New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-15

lar story of their daring. Forty City men hal
bu, village on an island. band Of tigers crossed
the water attack ed them, and in spite Of desperate
resistance. carried Of twenty. They gsssrary XII
their men by lying in wait, and letting them pas,
then lespirg their backs they stun or XII them y
a stroke Of the paw. They then open the veins OF
the neck and suck the blood of their victim, and rs-
tuin in al hour or two 10 est the Hash eoid.- ioey
are we'll acquainted with the hours q. which travel
ers usually pa.s The Epghsh have failed to diminish
their poaber by bounty Of So per head.
ASTEROIDS NEAR MyRouRr.-N. Leverier the
discoysrer Of Neptune, has been engaged lately IN
s,udype alterations of the planet Msrcnry. He 6nis
that thew must be due TO the existssce Of small
s,sroids and he calls on bis brother astronomers 70
assist 10 discovering them. Tne total ecipse OF the
ann in July. 1850 will afford an extraordinarily favor
Able opportunity for this. Photography Affords .
means OF recording nsi Whatever phenom-
ers may spPear.
PATENT GRirE.-Lemuel Bangs OF this city Is nov
introducing an improved CRATE for ire-Paees or open
stoves which is 80 constructed a. 10 produce more
intense hest with less drsught than the ordinary
CRATE, whereby slow fire insures perfect CONFUSION
and great amount Of radiation Il appears TO be
nirous Goals and must &c mo nze both fuel and A.
tendance.
ANEW yAroR I.sxP.-Butler Hosford s. Co. have
sn improved vapor lamp for barning'huid wheh
they allege las some Improvements over otherianps
Of this class, giving steady, brilliant, and compare
lively cheap light and constructed as 20 be easily
adjusted TO any degree of intensity desired.
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Capt. III. Degroot yesterday showed us the finest
apples We ever saw. They were Of the kind called
Ring Of Tompkins County, and were raised BY Col. T.
Frost Of Havana, New.Yoik. In color they were
dark red ore Of them measures III inches in crcum-
ference.
CHEMISTRY AND STREET DIRr.-Ths NewYcrk
Courier des Flats URis states that an ingenious
French Chemist at Lyons has just hit upon an eSpe-
dieut which promises 10 make the " dusty highway
dream of the past. IL has already been TIED WIN
great success ia two Of the leading thoroughsres OF
the City Of Lyons. IL consists IN sprinkng hydro
ohor'c acid on the mscsdamlZed way. After osp-
,sn Of this sort in the morning. the sol OF the Pses
Belecour at Lyons, although very hight and grsvey,
is found AZ high 10 remain as solid and moist ~
IL had lust been abundantly wateret, and the wind
fails TO fan Il into that fine dust which ia the Egyptian
plague Of all great cities in hot weather Nor does IL
appear TO be necessary that The application should os
very often renewed. Once thoroughly saturated win
tie acid the ground shows each morning very mach
the fruness and neatness which foloss hoM frost
porsoy N PI,Nrs-Dr. Edmund Davy, PROBES
.or of Agriculture and Agricultural Chemistry 10 ne
ROYAL Dublin Society, has made some startling state
ments conveying the result Of his experiments "a 10
the presence Of arsenic in crops. He states positively
that arsenic it exists in the different aItincia man
ures Imch as superphosphael viii be taken up BY
plants growing where those msnures hsd been sp ,sd'
e found this 10 be the with cabbsges; aud ur.
nps taken from fields in which superphospsats hsi
been ussd gave the most unmistakeable evidence OF
having been arseniaed The facts thus collected ap-
pear to DR.. Dsvyto have some important bearings,
nr Though the quantity of arsenic which occurs IN
such msnuIes is rot large when compared WITH Their
other constituents, and the proportion OF thM SUB.
stance vbich il thus added to the soil BE- still
small, still plants may during their growth - 10 the
case OF the alkaline and earthly salts take up sconsd
erable quantity of this substance though b proportion
in the soil may be but very small. Further, arsenic
is well known to be accommodating poison by the
continued use of vegetables, containing even minute
proportion Of arsenic that substance may collect IN the
- stem till It's amount may exercise sn Injurious ehecs
on the health Of man and animals