Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-04-02


NJ. Bessamer, the inventor of the pro-
cess Of converting iron quickly into steel,
now says be can produce block OF it
twenty tons in weight, from flint cast iron,
in twenty minutes.
Itsppears the Archduke Msxtmilisn is 8
great spend thrift, has been assisted by his
brother many times to great extent and
that the Mexican speculation is mainly
entered upon to fill his Dukeship's empty
pockets.
The latest style ofhoop-skirt is the self
adjusting, double-bsck-sction, hustle etrus-
can, fsse-expsnsion, Piocolomini attach
ment gosssmer, indestructablep polOctieom-
orAm. It is said to be q very charming
thing.
An ingenious pocketmap, made OF two
pieces Of paper thirteen inches by FIVE,
has been contrived by NJ. Darlington, Of
London. These, by being folded in pecu-
liar way, give at pleasure complete map
of the world and Of the heavens.
A general Congress Of Freemssons from
al nations is shortly to be assembled at
Leipsio.
The Edinburg Witness Hugh Millers
newspaper, is dead
1t is sscertsined that the yield of gold
Austrsli@ for the last year will show a de-
crease Of 100000. The amount as stated
for 1858 WAS really about eS, ,845, 784, and
Of this, q writer in Victoria says, e., ,300,-
900 went from the Australian banks.
Fifty-eight life assurance Offices are
winding up their business in England.
The British army this year numbers
147, ,128 men.
The Prince Of Wales, at a recent dinner
given by the Guards at Windsor, offered a
| toast which drank with enthusiasm. 1t
was to the effect that he hoped the Ger
mans invading Denmark might meet the
same fate which befel the Egyptians in the
Red Sea.
An ice machine has been erected at
Bombay which produces three tons of the
article daily.
The influx Of gold into India, esnsS;;il',. ss:,,il
in Bombav. ia producina at---eSl slh ulsr
go -.DeyI .'I = SHs natives. Late accounts
state that they play with coin like children,
purchsse-to please their fsncies at enor-
nous rates and have given up the use Of
| eartbep vessels, having brass and copper
instead. The women have thrown by their
tarme=.she:G- lori or2sSnspts 54e4 P4A4 now shine
in gold and pearls.
? A British Banking Company s " pro-
noted" as the saying in London ato be
established at San Francisco. The spfs SCI
pal arguments in it's favor are the present
telegrsphic communication between San
Francisco and New York, the centTsliZs-
tion Of eastern commerce at San Francis
co, and the certainty Of the construction Of
the Pacific Railroad.
The number ofillegitimate children born
in the English warehouses; for three years
is as follows 1860, 7,O77; 1861, 8,O20i
1852, s,l15.
The Swiss are at last entering into the
ice trade, and are exporting large quaint
ties to Paris. The ice is carried over the
Central Railway, some Of the blocks
weighing fifteen hundred pounds.
There has been great falling of in the
value Of the annual productions Of Ireland.
In the year 1859 it was estimated at &c.,
100000. In 1863 it wss but e27, 1877 900.
Here is q decline Of moro than S6O,OO0,0O0
in four years.
There are in Ireland forty thousand cot
tiers, or one-scre tenants.
At the recent periodical meeting Of the
The British Electric and international Tel
egraph Company it was stated, among
other things, that the best marine cables
were there perishsbles, and there was q
necessity for providing means for re-
placing them.
We suppose that science must bave it's
peculiar nomenclature, though it is often
unintelhgible to amateurs. Professor
Huxley, great authority, thus speaks of
the osseous frame work Of the baud, con-
sisting Of the carpus, metscarpus and the
phalaDges-(of these we ell know some
ihing):
They miget be divided into radical tri-
digitsl series OF bones, including the sea
pezold, lunar, trspezoid, trapszium and
msgnum and an ulnsr bidigital series,
including the ounciform and unciform.
The piriform he regarced as the sesmoid
bone Of the muscle. he then showed that
the articulation Of the metscarpsl bone Of
the pollex or thumb, with the csrpus,
formed, when the hand was placed on
fat surface, both horizontally and verti-
cslly, considerable angles with the plane
Of articulation Of the other metscarpsl
bones. These were characterized as the
digitsl and "palmsr sngulstions Of
the Joint; and il was further demonstrat-
ed tnst, to the direction and form of the
articulsr facet Of the trspezium, the thumb
Of man owed its peculiar oppossbility.
The English papers express the opinion
that the Danish difficulties will cut Of the
usual supplies Of grain from Eastern Eu-
rope. They will help our markets.