The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-04
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in the shape of child with three
noses.
Two men have agreed to skate one
hundred miles on the Hudson, for
81 900 side.
THE first New Years sunrise
prayer meeting was held in 18lo, IN
Pittsfeld, Mass
Only one unmarried man is to be
found in the Minnesota Legislature
In New York city there are six
hundred and fifty restaurants with
drinking bars. af
THE Dickens article in the North
eTn Monthly has been attributed to
| fifteen different authors.
ONE hunter in Kent County, Onta-
rio, killed forty deer this winter.
THE transfer of Maximilian's corpse
cost $240, 900.
THE forty-six banks of Boston
have SAG, 100000 capital.
A SUCCESSOR to Bishop Hopkins is
to be elected at Burlington, VT,
March IL.
/ 1--WE operas by Felicien David are
soon, to be brought out In Milan;
They are called : Lalla Rookh e and
Ercolane." 8s4a 81 1 +
A STATE dinner recently given in
Vienna, continued twelve hours;
There were twenty nine courses and
fifty different kinds of wine.
& A GENTLEMAN in Detroit has pair
q of lady's shoes one hundred and
tAenty-five years old. The toes come
to asharp point.
A WOMAN in Clermont, France,
wishing to kill herself, saturated her
clothes with kerosene, and then set
herself on fire.
NEAR Rosenberg, Bohemia, a very
valuable bed of garnets of CONSIDER
! able size and several tints has been
discovered recently. asFsa aases Fl
A HOME for aged men is to be open
ed in New York as soon as a sufficient
sum is guaranteed to make 1t a sue
! cess. s.a4v a.ts 81
AMONG the one hundred and forty
n conviets in the State Penitentiary OF
s South Carolina there are eight negro
preachers. a#s
THREE hundred thousand copies Of
Morton's great speech on The Is
sues of 1868 = have been ordered.
AN athlete in Chattanooga has car.
2 ried barrel Of -four under each arm
upwards. of sixty meters-two hun
10 dred feet. s..as..s 81
A NEGRO in Augusta took so grea
g -, Il
new horse railway that he sold M
is watch and spent all the avails in rid
v ing on them.
The California tax on foreigl
miners last year was but $76,OOl
p which was levied chiefly on the Chi
nese.
ALADY in Paris recently found
bracelet worth thirty thousand francs
In her muff, at the opera, and she doe
not know how it got there.
THE University of Deseret has de
- cided to introduce phonotyplc char
}" acters and spelling into the publ
schools of Utah. s
AS FAR south as Texas the sno
has been unusually heavy. Titu
County, Texas, has had an inch and
half of the white dressing.
HALF a century. ago the New Yor
Post Office establishment was run
ere a single room of a private dwelling
corner of Garden and William Street
by one man and boy besides tt
Postmaster ff5ssf HoT
SEVEN towns in Minnesota la
year erected school houses costir
S. $189.OO0. Two other towns now pr,
pose to build school houses at co
I. of about $4,000.
o. THE New Orleans Picayune sa.
that SO long as. whisky maintains
present price, and can be found
every cross road, there should be I
'eo' fear expressed as to starvation.
REGARDING the gregarious masc
line tendency which manifests itself
club life, writer in the atlantic say
0ht 1.-The Turks build harems FOR the
women; but we find it necessary
abandon to women our abodes, ar
construct harems. for ourselves"
AMONG new books which will 500
MAJ MAJ be published, are a new romance,
,en- Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe; "
our ume of stories,l by Edward Evert
and Hale a volume of adventures duril
the war, by Colonel I. w. Higglnso
ny and memoir of Uric -Dahlgren,
co his father, the Admiral.
The baggage masters at the depc
of the New York Central Railro
DIS. are required to collect twenty Fl
cents for eaehaDiece of baggage Il