The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1852-08-06
ETHIOPIA

Egyptian COuuan, utSCIlOes Hls .liuo
down the Nile, He says:
Here, where I expected to sail through
wilderness, / find a garden. Ethiopia
might become, ID othei hands.the richest
and most productive pari Of Africa. The
people are industrious and peaceable,
and deserve better masters. Their dread
Of Turks is extreme, and so is their ha-
ned. | stopped one evening ataulitIle
village on the western bank. The sailors
were sent to the houses TO procure fowls
and eggs, and aher long time two meE
appeared, bringing as they said, the only
chicken in The place. They came up
slowly, stopped and touched The ground
and laid their hands on their heads, sigal-
Tying that they were as the dust before
our feet. Achmet paid them the thirty
paras they demanded, and when they
saw the supposed Turks had disposi-
ton TO cheat ibem,s they went back
and brough, more fowls. Travellers. who
go by the land route give The people an
excellent character FOR hospitality. l
have been Informed thatit is almost i'm
possible TO buy anytbing,a even, when
double the value of the article is rendered,
bu, asking for it as a favor they will
cheerfully give whatever they have.
/ On the third day,l saw the hippopotamus.
The men discerned him alou. a quarter
of mile of, as be came up 10 breathe,
ard called my attention 10 him, and the
sailors shouted TO draw his attention.
|"Hov is your wife, old boy" Il your
-son married yelf' and like exclamations.
They insisted upon il that bis curiosity
would be excited. BY. this means, and he
would allow us to. approach. saw him
at least within hladrcd yards, but only
his enormous head, which was three feet
across his ears. He raised II with a tre-
mendous snort, opened his huge mouth
| at tho same time, and a more lrlghtful
4 monster never saw. He came up in
our wake, after we had passed, and follow
ed US some time. Directly alter
wards we spied FIVE cfocodiies on a sand
bank. One Of them was Of Q grcyish
color, and. upward Of twenty feet IN
length. We approached quietly TO with
in few yards Of them, when my mer
raised their poles sand shouted.fThe beasts
started from thvii sleep and da,hes
quickly into the water, the big yellow
one striking SO violently against the hui
that I am sure be wen; off with The head
ache. .i'n saa s1 .lh3E3m il9i 9ii o'
EFFEcTs OF LrBERTY.-In the dark
lagos which followed the downfall Of the
Roman Empire, several Republics we're
4 formed in the Northern parts of Italy
aud ignorance and barbarism prevailed
in other European countries, these
States, under the Influence Of free lns,itu
tions, became rich and powerful, and en-
loved the comforts and ornaments Of life
Their ships covered every sea; iheiI
factories rose on every shore their mon
ey changers set their tables in every
city ;and manufactures fourished. We
doubt whether any country Of Europe, ou
own perhaps excepted, has, at The presen
time reached SO high point of wealtl
{ and civilization as some parts OF Italy
had attained 400 years ago. The reve
nue. Of The Republic Of Florence wa
greater 500 years ago than that whicl
/ The Grand Duke Of Tuscany lin whicl
, dominions Florence is situated) now de
! rives from a territory Of much greater ex
!, tent. rs = ."54Ss' ''e.a@ fa1l'a
! The manufacture of wool alone EN-
ployed200 factories and 10000 work
; men in that Republic; and the cloth an
j, nually produced sold for sum equal tt
ESll 100000 Of our money Eight,
banking bouses conducted the commerce.
operations, not Of Florence only, but 0
ali Europe. Two banking houses ad
yanced 10 Edward the Third of England
a sum sum of silver equivalent TO $3,30o, 700
when the value Of silver was quadruple
wba. i. is now. The city and environs
! contained 100000 inhabitants; 10000
, children we're taught 10 read in the varl
ous schools; 1900 studied arithmetic
and 600 received learned education
The progress of literatsre and the ,ar,'
was in proportion to that Of the pnbll'
! prosperity. Allthe seven walls OF The Ap
ocalypse have since been poured out OF
5 those pleasant countries. Their polltl
cal institutions have been swept away
their wealth has departed; Literature anc
the arts have declined; the people are
,rampled upon by foreign tyrants. ane
their minds are enslaved BY superstition;
/. eloqueuce lis gagged and reasonhood
winked. Edinburgh Reriew. al n
ARE LIZARDS PoIsoaoUs?--L. M. Boat
ner, writing to the Southern Cnliivator
!, saws he has examined many snakes ant
2 lizards, to know il they wero poisonous
! and he is satisfied that many snakes, ar
destroyed which are not only harmless
but useful. He has examined all sor,
or lizards and never found a poisonon
; one. The large water lizards are ais
! innocent--they are named "lamper cells.
f--Scientifc American.
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