The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-12-09
Miscellaneous Items.

As1Sos
Iris proposed to make the term of
service n the French army nine years. I
GEN. THOMAS las issued an order
forbidding soldiers or officers in his
department from receiving presents
for doing any act that is in the line
of their duty.
THERE are two black men 10 George
town, D. O., each worth fifty thousand
dollars. One is teamster and the
other keeps feed store.
THE New York Independent has
been enlarged to sixty-fOur columns,
making it the largest newspaper in
America.
THE ve-y latest fashion at New
York, is for parties who are to be
married in church, to rehearse the
whole ceremony day or two in ad-
vance, music and all.
THE Rev. S. Baker Wesley went
from London to the Feejee Islands as
missionary, but when he got there
the Feejeeans impaired his future
usefulness by eating him.
ACCOUNTS from Alexandria state
that English troops had arrived at
Suez. There were 10000 mules in
Egypt awaiting transportation to
Abyssinia.
THE New York Herald says: John
Mitchell, when he came to America,
wanted nothing but a plantation and
lot of good fat negroes. Richard
O'Gorman, his compatriot, wanted
nothing but a Tammany tomahawk
and a good fat Office. Mitchell failed;
O'Gorman succeeded.
THE New Orleans Times, only two
years old, has an income of nearly one
hundred ard fifty thousand dollars
per annum.
LETTER CARRIERS are to be uni
formed. The idea was suggested by
Postmaster Kelley, of New York, on
his recent visit to Europe, upon
whose recommendation the Postmas-
ter General directed the New York
letter carriers to be uniformed.
JAY Cooke, the great banker. was
born in Sandusky, Ohio. and is forty
five years of age His father was one
of the earliest settlers of the place, a
lawyer by profession, and at one time
a member of Congress.
The author of Tom Brown"
tasted pumpkin pie for the first time
at the Paris Exposition, and describes
it as an affair of clammy, tough, cold
paste, spread over with a sweet but
doubtful mash; and he trusts never
to meet with it again"
THE Springfield (Mo.) Patriot says
combination of capitalists, the
wealthiest ever organized in this
country for railroad purposes, will,
on the assembling of the Legislature,
submit proposition to the State for
building the Southwestern Pacific
! Railroad.
-"LLow has been arrested in
London for acting as a trainer of
I .'.u' h'ul thieves. 1t was shown that
he had school and gave regular les
sons in roguery.
A YOUTH, appropriately named
Franklin, and aged thirteen years, is
said by the London Mechanics MGg1-
zine to have discovered a mode of
causing a vacuum without condensa-
ton, which will save half the fuel
hitherto used in working steam en-
gines-
IHE statistics of European rail-
ways, show that the absolute risk of
a persons losing his life in a railroad
car, is less than that of being struck
by lightning, or being hanged; that a
passenger shooting along by steam
power, at the rate of seventy-tWo
miles per hour, is more secure from
bodily injury than the pedestrian in a
crowded city, or a gentleman driving
his private carriage on a country
road.
The Florence correspondent of the
Lt6erte says Mazzini is master of the
situation. Within two years, if Vic
tor Emanuel f1inches from making
War with France" his motto, MAJ
zini will receive the heritage of the
King. Every Garibaldian is now a
Mazzinian. Mazzini's proclamations
are affixed to the walls of Florence;
the police tear them down, but they
are Immediately replaced. The stu
| dents read them aloud In the streets
to applauding audiences. Turin is
ready for the barbados; at Naples
there is wild carnival.
THE candle 6sh is very common on
the coast of British Columbia. Some
idea of its marvellous fairness NAV be
cleaned from the fact, that the narives
use it as lamp, the light being very
considerable. The fish, when dried
has piece of rush pith, or a strip
from the inner part of a cypress tree,
drawn through it-a long needle,
made of hard wood, being used for