Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-01-24
WHOLE NO. 2573.
Personal and MIsceIIaneOus.

duction of 60 per cent. from the prices Of
last November.
The notorious Henry Wykof, who is
now in Europe, is said to be engaged in
selecting, under the patronage of James
Gordon Bennett, a new Opera company
to this country.
The largest steam cylinder ever cast
was turned out successfully at the Etna
Iron works, New York, on Friday. 1t Is
liz inches in diameter, and II feet bore,
and is for the new steamer Bristol, build
for the Sound service.
The medal for Mrs. Lincoln, for which
popular subscription was taken up in
France, is to be presented on April 18th,
the anniversary of her husbands assas-
sinatiop.
The United States has $4,000 public
schools, giving a scholar from every five
persons. England and Wales have 46, 600
schools, and scholar to every $50 per-
sons, while in Scotland one-seventh of the
people go to school.
An English Company, with Sir James
Hudson at its head, contemplates bull
ding a railroad between Switzerland and
Italy, by way of the st. Gothard Pass.
| Mr.. Geo. I. Coulter has purchased a
violin once belonging to Piceioli, for the
sum of nine hundred dollars. 1t IS pro
nounced by judges to be the finest toned
instrument of its character in America.
During the past year sixtY-three new
Congregational Churches have been form
ed in different parts of the country.
The report that General Hooker Is a
hopeless invalid, Is contradicted by o. V.
Barnard, his brother-in-laW, who says the
General is rapidly recovering from his i'll
ness, is looking very well, and would be
out in few days.
The Indiapolis Journal says that man
named James Moore, living about one
mile and half from that city, died a
day or two ago from the effect Of bite
received from a mad cow some three
months ago. At that time the occur
renee was mentioned in the journal, but
the man made an application of the mad
stone, and but little, if any, alarm was
felt.
There is a man employed in the Office
of the American Telegraph Company, in
Washington, who is both deaf and dumb,
but yet a good g sound operator" He
presses his knees against the table on
which the instruments rests, and thus
feels the words as they pass over the line.
John Sidell is still living quietly in
Paris. His family goes very little into
society. Mr.. Mason is in London. Jacob
Thompson and J. P. Benjamin are also
there, cad John C. Breckenridge is short
ly expected from Canada with his family.
Major House, formerly agent for the pur-
chase of arms for the Confederacy, IS in
Paris, as is also Judge Rust, of Louisiana.
MrS Gmup avd bar dauUbtar ora now 20
siding in London.
The well known traveller and titsrattter,
NJ Jules de Champagny, while examin-
ing certain Etruscan walls and rivers IN
Calabria, was surprised by brigandA who
conveyed hin and his companion to tie
mountains, They imagined his skethes
to be military plans of the country, and
that he was an emissary Of the King OF
Italy, who is known to be resolved to ex-
tirDate these bandits. His fate still, at
last accounts, was wrapped in uncertain
to.
The new King of Belgium, who was
thirty years old last April, has three chill
dren, two girls and boy. The latter,
who is heir apparent to the throne, Is
about SIX years old.
A letter from Fortress Monroe states
that large quantities of the bedding Of
the Hampton General Hospital have
been bought to furnish hotels in Balti-
more, Washington and Philadelphia
Fifty cords of iron bedsteads, 1000 mat
tresses, 10000 blankets and 5000 linen
sheets, almost as good as new-a few still
stained by the blood Of Northern soldiers,
thousands Of whom, both white and col
ored, died upon them-go North to fur
nish house of summer resort.
The receipts for school purposes in New
York, during the past year, were 3d. 298-
sos SO, and the expenditures 81. .337 $780,
62.
At Berlin they have discovered a new
way of preparing butter. The cream is
put into close linen bag and buried in
the ground at the depth of about a foot
and half. At the end of twenty-four
hours it is taken out, and found to be
quite firm. 1t is then only necessary
to beat it up with glass of water TO get
rid of the butter milk. To prevent any
admixture of earth, it is better to enclose
the first bag in a second. This method
is said never to fail, and the butter to be
of particularly fine character. Our far
mers ought to try it.
A stock actor, performing in the thea
ter at Salt Lake City, lately asked Brig
ham Young for The hand of one Of his
daughters in marriage. The prophet be-
came very indignant, and ordered the as
pirant for the honor o. becoming his SON
law never to darken the doors of his the
ater again. The manager intereeded for
him, and the actor being necessary to the
success of the theatrical season, the
dread decree was revoked.
The farm of N. L. SulliVant, ESQ, OF
county, Illinois, consists Of
10000 acres, %, ,006 acres of which are
under fence and in active cultivation, IS
said to be the largest farm in the world.
Much of the work is done by machinery.
He drives his posts by horse power, e1lti-
Yates his corn by machinery, bitches,
sows and pants by machinery. so that all
his laborers can ride and perform. their
duties. Mr.. S. gives employment to two
hundred farm hands, two hundred horses,
and large number of oxen.
The university of Michigan IS now the
largest University in this country. con-
tanning one thousand and ffty-one stu
dents, distributed as follows: Medical de-
partment, four hundred and thirty-six
law, three hundred literary, two hun
lred and sixty-fve. Three new assistant
professors have been appointed, one in
each department. The institution is well
and tuition free The admin
stration of President Haven has been
eminently successful.
j. W. Ziglsr, of Rolling Prairie, Ind,
made the following results in fattening
fifteen hogs: He fed the hogs 42 days, US
ing 5000 pounds of corn, or 100 bushels.
He gained 4,770 pounds of pork, which
brought in Chicago $1S5 IS, or Sl4j IS
more than the cost of the corn Thus
he got nearly 81 sc bushel for the corn
BY feeding it, aud saved the manure be
tides, which would enable him to produce
It least twenty bushels extra of corn the
next year.
The leading New England Colleges are
advancing the standard of qualifications
or admission. At the firsto commence
ment examination at Yale College, a ma
ority of the applicants were rejected
0ut of one hundred and nineteen only
ifty-two were admitted. After a rigid
one hundred and six were
admitted at the opening of the present