Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-11-19

heir army, and two NeAicans were taAe'i
prisoners. |
TIE Texans had brought into camp q /
bout 500 head.of cattle."-[C Gin. Whis.J
A Coop REroaT.--During the war between
England and Spain, in the time OF Elizabet.l,
commits .;oners on both sides were appoin-
ted TO treat of peace. The Spanish COM
,n;s,ioners proposed that the negotiations
should be carried on in the French tongue.
observing sarcas,icaly, that the gentleman
IF England could not be ignorant OF their
fellow subjects, their queen beng queen OF
France as well as England. ..Nay. IN faith.
sentemen.'' replied DR.. Dale, one OF the
English commits sioners, s'the French is too
vulgar for a business Of this Importance, we
will, therefore, if you please. rather treat IN
Hebrew, the language of jerusalem, of
which your master calls himself king, and OF
which YOU must Of course be as well skilled
as we are in French
The abutment of the bridge connecting
Cleveland with Ohio city was blown up on
the 23,h uit., by placing q key of powder IN
the stone work. The proprietors OF the mis-
chief had not been detected.
EXPERIMENTS AT SEA.-A correspondent
Of the New York Star, furnishes the annexed
account of experiments, made at sea on
board the Charlemagne.
Sept. 26til. 1886, the weather being calm.
I corked an empty wine bottle and tied piece
of linen over the cork; | then sank it into
the sea six hundred feet; when drawn imsne-
|diateIy up again, the cork was inside. the lin
len remained as it was placed, and the bottle
was filled with water.
l next made a moose of strong Irvine around
the bottom of cork, which | forced into
~ o1,,
10 the neck of the bottle, and sank the bottle
six hundred feet. Upon drawing it up immc
|lia.cIy, the cork was found inside, having
forced its way by The Irvine, and in SO doing
had broken itself into two pieces; the bottle
WAS filled with water.
then made a stopper Of white pine, long
Enough to reach to the bottom of the bottle
hitter forcing this stopper into the bottle, ! cut
lit off about half an inch above the top of the
bottle, and drove two wedges of the same
wood into the stopper. sank it 600 feet, and
upon drawing it up immediately, the stopper
remained as placed it, and there was about
IA gill Of water in the bottle, which remained
|hnbroken. The water must have forced its
|way through the pores OF the wooden stop
|per, although wedged as aforesaid, and had
the bottle remained sunk long enough, there
IS no doubt bat it would have been filled with
water.
The elephant which jumped overheard
rom the Royal Tar steamboat at the time of
her recent disaster, landed safe and sound up
pm one Of the Fox islands, and took up his
quarters in a barn. 1t is believed that his
keepers will find it difficult to find out any
mode Of removing him from the island, as it
will be next to impossible to make him again
30 on board a vessel Of any description.-[N.
IF. Cour.
We arc sorry TO perceive by the Charles
lon papers, that the Cholera has by no means
disappeared from that city; no less that 81
persons having fallen victims to the pcsti-
pence during the week ending on the 23d u!t,
three whites and twenty-one blacks.-[N.
Y. Court
REWARD OF TALENr.-We learn, by the
Evening Star, that Cochran, a young Amer
lcan, who has invented new kind of rifle.
recently exhibited at the Fair Of the Ameri-
can Institute, has sold the patent right to
company for three hundred thousand dollars.
s'Halo there, my lad,'' said a traveller to
llsping genius playing by the roadside, "can
you tell me the wav to Mr.. B's?''
'feih, geth l cam was the answer
You jith 60 along that road till it forkth,
that will lead you path pair Of bartI,. You
mutht turn back and 60 through the barths
and round the barn, and there It'll where dad
dy livth.''
''But who is your daddy, my boyeo
'.Ha, ha! Lawth-a-mathy! Don't know
daddy, and you tho big! Why, know him
litht as well-whee-
The State Bank Of Indiana has received
orders TO pay over to this State. on the lstI
lay OF January, 1886, S25O,OOO, being one
uurfh OF the nnrfion Of tho S.rr,I,..