, 1860-01-09
l9tcsa & Triihttttc;.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEUSs

:. 1lo7EL PROPERTY IN kAssas.-At Lecompton.
: nnsas, OH the 2tth, the lease Of the Rowena
Aotcl III that place was suli for $500 for one
yclr.
--tn act appropriating sa,,oo for a,nSonumcnt
TO CoL Benton, hls passed The Missouri senate
j., IT has been ed frequently of late that
the number Of students of Icie t,ulcge is larger
than that in Harvard whereas the catalogues
"fshe two institutions show Harvard 10 have
$50, aud Yale no.
..-rrof. James McClintock has been appointed
Professor Of the Institutes aud Practice Of Sur
gerry lu the Eclectic Medical College Of rennsyl-
vania. He oceupledfhe post of Chief Physician
to the Philadelphia Hospital. Blocktcy, and was
tue founder Of the Philadelphia College Of Ned
icine.
\ FEAR OF BEIsa BrnlEp AL1vr.-A bnronet
of England named Cugties, lately deceased,
made request in Ills will that lis coffin should
net be finally closed until the expiration Of eight
days after death, as he hud a fear Of being bur
led alive, which, in his opinion, had often oc-
cured
--LaTatar and his work On phy ysiognomy hare
SO long taken 1heirp}ace among the fixed stars
Of SCIENCE, that it is almost Startling to see in
The English li,erary-papers, nu advertisement
from his daughter, Madune Lavates, 1t Zurich,
Offering for sale as IA memorial Of her futher,'
his silver lnour.cd Medicine Chest and Instrn-
1nents, to relieve her own Distressed circum.
stances. Tint she should te so far reduced, is
scauda! TO the scientific world Which ought to
he remed.ed.
The Newark. n. J.) Mercury says: tThe
scarlet fever has been making sad havoc among
children, in our city for some weeks past. Ono
physician during the last SIX or eight weeks,
has had 80 cases under his care. In one in
stance four little ones in one family were swept.
away By the scourgc. In another, two were
carr led of, and both parcats hare been apros-
trated. The disease is OF an unusually ma.ig-
naEt type.
TrE FAsn1oSs--The New York l1d+ptadtAf,
in its Dry Goods report for Tie week says-the
Practice in the United States is, to tollow
French fastious, aud those which are the ton in
Paris Que season. become the tor in New York
in the season following. French fashions aud
French novels sretn to be most attractive to our
most dressy and light reading circles. The i'm.
portation Of silks daily arriving are aston,*E-
ingly large, aud are closely followed ia amount
by those Of woo1ens; aid next by those Of cot
ton goods.
SHALL rox.-1t is stated that in The thirty
years prior to 1851, only thirty -seven persons
died oi small pox in Boston, and most or these
we're seanlen and emigraIts who died ut Rains
ford Island. In 1s57, I'll! laws relating to small
pox we're repealed, placing it on the same foot
Ing with nny other disease, aud in the succeed
ing twelve years 5:a persons died from small
pox in ]sos.on alone, and the increase in other
parts Of the State was about the same proper.
lion.
- Miss Harriet Prescott, Of Sewburyport, il
the author Of the startling prose sketch entitled
p" The Amber CodR." III the Jaruarg number of
thr Aeant!: Honfh'y. Its readers will remcn1-
Der her cleyer story, {" In Il Cellar" published
last year, and perhaps seek acquaintance viii,
her Large story, "Sir Rohan'e Ghost" recently
published Kalph Waldo Emerson ii tue au-
thor Of the first poem in the January number
Of the Atlantic Monthly. called Song Of "a
san," another poem, Incorrectly attributed to
Whittier, is BY u. Rust, Plum1ev, Of Phila-
delpl,sa.
THE NEW USPEnNESTED HEEAn.--Therc can
be no doubt that the uewiy discovered ,crated
bread will prove u blessing to nany whose
stomachs could not digest the ordinary breud
raised By fermentation. 1t is now being regu-
laTly made and sold in London, and is eagerly
sought after by i large cluss Of people, to whom
fer,icnted bread hid been prohibited by tle
doctors: The process Of making the bread con-
slstsin forcing readr prepared casbonic acid, Ly
mcars of suitable machinery, into The water with
which the dough is prepared, then mixing tie
flour, water and salt together, in highly con-
densed atmosphere. from the mixing appara-
tua 4lIe 0VaEH - IEEt!1Eu lHlu lue u1klHiS.plHS,
and passed into the ovens, without being
touched By the hands. By this means the con-
sistency OF the flour is left both unchanged and
loaf being accordingly ab-
so'Mtelr pure bread.
There Is absolute economy in this method Of
raising the bread, as it is certain that the pro-
cess Of Fermentation destroys part Of the sub
statcc Of the -four, first the sugar, then the
starch to furnish moro sugar to be decomposcd
iuiO CarLuuic acid ruS and alcohol
SAD CASE or PSoMxAuBGL1sM.-Sabina Nichol-
son, aged seventeen years. son nf William Mich
olson, a farmer living on Potatoe creek, about
fifteen miles south Of this city, went to bed rs
usual on Saturday night, bnt on beiu. called in
the morning failed to respond. The father ris-
tied the room and found Ills son missing. Search
Was instituted ut once, when it WIS discovered
that lie had taken horse from the stable md
left tLe farm. The satl1er, calling in the assis-
tauce Of some Of his neighbore, started at once
in pursuit. Tie horse was tracked for sume
distance through tile snow, when the trail WAS
lost. The search was continued until Monday
when the missing youth was found
nrar .1an.cs Earle's, on the Wea, lie WIS sit
tiny down, and although still living was SO
Thoroughly benumbeI from the effects Of the
cold rs to te nnabe to give any account Of l,i,a-
self. He fingered until evening, when lie lied.
1t is supposed that he arose in lia sleep aud
tAling hnrso rode cit through thc woods, and
OH awaking WAS so bcwiie1cd that it was iin-
possible to find his way home, and dismounting
sat down to wait for daylight, when be became
ovorpowcred bv the cold. The horse Was stand
in. near lin whcu found.-Lafdyettt Journal,
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