Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-14
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| In the tongue of the right whale there
are from 300 to 800 gallons of oil
The decline in the value of the shoe trade
| of New England in 1860, as compared with
1859, was $2,922, ,48O.
The deaths in Brooklyn, N. Y. last week,
numbered l3S, 107 of which were natives Of
the United States. erFrry fs.-..
kissing is said to be a lost art in Japan.
How do the sentimental women live in that
country? ...I. .g..I
a The water in the Congaree, River near
Columbia, s. g., is higher than it has been
since 1852. ''
The snow is so deep near Dedham, Me-,
that deer are easily approached, and large
numbers have been killed. LIS T..
b. Herr Driesbach, the famous lion-t tanner,
is now at BaTnum's Museum, New York,
with large ard welLselected menagerie.
It is not the intention of President Bu-
chanan, 1t is said, TO leave Washington until
about the middle of March, or,
Fanny Kemble has retired from public
life with an ample fortune, tho proceeds Of
her professional exertions.
James, another son of John Mitchell, the
Irish, exile a member of the Montgomery
Guard, at Richmond, Va. ID II,lC}
The copper coins at present in circulation
in England equal in weight 6,000 tuns, and
in number 500,O00,000. II 7si T+a'SS
Chas. Lindermon blew-his brains out at
San Francisco, recently, because he failed to
obtain employment -es agansmith. fIrH
+ AS dreams are the fancies of those that
sleep--so faneies are but the dreams of those
awake, 6 ~ 90 .A2iH s5HA
One J. NJ. Baird was recently cheated
out of $4,000 in a gambling house in New.
Orleans, while looking at the lions Of the
Crescent City.
i Heenan, the Benecia Boy, has gone into
the rum. selling business in New Orleans, and
hopes to make his fortune by that poetic
avocation.
Last Thursday Adelina Patti sang with
much SUCCESS, though for the first time, the
role of ',Gilda'' in the Rigotetto, at the New
Orleans Opera-bouse.i ,iI HI y itl
The Hannibal (Mo.) Messenger complains
that the North Missonrf Railroad Company
have doubled their freight rates and sus-
pended the press. il Hl34 ElEW
Commodore Vanderbilt recently made
$lOO, 600 by speeulations in Erie Railway
81 Stock, and at once presented SIS, 400 to each
I of his daughters, e.. ~, o.. r.
~ A man in Dunleith, Iowa, named Angus
ltus Austin, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head on the 9th inst,
on account of pecuniary losses rs,
.E A negress of Powhatan County, Va, it is
said, gave birth to five children within
thirty-seyen minutes, one night last week
Doubtful t'...'' .l'H '''-. '''
M, Az. 90 .ho IrarsJ,. 81 I T,aoonia N
H., has been presented with a potato of the
-"forked kind which measures t'Oo feet ana
ten inches in circumference. -.-g
Helen E Hartman, a native OF oorintn,l
VT, committed suicide, in Orange, in that
State a day or two ago, by cutting her throat
Z with a razor. Poor girl
An old fellow being assured that he
could not be good christian unless he took
Z up his daily cross, caught up his wife and
began Juggling her aboutthe room.
A severe winter prevails at Des Moines
Iowa. Last week there were forty inches
of snow on the ground, and the mercury
was $40 below Zero
The following verse is inscribed upon the
monument erected in honor OF Columbus, al
Genoa;
:: "Unus Mundus est duo stint, aft iste. FusreI"
The Boston Express states, on the au
thority of q letter from Mr.. Forrest tha
, New York is the only city in which he viii
play during the present season.
William Gilmore simms, the South Caro-
lima novelist is writing series Of very poo
songs for the South. His verses are almos
as bad as the cause he advocates.
Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins hav
3 taken steps to prevent the dramatization o
. their works without their consent, as vic
: lation of the copyright laws.
!; Jos. L. White, of New York, engaged il
Z the India-rubber trade at Guatemala, wa
Q recently murdered by Jonathan Gavett,
|. rival in business.
Il II is said that considerable amount c
!. salted fish and vegetables have been sen
forward from Boston 10 Charleston, and tw
: vessels are now loading with ice for the sam
|. destination. "'r' -.'~
n The "smartestp young butcher in No
Il York is named Gorman. He can kill an
Al dress q sheep in four minutes and twenty
q four seconds, and did, the other day, for
?, wager. eaH.5.s.
" Goldoni, the Italian comedy-writer, sal
that nothing so wearies man as q COZ
stantly- -afiectionate woman that he woul
= Iather live with the worst Of shrews tha
ls such creature.
n A Pittsburg (Penn.) paper mentions tn
=, a well-knoWn physician of that city has le
h his wife and children and eloped TO EuroI
: with the fascinating widow Of q deceas'
= banker. tsa
Y OF 10000 persons insured in the LondC
y. (Eng) Accidental Death Insurance Cor
40 paly, twenty-five were fatally injured
falls on street slides in the course OF sing