The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-05
sONEFHTNG FOR EVERYBODY

SOMETHING FOB EVERYBODY.
One lives comfortably in japan on
two cents day.
NEW YoRK has pickpockets only
eight years old.
isaac Nance is the name Of the
Oldest veteran of 1912.
As we often hear Of flying bricks,
we ought not to be astonished at hear
ing q chimney fue.
CALIFORNIA is building horse cars
on q new plan-the horse covered by
the roof.
Mrs. LUELLA Gross has just died
in Maine. after having used tobacco
nearly hundred years.
"HE-wINKs-AT-THE SKY" is the
name of famous western brave. He
generally writes it H. w. A. T. SKY"
TIE French now make artificial
India rubber" which is said to be as
good and much cheaper than the real
article.
THE largest farm in England contains
three thousand acres. The live stock
kept on this farm is valued at $64, =
500.
A VETERAN shopkeeper says that
although his clerks are very laxative
during the day, they are always ready
to shut up at night.
The towns of Jefferson aud Ian
caster. New Hampshire, will consume
100, 900 bushels of potatoes this year
In the manufacture Of starch.
A FARMER in Springfield, Ohio, re-
Gently picked four hundred bushels
of cranberTies from three acres, and
sold the lot for $500.
A NEW style of rocker, which will
make the rocking chair . greater ia
YOrite than ever" is announced Ia a
recent New Haven invention.
NINETY-sIX George Washingtons
voted at one of the ballot boxes in
Montgomery, Alabama. of whom
ninety four were colored. And this
is fame.
AFTER q wedding it was formerly a
custom to drink honey dissolved IL
water for thirty days-a moons age
Hence the origin of the honeymoon
THERE are nine hundred and forty.
six tobacco and snnff, and ten thou
sand eight hundred and twenty-seveu
cigar manufactures in the United
States.
NEARLY 1000, 600 Irish emigrant:
have arrived in this country within
tWenty-three years. A continuation
of this sort of thing will free Ireland
completely within half century.
APPLES are a drug in the Eastern
market this season. Seventy five
bushels Of fair quality were sold by
auction few days since in Grafton
| Vermont, for one cent bushel.
THE graduating class Of the Uni.
Versity of Iowa placed upon the Col
lege grounds a boulder weighing six
Thousand and sixty pounds, with the
class records cut thereon.
VENUS And Mars are now morning
stars, and will be, the former until
the 9th and the latter until the 10th
instant. Jupiter and Stature are
evening stars. Jupiter will be bright
est on the 18Th instant.
/
THE wholesale oyster business Of
New ork employs a capital of So,
10000, and about oae hundred and
tlfty vessels are engaged ia bringing
oysters from Baltimore and Other
southern ports.
THE Southern States will furnish
their quota of peanuts this season, M
follows: Virginia, 100000 bushels
Tennessee, 300, 900 bushels. and Geor-
gia and the Carolinas from $50. 600 Ia
| 200,0 bushels.
A SAN Francisco letter saws
There Is not a solitary opening in
the State of California, vast as il is,
for another clerk, book keeper, sales.
! man. half educated doctor, minina
stock broker, or general adventurer. d
| Now. then, Beauregard has yielded
to the piteous entreaties of the French
people, and sailed for France yester
day in the Vile de Paris. An imme
diate stampede of the Prussians will
ensue.
SOME of the personals in a New
York paper are decidedly personal. as
/ witness the following: "If the gentle
man with black hair and moustaehe.
/ who sat in fifth row at Wallaek's.
Thursday night, viii use soap Oh his
feet, be will be less Q nuisance
IT is now said that Gen. Butler's
famous Dutch Gap Canal is about to
be cleared out and opened, so as 70
transfer the ehanuel Of James River
that famous excavation. The bend of
the James at Trent's Reach, il is re
ported, Is filling up rapidly.
IT is said that the Chinese work.
men at SIMPSONS factory, at North
Adams, have become very skillful.
and can do now more and better work
than the same number Of Crispius.
They already produce goods at q cost
Of two dollars per case less than the
Crispins did.
ONE Samuel Barnard is aroupd
buying farms in Illinois. He gets a
farm on credit; then he makes ont he
has lost 5000, and can't get hack
home; then he mortgages the farm 10
the man of whom he bought it. and
then he Yamoses with the money
raised on the mortgage.
IT has always been mystery 10 ma
where all the Smiths came from; but
while visiting in neighboring city the
matter was satisfactorily explained BY
the appearance Of a large sign over
the door of q factory, with the an
nouncement that this was the "Smith
Manufacturing Company."
The Troy Press published two ard-
Hles Or Wednesday, enc &C ~hich VS.
Hu obituary notice and the Other