Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-01
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The last account OIL Olr benjamin DrOule Is
that his eyesight is improving. ...t ID 3
The Tuesday evening storm killed child
and demolished house in Indianapolis.
Great distress prevails among the muslin
weavers in some parts Of Ulster, in Ireland.
Caroline du Sud is the idiom in French
Winter Nights,. a posthumous work of
Murger, the Bohemian, is announced.
Il Elsie Venher Cthe Professors story, is to
be published in England.
Miss.Muiocf, author Of John HaIitdr, has
written book called Studies from Life.
Walter Savage Landor is the Florentine
correspondent of the London Atheneum.
Blanchard Jerrold, son of Douglas, has be-
come editor of the Welcome Guest. ...
Many men are like glass smooth to the
touch as long as it is tenderly handled, but
sharp and piercing when broken. '.
Husband; "Mary, my love, this apple
dumping is not half DONE" Wife: Well,
finish it, then, my DEAR"
William Harrison Ainsworth is writing a
novel for BentLey'S Miscellany, called The
Constable Of the To1rer. a s.... ..T or
The first number Of Anthony Trollopes
new serial, Orley Farm, has been issued by
the london publishers.
The velocity of the electric current is esti-
mated by Wheatstone to be 28S,O 900 miles per
second.
The Constitutional and Pays, Paris news
papers, are both owned by Mires, the great
detaulter.
The Empress of France has inaugurated a
new kind Of white artificial roses, made from
the bamboo. Ms =
The recent speech of FRINGE Napoleon in
the Senate is translated verbatim in the Of
fetal Gazette of Turin.
There is not wall in the Eternal City on
which there is not chalked up, "Vive Victor
Emmanuel, King of Italy," r .,a
Baron Piazza has been arrested at Naples
for having posted up seditious placards in
the streets.
The Pungolo, of Milan, states that the
BON mbardment of Gaeta has cost 20, ZOO, 900
francs. s .. .... ..
Applications for cadetship at West Point
are pouring in upon President Lincoln from
Louisiana and other seeded States. ..
Ryland T. Pollard, of Montgomery, Ala,
that city on Thursday.
Six different funeral orations were deliv-
cred over the body of Scribe at its inter-
ment.
There has been great earth slide in the
commune of Bonnie. Whole forests were
overturned. ...-.
Avisseau, a celebrated French potter, is
dead. He was an artist in clay, rivalling de
Palsy himself
Wm. Rice, formerly proprietor of the
Philadelphia PeHnSylpanian, died on Tuesday
evening in that city. -
An eagle, measuring four feet four inches
| from tip TO tip, was captured alive in Bolton,
Connecticut some days since.
Dandy, the painter, is said to have led o
sorrowfui life though he rose to great emin-
ence iu bis profession.
Mr.. Kipgslake, the author of Eothen, has
written history of the invasion of the
| Crimea.
Two new histories of England have ap
peared-one by Mr.. May, the other by the
Rev James White.
Books relating to America, are said by the
London Atheneum, to find better marke
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Chemists determine the hardness of watel
! by soap tests (soap dissolved in alcohol
showing how many measures of this huiC
aIe necessary TO produce lather.
The usual test of ozone in the air is sale
to be quite valueless. 1t gives, or ought Il
give, blue tnge TO paper coated with iodin'
and staIcn. .r..s sa-rHs- ..
Lsdy 0tway was recently robbed of 9l, 7Ol
of jeWelry while she was asleep in bed. TIT
tibet, or thieves, even took ring from he
finger. Great sleeping, that
TIE GiornaLe d Verona, of the 25th ult.
says that MazziDi is now at Caprera ITO ar
range the next expedition with his Lieuten
ant, Garibaldi"
Letters from Italy state that Garibaldi il
preparing for landing in Ilyria. Men ar,
being recruited for his legion in Paris Lyon
and Marseilles.
In the northwestern provinces of Indii
four OF five hundred are dying daily from
famine The famine extends 70 the south
ward and includes Travancore. s,
A debtor who could not pay, in ancien
Etruria, was followed by a crowd of boy
through the streets shaking an empty pursl
at him and shouting at his heels. f ..'.
| N. BOmmart is dead. He was an eminen
French engineer, aud had charge Of the con
slructiOn of many important railways il
France aud Spain. Ntt-f b ~
The Charlotte (Va.) Bulletin, in speaking
of the American flag, says; "The Yanke
BuzzsTd will soon be plueked, gutted, drieC
and peppered. The sooner the better"
The Macon (Ga) Telsqraph, which ha
used Georgia and South Carolina paper TO
the past three years, is now printed on pape
imported from Belgium.
The best chapters Of Hollands Gold Foi
have been recently issued by religious so
ciety OF Britain as an English Tract for III
Times.
Levi Q. @, McGinnis was hanged at Cum
ming, Ga, on Friday last. The execution
was public, and the crowd amounted to som
| 5000 persons.
The Irish sssizes, now in progress, affor
practical evidence Of the absence Of seriou
crimes in the country, with two or thre
exceptions. Il Il AZ .s.4., .,..5 .r.. rfNf
The Wilmington IN. o. Light lnfantr
| have adopted tor pompon q natural PiH
bur, which, in the case Of oeiCers, is gildeC