Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-12

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Lemons raised in Florida are superior in
size and flavor TO those of Sicily.
The Baltimore police during the month
of September, arrested I, l02 persons.
The visit of Prince Napoleon to the United
States has been postponed until next year.
Persons who drink to drown troubles arc
only filling their future with new horrors.
A new bank is about to be established at
Nantucket, L. L., with a capital of 800, 900.
Theory may be very WELL but young doc
tors and lawyers prefer practice.
The present population of Spain is Is, 5OO
900, in round numbers.
The affairs of the Artisans Bank, New
York, the more they are examined, the
worse they appear.
A patent has been recently obtained for
an improved bier for lowering cofins into
the grave.
Slaves in Richmond, Va, are quoted as
high as $1,000 for No. men. Uheap, shock
ingly cheap!
Two gamblers were arrested at Albany on
Saturday, for passing brass medal for
twenty-shilling gold piece.
Two new regiments of Zouaves are being
formed in Paris, out of the picked men Of
the Imperial Guard.
1t is saiG that Boston uses more water than
any other city in the world. What they do
with it is not stated.
Sidney Smith Dickens, son of Charles
Dickens, was recently passed as q naval
cadet at Portsmouth, England.
A musical band in Davenport, Iowa. have
sued the Mayor of that town for a serenade
given him in honor Of his election.
The Orangemen of Canada have estab-
lished an organ al Toronto called the Orange
Herald.
The falling off of the hog crop in Ken
tueky this year is some 100000. This loss
will be about $4,5OO,OOO.
John Wilson,:a notorious rogue, was fined
$500 in st. Louis on Tuesday for vagrancy,
and in default imprisoned.
Advice to man inclined to marriage:
Hesitate a long time before selecting q wife,
and then-dOn't take one.
A monster bell, on exhibition in Boston,
weighs over 10000 pounds; more than double
the weight Of any bell in New England.
The Neapolitan clorgy who have existed
on the bounty of the despot, are the first it
is said, to fawn upon and court Garibaldi.
Carl Schurz speaks, it is said, of God as
"the ideal gentleman beyond the stars"
Some would call this profane; others poetic.
Robert Chambers, the great Scotch pub
Usher, who is in Philadelphia, has declined
apublic dinner rendered by leading citizens.
Otto Reventlom, one of the editors of the
Ne9c Yorker Democrat has left the city for
Italy, to join the revolutionary army under
Garibaldi.
The ninety-fve bachelors of Steilacoom,
Oregon, are still "disconsolate' girls
there for wives in spite of their appeal to
female emigration. .-
The London papers announce the death of
Joseph Lock, member of Parliament for
Honiton, and President of the Institution of
Civil Engineers. l
1t is now thought that Boyce, of Indianap-
oils, Ind, into whose face his discarded mis- /
tIess threw vitriol, recently, will become
totally blind. -
The number of deaths in New York City,
last week, was 422 an increase of nine over
the previous week, and twenty-five over the
corresponding week of last year.
Three young men were badly burned, at
Haverhill, Mass, day or two ago, by an
explosion of ether in process of manufac-
ture at laboratory. -1-- -1lL
A lover of 'lager" declares that the per-
son who says that grateful beverage will
produce dsLiSiunl tremeRS, is onlyI6t to ''suckle
fools and chronicle small-beer.Pe
A school-boy in New York City was run
ming away from his teacher the other day,
when he fell, and the teacher upon him,
breaking one of the lads legs.
Two lads stole a ride the other evening,
from. Newark to Jersey City, on the brake- |
frame under the body of car, on the New
Jersey Railroad. 1t was perilous act.
GEisi, Mario and other Italian artists, while
singing in Dublin, were grossly insulted in
public because they had contributed to the |
Garibaldi fund.
The first railway in South Africa, Extend
ing two miles from the landing to the center
Of the town of Durham, on the southeast
coast was opened on the 26th of June.
A woman writes to the London Post that
common saltpeteF, dissolved in the mouth,
is remedy for bronchitis, and that half
pennys worth is sufficient to cure any one.
Geo. F. Bristow, of Philadelphia, has COM
posed new oratorio, entitled "Praise TO
God" which is in rehearsal and will be pro-
dueed within few weeks.
A Yankee proposes to navigate icebergs !
from the poles for the refFeshment of New
Orleans. We should style that cool calcu-
latiol.
Gen. Walkers friends declare there is no
confidence to be placed in the account pub
llshed Of his dying speech, or in any de-
sserlption Spaniards may give of his exeeu-
A new mineral has been discovered in the
heoHee District in South Carolina. Prof
lie Conte describes Il as an alum; not the
ordinary alum Of commerce, which is a
potash, but a soda alum. - III
The London FSsldsays. eThe average stride
OF q horse, when quite extended. is about
tWenty-four feet. We have never measured
any above twenty-five, but have heard Of
twenty-siK and twenty-seven feet.