Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-09-27

1t has long been alleged that the aurora bore
ais has the effect of producing certain direc-
ton of wind and colored aurora borealis is al
ways indicative of change of existing weather
The mean annual fall of rain on the surface
of the globe has been taken at 81 inches which
taking the area of its surface, l968136 56 square
miles, would amount, Cat 900 ozs. to the cubic
footO to 43l ,033, sos, 956, 6444 tons per annum
1t is fact undenahly proved that if sheep are
allowed free access to salt, they will never be
subject TO the disease called the rot
Wooden posts or stakes driven under salt watts,
owing to the preserving quality of the salt, are
practically indestructible. 1t would be very ca
sy to adapt this hint to the preservation of fence,
garden posts, &c, as they do in Syracuse.
The elastic force of steam is the moving agent
of the machinery attached to an engine, and
therefore to keep the velocity constant, the sup
ply of steam must be regulated to the resistance
to be overcome.
Twenty-seven inches of snow give three inch
es of water when melted, and the water thus OBJ
tanned is found to contain ammonia, which is the
cause of its great softness.
A large species of the star-fish possesses the
power OF breaking itself into fragments under
the influence of terror, rage, or despair.
When we look at the moon through telescope
which magnifes 200 times, we behold the objects
were standing at point 238 800 miles from the
earth in the direction OF the moon, or only twelve
hundred miles from that orb, reckoning its dis
lance to be 100000 miles.
A cement composed of parts of pure chalk
and 81 parts of fresh alluvial clay, will be found
cheaper than any other as an hydraulic mortar.
| A vessel moving through the water commu-
nicates a motion TO the same, and this quantity of
motion is equal to that which is lost by the mo-
wing vessel.
MILKING Cows-A New METHoD.-The
new method Of milking which our readers may
already have seen something of in the papers, is
no joke, but a practical reality. An informant
OF ours witnessed the operation in the farm yard
of Joseph Fellows Esq, of Geneva, but few
days since. India rubber bags were drawn over
the COWS teats. which set close enough to ex-
clude the air, in the lower end of which metallic
tubes were inserted, closed by taps, when the
four were adjusted, the taps were Withdrawn,
and the milk streamed from each teat into the
pail, exhausting the whole quantity in the COW S
bag, in half the time it would take to milk in the
ordinary way. 1t is a useful invention, against
which no valid objection can exist, and will be
likely to come into general use. The prime cost
of set, four mixers, we shall have to call them
cannot exceed fifty cents. They are simple, ca
silly and cheaply manufactured; when cows are
stalled, it would seem, that one man could milk
ten In fifteen minutes, if he was supplied with
the apparatus for each COW.
JENNY LIND-T Tickets Reduced, d,c-Bar-
nun, says the Herald has determined to aban-
don the sale of tickets by auction, reducing
those of the first class to s., second class 10 s
1t seems that Jenny has been demonstrated
with for devoting the whole proceeds of her A
merican tour ESTIMATED at $l50,000) to the es-
adjustment of free schools in Sweden and Nor
way. Her reply to them was, that she hat
made provision for her parents, had secured g
sufficient income for herself (S6,O0O per annum)
and that as she knew not how soon she might
lose her voice, she ought to do her duty to hel
country when she had the power. Who can
wonder that, independent of her matchless sing
ing, Jenny Lind is the most popular woman in
the world?
i The GREAT CASE OF THE PARKER WATET
WHEEL.-This case, which has been on trial to-
a long time, was decided last Monday. After ;
long period of argument and much considcra
ton, the iniunctions asked for upon the grount
of violation of the patent for Parker's waite
wheel were refused. Judge Grier, of the Uni
ted States Circuit Court, delivered the opinion o
the Court 10 that effect. There were sixty case
depending on this decision.
sMother,'' said a little fellow at Camden, tn
other dav, Il am tired of this pug nose it is
growing pugger and pugger every day.
Dom make an ass of yourself just because y3
know how. Save your talent Tor holidays an