The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-28
NEWS AND GOSSIP,

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TO that of s,OO0,OOO horses, besides 5000 900
horse power afoat.
&S-A locomotive when blowing of steam
has greater apparent weight on the rails,
owing to the reaction of the steam against the
air. ....
@S-Mr. Brackett, the Boston sculptor, has
Just completed the model of bust Of Rufus
Choate. 1t is proposed to reproduce IL in
marble for the Law Library.
G@-Southwark Bridge contains 5000 tuns
iron. The Brittania Bridge contains 10, $40
tuns. The great tubes in this latter bridge are
said to deaect but 1< of an inch under the
passage of an ordinary train.
~ The Masons Of San Francisco have
purchased a lot on the corner of Montgomery
and Post-streets for $92, 900, and will erect o
building worth $1,000 on it.
GS-Mr. Burne calculated that q locomotive
to draw train Of 101 tons at sixty miles an
hour, should have 2,246 square feet Of heating
surface. Less than one-6fth of that amount
has been found sufficient. ..
N8~ The servant girls in New York city
have struck for higher wages--they want $40
a month. The Journal of Commerce says it is
in consequence Of assessments for the new
Fourth avenue Cathedral.
G3> Locomotives with three cylinders have
been occasionally built. Messrs. r. Stephen
son Co., England, have made locomotives,
each with one cylinder Of 16x inches dame
ter and % inches stroke.
DB- The Boston Trapellcr says: ave are
to have an inspector Of mills in Boston at
$500 year. Rather q watery salary, that.
| Does the government expect good milk at that
6gurei"
GB-In one year on the Eastern Counties
Railway l,1l2,570 tuns Of passenger engines
and carriages were run in the conveyance of
but42, ,644 tuns of passengers, estimating fifteen
passengers to tho ton.
DsS Lucy Stouo pronounces the letter pur-
porting to be written by Senator Douglas to
her, in regard to woman's rights meeting
in Chicago, a." malicious hoax" She denies
ever having written line to, or received one
from Mr.. Douglas.
GD- The first railways we're laid down on a
guage five feet from outside to outside of rails
The width of the latter being ! n inch, the
inside gusge was A feet 81 inches, which was
necessarily retained when the rails were after
ward widened.
| gr When Mr.. Jefferson was asked spect-
ing his religion, his memorable answ was
at is known to God and myself. Its evil
dence before the world is to be known in my
life; if that has bLen honest and dutiful to
society, the religion which has regulated it
can not be bad one.'
GS-Lewis Baily, of Steuben County, New
York, says that he planted of Peach blow
potatoes, one eye in hill, three feet apart,
and plowed and hoed twice. and made thirty
nine pounds form one seed potato. Of Ber-
muda potatoes he made one hundred and sixty
tubefs from one planted, one hundred and forty
of which weighed fifty. eight and q half pounds.
Where seed is costly, or new varieties are
wanted from distance, this one-eye system
of planting is worthy Of attention.
G@-The following is list of the persons
who have been killed in duels in California:
Edward Gilbert, by Denver, in 1852; DR..
Crane, by Mr.. Tobsy, in 1858; Major Wood
leaf, by Achilles Kewen, in 1858; DR.. Dickson,
| by P. W. Thomas, in 1854; Mr.. Tevis, by G.
| e. Lippincott, in 1854; W. I. Ferguson, by G..
| p. Johnston, in 1858; d. G. Broderick, by D.
s. Terry, in 1859; and DR.. P. Goodwyn, by W.
j. Gatewood, in 1859.
NN- Governor Weller, of California, pur.
chased fine farm in Alameda County, and
will make his home there after the close of his
Official term. He purchased the farm of Mr..
John Ludling, who belongs to party of So
calists and tree-lovers, and it is said that the
funds obtained by the sale of his farm are to
be spent in carrying the party to Nicaragua,
and establishing them there. The climate OF
that country is supposed to be congenial to
the doctrines of freo.love.
M8- Edwin Forrest is lying on his oars,
dramatically speaking. He has informed
the managers, and some of his personal
friends, when urged to accept engagements
and again appear in public on the stage,
that he will not do so until all his difficulties
nre settled with his former wife. This means
that he will not again perform until he has
broken down the divorce granted to her, and
is relieved from the payment of the $4,000
almony.
G8- The Boston Transcript denies the as
sertion that the Emigrant Aid Society was in
any way connected with the recent disturb
anoes in Virginia. 1t says: "The direct
charge that the arms of the Company were
used by Captain Brown in his insurrection al
Harper's Ferry, is equally devoid of truth.
We have the best authority for stating that
the Company has never invested dollar in
cannon orrifes, in powder or lead, or in any
Of the implements of war, for use in Kansas
or anywhere else" .
S-The corn crop has matured pretty gen.
orally throughout the entire West, and none
of consequence has been injured by the late
frosts. In Illinois there is no doubt that the
crop is large one; some correspondents esti-
mate it three times as large as that Of last
year. In Missouri there is no doubt that the
crop is very good. both as regards quantity
and quality; and letters from various parts Of
the State indicate that the yield is double tina,
of last year, and the quality of corn very su-
psrior. ......
nv M. Bouisson, q French writer, has
made some very remarkable researches upon
the danger of smoking. He states that canoeI
in tho mouth has grown 30 frequent from the
use of tobacco that it now forms one of the
most dreaded diseases in the hospitals. From
1845 to 1859, he has himsolf performed sixty.
eight operations for cancers In the lips in thu
Hospital st. Eloi. The use Of tobacco rarely
produces lip cancer in youth. Almost all o.
Bouisson's patients had passed the age Of forty
The disease is also more frequent with individ
uals Of the humber class, who smoke shor
pipes and tobacco of inferior quality, while will
the orientals, who are careful to preserve th'
! oooness Of the mouth-piece by the transmis
sion of the smoke through water, tits unknown
showing that it Is generated more BY the CON