Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-09-02
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Eleven hundred persons died of cholera in Calcutt,
in two days, in the early part of June ea
4 A State Temperance Convention in Louisiana l,a
reported in favor of the total prohibition Of ntoxcatin
liquors in that state.
The quantity Of water consumed daily in London, i
equal to the contents of lake fifty acres in extent
and of a mean depth of three feet.
The total amount Of coffee annually produced ii
every part of the world is $4,000 900 pounds Th
cost of this to the is not less thaa $50 600
| 600.
The gas light company of St Louis are constructing
gasometer which will contain one million cubic fee
Of gas Thsis said to be the largest but one gaso
meter in this country the exception being one al
| Philadelphia.
! The ship which conveyed Gen. Wolfe ON his expe-
dition to Quebec is still afoat under the name of the
| William and Ann. She was built in 1859 for a bomb
ketch, and was in dock in the Thames few days
SINCE sound and likely to endure many ,ears vet she
Is now engaged in the Honduras and African timber
| trade.
1t Is stated that perhaps there never was a time
before when 50 great difficulty existed in inducing
men to enlist in the army of the United States This
Is attributed wholly to the gratifying condition Of
things in the way OF plenty of work for every body
who will work, and at excellent prices, too.
Great Britain has $50 vessels of war aaoat or in
ordinary or building, carrying 1851 guns France has
346, carrying s92s guns Russia has l79 aloat carry
ing 1906 guns Holland has l2i carrying SAG guns
Turkey has 66, carrying 1850 guns and the United
States have Il, carrying 2,3i5 guns.
The temple site, in Nauvoo, ill.,, is owned by com
pany of socialists, called Icarians mostly French
They numben about four hundred, publish weekly
paper in English, and are iniidek. They are noted
as being peaceable and temperate. They all dine
in one ROOM yet every has separate room for bis
family.
man and woman wash from three TO FIVE thousand
pieces daily, by steam, at the ST. Nicholas Hotel New
York. The clothes are put into long wooden cylin
der-four or five hundred at time. The cylinder is
halt hled with water, mixed with soap, an alkaline
fluid, and made TO revolye by small steam engine
While it Is revolving, the steam enters at one end and
passes out at the other, having passed through the
water and clothes, completely cleansing the latter in
its course. Hot or cold, water seam can be admit
ted into the cylinder BY the pipes at the will of the
operator.
The bones Of an adult female were discovered few
days since, imbedded in of solid sandstone rock,
about six miles Fl m GAINESVILLE, Ohio. They had no
communication whatever with any fssure or crack of
the rock-the cavity in which they were nclosed rep
resenting the body and limbs moulded with beautiful
exactness 1t is thought that the creek which at high
water leaves the base of the rock poured
in impetuous cascade from superior to an inferior
basin; and that the bones must have been deposited
where they were found about FIVE thousand years ago.
or before the food.
The chief governments of Europe are loaded with
debts the principal of which they never expect TO pay
and some of them are continually in the market, offer
ing their credit to the bankers and contracting new
loans whenever they offer sufficient security to
the lenders. England groans under debt the inter.
est OF which absorbs three-ths of her income France
is trying to make both ends of her budget meet on pa
per- while nobody believes that they win meet in the
treasury Austria is trembling on the verge Of hank
ruptcy Spain and Portugal have long since ceased to
be ashamed OF practical repudation No considerable
nation in Europe can think OF paying its debts.
Ihe swell mob" of London do perpetrate robberes
with the most singular ingenuity lady alghted at
the bank ascended the steps, and entered the vest-
bule and presenting check to the paying teller re-
ceved large amount Of bank notes. which she depos
tied in and returned TO t.e carriage Just as
she had taken her seat gentleman came down the
steps of the bank without his hat wearing spectaces
iand pen behind his ear, and said MADAM we have
forgotten to tase the number Of those notes will you
allow me to take them OFF," She handed him the
notes and he ascended the steps and entered the build
ing The Lady having waited for some time, finally
returned to the bank, and soon ascerained that no
person had been authorized to ask for the notes.
AT meeting held in New York, in May last it was |
resolved toappont committee consisting of one from
each State, to make arrangements to hold a Worlds
Temperance Convention. That committee COMPRISING |
most esmabe and respectable gentlemen have called
the meeting to be held New York city, on the 9Th of
September inst No doubt large convention will as
semble much useful information be impaired, and ac
tive steps be taken to arrest the fearful spread of in
temperance. We trust the numerous Divisions and
other Orders of the sons of Temperance throughout
this State will take the proper measures for being rep
resented.
Turpentne lands are valued in North Carolina from
ive TO twenty-five dollars acre and from 500 to
1000 trees are found upon so much land. This num-
ber of trees would not yield more than from two to
four barrels spirits of turpentine after it had passed
through the process of distilaton. These broad
aeiSS va they
call tuirpentne orchards. In the winter the neg oes
ire employed in making wide wooden boxes 10 receive
he sap in spring. Many of these orchards have stills
ipon them, but much OF the tupentne is shipped in
barrels east and west for distiaton at the points of
consumption. Practiced turpentne hands (slayes)
command from one hundred to hundred and twenty
i've dollars year besides board and clothes The poor
" humble class of turpentine farmers seem TO be sur
rounded rather with all the mseres of poverty and
discomfort than with the moral and social blessings
Incident to personal education and the refinement of
ife The larger propretors often cotton planters
IS well as turpentine growers and often have spen
lid estates.
The Jew butchers do not PROSTATE the animal with
he axe, but first suspend and then cut the throat
This must be performed in peculiar manner. Ii is
necessary to have a long knife, which must be free
rom rust nick. or any mperfection of the cutting
,dge, one cut only being allowed. If more be reqpir
ID, any formality neglected the animal is deemed
unit for food for the Hebrews. After the animal il
lead be is examined by the jew butcher This is
lone by cutting into the peura aud abdominal cayi.
lies, running the hands in and feeling the lungs and
liver. Should these organs be found adheient to the
tides, or should any Jumps be found in them, the
butcher places eathern tag upon the animal inscrb
ID with the Chaldac tripha," sgnifying improper
Dr. unfit. On the contrary, should these organs be
ound healthy, and the operation of killing be other
wise correctly performed, the tag, stamped cosher"