Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-12-30

-. PRorEssoR CoRISI.-This gentleman, who is
! Professor of natural history, at the Universe
: Nv of Lodi, made before circle of private
friends, few nights ago, a very remarkable ex-
aperiment illustrative of his theory as TO the
formation of mountains. He melts some sub
stances. known only to himself, in a vessel and
allows the liquid to cool. At first it presents
an even surface, but portion continues to ooze
up from beneath, and gradually elevations are
formed, until at length ranges and chains OF
hills are formed, ON the earth. Even to the
stratification the resemblance is complete, and
M. Corini can produce on a small scale the phe-
nomena of volcanoes and earthquakes. lie
contends, therefore, that the inequalities on the
face of the globe are the result OF certain ma
terials, first reduced by the application OF heat
to a LIQUID state, and then allowed gradually to
consolidate.
In another and more practically useful field
of research, the learned Professor has develop
ed some very important facts. He has succeed
ed to most surprising extent in preserving
animal matter from decay without resort
ing to any known process for that purpose
Specimens are shown by him of portions of the
human body which, without any alteration in
their natural appearance, have been exposed to
the action of the atmosphere for six and seven
years; and he states that, at trifiing cost, he
can keep meat for any length OF time, in such
way that it can be eaten quite fresh. The
importance of such discovery, If on practical
investigation it is found to answer, will be more
readily understood when it is remembered that
the hocks of sheep in Australia are boiled down
into tallow, their flesh being otherwise almost
valueless, and that in South America vast herds
of cattle are annually slaughtered for their
hides alone.
A friend of ours, sojourning during the past
summer in one of the far off "shore-tOwns" of
Massachusetts Bay, was not little amused one
day at the querulous complainings of one of the
"oldest inhabitants" against rail roads; his ex-
perience in which consisted in having seen the
end of one led out and at length the cars run
ing upon it. Taking out his old pipe, on pleas
ant summer afternoon, and looking off upon the
ocean, and the ships far off and out at sea with
the sun upon their sails, he said: don't think
much O. rail roads; they amt no kind O. justice
into 'em Meow what kind o. Justice is it, when
rail roads takes one mans upland and carts it
over in wheel-barrers ento another mans mash
What kind o. 'commodation be they! You can't
60 when 20 want to go; you got to go when
the bell ringsor the blasted noisy whistle blows.
tell you It's pnyln' tew much Tor the whistle.
Eff you live little ways off the dee pot, you
got to pay to git to the railroad: and if you
want to go any where's else 'cept just to the eend
on it, you got to pay to 60 alter you git there
What kind o commodation is that! Coin
round the country tew, murderin folks, runnn'
over cattle, sheep and hcgs, and settin' fire to
bridges, and every now and then burnin' up the
woods Mrs. Robbins, down to Cod-pint, says,
and she ought to know, for she's pious wo-
man and belongs to the lower church, she said
to me, no longer ago than day-'fore yesterday,
that she'd be cuss'd if she didn't know that they
sometimes run over critters purpose-they did
a likely shoat O. her'n, and never paid fort,
cause they was n corporation" they sad.-
What kind O 'commodation is that! Besides:
now I've lived here, clus to the dee pot, ever
since the road started to run, and seen 'em 90
out and come in but never could see that
they went so darn'd fast, nuther!"