Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-12-14
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| There is no doubt Of the early extension Of
this wonderful contrivance to Boston, either by
Government or by private enterprise. 1t should
unquestionably be Government business, as
government will be compelled to use it largely
at all events, for the Transmission ofntelligence
Few inventions have bcen so complete at their
first appearance. Upon trial last Friday in
Baltimore, exactly one second was consumed in
transmitting a signal to Washington and its re.
turn. A negotiation of some Importance be.
tween the PhlladeI phia and Baltimore Railroad
Company and the Postmaster General, was con.
cluded in about five minutes.
When the line is completed strange results
will follow. Our merchants will have to go to
school again for as to conducting business in
tho old fashioned way nothing will be more alb.
surd Nobody will dare sell cargo Of -four a.
bout steamer or packet time, without inquiring
of his Boston correspondent if there are any ar.
rivals which he can do. and have an answer
in five minutes if within any reasonable dis.
lance of the station.
All sorts of oddities will occur - merchant
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rels of mess pork--he is tod an answer will be
given in an half hour, within which time the
markets of Boston and New York can he tho
roughly tried for better price-Each mer.
chant will have his own cypher.-T This contri.
vance will interfere sadly with the post office
revenue, for who would wait for the mail to drag
its slow length along. Who goes to Trenton in
sloop, as Our fathers did The message TO
the errand clerk will be "go and see if there is
any thing for me by the telegraph"
North American.
IIIGHLy IMPORTANT MEDICAL DIscovERy-
The New York Herald says, native of New
Jersey. who has been engaged for years in a
series Of successful experiments in relation to
the diving bell, under the patronage of the Go.
vernmeht, has ascertained by actual experiment
that catarrh, bronchitis, and even consumption
itself, may be effectually cured in few hours
by novel application of the agency of the di.
wing bell. II adds, that of the fact that by this
means a dangerous disease of the lungs was
cured in half an hour, not doubt can exist,
and the theory by which the extraordinary cure
was explained, is altogether rational aud pho-
sophica
DoN'r EAT PoRK.-A Medical writer of much
celebrity says the pig is so remarkable for its
susceptibility to the formation of tubercuous
matter, that from scroia, the Latin term for this
animal, the disease scroflla has obtained its
name. 1t is said that even hot drinks, or sudden
changes in temperature, will render its flesh
diseased and unfit 10 be eaten. What is called
measled pork consists in the flesh being studded
all over with points of disease yet seldom
hear Of such carcass being destroyed it is IL
sually saltcd and sold, if the has intclli-
gence enough not TO make use of it himself
Spirit offhe Times.
A fellow taken up as a vagfant, declared that
he was not "a man without any visible means of
subsistence, as he had just opened store II
was found, on inquiry, that he had opened it with
a crow bar in the night and unfortunately the
store belonged to another man.