Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-11
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Five yards square of the finest Decca mus
lin weigh but one ounce. -r -..- ..
Rolling mills may be driven by leather
betting, instead Of spur-wheels.
A granite rock is but an unsubstantial
thing in comparison with solid thought.
The transit duties on goods passing through
Hanover have been abolished.
A magazine is to be published at Oxford,
England, called Great Tom.
Essays and Reviews have reached an edi-
ticn of 5000.
The smallpox is committing fearful raw
ages in Philadelphia, and is on the increase.
When woman is openly bad, then she is
the most harmless. II %
A woman either loves or hates there is
no medium.
Secretary Seward is very Industrious
spending nine hours in his Office daily.
"Come here, Tom; do you know your A,
Cs P-"Yes, zur, kow bee sees.1
When the young laugh at the old they
laugh at themselves beforehand.
The eldest son of Victor Emmanuel is to
have the title of Prince of Piedmont.
The fortifcations of Gaeta are to be razed
to the ground.
The CZar has conferred on the ex. King of
Naples and his Queen the order of ST. George.
q The Fashion Race Course, on Long Is
land, is offered for sale for the sum of $780,
600.
A midwife in Leicester, England, convicted
of procuring an abortion, has been sentenced
to be hanged s'r1r1f ps.#ag .-.r1r a
No less than 1000 steamboats, run upon
the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and
. their total value is estimated at 10000, 900.
DR.. NJ. A. Harrington shot and instantly
!, killed W. A. Harvey, in Grenada, Miss, last
Sunday. l .". ia H.4 a- 90. q
1t is asserted that King Victor Emmanuel
will go to Naples and make stay there of
several months. .-
Count Cavour has projected the building
of great naval arsenal-the cost to be 32,-
100000 of francs,
The rich are naturally proud. They know
that if they are not men of genius, they can
buy those who are.
A man often expresses the same idea by
wagging his head that dog does by wagging
his tail. -
A young man, like gun, is not likely to
do any execution unless he has some fire in
his prime. -tf-
liquor, is apt to imagine every thing he sees
a TeUoLUeT.
Paper parchment may be produced by inn
mersing paper in concentrated solution of
chloride of ziHc. A hint to paper makers.
The smallest puncture in a submarine cable
will produce ozone, and decompose the gutta
perchs or India rubber covering.
High temperatures under any pressure are
low ascertained perfectly by Gauntlett's
patent pyrometer. -. &c
Auguste Blanqui has been arrested in
Paris for belonging to secret political
society.
Soils, generally, are acid. OF a rich, highly
manured soil, kept warm, the character is
alkaline.
The Spanish Government has imported
machinery from this Government to manu-
factuIe ordnance at Madrid.
Lake Baikal, in Siberia, once a saltwater
lake, has become fresh one. The fish in it
are unchanged. ~, ...' .
The drafts of the Ottoman Government
for f4O0, 900 on NJ. Mires, which mRtured on
the 18th, were duly provided for.
A fish caught by the angler, and boy
tossed by bull, must dislike the idea of one
individuals rising in the world upon an
other 8 hook SAC .-.-lrEr. s. az
Stones may be readily broken into very
small pieces by first heating them and then
exposing them to the action of sulphur. This
is a hint TO McAdam road makers.
Six hundred and thirty millions of cubic
feet of gas escape annually from the gas
mines in Londen, an estimated loss of $7O,-
900.
The friction of one smooth surface moving
upon another, under the heaviest pressure of
steam, is said to be no greater than in q
vacuum or the open air. Els
A late number of the NautieaI MagaziHs
contains very satisfactory article to prove
the (disputed) influence Of the moon upon
the weather.
Sulphur, soda ash and lime remove hair
from skins in short time, leaving them soft
and natural, preparatory TO tanning-an inn
provement on the old plan of lining.
A new brush for the hair has been in
vented. The bristles are set round little
lubeht WuiSh SOAt'NJ va " my SeNSA A9AA0
from reservoir, on slight pressure.
Lionel Gisbourne, o. g., is dead. He was
some years since engaged in examining va
rious routes in Central America, between
the Atlantic and Pacific. Bad Up ..-r
J.V. Marcy, a lawyer of Quincy, Illinois,
cut his throat on Monday, while in a fit OF
temporary insanity, and at last accounts was
not expected1te survive the dayife Al
There is a natural floating breakwater at
the Cape OF Good Hope, consisting of marine
plants, twenty 70 thirty feet in length, one
end growing from the rocks and the other
floating on the surface. t.t 1s.t
Sir Howard Douglass asserts that ship
builders well know that the bottom of WELL
coppered timber ship will outlast three tops
hut in iron ships one top will wear out three
bottoms. .f ual.a tr. ....I aF..
Madame st. Marc, Partisan dame, offers
her services to those who wish tobe married
Her house, she says, is known all over Eu'
rope for its honor, and she acts with CELEBRITY
and discretion, ~. a. 81 tot
| b A letter. from General Turr exhorts thi
| HunRarians not 70 spoil their chances by |
premature revolt, which, the letter asserts
Austrian agents are endeayoripg 70 bring
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