Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-06

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France has fifteen iron-cased steamers.
The census is to be taken in France during
the present year.
French gold is now legal tender in Bel
gium. . ....r...... "A. --.... .TH1
Robert Chambers, the publisher, is soon to
reside in London. Ir.
NJ Bonaparte Patterson hos been elected q
member of the Paris Jockey Club.
"Don't rob yourself" as the farmer said TO
the lawyer who called him hard names.
The novelty in dress this season, in Paris
is India foulards.
Albina di Rhons, young dancing demoi-
selle, is now fascinating the habitles Of fDrury
Lane by "her spirit and elegance"
1t is said, that ''united we stand" but that
depends on whether we are united in amity
or in the death grapple.
1t is alleged in the Westminster Repieso
that iron fetters for slave-dealeTs are sold by
Liverpool merchants. ala...I
Four or five hundred people are daily dy-
ing of hunger in the north. western provinces
of India. Horrible .....
Mana Sahib is still alive, and lurking
among the Nepaul hills, watching his op-
portunity.
The soluble indigo of commerce makes q
good blue ink when dilated with hot water.
1t is incorrosive for steel pens, and it flows
freely.
The New York papers think shocking
railway accident is about due now, aud eau
tions railway engineers to be careful.
The power of pleasing is founded on the
wish TO please. The strength Of the wish is
the measure of the power.
Mazzini is said still to be under sentence
of death, and the Italian Parliament will be
called on TO revoke it.
The ten cases of arms which were seized
in New York and subsequently released,
reached Savannah on Thursday.
The deaths in New York City, last week,
numbered 406, of which 2l5 were under five
years of age.
Among the gentlemen who congratulated
Mrs. Yelverton on the issue of her trial, was
Mr.. Yelverton, sen., the Majors father.
NJ. Lamartine having disposed of his prop
erty in Macon, is about to return to Paris
and offer his works for sale at his own house.
The London Review says that DR.. Brown
son is "the ablest lay writer among the
Roman Catholics, whether in the United
States or the British Empire"
In Venice, people of the highest respecta-
bility are incarcerated for a week at q time
by the Austrian police for merely walking
on the Riva Ia promenade).
The port of st. Nazaire, in France, has
recently for the first time witnessed the
entrance of steam double decker, to the
great admiration of the Inhabitants,
Florida has Just sold 500, 900 acres of land
to some New Orleans spectators at two
cents an acre. That is what we should call
dirt cheap.
There are IL, 500 square miles of bog in
Ireland, or nearly a third of the whole
leland, a great part of which might be re-
claimed. ..
A bag, containing $3.50, was plowed up at
Stockton, Cal, recently. 1t is probably
part of Sc 900 stolen from an officer some ten
years ago in that vicinity.
A Mrs. Woodwork, only twenty years
old, committed suicide at East Randolph,
N. Y, the other day, from fear of her hus-
bands return from California.
In reply to an advertisement headed t'Use
Coopers Tooth Brush" Western editor
says: wen see Cooper hanged first, the
dirty fellowW -.. .1.
The wife and mother of a family in Great
Darlington, Mass, employed in factory
there, has lately inherited legacy of $780,
900.
In fit of hypochondria, produced by
dyspepsia, a young man, Il. 4. Richmond,
hanged himself in a barn at Springfield
Mass. f...
General Chazal, Belgian Minister of War
said in a recent speech in the Chambers, that
escaTpments of masonry were now aban-
doned in his system of Notifications.
A French steamer, a yacht-corvette called
the Jerome Napoleon, of $50 horse power,
and Mazelise engine, has a speed of four
teen and fifteen miles an hour.
They charge girls in Memphis, Tenn, $25
in the Police Court, for putting on panta-
looms and a hat and drinking punches. A
cheap luxury.
NJ. Rousseau, a Belgian chemist, has in
vented an apparatus by which an ordinary
cook can make enough sugar to last family
a week out of materials which may be bought
in aHy market.
A Yankee has invented a new and cheap
plan for boarding. One of his boarders mes.
merizes the rest, and then eats hearty
meal-the mesmerized being satisfied from
sympathy.
Ireland was formerly divided into four
Kingdoms, Ulster, Leinster, Connaught and
Munster. These have now no legal distinc'
tions, but are subdivided into thirty-two
counties. b.
Two thousand dollars is the maximum
compensation allowed to any postmaster in
the United States. In some cases, $4,000
more is allowed to be deducted for the box
rent. .. b. -#IIrrs
A Montreal (Ganada) paper reports the
death of man in that place, in consequence
of swallowing q mouse. Ii he had sWal-
lowed a cat Immediately after, he might
have been saved. ..s "a
A report of scientific mission to Syria,
by Ernest Ranan, has been made to the
Emperor, by whom his expedition was di-
rected. 1t is worthy of republication in
some Of our magazines.
A steam carriage for common roads, in
vented by General Bordino, has been exhib-
| tied in the streets of Turin, carrying twelve
persons, easily managed, but evolving clouds
of smokey $50
In the historical collection at the Palace al
! Berlin, there are two cannon-balls, each with
] one side hattened, said to have been fred by
! opposite parties at the siege of Magdeburg
and TO have met together in the air.
MARROW ESCAPE FROM TERRIBLE AooI-
DEAT.-A team loaded with 6,000 pounds ol
powder, attempted to cross the railway neal
Auburn, Me-. lately and got stuck midway
The driver discovered the regular afternoon
train rapidly approaching, but he had gon,