Huntingdon journal. (Huntingdon, Pa.) 1843-1859, January 26, 1859, Image 1
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Six lines or lets, $ .25 37i $ 50 One slinire, (16 lines,) 51) 75 1 09 Two " (39 ) IOD 150 200 3 too. too. 12 too. 03 00 $8 00 $8 00 5 00 8 00 12 00 8 00 13 00 18 00 12 00 10 00 27 00 One square, Two squares, column, 18 CO 27 00 40 00 do:, 28 CO 40 CO 50 00 Business Cards of six lines, or less, $4.00. INDEX. TO ADVEOTISEMENTS. Grover and Baker's Sewing machine. Samuel Groves store. Cladwiek and Btu. Cook stove for sale. Climax Drain Fan. Lumbermen A Stoekraisers. A ammonton Lands. Mountain Female Sendmay. Gills! Gifts Gilts ill Land fur sale. • 1/r. A. P. Fields. AI Him.' Academy. wen Willow Foundry. S. M. Pillenyill &Co. Gutlllsll . B Clothing Store. Brown's Hardware Store. Figkr Jr...MeMuirlit'a . . • Sand. S. Sulith'a ltrug & Grocery Store Great. Purifier. ' Iron City Colledge. Slicing Fund. Literary Barna. Galvanic oil. G rent Beautifier. vigormor. Passville Seminary. Lung Infirmery. Town vs Country. Indian Root Pill, Country Merchvnia. Alexandria Foundry. Huntingdon 11'arw Springs. COIISUMPtifiII cured, Bank Notice. A ntiphlusi6t;e Salt. Iluntingdon Hotel. New Lard Press. David G Noire. 11. Roman's Cluthitig Store. Patent Portable Fence. •Premiums awarded. Thu Journal Office. Colon's Book Store. Huntingdon Mill. Letter Copier. Railroad Time. H. K. Neff; M. D. Huntingdon Foundry. Dr. J. R. Huyett, Dentist. Atorney's at Law. Scott & Brown. Wilson &Tetrikin. Thou P. Campbell. Green Willow Foundry'. wouLD respectfully inform the public that I have commenced business at the above place, and will be ready to accomodate all who may want anything in my line of.business. I will have on hand or make to order Threshing Macbin., and ell ....her machinery that may be culled fur. Castings of every description, Cook and Parlor Stoves, Plows, Hollow-ware, &e.— All kinds of Turning, either wood or iron. and Illecksmithing will be done in the best manner and on the most reasonable terms. Farmers cad others wishing to purchase new machines will find it to their advantage to give me a call. All kinds of County produce taken in exchange t • ,rket prices. PETER TIPPERY. oterstreet, Oct. 13, 1855.-ly. INFORMATION. subscuiber thankful for past favors res. pectfully iufortns his friends and the pub lic generally that he is receiving at his new Store in Portstown, opposite the old Toll Bridge a splendid stock of Now Goods, which has been selected with great care, to suit purchasers.— The stock of Hardware, Quensware, Boots. and Shore, hats and Cape, a uariety of Stone and Earthen ware. Fish Salt, Ceder-ware and in fact all articles kept in a country store. All of which will be sol low for cash. or country prods.o. Civo us a call. SAMUEL GROVE. Nov. 3, 1858. WARNICK, CHADWICK & RHO., (SUCCESSORS TO NEMAN a WARRICK.) NORTH—EAST CORNER OF SECOND & RACE STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.. Manufacturers of and Dealers Wholesale and Retail in HEATERS,' VENTILATORS, RANGES AND STOVES. ALSO, McGregor's Celebrated Heaters and Stoves. With a great variety of the latest patterns of COOK AND PARLOR STOVES, ALSO, Queen's Patent Portable Forges, Nov. i,'58.. PREMIUMS AWARDED THE JOURNAL JOB OFFICE AT THE LATE FAIR, FOR TIMM 313MERM M I ME WpD D'Ehlgtr MIMING+ miscellanoons:iaiertiuments. THE LIVER INVIGORATOR ! PREPARED BY DR. SANFORD. Compounded entirely of Gums. Is one of the best purgative and liver meal tines now before the public, that nets as a Ca thartic, easier, milder, and more effectual than nny thor medicine known. It is not only a Ca thartic, but a Liver comedy, acting first on the Liver to eject its morbid, then on the stomach' and !towels to carry off that matter. thus BCCOM- pliShillg two purposes effectually , without any of tit° painful feelings experienced in the operation of most Cathartics. It stregthens the system at the same time that it purges it , nod when taken daily its moderate doses, will stronghten and build it up with unusual rapidity. The Liver is one o i j the principal regale mrs tif the human bo- - IR dy ; and when it per forms its functions well 4:1) the powers of the sys tem are fully develop- (y ad. The stomach is almoht entirely depen- of dent on the healthy action of the Liver for Z.' the proper perform- novo of its functions. - IR When the stomach is 1 In [bolt, the bowels are 0 at fault and the whole system suffers in con- ;I§ sequence of ono orpo —the Liver— liftving em cease , ' to do its duty. For the diseases , * of iott that organ one of the proprietors hos made i t . it his study, inn prac tice of toot, than twen- , ti ty yeses, to find some remedy wherewith to) counteract the many derangements to which it is liable,. To prove shut this g remedy is tit last dis covered any person ~..7 troubled with Liver Till II Complaint in any of its 1.. forms, has lint to try GREAT BEAUTIFIER a bottle and ocaviittion lo is certain. These gums ran eve 4 all morbid or bad So long unsuccessfully sought, matter r"'" IllesY I"PPIYing. i!' their FOUND AT LAST? it plat, n heal by w I n , of bile, invigorating the stomach, causi g mi fund to digest well, purifying the blooti,gi- eg ving tone end With goon it restores permanently gray hair to its to the wholo machine- 77; ry, reinering theenuso I: original color; covers luxuriantly the bald of the disease, and of. ? . f frecting a radical mire. head; removes all dandruff, itching and all scrof iine dose after eat- ti ing,is sufiticient to re- ula, scald head and nll eruptions; makes the lions the stomach pod ln_, prevent the food frees lade soft , h e ohhy, and g lossy ; and will preserve rising and soaring . ,4111 . it to any imaginable age. removes, as if by mag- Bilious Guacks to.elral Inured, and whnt is i t ., all H u ta., & c . frost the face, and cures oil honor, peoyeotedt o• .* . tire ... i..1 ... a neuralgia and nervous head ache. See circular the Lieu InvigoTatoi.f= and the following. (duly one (luso tal'a 1 n before rentre prevents Nightmare. Dover,N. 11. Feb. 2,1, 1857. Dimly one doss token at mg ' , I"'non situ • PROF. O. A WOO & Co.—Gents; Withi„ bowel 4 gelatin, end cures Cdslineness. Drs- 1 few days we have received so many orders cir : a dose taken after each meal 1%111 c o I.vs- nn, ca ll s ja y ,. Prof. J. H. W ood ' s Hill , n ottoro. pepsin. . One dose of two teaspoonfuls will always tine, that to day we were compelled to tend to eir Roston fora quantity, (the 6 dozen you for remove Sick licatiacll2. warded all being sold,) while we might order a One herbstaken for female obsctructionro quantity from you. /',cry bottle we have sold moves the canoe of the disease, and makes a Crease t o puce prvdaced Ike or lbw' new. oustooterA perfect core. .-., m - iftid !do; approbation, t il l patrons it neva -CtoLy one doze immcdintely rc'ieves ...loon, from the ni ,, st ito b stont i o t mi d wor thy citizens %Odic °four vicinity. fully convince us that it is A title .1.‘,.. often repeated is a sure cure for ~, , ,,,s t r v . , t_LTATsLE PREPARATION. Cholera %who., anti a preventive of Cholera. ii , s t a ,. t o t r e, m us fluty he one gro,s of $1 CW(ifflY one bouts is ~,. tided to Prow oat ^p l s lLe; mid one dozen $2 size ; and beileve us sym CM the eireetA of modioineafter a long 1 yours vory respectfully. _ I Signed, H. LATHROP & CO. sickni+ f ( V,VOne bottle taken for Jaundice removes all sallow,. or unnatural eolor.from the chin. One dose taken a short time before eating gives vigor to the appetite, and makes food tinges well. One dose often repeated cures Chronic Dia:t rite, in its worst forms, while Summer' and Bowel complaints yield almost to the first dose. Otte or two doses cures attacks caused by Worm:tin Children; there is no surer or speed• lea remedy in the world, as It never fails. GrA few bottles cures dropsy, by exciting the' atbsorbents. We take pleasure in reeommendi ngthis med icine no a preventive fur Fever and Ague, Clint,l Fever, and all Fevers ,of a Bilious Typo. It operates with certainty, and thousands are wil ling to testify to its wonderful virtues. All who use it are giving their unanimous tes timony in its Inv,. • er Mt% water au the mouth with the inyigo• ator, end swallow both togethet. The Liver Invigorator. Is n scientific medical diocovery, and is daily workieg cures, almost too great to believe. It cures as if by magic, even the Brest dose giving benefit, and seldom more than one bottle is re quired to cure any kind or Liver complaint, from dm worst jaundice or Dyspepsia too com mon Ilembiche, all of which are the result of diseased Liver. DOLLAR PER BOTTLE. in. S.%nFunu, Proprietor, 345 Broadway, NY, Said by 11. AleManigill,. & J. Read Huntingdon, Apr.7.'58.•1y. "ocoanalal" OF'F'ICE. Premiums awarded the “JOURNAL" Of flee at the lute County FAIR, fur the best 441.11 Di titoittnt. ANA EMMY Having recently received trent the Eastern Cities, FAST 'OWE PRESS, and a large variety of the moat jitsliionable Printing Material, which makes it one of the most complete Printing Establishments in this section. Persons in want of any kind of PLAIN OR 'RANGY work, cannot do better than favor us with their patronage. We have facilities for men Ling in a superior manner any kind of PRINTING IN COLORS on the most reasonable term. Those who may wish to obtain any style of ORNAMENTAL POSTERS can be accommodated at this estubliehment at short notice. AUCTION BILLS, BILL HEADS, SHOW BILLS, CIRCULARS, , WAY BILLS, LEGAL BLANKS, CONCERT BILLS, PROGRAMMES, PAMPHLETS, CATALOGUES, CARDS, &c., will be furnished promptly, executed in. he best style and at reasonable rates. Var Orders by express, mail or otherwise, will receive immediate attention. WM. BREWSTER. " LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE. HUNT SAVF.TtiC FUND. 6 National t4l ti o SIITIETY TRTIST • Company. WALNUT STREET, SOUTH-WEST CORNER OF TIIIRD, PRIELADIMPIIM. Incorporated by the State of Pennsylvania. FIVE PER CENT INTEREST M . . . ONEY IS RECEIVED IN ANY SUM, large or small, and interest paid from the day of deposit to the day of withdrawal. The taco is open every day from 9 o'clock in the morning till Vo'clock in the afternoon, and on Monday and Thursday evenings till 8 o'clock. r • HENRY L. BENNER, President, ROBERT SELFRIDGE, Vice President, WM. J. REED, Secrgtary. DIRXOTORS Hon. Henry L. Bennet', F. Carroll Brewster, Edward L. Carter, • Joseph B. Barry, Robert L. Selfridge, •• Fronds Lee, Semi. It. Ashton, Joseph Yerkes C. T.andreth Matins ' Henry Dieffetderffer, Money is received and payments made daily in gold without notice. 'the investments nra made in feel Estate Mortgages, Ground fonts, and such class se curities as the Charter requires. Hickory Grove, St. Charles co. Mo. Nev. 19,123§.—Pr0f: O. J. Wood.—Dear'' eir t Sometime last summer we ware induced to we setae of your Heir Restorative, and ins clkets were so wonderful, we feel it our du ty to you And the afflicted to report it. Our little son's head for sonic time had been perfectly covered with sores, and some called it sculled head. The hair almost entirely came oti in consequence, when a friend, seeing his sufferings advised us to use a bottle of your Res torative, we did so with but little hope of sue cess,but tooursurprise, and that of Minor friends a very few applications removed the disease en tirely, and a new and luxurient crop of Muir soon started out, and we can now say that our hoe lons as healthy scalp and us luxuriant crop of lisle as tiny other child. We can therefore, ana• sin hereby recommend your Restorative, ea a perfect remedy for all diso.tses of the scalp and ha.r. We are, yours respectfully. GEORGE W. HIGGINBOTHAM, SARAH A. HIGGINBOTHAM. 0. J. Wood .gc co., Proprietors 312 Broadway New York, in tho grout N. Y. wire railing estab !lament, and 114 Market St.. St. Louis Mo. And sold by all Druggists. Sept. 22, 1858.-3nr THE CASSVILLE SEMINARY. ONLY $22.60 PER QUARTER THE PRESENT ,FACULTY. H McN. WALS, 14incipal, • Prot of Languages and,Pitilosoptly. Chao. S. Joslin. A. 31, Prof. of Lutin, Greek, etc. Prof. cf Mathew - Mies: Benjamin F. Umiak. Adjunct Prof. of Mathematics. Galt. W. Linton. Prof. of Vocal Music. Bra. M. McN. 41',11,511 Preeeptress, Teacher of Botany, History, Reading; etc. Miss E. 111 Faulkner, . . . " FelZera ierrsWorEll'aicting, Drawing, Miss D. L. S tauten no , rs, Teacher of Piano Music, Wa x Mrs. Dr. Darwin. --7 Teacher of 13n Bra n che 8, Miss J. 112. Walsh,_ _ 7 17aCii . e; • Oi Primary' English, The recent success of this school is exirnor dinary. Besides being the cheapest one of the kind ever established, it is now the largest in this sectioi , of the State. All brunches uro taught, and students of all ages, and of boils sexes, are received. The expenses for a year need not be more than $9O. St.K.donta can en. ter whenever they wish. - Address, - JOHN D. wALbn,cassvine, ill'iftitingdou Co., Pa. June23.'6B. Notice to Coal Purchasers. THE subscriber is now prepared to furnish I. Coal Sc, Coke at his bank at Lilly's Sta tion, on the Penn'a. Railroad, of as good quali ty as can be bad on the mountain. I will run coal to Hollidaysburg, or an 7 other point on t.. 0 Penn'a. Railroad, if application is made person ally or by hitter. ALSO—I will agree to deliver COKE at any bank, in cars, at four and a quarter rents per bush el viz :—Thirty-iive pounds to the bushel, or de liver it in my own cars, at any point desired, at the lowest possible ratcs. For either of the above articles, address .1. M'GONIGLE, Ilemlock, Cambria County, Pa, where all orders will be proptuply attended to. Aug. 25, 1858.6 t. SHOT, LEAD, CAPS, POWDER AND Game-bags for sale at the Hardware Store of JAS A. BROWN. Sept. 6 , '51.-4t. NGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1859. i*tiert gliscelianß A NOCTURNAL COMEDY OF ERRORS. Some days since a young couple who had newly donned hytuenial vestments, came from their home, a pleasant village in this State, to spend a portion of that supposed-to-be delicious period known as the honeymoon, and placed themselves un der the charge of the proprietor of the Spencer House. They then sallied forth to witness the beauties and peculiarities of Queen City, and . do as brides are ever I wont, it quantity of the little business em braced in the term 'li t lopping.'"l'hey were gone several hours and did not re. I turn to the hotel until after sundown, quite fatigued with their exchions. The bride, Mrs. H., then found that she had forgotten some articles indispeneible to her toilet, and uneelling to disturb. her husband, win she knew must be weary, slipped out while he was down stairs, and went up to Fourth street to get the fliminutive bundle. Che was successful in her search for the store and the article, but on her way each, mistook, from her ignerance of the city, Main street for Broadway, and the Madi son for the Spencer Bettie, which are eau. ated nearly opposite to each other, Mee. 8., went into the bete) and thinking it looked rather different from the other,' netted one of the waiters she met in the hall, in rather a low and indistinct tone, if that was tl.e , lSpencer,",to which, he, fail., ing to understand_ her, replied in the Min.- , i motive. She then ordtired him to bring i 1 her the key to No. 48, which he did, and 1 she entered it, and retrieved her bonnet, shawl, and other porticns of her attire, and crept between the sheets of the bed to en- i joy - a little nap after her long walk, never dreaming she wits hi ti.e ',tong hiouse, for the reason that the npartmmtit happened to have the same position,, and be furnished j very much like her room 'tt the ' Spencer." Instead of taking a -li le toe I: ," she fell into a preJeund elm:l).—i --cf. iene4 i.^..- after hour' Until 11 o'clock, at which time she was disturbed by a most unexpected incident. The rightful occupant of No. 48, a-mer chant from a town to Indiana, who bail been to the theatre and become a tittle in • toxicated, went to the Madison, and wish. in no one to eon his condition, walked up to his room without a light, and fortunately or unfortunately, found the door unlocked. tie entered quietly, and as a total darkness removed 'llls garments and crept into the spaoious double bed, not disturbing in the least the fair bride who lay near the wall. How long the two reposed side by side, with only a foot of space between the-.n, all unconscious of the other's presence, is not exactly known, but probably an hour, when tremendous noise was hoard in the apartment from which female screams issued wildly, piercingly and ceaselessly. The hotel was in an uproar; proprietors clerkB, waiters, porters and guests, dressed and half-dressed, were at the door of ,•for ty eight" in a few nunutes, blocking up the entrance; arid asking each other eagerly, ""What's the mutter I" "For God's sake, tell-us what is the trouble I" The cause of this outcry may be ima gined. The bride had awakened about midnight, and :inning her hand over her husband it fell upon the Inlianian's face, and the soft, warm touch aroused him at once. Ile did not understand it exactly, though he did not dislike it, and in a inn• ment more Mrs. R. said : "•My eearest husband, whore have you been all this while?" "Husband," echoed the merchant, be- ginning to see, like Lord Tinsel, that he had , made a small mistake here ;" "I am nobody's husband. I reckon, my dear ninclnin, you're in the wrong bed." ‘ln' the wrong bed—horror of horrors, thought the bride—what would her liege lord, what would the curious world say'? And Mrs. R. screamed, and Hwang from her couch just as tier companion did the same: He was fully at much alarmed as the, and entreated her to give him time and he would leave the apartment, altho' it was the one he had engaged—he'd make I oath to that. Scream, scream, was the wily reply to his kindly proposition. "My God, Madam, don't ye II so ! you II wake the house. Be reasonable : I swear it's only a mistake. Have rota,. thought of :he consequences. I don't coot to hurt you-1 swear I don't. You'll get me shot and yourselP—well, I won't say what." The screams increased, and the poor In dianian, expecting every moment to see a pistol thrust in his (ace by a jeattleuti hue• bond. turned an pale as death, which he expected, and resigned himself to his fate. Just at this juecture, the throng outside presented itself at the door, and beheld Mrs. R, cowering in one corner, exerci• sing her lungs magnificently, with a sheet wrapped over her form and head, and the, Indianian in the middle of the room, en veloped in a coverlet, ejaculating, "My God, Madam ; don't!" The junior proprietor, Dr, Cahill, saw there must be some mistake, and, request. ing the others to retire, called the mor chantout with him into another room, and there learned the whole story. Phe Doc• for then sent one of the ladies of the ho tel to Mrs. R., and the entire affair was ex plained, greatly to her relief—though she was overwhelmed with confusion at a cir cumstance which might have ruined her reputation forever. Under the escort of the Doctor, she was conveyed to the "Spencer," where:the hus band was found pacing thecorradors with frantic mien 4nd half-crazed with grief at the moiterious disappearance of his wife, whom he believed had been spirited away bye villain or murdered for her jewels in thin , infernal city, where, au hu expresaed it, ..they would kill a man for a dollar any time." • A STRING OF CiiRIOUS FACTS. The !MI./sing. striking scisntifio facts were picked up in the course of our rend ing, from various reliable authorities. We thin many of them will be new to our re. dors: The difference between the skull of the 1 domestic hog and wild boar, is as great as I that between the European and negro : skull. Domesticated animals that have subsequently run wild in the forests, after I a few generations lose all traces of their I domestinationi and are physically different from their tame originals. It is tun natural for a cow, any more than fur other feriude animals, tome milk when she rata no young to nourish. The• I permanent prodnetion •of milk is a' modi• thed animal firnctien, Produced by an aril awl. Hann . ior seveiti genereitions.• In Columbia the practice of milking coivs having been laid aside, the natural state of the function has been restored. The aerection of milk continues only during the suckling of the calf, and is only an occa sonal phenomenon. if the calf dies, the ceases to flow, and it is only by keep i,2 him with his dam by day, that au op portunity of obtaining milk from cows by night can be found. The barking of dogs is an acquired he. reditory instinct, supposed to have origina ted in an attempt to imitate the human voice. Wild dogs and domestic breeds which become wild, never bark, but howl. Cats, which so disturb civilized commu nities by their midnight "caterwaul.' in the wild state in South America, are quite silent. The hair of the negro is not wool, but a curled and twisted heir. The distinction between hair and wool is clearly revealed by the microscope. The dark races have less nervous sensi bility than the whites. They are not subject to nervous disease. They sleep soundly in every dtsense, nor does any mental disturbance keep them awake. They bear chirurgical operations much batter than the white people. A certain species of fungus has been known to attain the size of a gourd in one night; and it is calculated that the cellules of which it is composed, must amount to forty-seven thousand million. If it grew in twelve hours this would give four thous •tnd millions per hour, or more than sixty six millions each minmte. - Animalcules have been discovered so urn ill that one million would not exceed a gram of sand, and five hundred millions would sport in a drop of water. Yet each of these must have blood vessels, nerves, muscles, circulating fluids, etc., like large animals. ....... One of the most wonderful achievements of astronomers to the weighing of the no d', oldie solar system. It is certain that the 111116 H Of Jupiter is more than 822, and, leas that 2:23 times the mass of this globe —so accurately has this work been accom. d. The mars of the sun is 889,551 dines greater than that of the earth and moon, and 700 times greater than the uni ted messes of all the planets. The planet Saturn is composed of mat. tor only half as heavy as water; Mercury is considerably heavier than quicksilver, and a third heavier than lead; and our own globe is twice as heavy as common rock, and half as heavy as lead—a fact which shows tho great density of eternal parts. A flash of lightning on the earth would be visible on the moon in a second and a quarter; on the sun in eight minutes; on Jupiter when farthest fr3rn us, in fiftytwo minutes. on Uranus in two hours; on Nep tune in four and a quarter; on the sta - Vega, of the brat magnitude, in forty-five years; on the star of the eighth magnitude, in four thousand years; and such star, aro visible through the teloseope. La Place. the great French astronomer says : "I have ascertained that between the heavenly bodies all attractions aro transmitted with a velocity which, if it be not infinite, surpasses several thousand times the velocity of light." His anno tator estimates it at eight million of trines greater than that of light. The circumference of the earth is 25,- 020 miles. A railway train, travelling in• cessantly night and day, at the rate of twentysix miles an hour, would require six weeks to go round it. A tunnel through the earth, from England to New Zealand, would be nearly eight thousand miles long. TIII SALT MINES OF CRACOW, -0......-. BY BAYARD TAYLOR, After descending 210 feet we saw the first veins of rock salt ) in a bed of clay and crumbled sandstone. Thirty feet mole and we were in a world of - salt. Level galleries branched off from the foot to the staircase ; overhead a ceiling of solid salt, under foot a floor cf salt, and on either side dark gray Walls of salt, sparkling here and there with minute crystals. Lights glim mered ahead, and on •turning the corner tee came upon a gang of workmen, some hacking away at the solid floor, others trundling wheelbarrows full of the precious cube,. Here waa the chapel of St, An. limy, the oldest in the mine , —a Byzan tine excavation, supported by columns, with altar, crucifix, and life-size statues of saints, apparently in Oink marble, but all as salt as Lot's wife as I discovered by putting my tongue to the nose of John the Baptist. The lifunid air of this upper Sto ry of the nines has ditrriiigt!irrsoMe of the saints. Francis especially is running a• way like 4 dip candle, and all of his head The limbs of Joseph are dropping off as if lie had the Norwegian leprosy, and Lawrence has deeper scars thhn his grid iron could have made, running up and his back. A Bengal light turned at the al Or, brought into sudden life this strange temple, which presently vanishetl into' darkness as if it had never been seen. I cannot follow, stop by step, our journey el two Iriurs through the labyrinths of this wonderful mine. It is a bewildering maze of galleries, grand halls, staircases and vaulted chambers, to here one soon loses all sense of distance or direction. and drifts along blindly in the wake of his conduc tor. Everything was solid salt, except where great piers of hewn logs had been built up to support some threatening roof or vast chasms, left in quarrying, had been bridged acrois. As we descended to lower regions, the air became more dry and agree able, and the saline walls more pure and brilliant. One hall, 108 feet in height, re sembled a Grecian theatre, the traces of block taken out in regular layer, repre senting the seats for the spectators. Out of the single hall 1,000,000 cwts..of salt had been taken, or enough to supply the 40,000.000 inhabitants in Austria in one year. A Flea under a Micrscope. When a flea is made to appear as large as an elephant, we can see all the wonder ul parts of its formation, and ar- astonish • ed to find that it has a coat of armor much more complete than ever warrior wore, and composed of strong polished plates, fitted over each other, each plate cov ered like a tortoise sheal, and where they 'elect hundreds of strong quills pro ject like those of the porcupine or hedge• hog. Th ore are the arched neck, the bright eyes, the transparent cases, the pie to puntare the skin, a sucker to draw blood six long-jointed legs, four of which ate folded on the breast all ready, at any mo ment, to be thrown out with tremendous force forth it jump which bother one when they want to catch him, and nt the end of each leg hooked claws, to enable him, to cling to whatever he alights upon. A flea can jump a hundred times his own length, which is the same as if a man jam ped 700 feet; and he can draw a load 200 times his own weight. Writ was dons whoa it was begun. it Iva; done when it was halt done, and yet wasn't done when it was finished. Now what was it Timothy Johnson courted Susannah Dunn, It was Dunn when it was begun, it was Dunn when it was half done, and yet it wasn't Dann when finished— for it was Johnston. 'Fear Goi'lid — love the women, By doing thus you will feel (19 bus vent as 11111111rMake note of it—Remember a Phoenix just arising from his ashes, or the Human Constitution is one that the girl getting squeezed in a polka. I rot be amet,l,t; I '7 a two third vote. VOL. XXIV. NO. 4. MONSTER CANNON. The construction of n monster piece of ordnance has been projected by the Secretary of War, which will probably be cast at !he Fort Pitt Works in this city. It combine, some of the fea tures of both the , Dahlgreen" and "C' 1- ninbiaci" gene. and is calculated to do ex ecution at four miles. It is to be of fifteen inch calibre. with a diameter of 'twenty eight and a halt inches nt the' muzzle, for ty-seven inches at the breech, and en ex treme length of fifteen feet. The ball will weigh between four hundrqd and four hundred and fifty pounds, requiring an enormous charge of powder. The estima ted weight of the gun is between twenty five and thirty tons. Such n piece of ord nance, placed on the hill back of Sawniill run, would demolish every building in the Arsenal at Lawrenceville, that distance being about its effective ratige, Itwili cast hollow, on the principle of Major Rod• man, and under hie supervision. If the piece is to be constructed, there it on place where t. could be more cotiveintl )- or bel t, done than in this city.—Pitts6urg Des , patch. BETWEEN TIIE '`HORNB OF A DILEMNAY Same unfortunate swain who has been duped by a fair maiden, thus relates his case : With whiskers thick upon my face, • . I went my fair to see ; She told me khe could neve; love A nose laced man like me. I shaved them clean and called again, A tal tkough tn/ trouble o'er. She laughed outright, and said I was More BMW FACED than before. &Wing. a Trile for ssoo.—The Balls ton (N. Y.) Journal says a resident of the town of Malts, Saratoga county, a few days since sold his wile for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred dollars. His wife bad Leen atek for a number of years, occasioned by a fall she receiva in her own house, and has been cons:antly failing until she is unab!, r. oak, or n•o•'e hand or foot. Her i.;• :o making sale of t h i!e s ,, f s i t r s im o l it u ffi, e t : "• , :l n araveing purchaser should ;nr and maintain his wife during her lifetime, and that he shon'd be freed from all embarrassments with regard to her. WED. JAN. 12,—The Senate was open. ed.for the first sime this session with pray er, by the Rev. Mr. Dewitt. A .supple meat to the net incorporating the Brad ford Railroad ;orripany was passed finally. Correct Speaking•—We advise young people to acquire in early life the habit of using good language, both in speaking and writing and .o abandon as early as possible any use of slang words or phrases. The longer they live the more difficult the RC quisidon of such language will be ; and if the golden age of youth, the proper season for the acquisition of language be passed in its abuse, the unfortunate victim of ne glected education is very probably doomed to talk slang for HI. MARRIAGE resembles a pair of sheers, says Sydney Smith, 80 joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in op. posits directions, yet always punishing any one who comes betwen them. EIGHT CHILDREN AT A BIRTH—EGYPT AGAIN T ALL CREATION.— About five me. since the wife of Jacob Abbott, living ten miles west of Golconda in Pope county, presented her husband with eight pledges of aftection at one Myth. Four of these children survived until! some six weeks since, when two of them sickened and died The remain ing two are still living. The whole eight were very small ape. cimens of humanity when ushered into this world, as might have been expected. 'Phis statement is litter ally true; it is vouchd for by numbers of respectable wit neesses who saw the four living children. Egypt it a very prolific country—a little too much so, sometimes —Cairo Gazette. Simple Mode ofAsoertaining Interest• A non method of computing interest on any number of dollars. at six per cent.. which appears simple : Multiply any given number of dollars oy the number of stays of interest desired, seperat the right hand figure, and divid. ing by six ; the result is the true interest of such sum fur such number of days six per cent. This rule is so simple and so true, according to all business usage t hat every banker, broker, nterchant, or clerk should post it up for reference and use. 'There being no such thing as a fraction in it, there is scarcely any liabil ity to error or mistake. By no other ari thmetical process can the desired informal tion be obtained with so few figures.