The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-11-28
NO. XXXII.

beng tamiImr with them. SAID 1t was the cabra
IN the dOckyard; passenger 1T the ssaie time
reIoarhing that the cbra mus, have got into the
btat, the sounds were 40 distinct. On quiet
evenings nj the water side, the settler in New
South Wales has heard these iunsical sounds is-
suing from the water; and what an Interesting
piece Of natare's music is this wht tawith the f-
ture Australian Tyre may connect a thousand
beautiful associations. II may perhaps lac asked
IL this is nct another explanation or the idea II
n,nsical fishes, as meHiiencd i'll an article in
Chanber' Edinburgh Journal, vol. 4 new series.
p. 2o1! The cabra is shpposed To cause these
musical sounds In the process OF boring This
is not unnatural nor unlikely; there are other
instances of diuinutite ANIMALS and insecls eaus-
ing considerable sounds aud noises BY the natural
processes OF boring. digging, flying, sc. Tive
death watch, when IL gets into an old sisnbcret
house, Will sometimes keep up in room an iii-
cessaI,t ticking; and when the insects are nuncr
ous, the ticking will proceed fron several differ
ent parts of the room at the slime time. Eeber.
in his Journal iu India. mentions a specie. ef
death watch whose sounds resemble the bubbiint
uf water-''Ia nay cabin there wac u iioise ex-
actly like the bal,hling up Of water through Il
narrow creviee. On mquIry was told that it
way sort og cricket, or Indian trath-naicb,
which always entted this sound. "--fC Chanbefs'
Journal.
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The fame Of Barnum Is not rnnfnrd to
our continent. The following article from
the London Dispatch is frank ami feeling
tribute TO the shper-ehibent greatness of
Bariiiin in certain line Our Eayi;sh
friends exhibit no jealousy Of this unrvaled
genitis IN the science of mystery aud hum.
bug. He is hard to heat indeed:
''Barnum is a genius. He is the srnartest
man of smart nation. He heats Ken
lucky, and Kentncky beats The worll He
Is the master OF the noble srience of huu;-
bug, and the omnipOient art Of putiery. IL
IS useless Tor bonrion to feel Jealous of him.
Nicol, Moses, Holloway, Morrison, painting
ut The huinblest distance. like Time, ''toil
after him III vain. Warren WAS n halle.
and Henry H.h, btit a suckling 10 him.
The Columbus Of exhibitons--ilie law os
shows--in word, The mighty APOSTLE Of
the great truth that, "tou mus, venture n
spIa, If you " ould catch herriny.'' Bar
mum wos The friend of the newspaper man.
and the poet of sight seeing his,a aniry. In
a word, he was tie ''gui,le, philosopher and
FRIEND" aud also The proprietor of Tom
Thumb; and, by dint OF pafasraphs. aJ-
veriIseIEents, "repOrts of SCIENTIFIC men.
eminent in the medical world" printed
pocket handkerchiefs, management OF The
Queen aud the Court, a Eilirutian tarriaye
and four, and studied ifipromptu para
graphs, be contrised to make f25, 200 n
year out of a rather disagreeatle looking
tusus nature, and the insatalilc sulIibiii;y
Of ''too confiding pubIic.''
"He undertook to create general Tom
Thumb fever, and had but TO come, ser,
and conquer. Cows with FIVE legs, infants
xVl tNUn l..
learned hog. never rose above tHo-p pence
at Greenwich far--because Barn,im wa.
not the Snowman. Even the "Siainese
twins" failed TO hold their ground, and re-
tired in disgust from Barnu,h world to
the hackwOods, where, il Is saiti; one Of
them has got married To wife who seems
never to have stipulated for her attached
spouse cutting the connexion. The "Mys-
terious Lady" prophesied nt the Egyptsan
Hall, aud promised husbands, and coarhes
and SIX, TO all who consulted her. with
equally inditicren, success. The phreuolo-
gists, and the more receD, syl,ils who tell
characters by handwriting, have barely
made living by it, and Barnum has stood
alone-a Yankee unarproachable, by the
power of the most skiifu! puff. preIi:nina-
ry, obliIue, direct, internal and tli,iactic-
IN shori, OF every form prescribed by Puff',
and portrayed ir the Critic" The Gen
eral has retired upon his laureIs, which
mean his sIlillngs He has butt. his palace
''on the banks of the O=-h-U,h GU, of
The sixpences drawn from the sale OF his
biography and kisses 10 the ladies of Grea,
Britain But when Barnum recDiis, i, is
only 10 make the greatcr leap forward.
Jenoy Lind has found Snowman worthy
of her genius. Henceforih she needs no
merit to earn it. Barnum will do 1t ALL"