South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-04-23
Fears for tho Fan wheat.

oescr0yeu Dy the cold snap of the last
week. In the northeastern part of On
tario the thermometer Saturday marked
81 below zero.
~ IHE HARPER's FERRY SUIT.--In the
United States Court at Wheeling. this
State, last week, the case of the United
States and K. Z. Adams as. the Ba1ti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company, in
yolying the title Of the government TO
certain lands on the Potomac river at
Harper's Ferry this State, was called up
by counsel for the government. The
Hon. Z. j, Faulkner. being present in
court, expressed his earnest hope that
the case would be disposed of during
the present term, He did not consider
himself professionally connected with
the case, but rs the Representative in
Congress from the second district he felt
decided interest in seeing the case dis
posed Of. Judge jackson expressed
himself in favor Of taking up the case
ut the earliest moment consistent with
the other business of the court.
IY A telegram from Paris announces
that of three @ronauts who assembled
from that city on Friday in the balloon
Zenith to the height OF $4,000 feet or
more, two persisted from suffocation,
while the third is lying dangerously ill.
Enormous rs this altitude may seem, it
has been reached several times within
! the last twenty-five years without un-
pleasant consequences, and in 1852
Messrs. Glaisher and Coxwell assembled
in England TO the height of $1,000 feet,
or more than seven miles. On this &C.
! casion both gentlemen were somewhat
affected, Mr.. Glaisher losing the use of
his limbs and becoming insensible, and
Mr.. Coxwell retaining barely strength
enough to pull the valve rope and cause
the balloon to descend. Reaching a
lower stratum of atmosphere both gen
tlemen rapidly recovered and landed in
good condition. Why the French zero
nauts should have been fatally affected
at an altitude so much less than that
reached by Mr. Glaisher may be accoun-
ted for by some arrangement of the
physical system, or possibly by some
peculiar conditions of the atmosphere.
a tendency to sutfocation or hemmor-
rhage is one of the dangers which those
venturing into highly rarefied atmos-
pheres are liable to encounter; but these
symptoms seem TO have been, in the
case OF 9ronauts ut least, of less fire.
quent occurrence than enervatiUn. drow-
siness and pains in the limbs, which are
! also common to most persons who as
cend lofty mountains. AS rule such
symptoms occur more frequently with
the latter class than with the former,
owing probably to the fact that while
the mountain climber severely taxes his
strength, the man riding in the car of a
balloon is physically almost completely
at rest. But death b. sufrocation is a
rare event in the history of Hronautics.
-Netc York Sun, April 10.
Is The weather in Australia this win,
ter has been excessively hot. In Mel
bourne on Jan. %, the thermometer
| stood at III in the shade. A gentle
man on Soldiers Ill., near Ballarat.
placed a school slate for q while out of
doors, then spread some butter upon it
and breaking an egg thereon, in few
minutes the egg was perfectly cooked, as
| If done in the orthodox pan over fire.
10 In Nebraska tic second Wednes-
day in April is known IS "Arbor Day"
& is set aside specially for the planting
of trees. The farmers on the treeless
| prairies were taught by sad experience
that the only way to protect themselves
! from the fierce sweep of the desolating
summer tornadoes and the cutting win
| ter blasts was to plant trees and raise
forests IS rapidly as possible. For this
! purpose one day in each year is set a.
| part, and young and old engage in the
work of planting trees. In the mean
| time the people of the Middle and Eas.
tern States continue to destroy their
/ timber in the most reckless manner, ap-
/ parently needless of the fact that dry
! summers and autumn5, severe winters,
and disastrous spring foods are the
natural results.
! TEE BAIRD BUTToN-HoLER.- This is
III invention by Rev. Samuel j. Baird,
D. D., of this city, and is designed to be
attached to sewing machines for working
! button holes. The inventor has been
laboring and experimenting on it for q
bout six years, and has Mt last brought
/ the machine TO such state that il seems
to be perfect. Itcan readily he attach
| cd TO nearly oil the machines in use and
works equally well on any Of them. On
\ the machine 1t occupies space Of about
six by two inches, and lies Immediate
! " under the beam which works the nee.
dle.-Richm2nd Dispatch
The GREAT LExIcoGRApmER.-C. Ed.
/ wards Lester. who has been for some
/ years writing the Life Of the Republic
Of the United States" has just put forth
| n volume. which closes with the first fifty
/ years OF orr national history. and with
| a pancgyric TO Noah Webster. the lexi.
\ cogrnphcr. The author speaks Of him
/ IN these words "Only two men have
stood on tho soil Of the New World
/ whose fame is 50 cure TO last Column
bus, its discovcrcr and Washington, tie
+ saviour. Webster is and will be its great
/ teacher; and these three make our Trim
| ity Of Fame. - BHlimorc Sun.