Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-25
VARIETIES.

yancouve1's Island is said to be the Ma
deira of the Pacific.
Lord Congleton is now Baptist clergy
man.
There are said to be 100 men ia Liverpool,
England, who are each worth $5,0OO0OO.
Avonia Jones has made good impression
at Melbourne, Australia; the papers speaking
in high terms of her "Rosalind."
Cato observed, he would much rather that
posterity should inquire why no statues were
erected to him, than why they were.
The Great Eastern is still on the "Grid-
iron" (marine railway at Milford Haven,
where she is receiving a new deck.
The Clydesdale horses are famous for their
strength, frequently drawing four tuns and
half at one load.
The London Omnibus Company calculate
that the peculations Of their drivers are at
least $4,000 per annum.
Potatoes from Santa Martha are now sue
cessfully propagated in France, through the
efforts of the Society Of Acclimatization.
Benzine, applied by a rag, is q complete
destroyer of vermin on cattle, and "indis-
poses them to return"
One Of the last uses discovered for iron is
that of making it into collars and wristbands,
'as articles of clothing
Harry Perry, the actor, recently married a
Miss Agnes Rand, in San Francisco, and has
concluded to make California his home.
There have been for many years, up to
this time, 800 monasteries in the Neapoiitan
provinces. .a
Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, is
suffering from the gout, and quite ill from
recent nervous excitements.
George Underland committed suicide near
Jetfersonville, Ind, day or two ago, on
account of mental distress from poverty.
Mulligap, the New York bruiser, who was
sent to prison, has been granted new trial,
and released on $4,000 bail. ...'
Sam. Pike, the veteran editor, has per-
fected his arrangements for his twenty-ninth
paper, at Portsmouth, in this State.
A book has recently been published in
Berlin, designed to show that no such meu
Hannibal, Alexander the Great OF julius
Caesar, ever existed.
Handsome velvet pile carpets are now sold
in England at seventy five cents per yard
them in New York.
Gambling is said to be carried on to an
extraordinary extent, just now, in Athens,
Greece, where there are no less than 5000
gaming houses.
Two men, George Rowe and Jacob Ellet,
quarIeled in bowling saloon at Piridevale,
Va, the other day, when the former struck
the latter with ball and caused his death.
A deliriously drunken planter, Charles
Argum, in Sumter County, Fla, some two
weeks ago, shot FIVE of his negroes dead
while they were at work in the field.
A diver of Kingston, Ja., recently re-
covered thousand dollars worth OF ivory
from ship sunk in the hartor of that city
100 years ago.
F. II. Goodrich was stabbed ten times by
James Ofutt, in Georgetown, KY, on Thurs
day. Both are students in the college at
that place.
In the parish of Assumption La, last
week, DR.. Williamson, a planter of large
fortune, was waylaid and murdered by his
two nephews.
In Falls County, Texas, Peter Royne was
recently fined $50 for killing an old man
under the most outrageous circumstances.
Texas is the home of justice.
@. Granger, who died in bonneville, N. Y,
last week, was captain of tine boat that con-
veyed Gov. Clinton and suite over the Erie
Canal at the time of its opening.
Charles Hayne died in New York City the
other evening, while dressing for a ball. 1t
must have been judgment of God for his
wicked intentions.
Landor, the author, having dropped his
spectacles, which were picked up by young
American lady, he exclaimed, "Ah, this is
not the first time you have caught my eyesl"'
The Emperor of Austria has just conferred
the great gold medal for Science and Art
upon Mr. Pauer, gentleman well known
and highly esteemed in the musical world.
On the l4th of February the refugees,
Kossuth, Klapka, Perczel Turr and Michael
Horvath, were elected by the inhabitants of
Keeskemet, Hungary, to represent the town.
Mr.. Lever and his friend, Mr.. Roebuck, are
to be paid seven per cent. on an investment
of f700, 1000, on ten steamers to be furnished
to the Austrian Government.
1t is stated that both carbon and iron have
recently been found not to be elementary
substances, the former being convertible into
silicon, the latter into rhodium.
A bride has been invented in France, with
which runaway horses nostrils are sud-
denly closed, an effectual method, it is said,
to stop the animal. -....
An ingenious English inventor proposes to
remedy the want OF bust in ladies of "a given
thinness," by jacket, to be inflated by the
wearer to the proper shape. -..
The large increase of the number of luna
tics in England is attributed by eminent
psychologists of that country to the deleteri
Gus substances mixed with food. @
A German chemist asserts that he ha;
found out how to manufacture pure silver by
artificial means, at q cost OF seventy hive
cents an ounce.
The London Times has hired three o.
Wheatstones electric magnetic wires in Lon
don. The rent paid is $50 per mile per an
mum. .i' -
The perturbations of Mercury, long a puz
zle to astronomers, is attributed by M. Llali
TO continuous showers of aerolites, which
affect its mass and its momentum.
The cold weather of the last two seasons
il is now ascertained, has been felt all owe
the world. Hot fires were needed in Aus
tralia in November last.
NJ. Meyerbeer has been composing Incl
dental songs for new play by Madam,
Birch Pfeifer, Der Goldbager, which ha
just been produced in the Prussian capital
The first prize 40 OOOfrauCs) in the lOtter,
of 10, 600 600, for building square IN non
ofthe Cathedral of Milan, has been gained b.
The municipality of Milan himself. 1-
Parson Brownlow says of JEFF. Davis; -
vile traitor, trained rebel, and an initiate
bipot. he as richly deserves to be hanged a
ever Old John Brown did"
A Texas paper gives list Of seyentee
postofices which have been discontinued
The contractors having stopped mainly o
account of the Indian raids. ......
At New Oak Ridge, Ark, some days sine
Colonel Benjamin Raille, discovering b
wite's extreme intimacy with one Of a
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