Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-02-12
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game cock, recently, and picked so severely
| that lock jaw set in and resulted in her death
| HoPs are down to 10 cents pound in
interior Wisconsin, and duh at that Last
years crop was enough for two years, and
next year the Wisconsin farmers propose to
raise something else.
WoRsTED, it is said, was first spun at
village Of that name near Norwich, England
cambrics came from Cambray; damasks
| from Damascus; dimity from Damiettai
cordoyan from Cordova; calico from Cali
eai; aud muslin from Mosul
PHILADELPHIA congratulates herself up
on retaining the lead in the petroleum trade.
| From January l, to November !, 1868, she
exported SO 665, 224 gallons, an increase Of
more than 5000, 600 over the corresponding
six months of 1867.
The rice crop Of Plaquemine Parish, La,
is said to be this year the largest and best
ever made. The rice planters will ship to
market over 25 600 barrels, 230 pounds each
of clean rice. The sugar crop of that parish
is expected to amount to 10000 or 1900
hogsheads
| TIE number of miles of line worked by
telegraph in the United States, in I84S, was
estimated to be about u, 000 In 1858 the
number had increased to nearly 10000, and
before the close of this year there viii be
completed and in operation about 10000
miles of telegraph wire.
The bee raisers in the vicinity Of Louis
vile, for circuit of twenty-five miles, we're
recently startled by the discovery that their
bees had all simultaneously decamped, going
no one knew whilher The mystery is still
unsolved. The deserted hives were all full
of honey containing from sixty to seventy
| five pounds each.
YALE CoLLEGE.-Yale college has seven
hundred and twcnty-four students. This
is the largest number the College ever had.
The acauemical and scientific departments
are larger than ever before, and the Fresh
man classes respectively about one-third
larger than last year. The College was new
er in more fourishiDg condition.
| As an instance of the endurance of paint,
New Hampshire paper says The rates
of toll over Newcastle bridge have for forty
seven years stood on board at the toll
house in Portsmouth, and the board is in a
good state of preservation, despite the ex-
posure of nearly half century. The letters
are black upon white ground, and every
one is as distinctly read as when new.
SIX of a herd oils cattle, belonging to
Mr.. Dusenberry, of Warwick, Orange coun-
ty, n. Y, died in two days from mysleri-
GUS disease, and all the others were seriously
affected. The herd had been turned into
cornfed on the day before the appearance
of the disease, and are supposed to have
been poisoned by the smut" on the stalks,
of which there was great quantity.
| 4 RECENT medical writer states that the
vices of the American character may be
briefly summed up as follows: l. An inOrdi-
nate passion for riches , 0veTwoTk of
mind and body in the pursuits of business.
3. Undue hurry and excitement in all the
affairs Of life. 4. Intemperanee in eating,
drinking and smoking. 5. A general dis
regard Of the true laws of life and health.
AMONG the recent English patents we no-
tice one upon an invention which consists IN
saturating jute, hemp, or other fibre woven
into canvas, cloth, or in its manufactured
state, with gutta percha 10 soft or liquid
state, and pressing layers of such saturated
fibre or canvas cloth together while warm,
50 as to form tough fabric of any required
thickness, which may be used for the soles
and heels of boots aud shoes, and for other
purposes.
AMONG the passengers in a street. car was
little gentleman who had possibly seen
five summers. The car being quite full, he
sat in the lap ofanother passenger While
on the way, something was said about pick
pockets, and soon the conversation became
general on that interesting subject The
gentleman who was then holding cur young
friend remarked my fine fellow, how easy
l could pick your pocket "No, you
couldn't. replied he, I've been looking
out for you all the time.
Mr. WIGNER, an analytical chemist in
England had been studying Leyiticus, and
concluded that the 'ashes of an heifer =
l. C., animal charcoal-and blood poured
out upon the ground. E., blood and clay
all mixed together, would make an excellent
purifier. He tried his mixture in thirtysix
thousand gallons of sewage and purified it
in twenty minutes; the residuum was found
| to be worth twice the cost Of the expert
ment IL has always been mystery how
the saerifcial court of the temple was kept
pure, and Mr.. Wiguer's experiment may
explain the method.
A very remarkable feature in the topo-
graphy of the country presents itself in
Wise county, Virginia. At or near the
Pound Gap, on the Kentucky side, Is a
mountain about four miles in circumference
at its base; in this mountain head four riv-
ers flowing ia different directions, Dearly
corresponding with the four cardinal points
Of the compass The four springs can be
seen at one view from the top Of this noun
tain, and they are nearly equi-distant from
each other, say mile apart. These rivers
are; the Guest river, flowing south into the
Ciuch; the Lick, fork of the Kentucky,
running west; the Cumberland river south,
aud the Pond river north into the Sandy.
They flow through four States, and are all
tributary to the Ohio river
A Washington letter says: Among the
valuable patents which have recently expired
and which the Government has refused to
renew, is that of Col. Hoe, whose huge
printing presses may now be manufactured
by anybody with capital enough. Hoe is