The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-08-29

Ell DARTS VI liz lOTuIdtlOu, VIC u doGOU1SuQ
has a coat of arrnor much mere complete than
xior wore, -andcolposo1Hof STRONG Polished b
leach plnfe covered With ; a.
rmeet, hun3eds Of STRONG s
arohed neck ,the brigk1
70 puncture the skin, i SUD
ID six long jointed legs, four
breast ready at any moment ID
6dSN nense force for that jump which
when we wish to catch him and at the enc
hooked claws, to enable him to cling tight
be lights upon. A flea can leap hundred ii
length, which is the same as if a man
height of seven hundred feet: and he can
200 times his own weight.
Loss OF Hoes BY D1sEAse.-A writer il
ii paper, giving an idea of the number of hid
died this season by cholera, states the loss
lowing places, thus In Ingraham's distiI
LIST of August to the Path Of October, Ia
distillery in Pittsburg since the 18th of Cd
Mr. Platte, of Rising Sun, lost 500; M
Covington, 500; Messrs. Calf, of Aurora
New Richmond, since the disease made i
l0,435 have died. Making an aggregate
count have been received of 60, 900 nd
3OO,O 900 dollars, and when fattened wod
worth CSC, 900 dollars. 4
Mr.. Moran, the new President of the
Erie Railroad, combining, to a great extent, theSd5
Of President and General Superintendent is to recel
salary Of $4,000 per annum.
The wheat crop of 1857, in nine western and sol
western States, is estimated at 70 million bushels-bl
an increase Of SIS per cent. over the crop of 1S49
corn crop for the same States is put down at 443
lion bushels for this year. It is also estimated that
West will be able to sell a hundred million dol
worth more of grain this year than last.
In almost every chemical analysis of drinking be
ages Of alcoholic admixture, poisonous ingredients
found, more or less injurious to the human system.
The Patent Office has received three thousand az
cations and issued fifteen hundred patents within
last six months. The income of the Office for the 81
time has been over one hundred and sixteen thous
dollars, and the expenses of the Office, including g
improvements in the building, one hundred .and e
thousand dollars.
A boy in Cortland County, New York, was give
dose of strychnine in mistake for morphine, and
soon after seized with violent titentic spasms aud
jaw. Chloroform was administered freely, by inhalat
and application along the spine, and in ten minutes
patient became perfectly quiet under its influence.
Withdrawing it the spasms returned; but by keeI
him under the effects of the aneesthetic four hours
a half, the poison was absorbed and the boy recove
About two grains of strychnine were given to the
"a very large quantity.
Father said a cobbler's lad pegging away at an
shoe, they say the trout bite good now We'll, W
replied the old gentleman, you stick to your work
they acom't bite you!
NJ President, l rise to get up, and am not backw
to come forward in the cause of education, for had it
been for education, I would be as ignorant as you
Mr.. President
An Irishman was challenged to fight a duel;
declined on the plea that he did not wish to leave his
mother an orphan.
Paddy a says joker why don't you get your e
cropped-they are entirely to long for a man !"
And yours, ought to be lengthened-they are
short for an ass
A Judge charging a jury had occasion very frequen
to make use Of the words maortyayer and nortgagee. Z
foreman Of the jury asked the Judge the meaning of
words, ~candidly confessing he did not understand tt
import. His lordship facetiously explained them tn,
1 NOD to you-you notice me;
I'm the NoD-ER, you the NoD-EE.'
Professor Joseph Henry, the distinguished head
the Smithsonian Institute, testi6es that he knows but
man among the scientific men of the United States Il
is an inidel.
By a decision of the Post Office Department it
pears that the U. s. Government is not compelled to
deem the post office stamps, and all who purchase tn
employ them for their legitimate purpose, or d
pose Ut them to others who will.
Twenty-Five camels arrived in San Antonio Texas
the I'D ult., for the use Of Lieut.. Beale's party in CD
ing the new wagon road to the Pacific.