Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
sItuis estiaateda that $4,000 elsphants are YEAR,,
i EilIod IN oaiaId oil I'll


killed to supply Sheffield alone with ivory.
Memphis, Tenn, has put up 5000 houses in a
year. - g. ~ ~
The criminal records of England show that only
one actor was ever hanged there. This was in the
seventeenth century, for highway robbery. n
The bills Of fare at Paris restaurants now include
q American buckwheat cakes,'' and American APP
pie and mnce pies and placards hang over the bars
announcing American cocktails and snnashes." -
Rev. George GiIfiIlan, the well known author, is
undergoing trial before the Ednburg United Pres
byterian Presbytery for preaching on subjects more
secular than religious.
Word comes from England that all the ships leav-
ing Liverpool for this country are filled with emf
grants, and that emigration to the United States
will be enormous this year-geater than ever before
new method of shoeng horses has been on trial
IN Paris for year or more past. By It the hoof IS
but little cut away the shoe is light, the foot rests
upon the ground and is allowed to expand natural3
y, while the horse never slips. 1t has been tried
successfully for some months on the omnibus horses
In the French Chamber there are SO lawyers, So
mayors, 81 officers of rank is merchants, II literary
men, II bankers, 8 magistrates, So physicians,
chamberlains, and 2equerries to the Emperor. Egbs
ty-four only of the members are in the habit of adj
dressing the house, and Of these 10 only are good
speakers. ..tH..,
As people are little timd about travelling on the
ice at times, we give the capacity of the ice furnished
by the United States Ordnance Department as cor
rect Ice two inches thick will bear infantry; four
inches, cavalry with light guns; six inches, heavy
field guns and eight inches, the heaviest siege guns
with 1000 pounds weight to square inch.
Out of forty-eight candidates, the Paris Imperial
Society of Surgery has chosen the following ten for
eign correspondents: DondeH of Utrecht; Long
more of Netley Hospital Broth of Zurich Brown
Sequard of Boston Holmes'o London; Humphry of
Cambridge; Gurlt of Berlin; Neudorfor of Prague;
Smith probably Stephen Smith) of New York, and
Emmert of Berne. '.l
The Salem, Washington county, IN. W Press
says that grandson of General Putnam, John p.
Putnam-a fine specimen of the old school gentle
man, hale and hearty and with promise of many
years yet of life-resides at North White Creek, in
Washington county. Esquire Putnam has in his
possession the yeritabe pistols by his grand
father in many contest and also several other in
terestng relics that belonged to his venerated
cestor, .. .r.i .H t...
Two actresses were quaneng In Paris few
nights ago in presence OF third they got very vO
lent, and finally approached the question Ofage. This
was too much for the youngest, and she came out
with language more forcibe than flattering more
Pagan than Parliamentary? Suddenly she paused
in her brGpurG of bad words and turning to the wit
ness said oh cieI! ciel what have done Abused
her, called her such names | never knew who was
my mother, and she might be ~
One of the most notable of the arrivals in the
HOUSE vi LOTUS on Tile OpculnS uay WAS Tue lduy
who came into the House, escorted by the Earl of
Lovelace, and who was recognized as the lady Anne
Isabella Noel King Noel, the granddaughter of
Lord Byron. she took her seat among the Peer.
esses' daughters there were few who did not regard
with peculiar interest the somewhat pale face,
light brown hair and bright, intelligent look of the
daughter of Ada" I.r...I ...
How long horse can live without food is decided
by experiments recently made in France. 1t twas as
certained, by cruel means, that horse will live for
twenty five days without solid food, merely drinking
water He may live seventeen days without eating
food or drinking. He can only live five days when
consuming solid food without drinking. After TAX
ing solid aliment for the space of ten days, but with
an insufficient quantity of drink the stomach is
out. The above facts show the Importance of water
in the susteuance of the horse. A horse which had
been deprived of water for three days, drank eleven
gallons in the space of three minutes.
An important decision of the New York Court of
Common Pleas, on the liability of telegraph COM
panies for mistakes in the transmission of dispatches,
has been rendered. A verdict was found for plain
tiff affirming the decision of a lower court from
which the case had been appealed. The plaintiff
had sent through the New York Albany & Buffalo
Telegraph Company despatch to an agent in San
Francisco to buy a cargo of wheat at not over
twenty two francs, the hectorolite landed in BOr
deaqx. The despatch read twenty-five and for his
expenses in consequence OF this error the plaintiff
recovered S20945l.