Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-09-17

and arrested, not however, before he attacked Il
young named Charles Miller. whom he
also inflicted serious wound, extending from the
cheek bone around the chin, some four or five IN
clcs in length. Tho fellow certainly must lave
been deransed or druuh, although the papers of
that city say not.
I-EMs.--A St. Louis paper says TINT in j single
forenoon Of week before last. sixty wagon loads
of water melons crossed the Upper Forry.-A
belt baadage of any kind, worn light round tho
body, is said TO DO o.iectual preventive Of
sea sic k ~ colorcd man. named
Burton, an aged Methods, preacher, committed
suicide on the 3D. inst, at \. Brunswick. \. j..
BY cutting his throat with knife. He lived on
" about ten minutes after committing tho deed.
No cause is assigned for the act.-Thcrc are
IS places of public worship in Salem. Mass, tho
cost of supporting which is S2226s 35.-The
Patent Office receipts during tho last month were
about aJooo.-Ttcre is In Washington,
stopping at Coeman's gentleman from Augusta
Ga. named VIM. Skinner. who is six feet eleven
riches in height and weighs 30S pounds =
The public sale Of lands in Iowa. announced to
come off on the 10Th of september and on tho
Doth of October next. arc postponed to tho 18th
of May and the 22d of June. iSi;.-Ncarly
two hundred workmen from England reached the
iron works at Danvc, Pa, wcok before last,
whore they to be employed 1t is said tina
Prince Albert will die weal,hy--as he la IS by
gn every nlght.-Ihe seed of
the puff bali or hycopudon, is l25.00s times sinai
ler than human hair.-Iho weight of par
ticle--that is. the smallest part of copper-is the
one hundred and four miilionth part of grain.
-Cotton yarn has been spun 50 fine by hand
in India that pound of It Fould roach one
hundred and fifteen miles When it lies tho
grass in the dow. it j. no longer visible. The ma
tivcs call it '.woycn air. In England, it has
been woven so fine than one pound will reach 167
miles.-Cork. if sunk 900 feet in the ocean.
will not riso account Of the pressure of the
vater.-In quarrying mill stones. in France,
they arc hewn out. first in the right size, then
deep grooves are made. and willow wedges drv
en- in. Water is then poured upon the willow,
which causes the wood to SWELL and the rocks arc
thus split IN the right shape.-lf talow can
die be placed in gun and shot at door inch
thickness. it will go through without melting or
sustaining tho slightest injury; and if a muskot
ball be fired into the water, It will not only re-
bound but be lattcn-d the same rs if fired against
a solid substance. A muskct ball may be fired
thro pane of glass, making ho!o the size OF tho
ball. without cracking the glass; and if tho glass,
be suspended by thread, it will mako no differ
ence, and the thread will not vIbrate.-
Turkeys q re natives of this continent, and were
unknown to the ancients The researches of
naturaIists have shown that they were natives
Mother Of Europe. Asia. or Africa. The adop-
ton Of this useful. but unPoetical bird as a ma
tiona emblem, has been rccommcnded.--The
brown rats that lntcst our dwclling5-tho most
have come. like the Goths and Nandals. from tho
north of Europc hence they have been called
Norway rats. 1t is believed, however, that IN
fact they originated in Persia and the southern
regions of Asia. They were first known in Par
is about the middle of the 10th century. Their
first appearance IN country /, always upon the
sea coast. It is said they were brought into Wor-
ces,er by canal boats. They following close
upon the steps of commerce into all parts of tho
word.-In a number of the Westminster Re-
view it is stated that the first newspaper set up in
Germany in 1915. and the first published in
America was 1t Philadelphia in I1ia. The last
assertion at least is incorrect. whatever may be
the case with the former. The Boston Newsletter
began in 1904. Tho first Pennsylvania paper
was as above stated in i713.-According to
Hon. B. +. Butler, rum and it's consequences are /
yearly loss TO the State of New York of eigh-
teen millions of dollars, and to the United States
of one hundred and fifty millions Of doars.--I
INV JOYS are buried in the deep the sailor
said when his bottle of brandy fell in the sea.--
Laying down the Law the lrishman said
when he knocked down the Judge.
f-Pubc education in Eirg ina. is attracting
great deal of attention from the leading minds
in that State. and there is State which more
requires better. wiser and moro efficen; system.
Governor Mcdowell, in a recent speech delivered