The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-09-23
CIfnnin0s.

tsD" Captain W. tells an amusing occur
renee witnessed by him or board the Ocean,
on her last passage down. An oldish and
somewhat purblind gentleman, pacing up
and down the upper saloon, stopped in front
Of large full-length mirror, and, after ga
ling at the figure thus presented for a mo-
ment or two, inquired in very deliberate
tone: Is-your-name-Br No
answer. Question repeated louder. Is
your-name- Brornp Still no answer.
Wen,' said the questioner, "you are
neither no gentleman, or cery dsgfT The
saloon was in roar.-Propidence Journal
sdy- Mayor Weaver, of Pittsburg. is en-
gagged in the investigation of serious charges
against the Superintendent of the House of
Refuge in that city. The accusation is that
Of improper conduct towards certain girls,
inmates of the institution.
BfaS- A little tool has been invented for
threading needle 1t is made with two
blades, which holds the needle with its eve
opposite little funnel. shaped opening, into
which il is perfectly easy for person of
weak sight TO pass the thread, and the thread
inevitably passes through the eye When
this is done, the ends Of the little implement
are pressed by the thumb and finger, Ike
pair scissors, and the needle falls out
| threaded.
nkA. At hotel table one day, boarder
remarked to his neighbor: This must be a
healthy place for chickens = "Why," ask
ed the other "Because have never seen
! any dead ones about"
Eea. A newspaper correspondent writes
| A.. la ali in l,aS h.a
cd a negro meeting, when the sable preach
er offered an earnest prayer for de white
element in our population
ssSy- The New York Herald of Friday,
says: "Portions of the northern part of n.
Y. were visited by hard frost and snow and
hail storms on Wednesday night. The cold
was extremely rigorous, considering the
season of the year, and potatoes and other
roots and vines suffered severely. In this
city at sunrise yesterday morning, the Their
mometer stood at As, while in Boston at the
same period of the day it marked as low as
49,"
BSB- One of your South Carolinians has
been " fighting the tiger" at an uptown
faro bank. In an engagement with that
terrible and generally invincible beast, the
other night, the South Carolinian foored
him completely, and took $1,000 from his
clutches. But alas FOR the fckleness OF
luck lit was only two days subsequently
that tire young victor, after another struggle
with the dangerous animal, was stripped Of
all his winnings and $4,000 to boot.
gGs~ 1t is said that the first time horse
ever trotted in public in America for d
stake was in 1918, when a match was made
for 81 900 that no horse could be produced
which could trOt a mile IN three minutes. \
horse named Boston Blue" won the stake
contrary TO general expectation, by trottins
+ the mile in few seconds less than the pre-
scribed time. -.....-
Bay~ IL is stated, as an evidence of tn,
immense size of the new ship Great Eastern
that persons occupying her berths are to b.
charged double price, on account of the ad
vantages they will have of arriving in por
ahead of their fellow passengers.
pc A workman at the spoke actory il
the Phoenix Works, Philadelphia, yesterda,
while cutting piece of oak, taken from tb
heart of an oak tree, which grew in th
wilds of Caroline County, Maryland, foun
T embedded in it penny of l749. On on
side is the head of the King, and the word
Georgius / Rex" and on the reverS
Brittania, l749" The penny is battere
: on the edge, and evidently had been drive
d into the tree with stone at the time III
ne bark was soft.