AMERICAN NOTES.
Petroleum is said to have been discovered on the Hue of tho Pacific Railway. It ia estimated that there are now 170,000 Chinamen in the United States. The wheat crop now growing is the largest that ever has been raised in tho United States. Two Canadian presbyteries have voted that rovivaU are at variance with the Westminster 1 Catechism. j South Orange, Now Jersey, has a now*, paper called tho Budgot, tho editor of which is need twelve The Chicago Journal aagnrs favourably of the success of a female orator, "from tho strength of her jaw !" ! The intelligence comos from towa that Mrs Bloomer bos abandoned her principles by again donning petticoats. The Bt, Louis Times says that thoro are about 3000 opium-eaters in that city, and that they oonaumo 13,320 grains of morphine daily. On nn opening night at & Novada opera houso an enthusiastio admirer throw an eighty-dollar brick at tho tkbuianU. Thore are now race than 1,000.000 people on tho Pacific slopo. San Francisco, not twenty-five years old, has 160,000 inhabitant*. Tho use of eViintho it said to bo inortasing to an alarming extent in New York. Many of tho bam retail it as thoy do otbor liquors. lowa plant* ovory throe years a forest of 5,000,000 trees, and within considerably less than half-e-dosen years 25,000,000 forest* trees have boon planted. A Now York paper says that nearly all the brilliant complexions scon among tho fashionable women of that oity, aro the results of eating arsenic Since the introduction of the blonde (fashion, anwio catjng hoi become almost a mania. The anniversary of tho Declaration of Indopondanoo w*a observed as a goneral holiday throughout tht UniUd State* and war oolsbraUd «thn»iMkical]y in th* Worth,
but much apathy is reported to have been manifested in the South. The Lima Naoional says that the most extraordinary and unheard-of phenomenon has been discovered in the road of Locumba, worthy of being studied, and which appears to have been caußed by the late earthquakes. Every beast that reaches a certain spot immediately falls dead. This has so often taken place that immense numbers of carcases are heaped on the spot. Enterprising impresarios may take a hint from San Francisco. Professor Morey gave a ooncert in that city, and offered a premium of fifty dollars to the lady who should bring the greatest number of gentlemen in attendance on her. A fair creature made her appearance, accompanied by about a dozen cavaliers, but soon after a young lady entered triumphantly with a retinue of seventy gentlemen, and the fifty dollars were at once awarded her. Another young lady, attended by sixty-one gentlemen, obtained the second prize. Advertisers are wide awake at Omaha (George Francis Train's City in the Par West). One enterprising individual is printing an edition of the Prayer-book, which he intends to give away to every attendant at church. The right-hand page oontains the ususl prayers, but the left-hand page iB allotted to advertisements, Another is trying to purchase the privilege of using the outsides of the pulpits for posting the' merits of his patent baby-jumper. In Chicago the backs of policemen are let to advertisers by the Town Council. The New York papers of July Ist publish the following despatch :—": — " San Francisco, Tuesday, June 29. — Successful experiments have been made in this oity with a working model of an aerial navigation machine. It not only ascended into the air, but was propelled in any required direction by the machinery, and it has the capacity for carrying eight or ten persona, being constructed for the purpose of making trips to New York. The inventor is confident that tho trip can be made in 24 hours." A curious bet was made lately between two gentlemen of Montreal noted for the amplitude of their beards. One ib an eminent Q.C., and the other, if not exactly a legal functionary, exercises control over an institution of justice near the foot of St. Mary current. The bet was that the loser of the toss should at once denude himself of his magnificent beard and moustachios. It was made in an idle moment, and promptly acoepted. The Q.G. won the tosß in two straight heats, and tbe gaoler, uttering aery of anguish, took a gin sling and rushed to tbe nearest barber's saloon. Dr Mary Walker delivered a lecture on "Pure Love and Sacred Marriage," some short time since at Washington. The fair doctor was dressed in fashionably-cut trousers of neat chocked green silk, with blaok lace stripes down tho side, short d<-ess of the same material, reaching just below tbe knee, handsome y trimmod, with a heavy flounce. The costume wrs completed by a whitelaced collar, and embroidered bosom, neatfitting gaiters, and a badge. " The doctor," remarks a Yankee reporter, " exhibited one of the failings of hor sex in stopping to take one mor« look at the glass, before sho mounted the platform." A yonng couple were lately married in the bay of San Francisco, under (rather tying circumstances. The girl's father objeoted to her marriage, but she was of legal age. DreaHlnß an interruption if tho ceremony was conducted in a church, the couple hit upon the idea of hiring a tug-boat, and getting the minister on board and patting out on tho bay, and there havo the oeremony performed. Thia was accomplished, and while secure from the annoyance of parents or the importunities of friends, the ceremony was begun, when suddenly a portion of the tug-boat's machinery gave way with a terrible crash. The wedding party were startled, and confusion prevailed for a moment. Tho tug was so injured that she could not move. A signal of distress was hoisted, and tho wedding party finally roturned to the oity. A New York paper publishes tho names and incomes of about 100U inhabitants of the 18th, 20th, and 21st municipal wards of that oity. Tho figures are derived from tho returns furnished to the Treasury, and tho list oompruos only thoso persons whose incomes exceed L2OOO. Mr A. P. Stewart, tho dry goods morobant, roturns his not incomo at LGOO.OOO. There are thirty persons in tho receipt of from L20,f100 to L 30,000 per annum, thi'teon who rocoivo between L 30.000 and 1.40,000, nin« whoso iacomos rango beL 40.000 and LC O,OOO, and ono with LBO.OOO a year. Mr Dolmomuo, tho well known restaurateur, is in tho enjoyment of L 25.000 per annum ; and Mr James Gordon Bennett, tho propriotor of tho New York Horald, draws L 37.000 from that Nourishing oonoorn. General Grant and his family, it will be remombored, narrowly osoaped destruction through a railway accident at Annapolis. This event, made a great impression nppn him. The danger to hit family affseted him much more than tho personal poril of many hotly.oontesttid Holds, and ho declined all hospitalities until tho impression wore off. The aooident was brought about in a Tory singular manntr. A cow was strode by the engine whilst nailing throngh a cutting, aid thrown upon too bank. The engine, tender, baggago, and mail oars passed by, but the AMmiU rolloddoirn the back under the wh*u of the first passenger oat. It woe thrown off the line end destroyed, two or three suooeed. ing cars following it. The latUrportof the train was not injured. Semol per* •oat were wrlously hurt, bat now (*4*Uy,
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Otago Witness, Issue 931, 2 October 1869, Page 16
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