The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

n ia nU VI OipSiSS are NlsiIlHg Del
fast, Maine.
1t is proposed again to nominal,
Mr.: Gladstone to represent Oztorc
University.
The Ocean House, at Newport
cleared $4,000 in two months.
Three -cornered visiting cards are
the latest style.
An Oxford professor is writing the
life of Queen Elizabeth.
Brooklyn's valuation is s16l. BIZ
$50.
Board is 50 so per week in North
Carolina.
The British royal family cost the
country $50, 100000 annually.
A beggar died recently in Rome
worth 100000.
Five hundred perfumes are sold in
this country.
A large black bear has been seen
In the woods near Davenport, Della.
ware County, n. Y.
A man ninety years old applied at
the Health Office, San Francisco, to
be vaceinated, recently.
A flash of lightning lasts only the
one mllllonth part of a second, ac-
e9rdIng to AragO, the celebrated
French savant.
A lady from a New York State
town Is made brilliant by 100000
worth of diamonds.
Over 100000 copies of Disraeli's
novels have been sold since he became
Premier.
Dayton, Ohio, annually manufae-
lures 1900 gallons of linseed oil,
worth 81. 100000.
Sun-dried oysters, cured like beef.
hanging in the sun, are becoming an
important article of traffic in Cali
fornia.
The poetical works of the late
Miles O'Reilly," edited by his friend
Savage, are in press.
A new statue of Commodore Perry
is to be unvailed in Newport on the
22d inst.
Saratoga hotels have yet about 800
guests. The season will, probably,
close the first week in October.
Susan White, aged log years, died
In Philadelphia last week.
Professor of the accumulative
art is the California term for
thieves.
Imitation pearls for dress trim
mings and necklaces are much in
vogue.
Browning's longest poem in the
language will shortly appear.
A flying cat has been found in In
dia.
The circulation of Rochefort's Ian
teTHe has increased to 120, 900 copies
since its removal to Belgium.
Planchette is now being made of
glass. The inventor of the game has
realized $4,000.
Among the new novels in London,
are Sweet Anne Page" by Mortimer
Collins. and Three Wives by the
author of Margaret and her Brides
maids"
An Edinburgh paper says: we
regret IT, find that the announcement
of the death of MIR. W is ma
liclous fabrication"
An. eighteen year old miss, lately
from one of the fashionable watering
places, says there is nothing mean
about her lover. He has given her an
$4,000 ring as a souvenir.
M Girardin wants France to go to
war for her natural limi ts"-the
Rhine.
Rome is troubled with a strike
among the bakers.
A DIR. Hirsh, of Rotterdam, has
discovered method for making deaf
mutes both hear and speak. TU
The street robbers, with whom
London is infested just now, have hit
upon a new dodge. A rufian stoops
down, as if In the act of tying his
shoe, and then suddenly bouncing up
butts his head violently into the
stomach of pedestrian who is pass
ing by, and sends him head over
heels. Confederates then pounce
upon their victim and fleece him of
his money.
An old man was choked to death
In Philadelphia, on Saturday, by try
ing to swallow larger piece of meat
than would pass his throat.
A brilliant lady at a ball in Sara;
toga, sent TO a newspaper correspond
ent q memorandum of the size OF her
waist and the expense of her toilet.
A new society, composed of literary
men and artists, has been formed in
Paris, under the name of Les ABlis de
Nous MeBles. Young Dumas, Octave
Feuillet, and Theophile Gautier are
members.
Madagascar's Queen was buried in
a silver box valued at las, 900 francs.
Her jewels, dresses, furniture, &C.,
and also box full of piasters, which
fifteen men were required to carry,
were also buried with her.
The patent safety coffin was adj
vertised under the head of Amuse-
ments in the New York Times last
week.
1t is said short dresses will be in
vogue for parties aud balls next
Winter.
In the papal army there are more
than 1000 married Dutchmen, whose
wives and children are supported by
the authorities in Holland. Recently
the latter requested Cardinal Anto-
nelli to withhold half of the pay of
the Zouaves for the support Of the
families, wEereupon the veterans
threatened to desert if the demand
was agreed to. Their threat settled
the matter.
The involuntary transportation of
words by actors on the stage are some