Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-11
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The Italian government is about TO
dispatch scientific expedition to the
Pacific Ocean. 1t would be a civil act
on the part of our government TO offer
the use of our naval depot at
San Fra cisco in case the expedition
should require reftting while on our
coast.
At Paris, the other day, an autograph
Of Tasso was sold, written by the poet
Of JerusaLSBanps Libsrata, in the twenty
six year of his age. 1t is worded as
follows Il, the undersigned, hereby ack-
nowledge to have f.om Abraham Levi %
lire, for which he sold in pledge a sword
Of my fathers, 6 shirts, 4 sheets, and 2
table covers. March 1911.
Torquato Tasso.
DR.. William AitlSin has published work
on the science and practice of medicine,
which is remarkable for It's treatment Of
the various forms Of disease according to
a scientific classification, and following the
nosology ofsystem ofthe registrar-general.
A woodcut Of st. Christopher, belonging
to Lord Spencer, is said 70 be the oldest Of
thekind known, bearing date l423.
Mrs. Charles Matthews, well known in
this city, has, in a burlesque Of Faust, sue
ceeded IN elective limitations OF Stella Col
as and Miss Bateman.
Strong family attachments are said to
be u feature generally met with IN superior
minds.
The dark lines in the solar spectrum are
considered proof OF the existence of an alb.
sorbing atmosphere Of low temperature in
that body, or IN some Of its envelopes.
An enthusiastic sportsman says that ''the
most exquisite sensation of which this NOR
JuI IrHrue Is srTsCvPtTUIr5 II CiIused Dy the
first tug of salmon 4 I..<
The Chinese are dexterous members of
broken iron vessels. Their method is de-
scribed by DR.. Loekhart. The surface of
the broken vessel Is scraped clean. a por-
ton Of cast iron is then melted In cruci-
ble no bigger than thimble, in furnace
as large US the lower half of common
tumbler. The iron when melted Is drop
ped on piece Of felt covered with char
coal ashes. II is pressed inside the vessel
against the hole TO be filed up, and as II
exndes on the other side it is struck and
pressed with small roll Of felt covered
with ashes. The new and old iron ad-
heres, and the snperhuous metal being re-
moved ~ vessel Is us good as new.
Mr.. TegetSeier, before the Entomolog-
ieal Society Maintained that bees have no
hexagonIai Or geometricai instinct as has
been usually supposed, but the form OF
their cells Is the consequence OF the law or
Of space, that Of seven circles of
equal radii, SIX viii just surround the
seventh. The cell OF the bee Is invariably
at its commencement, and
the section of u cellnot contact with anoth-
er always circular. e-
The late elections in Holland have ter
minated in great successes for tine liberal
cause. AT the Hague under court in1u
ence q conservative ousted liberal, but
In Amsterdam three conservatives were
ousted by three liberals.
Harriet Martineau's sister destroyed her
self on the Derby day by throwing herself
under the wheels OF u railway tram US 1t
was entering u station, which literally tore
her to pieces. Sne Was about thirty years
old, in good circumstances, and the wife Of
h barrister. t-
Fourteen delegates to the Chicago
Convention have arrived from Louisiana;
so the democrats will have 10 meet the
question at the outset, es-
peoially as the dee gates are all war DEM
ocrats and go for McCiellHn. E,. g -'75