Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-01-22
News.
The News. J
- The Hartford Times SAYS the thick cnaiinn |

Office upon the cherry, pear and peach tree:
hes served to protect them from the frost, and
at the same time has acted in the capacity of q
burning glass, by concentrating and intensity
ing the rays from the sun, until the unseason-
Z able warmth thus impaired has had the effect
ofstariing the fow of sap, and developing the
buds. Il is feared the damage is very serious.
So Whites Louisville Reporter notices new
and very dangerous counterfeit $50 bill on the
Bank of Tennessee. 1t is Thus described by the
correspondent Of that paper:
The paper is rather light and flimsy; the bill
Is shorter and very little narrower than the
genuine, Washiugtons head on the right
end ct the bill is irnperfect-looks white and
rather coarse. Payable at the Branch at
Athens letter A, No sI7; dated 1853. On
careful inspection its character as a counterfeit
Is very and unequivocal clear, and yet it is a
very dangerous one.
The Memphis papers notice the appearance
Of 81 counterfeit notes on the Bank of MUIR
freesbOro, Tenn. The signatures are engraved,
the vignette is coarse, aud the paper is poor
ohu nns q "OIu appearance.
The inventor Of gas lights was Frenchman,
Philippe lie Bon, an egineer of roads and
bridges who in 1875 adopted the idea Of using,
for the purpose of illumination, the gases dis
titled during the combustion of wood. He
lsbored for long time in the attempt to per-
feet bis crude invention, and it was not until
1899 that he confded his discovery to the
Institute. In September, 1900, he took ont a
patent, and in 1901 he published a memior
containing the result Of his researches. LIE
Bon commenced by distilling wood, in order
TO obtain from it gas, oil, pitch, and pyroligne.
Gus acid, but bis work indica ed the possibility
ofobtsining gas by distillaton from fatty or oily
substances. From 1899 to 1908, LIE Bon made
numerous experiments. He established at
Havre his first thermo-lamps, but the ga
which he obtained being mixture of carbu
retted hydrogen and oxide of carbon, and but
imperfectly freed from its impurities, gave only
q feeble light and evolved an insupportabl,
Odor, and the result was that but little favor
was shown to the new discovery; the inventor
eventually died, ruined by his experiments
The English soon put in practice the crude
ideas of LIE Bon. In 1904 Windsor patented
and olsned the credit of inyenting the pro-
cess of lighting by gas; in 1905 several shops
in Birmingham we've illuminated by gas manu-
featured by the process Of Windsor and Mur-
dock; among those who used this new light,
was Watt, the inventor of the steam engine.
In 1915 the first use of gas was made in Lon
don, and it was not until 1918 that this inven-
ton really of French origin, was applied in |
France.
The following curious titles of works is ia /
ken from "Notes and Queries"
In 1856, pamphlet was Published in Lon |
don, entitled "a most Detachable Sweet Per-
TUNED Nosegay for Gods Saints to smell at"
About the yea 1649, there was Published
work entitled "a Pair of Bellows to blow off |.
the Dust cast upon John Fry" and another /
called "The Shutters of Divine Love-" Crom- !
wells time was particularly famous for title !
pages. The author of a work on charity en-
titled his book "Hooks and Eyes for Believers
Brooches" Another, who professed wish
TO exalt human nature, calls his labor "High-
heeled Shoes for Dwarfs in Holiness" Aud
another "Orumbs of Comfort for the Chick
ems of the Covenant" A Quaker whose
outward man the powers that were thought
proper to imprison, published "a Sigh of
Sorrow for the Sinners of Zion, breathed out
of Hole in the Wall of an earthly Vessel, known |
among Men by the name of Samuel FISH"
About the same time there was also published /
the Spiritual Mustard pot, to make the Soul |
sneeze with Devotion; Salvation's Vantage /
Ground, or Looping Sand for Heavy Be-
lievers." Another. "a Shot aimed at the /
Devils Headquarters through the Tube of
the Cannon of the Covenant" This is an au-
thor who speaks rlain language, which the
most illiterate reproba,e cannot fail to under |
stand Another, "a Reaping- hook well tenn
pered, for the Stubborn Ears of the coming |
Crop; or Biscuits baked in the oven of Chari- |
ty, carefully conserved for the Chickens of the
Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the
Sweet Swallows of Salvation" To another
we have the following oopious description Of
les contents:
"Sevsn Sobs of Sorrowful Soul for Sin, or
The Seven Penitential Psalms of the Princely
Prophet David; whereunto are also added,
William Huminu's Handful of Honeysukles,
md Divers Cody and Pity Ditties now newly
The French newspapers publish a COMPARE
ION between the principal results OF the Lon
lon Exhibition Of 1851, and that of Paris of
he present year, which is not without inter-
st. The principal feature in it is, that whilst
he former was open only 1875 days, and the
after l9s, the number of visitors TO the for
ner was 6,OS9, 1876, aud to the latter only
1888, 464; and that the receipts at London
we're IL, 625, 509f, and at Paris only 2 94l ,66s.
A society composed Of divers eminent and
personages was formed sometime
asst At Brussels, uLder the presidency of the
PROVINCIAL Governor, N. Liedts; fer the pur
oss Of baking and supplying bread to the
oorer classes at the lowest rate possible, that
70 say, a. prime cost, including expenses OF
fuel, and so forth. The society
as continued TO work with success, and 20 de-
YER bread OF first and second quality at an
varsee of from 10 four centimes cheaper per