Show W i dr daniel stebbins of northampton mass says 11 it has long been hoped that a cheaper and more rapid mode of separating the bark of the mulberry aulberry from the wood of the sprouts could be discovered than the ordinary process of doing it by hand I 1 have now hopes that it may be effected in this town next season by appropriate machinery 1 af afi A very fine species of the blackberry is is now under cultivation at new rochelle L I 1 it is equal in size to honeys i large seedling strawberry but instead of being long like the wild fruit the berries are nearly round and the seed is completely buried in the delicious juicy pulp great attention has been paid of late to this long neglected berry which is rendered large and very hardy by bv early spring and careful calef al cultivation there are both white and green blackberries raised now of very verv luscious taste strangely anomalous as they may appear in name A singular freak of nature was exhibited to the editor of the easton md aid gazette on monday last it was a live chicken about a week old and very sprightly with three distinct and perfect legs I 1 ja W the new orleans picayune notices a new invention which promises to be of great importance to the cane growing interest its object is to receive hecei ve the agasse 0 as fast as the cane is is ground and by a simple and rapid process occupying not more than five or eight minutes to dry it perfectly and thus convert colvea it into fuel for the use of the furnaces the is is dried by passing it through a rapid current of air intensely heated the method of producing and keeping up this heat is a very simple one the inventor makes use altogether of waste heat coming from the sugar house and experiments have been made which prove the practical working of the apparatus and its capacity for producing the requisite degree of heat E agthe the greenfield mass gazette says that several sever almore more experiments have been made with the machine for borin boring a hole through the hoosac mountain and it is f found to more than answer the most sanguine sanguine expectations of the tha builders of the machine maccine and the friends of the road by the contract made with the builders of the machine it was warranted to bore six eix feet a day every day and place the roc rock k in a position to be taken away or the builders were to receive no pay for the machine on trial it is found that it will bore more than double that distance in fact it has with the present imperfect m state of its working bored at the rate of twenty inches an hour hoar the rock operated on so far is the hardest kind of quartz rock go g letters received from algiers announce that an invasion of wild monkeys has taken place in the vicinity of that city at a place called le vallon fraise fresh valley where large vineyards have been planted and are now covered with fruits but curious to say another band bad of chacales fa a sort of fox of africa have declared war against the monkeys who had come to take possession of their provision provision I 1 and the latter were obliged after a very terrible struggle straggle to retire to in the woods froma whence they came I 1 WA fa wonderful discovery nab been made by bj a 8 young en engineer ineer fron from the city of montdidier Mont Mout didier who arrived 9 a few days ago ir in paris driving himself a steam m carriage of elegance and solidity which will no doubt create much excitement in our city this new discovery which I 1 visited yesterday offers the most striking kingi effect to the eye and will be of much use to the messa geries and soulages rou lages f for or I 1 am told that the expenses of the engine are less than those of horses ina in a few days a public aliment will be given which I 1 will attend in order to know more about the speed of the new steam carriage A dutchman having i a friend hung in this country whito his friends informing them that after addressing a large meeting 11 1 of citizens the scaffold on which he stood gave way owing to which he fell and broke his neck that loud laughter is by wo no means an aa unequivocal symptom of a merr Theart there is a remarkable anecdote of carlei Oar lini the drollest drol lest buffoon ever known on the italian stame stage at paris A french physician being bonsu consulted cited by a person who was subject to the most gloomy fits of melancholy advised his patient to mix in scenes of gayety gaiety and particularly to frequent the italian theatre and said he if carlini does not dispel your gloomy complaint your case must be desperate indeed alas sir 11 replied the patient 1 I myself am carlini but while I 1 divert all paris with mirth and make them almost die with laughter I 1 am in myself actually dying with chagrin and melancholy Y P immoderate laughter like the immoderate use of strong cordiali cordials cor cheerful dials gevea nV i eo only a temporary appearance pe arance of cheerfulness e which is soon terminated by an increased depression of spirits loud laughter is not becoming in saints I 1 |