Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-06-17
SEASONABLE HINTs.-At this season

SEASONABLE HINTS.-At this season
many persons contemplate travelling !;
to do SO with the largest amount Of
comfort and advantage, physical, So
cial and mental, the following sugges-
tons are made:
Take one-fourth more money than
your actual estimated expenses.
Acquaint yourself with the geogra-
ply of the route and the region Of
travel.
Have good supply of small change,
and have no bill or piece higher than
ten dollars, that you may not take
counterfeit change.
So arrange as to 'have but single
article Of luggage to look after.
Dress substantially; better be too
hot for two or three hours at noon,
than to be too cool for the remainder
of the twcnty-four.
Arrange under all circumstances to
be at the place Of starting fifteen or
twenty minutes before the time, thus
allowing for unavoidable or unantici-
patcd detention Oh the way.
Do not commence days travel be-
fore breakfast, even if that has to be
eaten at daylight. Dinner or supper,
or both, can be more hcalthfully dis
penscd with than a good warm break
fast.
Put your purse and wallet in your
vest pocket, and al under your pillow.
and you will not be likely to leave
either.
The most, if not secure fastening of
your chamber door is common bolt
on the inside if there is none, lock the
door, turn the key so that it can be
drawn partly out, and put the washba-
sin under it; thus, any attempt to use
a jimmy or put in another key,
will push it out, and cause racket
among the crockery, which will be pre-
ty certain to arouse the sleeper and
rout the robber.
A six-penny sandwich eaten leisurcly
in the cars is better for you than dol
lar dinner bolted at a ''station.''
Take with YOU a months supply Of
patience, and always think thirteen
times before you reply once to sup
posedrudeness or insult, or inattention.
Do not suppose yourself specially
and designedly neglected, if walters at
hotels do not bring what you call for
in double quick time nothing so dis
tinctly marks the well. bred man as
quiet waiting on such occasions pas
sion proves the puppy.
Travel is great leveller take the
position which others assign you from
your conduct rather than from your
pretensions.-HalPs Jour. Of Health.
D1vIsIBIL1TY OF MATTER. is
property peculiar to all bodies, and
means their capability to be separated
into parts. 1t has been question with
philosophers whether, indeed, there is
any limit beyond which this division
could not be carried, and this question
is incapable of direct solution. For.
tunately the interests of science do not
require it; the known extent to which
it may be carried is, however, prodig-
ious. In the gliding of buttons, 5
grains Of gold, in amalgam with mer-
curry, is all that is allowed to gross
so that the coating is actually no more
than one hundred and ten thousandth
part Of an inch in thickness. If
piece of ivory or white satin be miners
ed in solution of nitro-muriate of
gold, and exposed to a current of n.y.
drogen gas, it will receive coating not
exceeding the ten-millionth part Of an
inch in thickness. A single grain of
blue vitriol will give an azure tint to 5
gallons Of water. In this case the cop
per must be attenuated 10000, 900
lines, and yet there is sufficient in each
drop to give it color. Odors are capa-
Die of still further diffusion one grain
Of musk has been known to scent
room for twenty years. Animal mat
ter likewise exhibits wonderful powers
Of subdivision. The mint Of Goldfish,
when it begins to purify, has been es-
timated to contain billion Of perfect
insects, so that thousands of these little
lives could be lifted on the point of
needle. One Of the infusorial AMI
n'alcuIe found in duck weed, is TO-
900, 900 times smaller than a hemp
seed and another, discovered in ditch
water, appears in the field Of a micro
scope a mere atom endowed with SEN
tient life, and millions Of them play,
like sunbeams, in a single drop of
water.
Cost OF FOREIGN TRAVEL. J.
B. Ireland, in his recent work "From
Wall Street to Cashmere" furnishes
the following information on this sub
ject:
Travelling in England, with moder-
ate speed, in first. class railroad
ages, coaching, or occasionally post
ing, when in out-of- the way places,
always putting up at the best hotels in
London, with rooms at Longs and
meals there, or at the clubs, costs
about nine or ten dollars a-day. This
is an average expense for gentleman
to travel on and live comfortably, with
reasonable quantity Of good wine for
dinner.
On the continent the same can be
done, including the living in Paris or
any other capital, for Sc per day, at
the hotel or good lodgings, and dining
at the best restaurants. In Syria or on
the Nile, if travelling alone, the ex-
pense would be about So per day, or if
with one friend, about $3.50, and two