Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-12-02
The World at Icme ard Abroad.

The World az i.Cme ard Abroad.
DoMEsriV
Minnesota is said be the riches. salt region in the
world.
Inv.rmont the whole expenses Of the pablic schools
last year were S2l7, ,402 32
The cities Of Williamsburg ErookIyn and BushwiclS
are to be consolidated.
The United States army numbers about 10 coo men
Last year they cost the country 500 per man.
There are ll3 fire insurance companies in the city
of New York, with an aggregate capital Of about
81 ,c00 600.
In Lynn, a man named William Clark has raised
this tYo crops OF strawberries from the same
yiaes in the open air.
The iron bridge over tie Muskingum river, built by
the Ohio Central Railroad Company is SIS feet long
and IS feet inches wide.
Another lead mine has been discovered in Wash
ngtoa county, 40. The lead is about nine feet broad
and three deep and the finest deposit in Missouri.
A Mr.. John Ewing killed monster rattlesnakc al
his residence in Warren county, Ohio recently. Il
was upNa Is Of i've feet in length, and had Weut yiye
rattlcs.
The raj car making business of Tie United States is
said 10 involve $1,000 600 capital, giving employment
to several thousand men and producing yalle in
property, estimated at sl7 Gee COO per annLin
new secret order has been organized in Cinrina-
ii, uner tie name oi the Family Compact, aLd ar
ready numbers five hundred members. The order is
aFowedy for charitable purposes, and is orea to e-
males as vel ~ nsaas.
Two children are now exhibiting at Baltimore Who
are joined together at the back hy the union OF Two
spints in one. Ohea while i sound asleep the
osaeF Tide awake aud playful and the connection is
such that whilst one sits erect the other lie down.
The nat,rs salt ponds on TIE Florida Keys which,
in Isis, y.cied about 15 900 bushels OF salt have.
been, daring the last winter, greatly improved and
extended, 30 that the eSaporating SUI face is how COO
acres, and viii be increased to sOO Daring the
winter the ponds have conta ned pickle siti2e,t TO
MAKE o0O bushels OF salt.
Elder Knapp an ecceatric Baptist preacher, and
y. /. Flanders, preacher Of UniyerSalisn, were
sometime since both preaching in Xalesville Ohio.
Knapp publicly prayed God either 70 convert Flanders
OF 10 take irum him the power of speech that he
might no longer isleatl the people The Baptist pa
pels at GAINESVILLE say thu flanders rcturned to Balti-
more and has since oat s yoiee, and IS thereby
bic 10 preach
The Methodsts OF the United States have made ad,
mraSle provision for the education their pastors.
They have already eight first class colleges with uro-
perty and funds amounting in the aggregate to Si94
ob3 and another Is projected III Missouri They have
asO orty-sx theological academies and semnares in
twenty une OF siich there are 1896 stadents
rage Of l7S students to each seminary The oldest of
thcir colleges is at Wibraham and was founded in
the year 1880 by the Rev. Wilbur Fisk.
FOREIGN.
Cotton umbrellas are worth ten dollars and hall
apiece at Panama.
There are eighty thousand hymns in the German
language.
Pope Plus IX is corpuleut il is said he plays bill
ards every day Tor the purpose OF rctaeng his size
Upwards of 100 whales have been captured in the
late whaling voyage. Whales have Teen unusually
scarce this season.
Adams & Co. have established u branch Of their ex
press at Melbourne, Australia by the extension of
their line to Callao they will have put girde round
the earth.
BY the treaty OF the United States with Gina the
laws OF the tnon follows its citizens, ard its banner
protects them even within the domains OF the Chinese
Empirc.
The Sandwich Islands, twelve in number, embrace
superficial AREA Of about six Thousand and hun
died square miles. -Four OF these islands are rocky
and unnhabitable.
The dog-tax commences in England, Wales, and
Berwickupon- Tweed the 9th of April 1854 and in
scotland III May ot the same Year. IL is l2s year Oh
all dogs except sheep dogs. Last year the tax on
dogs produced 10 the revenue fI57,923
NATURAL PRorEorIoS.--A number of The stone
masons about Liverpool have recently adopted the
moastache us protection against the fatal effect of
dast in the exercise OF ther craft with saatary effect
Ii is undoubtedly important provision OF nature ior
the protection OF the lungs. Somoastaehes are useful
There i.A Methodist preacher near Ripon, England,
seventy years OF age, who Tor forty years has walked
live ni!es every sunday to preach and returned in the
evening Tie has thus walked 10000 miles; and the
sole pecuniary reward lie has ever received was
shilling ON one occssl0n or y traction more than
tarthinS per aiinllin. sI
Virtue is rewarded in France by prizes. A prize of
5000 francs has been awarded TO Etenette Chanoany
faithful servant who had served her mistress unhai.
PLY married through every ycisude and reverse OF
fortune, supported her and her daughter in poverty
and now at sixty years OF age, cleans apartments IN
Paris To support her mistress who is poor and ILL
Such devotion deserves reward.
According 70 an English paper another ihlstrious
stranger, a comet, Is taking tour through the heas-
Gus, within the scope OF our earthly vislon 1t was
discovered at Berlin on the llth of September and on
the 81 OF October Vas visible to the eve The head
equaled in brightness star OF the fourth magnitude
and the tail could be traced about one degree. 1t had
rapid soatherly motion
NANKIN, cHISA.--This city contains more than half
million OF inhabitants and has thrice the circumfel-
ence OF Paris lt Is situated vast plan and gives
name to province that contains thr'yeight millions
OF people, DR.. IVAN says, nothing in the world can
compare with the fruitiuineSs OF its soiL Twice wear
the fields covered with crops and they Weld rut
and vegetables uninteruptedly In Nankin reside the
OF letters and learning, the dancers painters Jug
lers physicians, poets, and the like There are held
schools of science art and pleasure for pleasure is in
that iowery land both an art and u SC. .enCe
The population of India is estimated by a writer in
the Edinburgh Review at l50 600 000 of which about
twothrds are under the sway of Great Britain This
population is very unequay distributed. Some parts
of the valley OF the Ganges are as densey peoped as
China. while other parts of India have but a slight
population. There are, in this country ten distinct
nations, ,eaAn. ten dereht languages, with grsat