Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-02
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The Encyclopedia Brittanica is now com.
plete. .. .s... Hsfs-.r.. 900
Curiosity is often little else than another
name for hope. 3D. ...- ..-.- ...... ..
No State tax is to be levied in Illinois for
the next two years.
Vieuxtemps is very successful in England
at the popular concerts. - -tiisT
Count Montaelmberts Monks of the We,t,
is Issued in an English form. s
Spontini's Nourmahal, is to be revived at
the Berlin opera. f....,.e .,..
Portions of Cherubini's famous Requiem
were performed at the funeral of Scribe.
Cuthbert Weeks committed suicide near
Warrenton, Mo-, few days ago.
They had regular old-fashioned snow
storm in St. Joseph, Mo-, on Tuesday.
They who can't be borne as men should
never have been born as babies.
VIM. Kidd is giving lectures in London for
the benefit of homeless and starving dogs.
La Refine de Saba, is the title of q new
opera of Gounod's, recently accepted at
Paris. r7 -.
Walter Thornbury, author ofseveral clever
books of travel, has written a book called
Turkish Life and Character.
Felicen David has just completed new
opera in two acts, which is to be produced
at the Opera Comique. ....
Allison, the historian, is writing the lives
of Lord Castlereagh and of Sir Charles Stew
art. f1
Letters from Florence, by Thomas Troll
loppe, is written by another of the family of
the woman who maligned America.
Vellutt an old opera singer, aged eighty
years, died the other day. VellutG was
famous once, but was forgotten long ago.
The two hundredth work of Henri Herr,
has just been published; it is brilliant
scnati di bravura. 4st
The music of Mozart's unfinished work,
u Oca del Cairo, is about to be performed for
the first time at Magdeburg. .H
The music of Mendelssohn's opera, written
when he was boy, was recently performed
as concert music, at Frankfort. f.
An International Exhibition is proposed
to be held at London in 1862; $3.50, 600 were
subscribed to it in ten days. ..r .... .
Holman Hunts famous picture of =" The
Finding of the Savior in the Temple" is
again on exhibition in London.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger COM
pleted its twenty fifth year of existence on
Monday. ~. ...
The British Navy has total of 6ss fight
ing ships; of these 1872 are screw, and lib
are paddle steamers. ....
The President has conferred West Point
Cadets appointment upon Henry Yeager,
of Louisiana.
There were nearly forty vessels in Ourri-
tuck Sound, N. 9, few days ago, detained
by adverse weather.
Madame George Sand lately reached
Toulon, France, to seek in the mild climate
of Provence the restoration of her health.
Der BeoJachter is the name of new Ger
man paper just started in Nashville, Tenn,
by Messrs. Lange.
"Do you think that clans are healthy 2"
eyes; never knew one to complain of being
out OF health in my life"
The present excitement at Florence, Italy,
is ballet founded on Uncle Toms Cabin,
under the title of Blanche z Negri.
Both Houses of the Legislature of Michi-
gan have, by large majorities, restored the
ale, beer and cider clause to the prohibitory
liquor law. t.. .- '..w f.' H-
A Palmetto flag was raised in the Twenty
third Ward Philadelphia, few days since
but no sooner was it discovered than it was
torn down and trampled 1nder foot.
On Tuesday, while two men were drilling
an oil well near Sarnia, @. W., the gas ex-
ploded, killing one named Hiram Cook, and
dangerously iDjuriDg the other.
~ EGb ,,oI,,,oo of
tory, Just published in London, the publish
eIs received from the trade orders in advance
for 5000 copies. IN ...a q on
A hand cuffed man went into a black
smiths shop at atSpringield, Mass, recently,
in the absence OF his employer, and forced q
lad to liberate him. .
An enthusiastic young Frenchman recently
had an audience to offer his sword TO the
Pope, who told him it was useless to attempt
TO defend cause already lost.
In Denver, X. T., last week, man named
Widgenstein shot at another man, named
Evans, but missed his aim, and killed a
slave boy, belonging in Weston, Mo.
They are digging for oil in the Thirteenth
Ward of Buffalo, N. Y. None of the "pro-
duct has yet heen discovered, but in its
stead a plentiful volume of gas. -.. q,
Though Harriet Martineau is i'll Of disease
of the heart, which, she is aware, may ter
inmate fatally any hour, she still continues
her active Intellectual pursuits. r-a
Benedict, who was the conductor of Jenny
Lind's concerts in this country, wrote a
eGntGta called URdiRe, which is TO be shortly
performed at Liverpool. .1a
An effort Is being madeto establish on a
strong foundation an institution Of learning
at Mapleton, South Kansas. We know OF
no section that needs 1t more. jug n
There are large quantities of bogus coin in
circulation in Philadelpha. The mint is
supposed to be somewhere in the interIer Of
New York State. ..-,-,,l --.-. --,...
1Roydlty in The NeV World, OF, the Prince
Of Wales IN America, written by the corre-
spoDdent OF the New York Herald is puo.
lished abroad.
Du Chaillu, the scientific FrenobmRn who
brought The stuffed gorilla, 70 America, an
nonDces work, emitted Explorations and
Adventures in Rvts Of Equatorial Africa
NtVer Before Visited. sf,.g =.
Leotard, the celebrated French gymnast
las been engaged by MI, Knowles, Of tho
| Tbeater Royal, Manchester. He ID now "a
| Russia receiving for his perfogmances 500