Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-08-12
Omnibus.

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A pure white robin has been foun,
in nest near Lewisburg, Va. A SINH
lar bird has been seen at Monroetown
\ Penn.
No one is permitted to join permanent
y the lcsrian (soc alist) colony. at Nsu
VOC, unless he is married, or will en-
gage to get married.
| One hundred and forty million dollars
worth of tobacco was consumed BY
Great Britain last year-enough money
TO keep million boys at good school
Mr. Wise. the mronaut, thinks iha
with an expenditure Of $4,000 he car
construct balloon with which he car
cross the Atlantic in forty eight hours
The Artesian Well, at Montgomery
| Ala. is $50 feet deep, and the augur is
still grinding,in rock. II now runs
five gallons per minute.
Mr.. Hodd, formerly superintendent
Of the House telegraph Office in Spring.
field. has invented plan for sending
messages by telegraph in the very hand
writing OF the copy.
Commodore Vanderbilt, who owns
twenty steam vessels, began life as a
deck hand on board a small schooner
plying between Stalen Island and New
York.
Mr.. Richard b. Powers, of Monroe
county, Mo has mule fifteen months
old, which measures fifteen hands one
inch and half high, sixty seven inches
around the Sirih, sixty-nine inches
around the kidneys, and is we'll formed.
Belcher's Ariesian well in st. Louis
has now reached depth of I772 feet.
Water free from limestone has not been
obtained yet. He expects to find such
water at the depth OF 1000 feet.
number OF SEALS of very large size
have been seen in the inner harbor, Bos-
ton, within a few days. They are quite
shy. though they can be approached
while they are on the rocks and beaches
near enough TO have rifle ball reach
them.
The evening music on the Boston
Common sometimes attracts ten thou
Of New England talk of insti.uting a
series of free, open air concerts, sim j.
lar TO those provided by the corporation
of Boston.
The latest Partisan fashion is bonnie,
withouta crown-an assem hlage of flow
ers. ribbons and lace. point on ,affetas,
richly embroidered in large dots with
straw which shades the knot of plated
hair which falls on the nape Of the neck
Very large wedding cakes, and exceed
ingly long trains of brides aids. are now
the fashion in Europe Two hundred
pounds is by no means an extraordinary
weight for the cake, and twelve is not an
uncommon number Of bridesmaids.
While cleaning out an old we'll al
Lawre nee burgh, Ind, few days since,
two buckets Of butter were taken from
it which had remained there fourteen
years. The Press says Notwithstanding
its age the butter was not strong or bad
as some was offered for sale in the g,o-
ceries of that place.
A newly Invented life pre- server for
steamers, consists of buckets, with the
bottom and sides filled with cork, and
capable Of sustaining two persons in the
water. 1t is intended to take the place
OF the common buckle Is kept standing
with water on the decks of steamboats,
A curious custom exists at Havana Of
laying out bodies in state during the
night before burial. They are placed
close to the open window, fronting the
street. on couch raised four or FIVE feet
from the ground. The corpse is sur
rounded by high wax tapers, and the
whole room illuminated.
Practical action is about to bring to
speedy focus, the great connection be.
tween Europe and America, by railroad
from New York to the extreme north.
eastern point Of Nova Scotia-,hence by
steam to Galway, being only 1000 miles
OF ocean navigation-andt thence by rail-
road to Dublin and across the channel
to Liverpool. By this arrangement the
entire distance can be travelled in u
days.
F, X. Aubrey, the we'll known western
trader, left Santa Fe some time during
last December, with flock of sheep Of
near five thousand, and a number of
mule teams. He travelled down the Rio
Grande some distance, went around
through the State Of Sonora, crossed
the Colorado at the mouth Of the Gila.
and lost but twenty FIVE sheep and one
mule, and that mule was shot by the
Indians for food. Notwithstanding the
winter through which he had to pass he
landed in California about the 18th May.
with some three thousand and 1--WE hun
dred head of sheep. and ten mule teams
ali ia. and fine. and ready for market,
after having sold one thousand old and
lame sheep for eight hundred dollars,
and about three thousand dollars worth
of small and br oxen down mules. which
he sold to the Mormons as he passed
through their lower settlements.
ASwedish friga,e arrived at Plymouth.
England, few weeks since, from a
voyage around the world. She sailed
from Sweden, 1851, aud having touched
at Rio Janeiro and La Plata, passed
through the Straits Of Magellan in Feb..
1852. Sailing circuitously through the
Pacific. she visited Galapagos. Panama.
the Sandwich Islands. Otaheita, San
Francisco, the Friendly Islands and
Sydney. She was then steered for the
Indian OCEAN lsavipn AuetraI;a che