The Washington union., 1857-06-10
aENERAL SUMMARY.

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sPLIrrNo Rocks WITHOUT BtAuIEc.- some French IN
ventors have taken out patent in England or splitting
rocks by the generation of heat without causing an expo
sion Thcy used substance composed OF 100 parts OF
sulphur by weight 100 Of saltpere50 Of saSdnst so Of
horse manure and 10 OF eopon salt The satpetre and
salt dissolved IN 10. wsser, W which tour
parts of moasses added and the whole ingredients
stirred until they thoroughly Incorporated together In
mass which is then dried by gentle heat In room
or by exposure to the sum- and is fit for IL Is tamp
ed In the holes bored for blasting rock in the man
ner powder and Is igpitsd by a fuse. IL does not
explosion upward like guhpowdsrt but generates
great heat, which splits the rock.
CmoNIc RHEuMArIsM The London lancet contains
the history Of series of of chronic rheumatism
treated successfully by DIR Connor one of the physcans
of the Royal Free Hospital London, in number of cases
under in that institution by the Of sulphur and
flannel bandaging The new annsthetc agent amylene--
obtained by the dstation of fse oil and chloride OF
zinchas also been successfully tried In King College
Hospital London, in producing nsensbility during sur
gcal opeatonsthe pain seeming to have been entirely
prevented the patients seemed In state OF semi-con-
sciousness and recovered very promptly without
This amylene has been known to chemists about heen
years and Is very light and volatile liquid its vapor IL
much less pungent than that OF chorofom although the
patient must inhale larger quantity.
SSoRISG-Old Hicks was an awful snorer He could
be heard further than blacksmiths forge but his wife
became accustomed to it that IL soohed her to repose
They domestic couple slept apart for
many years At length the old man WIS required 10 at
slept wink she missed the snoring. The next
night passed away in the SAME MANNER without sleep
She getting in very bad way, and probably would
have died had it not been for the ingenuity OF the servant
girl She took the oobe-nR into her MISTRESS chamber and
ground her 10 sleep at once
LOOKING GUnry. Nothing be absurd than
the idea that looking guilty proves guilt An honest
charged with crime is much likely TO blush at
the accusation than the real offender who is generally
prepared for the event and has his face eady made for
the occasion The very thought of being suspected OF
anything criminal will bring the blood to an innocent
man cheeks in nine out of ten The most 'guilty
looking person man arrested for steal
ing horse, which turned out to be his own property
Boston Post.
Mr. Harris, broker, was robbed in his at the
Dennison House. Cincinnati Wednesday night of
800 in notes and 5000 in specie which he kept in
box under his bed There were two beds in the room.
Mr. Harris and his wife slept in Of hem and his son
in the other. He had been in the habit of carrying his
money home from his Office TO his room at night for safe
keeping. sponge found in the ROOM which, it is
supposed, had been saturated with chloroform
In China when a man commits suicide they immcdi-
atey hang whoever by offending thwarting him. has
been the of the rash deed and give the goods of
the offender to the family of the suicide that many
gentlemen of failing health and slender means manage
to get insued by rich man, hang themselves, and
have the pleasing that their families will be
handsomely provided for Pleasant sort of life Insurance.
and China is great country:
Barker Burnell once member of the Massachusetts
senate, Nantucket IN the cham
at Valparaiso for robbng the mails he indicted
eral years since for embezing the funds of the Nantucket
Bank but escaped punishment by leaving his country for
his country good.
CoIoRED MAsoysIn the city of Philadelphia there arc
less than nine Lodges of colored Masons There
also number of Lodges, Encampments, and Chapters in
other parts of the State On the Gath of June their Ma
sonic Hall at Philadelphia is to be dedicated, which
occasion large delegations expected from all parts
the country.
Two hundred and ninety-fve loaves of bread wcrC
seized in Montreal last week for light weight, and dis
tributed among charitable institutions of the city This
is turning dishonesty to some good account.
His Majesty the King of Portugal has just sent over
to Queen Victoria bull, two heers, and bull calf
The animals of the most perfect symmetry and very
dminutive, standing scarcely forty inches high of dur
color
A great number of Wech have purchased large body
of land in Tennessee and will leave Wales for the
United States.
Why is hungry boy looking at pudding in cook
| shop window like wild horse; Because he would be
better if he had bit in his mouth.
OF all the fields the field of literature is the one that
has the greatest number of styles to it,-Paaeh.
Strawberries selling in St. Louis, Missouri the
4th instant at from sixty cents to dollar quart
1t is said that the oldest person in New Hampshire is
Mrs. Allison of Nottingham, who one hundred and
seven years of age on the tenth day of May last
An old definition Of the word watchman was "A man
employed by the corporation to sleep in the open air.
in bears oil while in Japan stewed crocodile fanked
with monkeys feet, is the height of epcureanism.
LOCAL NEWS.