Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-07-08

There are three thousand straw Sc wersid New Yorl
city, working for tive months in he year and turning
off about one million two hundred thousand hats anC
1 bonnets.
| The losses on shipments to California within th
| past five months have been very heavy. Many arti
ces have been sold at less than their cost in the At
| lantic cities.
/ After seven years toll and many unlookedfor obsta
cles the translation Of the Scriptures into the Chimes,
| language has been completed at Shanghai, by agents
of the London Missionary Society.
A mile minute has heretofore been considered pret
ty fast travelling but il is said that the cars on the
AiIw ukie and Mississippi Raj road made IL miles in
| twelve minutes.
Some idea of the magnitude ofthe late fire in Canada
may be imagined from the eXe ofterritory devasted
is cannot be less than 900 square miles in ength
| by about 40 in breadth.
The amount raised by the Conference ofthe Meth
odst Episcopal Church South for missions during the
past year, is Sl669Ol o9. The South Carolina Con
terence heads the list with S22 36 so Alabama 81!
l96 SO /: Georgia, SlS,5o7 36.
About seven o'clock en- Monday evening, 4th ult, a
large meteor passed over Portland, Maine taking q
course from soItn to north. Ii was broad Wight,
and yet it shone with dazzling brliancy, appearing as
large as forty-twopoand cannon Dall.
contract has been made in England for the con.
structon of steamer OF upward of six hundred feet
in length, and measuring 1000 tons. She is to be
the stern.
The New York Times says that there is not on the
face of the earth, city, life is SO insecure and
crime aud violence so aggravated in the city ui
New York. Tne coroners OF the city lately held thirty
hye mquests IN one daJ.
Some Of the Pittsburgh grave-yards have recently
been the scenes OF < deSecr ton. Shrubbery has
bee rooted p and carried away flowers crashed under
foot, &c. 1T Is proposed now to bal all admissions TO
prI with ont a WRIT tpun rn5t
A little gin named Maria Wilkin. living near Fort
Ancient, OHIO, ; al dcked by swarm Of hornets on
the 1jJl ug Yacn stIug her necG Shnnicrs head and
arms 50 badly Lhat she died about three hours after.
wards, Ia the greatest agony
The aafe railroad company, OF Missouri, during the
month o May, gave toe several thousand children oi the
p4JAc schools o - Louis free ride into the country
Inc 5ts ones 1 che d1eeeAi s5a)0, at sditloe inter
Vals, aYaIle1 themselves VI II SIth sreat gee.
pl tae Afy.tnrse species Of rlegged animals,
hAo"a u exit A Astsa4s, Loe one Is to oe o1ad any
wnere eise tey are all residents OF New Holland ex-
cl4veIy or OF tue adacelt Islands On the other hand
the ry commonest OF th Uld-word qlIadrupeds are
NOT to oe met with otherwise then as colo lists of Aus
uralia.
There are engaged in London between three and
Tour nandred Germans and Italians few French
men, aud one hundred Englishmen, in tue auufacture
of ond cages. It's calculated that each man makes
two cages in a day, therefore seven hundred cages
are made daily, ORR not including Sundays, 2l06eJ
cages yearly.
w. L Hines kissed Miss Gorham, in East Boston,
the other day She sued him for damages for value
received, bat didn't appear on the retur day. having
been satisfied oy cash payment Of SIS. This may
be set down the Boston market price kisses. The
last decision III New York was So, and in New Orleans
So very valuable article, certainly, but luxure 5
must be paid for.
George Peabody, the American Banker in London
is said TO be worth about i've millions of dollars He
born in Danvers, Mass. in 1896 and in 1927 went
to europe to reside, prey us TO which he carried on
the mercantile business in Baltimore. In 1884 he
commenced his present business in London. He form
eriy resided at GeorgetoWn, ID. {.
There arc in the city of New York nineteen public
parks, valued at s9,l5l O00 OF thess the most val
Dle is the Battery which is set down at So 900 900.
The City Hall Park comes next, which Is worth 81,
100000. The largest is Tompkins Square, the ex-
tent OF which is not stated the next in size is the Bat
terry covering about IL acres; after which comes the
Park, not far from 10 IL acres.
1t is curious circumstance that a bona fde magni-
fying gla identified by Sir David Brewster as deci
dedly and designedly such, recently found by Mr.
Layard in one of the temples OF Ninevan Mr. Layard
says that many OF the Cuneilorm inscriptions, and
other small sculptures, delieatey cut and so
minute, as {, be 'almost uninteIigible without q
magnityng glass
In several of the Northern counties of Ohio the
foliage of the forest trees has been, in certain dis
trCts generally devoured that most of the limbs
are entirely stript Of their leaves 10y brown bug,
which flies at dusk and settles upon them. 1t is
about an inch long, aud about quarter of inch in
width across its back 1t has nothing peculiar il
its appearance. During its flight in the evening the
air is filled with low rearing humming noise. i
cuts the leaves from the trees and the ground isstreweC
with them. Often the bugs are found in hundreds on
the round under the tree and tue poultry of the farm
! yards have rich picking.
curious has been atel, decided in the pension
office In 1916, Commodore Crane. at the head one
of the naval bureaus, took his life while suffering
under an undoubted attack of insanity His widow
claimed pension the ground that the occasional fit
of insanity in the last of which he had perished
caused by diseases contracted by exposure while EN-
ployed in the line of his duty The Commissioner o
Patents decided against the claim, bat he has been
overrued and the widow is entered on the pension
roll as entitled to 5000 year from the date OF th
/ Commodores death.
A QUADRUPED CHIcKES.-The Germantown (Pa
Telegraph publishes the following extract from a let
ter of gentleman OF olnmbia To citizen of George
| town: "Oue ofmy Sh ngha hens has few chickens
| hatched few days ago. and one of them which ttd
dies about and eats heartily and to thrive. ha:
four legs. For the first day, 'Qlady,' (as We called
him, from quadruped) did not know which pair to q
upon The hind pair made him rear up, and tn,
front pair made him kick up. But after balancing tn,
thing in his mind night, settled down next NOR
ming on his all fours' boldly, and persists in tha
mode of locomotion.
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