The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 08 (1820)Various
Science
The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 08 (1820)
Various
Agriculture; Agriculture -- Periodicals
_Internal Improvements._--In consequence of the facilities afforded
by that part of the great canal which is completed, Plaster of
Paris, or Gypsum, which abounds in the western parts of New York,
is now selling at Utica at from $1.50 to $2.00 per ton, and it is
supposed that any part of that great tract of country lying on the
Hudson, may be supplied with it at from 4 to 5 dollars! Onondaga
salt will be sold at Albany at from 31 to 37 cents per bushel; and
a bushel of wheat, which formerly cost 44 cents to transport it to
that city, will be brought there from the interiour, for the small
sum of 5 cents. In truth, this canal when finished, will, seemingly,
bring the most remote places, even the most distant points of the
great lakes, into the neighbourhood of the port of New York.
_The Coronation of George IV._ which is to take place August, 1st,
is to be conducted on the most economical scale, and is not to cost
more than about $450.000!! The price of a coronation dress for a
peer and peeress is estimated at about $3.600.
_Marriage Promise._--In Somerset county, New Jersey, a young lady
lately received the sum of 1250 dollars damages, for a breach of
promise of marriage.
_Mobile_ is becoming a place of great importance; about 10,000 bales
of cotton have been shipped from this port in the present year, and
6,000 remained on hand. This shews an increase of 10,000 bales since
last year; and it is calculated that at least 10,000 more will be
shipped next year than in the present.
_The number of letters_ delivered daily by the post in Paris is, on
an average, 32,000; of journals, 18,000. In London, the average of
letters is 133,000, and journals 26,000.
_Cincinnati, June 15._--On Saturday last, in digging the well of Mr.
Wright, near Harrison, in this county, near a mile from White-Water,
and about 14 feet from the surface, in a bed of rounded limestone
pebbles, a living frog was dug up, which in a short time, hopped
away as nimbly as if he had been but a year old. There are trees
contiguous, and in lower ground, more than 500 years old, which have
evidently taken the places of others of equal growth; so that this
frog had probably lain buried for 1000 years.
_Mean temperature of the Earth._--According to Laplace, any actual
diminution of the mean temperature of the earth would be detected by
a diminution of the length of the day.--It appears by computation,
that one degree of Fahrenheit's thermometer would make an alteration
of nearly one second in the length of a day, and four or five
minutes in that of a year.
_Heat._--The effect of heat in expanding iron is strongly shown by a
gate of that material in this town.--In the cool of the morning it
shuts with a considerable spare space, (in the winter perhaps an 8th
of an inch) in the middle of a hot day the joints touch, and some
force is necessary to close it. The gate is about 3-1/2 feet wide.
[_Boston Pal._
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