The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-09-09

pear manners and Eulopesu wants are
bringing In civilisstiR, and ehterpris.
ipp industry. Good 1botels are found
10 accommodate most travellers better
than The CASA NuovsI 10 long the only
shelter for The Franktpilgfim Of what
ever nation ;os religion. There are
shops where: MI kisds Of European
goods find rstdy :lale carpenters,
watehmskers. glazierl, tibmen, dysrs
laupdresses, SHOES mai prs, DO, exercise
their various CALI There are
three aourishing Euaopesp tailors.---
The daily markFss a.e supplied abubd-
antly with good mutton and poultry
and eggs are olsaps Many hundred
goats are kepthor ilts sole purpose Of
supplying tie tisy vith milk and Of
Iats COWS milk was 7, be had. Fruit
and vegetables ares abundant and
good bread Ii f,ade ny several bskers.
IT, The New York Express states
that Abbott sLswreone lacked bpt one
vote In the wing national conventions
Of being the thig nominee for the
viee-ptesidsnof, and consequently mar
rowly escaped: the presidential chair.
afterwards, bn the death Of Gen. Tay-
lor, filed By Willard Fillmore. The
same paper states chat the estate Of
the deeeasad IA estimatad Mt 1000.
900.
Tnomas' Vefsrsm ami Pahiek
Hewy.---On ;he 2lst, the colossal sta.
tue Of Thoibds Jefferson WIS elevated
10 lie tempfr1ry pedestal on the lower
pediment o. the capitol steps at Rich
mond, Va. when Tie covering WAS re.
moved and tic public gratifed with
sight Of the york. II stands IL beauti.
ful contrast 9th The statue Of Patrick
Henry, also vt the enterance Of the
capitol Jefferson IL represented
srapped in j cloak, with his head
slightly bent ~ If in deep thought and
holding in:his left hard, folded across
his breast, a scroll inscribed "1776.
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IVA ,oyd, a correspondent oftbe
Scientific Asaericah, states that be has
practised 4 peculir method, with
much success, Of preserving milk sweet
IN The PAM. II simply consist. in
placing pipee Of bew hammered iron
or three twelve. penny nails, in each
tin pan, thest pouring the warm milk
on them, He believes that electricity
has something DIDO with producing
the result. He bad tried many expert.
ments before ks bit upon this one,
which be FUND 70 preserve the milk
sweet for a longer time than any other
plan tried BY bin.
The Sal If Man.--A ridiculous
statement las rnn through the papers
Of Adams being 1913 feet high, Eve
11s, Nosh 103, &c. The Egyptian
mummies, II they are good for nothing
else, prpve|the interesting fact tbst for
three or fo4r thousand years past. man
has not ch1nged In stature. II, there
fore, MP yimunition Of IL has taken
place In ths course Of all that time,
but the av{rage size Of the race II the
same now ts three or four thousand
years ago, h the,e tho least probability
that II wai materially different in the
two thons{ I'D years proceeding? The
argument b strong that It was not.
Rev. MI. Constantine. formerly q
clergyman: Of the Baptist denomination
at Lawrenle, Mass, has become con-
wort TO spiritualism. His conversion
was in thit wisa He was one day.
a decided opinion against
the realits ofys.iritual manifestations,
when he tas suddenly seized by an
invisible ieauence, lifted up over his
chair md !dropped upon tbs floor, and
his boots pulled of, ono Of which went
up to the ceiling Of the room and
slowly DESCENDED again. These AZ
performances led him 10 in
vestigate The subject, and he now be-
lieves in fpirits.'
GazAr' Cgops AT THE WEsr-A
correspondent Of the New York Post,
writing 'om louisville, KY, gives .
glowing description Of the cereal crops