, 1864-12-02

Idaho is a fast country. If a woman there
becomes dissatisfied with her husband or finds
some one she likes better, she states the case to
the president of the mining district where they
reside; he calls miner meeting; they unite
the matrimonial knot, and she is at liberty to
take whomsoeyer she pleases, in case She can
get him.
An association of spiritualists has been or
ganized in San Jose under the name Of "Frfends
Of Progress = on u
DR.. Livingstone, the great traveller in Africa,
has returned to London to publish another book.
Artemus Ward defines war as hard tack for
soldiers and hard taxes for the citizens.
The city of Austin (N IT, is now aoOdedwith
new silver half dollars, of the coinage of 1864
A recent African traveller says canniba is
not necessarily ferocious He eats his fellow
creatures, not because he hates them, but be-
cause he loves them.
A farmer in an Eastern State has a mile of
children. His name is Furlong, and he has
eight sons.
Tom Thumb has sold his splendid establish
ment in Bridgeport Conn, for S20, 600 and has
purchased a farm opposite the residence of his
wife in Middleboro. The advertising dodge that
Mr.. Thumb had become parent is hoax.
The new State of Nevada contains more ter
ritory than all the New England States meas
ured together
woman in Troy, New York, has been mar
ried four times since the war commenced, to
soldiers, and is now widow with four pen
sions.
The 9th, 10Th and goth days of every month
has been adopted in San San Francisco as the
time of dpDarture for stpan1ers North
A. L. Brown Esq, member elect of the Wash
ington Territorial Legislature, fell into the Will
lamette, on Friday last, and was thereby con-
siderably wetted.
Only sixty-6ve in thousand marry, says DR..
Hubbard, and out Of this number three are di-
yorced eight run away5 fourteen live in open
warfare, about thirty Indifferent, and only
ten are regarded as happy.
Intense headache may be reduced, if not en-
tirely eradicated by pressure extended over
the integument covering the temporal arteries
1t simply diminishes the supply of blood to the
surface of the Uranium.
As showing the disasters of the war, it is an
nounced that the second company that entered
the U. S. service from California, being an ar
tillery company, out of ninety-six men only FIVE
remained to be mustered out and two of them
were wounded.
A Sioux Indian, killed on the Big Blue river,
turned out to be white man, with red hair af-
ter the paint had been wasted of.
The Shenandoah is truly termed the valley of
death, 80, 600 persons having persisted there
since the breaking out Of the present rebellion.
large portion Of Moscow, Russia has been
destroyed by incendiary fires. Two hundred
and fifty houses were burned in one night.
A San Francisco merchant publishes table
of distances, in which we observe that it is only
fourteen miles Paradise to HelPs Delight.
The sixteen-whceled car intended for the
Presidents use is finished, and is awaiting or
ders at Alexandria. It is themost elegant thing
Of the kind ever seen in the country. Its total
cost was about $50, 900 It has Sleeping apart
ments, parlor and Secretary s Office"
tits just twenty-seven years since the tele-
graph was first put to practical test. Then it
was considered mere toy. By 1851, however,
seven thousand miles were in operation. Since
then, fully two hundred thousand miles of teIe-
graph have been called into existence through
ont the world. The wire penetrated to almost
every region Of the world, Drawing all climates.