Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-04
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Br bark Lizzie Raymond.
The Inventor of The Flying Shin.

The history of the art of living. like that OF all
other great discoveries is the history of mans life.
Forty years ago, of still summer Sabbath after
noon, youth of seventeen, in small Jersey village
was sitting under, scarce listening to- what was
doubtless avery good sermon OF his fathers. clergy
man. But the boys thoughts were of green fields,
murmuring brooks and the song of birds. His eyes
followed his musings out the open windows. Sud-
denly passed before him, in rapid flight and majestic
swoops, magnificent eagle. king alike of the air and
the whole featheTed creation. Possibly the text that
day had been; oh that had the wings of bird
then would fly away AID be at rest" Be that as it
may; the instant, an electric resolve in the boys
wings Of bird will be at Thn at AFT p 5S
the lying machine mn was born in embryo @
lation, the young man learned Matchmaking To
acquire knowledge Of the sciences. he entered upon
and passed with honor through course of medicine
and surgery, with DR.. Valentine Mott in the old COL
lege OF Physicians and Surgeons in Barclay street
tifc proficiency were both bent to the one fe-n
! pose-the invention of flying machine. But money
| was necessity. He must be rich. So the watch
maker and physician invented and patented an un-
pickabe lock; sold it to Hobbs. whose it bears
That lock has been the nursing mother of the flying
| machine.
The name of that matchmaker, doctor, lock-in-
| yentor Is Solomon Andrews, now hale man of So
born in Herkimer county. n Y, but living most of
ms fS bin IN Perth AH fb n He invented tho
At the request of his oyster-seling townsmen that
they might be relieved from the yoke of the Connec-
| tlcut keg makers, he invented machinery by which
Jerseyman may max his oyster kegs and at
the rate of hundred day. He has invented very
which he holds in his mouth while he talks about
the air ship Is constructed on principle entirely
new.
OvEREED, GURNEY i Co. AND THE BANK OF Eng
LAND.-A writer in the Philadelphia Press whom we
presume to be DR.. r. Shelton Mackenzie. narrates
the following Renaissance apropos of the London
financial panic -
discounted largely and banked with the Old Lady
in Thereaneedle street, (Cohbetts so5riguet for the
Bank Of EnglanG) drew nearly two millions sterling
out OF me o2nk II one day IN avenge for the banks
rule of excluding bill brokers from its discount Office
They waited until the bank reserve was lower than
i had been since the close Of the panic of 1857 They
had very nearly succeeded in cornering the bank for
the money was drawn out in gold, A week after
they rcdeposited the money; but the Bank of Eng
land mover forgave the attempt to Brighten it. Hence
when 0verend, Quincy Co. came grief the other
day. tho bank simply appealed to its rule not 10 dis
cou9t for bill brokers' a rule WHICH it could have
evaded if it pleased. But no! The great discount
lane long the banks only rival was falling and the
bank put its foot upon it. The Bank Of England, it
may be said,-
Bears, like the Turk, no brother near the throne'"
REALITY AND RoMANCE.-A San Francisco paper
tells of young physician who led to the altar in
1917 young lady, but few months after the mar
riage ceremony he was arrested for having pro-
cured a subject" from a neighborng graveyard,
The officer granted the bridegroom a few moments
private conversation with bis wife, which he i'm
proved by maki0g his escape to California. During
his wanderings up and down the earth he neglected
to correspond with his wife, who believing bin dead,
married again.. After time he learned this fact,
but d determined to remain dead to her. and it was
not until be read account of the death of the hus
Dand OF his wife that he wrote to her stating that he
stu lived and cherished her memory as green as
when ne kissed her lips in parting nineteen years
ago. lie told her that he was still free and asked
er 10 come and enjoy with hin the large fortune he
hao accumulated The wife-widow received the let
yer, ana while she read the early love returned and
she determined to join him, which she did arriving
IN Cali1ornla IN due time, and was met on the wharf
by the Old husband. who conducted her to a hotel
where they were remarked.
The ELECTION IN WEST VIRG1y1A,-The fplI re-
turns of est Virginia election have not vet coma
in, but majority ranging from eight to twelve thou
sand has been figured up for the amendment to &o
State Constitution. The text of the amendment Is
as follows.
No person who, since the LIST day of June 1861.
has given or shall give voluntary aid assstanceto
the rebellion against the United States, shall be
citizen of this State. or be allowed to vote at any
election held therein unless he has volunteered into
the military or naval service of the United States.
and has been shall be honorably discharged there
from"
A WOMAN IN MALE APPAREL FOUND DRowNED.-
An inquest was held yesterday, by Coroner Gamble,
on the body of an unknown woman which was found
noatlng IN the East river, near the foot OF Forty
tnlrd street. The body of deceased was dressed in
PAIR OF dark ribbed pantaoons, white muslin ehem-
sette drawers pair of prunella CATERS and white
sIochngs From the appearance of the body, it had