Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-26
MISCELLANY.

MASSEhAIANH.
"A woman named Boursica, at Cham
plitta France has extraordinary talent for killing
vipers She discovers their retreat by her sense of
smell, and then attracts them to the surface of the
ground by the aid of liquor of her composition.
On their appearance she squirts their heads
small portion of the liquor, which supefes them and
50 they easily killed. Between the 1st of May and
the 10th of September of the present year she de-
troyed 22i of these reptiles for which she received
Sl7f 20c the premium for the destruction of vipers
being p centimes each.
A Providence paper, referring to the out
andish and utterly abominabc words constantly
coined by telegraph operators. says: The Associ-
ated Press pours stream Of cold poison into the
English language every morning. We hear of build
ingS being 'burgarzed and inccndiarized,' ofsteam
ers coding' and oil wells 'confagratins' and the
other day told an actress had 'debuted with
success There ought to be law against such atroc
ties
Major General George II. Thomas is con-
graduating himself on his successful strategy in es
Gaping the lion-hunters. lie has travelled from
Nashville to New York, and through the principal
cities the Atlantic coast without suffering single
public reception. For the first time since the out
break of the war General Thomas allows himself
the pleasure Of a reunion with his family In four
years he his wife but once. lie is now in Wash
ington.
The year 1865 shows curious variation
in the order Of the cr'ps Thus, in the departments
of the northern part of Central France, where the
vintage usually takes place in the first days of Octo-
Der wine drunk this year the 18th August. On
the other hand, in the departments of the South;
where the vintage generally takes place in August, it
has occurred this year in the month of September
-'Thcre is three times Us much editorial
talent and typographical excellence il the papers of
the South now as there was before the rebellion
Whether they have passed into and ADLER har DIS
whether the mighty events of the war have deep
cned and strengthened and intensified mems souls in
the section that has experienced such dreadful
sunerings We do not know.-LousCWe JOUr1tm
The Prussian authorities enforce with
characteristic vigor their vigilance at the frontier
against cattle contagon. 1t is related that Belgian
lady was not allowed to have her poodle brought
through Neryers barrier although the dear pet had
been dead year, and there nothing left ot him
but his stuffed skin.
In personal art news, we note that Church
is in Vermont; that GgnouA Hicks, v. 7. Richards,
oud Luman have returned to New York from the
Adirondacks; that Leutzc has gone to Gettysburg
with General Hancock and Mr.. George Banc tOit; that
William Hunt and Ncdder all for Europe; that
Eastman johnson has found many congeniiI scenes
for bis brush in tour through Maine: and that Ken
sett and Clifford have filed their portfolios with
White Mountain sketches.
The celebrated mechanical duck of Eau
canson is now exhibition in the Rue de Paris at
Havre. in Il small museum which takes its name from
that illustrious mechanican. The bird standing on
a sort of box shakes lis wings, eats, drinks, and imj
tates nature accurately that it is not safe to let
dogs come into the same room with it,
An unknown young man, supposed from
his incoherent uttcrccs to be on his way South to
get married. accidentally shot by hunter while
standing the platform of the they passed
through East Bristol. Tennessee. lie died in the
house of Mrs Mary GouS, at that place. leaving val
liable baggage and iewelry, and Sl,50o in money,
which the friends desired to identity and reclaim
The new King of Wuremburg, who is as
naughty as his father was genial, has ordered the
boxes on the right hand side Of the opera to be
served for the arstocracy, that his majesty need
not be subjected to the humiliation of sitting face to
face with persons Of plebian birth.
"A gentleman just from the oil regions at
Boutwell,, Canada, states that one hundred and ten
new wells are being sunk in that region, and that
there are already about a dozen flowing wells yield
ing from five to fifty barrels of oil per day. These
wells are directly the line of the Great Western
Canada Railway, and about seventy miles east of
Detroit.
A soi-diSam sportsman in the vicinity of
Eureka, Illinois wounded white crane, and took it
home \ number of his neghbors amused them
selves by pucking at and ormentinR the bird until
it got very angry, and by a sudden movement of its
bill tore out one of the eyes of the principal perse
cutor.
The New York Tribune contains card
from Governor Pcrpont to the effect that Freeman
Clark did not order Governor ?. to leave his office.
and that Governor P did not say the people of tho
South would not submit to be taxed. &c.
The Richmond H'hig says that parties are
in negotiation for the purchase of Dutch Gap Canal
for the purpose Of widening and deepening it, and
making it available for the passage of steamers and
vessels toll to be eXacted in consideration of the
seven miles of travel which it cuts off
The Washington .Stur says it will neceSsa-
rily require between five and eight millions next
year than it did last to meet the expenditures OF the
Pension Bureau, which now and will continue for
some time 70 be very heavy. Last year the amount
paid ont on account Of pensions was about five mil
lions.
A correspondent of the Darlington Is. c.
Era. describes at length the stockade at Florence
South Carolina. in which Union prisoners were con-
fined. The details compare in Il great degree with
those of the Andcrsonyiilc s.ockaIc. Seven thou
sand graves said. BY tbs correspondent 20 be
visible.
The London Orchestra, of October I,
has the following I'VE understand that the frequent
runors wthsregard to Miss Batemans marriage are
far true that she has become the wife Of an Amcr
can eentcmen-a pianist
The Sultan has shocked all true believers
by innovation which he is understood to have just
perperated lie is sitting for his portrait to French
artist. As all representations of the forms of living
beings are prohibited by the faith of Islam this is
naturally regarded with CONSERVATION BY the Con
| stantinopolitans.-fo -foreion popey.
| One Of the most popular exhibitions ol
St Pete,sburs lust now is an English sailor. who
profcsses to have been tattooed when in captivity
AMONG tie savagcs OF one of the Pacific Islands, ana
who appears in what is called the costume Of a
cannibal."
The Archbishop Of Canterbury HAS pre-