The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-11
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENTS.


The weather-The Money Market
Wheat-Business-LR Sale Street
Tunnel--Trichina SpIralIs-CrRIg
mierOscOpe-NOVeIty MIserOsopeS
George Mead-Amusements
CHICAGO, Jan. 20, 1S7O.-The weather for
the last two weeks, with the exception of one
or two days, has been remarkably mild Tor
January, much to the Joy of the poor, and the
regret Of the coal dealers. Indeed. the mild
winter, thus far, has disappointed the calcu-
latiOns Of those who have a monopoly OF
fuel, and pTevGnt the expected rise in coal
and wood, for which We are devoutly thank
full.
THE MONEY MARKET
here is easier, and responsible parties find
no difficulty in obtaining all the discounts
they need for the ordinary purposes Of trade.
THE WHEAT MARKET
has been quite active, prices for No. 9 rang
ing from S33dS4l, and the result is quite a
demand for money among grain dealers. But
the fluctuations IN price are such as to forbid
all prescience of the future. Nothing would
tend so certainly to infuse life into all kinds
Of business as the permanent advance Of
wheat TO the price Of dollar bushel. When
it sells for less than that, wheat-Taising is not
profitable business.
BUSINESS
is now al the dullest, but preparations are be-
irg made for large business the coming
season. Many of our largest houses are get
ling ready to move into larger and new
quarters within a few weeks.
THE Ia SALE STREET TUNNEL.
is progressing finely. The experience of
building ths Washington street tunnel is Of
great service in constructing this. They
have begun by building a cofer-dam and ex-
cavatlng the north half of the river, and the
dredSe shOvsls, or scoops, dump a wagon
load OF dirt into the wagon boxes at a time,
and he load Is driven of and another wagon
immedaiel7 takes its place, so that all show
cling and loading, except in the bottom of
the tunnel, is saved. They will prOba bly
have the tunnel under half the river COM
pleted before navigation opens. This pas
sage way will be avery great convenience to
the residents of the North Side.
TRIcHNA sPIRALIs.
There has been considerable excitement
over the cases OF trichina spiralis, of which
i've persons at Hampshire, Kane Co., have
died, snd four more are not expected 10 re-
cover. More recently the diSedSe-if it may
be called such-has appeared at Wheaton, in
Du Page Co., and people are beginning to ask
If there are not means within the reach of the
masses Of enabling them to ascertain if these
parasites exist in the meat served up for
food. 1t is not pleasant t. contemplate ones
self bored through and through by a million
or two Of these pork tcOfnS, which
bore so fast in human flesh,
that they set the multiplication table
at defiance. They seem, after boring through
the stomach, to take special delight in pierc
ing the muscular Parts of the legs and arms,
and making a perfect hOney-comb of the
whole body. And no remedy has yet been
discovered or devised. And though il is said
that thorough cOOkiug-subjecting them TO
sufficient degree of heat-kills these para
-. H. .-E F-nT -
properly cooked, can he eaten harmless, |
apprehend few would like knowingly to make
the experiment.
They can be seen very distinctly with
THE CRAIG MICROSCOPE,
q neat, cheap, little, pocket instrument
which magnitic5 ten thousand times and
which can be purchased for $2.75. TIE
TiicbiHd SpirdiS was first discovered in this
country by Dr. r. G. Kendall, of PhiIadel-
phia, by The aid Of Craig microscope after
trying IN vain tn discover them through
French microscope, costing S55. 1 myself
saw through the Crslg microscope, in thin,
transparent section of human muscle about
half the size in diameter of a common pea,
sent by DIR. G. B. Reed, of Hampshire. taken
from one of his dead patients, not
less than tlrent,l-fUe of these dicbina
SpirGlis, looking like cOiled angle
worms. The sharp, or small end is the head.
The instrument is so simple any can use 1t,
and its magnilying power IL wonderful. A
microscopic photograph of the Lords Prayer
containing 26S letters, with the portraits of
fifteen Presidents and their names under
written surrounding it, can be seen as plainly
through this microscope as il the letters were
IN large print and the portraits of ordinary
size. The instrument covers but a smail field
at once, for the larger the magnifying power
the smaller the field of GeiOn For examin-
l"g larger objects, such as plants, common
insects, &c, the Novelty microscope is prefer
able When was a boy no such help to the
study of botany and entomology as these mi
crOscopes was within my reach. But now
there is scarcely student or youth of either
sex in the Nurthwest-and it is for their ben
efit / write this-who cannot obtain either, or
both, of these microscopes. And 1 will tell
them Low 10 do it.
sEND To GEORGE MEAD, CHICAGO, ILL.,,
for the Craig microscope, S2.75 or for the
Novelty microscope, S2.15, and they will be
securely mailed to you, postage paid. Mount
ed objects, botanical. chronological, &c., for
124 cents each, or 81 50 per dozen. I have
said enough about tricltiHG and the means OF
detecting them for one letterSbut as this is a
question of vital interest to all flesh eaters, I
thought to tell them how, and at what
cost, they could be able TO detect diseased
meat, and especially ifinfeste3 by the deadly
trichina sDiralis, would be giving useful il
formation.
Nothing new in the way of
AMUsEMENTS.
LOtta is drGl0ing at the Opera House. The
Surf, which was the sensation at Aikens'
Museum last summer, Is Reproduced. B.