Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-03-21
miscellaneous Rews Paragraphs.

The Cincinnati Gazette says that An
drew johnson, it is reported, has "sworn
off"
Lyman Sibley has Just been chosen clerk
of the town Of Barre, Mass, for the forty
seventh time. The vote was unanimous.
A woman lately lobbied bill through
the New Jersey Senate. She had such
pretty ways the Senators couldn't vote
against her wishes.
Savannah, Charleston and Wilmington
have been captured, and people asks if
Mobile can be. Echo answers, Candy.
A few days since large bulldog, con.
fined in house at Portsmouth, N. h,
seized an infantc child lying in cradle and
tore away one side of its face; and before
he could be secured, he grasped the child
by the throat and shook it until life was
extinct.
Before Vice President johnson left his
home for Washington, says the Memphis
Bulletin, the colored people of Nashville
waited upon him at his home, and in be-
half of themselves and friends presented
him with fine gold watch. worth $3.50.
The newest system of robbery announ-
ced in London consists in following the
butchers cart to 3 house, and then going
Immediately after with tray containing
meat, and telling the servant that "master
has sent the wrong joint" and begging
that it may be instantly returned, to be ex-
changed for the right one. The right one
never comes.
The last words of Cardinal Wiseman
are noteworthy Opening his eyes, after q
short respite from pain, and with smile
playing on his features, he said to his at
tendants: "Well, here l ana at last like 8
child from school, going home for the holi-
days
Oakland College, near San Francisco,
though but recently started, has one hun
dred and forty students. Professor Hem
~ Carver, of New York, has been sdde
to the Board of instruction
The people of Paris eat every day two
million francs worth of dinner.
Interesting to the lovers of cossor oil:
they are making the oil st Honolulu,
Sandwich Islands, now. The beans from
which it is made grew wild on the Hsws-
iisn Islands, and Rave besn exported for
manufacture heretofore.
A man in Bloomfield, Connecticut, is
now ruefully rumlnating over 8 ton Of
butter, for which, not long ago he rsfused
fifty-two and q half cents per pound. The
longer he hesitstes the more he will lose.
A lock of Queen Elizabeth's hair, with
an original poem by Sir Philip Sidney on
receiving it, has lately been found in an
old folio volume of the Arcadia, at Walton,
England. The hair in color is golden
brown.
Judge Smith, before whom the st. AL
bgns raiders were being examined, who has
been i'll, was in Chambers at Montreal on
the 10th, but is was doubtful if he would
hold q court this week.
A New York paper says: The sun of the
Republic has set. Gottschalk, the great,
the gallant, the gentle, turns his back upon
free Columbisns, and Wends his weary
footsteps toward Maximillisn Of the Mex
leans"
Photography is superseding triangula-
ton in France as o means for calculating g
distances and nights. By means Of twenty
nine views, taken from eighteen different
points in less than sixty hours, an accurate
plan of the city of Grenoble and its envi-
rons, embracing an extent of more than
twenty kilometres square Twelve and s
half miles square was executed in sixty
dsys, which by triangulation would have
taken two years to execute.
Queen Victoria, few Sundays ago, had
q most miraculous escape from being crush
ed 10 death by the falling of huge elm
tree in the Home park. Her Majesty wa
taking an airing on her fAYorite scotch
pony, and proceeding through the avenue
of tall elms, at Windsor, known as Queen
Elizsbeth's ride, the pony being led by 6
gillie, and q groom following 1T short
distance, when, provtdentislly, the servant
observed one Of the large trees falling i'm
medistely over her Majesty. The mar
called out loudly, and her Majesty, made
aware of the danger by this timely alarm
escaped being crushed beneath the tree BY
/ a few yards only.