Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-05-22
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FLOOD on TIRE MIAMI.-n,> ,.,, h.,,,
rsins esused en- unusual ri-r In the Miami
u,ef. On last saturday week The ri,sr w.s
s'gher Than y has ecsn iof several years Two
ou''ees a. flqua and one below Troy. w~rs
swept oil bs the current GA Satnnisv pisht and
ma,h Injury has been don a.
fields Of newly planted corn end ssnces In The
bottoms al the Miami. The islands below
Troy are completely inundated. The feeder
gates above fiqua gave way. and Coz a time
endangered the Canal. bat fortunately no dam
see was done TO tie banks. The saw mills
north ct Troy saa Piqus suffered much in The
loss Of logs and boards. and il II rumored that
one o, the WOODEN factories al Sidney has been
completely swep, away.
NAvAL.-The U. s. brig Perry Ia. Combs
Blake. will ssil to-dsyI for Chsercs. Great
psomptitudc hes been usrd In getting the Per-
" ready Tor thr -. under orders received
Yesterday from the Navy DEPARTMENT.
We learn that orders have been received
here TO m out the U. 8. sloop OF war Decatur,
Tor service. end that few more men have
been taken into the Navy Ysnl to finish the
ORDER gwen some time since In relation 10 the
iriga'e bmDdywine. And also for using the
nEnutXNUu<
enlisting recruits Tor the naval sesice.-Nor-
foik Beacon. May Is.
Our fellow citizen. Dr.. Henry NJ. Bullit,.
has been appointed 10 Gil the chair OF physi.
ology IN the medical department OF the 81.
Louis University. This school IL. we ar.
.ela, I'm riuurtsfriug CONDITION, and we feel
proud 10 say that our townsmen win odd tu
its strength and usefulness.-Lou. Jour.
THE MONKS OF ST. BERNARD
During last year 2.7S3 travellers lodged. and
1857 person Obtained refreshments, in the
convent OF the SNOW capped Mount st. Ber-
nard. Not one-fourth Of those 30 supplied
with lodging and food were Roman Catholics.
MULTUM IN PARvo.
A bushel OF wheat weighing 81 poundscon-
tains $50, 900 kernels.
In Greece it was the custom at meals for
the two sexes always TO eat separately.
The Romans lay on couches at their dining
tables, on their left arms, eating with their
right.
1t is estimated that 245 900 persons have
been annually killed in battle, for the last ioui
thousand years, 10 say nothing Of the wound.
ed.
Noah's ark was 547 English feet long. 81
broad. and 81 high.
The walls OF Nineveh were 100 feet higl
and thick enough for three chariots abreast.
| Babylon was sixty miles within the WALL
which were 70 feet thick. three hundred fee
high.
The largest pyramid is 49, feet high.
| A clean skin is as necessary To health a
food.
On one Of the peaks Of the Alps there is
block OF granite weighing, by estimate, l3l,
SIS tons SO nicely balanced on its centre O
gravity, that single man may give rockin,
motion.
Vinegar boiled with myuh or campho
sprinklcd in room corrects puiridity.
Hops entwine TO the left, aud beans to In,
right.
tiold may be beaten into leaves so thin tina
$50 900 would b. .oplya an inch thick.
The earth is 1861 milesin. diameter, ant
"a $50 miles round. ~~e
Forests OF standing trees have been discov
cred IN Yorkshire, England, and in lrelsn,
imbed<sd in stone.
Fossik-xeniains on the Ohio prove That i
was once covered by the sea.
When the sea IL blue color il is deep wa
ter;--snd when green. shallow.
~. a. a, man OF China. -WQde. 1000 wears befor
ihe iaih day of January, on an average q
years, Is the coolest day OF the year.
4 -" "cet, sound passes at the rate of 10
ieet per second. Ia air lag feet per second
In the Arctic regions. when the thermome
ter - below zero, persons can converse a
more than mile distant. DIR. Jami,so,
7 asserts, that he heard every word of a sermo,
al q distance Of two miles.
! The first newspaper published in V;rv;n;,
was established in 1880. The subscri e,io,
/ was gty dollars year, price for adyer,isin,
Ten dollars the FIRST neck, and seren dollars "a
each subsequent insertion. This paper wa
issued every week.
FoRGERY.--The Upper Malboro' Gsze,t
sayG--A man calling himself c. II. Parmslee
who was employed as teacher in the PORES
oil this county, for few days, forged the nan
OF samuel L. Brooke, ESQ.,, To an order O,
Samuel B. Anderson Of this village for ee0
part TO be paid in goods and part in money
ne got the money and goods, and shortly AZ
of. ''s"''
A"RARA AyIS."-The proprie,or Of IN,
Ssratoga Republican advertises for an appren
tice, with the following qualifications "a
good moral character. not addicted 10 drinking
nor swearing, nor lying, nor using tobacco
nor rowdying, must be wide awake in IN,
morning, neither lazy, nor impudent, nor sau
CIV, and III he has xyhtnncd HE Gtho. - -.t