Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-10-07
MUscATINE, IOWA: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1853.
items in Brief.

Bricks are selling in Bost on at $40 pc
thousand.
The average number of daily visitors q
the Crystal Palace, is seven thousand.
| A young student of Buffalo recently be
came raging maniac, in consequence o
too close application to his books. @ &
The absolute cost, per day, of running ;
LOCOMOTIVES, including interest, wear an,
tear, is ten dollars.
Iti is estimated that not less than tou
millions of dollars have been spent by South
erners this summer in sight seeing ant
pleasure hunting at the North.
II is said that ninety miles of cottor
cloth is daily manufactured in Manchester
New Hampshire.
A woman now exists, near Southampton
England, who has been asleep twenty-on,
years, with a very brief interval.
The Directors Of the CRYSTAL Palace adyer
tise the exhibition now complete in all its
parts, and that it will close some time il
the month of December.
AT one of the largest wholesale ware
houses in Boston, the head corresponding
clerk Is young woman, sswho writes 4
beautiful, rapid hand, and fulllls the duties
OF the situation to the complete satisfaction
of her liberal employer
The Patent Office at Washington has re.
fused an extension of Colts patent fire.
arms, on the ground that he has already
made 81 ,000, 900 from their sale. The pat.
ent has nearly four years to run.
law has recently been enacted by the
British Parliament, that every child born in
England and Wales, after the first Of Au-
gust, 1858, shall be vaccinated within three
months from birth. If neglected, the pa
rents are liable to heavy fine.
There is not within the whole State of
South Carolina the slightest indication of
the presence of limestone. The CONSEQUENCE
is, that in many of the interior towns of
that State, one dollar per bushel is paid
for lime.
splendid meteor was seen hv many per-
sons in New York on the evening of Friday
10th ult. Itpassed with great velocity from
East to West, and appeared to be about the
size OF the full moon-a huge globe of
light, with luminous tail of great length
and brilliancy.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
decided that subscriptions by counties and
cities OF that commonwealth to the various
railroads, are constitutional and valid.
Judges Black, Knox and Woodward, took
this ground /; Justices Lewis and Lowrie
dissented.
A letter from Greclong, published in the
Australian papers, says that the miners
suffer badly from the vast quantity of mice,
and that as high as ffty shill ngs (about
twelve dollars and a half) have been paid
for cat. Mr.. Hitchcock advertises that
he will pay five dollars a head for cart
load.
Neal Dow, the celebrated temperance re-
former, is about fifty wears of arc. lis Youth
full in appearances and speaks with great
fuency as well as energy. lie is practical
mechanic, carrying on the business of tan
ming, in compa With his father, in which
business he has alnassed n fortune. He WAS
educated Friend, aud his parents are still
OF that Society.
Some idea miy be formed Of the import
ance OF perfume as an article of com
mercc, when 1t IS stated that one Of the large
peifumers OF France employs annually So
O00 lbs of orange blossoms, $4,000 lbs of
cassia flowers, $1,000 lbs of rose leaves,
$4,000 lbs of jessamine blossoms, $4,000
lbs of violet flowers, $4,000 lbs of tube
roses, 5000 lbs of lilac flowers, besides
rosemary, lavender, lemon, thyme, orange
and other oloroa' plants in Ike proper
tiop,
On the 18th ult., Miss Antoinette L.
Brown was ordained as Pastor of the Con-
grega:ional Church, of South Butler, New
York. This is the first instance in these lat
ter days OF woman being ordained and set
apart for the ministry. Among the Friends
II Is quite common for women to preach,
but they do not as prerequisite pass
through the ceremonies OF u public ordina-
tion. ln ris
China proper contai one million square
miles, and the de, cndencies, which cover
an area Of about four millions square miles,
makes the area of the whole: empire about
FIVE million three hundred thousand square
miles. Though the dependencies, consisting
OF Chinese Tartary, Thibet, Little Buchar;a
and the peninsula of Correa, are three
times the extent Of China itself, in other
respects they are vastly inferior to il, being
in great proportion, comparatively, des-
erts, witha struggling and rapacious popu-
lation, perhaps, altogether not one tenth in
number of those Of China proper
A sulterranean powder magaz inc, in the
neighborhood of otsehakow, Russia, in
which 10000 kilogrammes of powder were
deposited, blew up short time since with
terrific explosion. soldier, who was on
guard, was knocked to pieces, and an old
man who lived in house near the place,
was killed by the falling Of stone ON his
head. The roofs Of houses and the churches
in tho town We're seriously injured by the
falling OF the stones, and an immense num-
ber Of windows We're broken. The shock
was so great that in the fortress of Kim
burn, upwards OF five miles from Otseha-
kow, all the windows in the house of the
commandant were broken.
There is to be subterranean railway built
III London from the lower end Of Edgware
road to the Kings Cross. The estimated
capitalfor the execution of the work is
$500 200. The length of the underground
railway will be less than two miles and a
half. There will be stations at very short
distances say at every quarter of mile.
The charge for the whole distance in the
hrst class viii be only two pence. Every
carriage will be abundantly lighted. 1t is
expected that the line will be in full opera
tion in little more than twelve months.
In the rotunda at Woolwich, England,
among other curiosities which are there to
be seen by the public, is preserved, in a
glass case, a cinder, the produce only of
bank notes, burnt In an oven built for the
purpose. The issue of one pound notes du-
ring the war was averaged at hundred
thousand daily. After the calling in OF
/ thaS a atas md tho pav,nont af ZACH the