Show NEWS ITEMS THE tim american fall at niagara has recently undergone a very great change huge masses of or rock have caved away about one hundred and fifty feet from lunar lumar island giving this part of the fall quite as perfect a 9 horseshoe horse shoe shod shape as is that on the canadian side of the river tim THE cincinnati cincinnati price current states that notwithstanding the contradictory reports about frost and floods the corn crop will undoubtedly be a large one although a small portion of it will be unsound the general beneral estimate of the ag aggregate gre ate corn cap crop of the united states for 1860 is over bushels to the boston traveler quite a number of french canadian f families have arrived and a nd S settled in gloucester findall finding g employment in the steam cotton mills there are from on one d hundred and fifty to two hundred frencl french canadians employed in the ies les at stoneham and a still larger number at haverhill We believe belleve they are generally industrious sober quiet citizens living economically and saving their money A ST sr JOSEPH dispatch says As a an ir indic indication atio atlo A of the immense trade to the tho mining rp regions gloat during the tiie season it i 1 stated by late montana papers that thai thaoe during the two months following 0 1 the of may last thirty three boats boat s arrived at ant fort benton carrying carr 1 l P not hot les lefts ies than S toils tous of freight valued edt at overl overt J 0 the tho freight upon these gooda I 1 alone amounted to 6 I 1 ADVICES from froni japan to augusts aubusc Is report that the bankow has been completely inundated by a flood crops crop were destroyed cattle drowned and anu thousands of persons derived of employment and shelter forty persons were killed by a falling hallwhich wall which the waters under undermined milled at Kwaii kwall ewanetz Kw anetz etz pear bankow the destruction of life has been very great the chinese estimating it attao at two Mo thousand usand tim THE chief engineer of the turkish Tui tul kish squadron at caudia Candia a scotchman named andrew cassells recently embra embraced eed edd islamism for which act of faith he was immediately 1 promoted and madea made a iley bey he is married and has four children all of whom with ills his wife have ilove followed his example cassel cassells Is was a member of the free church of scotland and wa was looked upon as ts a reli reil religious gibus character this is perhaps first instance on record of a scotch free churchman becoming although not the first of a scotchman doin doln doing 0 so paper calls attention to the fact that the begin beginning ping bing of the new year will witness tho the inauguration of unbroken steam communication around the globe to be henc henceforth efort h prosecuted as regularly as the arrival and departure of the tho european steamships at our wharfs the steamship henry Chaun cery will wilt sale on the lur IRR lith of december for the isthmus will connect there with the golden city gity for san francisco on the first day of january the steamship colorado will sail for yo yokohama ollain ol lama lamn in in japan apan and hong hodg kong xong I 1 iatter inC bina hina a if arrived at tile latr lair latter r port the passenger wishes still to journey westward he can proceed by the boats of the peninsular and anil oriental company to bombay and a 1 ud onward through the red sea to the isthmus isthma of suez which Z crossed by rail conducts to the british line of the mediterranean steamers touching at malta maita and gibralter and arrive in england where whre a few hours of railway will enable him to make passage in one of a dozen line of steamships for this country the supposed point of departure interesting r discoveries observes tho the london have recently been made in the san domingo dominga mines of SN spain ain aln slewing tho tila methods of mining adopted a opt edby by thil the ancients ancion ts in some 0 of f the mili mines esthe the romans romaus dug dr aliling galleri galleries eq nearly three miles in length but in ibi others othera the waters was raised by wheels to carry it oyer the rocks that crossed the drift eight of these heels wheels I have rece reee recently fitly been discovered by the miners who are now working in he same old mines the wheels are ma made de of wood the arms and felloes of pine and the axle and its support of oak the fabric being remarkable for the ligh lightness of its construction Itis it is supposed that these wheels cannot be less than fifteen hundred years old and the wood is in a perfect state of preservation owing to its immersion in thew the water ater charged with the salts of copper and iron from their position and construction the wheels are supposed to have been worked as treadmills tread mills by men standing with naked feet upon on one e side the water was raised to an another other stage stafe by the second wheel and so on for eight I 1 stages stage A fre FIRE fine extinguishing CrT cartridge RIDGE the latest invention in france is a sort of cartridge containing ingredients which are capable of extinguishing fire this ia Is effected by the sudden development of a large quantity of hydrochloric acid gas the scientific elpie ciple has langbeen long iong been known but it has never been put into a practical form the cartridges resemble brown paper parcels and are of two sizes no I 1 is about two inches long and two and a half inches wide and is intended to be thrown by the hand into the fire A string is also attached by which it may be projected as from a sling filing the ear car is slightly explosive ab a as 3 t to 0 scatter the substance producing the extinguishing gas no 2 or the second sized cartridges are simply throw thrown tho the th 0 cover be being ng torn off int into 0 the ate water r of f the engines I 1 which they saturate with witha a substance pr producing hydrochloric acid gas as as soon as the touches the fire re experiments have proved that one tenth of the water that would have been necessary to extinguish a fi firo fire is only requisite when tho tho the cartridges are nr in mix edwith it and that the savi savl saving of time is in the same rato they are very inexpensive onn ONE of the lady readers of the maino malno farmer tells how to preserve cider sweet a and nd clear to one barrel of cider add one pound of mustard seed two polin pounds J dg of raisins and one fourth of a pound of cinnamon in the stick this will preserve the cider finely |