AMERICAN NOTES.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1071, 3 January 1872, Page 4

AMERICAN NOTES.

Ten thousand children, under the age of 14 years are adrift in the streets of New York. • Locally manufactured knives are driving those of Sheffield tnako out of the American market. Deserted mine shafts, and remains of stone buildings and aqueducts, the vestiges of an extinct civilisation, have been discovered in large quantities in Arizona. The manufacture of chignons and other kinds of " back hair" from jute, is now a flourishing industry in New York. The Roman Catholic priests in Cincinnati have ordered their people not to send their children to the coaimon schools. There are 1000 male and 120 female - European tailors employed in San Francisco, besides 2000 Chinese tailors, most ; of whom are employed by 3i) firms of their own nationality. California annually raises over twenty million pounds of wool, four-fifths of which is exported to the Eastern States. ' The supniy ol marriageable women in 1 San Francisco exceeds the demand. ' Fossil lions, tigers, leopards, elephants, heifers, lemons, palm-leaves, and cocoanuts havo been found in Colorado. There are six millions of real estate . owners in the United States, the farmers , const itu ting two-thirds of the number. , :;A Connecticut criminal lately issued cards of invitation to his execution. i A belle at tbe fashionable bathiug-place ' of Long Branch bathed in an indiarubbef suit. . . i In Nevada .fruit was so plentiful this year that it 'could be had for the trouble , of gathering. There is now hardly a single large printing"condern in' the United States in which women may not be found. In a town, on the Hudson there has been discovered a young ladies' society, haying ■for its motto "Flirt on, flirt ever." One of the railroads in New England is •Tfiwntrtcr alter its gauge from sft 6iu to 3ft. Acting under medical instructions, President Grant now smokes only 10 cigars daily, instead of 35 as formerly. James Gordon' Bennett, jun. , of the New YorkHeyald is said to be one of the best linguidta in the United States. A settlement of Icelanders has been -formed on the shores of Lake Superior. They are said to-be the pioneers of 20,000 more. . ■ , . j " Snoring on the levee" waft^ihibcTHme' for which a sdol. fine was imposed by a 1 New Orleans Magistrate . - !•'.;' j It is related, as a " queer social inci-| 'dent," that a' Michigan man lately eloped! 'with' his own wife' by mistake. ■ J The Chinese in Pierce ' City, Idaho,! 'have organised "a sort of Masonic Society. l Potatoes have been selling at the same 'price per bushel as wheat in some parts of California lately, , ' The Alvaiado (California) Beet Sugar Co. expect to produce l,ooo,oQolbs of sagaV 'this year, being double last year's amount. - - . A copper bowie-knife has been found 25---feet below the surface of the ground by some men while grading: a road-bed in Oregon. Westrti, ! the famous pedestrian, has been performing in Illinois, and his walk is said to be better than his conversation. Sinee '< the : existence of the- Republic, 7,250,000 have been added to the population of the United States' by immigration. >■ The reduction of the rates of interest for m.oriey in California has been greater; this year than in the previous five years. . The Californian harvest this year has been good only in spots, while over a large area it has failed wholly or partially. Thirty clerks in- the Treasury Department at Washington are enjoying trips to Europe at the expense of the country. A beautiful and wealthy heiress at Syracuse^ N.Y.^has'elopedwith aiyonng Prussian, employed by her uncle as an ostler. •.,....., ( „ i ' The " Abyssinian stretch" is the latest fashionable deformity adopted by the belles of New York. . The unriiber of " colored"- voters in the Union is set c'« va at 810,000. Boston has 17 f reo salt water baths, fi ve x>i them being for women. '■*■■■■ The export of cats from Boston to some of the Southern ports is increasing. A thrifty citizen of Louistown, Maine, «aved a dollar the other day by unscrewing and returning the handles of his wife's coffin. • . . : :;; :-■>. ;' A New York gaoler keeps a pawn shop and'resta'drant, Where 'he takes 'in jeople as well as at the prison. , Ai Californian paper divides' Wbm6n into three classes — angels, thieves, and devils. ; Wonderfulonionsaregrown; in Colorado. They are reported to taste like peaches. ' The yonthf al niggers in Richmond have formed an association called the "Infant Sons of Love." r , A thousand roses have been counted on a single prairie rose bush in Nebraska. . • A 'Hew York paper complains that i " France is fahitatirig us ih 'the matter of railway slaughters." . . „., ] A patent has been taken out in Washington for creeping dolls. Two pieces of music haye been published in New York, entitled, "Cutoffmy.Onrls' with your Scissors, Mamma," and "Ripj up my Chignon with your Jack-knife,; Papa." ■•••■•.. j ■ any ladies in the States .have become; really' crippled -through weaVing French hiyh-beeled boots. . ■ „ r . ■■' '■ Foreign born persons; and those born | in the country of foreign parents, make! lip 64 per cent, of the total population of the United States. ; ■ The inhabitants of Virginia City, Cali--fornia, kill-time -with fighto 'between bull-

doj/s :and wild cats. The cata generally ebhie o p " second beßt. The Sioux Indians have a printed literature, comprising some thirty publications, including a newspaper. The pastoral 'industry in south-eastern Oregon is becoming one of great importance. The country is admirably adapted both for cattle and sheep. The consumption of malt liquors in the United States is increasing, while that of whisky is declining. Two hundred skeletons of Indians, of an average hight of seven feet, have been ) discovered in New York State. A' marriage haa taken place in Indiana between a bridegroom aged 91 and a bride aged 106. There was no need to "ask papa" for his consent. The heads of Government Departments at Washington are all getting ladies for their private secretaries. State secretswill soon leak out how. '• Valuable deposits of silver ore have been found on the shores of Lake Superior. Fifty thousand acres of land have been purchased in Lower Canada by a French Association, for the purpose of forming a settlement of emigrants from Alsace. Quinine biscuits are now manufactured in America. Each biscuit contains onetoiirth of a grain of quinine; The. bulk of the contributors to American periodicals are women. Excitement prevails in Arkansas ou account of the gold discoveries in that Stale. [ A thirteen-year-old ' lowa girl weighs lQh stone. She is eclipsed by a Vancouver Island (age not stated), who has been exhibiting at Portland, Oregon, a?.d who weighs only one pound short of 30 stone. Experiments in the direction of cotton planting have been made with success in Lower California. The use of explosive bullets for killing grizzly bears is being discussed in California, and it seems likely to go .hard with poor Bruin. In the Elgin (U.S.) watch factories 300 of the 500 employees are girls. These girls earn from. lOdol to 20dol a week, and perform the delicate operations incident to the business more skilfully than men. The mining interests of the Pacific States, says the San Francisco Bulletin,. are once-more looking up, and the dawn-. - ing of an err of increased activity and healthy prosperity in that line, is evidently near at hand. A- tnammouth cheese, weighing 30001 b, the product of one day's "milking of 2200 cows, yielding 30,1051 bof milk, manufactured 1 in' Erie Comity, N.Y., has been deposited for exhibition in the International Industrial Exhibition at Buffalo. There is a great deal of superstition among the- poor people at New York. A man making his way with .a jackass through Park street, the other day, Was detained for some time by a number of Irish women, who were -anxious to have their babes kiss the donkey's back, that they might be cured of the whooping-cough. It is announced in late New York despatches that at a meeting of. the working men, held in that city, a general strike in most'of the trades throughout the United States and Candada, to beinaguratednext spring,. has been ordered, and that " measures' were adopted to sustain and make it successful; " A New Bedford woman was observed a few evenings since crawling on her knees throu it the streets, holding her hands up, and accompanied by a woman on either side, who. aided her occasionally to. rise to r heif {eetJf or. test. It was understood to be in ifulfilmeint ;of a yow made Jon the de» parture of her husband on a whaling voyage, to be performed if he returned in safety. '.i .<-< ,' ., - -