Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-13
News of the Day.
GENERAL NEWS


(loLD closed in New York Saturday at
1411s.
A COMPRESSED air riveting machine is
now used, Weighing only % pounds, with
which an ordinary mechanic can do 4 riVets
of X inch diameter each per minute.
CURE FOR THE ITCH IN ANIMALs.-Ben-
zine, it is well known, will destroy parasi-
tic and other noxious insects, but is apt to
irritate the skin. By making an emulsion
of 10 parts benzine, of soap, and 80 OF
water, a solution will be obtained. not in
furious to the animal, but which by few
applications viii destroy effectually ring
worms, mango, letter, and other affections.
A weak solution of carbolic acid will prob
ably have an equally good effect.
A sELF-sTYLED Professor advertised an
entertainment In st. Louis, few nights
since, at which he was to expose the mys-
teries Of spiritual manifestations, allow
himself to be shot at with pistols, and let
the audience into all the secrets of Jug
glers. After appearing before the audience
and requesting those who desired to shoot
at him to prepare their pistols, he went be-
hind the stage curtain and has not yet been
seen. He obtained about two hundred dol
lars, and left his hall rent and printing bills
unpaid.
TIE Hungarian baby of the Empress of
Austria is not expected to live long. This
will be great disappointment to the Mag
yars, who, ever since the birth of the little
Princess, have taken the liveliest interest
in her welfare. Whenever the nurse shows
herself with the imperial baby in public,
she is enthusiastically cheered. The En-
press said recently to committee of the la
dies of PesLh. who called on her, that the
sympathy which the Hungarians now man
ifested for her and her child indemnifed
her for much OF the grief she had suffered
since she had been on the throne. As she
said so she burst into tears.
ONE of the seals (phoca uitulina) at the
Geological Gardens, London, recently gave
birth to young one, which was at first
covered with an abundance of fine silky
hair; this, as the animal wriggled about on
the ground, was entirely shed and formed
q dense blanket or rug, on which It lay. In
less than three hours the young phoca took
to the water and swan about actively, en-
deavoring to suck as the mother turned on
the side. Unfortunately, however, there
was no supply of milk, and the mother soon
after died since which time the young one
has been fed on milk and small portion of
cod liver oil, administered by means of a
feeding bottle. The young seal at birth
was thirty-two inches long, and weighed
twenty pounds.
AwTrrY and very popular Journalist of
Warsaw, M. Kieczewski, editor of the Sun
ddy Courier, has been Obliged to leave PO-
land by the intolerance of the Russian au-
thorities. Last year he married young
lady who was described in the register as a
Catholic, but who was the daughter of pa
rents protesting the Russian religion, and
should, therefore, by the Russian law, be-
long to that religion himself. The Gov
ernment, on sascertaining this, few days
ago, Immediately annulled the marriage, at
the same time condemning M. Kleczewski
to Punishment in Siberia, and his wffa to
five years imprisonment in a Russian con-
vent. Luckily M. Reczewski contrived to
make his escape abroad, together with his
wife and child, before the sentence was
executed.