Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-30
News of the Day.

s3Ms GENERAL NEWS.
GOLD closed in New York Saturday eve
ming, at 1S6. 1 go @egrT TEgDE
THE London Times declares that it is tthe
Intention. of the. Queens Government to
awithdraw, at no distant time, all British
troops from the American Continent
.HxIEADozEN superb sharks wereon sale
at the Paris fish market, during one day
zsonly, lately. The shark is now an article
Of diet in Paris. ESz9&1
THE boom in the Susquehanna, at Lock
Haven, was broken through on Thursday,
and it is estimated that about ten million
feet oflumber were lost thereby. : = =
MR. D1NcER has succeeded in making
Photographic portraits on collodlon so
small that they are wholly invisible to the
naked eye, and 10000 portraits may be in
2trodaced In square inch. 3sa ia55
The Missouri river is higher than at any
time since the great flood of IA, and is still
rising. There has been already great de-
struction of property, and great fears are
entertained that there will be still greater.
TIE San Francisco Eoening Bulletin Of the
25th Of March announces the safe arrival
in that city of Mollie Trussell from Cbica-I
20. Il appears from this that the lcelebra-
ted murderess of George Trussen failed to
find the convent of tho Good Shepherd in
New York. Aes's
q THE alloys of steel with platinum, when
both are in a state of fusion, are very per-
feet In every portion that has been tried.
Equal parts by weight form beautiful
alloy, which takes fine polish and does
not tarnish; the color is the finest imagina-
bic for mirror.
zzuTHE PaH MaH Gazette says that royal
ordinance, published at Berlin on the 18th
of March, taxes the allowance of the North
German Parliament at fifteen francs per
day, The members of that Parliament are
also to be paid the cost of first-class places
, in the trains to Berlin going and returning.
This is a decided improvement upon the
American system of mileage. .H /
Tu5 rWIiIIE ship laden with corn was lately
being discharged in the port of Antwerp,
ar. immense swarm of rats gof enormous
size rushed from the hold and invaded the
neighberfng vessels, warehouses and hab-
1sitations. The -workmen were obliged to
retreat to give passage to those unwelcome
strangers. as3T IL .G80Yka
PRINCE KANG, the actual ruler of China,
refused to allow the English there to build
q araflroad., His reason in opposition were
that the prejudices of the people were very
isstrong; the country of Confucius differed
from. the wild, semi-barbarous and lprimi-
tive regions of Europe, whose inhabitants
were comparatively of recent origin,
whereas the .fowery kingdom was under
elaborate culture, and the occupations of
theinhabitants we're peculiar. bss@z
NOTHING can show in more striking col
ors the low condition of French statesman
ship than,a proposition; which a large ma
iority of the Senate referred to ministers
! as worthy OF favorable consideratio ationAa
petition, or proposition, that all private
manufactures of lucifer matches should
suppressed, and that the State should
have monopoly of making safety match
es by q peculiar preparation or phospho-!
rus.
Z ONE of the novelties spoken of in con-
nectien with the international exposition
is q society. for purchasing and conduct
ing the business Of NadIr's balloon LIE
sGeant. 1T is proposed to have luneheons
In the air for seventy people. at rather
elevated scale of charges, of course. The
distance at which the gastronomic proceed
iHgs viii take place is five hundred metres
high, on the fste day of Napoleon. 1t will
make night ascent, and fireworks will
be let of.
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