The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-23
The News.

81, Ex3y@ In search of the curious, says Il wri-
ter, people will pass over many of the little
things OF natural life, to gaze at less singu-
lar objects in the artificial. The whortle-
berry (or huckleberry), which abOunds like
the sands of the seas hore, is an Insignificant
little fruit, yet one quite as ingeniouSly con-
structed as its more pretending neighbOrS.-
Take one green, and you see II considerable
cup at the side opposite where it is attached
to the stalk this cup holds quite large
drop of moisture, and is always properly ex-
posed for receiving it. The berry grows
and thrives upon the sunlight, and its little
stock of water. and as it advances TO matu-
rity, the bottom of the little cup keeps push
ing out and ont, and the little rim which
has enclosed it at first turns over, until the
mature berry exhibits the cup removed, the
fruit round, and hanging downwards, ready
to he plucked or shaken off by the winds.
And the little rim of the cup, which when
green stands straight up, with points like a
picket fence, eventually lies down fat and
presents five pointed star.
A REMARKABLE SPRISG.-The Gallatin
tTenn.l Examiner says: "Col. Jas. Glover,
of the California Overland Mail Company,
I
spring, on his route, two hundred and
eighty miles east of FL Paso, on the road
leading to San Antonio. 1t is fully one
hundred and fifty feet in diameter, and has
been sounded to the depth of eight thou
sand feet, without finding bottom. The
surface is as smooth rs mountain lake.
1t breaks out, running about three miles,
when it disappears, and again, six miles
distant, reappearS, forming stream fifteen
to twenty feet deep in many places. 1t Is
slightly impregnated with alkali, and con-
tains five varieties Of fish. 1t is called the
4 Leon Hole .-.
! nee. The farmer who attends to the
breeding of stock, and who, by patient and
| judicious endearor, succeeds in producing
/ animals clearly and decidedly better than
those of his neighbors. has accomplished a
! great deal of good, and its measure mustnot
be determined by the number of dollars and
/ cents the stock has actually increased in
l'v;tlue. One Of the chief benefits derived by
I the public from such successful efforts at
| improvement is, the effect of the good ex-
ample set Men are ever inclined to follow
( the lead of active, enterprising men, and the
example of one successful breeder will be
: productive Of more good TO his neighbors
than n whole library of essays.
sa~ 1t may not be generally known that
the brine in which pork and: other meats
have been picked, is deadly poison to
horses and hogs. Mr. Reynal, the ccle-
brated veterinary surgeon of France, first
called attention to this fact; and the editor
of the kentucky Turf Register says he was
"A witness to the practical demonstration OF
it. lie saw horse, and seven, out of a
drove of nine hogs, die in less than six
hours from the time they had access to a
barrel Of such brine.
SUSPENSION BRIDGE.-The Buffalo Courier
denies that the bridge says, having personal,
ly examined the structure. From thirty tC
! forty-five trains daily pass over il, and il i.
denied that passengers walk across from
fear s+