Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-18
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Infanticide is on the increase in London.
There are regular crab stands in Pekin.
Furious storms have been raging In the
Black Sea.
@Ndc lillans Magazine has reached eircu-
lstion of $4,000. .r..tI.
Chocolate is becoming very fashionable at
the Paris soiTees.
DR.. Laville, of Paris, announces new and
positive cure for the gout. '
The author of Adam Bede has written a
new story, which will be published next
month. 't tfF u
A new twenty-horse power steam vessel
is building for DR.. Livingstone, the African
traveller. ra
Cotton cloths may now be imported into
France free OF duty, provided they are re-
exported after having been printed.
There has not been trace of the Carnival
in Venice. Lent has been more in harmony
with its unlucky inhabitants.
A general famine threatens the northwest
provinces of India, and the new crops are an
entire failure.
A celebrated German actress, named Gross
man, is about to quit the stage to marry a
baron of high degree, Prokesch- 0stea.
The water of Loeb Katrine, now supplied to
Glasgow for drinking purposes, is said to be
the finest in the world.
Mr.. " oodin, London actor, in the course
of two hours performance, successfully
represents 100 different characters.
Fare Champagne, wine rarely if ever
seen in this country, is now the favorite at
the courts of Spain and Prussia. am
Horsefesh is regularly quoted in the mar
ket prices current of several towns in Ger
many, not on the hoof, but cut up for food.
Last year the postoffice at Richmond, Va,
paid $2,67l, and that at Norfolk 1920, over
expenses. .....rr.
1t is said that Rev. l. S. Kalloch has ac-
cepted call from the Light-street Baptist
Church, in Baltimore. Very doubtful
Arrangements are making at Alexandria,
Va, for the opening of the fishing season on
the Potomac.
The first patent submitted to the Southern
CoDfederacy was by Mr.. Thornton, of Macon,
for light carriage, SO constructed as to be
changed from one TO six seats at pleasure.
1t is reported that Mr.. Gye, director of
Court entertainments, has succeeded in OBJ.
tanning the valuable services of Jenny Lind
for this season.
A Queen AIMS farthing, with the broad
brim and in good preservation, is worth $40,
but most of the stories about this coin are
fabulous.
Mp. Willis, it is said, gets 800 for every
fragment of a poem he chooses to write for
the New York Ledger. They are very poor
specimens of his power.
The steel plated ship La Gloire has been
tried off Toulon in a short cruise, aud was
found to be an eminent success in all required
particulars.
Tie Prince of Wales's revenue from the
Duchy of Cornwall will for the last year be
about 1925 900; an increase from the previous
one of over $4,000.
The Judges in the House of Lords have
decided that a clergyman has no power to
solemnize his own marriage, and that the
children of such union are illegitimate.
Augustus Craven proposes to use the wa
sands of acres of hitherto pro6tless land near
Naples. .f~
Mocquard, private secretary TO the French
Emperor, is said to be implicated in the
affairs of Mires, the insolyent banker of
Paris, and has resigned his post.
The Emperor of Austria has given to the
Vienna Protestants place to worship in,
Coneordat or no Ooncordat. The building
has been for years past, a magazine.
A patent, for the use of sugar in making
ale, has been taken out in England, for which
an enormous sum has been offered by AL
sopp's house.
Two electric lamps are now placed in the
Place du Carrousel, kept brilliantly lighted
by an electromagnetic machine, which is
itself worked by portable steam engine of
two-horse power.
A scientific expedition into Lydia has been
projected by the Duke of Gotha, to be under
the direction of Theodore Henglen. One of
its objects is a search for the missing trav-
eler Vogel. -'-.
Sir Roderick Murohison, at a late meeting
of the Pathological Society, said there were
now living in the forests Of Poland animals
which have hitherto been supposed to be
extinct. az
Scientific men are sometimes intent on
trifles.. DR.. John Dayy has satisfied himself
that the eggs of birds are galvanie batteries.
This is probably the reason that, when stale,
they are so shocking. 4.
The last Australia mail from England com,
prisea !, 100 boxes, two feet each by one wide,
and eighty one deep, and required nineteen
omnibuses and one cab to carry them TO the
railway-terminus. hea- ~ 20
\ An English Naval Chaplain of the name
Of Olivia attempted recently to have his
father declared lunatic. He was turned
out Of Court pretty roughly, witf bill Of
costs to pay of$2OOO. -
IA STRANGE LAW SUIT IN EEeLAND.-In the
Liverpool Court OF Common Pleas,. lately
Mrs. FenDell, who is known in the profess
sion as Madame Dotti, brought an action
against the executors OF Mr.. Woodburn, the
we'll known picture dealer. The lady was
the wife Of the Rev. Mr.. Fennell, but lives
apart from him by agreement, and educates
her ehildfen-twO daughters.A Mr. Wood
burn heard her sing, and requested her TO
repeat the song, adding that he would stand
Champagne and music. He subsequently
had her singing at his private parties; aud
on the whole her demand was fl6S. Fifty
pounds had been paid aud the Jury gave \
verdict for fs4. Mr.. Beale was examined
in the case, and he said that the pay Of vo-
ealists al private parties was never under
ten guineas nighh and sometimes WAS as
high as twenty guineas.