The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-04-01
the Asistic Researches, very curious moee

the Asistic Researches, very curious moee
ofAtsying the title -to=lssd issptaessesdl.s an
Hindostan. Two holes are dug in the dis
puted spot, in each of which the lawyer on
either side put one of their legs, and there
remain until ono of them is tired, or com
plains of being stung by insects, in'which
case his client is defeated. In our country
it is generally the client, and NOT The law
yer, who, "puts his foot in it, ga IS
GEN. BANS has issued an orderfor the
preservation of the health of New Orleans,
appointing DR.. j. V. c. Smith, DR.. c. FACET,
and DR.. Daniel CO Holiday as Commission.
ers to. supervise sanitary. measures. l The
attention of the Commission is specially
directed to the subject of intramural bur
ials, drainage, quarantine regulations, tene-
ments of the poor, and any and all other
prolific or proximate causes OF disease or
contaSion. ,..
ABOLITION IN BRAzIL.-A Senator, Sill
WEIR, ia Motto. has proposed in the Bra
lillian S,nste, that "no foreigner residing in
Brazil SHOULD be allowed to hold slaves. and
those ae;saty holding them should be
obliged - sell them within certain time"
Also t, at the converts and other monastic
institutions should be obliged to sell their
landed properties and slaves. 1t is becom
ing every day more evident that slavery is
doomed in Brazil, and that ere long some
measure will be taken having for its ult!-
mate object the entire suppression OF the
system.
CHOICE OF DEArHs.-A singular law ex-
lists in Utah Territory granting to criminals
under capital sentence choice OF deaths
They may select to be banged, to be shot,
or to be bebeaded.. In the case of Jason
R. Luce, who was executed at Salt Lake on
the 18th ult, for tho murder of Samuel Bun
ton the prisoner declined, at the time OF
sentence, to make any choice, so the presi-
ding Judge had himself to determine the
mode of execution. lie ordered him to be
shot and at the hour appointed he was ia
ken to the court house yard, and volley OF
five shots were fired at him from the win
dows of basement, where the execution
ers we're concealed from. view All the
shots penet rated Luce's breast. and be fell
over corpse
AT late meeting of the Paris Academy
Of Science NJ. @ Saint Claire Devillc read
a paper on the limits Of perpetual snow.
Humboldt had assumed that The altitude OF
those limits was determined by that point
where the thermometer never rose above
the freezing point; but M. Durocber after
wards expressed some doubts as to the per-
feet suundness of this principle, and NJ. Re
nou has since modified it a, FLOWS: The
line of demarcation Of perpetual snow is at
that altitude where the mean temperature
is freezing point during the Tx warmest
months OF the veal
At the same meeting Dr. Jobert de Lam
bale read a report on highly important
paper from DR.. Philippeau on deafness. The
author describes some new experiments Oil
the perforation OF the drum or typan of the
ear In order to ascertain whether pa
tient laboring under the deafness can hope
to recover his hearing or not, Dr. Philip
peau applies common watch to his tenn
pies, and if he hears the ticking, his cure
may be considered certain.
WE MUsT DIE In the long watches OF
the winter night, when one has awoke ON
some evil dream, aud lies sleepess and ter-
ri6ed, with the solemn pail of darkness
around-on one Of these deadly, still dark
nights, when the window only shows a
murky patch Of positive gloom in contrast
with the no >hingness Of the walls, when
the bowling of tempest round chimney
and rnof would be welcomed as boisterous
companion-in such still, dead times, lying
as in the silence of the tomb. one realizes
that we all shall lie in bed and not think AT
all-and the time will soon come wD"n We
must die.
Our preachers remind US Of this often
enough, but we cannot realiZe it in pew
in broad daylight. You must wake in the
, middle Of the night to do that, AID face the
thought like man, that it will come, AID
come to ninety niue in hundred of us, not
in a maddenIng CHATTER of musketry, as the
day is won or in such like glorious times,
when the soul is in mastery over 'bc body,
but in bed by slow degrees IL is in dark
ness and silence that we realiZe this and
let Us hope and humbIy remember that death
Las been conquered for ~, and that in spite
of our worthiness We may defy him.-iep-
~ Hing slcy's Rauenshoe