The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-12-25

Y X The present length OF the ran" "S' -
countries would exactly enclrcle 'ne
globe!
*#* In the printing Office of the HarperS'
New York, are employed four hundred hanas-
most of them young girls.
~ X Alcohol was first invented and used to
stain the cheeks of the ladies of Arabla-9oo
years ago. 1t still reddens portions OF the hu-
man face.
The number of copies of newspapers
printed in the United States in one year. is
(prepare to swallow, dear reader) Az, 6OO, ,oOO!
So says the Government census
X \ The Baroness Arden, who lately died IN
England, left provision Of $500 in her WILL IN
trust to two of her nieces, that black horse,
long a favorite of her deceased husband, sho uId
be honora5Ly Jsried when he should die, and not
become the food of dogs
< x The Chinese measure cold by her-
naOnpeter of jackets. They dress more thickly
inftead of using fire. ''Three jackets " is a
cool day six jackets keenly cold-from
q ten " to '' fifteen jackets" dreadfully severe
A cofee-cup holder, which is much in
the hand during visits, is an article of great
luxury in the East. The Sultan has given a
beautiful and costly one to an American gentle
man, Mr.. Wright the inventor of machine for
making percussion caps. Perhaps the present is
a filter one from the fact that coffee-csp, in the
East is a sort of percussion cap to conversation.
x a lecturer on Ventilation" mentions
that Sir Humphrey Dayy invented a plan of
introducing air, by numberless ginsIet holes, to
the Houses Of Parliament, so as to obviate the
danger from strong draughts. Nothing was
given to the philosopher for his ingenuity, upon
which a wit wrote =
For boring twenty thousand holes,
The Lords paid nothing, d their souls
x A drou picture of an African king at
breakfast is given by Smith, in his g Trade and
Travels in the Gulf of Guinea He says 60 1
found His Majesty seated at his breakfast table
attended by girl about ten years Of age, just
budding into womanhood, in complete state of
nudity, and two or three lazy lads Of about the
same age. In England the girl would be called
a child, in Africa undoubtedly woman. The
expression of the countenance was that of mod
esty and extreme submissiveness-the sort of
so graphically portrayed in the coun-
tenance and figure of the slave presenting the
vessel of water to Plate in Smirke's magnih-
cent painting of Christ at Pilates judgment
seat. 1t was the duty of the female only to adj
minister to his sable Majesty's wants. The boys
sat at a little distance, in their country fashion,
which is precisely similar to that adopted by
children when about to engage in a juvenile
game called leap frog"
X The transactions of the United States
Mint at Philadelphia, during the first week of
the present month, were Of unprecedented mag
nitude. The receipts of gold were within eighty
four thousand of three million dollars. The
coinage was eight hundred and eighty thousand
dollars, and the payments were something more
than two millions. The exports of gold, hOwev-
er, continue to be enormous, averaging consid
erably over a million per week.
Our readers probably remember the sto
ry, copied from Household Words some weeks
ago, of a boa-constrictor in the Geological Gar
dens of London swallowing entire, large dOu-
BILE blanket, which had been placed in its cage
for bed. The London Leader, of Novem. 22d,
states that the boa has thrown up the blanket,
after having it in its body five weeks and one day
1t is conjectured that the serpent swallowed it
in mistake, supposing the corner of the blanket
to be the rabbit which has been furnished for its
weekly meal. 1t required many hours to swal-
low, and many more to get rid of the extraordi-
nary Wand.
X A carrot, forty-five inches in length,
and a turnip, three feet and half in circumfer-
ence, (weighing twenty-five pounds are among
the latest agricultural achievements of the En-
glish farmers.
one Of Hobbs's famous American locks to be ap-
piled to a safe, no one in the establishment was
able to open it, and Mr. Hobbs had to be sent
for before the business of the department could
begin.
X X During Father Matthews stay in Amer
lea he visited twenty-five states, advocated tenn
perance in three hundred towns and cities, trav
elled thirty-seven thousand miles, and admins
tered the pledge to six hundred thousand persons.
Y X X The average number of weekly deaths
in London is about one thousand; of births, four
teen hundred. In New York, last week, the
deaths were three hundred and seventy-fve; in
Boston only sixty-seven.
X John O'Connell, son of the great lib
orator; is about to emigrate with his family to
Australia Mr. O'Connell was the late NJ. P.
for Limerick.
X In Peru, says London paper, horses
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