The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-09-15
Miscellaneous,

A bce-tree was recently cut at Newport,
VT, that yielded $50 pounds Of honey.
Saratoga has had 1000 visitors thi.
summer; Cape May, 80, 900; Atlantic City
5O,OO0; Long Branch, 10000, and New
port, about 100000.
The New York census takers found in
| family child about FIVE years old without
any name. The father wanted one name,
its mother another, and they would not COM
promise.
"A young man at Albany went to 4 house
of i'll repute, few days since, to try and
reclaim his sister, who had resided there for
some time; but instead of approaching his
kindness, she called several blood-thinsty
ruffians to her and had him beaten 50 cruelly
that he was obliged to he removed on a
stretcher.
Prof. Peiizza, OF Florence, has found a
sure cure for sorfsnambulism. Magnetism is
the method, and is thus applied: Every
night, on going to bed, the somnambulist
applies around his leg few turns Of copper
wire, sufficiently long to communicate to the
ground, and in the morning the conductor is
removed.
1t seems that the doom Of Temple Bar
is ut length sealed, and that is to s,lccumb to
u,ilitarianism. 1t is not really very old,
dating only from the latter part Of the sew
en:eenth century. Still it is the last promi-
nent memorial Of gated London, and has be-
sides thousand associations Of interest con-
nectcd with il, The chamber above the
gateway has for wears been i'm the occupation
Of the oldest banking house in London, that
Of Messrs. Child, with whose house Of bust
ness it communicates.
In Philadelphia, on Sunday, gentle
man died, and, a. usual, Grape was hung on
the door-knob Not many minutes
elapsed before a wcll-slrcssed stranger put in
an appearance, and inquired what church
deceased belonged To-. An answer was
given him, wherenpon the individual repre-
sented himself As an elder of the church,
and offered to have the funeral attended to
at n very moderate charge. lie then sum-
med up the cost of opening the grave, nee,
&c, and made the amount Sll.S5. This
was paid him, and he has not been seen or
heard of since.
George Augl,s'-Is saba has been study
ing the MR. ypby of drunkenness, and ar
CUES, in a late magazine article, that the
spread Of cigar-smoking is one of the chief
causes of the decline of intemIerance in
respectable and refined society. He admits
that this looks like paradox, hut asserts
that it is not, and supports his assertion by
saving: "A drunken man cannot enjoy a
cigar at all: and a sober one cannot appre-
tate any wine save thin claret while he is
smoking.
The yas, summer was the hottest one
for ninetv-two years. They have been over
hauling the records of Yale College. From
July ~ to Angus; -, 1870, the mean daily
temperature was, at New Haven, S. degrees
and no season, at least since l59S, has shown
30 MANY consecutive hot DAYS. The highest
temperature this summer was July ~
noted at rs degrees, and this has been ex.
ceeded but four times during the period
above indicated at New Haven-the Their
mometre risin. TO 100 one day in each year
in 1884, and 1916. 1873 it reached 1Ol.
These are in Baltimore some thirty or
forty packing oyster houses, having a capi-
tai Of f: m SIS, 900, 900 to SIG, 900, 900. l5,-
600 hands, of all ages, and all races anil Of
both sexes, are employed in opening oysters.
Some packing houses open 1900 bushels
day. There Is a certain process by which
the oysters are packed in tin cans so that
they will keep an indefinite length of :ime,
and are in this state sent all over the world.
They are frs. steamed in the shell. A crate
full are rolled into huge steam boxes for this
purpose. These packing houses aleo pack
and can vegetables and fruit of all kinds in
immense quantities. A single firm will pack
from 5000 to 1900 bushels Of peaches, and
also strawberries in large quantities.