Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-12

"A Connecticut lady sent forty eight
pound turkey to President johnson for New Years
gift
Why is rheumatism like glutton-Be-
| cause it attacks the joints
The fire alarm telegraph has just been
| introduced in Cincinnati.
The Richmond hotels are reducing their
rates to three dollars day.
Henry T. Colt, D. D., Rector of St. Paul's
School Concord has been elected President of Trinity
College, Hartford.
The Emperor Napoleon is said to be very
much pleased with some Iowa wine which was lately
sent him from this country.
Lydia Peacock, described as a blushing
maiden of 43, has obtained 5000 damages of Henry
Snel youth of II. for breach of promise
"A Raleigh paper says that the freedmen
are beginning to make contracts for this year. with
unexpected willingness, in many parts of North
Carolina.
"A fact highly honorable to typos is dis
closed by late report of the New York Inspector of
State Prisons while all other occupations are repre-
Sented IN their large number of eonvcts there is not
4 single printer.
"A comic Italian paper, called the Scossa
Electrical. publishes caricature representing the
cabinet ministers of Italy their knees before Patti
begging Of her to give performance in aid of the
finances Of the kingdom.
Mary" said a wise and witty old lady,
the other day to her granddaughter, what do Won
call that ugly bunch that hangs down behind your
head?" why, grandmother everybody knows it Is
waterfall "A waterfall, indeed p replied the
old lady, 1T looks for all the world like land
Side"
"A civil court in Houston, Texas, recently
fined restaurant keeper $50 and bound him over in
1000 for fogging a negro waiter The Judge in
passing sentence said he could make no distinction
account of COLOR and that all must be treated
alike before the law
An exchange gives reasons for not pub
fishing poetic efusion, as follows The rythm
sounds like pumpkins rolling over barn floor while
some lines appear to have been measured with
yard-stick and Others with ten-foot pole"
Queen Victoria's new son-in-law, Prince
Christian, barely escaped with his life from the Dover
mail steamer. which run into on the night of tho
18th ult, by Boston clipper bound to Cardiff Sew
era! lives were lost on that OCCASION among the
number Russian Count-name unknown.
An English paper says that robberies have
lately been of frequent occurrence in the Courts Of
Chancery. Not long ago shorthand writer had his
coat stolen before his eyes while taking judgment
OF the Lord Chancellor. He could not leave off
writing for fear of losing sentence, and could not
make disturbance for fear of committal for con-
tempt. AT another time reporter had small parcel
containing valuabes abStracted from his coat pocket
whilst taking judgment of the Lords Justices.
At the recent exhibition of the Mechanic
Association in Boston, Mr.. Trouvcot of Mcdford
Massachusetts, exhibited a box containing cocoons
and silk the product of native silk-worm, found hy
Mr. TrouvelOt in the woods some six years ago. H.
began his experiments with pair of worms in de-.
and continued propagating four years until he b
large socA on hand: two years since he began nro-
pagatnG IN the open air and perfectly successful
The worms are hardy, living in the open airand fed
ing on the leaves of trees in the forests such s L
walnut, birch, chesnut and willow,