Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-12-10
DIiseeIlaueous Items.

In Alabama the people are making tea
Of blackberry leaves.
The cost of telegraphio dispatch Of ten
words from New York to Oregon is So 10,
and for each additional word 78 cents.
The enterprising plan with audscity and
execute with vigor; they first sketch out
a map of possibilities, and then treat them
as probabilities.
Miss Maggie Mitchell was lately pre-
sented with magnificent golden cricket,
which she now wears in her inimitable
representation Of " Fanchon."
The counties of Warrick, Spencer, and
Dubois, Indiana, have produced tobacco
crop the present year valued at $6OOOOO.
The Alabama" that SO frightened the
people at the East has arrived at Portland.
She proves to be the Welland," steamer
from Montreal.
Thurlow Weed, in his Albany Evening
Journal, denies all the rumors about the
diplomatic management he is to do in Eu-
rope.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity
and adversely alike. A strong and deep
mind has two highest tides-when the
moon is at the full, and when there is no
moon.
The Japanese ambassadors contracted a
bill of $4,000 at their hotel in London.
They sent it to Lord John Russell, hoping
England would pay it as other countries
had done, but he refused.
"Jim, believe Sans got no truth in
him" You don't know, niger; dere's
more truth in dat nigger dan in any of de
rest on de plantation" "How do you
make dat Out?" "Why, he neber lets
any out"
The Broadway omnibus drivers, num-
bering over 1000 men, have joined in q
strike for higher wages. They lead la
borious, thankless, exposed life, and get
only S1,25 per day. They ask 81 per
day.
On this great battlefield Of life, God
sets the position, God arranges us, and
puts us in our places. We may desert, we
may run away, we may lie down; but the
position is not Of our choosing, but of
Gods.
Oysters are being carried to Lynehburg
by small quantities, and sold at enormous
prices. A gallon is worth ten dollars. At
the restaurants for "dozen raw with
the concomitants Of vinegar, salt and pep
per, only dollar is demanded.
American silver coin is very plentiful
in Canada; but it is hinted that the sam
pies in general currency are not such as
have been made at the United States
mints. Counterfeiters have done a hesv-
Ter business than usual across the line.
Ward, the young American who was re-
Gently made Mandarin in China, for his
brilliant military services in the Imperial
cause, was recently killed at Rungpoo,
while defending the city against an attack
of the rebels. At the time Of his death
Ward was in supreme command Of the
Imperial forces.
There is now living in the town of Ale
nagro, in Spain, woman forty years old,
who has twenty children. She married
one Of her cousins twenty years ago and
has had twins two or three times; and, on
one occasion, three daughters at birth.
Nine Of her children are still living.
The overland mails from Appleton, Wis
consin, to Lake Superior, have made their
first trips on time; and the Miner says
that good road for winter and summer is
all that is wanting to secure overland
mails the year round, and on better aver
age time than steamers can bring them.
Here is an interesting scrap from the
prayer of man who was in the habit Of
filling the breaks in his petitions with the
syllable, e5 90, Lord, we pray for our
poor brother, who has lived for more than
ten years on the Lords side-er, and has
one foot in the grave-er and the other all
butter"