The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-04-01

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the rate of about 10, 900 day. On Saturday
morning three wagon loads of dead rats were seen
to leave Centre Market. 1t is also said that the
rats skinned, and their fur sold to Genin, the
halter, by whom they are cured, and converted
into mufis and boas, and under foreign name,
sold to the Broadway bellies at a high price.
JACKsoN's EAGLE.-Last season, Henry
Jackson had an eag,e-a ducal brd-the eagle
''The bird that laves
Her sounding pinions in the suns first gush,
Drinks his meridian blaze and sunset flush;
WOrships her idol in his iercest hour
Battles her full bosom in his hottest shower;
Rides with the thunderer in his blazing march,
Aud bears his lightnings DER ,nder boundless
arch.''
This bird has now become domestcated-eat
corn with the chickens and falfills all the duties
OF chanlcleer, except craving in the morning,
which he also attempts; goes to roost regularly
with the hens. Me-. J. has several chickens or
eaglets now, whichever they may be called, thai
have beaks and talons, about like those of hawks
The DEAR PEoPLE-The new born zeal
and patriotism Of certain individual in St. Paul,
for Minnesota, and his sadden affection for the
treaties, sounds about extravagant as the fol-
lowing love-lstter, sent by Ed. Wilson, school
master, to Miss SibilIa Trail:
dearest Sibby, love thee with an extrava-
gan, love; and the mouth OF my affection waters
with the love of thee. Dearest Sbby, am thy
slave and thy slaves slave, and the slave Of the
nea that lies under thy pillow. O, that | were
but metamorphosed into ASS colt, that
might carry thy lovely body up and down the
World
FLAx.--Why will not some of our farmers,
this year, ,ura their attention to FAX culture, with
reference TO the establishment here Of the growth
and manufacture Of fax cotton! Certainly, no
soil or climate in the world, be better adapt
Mr.. Farwe, OF that State, writes:
81 have examined, with much satisfaction, the
fax breaking machine of Messrs Hatch & Weed,
at Belolt, where they purchase the fax straw by
the ton, and il is by them roited dressed and sent
to an eastern market Should the farmers of this
country adopt this crop, and use ha If the en-
erges 10 IFS production now expended upon wheat,
the time is not distant when many Of our cotton
factories will be converted into linen factories,
and linen goods be produced oheaply, and be
made generally useful cotton goods
Recon, experiments in Europe and in our Own
. country, leave no longer doubt but what fax
be substituted for cotton, and there is a pro-
cess and patent now in use, by which, in one day
from the time The fax is pulled, ripe from the
field, 1t can be prepared, and III tit condition for
spinning upon any Of the TX. cotton, wool or silk
machinery of the country. We have a direct and
vital interest in the cultivation Of this product.
DENrIsrRY.--Cork-le legs, glass-eyes. India
rubber-brains and porceai teeth, are the sole
property Of modern invention. These artificial
members Of the human frame, have all come to
he important branches Of manufacture ANY man
who is skilled in mending up our species and put
ting the haman machinc in runain, order, is
amongst the most useful members of society A
dentist, ought TO be mechanic, Of the highest
order. We do not believe there can be found, a
more ingenious workman, or a more shiilful den
list, anywhere, than Dr. Jarvis, of st. Paul He
is a most excellent ,corkmaa.
WIG REVIEW. - The March No. OF this pc
riodical, Is on our table Amongst other articles,
Is an interesting review of Journalism and Jour
nalsts in Paris. The Review is published at
Nassau street.
"A STREAM OF SHrNGLEs.--LooIla in at
John Il. Irvne's steam saw mill. last Saturday.
we noticed Il stream of shingles flying out Of
machine, just put in operation. They are sliced
off Of pine blocks, that SCANNING hot, with j
huge choppng knife, worked by steam power. /,
is OF no for any body to think of selling shin
giles made in any other way, at the prices which
this machine can afford to make them for.
GUACK MEDICINE are out IN
all directions, shooting lid ducks--a mos, en-
celIent and savory diet for ST. Paul. after starving
through forty days Of Lent
Fly Blown The roof a nea,-ing house,
has lit down at the corner of Third and Robert
streets. 1t appears as if it had been blown there
let down suddenly by the four corners, like the
great sheet that Peter saw let down by the four
corners---a sort Of meat genealogical phenomenon,
pecially during Lent.
CoNUNDRUM.-Why is ST. Anthony like the
Devil? ANs--Because it will finally have to
knock under to Al Saints.
THE IcE.-Tuesday morning, the channel
south of the island, opposite town, and the chan
mel north Of the island, from our office down to
the Central House, was clear Of ice The river
is high and the ice very thick; but it must al!
soon leave. There was considerable rain on Mon
day aud Tuesday. We constantly hear the In
dans shooting ducks on the other side Of the river;
but they cannot come over with their game,
which we are all so greedy for.
DRowNEp.-A son Of Mr. Case, at St. An
thony, in crossing the river. TIE body was re-
covered Also, one day last week, u woman
with her son, crossing Lake St. Croix. near Still
water, walked into a hole out Of which the ice
had been cut, which was then covered with thin