Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-01
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The toilette, says Balzac, is the expression
of society.
To surpass the fashion, says Balzac, is to
become caricature.
The toilette is at once a science an art, a
habit and sentiment.
A large quantity of sorghum is being
grown in North Carolina this season.
Leopold de Meyer, the pianist, recently
performed at concert in Bath England.
The venerable Amos Kendall was in New
York the other day, looking hale and healthy.
The deer are very plenty in Aroostook
County, Maine, and are often run down by
wolves.
The Gas Company at Cleveland. in this
State, has reduced the price of gas per l, 900
cubic feet to So 80. -
Every thing which aims at effect is in
bad taste, as also is every thing which is
noisy and loud.
The brute covers himself the rich man or
the fool arrays himself; the elegant mar
dresses himself.
One of the Philadelphia Republican Clubs
pays $3.50 weekly for music, and has done so
for three months past.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Seule, the first pro-
tessional stenographer in this country, died
recently at Rochester, Penn.
The remains of the victims of the Lady
Elgin disaster continue TO be picked up al
most daily on Lake Michigan.
A London correspondent of the New Or
leans IicdyuRe signs himself "Killmutch-
whiski." Very appropriate.
EropL G Nhond1o, of Na.,,.- 1r..
picked the present season forty bushels OF
Baldwin apples from single tree.
The Polyglot Female Institute at Natchez,
Mississippi, was destroyed by fire, recently.
The loss is estimated at $25, 900.
John Vine Hall, a writer of religious books,
died on the 22d ultimo, at WoTcester, En-.
gland, aged eighty-seven years.
Through the compromise with the heirs,
Yale College has received 500, 900, and Wa
bash $4,000, from the Ellsworth estate.
A proposition to introduce German into
the public schools of st. Louis has been de-
feated, in the Board of Education, by vote
of nine to eleven.
Mr.. Berry, the principal Chicago under
taker for the victims of the Lady Elqin dis
aster, has since died himself, from over
work. ... .....s.-.. -.
The powder used at Old Point, Virginia,
in firing the great Floyd gun is in Jumps as
large as hickory nuts, and almost as hard as
granite.
The great composers and musicians, Wag-
ner, Meyerbeer, Litolf, Herr and VIM. Vim
cent Wallace, met few weeks ago at Wis
baden, in Germany.
John NJ. Bolts spoke four hours and
thirty-five minutes to large audience in
Petersburg, Virginia, Monday night. Ter
Tible tortured
VIM. Merriam, of the Troy IN. " BUDGET
has commenced a suit for SANDER against
VIM. Hagadorn, of that city, laying his
damages at $4,000.
Francis H., ex-King of Naples, commanded
in person at the battle of Volturno. He was
continually seen under fire, exhibiting great
and unexpected bravery.
The contest is so close between Douglas
and Breckenridge in California, that betting
men continue to make even bets, without
hesitation in large sums. .-..
Among the audience who listened to the
papers read at the meeting of the Geograph-
ical and Statistical Society, ON Thursday
evening, was Lady Franklin.
The Louisville (Ky.) Journal says "Since
from that vain egotlst, VIM. L. Yancey, he is
nothing but the naked l."
Joe Smith, ,jr., now "Head of the Mormon
Church, has summoned the faithful to return
to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Ill.,, where
their ancient temple is located.
The Washington ID. c. Star owes the
Democratic Jackson Association a grudge
for expelling him. so it entities it, by way of
abbreviation, the Dem. Jack. Ass. s.
Hon. George w. Lay died at Batavia, N.
Y, on Sunday. The deceased was a mem
Der Of Congress from 1888 to 1887, and sub
sequently Charge fAfdires at Stockholm.
Abd-el-Kader has written a letter to the
Archbishop of Paris, who is his personal
friend, expressing his obligations to the EN-
peror for the confidence reposed in him.
Punch says; "The Prince of Wales promises
to be as great a traveller as he is an accom-
plished dancer. His next intention is to go
through all the steeples of Russia"
OF the two ladies who opened the respec-
tive balls of New York and Boston with the
Prince Of Wales, Mrs. Gov. Morgan was, in
early life, milliner, and Mrs. GOV. Banks a
factory girl. p
Julius Andre, of Offenbach, has published
the piano score of a work called d Ood del
Cairo. The Goose of CdirOl which he
claims is by Mozart, and has recently been
discovered.
Mother Stanislaus Matthews, Superior Of
the Wheeling (Va.) Hospital and Orphan
Asylum, died recently at the residence of
Mrs. Col. benjamin r. Floyd, Wytheville,
Virginia. --iIHrfI. ae 'r-f't y
The beautiful red and purple silks, which
are now SO fashionable throughout the
which is extracted from coal-tar, called
mauve dye. ( '3nilF w ffA
The French Government has interdicted
SUBSCRIPTION ior sword 70 be presented TO
General de Lam0riciere, the idea Of which
was started by some of his Legitimist friends