The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-11-17

niles. His tour was chiefly spent IN
south America and South Africa. In
5he latter country he travelled over SIX
thousand miles in carts.
a correspondent requests rs to look
at the thirtieth chapter of Lake. We
should be pleased to, but the dehcien-
oy In Luke's literary labors renders 1T
impossible.-BostOn Post.
John Russell and wife, of West
Concord, New Hampshire, have been
married seventy-two years, and have
ffty-four great-grandohildren. and
one great great-grandehiid.
A Russian Count found noted
tenor clandestinely visiting his wife,
and in revenge made the singer sit at
the piano and perform opera airs for
FIVE hours under cover of his pistol.
The New York EUening Post
thinks Mr.. Peabody was worth one |
million six hundred thousand dollars,
but it would have been entirely safe |
In setting the amount at ten times |
that sum.-Boston AdUertiser.
There are FIVE hundred and fifty
young American students at the
various German universities, and
more than one thousand other Ameri-
can boys and girls attending the high
er schools and educational instltu-
tons in Germany.
A, T. Stewards marble dwelling on
Fifth Avenue will be finished next
Spring. The walls inside are subdued
in color, in order to harmonic with
the blue-veined marble. The doors
are of rosewood, and each window
will consist of single pane of French
plate glass.
Mile. de Gorion is female gymnast
in one of the London concert halls.
Her function is to launch herself into
the air from platform, burst through
double paper balloon, and be caught
by one of her brothers who hangs
suspended from the trapeZe with his
head downward.
Several of the London papers had
their articles on Lord Derby in type
before he died, and some of them
printed obituary notices In advance.
One weekly remarked that the Earl
was not dead, but that he would be,
probably, before the paper reached its
readers, and then proceeded to speak
of his Lordship ia the past tense.
Of the two hundred and sixty-six
members of the Vermont Legislature,
151 are farmers, 30 are lawyers, D cler-
gymen, 8 physicians. % merchants, )
editors; 73 are Congregationallsts. AZ
Methodists, II Episcopalians, 81 Uni
versalists, 81 of no religious prefer
ence, and pa natives of the State
Nine only were born out of New Eng.
land.
A young man rooming in Boone
Block, Chicago, ate ten.cent pippin
just before going to bed, and shortly
after midnight rushed in undress to
the janitor, exclaimiug: For Gods
sake, go for a doctor, quickly; L am
dying; [ have been poisonedP' He
performed violent gymnastics for an
hour, when, mustard having been ap.
/ piled, his collie disappeared.
: Liebig says that science has demon,
strated that man is formed Of con.
densed air; that he lives on condensed
as we'll as uncondensed air; and
! clothes himself In condensed air; tina
! he prepares his food by means Of con
. densed air, and by means of the Same
|
the velocity of the wind. In fact
that wind is man and man is wind.
( Chicago needs, more than anything
? else, ten thousand Cinnamon to act a.
domestics. Such a thing as a good
e well-trained servant is no more to b.
found here than living specimen o.
5 the mound builders. The few female
r servants that may be found are mainly
r interested in area and back door hirt
: ations, with a view to early matri.
, mony.- Chicago Times.
When the Indian goods for tn,
= Brules and Ogalallas were recently
! distributed at the Milestone Agencl
! in Dakota Territory, Big Mouth" {
self-constituted Chief, from NortI
Platte, had much to say. He wal
drunk; IL fact he was never known tt
G be sober when he could get whisky
g Tail, was present, and slightly intox
icated. big Mouth +" had a grea
deal to say to Mr.. Spotted Tail ;
about unfairness, &c, when the latte
struck him In the mouth with an In
dian pipe stem, and felled him to tn,
II earth. Only stopping to tell hin
that he was fool, he drew his pisto
r and shot Is Big Mouth through the
head, killing him instantly.
It having been rumored that Per,
|. Hyacinthe was about to issue an ad
dress to the Catholics of America, G
,, reporter waited upon that distin.
guished gentleman at the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel. last evening, with the in
q tention of procuring-if possible
' copy Of the document. The worthy
father was at dinner, and could no
receive visitors. A note. in French
:, was sent in to him, but no notice wa
c taken of it, The reporter, there
fore, determined to see the PER-
himself, and, with bad manners, as
i sailed him at the table with interro
cations. to all of which Hyacinthe re
sponded: Z" have no reply to make.
: The reporter piled his questions, sub
It hitting the gentleman to a regular
fire Of cross questions. At ever!
!, pause the same answer was returned
! with the utmost good nature. A
last, IN despair. the Knight Of the
quill babe the Father Good even
y ing" The latter was just on The
Q point Of uttering his have no reply
to make" when he remembered him
G self. and politely wishing jenkins
9 farewell. resumed his meal.-N. Y
Commercial Advertiser.