The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-04-05
Interesting Items.

AhteEestAhS items.
BGs- A few cases of smallpox in Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, have so frightened the
citizens that over five hundred of them APP
piled at the Office of the Superintendent of
health, on Saturday last, for vaccina.ion.
BE- Experiments show that an electrical
shock sufficiently powerful to kill an OK,
may be discharged from straw.
.HsA-M Mr.. Pullup coming home late, t'pretty
full" finds the walking slippery, and thus
exclaims: "V-ver-very singular; wh-when-
ever water freezes it alus ~fr-freezes with
thessl-slippery side up; dem'd singlar.p
neA- Charles Dickens announces his new
periodical to appear on the Goth of April,
with the singular title, Ali Round the
Year" A new serial tale by Mr. Dickens
last number of the Household Words will
appear on the last Saturday in May.
| gaE@ A young lawyer of Philadelphia
wrote to an old limb near Chicago thus: Z" Is
there an opening in your part of the coun-
is an opening in my back yard, about thirty
feet deep, no curb around it If it will suit
you, come on.''
B6F7A young Tennessee Clergyman seems
to have compressed the whole body of his
my brethren, the snowiest sfirt-front may
conceal an aching bosom, and the stiffest of
all FOUNDERS encircle throat that has many
| bitter pill to swallow" -9y 90 . "a
| Bss@ AT an examination in the primary
| department of the Pittsfeld sshool, on Tues
day, the listeners were drought down" by
the answer of a Juvenile, when asked where
whales were caught, and of what use they
were. The San says that one little miss re-
piled that they furnished OIL and another
| that they were .good for hoped skrtsi"
DaP The mail carrier on the Bardstown
and Glasgow turnpike, named Harper, was
arrested, week before last, for robbing the
| mail, but he afterwards made good his es-
cape. aa3s alif q sas. ID I ~ ss-Ill.lz 3
| Res at the United States arnory in
Springfield, Mass, thirty of the workmen
have been discharged, aud the wages of
those retained reduced in some instances 20
per cent. There, the elections arc over, but
the Harpers Ferry works, in Mr.. Faulkner's
district, in Virginia, are yet in full force,
| and will continue so till after the election.
This is Democratic economy.
AeA. A Mr.. Sharpe, a passenger on the
/ steamer Alonzo Child was robbed of So, 900
in Missouri money and q quantity of jewel
ry after the arrival of that boat at St Louis
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ON Thursday 4a.a
BsE- Peliteness goes great way. Hem
| ry Ward Beecher says an impudens clerk
can do almost as much injury to a store as
the neglect of the proprietor to advertise his
/ wares. s oS5
/ HsA Mr.. Williams, editor of the Utica
| Herald, in writing FROM Tunis, states that
the American Consulate is supported at Ta-
I mis- at an expense of S4l00 per year. and
yet but one American vessel has anchored
in that harbor in five years.
F9a By A friend who recently tried hfs luck
in court, defines law as follows: "a
q A game of chance, played by fonr or
more persons, in which the lawyers play as
partners, and make clean sweep of the
| entire stakes"t tes4st ...-sl
Bs5@ A Dreadful Steamboat Explosion. y
is the rare heading in an English paper, Civ
ing an account of tie explosion OF the Blacl,
Eagle tow-boat, at CaRdiff, Wales, killing
four or five persons and wounding seven.-
The steamer was h2aNing off at a high pres
sure, and in osdar to hear the instruc-
lions of the captain, the man at the angine
placed his hand on the safety-valve to keep
it down. TIE steamer instantly blew up.
DeSs Tag. Connecticut River Railroad
Company are making experiments with a
passenger Car, whose propelling power is q
small engine, stationed in the forward end
The ear will seat forty passengers, and the
apaasment allotted to their. use is entirely
separate from the engine roam, and perfectly
free from any annoyance therefrom. 1t is
inteaded as q desirable and economical -ac-
QUESTION for short distances q - -