Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-02

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There are stone bridges in China three and
four miles in length.
The retail-market trade of New York City
amounts to $20000,000 per annum.
The grape crop of Helly's Island, in Lake
Erie, is estimated at 1000 tuns.
The number of deaths in Brooklyn, N. Y,
last week, was l29. sell
A new and handsome theater has been pro-
jected at Leavenworth City, X. I.
It is said that the Prince of Wales kept
diary during his visit to the United States.
Mr. Yaucey, the Southern orator, of Ala
hama, is q step-son of Rev. N. s. S. Beman,
D. D., of Troy, N. Y.
To possess a superior education without
natural ability is to have culver full of ar
rows without bow.
Out of 113 deaths reported to have taken
place in ST. Louis last week, twenty are at
tributed to diptheria.
The Kutztown (Penn.) Geist der Zeit says
that rich bed Of manganese has recently
been discovered near that borough.
The big bell at the Androscoggin Mill, in
lewiston Me-, was heard ten miles off on
Saturday last.
Burtons library realized about $l5000-a
larger sum than the family expected, but
scarcely half what it cost.
VIM. P. Gibson, convicted at Amador,
California, of the murder of Mr.. Church, has
been sentenced to be hanged to-day.
A proiect is on foot, headed by VIM. B.
| Astor, to make park at the Five Points, the
notorious slum of New York.
A New York sculptor, named Richard is
said to have executed an exquisite figure,
which he calls "The Bashful Girl"
The Prince of Wales, while in Boston,
evinced desire to procure autograph letters
of distinguished American statesmen.
Frances E. Bowen, aged nineteen years, o.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, committed suicide on Tues
day, by taking strychnine.
A woman in Peacham, Vermont has O
dress which she has worn for forty-sever
years. What an undreamed OF wonder
The population of Brooklyn, N. Y, by tht
census Just concluded, is 273, 425 an increasl
of 1000 in five years.
Luther Crawford drove horse and buggy
.up the Wachusett Mountain, recently, tn
first time that feat was ever accomplished.
Every thing has first cause, except per
haps some few unlucky candidates for lega
practice. -
MANY a poor woman thinks she can
nothing without husband, and when sh
gets one, finds she can do nothing with hin
Who was it that first introduced salt pre-
visions into the navy2 Noah; for he too
Ham into the Ark.
The Marquis of Chandos, who, with hi
wife, has been following the grand tour
the Prince is gathering a collection of choiC
paintings of American scenery.
In selecting a lawyer or doctor, take on
who has business enough to give him cont
dence, and not enough to make him carr
less.
The whole number of students connecte
with Harvard University is S96. There al
443 in the undergraduate academical depar
ment.
The lives offoreigners in Japan are gel
orally free love in the extreme, and conc
binage with Japanese women is the gener
, rule.
n A tie, firmly clamped across the track
D. the New York and New Haven Railroa
/ near New Haven, was found on fuesdt
I night, just before the passage of train.
I Captain Hugh Nelson Page, native al
q present resident of Portsmouth, Va, was
!; Inidshipman under Captain Elliots cor
e mand at the battle of Lake Erie.
!: The Russian Government has ordered Il
t Polish clergy not to urge the people to tot
Il abstinence, because the revenues from tax
on spirits may be diminished.
: NJ. deMercey, a French gentleman, d
> tinguished for his connection with the fl
arts, both as a writer and landscape paint
was buried from the Madeleine in Septe
ber last.
A series of poor views of the battlefield
L- of the late Italian war are on exhibition
London, which were painted by one Hen
Cook, from commission given by Vict
Emmanuel.
ID The Grand Duke of Weimer is to gi
IN gold medals for the best works of art to
n exhibited at general exhibition of all
n German artists, in the Museum of Fine A
at Cologne.
er The Louisville (Ky.) Journal says: 81
h. long time Kansas was bleeding" N
~ She is starving. She finds this decide
the worst of the two" This may be sha
= but it is not syntax.
An order for nine caloric engines, of Il
IL ty-two inch and tewenty-four inch cylind'
I5r was received by the last mail from Spa
: and they will be shipped Immediately
ie- Barcelona.
Miss Edna Dean Proctor has received
autograph letter of thanks from Earl
Germans for her poem, published in
New York Independent, entitled "Prince
!. People"
IN Mrs. Hoey was the only representative
= the stage at the Princes ball, in New YC
= Her costume splendid mauve silk, v
v ravishing Honiton lace, was one Of the lc
IN lest on the floor.
red ts-.. ..s.4 H...r
4. Paulsen, the celebrated ehess-player,
DO DO sailed for Europe, and will no doubt b
many O game with the best continel
. players. Paulsen may return with the ]
!. utation ofPaul Aorphy.