Year: 1869

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STATISTICS show that the proportion of
deaths among the infant population, as
compared with the total number of deaths,
is greater in New York than in any city
in Great Britain, if it does not surpass
that OF any city in Christendom. Bad air,
damp apartments, improper diet, and over
crowding, are the chief causes of this ex-
cesslve mortality.


"A STEAMER from Montevideo, South
America, has arrived in England with
nineteen live oxen on board, the first ship
ment under the experiment of supplyinp
English markets with fresh beef from the
Plata country. A steamer is now building
at London for the trade exclusively. which
will sale in a few weeks, and others will
follow.


ELECTRICITY on the railroads in France
is taking the place of human watchful-
ness. On many lines there are contriy-
ances where the passing of train is au
tomatically announced to neighboring


stations. The cars pass over connecting
wires and the train records itself before
and behind, so that its progress and ap-
pearance are alike indicated.


Mrs. SARAH E. COTTON, of Newbury-
port, Mass, is philanthropist Recently.
in passing over the Essex Merrimack
bridge, she discovered hole in one of the
floor planks in very dangerous locality.
Early the next morning she was seen on
the bridge with piece of plank of suffi-
cient dimensions to repair the dangerous
spot, which she had carried from her resi-
dence, about a mile, and nailed the same
securely


A MINER in Pennsylvania recently met
with horrible death. He was coming
out of the mine when he got caught be-
tween one of the ore cars and the drift
AT the time of the accident he had several
picks on his shoulder, the points of which
were driven into his back until stopped
by the handles. He fingered in the most
excruclatlng agony for five hours, when
death came to his relief


HANDSPRING, Penn, boasts of woman
who is the mother of thirteen children,
and goes into the field, partially arrayed
in male attire, and swings the scythe with
all the ease, grace and efficiency of any
farmer. About the eleventh hour she re-
pairs to her domicile, prepares the frugal
meal for self and family, and after the re-
past, with rake in hand, does duty for the
remainder of the day.


AT Norwalk, Ct., during recent Storm
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forehead, in the midst of the heaviest
and, imagining that she was
struck by an electric shock, ran home in
fright and haste, caught up a bottle of
croton oil and rubbed it's contents over
her face. The effect was remarkable.
When the family got home her face was
swollen so that hardly one feature was dis
tinguishable from another.


A CHARLESTON paper says that in the
upper part of South Carolina there is a
young eXConfederate soldier whose leg
was amputated during the war near the
thigh. After amputation the wound rapid
ly healed, and he was sent home. About
year afterward a f1eshy prOtuberance
was seen to grow out of the flesh, which,
in the course of few months, took the
shape of foot, and since that time it has
been growing finely, until now the man
has perfectly new foot and leg growing
from his thigh.


A YOUNG lady, of New York city, a few
days ago, saved She life of gentleman
who fell upon the railway track in fit,
near Orange, N. j., by rolling him off the
rails She came so near being run over
herself by the engine that a portion of her
dress was cut from the waist The train
was stopped, and the passengers loudly
cheered the heroic action. The young
lady persistently refused to give her name
when some New York merchants men,
toned their desire of presenting her with
testimonial


THE Supreme Court of California has
rendered an important decision in
support of the real rights of woman. A
wife was driven from her home by her
husband, and had no means of support.
She brought suit to compel him to set aside
out of his property acquired since their
marriage sufficient amount to sustain her
and her child. Under the old English law,
such an action would not lie, but majority
of the court decided in favor of the wife,
holding that adherence to the English law,
in this or similar cases, would be re-
proach to civilization.