The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-09-06
Foreign Items.

At the late trial of implements by the
Bath and West of England Society, q
steam cultivator was successfully tried.
With ten horse power engine and six per.
sons to attend it, it grubbed up six acres per
day of twelve hours, one way, and can grub
twelve acres in the same time. This breaks
up the land thoroughly.
The gas company of Plymouth, England,
has reduced the price of gas to IS cents per
1000 feet, and yet it pays dividend of 10
per cent. on one half its shares, and ~ per
cent. on the other half the highest dividend
allowed to the company by law.
The manufacture of paper from the leaves
of Indian corn is becoming extensive in
Austria. The paper is said to be tougher
than any ordinary paper made from rags,
while it is almost wholly free from silica,
which makes paper produced from straw so
brittle.
The SEVENTEEN planet has been discovered
by Mr.. Paysen, of Madras, and has been
named the Asia, as it is the first discovery
of the kind which has been made in that
quarter of the globe. It is an asteroid be-
tween the eleventh and twelfth magnitude.
There has been in circulation for some
time past, marvellous story of Prince
Napole0n's visit to the United States, with
the object, so runs the on dit, of turning to
his own personal advantages the desire for
monarchical institutions supposed to be in
herent in the French blood that runs, or is
supposed to run, in the veins of the seceso
sionists in other words, that he is ambi-
tious of forming new Imperial dynasty in
the Western hemisphere.
While the Emperor was at Vichy he was
taking walk on the banks of the Sichon
and lost bis way. A laborer CHANGING to
pass at the time his Majesty made the
necessary inquiry of him. =" Second to the
right and then first to the left, SIRE" said
the man. What. you know me 2" Yes,
and have had the honor for years past"
Where ?" Your Majesty of course
does not remember me but you were once
the cause of my passing two days in the
black hole for when you were at Ham 1
was soldier there, and was punished for
passing in pound of tobacco" " WE'LL"
said the Emperor, " it shall be my turn
now," and in a few days afterwards the
man was installed in well-stocked tobac-
conist's shop.
DR.. Barth, the famous African traveller,
appears in the list of M. du Chaillu's an
tagonists. In the course of an elaborate
review OF the work which has given rise to
so much discussion, DR.. Barth says: ave
have never thought of denying that Du
Chaillu has spent several years on the Ga.
bun and the neighboring coast, between 10
north aud % south of the Equator, nor
that be has been roaming about hunting
and collecting at some little distance from
the coast; but we assert that, instead of
giving bis adventures as such, be tries to
palm off on the public the information about
the interior which he obtained from the na,
tives, as a scientific geographical expIora-
tion of countries which he in reality never
visited, and that he for this purpose long
afterwards arranged the whole into sys-
tematic scheme"
During the ensuing month work of rare
interest to the Biblical scholar will be pub,
lished. 1t is a fac simile of the earliest copy
of the Scriptures ever yet discovered. The
manuscript contains portion of the Gospel
of st. Matthew, and was written by Mich
CLAUS, the seventh deacon, at the dictation
of the Apostle Matthew, fifteen years after
the Ascension. The manuscript, with many
others, was discovered by the Rev. MIR. Sto-
bart, in sarcophagus, at Thebes. The
papyrus is much damaged, and the frag.
ments preserved are not very numerous, but
they supply two lost verses, furnish purer
text than any other known version, and
clear up many passages that have hitherto
been doubtful and obscure. This 10 all
probability was the Identical manuscript
that was copied seven times by Hermodo-
rus, during the life of the Apostle; and like
wise seven times after his death. The copy
from which the English version of the Cos
pei is chiefly derived, is the eleventh copy
made by Hermodorus, preserved in one of
the monasteries of the East, and in this sew
eral errors have been made in the transcript
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