Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-04-11
General Intelligence.

A traveller in the East thus describes
some of the ancient works constructed
for supplying j Jerusalem with water: THE
ancient conduits about Jerusalam are of
wonderful structure. One, the lower lev
el conduit, formed of stone, follows the
contour of the country for twenty-five
miles, passing along the bend of de-
preston in one case of ifty-fVe feet depth,
and entering the city at an altitude Of
two thousand four hundred and fifty feet.
The other, the upper level conduit, Is
tunnelled through hill at one part, and
the blocks are so keyed together as to
form complete siphon."
A letter writer in Indiana says: S'It IS
singularly interesting fact that the most
of our Western colleges, academies and
seminaries are better patronized this year
than ever before, and that notwithstand-
ing the increased expenses of board and
other things. Large numbers of the vet
| eran soldiers are seeking an education
During the fall term there were said to
be over forty of these army lads in Wa
bash College alone"
In the Island of Great Britain, as it has
been recently computed, there are thirty
five thousand FIVE hundred and twenty
places of worship. Reckoning two SER
mons each Sabbath, in each of those, and
three millions nine hundred and two
thousand and eighty sermons are ciph-
cred out, as the number annually preach
ed in the island.
A college of the New England stamp
is to be erected upon Lookout Mountain,
the scene of General Rockers famous
battle in the clouds A retired mer-
chant of Yew York has purchased 400
acres of land, including twenty-one bull
dings erected by the government. 1t is
expected that the college will be opened
next month, with accommodations for
eighty students.
A Massachusetts, Yankee has invented
a cotton picking machine, which, it is
claimed, will do the work of twenty men,,
gathering cotton as clean as the most ex-
pert hand can do it, at distances ranging
from six inches to six feet. and taking it
only from the balls which are ripe and
open, leaving the unopened pods unin-
jured and not harming the plant.
A case is now pending in Rhode Island,
in which a wealthy man married, and
dying soon after, left a will that was
made before his marriage. His estate is
valued at one million, and his widow is
left an expensive and very doubtful law
suit, instead of a large fortune.
There is a divorce case now before the
Chicago Courts which has very humor-
GUS feature about it. Mr.. Willis, the de-
fendant, is one of twin brothers, and the
resemblance they besr to each other Is so
striking that the lady, who is charged
with adultery, finds herself unable to
identify the true Dromio.
Southerners are buying nice residences
in the fashionable parts of Boston. Over
twenty first class houses there have late
ly been purchased by Southerners, who
say they have made fortunes during the
war, and have come North to invest it.
OVer-crowded omnibusses are not al
lowed in France. As soon as the seats
are all occupied, the conductor sticks out
little flag, and as long as the flag re-
mains no one is allowed to get in.
The population of Ireland decreased
81, ,846, and the number of inhabited
homes decreased 1921 last year.
newly invented harpoon contains a
pound of powder, with a ten second fuse,
and is instant death to whale. 1t is to
be used in the sulpher bottom whales,
which are very large and plenty in
the Iceland and Spitzenburg seas, and
have hitherto been neglected, because
they sink as soon as killed. The new
harpoon is sure to hold them.
Charleston, South Carolina, is almost
entirely Northerenized. Most of the
stores are occupied by enterprising
Northern men. 1t is said that a MAORI
ty of the original Charleston families
have gone to Europe, Canada or Brazil
The South Carolina cotton crop has been
D lanted, and the indications are that it
will be very fair.
The whole theory of the trichina IS be-
ginning to receive ridicule. An eminent
Baltimore physician says that trichina
never did and never will destroy human
life; that they have in all probability ex-
isted in the human flesh always, certainly
for the last half century and taking 1t,
for the sake of argument, as granted that
we may receive them through the instru-
mentality of the hog, that they are not
more dangerous to life on that account.
Some of the English Life Insurance
Companies are refusing 10 insure liquor
sellers on account. of the extraordinary
risk. The rate of mortality among them
is as high as eighty in one thousand, while
the rate among traders considered as un-
healthy, is only fifteen in one thousand.
1t is estimated that the cotton crop of
Western Texas will reach as high as eight
thousand bales, valued at one million six
hundred thousand dollars.
According to the Cork Examiner, up-
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