Zinc Mines.
There are several mines of zinc in New Jersey, one of which is said to consist of a deposit 600 feet in length, and is thought to contain ore worth $2,000,000.
A Monstrous Woman.
The Ohio State Journal says that there is a woman in Pickaway county, in that State, who weighs 46 pounds!
Old Boy.
A southern paper advertises a runaway boy, thirty-six years of age!
By a recent telegraphic arrangement, the papers in Albany, Troy, Utica, Syracuse, Auburn, Rochester and Buffalo, are furnished with reports from New York twice a day,—at 2 and 8 P. M.
The Connecticut river is reported to be lower than it has been known within the remembrance of the oldest inhabitants. It is reduced to a mere brook.