Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-08-27

thing which can add to the beauty of town
more than another, we should hold up both
hands for shade trees. Our public square
looks naked and desoate, with IFS dead and
dying trcrs and patches of May weeds. Is
! there no balm in Gilead?
lIuNT's Magazine estimates the amount of
money in active circulation in the United
States at S294,470,l5 which reckoned the
population at 25,00o,000, would make Sl2
per head. 1t was Sll in 1916 and 1926,
and butS5 so in 1890
! ES- What next-who knows what? There
are certainly some new things under the sun.
The travelling community, especially that
portion that travels for pleasure, will read,
we have no doubt,the following with great
deal Of interest. Here it is:
A Company of Troy, have just got up for
the Hudson River Railroad, a car about for
Ity five feet long, and nine and half wide,
the whole cut up in state rooms of eight feet
square. Each roomis calculated for one par
ty or family, and is furnished with one sofa
four chairs, looking glass, and small ma
hogany centre table. The panels are painted
in landscape, the ceiling hung with silk, and
the floor hung with tapestry carpet. The
rooms are entered from passage way on the
side, and the whole amiraby lighted and
ventilated. In the forward part OF the car
is q wash room; in the rear, snug little
nook for the use and occupancy of a cham
bermaid. This car is intended as an expert
ment. Should it meet with a patronage
worthy of its comforts, Mr. French intends to
have twenty more Immediately constructed.
We see that our market is flooded with the
various fruits Of the season, such as peaches
apples, musk and water melons, nectarines
&c. DC. 1t may not be out of place at this
time TO caution our fellow citizens against in
,duging 10 freely in these things as our coun-
try is not yet free from that terrific scourge--
the cholera.
RS~ The Home Journal says: "The oval
form now given to hats is of omparatively
recent introduction, dating, we believe, not
more than twenty years back. Previous to
that time round blocks were employed, and
fort, was left TO perform the task of accom-
modating the hat TO its proper shape.
Rs- Lord Shaftesbury recently submitted
to one hundred city missionaries the follow
ing question, with view to ascertain their
experience on early habits. 1t is well worthy
the serious attention of parents, guardians and
teachers-and indeed Of all who have any thing
10 do with the education Of youth. Here are
the question and answer:
How many do you estimate, having lived
an honest life up to twenty years of age, have
afterwards fallen away, and entered or
vicious courses?" The answer from almost
every one was, "Not Two in one hundred"
Eg- A huge bear weighing 49llbs was
killed in Fauquier county Va, on the 30th
July last, after he had slain quite number
of dogs.
re-" There has been sent to the Worlds
Fair, from Erie Pa, a sheep, girthing nine
feet, with wool 35 inches long
Es-The length of the City of New Orleans
along the Mississippi is y miles, and its
depth, extending back from the river TO Lake
Pontchartrain, is about miles. The pres
ent area of the city is 40 square miles, being
double the area of the Incorporated limits Of
New York, which embrace the whole of Man
haitian Island, and pressing a surface greater
than that of the present area of London
The present area of New Orleans could with
out difficulty, contain 100000 inhabitants.
The present population during the business
season, is not less perhaps, than 175,O09.
Inasmuch as curiosity is universal, and cv-
erybody wants 10 know everything we subjoin
the following description Of how one feels
with his head off.
It is considered on all sides that the body
has no feeling after decaplation; for the brain
being the seat Of sensation to the whole frame
through the medium Of the spinal marrow, ev.
cry part Of the body, beneath the joint at
which the latter may be divided must be de-
prycd of feeling. BUTT by no means follows
that the head is deprived of sensation immc-
diately after decapitaton, nor that it may not
retain its conciouspess, and like the head of
an Irish Kt., who was killed by Saladin in the
Holy War, get up and declare that it was nev-
er cut off by SO sweet sclmitar before-nor
like that of the assassin Legare, swear round
ly at the executioner for not keeping keen
Ell axe; but it is quite possible tina. it may be
troubled with very serious reflections on the
irrevocability of its fate, and the awfulness Of
its deprivation. In support of this unpleas-
ant theory, many facts are adduced, with
grave vouchers for their authenticity. Among
others is the unfortunate Queen of Scots
whose lips continued moving in prayer for al
least quarter of an hour after the executioneI
had performed his duties. Windt states that
having put his mouth to the ear of decapi
tatee criminals head, and called him by name
the eyes turned to the side from whence thu
voice came aud this fact is stated by Fonten
clio, Mogore Guliotine, Nanche and Alma
On the word murder being called, in the cast
of criminal executed for that crime at Cob
den the half closed eyes opened with an expires
sion Of reproach on those who stood around