AMERICAN ITEMS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 137, 25 June 1872, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

Giant powder is now in general use in the j Califomian mines. I An Oregonian has invented a machine for cliuhrig horse-slice nails. An [»wa deaf man recovered his hearing after a violent tit of sneezing. A Mr Porter, of Virginia City, California, I is now completing a living machine. j A new gold rash has taken place to Olymj pia, California. The prospector was a pig. A brawny German woman does duty as a eonstab'e in a v'll age in a Western State. An Illinois legislator lately astonished an I hotel waiter by ordering a " veil culvert." In .Montana the cold is said to have been ! so intense that whisky was sold by the stick. A block of stone Hi) feet long and 8| feet thick, was lately quarried near Lake Superior. I Cincinnati has the chaupion mother. She i has had 40 children, and she is as lively as am- of them. Nearlv two thousand miles of irrigating canals have been projected in California, ! which, it is said, will protect ten million acres of land from drought. The greatest, run of luck on record is that i o? a Baltimore cigar dealer, who within the 'ast three months has inherited a fortune, drawn a big lottery nmo, found 7000 dollars burcl in the ie lar of Ins house, and li.s; Ids mother-in-law. The longest bridge in the world is the Tensas and Mobile bridge, at the city of Mobile. It is fifteen miles long, crossing both liters, where there a-sz draws. Tt is sunported on iron cylinders driven into the bed of the morass.