Show CLIPPINGS CLIP pini PINT GS the ib e immense gun cast at pittsburg has been landed at 01 old oid point and will soon be mounted near the fog bell where all n new ew guns are tried it is said that a shell from this gun pun will weigh 20 pounds and a solid shot pounds the carriage which is composed E ased principally of wrought iron is now being eln ein c constructed 0 it s in the ordnance shop at old point phi t a and nd will wel wei weigh h when completed about pounds A new gunpowder is announced in england which is said to be less dangerous than ordinary powder produces very little smoke and that of a less pungent kind than usual not only enabling the miner to work in close places without the great delay consequent on smoke but greatly diminishing the unhealthy y effects of it in the mines it is invented by a relation of the gentleman who introduced the safety fuse which has proved invaluable to thousands it Is said that mr coulp who conducted the defence in the late case before the V U S court in regard to the disposition of the prize steamers Mir nii ramon aroon and marquis of carane received a fee of ten thousand dollars the united states district attorney of louisiana has been instructed to appeal the case it is also stated that mr benjamin has received a re retainer talner of to proceed to california to argue the qu question guestion stion of title to the alameda quicksilver mines and that his contingent 0 will amount to half a million the following truly curious paragraph appears in a brittany journal la foi fol bretonne cretonne Bre tonne A most respectable derson nerson person 1 whose firm step and noble vivacious a and nd handsome my would easily enable her to conceal her leal real age does not shrink from reminding her friends that she enters her looth year on july jilly 4 she is 13 the sister of our illustrious chateaubriand Chateau briand the countess de marigny dla Ala rigny who as is well known lives at dinan the convent of the sisters of wisdom the difficulty of obtaining a sufficient q quantity of rags to meet the immense consumption of paper which is one of the chief characteristics acte of the present plesent century has long engaged the attention both of manufacturers ano and and chemists in france A plan is now proposed by which paper may be manufactured at a very low cost from various fibrous plants such as the dwarf palm sorgho aloes and jerusalem artichoke the paris pans inventor who conceals his name calculates that the cost of the raw material will not exceed 2 fr per killo a gramme and is daily rising solomon residing at rising sun indiana is supposed to be the oldest man in ill the tho united states he says he was born in the city of new york then a small town of five or six hundred hou houses in 1725 ile lie i 13 s consequently years old shortly after his birth his father purchased a farm on the mo hawk river not far from fort johnson whither he removed the old gentleman resides with relatives who are in comfortable circumstances ile he complains that for the last year or two his health has been much impaired and that he is do 0 old that medicine fails to improve his con astion as it might a in a younger person oal gal iia cis the best remedy for rheumatism halls sarsaparilla yellow dock and iodide of pota as 8 am |