The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-05-17

The cost in the change of war material,
and preparation of new material to all the
powers of Europe; will be twenty millions
sterling. p slf aearr .-a 5f .9i
Fourteen hundred ladies of the London
bon ton have signed document sIgniiyiDg
their intention to abstain from shopping after
two o'clock on Saturdays
The American yachts, Henrietta, Fleettcing,
and Vesta, which have been laid up at Cowes
during the winter, are about 10 be fitted out
to go to sea for the summer season.
An inventive Frenchman has patented a
fan which NAV be used as an offensive wea-
non by ladies, as the ends are, by turn Of
the handle, thrust out and become pointed.
"A few of the captured Austrian guns have
been melted down for the purpose ofmaking
medals for the Prussian soldiers, and they
are said to have turned out to be made OF
copper aud lead, instead of the usual gun
metal, which is a compound of copper and
tin. D '.4S
A French newspaper recently announced
that none of its subscribers died OF the chol-
era, that few of its subscribers were Pock-
marked, aud these were subscribers for only
/ three months, and that three only were bald,
and they were in arrears with their subscrip-
ton. 2'' '1l''
The General Omnibus Company, Paris, in
consequence of the. extra traffic for the Ex-
hibition, are about to start omnibusses con-
tanning fifty places. No addition is to be
made to the present fare, viz: three sous
from the Palais Royal to the Exhibition.
|
A Paris correspondent tells tough story
about some tough iron at the exhibition. A
niece as long and thick as a carriage pole Is
lied in knot like ribbon, without the
slightest crack or flaw, Railway bars are
likewise bent double without break. This
| is done while the iron is cold.
MANY slip betwixt the cup and the Gp,
\ was exemplifed by. the fact that safe with
some thousand of francs, was lately stolen
| from the British Consulate at Hayre. The
safe was found, and the thieves had only Just
been able to force the door, 50 as to see the
money, without being able to touch it. They
were surely punished enough.
In an auto-biographical work, by William
| Jordan. founder, and for thirty years editor
| of the London Literary Gazette, he mentions
that Hoods "Song of the Shirt" was begun,
and so far proceeded with, under the title of
/ The Tale of Shirt" before the ludicrous
egIiuo0ate struck the intense mind of the au-
thorl Such a title certainly might have
created the reverse of grave association.
There is one department Of The Paris Ex-
position where any one desiriOus of looking
out for squalls may safely rely upon finding
them. 1t is a nursery on a large scale, where
all the children under three years OF age, be-
! longing to the women employed in the build
ing. will be fed and attended gratuitously by
a large and competent force of professional
nurses. This kindergarten is really kind
of sensible idea, and then it is so thoroughly
French. No other people would ever have
thought of such an institution.
On the 18th of April there was distress
ing scene at Horsemonger Lane jail London,
at the execution of James Longhurst young
man who murdered a little girl near Guild
ford under circumstances of great atrocity.
When the prisoner was brought out to be
n;nioned he wrestled with the turnkeys, and
/ the pinioning had to be done while he was
held down on the ground. When he got to
the scaffold he refused to stand under the
beam. and, after much struggling in the sight
of the crowd, he was held in position until
the rope was adjusted and the bolt drawn.
The scene is spoken of as horrible.
The Indian Daily Ne1Os, an East India
journal, says: ave have been requested to
draw attention to monster solar hat, pat
ented recently. The hat measures twenty
seven inches in length, twenty-five inches IN
breadth. and is twelve inches deep; not only
large enough to protect the head against sun
stroke--its avowed purpose-but sufficiently
: large and buoyant, we should imagine, tC
, serve as a canoe on occasions of emergency
) We commend it to the consideration of al ii
want of really serviceable article. In oul
? travels in South Africa we have seen Kafh
. huts not very much larger"