Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-11-03

20 oo'u lives III jeopardy, did not hesitate
10 place himself IN the same situation, for
at Mr.. Foshay's suggestion, he took his
KNIFE from his pocket, and severed the
bears jugular VEN, and so put an end to
the contest.
Nocet Rat Irap.-A correspondent has
sent US the following account of newly
invented rat trap, which has already been
used with success. Take a barrel. and
stretch skin of parchment over it with a
string; cut it across and athwart, nearly to
the outside. Take some dripping, and mix
1t with meal smear it on the middle Of the
parchment. The rats will smell it. and
treadIng on the parchment it will give way,
and they will fall into the water in the bar
rel. Put plank for them 10 creep up to
the barrels brink outside, and strew some
oatmeal on it. You must not let the water
be too deep, but set a brick endways in it,
and the first rat caught will make noise,
which will entce more, SO that they will
fight for possession of the brick, and the
noise will draw others. Thus, in one niget,
the house may be cleared Of rats, be they
ever so many. Mice, and other vcrmin,
may be caught in similar manner.
Montreal paper.
BuhonS.-Tho manufacture Of buttons
has, at length, reached the ne plus ultra of
perfection. An ingenious Frenchman has
invented button, in which the principle
OF nut and screw is applied, so that, with
out stitch, buttons may be far more Sc
curely, as we'll as more speedily, put up
on clothes than in the ordinary way and
those who have not souls above buttons,
may, if they please, have a half dozen suits
OF buttons to each suit Of clothes, the top
being screwed to the shank. Mr.. John
Bell has obtained the first use Of the patent,
and if the Birmingham manufactures can
produce the new article at q moderate price.
the old button will, probably: become OBJ
soete.
We understand that the State Bank of
Illinois has made arrangements in the At
lantlc cities, by which it will be able to re-
allze large amount Of funds which will
secure ability to resume specie payments
at the same time with the banks in other
states. The Shawncctown Bank has, no
doubt, entered into similar arrangements,
and no difficulty need be unprecedented in
the prompt payment Of all liabilities on the
part of either Of the Institutions. The
knowledge OF these measures of the banks
should relieve the public mind from any
apprchensions which may have been indui-
ged. We have never entertained doubt
of their disposition and ability 10 do Justice
to the public, and we are now satisfied that
their situation is such as TO command the
confidence OF the community.
st Louis Neac Era.
Varieties Of FIowers.-Thcre are dis
persed over the surface Of the globe up
wards of forty thousand distinct species of
plants which bear flowers and from the
numberof new species which have, in COM
paratlvoly recent times, rewarded the la
bors OF collectors, we cannot suppose that
the entire number, or any thing approach
ing 20 1t, IS yet known, even TO those best
skilled inplants. The vast number of flow
reproducing vegetables is variouslv dis
trbuted over the globe, in its different re-
glons, according 10 its several ATTITUDES,
climates, and characters of soil. In this
respect the usual estimate is that there are
upwards of thrteen-thousand Towering
plants natives of the inter-tropical parts Of
America, and considerably more than five
thousand in tropical Africa. In Australia,
and the numerous islands with which the
wide eXpansc of the Pacific is studded, ei-
Their the tropics or not very far without
them, there are about fve-tlousand species
already known, though some ofthe largest
and most tropical of those islands have
been but imperlectly explored. Temper
ate America, in both hemispheres, contains
about tour-thousand; temperate Asia about
and Europe which lies
wholly within the temperate zone, contains
at least seyen-thousand distinct species Of
plants which bear flowers.
Friendly Relations. live may Judge
from the last Jeiiersonian Democrat, the
Reading people are deligtlully friendly
commonwealth. A female correspondent
gives the following specimen Of the friend
ly relations among the ladies Of that de-
lightful village:
=" will venture to say that there is not
a single dress made in the city for a lady
IN this town, that has not been borrowed
some half a dozen times by some kind
friends. Once in their hands, alas for its
fate. 1t must be submitted TO all kinds Of
measuring, lingering, &c, and most proba-
bly, pays a visit to a dress-maker for a pat
tern:-why, sir, an acquaintance Of mine
had a bonnet actually ripped apart by
miliner in order TO find out how it was
made you may guess how it looked af-
ter being put together"
That's a Fact.-Nothing sets so wide a
mark between the vulgar and the noble
soul rs the reverential love of womanhood.
A man who is always sneering at woman
is, generally, a coarse prohigate or