The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-08-05

the gsxier OF nature for its crystal commodity of ice
What music sounds sweetly the jingle Of its dia-
mond fragments in the ear Of thirsty man? The |
great Sympathetic nerve which underlies the human !
gizsard fairly tinses with rupture the translucent
luu,pe fall with spurge and fash into the goblet
we are just about to drain. Ah!-King Johns wish |
is realized: winter has thurst its icy fingers in
NAV. We have lost caloric enough to light fire,
and our blood, which smmered in its conduits five
minutes ago, now flows cooly as a subtcranean riv-
winter without fire would be as toerabe as a
summer without ice. Exercise, feather beds, and
blankets might enable Us to struggle shivcringly
through the cold season, but for ice in summer there
is no succedaneum. We can recoect the time when
thousands Of people considered it perilous to ice
in very hot weather Now it is known as one OF the
finest tonics in existence. II may be, indeed il is,
dangerous drink iced water when the body is heat
ed by violent exertion; but ice may he eaten with
impunty, under any circumstances. 1t is not merely
harmless but wholesome, and the man who devours
one or two pounds of ice in the course of warm
day, will find his appetite and dig. ston all the bet
Ter for it.
After pitching and tossing through the long hours
Of breezeess midsummer night, how delightful it is
to hear the ice chipping slice Of cold COM
fort from the ponderous block. Rushing to the win
dow, see him by the red light Of the Vesuvan
dawn, in the midst Of his movable winter, pushing
the transparent hither and thither with his
ice hook, while light vaPor, the perspiraton of re-
geration, envelopes his person and Keeps him fresh
and COOL At such time, we envy him his occupa-
tion.-Snsday Times
ENERGY THE TRUE MARK OF GENIUS
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Of his recent lectures
describes with the clear sweep OF painter the vital
necessity Of energy and labor the most gifted.
In the present day of steam and punctality, the lazy
man, matter how extraordinary his requirements,
must always fall behind in the race of human life
He says:
Genius uneNcrted, is more genius than bushel of
acorns in forest of oaks. There may lie epics in
mems brains, Just as there are oaks in acorns, but
the tree and the book come out before
measure them. We very naturally recall here that
large class of gumblers and wishers who spend
the time in longing be higher than they are, while
they should have been employed in advancing them
selves. These bitterly moralize the injustice of
| society. Do they a change! Not they change
who prevents them! IL YOU arc high as your
faculties permit you to rise in the scale Of society
why should you complain Of menl 1t is God that
arranged the law Is precedence. Impead him to be
silent! lfyou have capacity for higher station,
take it--what binders you!
How many would love to 60 to sleep beggars
and wake up Rohschiids Astors! How many men
would fam so to bed ounces and be walked up Solo
mons! You reap what you have Those who
SOW Ounce seed, vice seed, azincss seed, usually get
crop. They that sow wind reap whirldwind.-
A of mere capacity undeveloped, is only an or
ganized day dream With a-skn on it. flint and a
genius that will not strike FIRE, better than
wet junk Of wood. We have scripture for it, that a
living dog is better than a dead lion If YOU would
go up, gO--f you would be seen, shine.
AT the present day, eminent position in any pro-
fcssion, is the result Of hard unwearied labor Men
can no longer 90 at dash Into eminent position
They have got to hammer it out by steady and rug
ged blows. The wotld is no longer clay, but rather
iron, in the hands of its workers.
THE PRoDUCTIoN OF FIsH-A female carp will
deposit something like quarter Of million eggs; a
stugeon SIX or seven millions IA salmon several hun
dfeds. Yet OF these very few really formulated
or grow into fish, of the accidents which
destroy them, not to mention the quantity devoured
by other fish. Two humble fishermen Of France
have recently directed their attention to this matter
and have devised plan by which ALL or the greater
part of, these eggs may be formulated, and rivers
stocked with fish to incalculable amount A
pamphlet before describes that simple plan and
! gives much more information the subject. The
discoveries have merely watched the operations Of
Nature, and guarded against the thousand accidents
which interrupt those operations. The eggs grow
within the ovaries of the female until they become
burdensome to her, and she relieves herself of them
Icy pressing her stomach against the pebbles or any
other substance, at the bottom of the water. The
eggs flow frOw her into hole which she prepares for
them BY similar process the male relieves himself
OF the malt, which, flowing the egrs. fecunlates
them. The fish then cover up these eggs with sand
or pebbles, and leave them to become fish in due
course ALL therefore, that Man need do is to isolate
these eggs from the destructive accidents of rivers
and 10 furnish them with all the necessary conditions
This has been accomplished by the simple plan of
Gehn and Remy, who, under the patronage of the
Government, have stocked streams and rivers in va
rious Parts oil rance In report made by DIR. Haxo
to the Academy of Sciences, in lS49, We read that
these men had formed piece OF water belonging
exclusively TO them in which they have now between
Eve and six millions of trout aged from one to three
years. There rs news fv-ishers. and gentlemen
whose trout stf'a are impoverished.
! MAMMOTH STEAMsHIP.--The PHILADELPHIA Bull
Ietin speaking of the English project to build steam.
ship 200 feet long, and 900 bun then with en-
slnes OF 5000 horse power gives the following rem-
niscence:
1t says, the pa agraph refer to reminds us Of
PROJECT mentioned to in New York some six or
seven years ago, when the immense floating palaces
that now traverse the Hudson were first started to
the admiration of everybody. A gentleman whom
we then met sad that the world still far behind
what 1t should be in regard steam navigation and
that as TO ocean steamships, the cock c-shelIs he
rd'ied inc steamers OF one or two thousand tons bur-
den, were only worthy Of bows, and so the world
would discover in time. He said that the plan that
should he adopted at build steamers seven
hundred feet long propelled by engines of 900 horse
power, and drawing seventy feet of water. % But
said New 1o'ker. " how YOU going to get YES
sells INTO the bay, with such draft Of waerl' To
this the rcpy that it was not necessary 10 bring
them INTO New York Bay. Newport was the place,
where they had plenty of water and he was then 90
ins thther to satisfy himself on this point Newport
would be the great port Of the country and was des-
tined to rob New York Of her commerce. so soon as
the American public would awake to a true idea Of
the mode of carrying steam navigation.
EFFECT OF LIGHTNING AT SEA.-As is well
known in the annals of our naval history Commodore
Jones, while IN the command of the sIoop Of war
Wasp, after short but hard fought action, captured
the British sloop OF Frolic his superior force as
acknowledged by the enemy themselves. Shortly af-
ter tins action both vessels captured by the sew
cnty-fom Poctiers, Commodore Jones being unable
to escape in consequence of injuries sustained in the
late encounter The Wasp and Frolc were both ia
ken as prizes to Bermuda, from which place the
Amer lean officers sent home and exchanged
The Wasp repaired, and fitted out as a British cruz
ser and was attached TO the squadron that time en-
gagged in the blockade of N. Y harbor, of which the
Poictiers was the flag ship. While attending to
these new duties, the ship and crew met with an aw-
full fate In the midst of violent thunder storm at
night, the crew Of ship a few miles distant were
startled by tremendous explosion, immediately sue
ceed'ng burst Of thunder and lightning, when the
heavens Illuminated in the direction Of the Wash.