, 1869-04-27
MISCELLANEOUS.


Cuban American citizens from the tsand.
The nre in the Olympic Theatre TsniEdlng, New
York, on the s3d, did no damage to the Theatre
proper.
The Olse7raforc Rou.Ene Rays that Plus II. Is
how engaged III negotiations With General Grant
with view to scnling Suncto to Washington.
4 Zig blast was recently mnhe In California.
THe1se hundred legs Of powder were used and
mountain WAS blownun
\ frecAncn'a saving bank in Macon, Ga, which
has l,eeu tn operation only five months, has
sla,3t4 on deposit
A great aquarium Is being constructed At Berlin,
lur which soN living varieties Of marine life have
been collected.
There has iAecu discovered In France, q Gut-
stance, the destructive effects Of which Tar exceed
the terrible force Of pc1ate OF potassium. Sulne
experiments arc to be made with 1t at Cher,ourg.
british officers IN India haye heretofore been
Obliged to take OF their ehoes on entering the
Nlzatns presence aad Squat before him, This cus-
tom Ia to he abolished.
4 plan Is being agitated for cutting ship canal
through the valley Of the Garunne, Frnacc, to
unite the Mediterranean AMI the Buy Of Blscay.
The cost OF tho work ls estimated at sJ,401,OO0;
the time required Tor its completion Is six years..
There Is a bill before the New York Legislature
prohibiting gus companies from charging rents for
their meters, and from refusing gas to o house
the previous tenant
In California there l5 made, on an average,
from ESQ to $50 gallons Of vine to the ncIe. The
fous nost productive OF the wine growing districts
OF Europe are Italy, giving TO the acre Ally gal
Ions; Austria and her provinces, 265 sc gallons;
Erlncc, 1.G = gallons; Nassau, 2J1 gallons.
At recent convention Of worktngwpmen in
Boston, 1t was stated that the majority Of the gisis
employed to operate on hcayy sewing machines in
oAu kfnGts rF.i hates
years, althopgh q few stanl tho labor d little
longer time. "Their backs giro ont, their spnes
give way. 1t ts TINT ugly motion Of the foot that
epoils The splnc-''
An English paper atates that awayY 11,ch,an5crs
are guing ont Of fashion in London OF late there
1ns been run upon nasnl costumes, anu It Is not
IN unusnn! thing to meet a ayt-1eay.old 1a xain
In The park, .hlsuc ana all complete, accom.
panied by hts nurse who draws pcraubpator
into which the hardy sailor is put when be wants
to sleep.
The SeH York 7imes Of the e4th says: "The
Threatened strikes for the coming summer orc 60
ing on with redoublcd vtgot, and the compromises
which We advised, and which We bored might prc-
vail, appear to be as remote Us eycr There Is not
the slightest dIspostltion to compromise eytnced
by either the crplo7cra or the eu1nloyes. md thu
nsnt must In MI probability shortly cusue,''
At Cincinnati, twenty-ouc wears aYo 1ast Thurs-
day, rs a party Of gentlemen we're eD,oynr them
selves at IN Interesting contest at enchra onc of
them was suddenly called home. to be introduced
10 o young son, On last Thursday TINT son Cole
Iratet the event O, hts arriving at maturity nv In.
wiling the same party Of players to his residence
where the gnmc wns allowed to be finished With
! ont further Interruption.
At Portsmouth, N. IL. On the 1Tth William
Ward complained Of Seth l1nntress for profanity.
| Theirs is IN uutAeusautness' b.tEeen the two
an1 Spth called 1Vl,,ta,7, r. n MD rno,ish,,7ar :.