stir among his fair readers, and while in positive terms they denied the statement, they at the same time declared that he had no businesses to know it even if such was the fact, and pronounced him no gentleman. He proved it, however, by a short argument: when one stocking is pulled off first, there is another left on, and pulling off this is talking off the left stocking last.