| Show SEXTONS REPORT G S L city sextons Sex tons report fir the month ending oct 31 1867 I 1 I 1 males 34 females 40 74 adults 17 Chil chii children dreir 57 74 74 DIED OF tun TUB fol FOh FOLLOWING LOWING CAUSES AS REPORTED teething 22 whooping cough S 10 inflammation bowels flux 8 general debility 4 consumption 4 1 i inflammation lungs 3 diphtheria Dip theria 2 fevers 2 canker 2 i spinal af affection 2 old age 2 died at birth 2 still born I 1 inflammation brain I 1 water on brain I 1 apoplexy 1 spasms f 1 i ulcer U eer 7 heart disease 1 dropsy 1 diarrhoea 1 killed 1 S drowned 1 74 4 total interments inter ments 74 oseph E TAYLOR sexton A WONDERFUL UL olo GLo CLOCK cicA A kornij washington street has on tion a french clock of recent invention which was among the articles exhibit ed this summer at the great exposition and was received here by last steamer its peculiarity consists in a simple arrangement ran gement of the machinery by which a disc of the full size of the faceplate face plate is made to revolve in such a manner as to indicate by the hands which tell the ther meantime mean time in the usual manner the exact solar time in any country in the world half of this disc dise is always exposed and the other half hidden As the shadow of the night follows the sun around the world the figures representing ohe the various races of men on the earth sink into darkness and dissat pear or emerge into the light of day the time of every country on earth is reckoned from the meridian of its capital and is indicated infallibly the machinery withal appears to be exceedingly simple and perfect alta aita alta alia MAJOR GENERAL VAN vliet the president has appointed general stewart van vliet a major general by brevet in the regular army for faithful and distinguished services in the quartermasters department during the war to date from march 3 1865 general van vilet vliet IE is at present in charge of the quartermasters department in balta baltimore he also holds a commission of major general in the volunteer force A PEN pennsylvania sylvania paper says A short time ago we published an article from an exchange to the effect that salt in a kerosene lamp was a great saving of oil we nye have since fully tested it and it Is a greater saving than was stated in the article referred to fill the lamp half full of common salt then fill up with oil it burns with wath a clearer flame and it is a saving of more than twenty wenla five per cent in oil try it |
