The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-06-18
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r.. Queen Victoria is again associated
with anxieties more than ordinarily Inter
esting.'
ey- Men can not subsist wholly ul'on glo-
nv. Fame. taken without meat, is decidedly
unwholesome.
asa. Sewing machines are run by steam
i'm Bridgeport, Conn, at the rate of J, 200
stitches per MINUTE.
nI@ II is said that there are several
Young Americans in Paris-mere boys
who spend one hundred dollars day in fast
living.
Ea- A lady in Harrisburg, Pa, took cor
roSive sublimate through mistake, on the
9th inst, and was corpse in less than ff-
teen minutes.
b. 1t is not the extent of ground, but
the yearly rent that gives value To an estate
or properly speaking, the labor bestowed
upon it.
BE- y happy couple have returned to
Falmouth, Mass, from their wedding trip,
which was whaling voyage that lasted four
years.
RSa. The oldest prelate in the United
States is Archbishop Keudrick, OF Balu-
more, who has been thirty years a Bishop.
The Baltimore diocese was established in
1859.
gS- a new brick building for the accom-
mediation OF the Agricultural Bureau at
Washington, is TO be constructed, for the
preservation and propagation Of plants.
80 A California paper contains. the fol-
lowing advertisement: "Sons OF New Eng
land Two barrels of your native rum on
tap, and for sale at the brick store"
re- The celebration OF thee Turner's So
ciety and the German Musical Society's Fes-
tiyal at Baltimore on the 4th, was n splen-
did affair. Twenty thousand persons were
present.
81" Washington Burleigh, wei! known
in the business circles of Detroit, fell down
in fit in the streets OF that city, on Satur-
day last, and died in few hours lie was
about so J ears of age.
Eag~ We have good authority for know
ing that the daughter of EEOch was $50
years old when she was married. II this
ought not To be balm 10 the dropping spirits
OF sweet %, then we have no more 10 say.
HE-Inquiry is made-who's Thompson,
he that beat Morphy. We understand that
lac is the Broadway coniec,ioner, whose sa-
loon has long been famous, aud even now
rivals the illustrious Taylor
pTf" Ii was Il smart boy who owned up
that he liked everything good, but good
ichipPmg. The same boy liked good
rainy day-too rainy to 90 To school. aud
just about rainy enough to 90 fishing.
ia There is man in Dover, Delaware,
named Caleb BeddelI, aged II years, who,
every work-day, walks one and half miles
in the country, and cuts and cords his one
cord of wood as his ordinary days work.
g@F" The Emperor of Russia has presented
a diamond brooch, valued at $4,000, to the
wife of Capt. Hudson, in acknowledgement
Of the courtesies extended by him TO some
Russian officers while engaged in laying the
Atlantic Telegraph.
B3s~ An old lady, down East, having kept
II hired man on liver nearly Il month said
to him one day: "Yell, John, You don t
seem to like liver oh yes, said John,
% / like it very well for fifty or. sixty meals,
but don't like it as a steady dat
Gas" According to last accounts from
Mexico, that unhappy country is fast re-
lapsing into barhariSm; and so many have
taken to brigandage that even that business
does not pay-the robbers being mora nu-
merous than those left to he robbed.
Bay" 1t was stated by leading dentist OF
Chicago in recent address to his brethren,
that the amount of gold plate and leaf used
in the United States in one year, for the re-
placing and repair OF defective teeth, was
-, $50, 900, fact which abundantly attests
the existence Of high civilization aud a
good deal OF toothache in this blessed land.
pA.T The Constitution announces that here
after its Sunday edition will be dated Sat
urday evening, so as not TO Offend the
senSibilllies OF Christian friends, and "avoid
even the appearance of evil This is quite
as cautious as the magistrate who dated Il
marriage certificate back "to cover acct
dents
pSA. One Of the lars est iron buildings in
the world is going up in Havana, under the
direction of Mr.. James Bogarius, of New
York IL is destined for war. use for I'll,
Credit Mobiicr Company, a. ! ne eight
hundred feet long. a.d t.at .udrvd AID
fifty feet wide. All tie ,ncvhinicS and
tcamsters employed, are fr N New York.
Ey" A barrel Of whisky took fire aud eX
ploleI, ia "a grocery at Mobile, Ala; tlIt
head of the barrel was blown completely
through the roof OF the building, and every
pane Of glass in the building was broksn
Mrs. Kelly, the wife of the grocer, was GOV
cred with the burning liquor, and died OF
her Injuries. Ii must have been better
whisky than they sell in these diggings
by From experiments recently made al
Grenoble, it has been found practicable "a
enclose dispatch of ffty-two words in :
hollow conical ball, the orifce being filled
with wax, and 10 fire il into thick planks
at IA distance of so metres, without injury t.
/ the writing. Thus a communication could
be opened between one part of an army anC
+ another, where the use of messengers woulC
be dangerous or impossible.
gsss~ \ writer, in deprecating the habi
of the American people-msrried and other
( of sleeping two in he'd, and in laboriul
To establish how very detrimental TO healtl
this habit is, says that the great people a
Europe the kings and queens, and tn
Lords and their ladieS-neyer sleep together
Bat that only happens for the reason tina
they are always sleeping with somebod
! else.
CRUEL lNFANTICIDE.-A Mrs. Jones,
young woman about eighteen years of age
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