The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-10-14
TOPICAL NOTES

in Swedish.
IN the State University of Iowa there are
this year 10 pills more than ever before.
SOME fishermen recently caught eish-
teen bu-hels of cells at Easton, Pennsyl- !
vsnis.
WILLIAM PETERSON, the twenty-third VIC |
tim of the State Fair disaster, died at In.
dianaporis on Monday.
B1sBoP NJ. DE st. PALLAIs left vincennes
for Rome, to attend the EcumenIcAI Coun- |
Gil, on Monday.
BILL I eat a good deal of nsh now;
they say its good for the brain" at If.
Well John, I'll buy you whale"
A BAR of railroad iron sixty-three feet
long v as rolled at New Albany on Satur-
day. 1t required thirty men to handle 1t.
THE turnpike fever has broken out in
Clark County. Some three or four are
I projected.
A CHAPTER from Mr.. HoweIFs forthcom-
| ing book Will be one of the attractions Of
the November number of the Atlantic.
THE valuable library of the Rev. DR..
Sears, late President of Brown University,
win soon be sold at auction In Boston.
THE title of the Hon. " Sunset F" Cox's
new volume is, very appropriately,
Searching after Sunbeams." 1t is in
press In London.
BRIGHAM Young says there are three
preachers In America he wants to hear
preach in his tabernacie-ChapIn, Collyer
and Beecher.
THE amount of lumber surveyed at Ban
COR, Maine, thus far this year is thirteen
million feet less than in 1857, and twenty
five millions less than in 1858.
A WESTERN writer says truly If as much
attention was paid to improving corn as is
given to grapes, one hundred million
bushels might be added to the annual crop.
A MYSTERIOUS Cuban lady, young, pref
ty, and with loads of diamonds. is exciting
the curiosity of Decatur, Illinois, because
she lives in great style, alone, and won't
see any one.
THE Worthington Times of Friday said
iron was coming forward rapidly, and the
two ends of the 1. & V. Road would be con.
nected in a few days.
Gov. BAKER has written a letter, calling
the attention of Coroners to the act Of
1867, which requires that Coroner's Jurtes
shall be composed of twelve persons.
\ MEETING of the stockholders OF the
I. &V.R R. Company Is TO be held at In
dianapolis, November 10th, for the purpose
1
of electing Directors.
Two banana trees are growing In the
open air in gardeo at Augusta, Ga. They
have blossoms upon the m both, and one
{ has bunch of fruit.
TIE Hon. Mrs. Norton was, it is stated,
the author of the first article in the Times
on the Byron case, indorsing Mrs. Beecher
Stoves opinion.
In McHenry County, Illinois, there are
eleven cheese factories, which use the
milk of about 8, 400 cows, and the past sea
son have made about 100000 pounds of
cheese. In addition there are q number
OF private dairles.
AN honest dame In the town of Rome,
standing beside the corpse of her deceased
husband, bewaihng in piteous tones his
} untimely departure, observed: "Its pity
he's dead, for his teeth are as good as
, they ever were"
} GEN. ELI PARKER, Commissioner OF In
dian Affairs, is to deliver the eulogy on
the late Gen. John A. Rawlins, at the ban
quet OF the Army OF Tennessee in Louis
vile, on the I7th of November.
M. BARLEY D. AUREvILLE, p French lit
/ erary man, writes his copy " in ink Of
every known color. One line is black, the
next blue; and then comes green, then red,
then violet. The capital letters are always
a different color from the 9th er letters.
Mr.. W. E. PHELPS. General Ticket Agent
of the Louisville, New Albany and Chi
cago Railway, blew himself up on Sunday
evening with half-pound of EPSON salts,
which he threw on the fire. His face was
/, blistered all over, the eyebrows and eye
Iashes were burnL Of, whtskers and hair
crisped, and the ball of one eye burnt.
The Russian Elementary Schools are
supported at an annual expense OF 81, 920,-
900; of this amount the State supplies
s275. 43l.. The salaries OF the teachers re-
Quire the sum of s5,760OOO made up as fol-
lows; 81 y800, 900 or 3I-2 per cent. from tuition
fees. $780, COO or 65-I FER cent. from the dis
tricts, and s2l2,S3 from the Government.
THE Sun, describing new hotel In Fifth
Avenue, New York, says: "The walters
are OF ineffabIe elegance, and of an intel
lectual cast Of countenance. They look
like graduates of Harvard. They wear
two clean shirts and two white chokers a
day, and change their aprons three times
an hour. A spot on q bosom or crease in .
tie, involves instant dismissal"
THE Superintendent of the WestvllIs
(Mass.) factory asserts. it as fact that his
mill was stopped several hours, recently,
by the ciogging up of the turbine water
wheel with cells. lie estimates the number
of them by the thousand, and declares that
some were four feet long, and as large as a
mans aim.
A LADY ghost at Louisville appears in a
room at midnight, where she gets into a
horseless carriage, that is also ghost, and
the driverless whip is used, when the
ghostly carriage and ghost disappear
through the doors that do not open
Twelve men Witnessed the performance,
and adjourned sine die.
HERE is Mark TwaIn's latest account of
himself: "I have but little character, but
what have am willing to part with for
the public good. would have been bet
ter man If L had chance, but things have
always been against me. never had any
parents, hard y-0nly just 3 father
and mother-and so 1 have had to
struggle along the pest way I could. L do
not boast of this character, further than
that built 1t up myself, at odd hours, dur
ing the last thirty years, and without other
educational aid than 1 was able to pick up
in the ordinary schools and colleges