Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-09-04

B@r A letter from Paris states that the ex.
istence Of that curious phenomenon, the winged
tortoise. has at length been fully established
Two Of these curious creatures have been re-.
ceived from Surinam.
E0- The English skylark has been natu-
rallied on Long Island, and may be heard in
the woods at village called East New York.
where pair of the birds were set free by an
Enghshman, ten years ago.
- In Pittsburgh, the penalty for selling
liquor on Sunday, is fine Of $50 and impris-
onment for thirty days. The law is rigidly en-
forced.
- Sir George Brown has refused an of.
fer of eleven hundred guineas for the grey
hunter which carried him at the Alma. The
horse is quite recovered from the bullet-riddling
he received, and is at present at Coates repos-
tory at bennington, in which town his owner
has been located since his return from the East
sY- A Londoner has invented method of
lowering ships boat, so that one man may
lower boat, loaded with persons, level into
the water, without the least danger of upset.
ting.
CV There are more prisoners in New York
Jail now than there has ever been at any form
err period.
s9T 1t appears from the records of the N.
York Emigrant Commissioners, that the emf
grants from the 1st Of August have brought in
to the country $73,Os5 95-avcraging $44 Sc
to each emigrant. The Germans average the
most-$6O; the Irish about $50.
E@% The whole amount Of ice shipped from
Boston last year, was l56, $40 tons. The rail.
roads receive 100000 annually for transporta-
ton on ice and those who bear it over the sea
receive from four to five hundred thousand dol
lars. Last season five hundred and twenty
vessels were employed.
THE Eastern Tunnel of the Blue Ridge
Railroad has been cut 1866 feet 1t is sixteen
wide and twenty-five feet high. The whole is
of solid rock. The Western Tunnel has been
cut l704 feet. During the last month n feet
have been cut in both Tunnels. There are yet
one thousand feet to finish
Baltimore has subscribed $500 for the suf-
ferers by yellow fever.
The Yarmouth Register, printed in Barn.
stable county, after abiding very properly to
the difficulties which all efforts to unite the
people of the State against slavery extension
must encounter, adds:
'Stll we do not utterly despair of seeing
done to harnonize and consecrate the
efforts oil the people Of the State, who oppose
the encrOachmentS of the South.
C-sF The fountain of content may spring up in
the mind and he who has so little knowledge of
human nature as to seek happiness by changing
anything but his own disposition, will waste his
life in frutless efforts, and multiply the griefs
which he proposes to remove.
A "SESsAroS.'-A Marriage, says the Boston
Bee Of Tuesday. took place at Trinity Church
yesterday at IL A. NJ. The parties were George
Vandenhoif, comedian, of England, and Miss Ma
ry E. Makeah, actress. The ceremonies were
performed by Rev. John Cotton Smith, Assistant
Rector. The affair had been kept rather private,
and there were few spectators.
According to statement being prepared by F..
Merriam, the number of vessels which were lost
or injured in 1854, are 1882, exclusive of steam
A. l.
the aggregate to 5000. The loss of life exceeds
200, and the loss Of property will be about $40
100000.
CO thine is money! says an exchange
Wonder If this alludcs to the time that an editor
has to wait on delinquent patrons. If it is know
of some editors who are pretty rich!
CO To preserve all the delightful flavor of
green corn, the ears should be boiled with the
husks on. This is the Mexican style, and we
know it to be an improvement.
Res Among the distinguished Swans pres
ent at the meeting Of the American Scientific
Association, in Providence, was the renowned
astronomer, Miss Maria Mitchell, Of Nam
tucket.
10 In the last fifty years, Sir William
Clay More says, more churches have been
erected in England than during the past five
centuries.
DIED.-An infant child died in New York
last week, from the effects of swallowing two
large needles.
CT The New York Times says We heard
this morning of the death of miser, living in
the neighborhood of the city, who, to the last,
was faithful to the cherished objects of his heart.
1t is said that, being Informed that his end was
nigh, he sent for an undertaken, to arrange with
him the details of his funeral. He chose the
cheapest of every kind, and even then insisted on
a reduction of prices. Getting everything as low
as possible, he made the undertaken give him a
guarantee for the faithful performance of the
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