Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-04

RTE TIE 3.

Showers of frogs have taken place in Liege,
Belgium, and lately one of ants.
The census just taken in Albany shows its
population to be 66,s5O.
Spell blind pig with two letters? Take out
the I and it leaves g.
Why is q cook like barber? Because he
dresses hare.
Why is waiter like race-herse? He
often runs for plate or cup.
Why is a madman like two men2 He's
one beside himself.
What is man like in the midst of river
and can't swim? Like to be drowned.
The Roman Catholic cathedral in Boston
is being taken down.
Toll and trial are grim schoolmasters but
flush of hope can make them beautiful
even as a sunbeam the rude mountain frost.
Why is the devil riding on mouse like
one and the same thing2 Because he's sim
on-a-mouse e(synonymous).
What word expresses the following ques-
ton; "Are you reserved MANI" Rushy (are
you shy2) (R. U. shy).
Why is a lady curling her hair like a
house-breaker? Because she's turning the
locks.
Forty thousand head of cattle, worth ST.
100000, have been sent East from Iowa, in
the past year. -.-....r ,.r g
Grain to the amount of 949,251 bushels,
and 350,036 feet of lumber were landed in
Philadelphia on Wednesday.
A new route has been completed around
fba ,soff u, ad Riuari f1,rati rh canal forfx
feet wide, 10 feet deep and 2TO yards long.
Our Western grain-crop is so large it Is
thought the railroads will be busy ali winter
taking it east. r~ I..ti
President Geffrard, of Hayti, is one quarter
white; his wife is so white that her African
blood would not be suspected.
The remains of a Roman theater or temple
have been recently excavated at Pierrefonds,
near Compiegne.
Various English firms in the leather trade
have failed, with liabilities exceeding $l5,-
100000.
The real and personal property of Phila-
delphia amounted to $500, 1000, ,O0O-the as
sessed value half as much.
! In street fight at Corinth, Miss, last
week, Henry Shelton stabbed James Lambelt
TO the heart, and He'd.
Peach trees will not winter-kill if one-half
the years growth be shortened back in Sep
tember or October.
The average wealth of every inhabitant,
male and female, man, woman and child, in
Lynchburg, Va, is over $1,000. r'1 z
The reception of the Prince of Wales will
cost the Provincial Government of the Gam
odo L ln,,n ,11,, nR a, -
amount spent by the different towns.l
There have been twenty-eight accidents
on the English railways, in the first half of
the present year, in which thirteen persons
were killed and lab wounded.
Boston is losing its old supremacy in the
China and East India trade. Not a single
cargo has arrived there from China, this
year.
Miss Elizabeth Blair, of Mansfield, in this
State, has made resident of that place pay
$4,000 for saying she was no better than she
ought to be. What woman is?
A folding machine that will fold and pack
$500 printed sheets per hour, casting off bad
sheets at the same time, is in operation at
Washington, D. O.
About l5e, 900 sheep have been driven out
of Vermont, and sold at good prices-choice
varieties from as high as 81 to $l2 per head
since July last. "
"Niphon," the name given by the Japan
ese TO their country, means "the rising of
the SUM- They know nothing of the word
'Japan," and do not use it.
A beautiful and accomplished girl in Troy,
n. Y, victim of improper relations with a
gentleman of wealth, attempted to commit
suicide, a few nights since.
1 In the town of Swedesborough, Nj, 8
protraeted meeting has been going on, at
which over 400 persons have made pro-
fession of faith.
The brig Ocean, of Tonawanda, N. Y, was
capsized on Lake Erie last week, and. the
crew drifted for thirty-six hours on raft,
before they were picked up.
The Historical Society of Virginia have
appointed William N. Mcdonald, of Freder-
ick county, to write the history of the late
"Brown Invasion"
The small Italian principality of Monaco
has been finally placed under the protection
of France, but for diplomatic reasons the
treaty will not be published at present.
A new woollen factory is nearly completed
in San Francisco, being the second estab-
lishment Of the kind erected within about
fifteen months.
James Carr, of West Waterbury, Mass,
has an apple measuring fifteen and half in
ches in circumference, and weighing one
pound and four ounces. 81
Rev. L. Morse, a Methodist minister in
Arlstooke, has proved a wolf in sleeps
clothing, by leading married woman of
his hock nom her duty, and taking to fight.
A man ap town is so stingy that he hires
his children, for some pennies, to 90 TO bed
without their supper, and then steals the
pennies from their pockets while they are
sleeping. Fis. - =. -
Prof Agassis and COL Fremont have been
elected foreign members of the PrussIan Or
der pour le merits, instituted in honor of
those who have rendered great services to
science and art, 7f..4 fsFEIl