Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-04
VARIETIES.

The American Bank-note Company have
about completed the recent order Of the
Treasury Department for q supplementary
issue Of $4,50O,0O0 1880 Treasury. .potes, of
the date of August 10, in small denomina-
tioDs. The supply is intended for future
contingencies in the way of exchange, loss,
&c. The company will shortly receive in
structiOns to commence the printing of the
second fifty millions, of the date of October l.
The Jamaica (West Indies) Waterman says
that the cultivation Of cotton is engaging
the attention of great many persons in all
parts of that island. With staff of fifteen
or twenty coolies or Africans it thinks it will
be easy for any man to keep up q very re-
spectacle cotton plantation.
The Governor Of Bermuda has issued
proclamation strictly forbidding the entrance
of Confederate privateers and positively
prohibiting all persons from selling to such
vessels If they do enter the ports, supplies
OF any kind, either coal, water or provis-
ions.
Some music teacher once wrote that the
'art of play ing on the violin requires the
incest perception and the most sensibility of
any art in the known world" Upon which
an editor comments in the following manner:
"The art of publishing a daily newspaper
and making it pay, and at the same time
making it please every body, beats fddling
higher than a kite"
The captain of the bark General Pike,
which arrived at Honolulu from Kedian on
the 18th of August, states that he took this
season one whale, the largest he ever saw,
which made one hundred and seventy -four
barrels.
The New York Tribune says that pair of
horses belonging to Bonner of the New York
Ledger, have Just made the extraordinary
time of &27, the last quarter in thirty. seven
seconds. This is the fastest time ever made
by any pair of horses in the world.
The excavations which are being made for
the canal of the Isthmus of Suez have led
to the discovery at Gzeh of religious edi-
flee os vast as the Louvre, and which was
constructed more than five thousand years
ago. AT Karnack, also, a temple, the circuit
of which is stated to be four kilometers 1.-TWO
and half mies), has been discovered, and
another at Edfou, containing twenty sa oons.
The walls of these latter edifices are deco
rated with sculptures, hieroglyphics and
paintings, still fresh.
The Sultana Aziz is undoubtedly an un-
happy woman. When her husband, Abdul,
ascended the throne be refused the customary
beautiful slave, out of regard for Mrs. Aziz.
But lately, it seems, he repents his virtue,
and has sent to Circassia for ore hundred and
fifty young and handsome girls, meaning to
establish banR-up harem, the wretch; and
become 20 better than libertine. This freak
requires, cash down, upward of $l25 000--
the torments Of the Sultsna of couRe, being
btyond pecuniary estimate.
A gentleman dining at hotel where
servants we're few and far between, dig
patched lad among them for cut of beef
After a long time the lad returned, and
placing it before the hungry gentleman, wa.
asked, "AIe you the lad who took my plate
'or this beef?" "Yes, sir" "Bless me-" re.
sumed the hungry wit, show you have
Erown."
Colonel Raymond Lee, who was captured
ty the Copfederates in the engagement a
Edwards Ferry, was formerly particula
friend of Jefferson Davis. Lee graduated a
West Point in the same class with Davis
taking the first lank, while the latter stooc
twsnty-third.