Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-18
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John G. SAKE, the wit and humorous poet,
is dangerously i'll.
Do thy best, and thou mayest defy the
devil TO DO his worst.
A glass of water taken from the Spring of
the year is said to be delicious.
Wanted-an astrologer who has cast his
own horoscope, and believes in it.
David Dunlap, of Galloway County, Mo-,
lately caught full-grown catamount in a
trap.
They have French Protestant Church in
Philadelphia, of which N. Farque is the pas
tor.
A quaint writer defines time to be-"a
vehicle that carries every thing into MOTH
ing"
The South is having Northern Winter.
The reason is that they mean to make their
own ice.
Seven thousand Polish Jews recently
passed through Posen, on their way to the
United States.
Mrs. Barbara Cheek died in Dearborn
County Ind, few days ago, at the advanced
age of 100 years.
Lizzie Dill, an actress and editress, is q
candidate for State Librarian, before the In
diana Legislature.
To prevent the smell of cooking in house,
have nothing for breakfast, and warm it
over for dinner and supper.
On Monday, a woman at New Albany, Ind,
gave birth to triplets-all girls. This is as
unfortunate as it is disgusting.
Sunday morning, at sunrise, the ther-
mometer, at Rutland, Vt, was 24o below
zero. AT Middlebury it was 290.
The teller of Boston bank paid $4,000
last week instead of 5000. Happily, B. f.
Pratt, an honest man, received it.
"Don't you mean to marry, my dear sir 2n
"No, my dear widow; I'd rather lose all the
ribs I've got than take another.
1t is estimated there are 1000 Americans
in Europe, and that they spend among them
a sum of $3.50, 100000 per annum.
On Tuesday, nine persons passed through
Raleigh on their way North from South
Carolina, with their heads shaven.
A scientific youth has discovered the
cause of the potato blight. He ascribes it to
the ro- tdtoTy movement of the earth.
Florence Nightingale, the heroine of Sou
tari, is still suffering from the effects of her
severe experience in that military hospital.
While kindling fire at Sharpsburg Nd,
Rev. Mr.. Shuford struck his eye against the
stove door and knocked it out completely.
A young negress having given birth to an
Legitimate child, at Altoona, Penn, re-
Gently, cut its throat, and attempted her own
life.
The gold-leaf sWeepings, paper trimming
and leather straps of the Harpers' publishing
house, New York, are worth near $1,000 per
year.
An effigy of Senator johnson, of Ten.
nessee, was barreled up and rolled into the
Mississippi, at Friars Point, Miss, on Sat
urday.
In Florence, Italy, wife, her sister and
her eldest daughter, destroyed themselves in
fit of despair, superinduced by poverty and
sickness.
Russia still adheres to the old style of COM
putation of time, and New. years Day was on
the 18th Of January, when all the serfs were
emancipated.
A boy convict on his way to jail from
Utica, N. Y, escaped from the officer while
on Wednesday.
Saturday was the coolest day of the season
at Montreal. The Thermometer stood at 24o
below zero. Yesterday it was lao below
Weather clear.
The War Department has ordered from the
Watervliet Arsenal, Troy, N. Y, 10000
cartridges, to be delivered Immediately, fol
Southern stations. lv.f.
A cat, in New York, recently caught {
mouse and carried IL TO an upper chamber
where she nursed it as tenderly as q woman
would her babe.
VIM. Jones, of Spencer County, Indiana
is now on visit to Mr.. Lincoln, at Spring
| field. sold Abe" worked on Mr.. jones'
farm thirty years ago.
1t is stated that powder, burned in small
| quantities, say spoonful in place, will
proper caution TO prevent accidents by fire
will keep rats from the premises.
Rev. DIR. Rice, of Chicago, Illinois, has re
ceived unanimous call to the Fifth.avenul
! Church, of New York. We pity tn,
Gothamites. Rice is a fearful bore.
A wife was robbed of $3.50 by her husband
at Philadelphia, on Wednesday. He was ar
rested, and told where the money was buried
when the wife refused to prosecute.
6 By railway accidents, in 1860, there werI
| killed, in the United States, seVenty-fou
PERSONS, and 3l5 wOunded-the smales
number in any twelve months in the pas
eight years. --sl ara d-e D.
The deaths in New York City last weel
numbered 425, an increase of forty-eight owe
the preceding week, and decrease 0
seyenty-seven from the corresponding weel
Of last year. .Ia
A family of children in Ashland, Mass
has grandparents, the youngest of whor
has reached the eightieth year. The oldes
pair have lived in Wedlock ffly-nine year:
and the youngest ffty-seVen.