Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-02-17

Journal proposes the erection OF brick wall all
around within the outside wall on which the noors,
&C. may rest and brick partitions instead OF tnose
made of iois;s athes and plaster also, iron starr
WAYS and inner shutters of iron. The plan OF bull
ding an inner WALL or building houses with hollow
walls has been tried in Boston with good success
The rooms are dryer and warmer, the expense and
danger of Iahs and osts are saved and the ordinary
harbor of vermin between the outside walls ana the
mastering is completely broken up. We do not know
that the plan if tried any extent on private dwell
ngs but some of our public buildings are constructed
on this plan, with the addition OF an inch or two OF
mortar between the upper and under 1oorng TINS IS
the case with the fremont Temple The introduction
of iron shutters and starways and the use OF haggg
instead of boards for floors in halls &c, are very de-
srable mprov ements in city architecture he neces
s;tv of building houses somewhat nearer tire proof
than has been in our cities, IS beginning 10
he felt so seriously in consequence of the terrible
ravages of recent fires that there Is reason TO nope
for change in this respect.--Bostom 1raOeHer
LET any one, after duly watching the rapid revo-
lntions going on in England, where men have been
comparatively little helped by government-or bet
ter still after contemplating the unparalleled progress
of the United States. which is peopIed by sefmade
men and the descendants of self-made men-let such
an one, say, 60 on the Contlnest,' and consider
the relatively slow advance which things there
making; and TIE still slower advance they would
make but for English enterprise. Let him go TO
Holland and see that, though the Dutch early show
ed themselves good mechanics and had abundant
practice in hydraulics, Amsterdam has been without
dua supply of water. until now that works are
being established by an English company. Let him
90 TO Berlin and there be told that to give that city
| water supply such as London has had for many
generations. the project of English firm is about
to be executed by English capital, under English su-
pernendence. Let him go to Paris, where he will
find similar lack and like remedy now under con-
sideration Let him go to Vienna, and learn that it,
| COp al iC tod
by an English gas company. Let him go to the
Rhone on the Loire on the Danube, and discover
| that Englishmen established steam navigation on
these rivers Let him inquire concerning the rail-
ways in Italy. Snain, France, Sweden, Denmark,
how many of them are English prof ecs-how many
of them have been largely he'll ped by English capt.
tal--how many of them have been executed by Eng
lish contractors--how many have had English en-
gneers Let him discover too he will, that where
railways have been government made. as IN Russia,
the energy the perseverance, and the practical talent
developed in England and the United States, have
been called in to aid Westminster RevieU.
The STORY OF BoNNEr.--When at Paris had
purchased one of the bonnets of the season, which
as every one knows, are small beyond precedent
without rejecting that was bound for a country
where the ladies display in nothing their character
istic modesty and than in bonnets, a
least those for the ordinary promenade, retiring into
profound depths of leghorn and lace, and some
times ClOSterlng themselves IN the shaues OF nuge
uglies."
The Partisan milliner of whom purchased thu
above mentioned bonnet, who reduced comtesse
and had her arms blazoned the pafond of the show
ROOM so complaisan as to go into ecstacies ove
the effect when tried it on, crying, Cest jolt! char
, nant parfaltr' | saw that it was becoming peculi
arly so; and she assured me it was not dear; so
took it. with fearful looking for of Cockney in
dignaton, surely. Well, as descended from m,
chamber, equipped for my expedition into town,
! noticed that the friend who was to accompany m
= looked little struck up; but | concluded it wa
with admiration at the ton of the thng--and perhap
it was At the station, while waiting for the train
y had strong suspicion that remark overheard O
~ "My eyes then as poppes" referred to o trf1e il
the decorative way, belonging to my bonnet. In tn
railway riage found myself an object of rathe
curious regard-but this attributed to certain for
> rign air may have picked up on the continent an
it was not till walking down Regent street tina
was convinced to the cause of the sensation
= produced. 1.-The mead and front of nv offending
j. was my unfortunate bonnet. 1t was stared at an
g commented upon without mercy shop boys pre-
s nounced the last Paris sumner - shop girls ife
d their eyebrows and said 80, N.Y. and an impuder
n young footman, as he passed me, looked up into m
= face with shrl, significant whistle. At last i
very desperation, rushed into shop and purchase
e a black lace veil, with which quite extingushe
t my sumner" peoples and aIl.--G1uce Greenwood
il WHY DO TEETH DECAY ALI the theories thu
time and again have been advanced in answer to tn
enquiry have long since vanished before the tru
doctrine of the action of external corrosive agent
e The great and alIpowerful destroyer of the huma
,, teeth is acid, vegetable mineral and it matters NJ
It whether that acid is formed in the mouth by tt