The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-09-08
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR


tory in this country is credited with
using in a year 720, 900 feet Of the bes
clear pine; 100000 feet Of bass wood
for boxes; 400 barrels Of sulphur;
9 600 pourds of phosphorus. 1t also
uses, weekly, four tons of pasteboard,
9, 900 poands OF paper for small boxes,
and nearly 400 pounds Of flour for
paste. Il employs 200 hands, and
rays daily 81, 500 for revenue stamps.
THE New York hotels are now
crowded to overlooking. Steamboats,
and railroads from every direction
have as many passenger as they can
we'll accommodate, and the cry Is still
they come Tie express men have
more business transferring baggage
hither and thither than they knOY
how to manage, and the huge trunks
from the watering places are sore
trials to their temper. The fashion
able streets up town, which have been
well nigh forsaken for q month Or
two, begin to look at home again,
while the city generally IS putting on
the busy, busting aspect incident to
the incoming of Autumn.
In Paris the other day a girl was
observed on the street with a wooden
leg under her arms, while a gentle
man was calling her from a window
on the opposite side of the street,
gesticulating fercely and demanding
her return. To the large crowd
which the scene attracted, the girl
made explanation that she was wash
erWoman to the gentleman, that he
would not pay her, that she visited
his lodgings to demand the money,
and that on his refusal she had taken
possession of his wooden leg pur-
posing not to return it until she had
received her money. And then she
had him, most undeniably.
In sinking a we'll for oil, IL Michi-
gan, water of remarkable qualities
was struck 1t is believed to have
valuable medicinal properties. II
leaves a deposit Of silver whiJeness.
The sand pebbles over which il flows
are soon covered with the deposit,
giving them the brightness and beauty
of molten silver.
WITHIN a very short time five
young ladies Of Louisville have been
seriously poisoned by the use Of i'm
F7-ttoa ,tace nnwder adulterated with
lead. In Ca2h case Tue CnUCJ o. TnC
cosmetic Yves paralytic both to the
systems and facial beauty of the
maidens. No one can use the pow
der and not be poisoned, and sooner
or later this truth will develope itself
DIR. FRANKLIN's fund Of 81 GOO
which he willed to Boston in 1891,
and expected to increase to 9131 coo
in a hundred years. amounted to only
1888, 493 SO on the 1st of January
last, and at this rate Of increase viii
not reach that amount at the appoint
ed time. DR.. Franklin directed that
it should be loaned In small sums to
young married artifcers; that 8l00,
600 should be expended for public
works In 1891; aud the remainder
continue on interest another hundred
years, when a portion was to 60 to
the city and some $4,000, 600 to he
State. Perhaps the greatest wonder
is that the principal is in existence.
A NEW professorship has been es
.tablished in Dickinson College, Penn
sylvania, supported by a gift Of $25,
600 from Thomas Beaver, Esq, Of
Danville. The incumbent of the
chair is to have charge Of the Depart
ment Of Biblical Literature. Rev.
DR.. Dashiell, the new President, has
assumed his position, and the munifi-
cent centenary collection makes the
endowment Of the College now about
a quarter Of million.
THE Kansas Pacific Railroad has
tasted of business from which it ex
poets TO realize much profit, In the
carriage of 20, 600 pounds of silver ore
from Colorado, destined for England.
This ore is drawn a long distance to
meet the advancing road. When q
construction is finished to the mines.
the business will be materially in
creased, and the amount sent to be
smelted will figure more largely in
our annual tables
THE Secretary Of the Navy is re-
duciDg, as much as is compatible with
the public interests, the expenses Of
the Navy Department. The following
is the number Of vessels OF the differ
ent squadrons: European, 6; North
Pacific, z; North Atlantic, 8; Asiatic,
9, South Pacific, 5; South Atlantic,
D; special service 3. Total, 43. The
total squadron force of last year
amounted to ffty-One vessels, with
four on special service.
From Valparaiso we learn that 81.
Jobert has invented an instrument
for announcing and registering earth
quakes, and has presented il 10 the
Government with the view OF obtain
ing 4 pateat for the same. A trial
will soon be made and the result an
nounced.
& DISPATCH from the summit Of
Mount Washington, N. H., I:30 PM,
the % inst, says: a heavy storm
has prevailed on and around the
mountains for the past two days, and
it is still showing hard. Considerable
damage has heen done to the tele-
graph wires, which have been broken
in several places, but are now work
ing finely, in spite of the storm and
coating of ice three or four inches
thick. The mercury has ranged from
80 to 80 during the storm.
THE Century Plant has arrived in
Chicago from Rochester, New York.
To transport it was quite an under
taking. The plant is ever nineteen
feet high, and the roots spread five
feet from the trunk, and to the depth
OF TWO feet from the surface of the
ground. A box or crib of strong tim
Der was set into the earth about the
roots, to the requisite depth, aud iron
rods forced through the ground be-
meath the roots, and inserted In the
holes in the crib This done, the box
aud plant were removed to the car
and turned over far enough to enable
the plant to pass under the deck of
the ear.