Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-09
VARIETIES.


The ocean, which is forever sounding, some
times gets sounded.
A refuge or home for lost or starved dogs |
is now being built in London.
The deaths in New York, last week, num-
bered 396-six less than the previous week.
Five children in one family in Galveston, |
Texas, recently died in two days of scarlet |
fever. ..
Wonderful--A teacher of penmanship in
twelve lessons, taught lawyer to read his
own writing.
General Clark, who died in San Francisco
on the 18th ult., had been in the army forty
eight years. r -r
The deaths in Baltimore, Nd, last week
numbered seventy-fve, three less than the
previous week.
Thirty-six tuns of tacks were recentlysent
from Taunton, Mass, to the different pur-
chasing localities. ...
A Catholic Church of the Gothic style is
now being erected on the handsomest plateau
in Carson City, Utah.
Wallace's opera of Lirline is drawing
largely in London, and will, it is supposed.
run till Christmas.
Diptheria is increasing all over the coun-
try. Nearly all our exchanges give accounts
of deaths from this disease. tr
Peter Boyle fell from the roof of his house,
near Quebec, Canada, one night last week,
while sleep-walking, and was killed.
A pear weighing pound and half was
one of nine grown on q bush five feet high,
by Joseph Hall, of Rochester N. Y.
It is said that brother of Carl Formes
has been missing for eight years, and that
he has at last turned up in Garibaldi's army.
Dickens, it is stated, has received S. 600
from the Harpers for his story of Hunted
Doaon.
Refrain from bitter words; there is only
| the difference of letter between words and
| swords.
The celebrated equestrienns, who learned
| to ride upon a horse-radish, is now practic-
| ing on saddle of mutton.
Rev. David Clattery, Roman Catholic
Priest, died at Sacramento, CAL, on the 8th
ultimo.
The smallpox is making sad ravages at
| Puerto Principe, Cuba. Entire families have
been swept away by this loathsome disease.
Moses Hull, living near Tilton, in Fleming
| County KY, committed suicide on Sunday
by cutting his throat from ear to ear.
Mrs. Partington asks, very Indignantly,
''If the bills before Congress are not coun-
terfeit why should there be such difficulty
in passing them?'
| J.B. Carson, of Alexandria County, Va,
was kicked by horse, and after suffering a
thousand deaths during three days, died on
Tuesday. @
When boy gets an idea that he is smarter
| than his father, it would be well for the pa
| Do, Y11aa hU yUh q vVNnlH
be shaken in his belief.
It is said that Postmaster Fowler, of New
York, is in Cuba, and is drinking to such
excess as to have almost produced dsIiriam
trenlens. .'i.@",,..
A son of the present General Lamoriciere
is buried close to Lafayette. The General
is himself grandson Of Lafayette by mar
riage..1 .3t lin a3I ~. sEA ~
Henry P. Hogan, having lost all his money
in Sacramento (Cal) gambling -house,
hung himself few hoHrs after, To- his bed
post.
Frezzolini has been engaged to join that
part of the Cortesi Opera Troupe which ap-
pears in New Orleans, under the direction
Of Ronzani.
The population of Baltimore, Nd, is now
| stated by the actual census returns to be
2l3,037, an increase during the last ten years
of 1888.
Meyerbeer is preparing melo-dramatic
version of Henry Blaze de Bury's hve-act
play, La JetneSSe dc Goethe, for q speedy
performance in Paris.
! t. Adolphus Trollope, one Of the most inde-
fatigable and successful literateurs in Lon
don at present, has written book on Italy
called FRppo StrOzzi.
New testimony in the Burch divorce case
has been taken in st. Louis on the part OF
the defendant, Mrs. Burch. Sundry women
of ill-repute are the witnesses.
Famine is apprehended in Newfoundland
in several Of the outlying districts, in conse-
quenee of the almost total failure of the
: fishery and the potato crop. .-., .-.-.....-
The New York correspondent of the Bos-
ton Post says the author of Ratledge is Miss
Harriet Lane, the niece of President Bu'
chanan, which, Of course, is not true.
The Savannah Republican says that the
agent of the State Bank at Apalachicola is 1
defaulter for $l03,0O0, but the loss to th'
bank will not probably exceed $4,000.
Jas. Sheridan Knowles, like Lord Brough
am, win have the rare satisfaction OF reading
his own obituary, most OF the leading Amer |,
ican papers having dome him up" in higl
eulogy ett ,1saIa 1aa ts ,'''
The success Of MacFarren's new opera,o
; Robin Hood, in London, continues TO be 70
markable: n The work is pronounced by tn
critics an important contribution to Englisi
mnsie.s v N9a q .rdOTlIt0r HATe
: Fiftymeehanics, who Joined in the recen
strike at Newton Upper Falls, Mass, hay
left that place for Jew Y YoTlN and the South
failing to come to an understanding wit
their former employers. -
/. A speaker at a stump meeting declafe,
that he knew no East no West, no North
: lsno, South fsTheu,l lTskid n bysthnder, iy0
!, ought 70 GO 70 sch5d and learn your gseg
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