Mobile register and journal., 1845-04-18


 Talting Tsiegr ph.---At one of his lectures Electrooey delivered at Cincinnati asl week by Professor Locke, he exhibited as a matter of curious amusement, his Talking Tele. graph. The Atlas says that ths Telegraph does not. if IS trHe, arIculaie words, but Ii artculne. the elements "f words, viz letters The letters used are those OG horse, and they are made audible by A pipe sounding in monotone during tho time of Il dot o line eXeclred hy ihe proper Nurse Telegraph. but interrupted during he blank space part of the letter. Indeed, the Telegraph exhibited registers the words on paper at he same lime that the pipe s sounding them, the pire heinz open and cantinunp tn sound whilst the sly hs is marking lle revolving fllet Thus it both speaks and writes at the same moment. Professor l.. considers lhs inv eniion only as an amusing modification of Murse's Telegraph. by winch the communications may be made currently ineligible io large audience, prn4 ided ihey under stand the Alphabet, which becomes a kind of mono tone music; the short lines dots ing represent- ea by short notes, aud the longer ones by tones more preiracted.
 MINES IN HE WEsT,--A most valuable field is situated in Ihe Apple River Digeines fourteen miles east of Ihe city of Gaena, in Illinois, in winch there are at work two hundred miners, wiih eighty windlasses, two hundled spades and picks with n corresponding quantity of blasting tools and powder, winch produce daily twenty. five thousand pounds of lead mineral, which commands, in cash, the Inne seventeen dollars per thousand; and there being seven north and south ranges and fifteen east and H OlScOVer- ed, il is supposed the number of hands could be doubled with equal success, for the quantity of min eral is supposed to be nexhauslible.
 This field was purchased few weeks since by a company uf capitalists m Galena of the original claimant for $15 coo, ana cannot now be purchased of them at 50O00. IL ought perhaps fo be stated that this field is upon of he many judicious and valuable reservations which were made by Dr. Owen, in 1899, under the direction of the War Department in 5eha f of rbe United States, and is now held by the last purchasers under lease from the Superin- teudeni of ihe United States Lead mines, to whom they pay six per of all the mineral that IS ras- ed, and they have leased it to these miners rent of thirty to forty per cent -lNationa lnteligencer.
 THE WAYS OF WINE MERcHANTs.-"There now, sir! to prove how much gentlemen may be mis- taken: assure you, sir, as Pm an honest man, ? never had hui two smts of wine in my cellar-port and sherry"
 "How! when myselfhaye tried your claret, your
 "Yes, sir my chret. sir One is obliged to give a geniem every hing they ask for, sir. Genile- men who pay their money, sir have right tp be sersed with wh,evet they please to order, sii, pecialiy Ee young gentleman from Cambridge, sir. i'li tell .ou how WIS. sir: never would have any wines in my house, sir, but port and sherry, because know ttem to be wholesome wines, sir; and this will say sir, my port and sherry were-the--pgy- best-l could procure in all Eng and"-
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 "Yes, sir-at Me price paid for them. But 10 ex- plain tie thing at nnce, sir. You must know, sir, :, that ladn't been long in business when discover ed that gentlemen knew very little about wine, but If they didn' find some fault other they would ap pear to know much less; always excepting the young gentlemen from Cambridge, sir, and they are excel lent judges! tAnd here Burey's little eyes twinkled a humorous comme ntaiy on the concluding words of his senencc) Well, sir, with respect 10 my dinner wines, was always tolerabl, safe; gentlemen sell dom find fault at dinner; whether il lRight happen to be madeira, pale sherry, or brown, or"-
 ''N ny, just now, vou told me you had but two sorts l of wine in your cellar"
 ''Very true, sir port and sherry. But this was my plan, sir. li any 0ae ordered Madeira: From bottle of sherry take two glasses of wine, which replace oy two glasses of brandy and add thereto a slight squerze Of emon and this found to give gem eral sal islacion especially to the young gentlemen oi Cambridge, sir But, upon the word of an hone st man, l could scarcely get living profit by my dtiii, str, for always the best brandy. As tu the lale and brown sherry, sir, couple of glasses nl nice pure waer m the place of the same quaRty of wine made what used To call my delicate pale (by te by, squeeze of lemon added to 10 that, made il very fair Rucellas, wine much ca He'd for now sir;) and for my old brown sherry, leete burnt su gar WAS the thing It looked very much like sherry that had been twice Co the West Indies, sir and in. d ed, 10 my GU toDers who very particular about heir wines, used to serve it such' "Bot. Mr Rprey, wasn't such proceeding of a | character Iathtr--r
 | ''1 guess what you would say, sir; but knew il 10 be a wholesome wine at bottom, sir. But my port the wine which gave inc the most trouble Gentlemen seldom agree about port, sir. Que gen. teman would say, 'Bu,ey, don't like this wine, il is loo heavy!' 'Is it, sir? think can find you q | lighter Out went a glass of wine, and in went s glass of water. 'WeIl, sir,' I'd say, 'how do you | approve of tlmtp sWhy-um-no I can't sav-- T under stand, sir: you like an older wne-soffv think l can please you, sir Pump again. Now sir says l, (wiping the decanlei with napkn and riumpnn'ly holdng to the light try lhIs If you please 'That's n. Burley, that's the very wine bring another bottle of the same.' 'Bni one cant please every body the same way, ST. Some gentle men would complain of my port heinz loo poor without body. In went one glass of brandy. Ifllai diin't answer, Aye gentemen,' says l, T know what will please you-you like fuller-boded, rough CT wine.' Oul went fwo or Mree glasses of brandy | This used 10 be rry iavorite wne-but only with the young gent emen from Cambridge, sir" "And your clarel?'
 "My good, wholesome port again, SIT. Three wines out, three waters n one pinch of tararic acid two ditto OTIS powder. For fuller caret, a little brandy; for lighter caret, more water" | "But how did you conrive abou, Burgundy?' | "That was my ciara sir, with from three 10 six drops of burgamoi. according gentleman liked q | fall flavor or a delicate favor As for champagne sir, that, of course, I made myself"
 ''How do you mean 'oi course,' Burey?' "Lord, sir,' said he, with an innocent, yet wag. gish look, 'surely every body makes his own cham. pagne-else wfai become of all the gooseber. ."-IChristmas Festivities, by John Poole, au- thor of Paul Pry.