Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-26

How long horse can live without food
is decided by experiments recently made in France.
1t was ascertained by cruel means that horse will
live for twenty-five days without solid food, merely
drinking water He may live seventeen days with
out eating food or drinking. He only live five
days when consuming solid food without drinking.
After taking solid alimen for the spa ace of ten days.
but with insufficient quantity of drink, the stom-
ach is worn out. The above facts show the impor-
tance Of water in the sustenance of the horse. A
horse which had been deprived of water for three
days, drank eleven gallons in the space of three
| minutes.
Miss Annie Dickinson has been lecturing
in Cincinnati and the rreverent Commercial of that
city says: 'She spoke to he people, and with such
vigor did she assert her rights inspired instruct
ress of the ignorant public that when poor fellow
in the audience sneezel, she called upon him. in a
voice like the blast of bugle to talk like man. or
forever hold his peace.
Mr.. Wheelwright, of Newburyport, Mass.
is still at work upon his great enterprise, the con-
struction of railway from the river Platte across
the Andes, to the Pacific and is confident that it will
be completed within the next ten years. Already
two hundred and forty miles of the route in the
eourae of rapid construction from the port of Rosario
| to the interior city of C0rdova.
The citizens of San Francisco are startled
by project to construct new water front to theiI
city, the proposition being to make appropriation
of five or six thousand of water to be built VI
and filled in by the operators. The Alta says, if this
\ is done. many present owners of valuable water
fronts will find their lots far inland causing loss
millions of dollars to the best business portion of the
| city.
"A Paris letter in a London journal says
| "a Geneva watch has long been household word
Besancon, however promises to rival the city of Cal
vim at the worlds fair. In 1865 no less than 81 So
gold and 2O44 AIS silver watches were manufactured il
| this centre of French Professionalism. Among th
| immense number several hundred have been sold a
high prices, in consequence of the delicate beauty
| their workmanship"
| -Clocked stockings are again coming into
favor with ladies' who looped or short skirts
| "Trellis patterns to be the most plenty; bu
the richest are Mosaics." and the most brilliant th
Star" styles. They come in spun silk and in List
thread that equals the finest silk in softness Yer,
few are in white. Most unbleached, and have th
| appearance of flesh color.
As people are little timid about travel
ing on the ice at times we give the capacity of tn
ice furnished by the United States Ordnance Depart
ment as correct. Ice two inches thick will bear in
fantry; four inches, cavalry with light guns; 81,
inches heavy field guns and eight inches the heavi
est siege guns with 900 po ands weight to a squar
| inch.
1t is proposed in London to form ;
Girls Household Brigade" in order to emplo!
| girls under fifteen years of age in domestic work
and to save part of their earnings to enabl
them in time to emigrate get into better service
having made character for themselves by homes
industry.