The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-10
GENERAL ITEMS.

In Algeria, where considerable revages have
been produced by locusts, the most signal advan.
tages were derived from the Importation of bird
called by the French the martin triste, the result
of first experiment being so favorable that the
imperial government is about to renew it upon q
larger scale. In the Mauritius the martin triste
did most efectual service, entirely freeing the
country from the hosts of gluttonous intruders
with which it had been for some time infested.
The Italians would do well to turn their attention
toward this useful ally, and to encourage the intro
duction of various other breeds of insect eaters,
for there can be little doubt that the wholesale
destruction of birds which has been going on for
ages on the Italian soil has not little contributed
to aggravate the damage occasioned by these Pc
rio6ical ysitations. 1..f.s-
The Scientific American says the unpleasant
odor produced by perspiration IL frequently sub
ject of vexation to persons who subject to il.
Nothing il simpler than to remove this odor by
the application of such unguents and perfumes as
are now in use. II is only necessary to procure
some compound spirits of ammonia and place
about two teaspoonsful in a basin of water. Wash
ing the face, hands and arms with this leaves the
skin as clean, neat and fresh as one could wish.
The wash is very harmless and very cheap. 1t is
recommended on the authority of an experienced
physician, and it ought to be tried at least by all
those whose persons are SO offensive In this
respect. %. fli. Ill lsi.-
BROTHER Robert Triphook, of the Charter House,
died there few days ago In his eighty seventh
year. He was almost the last of the bibiliopol
who fourshed in the reigns of George ILL and Nv.
Being himself man of extensive reading and
tborosghly master of the best English books. not
only in his trade but in his own library, his coun
ter was for more than forty years the rendezvous
of the aristocrscy and gentry-at one time in st.
James street, at another in Old Bond street. The
author of "Wavsrly' has gossiped again and
again with Robert Trphook. Sir Walter Scott
employed the st. James street bookseller to col
lect the books of information on which he founded
"The Pirate" Many a time Lord Byron has
dropped into the same shop after visit to his
friend Hobhouse, who lodged at Trphook's.
Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Coieridge, Hazlitt, Charles
fingered there to talk with the old bookseller.
The London Times's city article, October 81 ,
contains the following: A few years since Mr..
Bessemer carried to q successful issue the pneu'
matte process which bears his name, for the manu-
facture of steel from piGiron. The Bessemer pro.
| cess however, demands 0on of the first brand
and is unequal TO the conversion iron OF inferior
| quality, charged with impurities Of PHOSPHORUS
and sulphur in large quantities. In short. until
very recently, no marketable steel has been pro-
| duced from Cleveland or Northamptonshre pig.
Great interest therefore, is stated to attach to the
successful operation of process patented by Mr..
| Heaton of the Langley Mil, in the Erewash Val
lev, by which inferior iron 10 made into first class
steel, thus utilizing for the higher purposes Of
| manufacture, vast deposits of ore hitherto con
| demned to the lowest rank. The process Is chemi
| cil and not mechanical, and great economy Of
time and labor appears thus to be secured. Nitrate
| of soda is the agent employs ed, and the persona
Investigation of Prof. Miller, Of Kings College
vice president of the Royal Society, and Mr.. Robt
Mallet, r. r. S.. together with the results Of ex
perimsnts by Mr.. David Kirkaldy, as TO the tensile
and resisting strength Of the steel manufactures
by this method. appear to be conclusive as to !.
efficiency placing the steel upon an equality viii
| Low Moor and Bowling The saving In cost o
| production is said to be several pounds a ton"
Parepa Rosa was singing Cas.a Diva at Sc;
Francisco. Folding her white hands on her DO
som and raising her tender eyes. she commences
breaking into q gush Of plaintive, supplicstinI
harmony that vibrsted through every chord
the heart glanced at my friend at my side, "a
disnt In her magnificent dress and halo of golde
hair, silver powdered, and there was asxeet, per