Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-12-01
No. nfthn I'M.

RST The Wisconsin State Journal pub
fishes a supplement Of fourteen large news
paper pages of fine type, being Il list Of the
lands forfeited in that State for the non-pay-
ment of taxes.
BI~ A church bell made of glass, fourteen
inches high, and thirteen inches in diameter,
has been recently placed in the turret Of the
chapel at Grange, BorrOwdale, Cumberland,
England.
NJ Queen Victoria is about to create a
new order Of Knighthood, that of Knight Of
the Indies, for natives Of the Indian EN-.
pire.
~ The Cosmopolitan Art Association
has selected Washington Irving and his
friends" as the subject Of its next annual
engraving.
bSy- One ofthe acts passed by the Hawa-
lian Legislature of 1860, is entitled " An act
to prevent married persons from DESERVING
one another"
BSr A dispatch from WatertoWn, says the
snow is from twelve to eighteen inches deep
in that vicinity and is much drilled.
az DR.. Livingston, the African traveller,
has been heard Of. He was safe and well up
to last May, and reported that the natives of
Africa evince less hostility to travellers than
formerly.
ny A curious relic has been discovered at
Moorcourt near Romsey England, an estate
belonging to Lord PalmersOn, Of a lady's
neck-ornament of pure gold, and supposed
to be of the time Of the ancient Britons.
RSP What a climate that of Minnesota
They say that a mar who had coughed mp
bits ofhis lung, of the size Of a walnut was,
after a seven or eight months residence in
that country, perfectly sound looking, well
set man, with no cough ct all.
s R-The~ consumption of tobacco in France in
creases in an immense proportion. In 1915
it was only $4,000, 600, and in 1853 it was
$4,000, 600 lbs, having in that time more
than tripled. .,
u aRF The schooner Fleetwood arrived lately
from Para, bringing a family Of fourteen
aEacondas, some of which are longer than
any heretofore imported to this country. Mr..
Barnum has secured them.
a A little daughter of Mr.. Robert Mad
dock, living near Mt. Carmel, Ia, was sent
into the cellar to draw some cider, and while
in the act the faucet came out which so
frightened her that she ran to an upper room,
and fell and expired almost Immediately.
BSg Strawberries and dandelions have
been gatheredin several places round Quebec.
Those who pay attention to the subject says
the Mercury, are confirmed in the belief th1t
the steady and progressive clearance of the
wilderness is actually leading to the mOdera-
ton of our climate.
rs Mr.. Francis johnson, of Madison
county, Georgia, recently killed a COW for
beef and found, sticking through her upper
stomach, sndfrmly fixed in the gristly part
Of the brisket a large h~orn-handle dining
fork. 1t had evidently been swallowed some
months before, and, what is remarkable, she
is reported to have been very fat and thrifty
up TO the time she was killed.
no. The Cascade bridge Ofthe Erie rail road,
one of the wonders of American engineering,
isabout going the wa of all wooden bridges.
It crossed a chasm 1876 feet deep in one clear
span of275 feet, and its destruction by fire
would have proved a serious thing. This
chasm is now filed up with an -embaukment
of broken stone, through which the water
percolates freely, and a permanent substitute
for the bridge is found.