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

S J0d4SeQ leg, I0ur
breast ready At any moment I
kense force for that jump which
when We wish tc-catch him and at the en1
hooked claws, to enable him to cling tight
he lights upon. Adea can leapa hundred {
length, which is the same Is If . man
height Of seven hundred feet and he ca1
200 times his own weight.
Loss OF Hoes By D1sEAse.-A writer
ii paper, giving an idea Of the number Of b
died this season by cholera, states the Loo
lowing places, thus lin Ingraham's distil
LIST of August to the Gath Of October, /
~distillery in Pittsburg since the 18th Of @
Mr.. Platte, Of Rising Sun, lost 500; N
Covington, 500; Messrs. Gait, Of Auper
New Richmond, since the disease made
10,435 have died. Making an aggregat
count have been received Of 10000 b
0 10000 dollars, and when fattened wc
worth CSC, 600 dollars.
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Mr.. Moran, the new President Of the
Erie Railroad, combining, to q great extents
Of President and General Superintendent, Is "a. rece
salary Of $25,0OO per annum.
The wheat crop Of 1857, in nine western and Cd
western States, is estimated at Is million bushelsEq
an increase Of IS per cent. over the crop Of 1897
corn crop for the same States is put down at 448
lion bushels for this year. It is also estimated that
West will be able to sell . hundred million al
worth more Of grain this year than last.
In almost every chemical analysis Of drinking b
ages Of alcoholic admixture, poisonous ingredients
found, more or less injurious to the human system
The Patent Office has received three thousand y
cations and issued fifteen hundred patents within
last six months. The income Of the Office for thetm
time has been over one hundred and sixteen thoso
dollars, and the expenses Of the Office, including =
Improvements in the building, one hundred land =
thousand dollars.
A boy in Cortland County, New York, was giive
doe of strychnine in mistake for morphine, and
soon after seized with violsnt titentic spasms aud
jaw. Chloroform was administered freely, b. inhahf
and application along the spine, and in ten minuteH
patient became perfectly quiet under it, influence
Withdrawing it the spasms returned but BY keepi
him under the effects Of the aneesthetic four hours q
q hall, the poison was absorbed and he boy recovers
About two grains Of strychnine were given to thsa !
"a very large quantity.
Father said : cobbler's had pegging away It an !
shoe, they say the trout bite good now, Wei, We
replied the old gentleman, You stick to your work 81
they ,oon't BITE you!'
mr.. President, I riset to getup, and am not backwa
to o forward ID the cause 81 education, for had Il Z
been for education, / would be as ignorant Is you Il
Mr.. President,
An Irishman was challenged to fight duel; b
declined on the plea that he did not wish to leave His o
mother IN orphan. IL
sPaddy,, > says joker why don't you get your "a
cropped-they are entirely to long for ! man r
And yours; ought to be lsngthened-they are
for an ass,
Ajudge charging 9 jury had occasion very ftequentl
to make use Of the words nsoregager and nsoytyaoee. M
foreman Of the jury asked the Judge the meaning Of q
words, candidly confessing he did not understand tie
His lordship hcetiously explained them thus
NOD 70 you-you notice me-
I'm the NoD-ER, yon the NoDeEE.
Professor Joseph Henry, the distinguished head
the Smithsonian institute, testi6es that be knows but on
man among the scientific men 81 the United States ii,
is an in6del.
BY . decision Of tho Post Office Department it 81
pears that the y. s. Government is not compelled to Il
deem the post Office stamps, ana al who purchase The,
employ them for thar legitimate purpoes, q al
Of them to others who win.
twenty-five camels arrived IN San Antonio Texas .
he ed ult., for the use Of Lieut.. Beale's party Is on
rs the new wagon red to thsbPssifc.
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