Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-08
NEWS OF tn heDay.s
GENERAL NFws

GENERAL NFWS
t,oLp closed in New York yesterday at
1t07s.
Mr.. EDWIN NORRIS has just published
in England the firstvolume of dictionary
of the cuneiform character and language
of Assyria. Not more than fifty persons
living are scholars enough to use 1t, and
only one other person besides himself could
have prepared the dictionary.
"THAr man who pays more for his rent
than for his advertising does not know his
business" This maxim of an experienced
and successful merchant is incontroverti-
BILE. 1t matters less to have fine store
than that everybody should know where 1t
is and what is in 1t.
The Independenee Beige believes there is
no example of such excessive and longeon-
tinued heat in the month Of May as that
which has Just visited Paris. According
TO the bulletin of the Brussels observatory,
the maximum temperature of the month
has been 30 degrees cent (s6 Fahr), and
the minimum Is degrees (55 2.5 Fahr)
A CORRESPONDENT of the Glasgo,o Scots
man calls attention to an act of vandalism.
He says that the shaft of cross, which for
centuries marked the point whence Robert
Bruce and his followers left Arran, has
lately been removed and used in the con-
struction. in the neighborhood, of dry
stone dyke.
THE new species of potato bug, known
as the aten-line sspearman," which crea ted
such havoc in Eastern Illinois last year. is
making its appearance In very large num-
bers in some sections of Western Indiana.
About Laporte some farmers are plowing
under their vines In other parts, Stacked
lime sprinkled over the vines has been
found to act successfully.
IT appears that the Emperor of China is
termed in official papers "Hwang-ti." or
August Sovereign, but this is a personal
title and does not refer to his office. The
word "Ti,n meaning ruler or sovereign,
probably refers to this, but it is never used
alone, but always with some qualifying ad-
iective, such as Heavenly" Sacred" or
august" The Emperor calls himself
Chin. 7-nlsz ~. s6-ef1s
IT has been found, while firing at the
'srunning- man target, at Wimbledon, Eng
land, which is scarlet on one side and gray
on the other, that the scarlet dazzles the
eve, and is hence the most difficult to hit,
from leaving a red streak behind it, which
unsettles the aim. The gray side was struck
seventy -four times and The red only forty !
two times. It is curious fact, too, that
those with gray eyes hit fairer than those
with eyes of other colors. ssvis,sr .ppL
MISS LAURA ScHAFFER, daughter of Mr..
Christian Schaffer, an old citizen OF Alex
andria, Va, while going down stairs on
Saturday evening with a coal oil lampsin
her hand, caught her heel in the step and
was precipitated to the bottom. The lamp
was broken, and the oil taking fire, soon
wrapped her in flames, and she sustained
injuries from which she died in a few hours.
Soon after Charles Tennesou, young man
to whom she was betrothed, rendered
frantic by the shock, shot himself through
the right temple. q sas,-azss ~ no
A BRILLIANT METEOR was seen at Mil,
waukee, Wisconsin, on Thursday last. 1t
was first discovered in the South and West,
and seemed travelling at an altitude of sixty
degrees, and quite rapidly. northward and
eastward. 1t resembled ball of fire, and
was ofsuficient brillianey to be noted dis
tinctIy in its travel, even at daylight, and
in remarkably clear weather. 1t passed
over the lake with a kissing sound, like
shell in its flight, and exploded only few
feet above the water. The explosion was
like that OF roc ket, but the report was
much louder, and the fire was seen scatter
ing in every direction, some balls flying
nearly fifty feet, and then disappea ring.