The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-11-05
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the Louisville Courier mentions the following
incidents of the late Fair at that city:
aside from the regular Fair are many ont
side attractions among which We cnumerate
the Railroad Circus, Van Orden's great compa-
ny, the Mammoth Hog, weighing 1900 pounds.
the Monster Ok, whose weight on canvass is
5000 pounds. next the Fat Girl whose weight
is somewhere between that of the Hog and the
OK
In another quarter is an exhibition of Five
Legged Calf. and Two Legged Calf and next
door to that tremendous big Bear and an AL
ligatOr, stuffed, while the intermediate spaces
are occupied by chaps who have what they call
microscopes. to show off insects as large as life
and much larger. In the centre of another
crowd is man with machine to try the
strength of the lungs, and near by him was an
enterprising chap with a continuance to try the
strength of the arms and muscles, where, if
strong enough, man could raise himself out
of his boots.
The Philharmonic Troupe. strolling band
of singers. occupied tent in another part of
the field, and not far off from that was IA Five
Legged Dog, next SiX-Leggcd Sheep, Two
Legged Bear and White Squirrel from Califor-
mia, and all wound up with Three Horned
Goat.
Among the amusemcntS was the whipping of
pick-pocket, who was caught with his hand
in a gentleman's pocket.
Horace Greeley delivered the address at the
Indiana State Fair on Tuesday last 1t was able
and suggestive. He concludes as follows:
Gas for me, long tossed on the stormicst
waves of doubtful conflict and arduous endea-
vor. have begun to feel since the shades of
forty years fell upon me, the weary, tempest
driven vOyagcr's longing for land the wander
er's gearing for the hamlet where in childhood
he nestled on his mothers knee, and was sooth
ed to sleep on her breast. The sober down hill
of life dispcls many illusions while it developes
or Strengthens within us the attachment per-
haps long smothered or OVERLAND for that dear
hut, our hOme.'
And so in the sober afternoon of life, when
its sun, if not high. is still warm, have bought
me few acres of land in the broad still
country, and, bearing thither my household
treasures, have resolved to steal from the city's
labOrs and anyicties at least one day in each
week. wherein to revive as a farmer the memo
rics of my childhoods humble home And al
ready realize that the experiment cannot cost
so much as 1t Is worth. Already find in that
days quiet an antidotc and q solaoe for the fe-
vcrish, fostering cares of the week which cnvi-
ron it. Already my brook murmursa soothing
evcn-song to my burning throbbing brain and
my trees, gently stirred by the fresh brcczes,
whisper to my spirit something of their own
quiet strength and patient trust in God And
thus do family realize, but for brief and fit
ting day, the serene joy which shall irradate
the farmers vocation, when fuller and truer
education shall have refined and chastened his
animal cravings, and when science shall have
endowed him with her treasures, redecming La
Dor from drudgery while quadrupling its eff
cheney, and browning with beauty and plenty
our bounteous, beneficent EARTH
WHAT WILL BECOME OF OUR LEAD.-Sincc the
Upper mines first began to be worked. ninety
nine of every hundred pigs of lead produced
therein, have found a market at st. Louis or at
least, have been shipped to that point, and from
thence, or account of owners to New Orleans
and New York. Present indications point to
change in the accustomed channels of this i'm.
portant trade. The rapid settlement of the
States oflndiana, Illinois, Michigan Wisconsin.
Iowa. and the Territory of Minnesota, has pro-
duced a demand for articles manufactured from
our great staple which the lead crop will in a
few years, fail supply. Heretofore. about half
the amount annually produced has gone to tho |
Atlantic seaboard, 1885, 900 pigs have been man |
ufactured in st. Louis, 10000 have gone nm
the Ohio. and 10000 to Chicago and the lake
ports. With the present rapid increase of pom
uiation IN the States afore- named, the whole |
annual product will be in a brief time reouired
for home consumption. The completion of the
different lines of railroad running into the mi
ming district, will cause new manufacturing es-
OF white lead and lead pipe and
rolled lead and shot to spring up in localities
where without artificial means of communica-
ton with the source from whence the raw ma
lerial is supplied, they would never have been
thought Of Those will supply the districts of
country by which they are surrounded and so
great will be the demand upon us that without
increased production here, the shipments tn tho
'eaboard mnst wholly cease.-Gai Jeff:
Capt. John McLain one of the pioneers ~
'team upon the western waters, died at Cincin.
,innati on the 14th inst.