, 1870-08-13

OF the hotels IN ttat clsy who can resd Holmes
Had IN The Creek
ST casaet4aes, CANADA, hss s,sl 8 yeara OF
age "ho weighs 12s pounds, and taxes four.mie
promenade befnre breakfast
"A ninetJ-,h1es-popnh nugget is the lltesr
AZ ind" ID Victoria, AuBiralIa.
There arc Lnndpn p1ckpocke:s-&ne most sstl-
fQl IN the norld-iu San Francisco.
-Eonnecilcut has nlae pLn-factosfeA One Of
these CONCERNS can make 100000 pins 4 tsY* or
2,l91 .ooo, 900 per year.
The peanut crop OF Virginia this year Il estt-
mated At ~. 600 bushels. while Tennessee raIses
soe, 600 bushels, and Georgia aud the Carolina
fsom 1so.Goo to l7a,ooo-
"A Tennessee paper reports shat ho.e!-keeper
there recently bought large Mississippi catfish,
and found an Infants tody In i.s stomach.
IN Nseataqn1s county. Me-, theJ have grass
hoppefA to the number Of 10 600 10 the squ4re rut
who arc committing g7eas depredat!ons~
-Of 629 murders committed In New York during
the thirteen years ending with 1865, the pe.petz-
tors OF 155, Or one-qu2Eter Of the whole number,
nave never been discovered.
Troy recently Taanted the good qualltIes Of a
newly-utscoyered mineral spring. Now 1t has
1oupd IDLY that those qualities were owing to
the drainage OF q tannefy.
"a guest at ono Of the Montgomery tAlAl ao-
tells. who hns the unfortunate hablt Of aIeep4ru
With his mouth open, recently avoke In the morn.
Ing 10 md his set OF false teeth stolen.
Il generous Aemphian gave the olty land TOT
i public rask: but, before the city had laid oQl
much money upon it. the discovery was made
that the donor di'1nT own IT, aud never did.
There II an apple tree In Nousou. n ass.. nov
In ffnttr which bears proiniscuousIy Haldw.ns ant
ru.sets one trfg often bearing both varieties; art
"ccaslosai'5 one apr1c Will be one-half Da',iwlt
aud the ottcr llali russell. This has been TIT
hnp f7f In nfrotz En+,
ard it is nov large tree.
"A Ncwmarket. n. H., correspondent Of TIL
| Exeter 4Strs Lrtfer mentions the remarkable fac
that, Ct twtuty-seyen youngsters Who attended,
school together III shc Packers district IN Du.na,n
Nifty years ago, twenty arc still living IN .*goet
health AMI circumstances"
1t has been found that the hyppsulphite O.
soda, which IL now manufactured very cheanly To-
the use OF photographers, Is much tetter than th.
commun washing sofa to WASH delicate objects
II attacks neither the ekin of the hands nor Ii,
nhjecfs 10 be washed. as docs the common soda
and at the same tiMc It Is In effective bleaching
/! agent. and takes cut many spots better tA4n N,
| o!hrr Substance.
| -PErfessor George Rolitstone, OF Oxford, In hi
late Eook on "Forms Of Animal Ltse," gives ,
new criterion b5 which to distinguish animal
frcm vegetables. lie says tb At, IN the case Of Al
animals, the embryo ahsorbs its yo1k fFnm the n
side, While. 10 vegetables, the germ Of seed i
| surrounded ey Its aloumen. This Is trmafsatIl
fo'csladowlng Ct the way IN which the adult auI
| ntal or plant absorbs its food-the former h
placing II within itself for digestion and aassna
ton, while the latter takes ia food from outal.1.
When the 1iussau-Amertcan Telegraph
Completed the following fe2s will be possible:
| telegram from AgaSAa for New York, 1eaysu: Six
at 6:so Monday morning. would be received Z
Stcko1caf, Siberia, at minutes past On Tuesda
morning; at St Petersburg, Russia, At minute
post on Monday evening; al London at "a mir
ntes past on Monday afternoon, ani 1t Net Ynr
At 90 minutes pas. II On Monday forenoon. Thu.
allowing 70 minutes for each rrtransus.stou,
message may start on the morning OF one day, :
! be received and transmitted the next dag, aE1i
received and sent on the Afternoon Of the day
starts, Aud nually reach Its destination on ii
olcnton OF the ntst day, ths whole taking plsc
In one hours time.
The French Steamship Company, L<s kt*4a
s7i<s Imptrta'tS, having to ship quantity OF te
To Sucz, for the use Of It's Steamers in thc Iadtu
Ocean. Ant! desiring to end the best quality II
their purpose, subjected no kloErammcs fa(
Iouutls) Of severn! Kinds to the same condition
temperature, with the following results: u SAT-
! isl Ice IEtm Switzerland laste,a iol hours; t
natural ice from Norway, ll3 hours: ts) art.nci
Ice made bJ the Care machine, t3o hours; {
natural ICE from Boston, Mass, lis hpnss; {al q
titc,al ice natle By the Teller machine. III hour
Artificial Ice. then, appears to te as sul,l
! natnlsi Ice.
| -Dr. PArkes, OF London, has been experiment
ing Oh healthy soldier TO t}ui the effects Of
| coho1. I1e hatl him 1Est lake no alcohol fer S
sla5s; tten for ttx days he took in divided dos.
ttoN. one TO eight ouneea Of pure alcohol; til
watcr for Six days; and then for three dn
twelve ounces Of nne bsaniy, containing IS r
cent. Of aIcohol. The eneestn modifying weix
was quite 'narpseclahe. Alcohol produced l.t'
sHsc. on tic Temperature Of the system, thou
slightly raising II. The pulse WAS II
tcrtally affected, rising from ;1.s tefu
; | afconol to 81 after the largest doscA Es
mating The normal daily work Of the veraic!es
tho heart ~ equivalent to the lifting Of ls3 to
4 foot, 1t Mss found sh2l during the alcoholic =
nod the heart was compelled t. lift an excess
1as tons, and during the last two days Of 81 tor
TIE conclusion was, shatM Was uster,y useless
health, md positively Injurious, In larger quan
| ties than two ounces daily. There sre1nc,l to
indicated au advantage in its use II employed
rous,ng feeble appetite, exciting a fcebl. hea
: End accelerat1nG languld capillary circulation