PREFACE.

THE editor and publisher of "Cist's Advertiser," at the instance of his friends and subscribers, nearly a year since issued a volume compiled of various historical and statistical sketches, which made their appearance originally in his columns. Of these but a small edition was sold, the editor's other engagements not permitting him the opportunity of offering it personally to his subscribers and others.

A new volume is now presented, which, like the former, comprehends many valuable records, both of the past and the present, which will derive still higher interst in the lapse of time, and as subjects of reference in future years.

There is no individual in Cincinnati, expecting to make it his permanent residence, whose gratification and interest it will not be to preserve the information thus afforded, as a means of retracing the past, and thus affording him a source of rich enjoyment in the decline of life, when such gratifications have become few and faint.

CINCINNATI MISCELLANY.

CINCINNATI, JUNE, 1845.

No postponement on account of the Weather. [ body as a labour of love! This is an indisputa

I observe the following, which forms a regular ble fact. advertisement in a Hickman (Ky.) newspaper, and put it on record as a trait of the region and the times:

Of what individuals but Frenchmen could such traits of sentimentality be, with truth, recorded?

"Doctor," said a wag to his medical adviser one day "isn't there such a disease as the shin

"NOTICE.-The funeral of Mr. Nicholas J. Poindexter, having been postponed on account of the inclement weather, will take place near Tot-gles?" "Yes, to be sure," replied Galen.— ten's Mill, on the 26th April next. "Then I've got it, for certain," said the patient, are invited. "for the roof of my mouth has broken out in a dozen places!"

Ear for Music.

The public

The band of an English Ambassador at Constantinople, once performed a concert for the entertainment of the sultan and his court. At its conclusion his Highness was asked which of the pieces he prefered. He replied, the first, which was recommenced, but stopped, as not being the right one. Others were tried with as little success, until at length the band, almost in despair of discovering the favourite air, began tuning their instruments, when his Highness exclaimed, "Inshallah, Heaven be praised, that is it!"

Sentimentality.

First born male Child of Ohio.

The question has been repeatedly asked-who is the oldest white male born in Ohio, and still living?

The Marietta Intelligencer gives Judge Joseph Barker, son of Col. Joseph Barker, who was born at Belpre, as having long borne the reputation of the oldest native, if not the "oldest inhabitant" of the State; and adds, that Lester G. Converse, of Marietta, has a better title to the distinction in being born at Waterford, in Washington county, on the 14th February, 1790.

dence.

I am able, however, to furnish the names of the first born who survive to this day, both of males and females. They are probably also the first born male and female in Ohio, among the living or the dead. These are Christian F. Senseman and Mary Heckewelder, the children of Moravian Missionaries, who were born in 1781, at Gnadenhutten, on the Tuscarawas, now residing both in the same county in Pennsylvania; one at Nazareth, the other at Bethlehem. They were born within a day of each other.

The French carry sentiment farther than any I cannot find any individual living who was a other people in the world-in fact they carry it native of Cincinnati at an earlier date than May, into every thing. The remains of Bichat, one of 1793, which was the birth day of David R. Kemthe most distinguished physiologists and medical per, who was born on Sycamore street, Cincinwriters of France, after having reposed forty-nati, opposite Christopher Smith's present resithree years in the old Catherine Cemetery at Paris, have been lately removed with great pomp and ceremony to Pere Lachaise. But on exhuming the remains, lo and behold! the skeleton was found without a head! The grave digger supposed he had mistaken the grave of the celebrated professor for that of some decapitated malefactor, but the circumstance served to identify the skeleton as that of the professor; for when Bichat died, his loss caused his friend, Prof. Roux, so much grief, that he procured its amputation to preserve it as a souvenir. The latter was now called upon for the head, and it was finally restored and intered with the body, in situ. The son of the celebrated Broussais, also, for the purpose of preserving a vivid remembrance of his father, had his head cut off, and it now forms a mantel decoration in his study. Buffon, almost inconsolable for the loss of his wife, allayed his grief in the occupation of dissecting her

While on this subject, let me state a singular fact. Although our city is but fifty-seven years of age, we have as residents a lady who with her son and granddaughter are all born within four miles of Cincinnati, the last two being born in the city itself.

The grandaughter is thirteen years of age. Of course then as far back as 1833, we had indi