The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-05-30
II HE PR e g s.
rURDAY..-.......r..--...............-..pIAY 80.
various Items.

Wheat is nearly ready for the reaper in
Egypt" :,
Professor Agassiz is going to Europe this
summer. .u..t
At what age are ladies most happyH Ans.
Marriage.
At one time the late John Jacob Astor was
worth $2l 100000.
1t Is said that the French army of the Rhine
will number 500, 900.
A man worth $4,000 recently died in the
Illinois State Penitentiary. a
Steam canal packets between Syracuse and
Rome are well patroniged.
The King Of Siam has son named in honor
of Gen. George Washington.
Joe, did you ever dabble In stocks2 Well,
yes, got my foot in them oncel
Our exports TO Mexico for the last year were
S3,315, 1925, our receipts from there $5,477 ,465.
The free colored population of Louisiana
are emigrating to Hayti in large numbers.
The Philadelphia Tract Society has distri-
buted l,659,O45 pages of tracts the past year.
Why is wrestling match the least immoral
of all contestsH Because 1t is try,fins affair.
How to keep your own counsel-Get into a
Chancery suit, and you will never get rid of
! him.
Mr.. H. j. Hastings, of the Albany Knicker-
booker, is one Of the passengers by the Ade-
laide to-day.
Ladies should bear in mind that of all habits,
that of walking is the cheapest; 1t is also among
the best.
man one hundred and two years old en-
tered quarter section of land at the Menasha
Land Office on Friday woek.
Wall street, which is about half mile long,
has 5000 inhabitants and forty miles of stair
way, so says letter carrier.
New York city, it is estimated, consumes
seven million bushels of oysters annually,
valued at seven million dollars.
New potatoes were dug from the open ground
in the garden of Daniel Russell, in Portland,
Conn.,, ON Monday week.
An individual at Cornwall, England, has
made himself q complete suit from $40 rat
skins-using tails in the neck-tie
Salem, Mass, believes in trees. There are
two thousand six hundred and fifteen trees on
the streets, commons and squares.
Active steps are being taken in order to have
the Great Eastern ready for sea by the latter
end of July, or the beginning of August.
The Churchman states that Bishop Potter,
Of the diocese of Eastern New York, has con-
frmed l,O36 persons since the 4th of March.
All the saltpetre in the New York market
has been withdrawn to anticipate gunpowder
necessity.
There are in the State of Oregon 1873 -four
mills, with capacity Of producing 2,5O0,oOO
barrels per annum. .
1t is said by many of the Western papers
that prices of lumber will rule unusually high
| throughout the coming season.
There are two bores in society-the man who
knows too much, and the man W who knows too
little.
The bank where the wild thyme grows,
has declared dividend of ten "scents' to the
share. .. .
The position of an eronant must be a very
painful one, from constant tendency there is
in it to make him soar. ..t
The death of DR.. Lardner, already announced.
occurred at Naples on the 21st ult. He was i'll
but few days, Of Inflammation of the chest.
"I say, Pat, what are you about-sweeping
out that room?" "No," answered Pat, "I am
sweeping out the dirt, and leaving the room"
Why was the tail of the late comet like one
of the productions of Kylvanus Sobb2 ~
Because it was q long tail from a small head
An exchange infers that Dryden wasn't op-
posed to mint juleps from remark he once
made Straws may be made the instruments of
happiness.
There is lucky editor in Canada. He says
they have had terrible winter, but with three
tuns of coal and a pretty wife, he has got
through it very comfortably.
Letters from Gen. Pierce say that he will
probably remain another year abroad, in
consequence of the improvement of his wife's
health. III
The Seneca Falls Knitting Factory has
contract to make socks for the United States
Army. One thousand pairs are produced
daily.
The Canadian Legislature has addressed an
invitation to Queen Victoria to be present at
the opening and completion of the Victoria
Bridge in 1860.
There are no less than 900 Lodges of Free
Masons in the United States, nearly all of
which are said to be in an unusually -four
ishing condition.
The Rev. Alexander Gregg, of South Caro-
lima, has been unanimously elected Episcopal
Bishop of Texas by the Episcopal Conven-
tion at Galveston. =.
The Vienna correspondent of the London
Times says Austria can keep $780, 900 men on
foot; Prussia AGO. 900; and the other German
States 100000.
A Connecticut deacon utters this sound ad-
vice: There are three things in the choice of
which you should not hurry-a wife, min
lister, and horse.
See here, Gripps, understand you have
superior way of curing hams. should like
to learn it. Well, yes; know very we'll how
to cure them; but the trouble with me, just now,
is to find out way to procure them.
HUMBoLDT's DEATH.-The sun shons bril-
liantly into the room where Humboldt died, g,
and it lie asserted that his last words, ad-
dressed to his niece, were: VIE herrich desc
Strablen: sic seheinen die Erde gum Himmel
zu rufenl How grand these rays; they seem
to beckon Earth to Heavenl1
A gentleman named Benjamin Ginning re-
Gently presented the poor Of the city of Liy-
erpool with one thousand dollars. A good
b. Ginning.
A fellow named Nathaniel Ding was re-
Gently hung in Liverpool for killing and
eating his grandmother. A very bad ".
Ding.
TALL RYE.-Mr. S. Deffenbaugh, of Wayne
township, has shown us several stalks of Rye,
taken from his field on Saturday last, moasur-