Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-12-02

numS er o1 d4lect3 In ali these languages and dia
eGts toiegd tongues iucrmingle = such az the Sans
crit aratHc and Persian. This Foreign internxture is
greatest ~ the north part ot ndostan where all the
ASia,c conqGerors Of the country haYe entered.
Hcnry Heine, the German poet, has for many years
past heen struck wIt! paralysis His limbs his body
his features even 10 bis very cyeds, lame aud to
al purposes Ike thfse oE dead man. Indeed It may
Ge said that life only fingers on the brain aud tongue
the man is mere curpse--the poet alone survives
An exile from his country for many long years past
too. captive to Illness in tie back rocm OF small
Apartment In the Faaboars PGissrnere ut Paris Eew
era Ia Gerai::t lyrics ard. might almost say, in
Gercan politics iid religion - has still been acIiye
and il not his best, at least his most puugCnt Looks
have Issued from that living head attached to dead
body, which keeps its long ygils n the heart OF the
Babel OF france-New Quarterly Review.
BATE INVENTIONS.
4 Twenty-aeSen haryesers, fifteen plows, twentysix
seed-panters, eight tLrelhing mlchF es. ten corn
nal!ers and three horse rakes patented dlring
the year 1852. III addition to those now in use
An Eaglishman has invented a new wheeLbarrow.
The wheel IS placed under, and is sunk into tue bot
TOM so that the weight rests the wheel and not on
tie hands, and taere is less OSCILLATION. Ry means Of
tisharrow j. is stated that twice the usual weight can
be wheeled.
Judge w. f. Bird, of Cataba, Alabama has invent
ed an improved steam boiler, for which lc has taken
measures to secure patent. The boiler Is composed
ofcynders or tubes, arranged in LAYERS or tiers hay
ing return hAes passing hroagh them and co nected
With fire chambers. The lues to the lower tuhey or
Cy ind2rs terminate in trunk or chest with hollow
Jars, through which the smoke passes to the smoke
chamber. The fiues of the upper cylinder commun!-
cate drecty with the smoke chamber.
DR.. j. b. Dods, OF New York city, claims to have
discovered process by which he eau manufacture gold
Gy artificial means, equal 10 any found in California
The process is a0v, bat this he is now laboring to
overcome, and he think, that in less than a wear he
VIII he allie by tile assistance Ot ten mes labor to
manuiaetGre one, if not two tins Of gold per day. NJ
before the Academy of Sciences at Paris in which he
caaaS similar discovery. Ii this should prove t. be
true, California and Australia stock will rapidly dgpge
ciate.
Francis Murphy, Of Dixon H. has Invented anl
applied for patent upon an improved exeayator for
railroad, and other public work.. This improvement
consists OF share sCrayer, which loosens the earth
and raises it sufficiently to enable it to be rece.v
upon an endless apron, by which it is carried up to
the required height and may be deposited directly
from this, or carried up by another endless apron 10
the side Of the machine.
Tbs Scientific American has an engraving of the
railroad which is 10 hundred miles an hour with
perfect safety Its distinctive principle Is, that the
ears run on single rail- which Is raised Efficiently
high from the track for the train to be hung upon it,
Tie train is, in fact placed staddle of the rail- run
ming on Wheels to whose aXcs the cars are hung. t
obvious that. with the rail running, it were thro
the the latter could not be thrown off the track by
any amount of speed; and obstruction of sufficient
magnitude to do mischief, could be made TO lay upon
single rail raised six eight feet from the ground.
An ASTONISHING EXPERIMESr.-Its seems incre lible
yet il IS related fora truth that at recent meeting of
the British Association for the Advancement OF Sci
ence, II. Boutigny, a French pho .npher, having
dampencd his right hand with little water. plunged
/ 1t With perfect impGbity into pot OF melted iron
brought glowing rcd hot from ,e furaaca. The zen
sation he assured the spectators, one rather OF
cold than 81 heat, and lie gave the following reason
for the phenomenon: lhc moisture Of tie skin DC.
came converted by heat iato that peculiar condition
termed sherodal vapor, which being lad conductor
OF heat, eiectaaly prevented the skin lfolr Icing
burned.
FKAKiSG ArrARATU Cyrus Rlberts, Of Eelleyille
Yiil, has applied Tor patent upon improved raking
attachment to hayos:erS The invention consists in
having rake placed underneath the platform anu 50
constructed and Grated that its teeth shall shut ,wn
While passing in rectipn and be erected through
apertHres in the platform while it il passing back =
Ihis Is used i'll combination with fork. which is
operated as to throw the grain quickly from sAc fin
gers.