AMERICAN NOTES.

Southland Times, Issue 1544, 1 March 1872, Page 3

AMERICAN NOTES.

A man in Cincinnati is organising a brass band of twenty women. The bullion production of the "United States amounts to 90,000,000 dols a year. A cheese made out of 10,000 quarts of milk, and weighing 1,804 pounds, is on exhibition in Boston. It is complained that people go to the opera in full dress in New Orleans, and there eat pea-nuts. The convicts' dinner-table at the New York States Prison is furnished with a ton of beef and potatoes daily. A Tenessee editor was so rejoiced at the death of a rival that he announced it under tbe head of " Amusements." Andrew Jackson Davis proposes a book to tell the world what he knows about insanity. Louis Blanc is considering a proposition to make a lecture tour through the United States. The blonde New York exquisites are starching their hair to make it scrubby, like that of Alexis. A man sued the St. Louis " Times " for libel. The "Times" made things even by getting that man's wife to sue him for a divorce. Kansas has been incited by a visit from George Francis Train to erect an Insane Asylum at a cost of 33,000 dols. A vigorous Connecticut preacher actually kicked his pulpit to pieces, and was with difficulty fished out of the ruins. The Philadelphia " Bulletin " says :— " The son of the Czar was to-day shown the dirtiest and worst paved city that he ever saw in his life." A Lonsiana engineer was of neglect in running over a man, because the " grass on the track grew so high as to obscure the person." It is stated as a fact that in Claiborne county, Alabama, fossil remains are so plentiful that farmers make fences of the petrified bones of the troglodon. . Nineteen new cotton mills are building in Fall River, Massachussets, which is growing so rapidly that she bids fair to become the leading manufacturing city in America. The Heathen Chinee is in successful operation in New York. Ah Fan presides over a Celestial gambling house there, and swindles green Chinamen with neatness and despatch. A St. Louis lawyer attempted to try a case the other day while he" was halfdrunk, but the Judge stopped him, saying : " No lawyer can practise at two bars at the same time." A Kansas man sent for a clergyman to preach his wife's fuueral sermon and incidentally to marry him, at the close of the discourse, to a young woman whom he had selected on the death of his spouse. The " Pittsburg Commercial " announces that great " irregularities" exist in the Philadelphia Mint, which will soon be exposed. Let them come — the public has become used to such little episodes. The New York '• Evening Mail " says that many persons who 101 l back in their handsome carriages on Fifth Avenue look as cross and solemn as if they were riding to their own funeral.