The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-27
Interesting Items.

are in Paris-or coming, except Lib.
erty.
An Italian poet has written a poem
of nine hundred lines on strawber.
ries.
A party of Swiss laborers has ar
rived in Lynchburg. Va, and more
are coming.
In recent proclamation, Governo
BrownlOw describes murder as hay
ing large hair"
x st. Petersburg telegram states
that the river Neva was still froze n
over at the commencement of June.
The Parisians spend 153,OOO,O 600
francs annually for beef and mutton,
$1,000, 900 for bread, and 202,000.O 600
for wine and beer.
Whenever President of the Uni
ted States visits Boston, Harvard
College invariably, we believe, confers
an honorary degree upon the incum~
bent of the Office.
Hon. Henry Wilson has been invit-
ed and is expected to deliver the ora
ton before the literary societies of
Amherst College during Commence
ment week-the second in July.
Steel your heart, said a consid-
crate father to his son, g for you are
now going among fascinating girls" -
: would rather steal theirs" said
the unpromising young man."
II believe that mine will be the
fate of Abel" said a wife to her hus-
band one day. Why SOP" inquired
tho b,ohopJ
killed by a club, and your club will
every night.
- can't find bread for my family"
said lazy man in company. Nor
IT, said an industrious fellow; Il
am obliged to work for it,
A gentleman once asked a little
girl, an only. child, how many sisters
she had, and was told three or
four" Her mother asked Mary, when
they were alone. what had induced
her to tell such an untruth. : why, |
mamma" cried Mary, / didn't want
him to think you were SO poof that
you hadn't but one child
At a-funeral in Brooklyn, last
Monday, the mourners quarreled over
the merits of the deceased; from
words they came to blows, Grsr.i blows
to stabs, then the fight became gen.
eral, and sticks, whips, stones, and
knives were employed, to the wound
ing of fourteen persons, four OF them
seriously.
Adolph Rosenthal, the Prussian
Consul for Milwaukee, has just COM
pleted a long and elaborate report
for the year 1866, exhibiting the pop.
ulation, prosperity and resources of
Wisconsin, and it's advantages as a
State for settlement from abroad. The
report is official and will be published
by the Prussian Government in its
official journals
The tide of emigration has once
more set in in the iron and coal dis
tricts of South Wales, and hundreds
have already left and many more are
preparing to follow. AS was the case
in 1865 and 1866, fully eighty five to
ninety per cent. of the emigrants are
bound for the United States, and the
remainder are distributed over the |
various British colonies.
The city of Minneapolis is increas-
ing in population and business very |
rapidly. Several hundred new build |
ings will be erected this season. The
daily Chronicle and weekly Atlas have
consolidated, and new daily will be
issued under the name of the Mime
apolis Tribune, and promises to be a
leading paper of the State.
The Attorney General of Pennsyl-
vania has written an elaborate opin-
ion, declaring the lottery scheme au-
thorized by the Legislature of that
State for the benefit of the Gettys-
burg Soldiers Asylum, to be illegal,
criminal and demoralizing in its char
acteT.
Col. Forney writes from London
that he finds travelling by the under
ground railroad exceedingly agreea-
Bile; the carriages are at least as good
as those that course through the
upper air, are beautifully lighted with
gas, and as the engines condense their
steam, and use coke instead of coal,
- there is little escape of-smoke or va
por.
A confirmed votary of Bacchus,
residing in Bergamo, Italy, has dis
covered method, of self destruction
as strange as it is new. He made a
bet that he would break several hun
bred plates with his head, He did SO,
and won his wager; but on returning
home was seized with a burning fever.
His head swslied to a frightful size,
and he expired after some hours of
q exerueiating suffering. ~isi
A couple of Detroit clergymen have
procured tent capable of seating
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