Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-01
Paragraphs from the Boston Post.


ScHooLMAAMs are in great demand in
California. --l.i,-r -. -..--.ti
THE city of Rome has grown 5000 in
population the past year. r-'r . sti
ONE of the mostdisagreeable wavs of wo-
nen-To weigh two hundred.-N. Y. Eu.
Gee.
TwENTY-NINE States are represented in
Yale College, beside half dozen foreign
countries.
GEN. LOGAN is said to be skilIful vio-
linist. He played on one string only in
Ohio, and that snapped.
The Menken has forsaken Dumas and
gone to London.
"rHE pleasures of the Chase" Trying
jeff. Davis.-Er. :
CRUEL scandal says that Jenny Lind has
shrewish temper.
= LOUIS NAPoLEoN's model tenement houses
are a failure. The workmen call them
barracks, and will not live in them if they
can get rooms elsewhere. . ... - =
. LOGAN has been sick with chills and fever
since tie Ohio election. The 'shakes'' is a
prevalent disease among his party Just
now. .v -:r -.. =. - .i-'-s
The New York Radicals have levied a
two or three per cent. assessment upon the
salaries of the postoffice clerks tor campaign
purposes. T. 10 Hg'T'. t =
"An English politician" is quoted as say
ing that the Prince of Wales will never
come to the throne ii England keeps on as
she is now going.
A WILD genius has found a scheme for
laying railway to Europe. He would
dig up mountains and dump them into the
ocean to make the road-bed.
The Times says that, if the rebels do not
actually capture the Chinese capital, they
are least going to peek in.
( i The New York newspapers who have
been troubled with striking printers are
about introducing female compositors,
whose blows will of course be lighter.
The poor pilot who was drowned by the
upsetting of the Imperial boat near Biar-
ritz, left six children, all of whom Eugene
has taken under her charge.
A rapid transition from the bridal to the
bier was that of fellow who was married
in the morning and picked up dead drunk
en- lager in the evening. -'t
The Memphis Avalanche says that Brown
low will make a fair representative of all
that is bad in our body politic.'' ..-
A Radical paper admits that s'the main
difficulty has been and is the incapacity of
Congress to attend to business" .
A New York Sunday paper gives list
of men in that city who have made large
fortunes by the war. 1t occupies four
columns.
Bradley got up the Radical ticket for
delegates from Savannah, which is half
black and halt white, with esq" added to
the names of the blacks only.
A young woman in Keene, N. H., thought
to kill her mother, and undertook to do it
by battering her face with water dipper,
and biting her fingers. She was unsuccess-
tul in her tilial attempt. .- 81
The Rritish Parliament N, oatc on tbo 1otl,
proXimo to sanction the Abyssinian expe-
dition, which is rather risky business for
the ministry to undertake ON its own au-
thority.
Manager Jarrett, they say, got into
trouble at Vienna, for running ballet girls
from the Imperial Opera House. His ar
rest was ordered, but he managed to escape
to Paris with his fair charges.
The Ne,o York Herald thinks State Sena-
tor Humphrey ought to go to prison, be-
cause it is "a mean job for Senator to sell
himself so low as five hundred dollars, and
is improperly depressing the market for
Assemblymen and lobbymen.'
Mrs. Yelverton declines to read her love-
letters, already published in public. She
says they are 1.-The first outburst of young
heart, the first bloom of the plum, the first
perfume of the bud" written by the sill
very moonbeams that light the shores of
the classic Mediterranean" and she ga
nameless wanderer, unknown, ,uncared for,''
can't do it.
There will be no conversion of the South
to New England ideas so long as New
England bayonets hold the white men of
South subject to their late slaves. Estab-
lish equal rights there, and here, too, with
out regard to color. and then we may hope
to win respect for our ideas, for we shall
show that we are honest in them and re-
spect them ourselves.-Sprinqfeld Republi-
can.