The Evansville journal., 1868-02-18

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The births in England are now one
thousand per day ahead of the deaths.
Miles O'Reilly says that Butler
started the story about Grants bibu-
losity. aia SEQ
A New York paper wants Anna
Dickinson ito speak out like man. :.
g Albert Pike has been delivering
Masonic address in New Orleans.
ia Nasty has another lecture. entitled
+" "TheaEverlasting Nlgger:: 900
John G. Breckenridge has gone to
the Holy Land. , ne.v
a William w. Burwell has become
editor of DeBO10's Revies0.
John Brougham has leased the new
Richmond, Virginia, Theatre
Tom Hughes is writing history of
King Alfred.
y Edwin Booths receipts the last
season have averaged $1,000 week.
y Queen Victoria's 5 jewels are said
to be worth $5.0OO,0OO.
Julius Caesar" is the last of
Shakespeare's plays which. has been
made into an opera.
J In the new volume ofpoetry by the
Hon. Robt. e. Lytton, there is one
sentence occupying thirty-two lines.
Prof. Blot has raised a breeze in
New York with his eating-house
PROJECT. nlsi sa na uaa
n Bryant is going to prepare me-
mortal paper on the life and genius Of
Fitz Greene Halleck.
The battle of Long Island was
fought August 2, l776, on the spot
now known as Greenwood Cemetery.
Although Bryant wrote his
" Thanatopsis" when very young, he
spent more than year In producing
it, it is said. sab-s g4A 4a
Madame Ristori was called before
the curtain five times on the occasion
of her first appearance In Havana.
IS Henry Taylor's Phillip Van
ArteveIde'a has passed to its eighth
edition. 9d saI taaaa i.s1usnt
Winnie Ream is sculping an allie
aorical piece which represents North,
South. East. and West in feminine
figures. esss n s5as sE s-sta #
Thad. Stevens is only kept alive by
tonicS and stimulants. He Is carried
to the House every day, sa8s .o3
Robert Lincoln, son Of the late
President. is reported to be engaged
to be married to a daughter Of ex-
Senator Harris. $ AZ
Eugenie has a passion for shop
ping beyond any woman in Paris,
where the mantua mania is universal.
At ball in New York gsw even
ings ago, some of the ladies had three
servants to hold up the trails. of their
dresses.
The young ex- King of Naples is an
inveterate card player. He devotes
about eight hours day to this useful
and agreeable occupation. ga
Does it follow that George Francis
Train intends to become a niger
minstrel because he was recently
"Corked up?'
The New York Central Park is to
have fourteen of those Texas Camels.
aud they are now on their way to that
city.
Rev Henry Ward Beecher gave an
entirely new lecture, at Pixies Opera
House, New York, last week.
The French Prince Imperial, who is
a great subject of gossip IS said to be
losing his beauty. His nose IS long,
his eyes are gray, and he Is short In
/ stature,
A Kansas woman 's-righter says Su-
san Anthony fell In love with Train
and sacrificed the cause to her afec-
ton Such spite must be due to
jealousy.
Mrs. E. Cady Stanton, editor of
the ReUolution, made a speech the
other day in Washington in favor OF
peace. How can she be for peace
and lead the ReUolutionR . ~
There is report, on what claims
to be good authority, that Hugh Has
tings. Of Albany, has purchased Thur
low Weeds interest in the CONNER
cial AdVertiseY.
/ z It is now reported that Dickens S
/ readings In this country are not at
his own risk; that he receives a GER
tain salary and somebody else reaps
the profits or losses. of tie specula-
| ton.
Bur,eigh writes to the Boston
Journal that Mr.. Weed IS going tC
write a volume of his political career
! and experience Mr.. Weed has de