American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-10-01

lmatIon which the patient has of enemy which
lays siege TO liIe,'' is nHa malo and small hole
the finger. This is signal to the surgeon to
extract curious bone; and you may freqeuntIy OBJ
serve persons OF lower condition who have lost
hnger-lont through the disease. But the spina
rpntoSa is often not to be appeased by this sacrifice.
1t often shifts its quarters and after nibbng off
Ia thumb, devonrs whole arm, without mercy. In
such cases, death often ensues. This disease seems
to indicate general corruption Of the system nor
has any medicine yet been discovered which can be
relied on as a specific.
The following discovery has been announced at
Munich: Lieutenant Hebenstret has invented
process by which he makes species of alerpillai
spin kind OF wadding, which is of fine y hte co
lour, and water oof. He NAKED balloon of this
stuH and raised it by of chafting-dish with
spirits OF wine, in the large warehouse where he
keeps his caterpillars at work. He makes them
trace ciphers and figures in the waddng He &C.
composites thisby moistening outlines OF figures or
letters with spirits OF wine. The caterpillas avoid
these raclngs, and spin their web around them.
nus any figure which has been drawn is represents
Leo IN the stuf-A piece of wadding feet square,
perfectly pure, and brilliant as ta1eia was made
loy about so caterpillars between The 5h and 26ii
OF June.
PHILADELPHIA According to the valuable and
engaging little work. Philadt phia in 1922 pub.
i'lshed by Messrs Carey & Lea, the number of
looms In operation in the city and its vicinity does
not tai short OF 50Oo,and there are upwards of thirty
t0tfon tact0ries, most Of them extensive
scale. The number of 5relcerips is fifteen. There
are one hundred and forty eight attorneys and coun-
Isrllors at law and one hundred and seventeen ply
,lclans. Philadelphia receives nearly one half OF
he annual interest on the whole debt of the Uned
States. The total value oil her capital, in real and
personal estate, including stock, is estimated at
l58,286,41s The amount of postage paid here, in
1928, was $4,000. The number OF wagons loaded
for Pltsburg. by single house, last year. was up.
wards Of 2OU0; aud the freight alone, at the pre- sent
reduced rate, amounted TO $4,000. This may Of
o d an idea OF the vast quantity sent westward IN
the way We have fifty five printing offices.
The following view is taken of our population.
The whole population Of the city end county, by
he census Of 1920, was 136, 497. Deduct fIom
ths amount the returns of the several townships OF
the county, which are not properly part OF the sun
urbs, and Of which the population may be stated in
round numbers at $4,000, and there will remain for
the true number OF the population OF the built part
Of The city, in 1920, 12i 1877" Nit GaS.
Mr.. H*s* the Professor OF Chemistry in Dub
lin who was moe remarkable tor the clearness Of
lis intellect than the purity Of his eioqnence advert
ed, ia of his lectures 10 the celebrated DR. Boyle,
Of whose talents be spoke with the highest venera-
ion, and thus concluded his eulogy " He was a
reat man. said The Professor, q very great man,
He was the father of chemistry, gentlemen, aud
br tier of the Earl OF Cork"
1t is stated in the London Star, that the NIayr
of HAVE has published long letter, denying the
sta emens that had been published as to the enthu-
sasm with which the Marquis de La Faye.te was
rec eved on arriving there embark for the United
States.
A claimant as heir at law Of the Emmett estates
in Yorkshire and Lancashire, residing at Bradford,
and now in humble circumstances, is advancing his
pretensions very vigorously, and the matter will
soon be before the gentlemen oil the long robe 1t
stated that this property is Of the value OF 100000
a year.
The Rev W. Dodwell, Rector Of Welby and
Stoke, near Granham, in Lincolnshire, lately de-
ceased, gave few weeks before bis decease the
sum of 10 o00L 10 the Wesleyan Missionary Soci-
ETY.,
The Haytien Emigration Society of New York
have chartered the ship Concordia, capt Bailey,
about 400 tons burlhen, to proceed to lIayt during
the first week in October, with 100 emlgrants, al
ready engaged.
A Boston paper states, that 100000 well furnish
ed troops could be assembled in that city in less than
a week.
Extracts from Late Foreign Journals.
The Liverpool Advertiser of July 3st, says,
g We are happy to hear from all parts of The
country. that crops of every description most
promising and abundant. There is prospect of
a large growth of hops in Kent; the duty is esti-
mated at about 10000 pounds"
The late Baron Wood, of the English Court of
Exchequer, is supposed to have died worth nearly
three hundred Thousand pounds sterling, acquired
by great eminence and labor in his profession (of
the law)'' His relatives to whom the bulk Of his
estate has devolved, in humble stations of life.
AT recent public sale of Spanish gentleman's
library 10 London, a single volume, "Cancionero