The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-06-06

Lu,honrgh surgeons say that they are guided in
avoiding danger to life from the use Of chorofnrm IN
IL case-, hot by lis effect the pulse but bv
80 y ne breathing. They cease the admin
non OF me Fapor, when the breane becomes
aHean, however favorable the pulse may appear 70
" ii!ey also pay attention to the tongue. as
pnns u great Importance. when the breathing be-
H. Or ceases, they open the mouth seize
.Hs W OF me ongne with artery forceps and pull
y wei forward Death, it is said would have oc
CURED ~ some cases but for the use Of this expedi
lungs. = 's'sss - '''e
Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, papers state that
me iitle lugger ysterv, of sixteen tons from Pen
zahce, England, had arrived at Simon's bay having
made the passage out in sixty days, and had pro
ceeaed thence to Table bay, where she took IN sup
Ply Of stores and mail aud then departed for Mel
bourne When leaving Si4non's BAY She beat out
WIiholt making tack and all the vessels in the
bag dipped their ensigns i'll honor of The adyentur-
ons little bark. She sailed for Melbourne on the
"a: of January
Perhaps the oldest tree on record isshe cypress
OF soinma, III Lombardy It is supposed to have
been planted III he'year of the birth of Christ and
on that account is looked on with reverence by the
hihtoitahts; but an ancient chronicle at Milan is
sara 70 prove that II was tree in the time of Julius
va ar, - .: AZ years. 1t is l23 feet high and 20
itet IN circumference at foot from the ground
Napoleon when laying down the plan for his great
ROAD over the Sumption, diverged from 5ht line
to avoid njuring this tree
President Hitchcock says there are in Great Bri-
tam at he present day, fifteen thousand steam ell
gines driven by means Of coal, with power equal
70 that Of TWO millions Of men; and this puts in
operation machinery equaiing the unaded power of
53D9j3,335 or 4n,30a,131 of men, The Influence
has emahating reaches the remo;est portion of the
globe, aud tends nightly to the civilization and
happiness of the human race
he rails used IN Europe in the construction of
railroads are made top and bottom alike and are
keyed IN cast irou chars each cross-fie BY this
means, when he upper surface Of the rail becomes
defective i can be turned upside down, aud present
a new surface equal TO rail The American
plan is to have chair only at the joints, and the
rail only one inning SUFFICE he her broad and
dat, and held 20 he tie by spike head and when The
RAJ becomes tlawy or gets Il bad spot ii, it must
be pulled up and brown aside
A lutheran paper says that the MoraYians who
are iutherianS III their faith have given to Inc world
he most sublime examples Of missionary enterprise
and success, aud thar The lutheran church of Wur
senburg has furnished more missionaries for the
heahen void han all the proes ant churches of the
Unit States. Hans Egade the first protestant
missionary went forth from The lutheran church; and
Zegenbalk and his companions laid the foundations
of christianity i'll Indla, when epi.copalians and
Presbyterian missions were not thought Of.
There is to be public garden, containing sixteen
acres i'll Brooklyn, New York, called the Hunt Eor-
ticnltural and anic Garden Mr.. Tfloma, Hunt
having given &JA0D0 tow ards its establishment