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Mr,- COLL. CLEVE, ALBANY, OREGON. THE WOULD OF SCIENCE. , , ,TEB KCMBER OF XXK5S IN A HEN. The Mural New Yorker. sayst;" A arious point of inquiry among- zoolor giata has been, for a long fame, 'How cers, and Riityiire soldiers. Their destination is Soudan,' tad the Country lying betv, jea th -ptoyinces: of Darfonr and Kosdfta'and solon. to the Equator, west of Albert N'yanea. The repairing of the wells along the route, and the among the chief objects of the expedi tion, lo these duties are also added a study 'of fhe peculiarities of the climate, .of file cliaraeter of the' people, of the commerce ia which' they are engaged, said of - the products and ' agricultural capacities ot me -country. The results W TJr Pf To obervatidas ill be embodied SLnS JET VT"? - f-H official reports.-and it is expected - - m nux, rxict?j . insulated aoxne careful investigations, the result of , -which showed the ovary of a hen to con .v about COO embryo eggs,? He also . found that some twenty of these are ma- . tared the first year, ,bdut 120 during the second year, 133 during , the "third, J14 during the fourth, and during the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth years the num ber decreases by twenty annually, it con-, aequently following that after the fourth, or at most the fifth year, i hens are i no longer profitable as layers, unless it may be in exceptional instances. .-;. j Some interesting experiments were also made a short time sace,f in Ger-i' Jnany, to determine the I comparative fecundity of. ducks and hens that j&f' from which of the two the larger number f ggs can be obtained in the same tube. Por this purpose three hens and -ducks were selected, all hatched; in Febuary nd nourished with suitable food. The following autumn the ducks had laid 225 eggs, while the hens laid none! In ' the JKsxt February the laying season began : sgairi with the ducks and -continued nn interrupted till August. They showed i . w .imiiiiMua . i hi i, . duc oecama very : nan, although they afterwards , fattened np somewhat. The total number of eggs jaia Dy the Hens amounted to 257--or 86 eggs each and 392 or 131 each for the ducks. Although the eggs of the ducks were rather smaller than those of the hens, yet they proved to be decidedly superior in nutritive material, go that the superiority- m productiveness was decid edly with the ducks. " ! . i -: In regard to the means ' or possibilitv i or deciding the sex of eggs, much differ enoe of opinion exists. But Ml- Genin,' an a communication to the . French Academy of Sciences, says on - this sub ject that he is now able, after having iri- veuugaiea the matter carefully for several years, to state that all eggs con taining the germ of males have wrinkles on their smaller end, while female eggs uuoum as tne extremity. that they will be of great service in f. opening . wp the country and advancing its-civilization: i i n . raOPAQATION -Of POTATOES BT CUTTrXGS. potatoes of large . size are said o e produced by a monk in France by caU ting two side' shoots from each, stalk -when it is fremi five to seven inches high, ad setting' themin, good, rimt,mellow 8fden .soiL In, a few days they sand out roots, and fornii tuber, about as , early and in as large quantities as the original stalk, while the latter does not seem to be hured.by the ; moderate' pnining. The experiment also seems to have been ' successfully- tried "elsewhere previously. The plan ' lnay be found especially serviceable' in the r propaga-' tion af new and rare varieties for seed. INVESTIGATION OF THfl ' POTATO DISEASE. Announcement has already Teeh made of the selection of Prof, de Barry, of Strasburg, by the Boyal Agricultural Society of England, to make a series of . xovestigations into the life history of .the potato fungus, for the. purpose of . filling up a certain blank in our-knowledge of the development of, this destructive obi ject. This gentleman, im carrying ; oui lia investigations, has lately discovered that the disease is not propagated by defective tubers, and that, although the 'mycelium was .distinctly apparent in' the 'stalks of plants raised directry from dis eased ; tubers, ; neither ''gonidia ' ' nor germs were -fevblved. also expresses the hoe that he has at last djsco'vered the restihg pl&fes ' of the oospores, or the active primary germs of; 'the fungus. ; T2iis is " the fspeeial 'poM upon whichi further mf ormatiok' Is needed, and ma Jsoggest theproper meansf of preyenting: the continuance of I the disease ' in anv Siven locality bJaripattariBtsy ftinsii piantang- taesr potatoea-m a spot wnere . they must, af- some nably be destroyed. -; . , STKENaTHENINO QLASS. ! l Oonsidei'albie attention' has! been lately directed ift .France to a process invented b7. r'e. Basfie Jfor .strengthening glass so as f6' render , it both liail and fire proof.' A sheet of unprepared glass, a .quarter of an . inch thick,i held in a wocNSen frame, was placed on the floor of a foomA ,and a bras3 bell weighing about three ounces was .let fall on it from a heigh , which was gradually increased until the glass was broken by the shock. . Vfl8 fonnd that the unprepared glass, was broken , when the ball fell from a height of ten inches. -A sheet of glass only half the thickness, but which had been prepared by the new process, was then placed in, the ; frame, the same weight allowed ; to . fall upon it from gradually increasing height, but without any effect when dropped from the ceil ing, of the room. An experiment to test (the resistance, of; the; glass to - fire was alsov made with perfect : success ; the glass, heated in the flame of a lamp, and suddenly immersed m cold water, not showing the slightest signs of disturb ance ..... . , ,.; , , NEW PORTABLE ENGINE. . " " A portable engine on. a new pl has recently been constructed in Paris. It is mouniea on, two wheels only, .with. springs, and can, be . readily drawn by horses, sliaf ts T being attached to the springs. When at the place where its 001 5 jrequireo, , , me wneels are readilv,', taken off, and, the .machine; al lowed , to .rest on its two bed plates, in wmcn are Holes for. securing it to a foun- r!n-?nT i f . rm ... Tf".: ; uwiKJiifjv.F, ne. Doner ;is cyUiuhical in.r form and; tubular. The ilw whicn is whoUywithin the shell boiler,, can be removed ; the shafts Me,;,flen atteched.to move the engine from placeto place. . An efficient snper heatex ii fiied. at.tho upper -part of the bofler, the .cylinder of, the , engine is steam-jacketed, and the cut-off, is, con- 7 -sVy-SQOT i The feed water , wuYpnienwy.eatea, oy an appliance with the shell of the boiler. .... ,lS " ventured to' propose its lae for removing the spasm in some f the extre'mest spas modic diseases. The resultvOie added, have more than realized his expectations. Under thoinfluence of this agent, one of tfie most agomzing of known human. uminuies, anguxa pectoris, has been brought under such control that the paroxysms have been regularly prevented, ana in one instance at least altogether removed. Even tetanus or lockjaw has been subdued by it, and in two instances of an extreme kind so effectually as to warrant tne credit of what may be truly called a cure. It is earnestly to be hoped that further experiment may confirm this good news, and that Dr. Richardson, to whom we already owe the introduction of ether spray as an anaesthetic, may really have vanquished the terrible foe that he has been combating." , i -V - . .- -J : ,n .I-; -. : , II I STOUT jMJfJt ajEOQXJLPMY. CHANGING TK8 XABTH'S OLOGRAPHS'.. -. .. Several projects whfch, axe likely to hange. the , features, 4of geography to wae extent, have been fupiished to the -American Geographical, Society, and . are orOij of notice. , The , gae?!; &nai-sii wady successfully cacried out , has. sep ated entirely ;the continents of Asia d Aid.?tesVtlJ6tf2l; rwswo ooeaa. and the Car- sea,, will. in. KV.mmn ipleted, divide the North ,aad South, ZZZ e.Ppossd Aeiaware ship maaL to oannect. the waters of the CWpeake nd Deware bays, b, WJ f '"'woist rssEcrs--''-,! i :i -; A curious fact' in the natural history of the tropics is mentioned by Mr. J. Thomson, in his recently published nar rative' of ten years' travel in Farther India, and C&ina. -rIn describing his visit to Fenang, bn the Straits of Malac ca; he ays: "It will hardly be cred ited by those who have never visited a. hill country in the tropics,; that soon after sunrise the noise of awakening beetfes- and tree-loving insects is so frreat as to drown tii'e bellowing ;of a bull or the roar of a tiger a few paces off. The sound resembles most nearly the metallic whirr of ahundred" Bedford looms. One beetle in tarticttlar .' Vnnim V. tivfes. 3 the' trumpeter, busies himself , aU..3?y loEg producing a booming: noise with his wings.-" -' ' rVGENtJTTT 'tif A SPIDEB. ' ": ' 'i-'A -?c6espohdent; writes ' to 'lArau- - OTuauruciea its weo in an angM of his garden,; the sides of whfch were'tached by long threads to shrubs at ttt Height of nearly three feet from tuegiavei patn beneath. Being much exposed 'to ' -he wind, the equinoctial gales of this Autumn destroyed the web several times. The ingenious spider now adopted a new contrivance. It cured a conical fragment of gravel, with up wuru, oy rwo coras one attached to each of its onbosite ni.lm fA the apex: of its wed'geHBhaped web, and fexe n suspended as a movable Weight to be opposed to the effect of such iwsts of time, inev-1 . uescroya ttte: webs previously I vfjfMiKwieyf8aaM situation. ;? The wrtuBi nave oescended i to . the grave), path for this special obiaot. infll having attached threads to a stone suited to its ;piu-poseit must have, afterwards frfJ1118,! py PVag, itself, upon the web. P.niUng the, weight np, to a height of iwre, taan ttwo , feet from the ground, J?t suiadeti by elastic cords. ASTROKOSTT. - 1 " i .' . ATMOSPHERE- OK JUPITER. An estimate by Mr. Bnrtonprinted in uie juontnly Notices" of the Boyal Astronomical Jxxnety, fixes the depth of the atmosphere which surrounds the planet aupiter at from three -thousand to nine thousand miles. This result is deduced from four years' study of the shadows of Jupiter s satellite cast pon the disk of fine pianet during transit across it." : WHAT MAKES THE SKY BIUe1 - ' Alio etiiereal blue color nf due to minute particles of matter which float in the air. Were these particles removed tne appearance of the sky would ue aeau black. It is a fact in oti that exceedingly fine portions of matter disperse or scatter the blue rays of light, nuii coarser portions scatter all the rays mating white fight. The atmosphere is mil 01 aqueous vapor, the particles of wmcn dittuse white light in all direc tions. When the particles are enlarged, visible in the form of cioudsk That the diffusion of lightin our atmosjihere, the blue coloring of the sky and the colors of the clouds, are due to tne presence of matter floating in the air, has been conclusively proven by TyndaU.' On passing a beam of sunlight through a glass tube, the' beam Ss rendered brill iantly visible by the reflection of light from the dust particles floating in the air contained in the tube: But on re moving the dust particles, which is done by- filtering the air by cotton wool, or causing the air to pass over a flame, the oeam 01 ngnt is no lonfjer visible in the tube.- i-Scientific American. METALLVJtGY. i.. V. VALUES of metai The following table of the resnechV values of metals is not -without infct The first four are so rare as to be sold in minute quantities, yet their . rates are given for the sake of comparison with the others : " ,. i A. DJietDKD vtXAZOlT. "i I" ' ' . 4 .-i f - '!-" ." A woman, ha recently been detected in England ho haajbeen driving a cab, m the guise "of , a man, for the'' past ten years. Shetwasborn, it seems, at Taun ton, Somerset, where hex father was land agent ; to a nobleman. , She had grea liking for,. KHaAdUing the ribJons' and learned to drive horse while very -young. . When httie more than fourteen.j-ears of age she, was married to an army surgeon by the name of Honeywell, 'and her name, as a married woman lis Margaret Honeywell! j The two lived together so unhappily that at length she ran away from-home-and went to London. ' She there met with" a "woman who had form erly beenf arm-servant to her father, and who had married a cabman, and from what she heard in regard" to the cab driving business, she resolved to earn an independent living in that branch of in dustry. By wearing her hair short, and .by a judictous use of clothing,' she man aged to present the appearance of a short, stout riian Her face being of - a masculine type, her complexion florid, and she having an impediment in her speech, caused by a defective palate, conspired 1 to render the illusion perfect, " J'or. three ' years in London and six in Liverpool she plied the whip as a eab " man, " her sex being unknown and unsuspected bjr all, with one exception. During that period sue was on ; several s occasions placed in a peculiar and delicate position, but came out from each Ordeal without even suspicion of her sex being aroused. On one occasion a noted bane-setter in Liverpool examined her knee, which she thought had been injured, but which turned out to be only affected with rheu matism. Although he treated the com plaint successfully, he seems to have noticed nothing peculiar in the forma tion of the limb. Mrs. HoneywelT states that during the time ehe acted as a "cab by " she saw a notice in a newspaper that ner nusband had failed in businessi ,The one exception referred to is a woman who has been known as "Bill Sevmour'B wife " for some years, and who has also been in the habit of taking her " hus band's " dinner to the cabstand dailv. In all probability the public would not have heard for some time of this female' cab- driver had it not been for her unfortu nate share in a theft which caused her arrest and discovery. as when she started from home with it, half, an hour before. In this age of reck lessnesa and sMftlessness, such an in stance of; carefulnessdeserves more than a passing notice-ZJanoury -New. Indlmn;.. VanUium ..... Rntheniuin . . Rhodium Palladium. Cranium....." Osmium Iridium (iki Platinum.... Thallium.....I Chromium .... Maffnetiioin Potassium..... . VALUE PEB POtTKD AVOIBDCPOIS. .$lSM.008ilver. . 2,510.00 Cobalt...:..' . 1,400.00 Cadmium. . 70O.onl Bismuth ' . 6R3.00 Sodium . 576.00 Nickel " S25.00 Mercury... . " 317.44 Antimony . ... 301.45 Tin...... - 11S.20 Copper 108.77 Arzenic..... "' 58.00 Zinc 4 50 Lead " , . 23.00 Iron .a.85 . 7.75 . 6.00 . 3.63 . 3.20 . 2.50 . 1.35 36 33 25 15 11 .' 7 -fcla-115 rmles long from nor& tosouZ d overjaxty-five.-ndles wide at the widest part, comprising mow than three, fourths of ih- States Delaware!, tha coanties of Northampton and LAcomac Va,, and neatly all that portion of 2iW Iamd on the eastern sliare, w an Area of imio less than C,000 square xaile -ito a island.- . Another ship canal ia to oS . the Peniasala of Barnfitable frriia the mainland -of , llassachusefcta.' !:!Bo$h of the latter enterprises, it is thought will oon be accomplished as the benenta to Americnn commerce tha will come from thsa 6xi meet manifest..' ; -r'x n- 1 AFiCCAS 'EIPJjOEATIOJf. y - ' a iTJ-Sovemmeb Laa recently israit two exploring parties into the in tejir of Africa. Each was composed of li.t Europeaa and twelve native offi- ?Mt tDlbBTAWr KEDICAt'BISCOVEBT.' waec ,ji aWMaw Gazette says: The public, nd less than the scientific world. ; will read ' with-interest a very important statement' -sieeentrjr-' made by Drl Rich ardsoa in the- course 'of a lecture he de liTerjpd.bofpre the Society of Arts; Speak ing of the nitrite of -imyl; ---ch? has i'withip.ri these t last, few j years obtained a Temarkble juiipoxtanoe owing to its ex- traordiEAry . action. on the human bodv Ir, Riclisxdson. said that a distinguishsd cheimst jf rot, Uutime, some years ago. while iliatiJJing over nitrite of . arayl from amyli ajcohol observed , that the vapor, when inhaled, juiekened, his circulation. and, matlo him feel .as if he had been njnning,!. f There , was .flushing of. his faoa, rapid. w action; of, .his heart, - and brGathlessaess,-,, 481-2 TXl Eichard- son. made atcaxefoL and prolonged study of fche actioa. -sof, this aingqlarbody, and disosjvared.T.tiuitt jt produced its 1 effect isiec.-.istreme- relaxation firat of tha biutKl vessels, and afterward of the auRonsar fibers of. the -body To such en extent did , fljai .agent fctua relax that Dr. Biclsardson found it would overcome the tetanic spasm produced by strychnia, and having thus discovered its action he StETEOItOLOG T. f THE PHILOSOPHY OP RAIN. To understand the ohilosonhv of beautiful and often sublime nhenomenn.. so of ten witnessed and so very essential to the existence of plants and animals, a xew lacra derived from observation and a long train of experiments, must be re membered.' ' 1. Were the atmosphere here, every where,, and at all times, . of a uniform temperature, we should never have rain, had or snow. The water absnrhl Ku if in. evaporation from the sea and the earth's surface, would descend in an inv perceptible vapor, or cease to be ab sorbed by the air when it was once fully saturated. ' ; ' 2. The absorbing power of the atmo.- phere, and consequently its capacity to retain humidity, is apportionately greater in warm than in cold air. The air neat the surface of. the , earth is warmer than it is in the region of the clouds. The mgner we ascend from : the earth: the colder do we jBad the atmosnhem Hence the perpetual snow pn very high mountains in vae nottest camate.rT " t., uou, oonianued evapora- non .ine air is highly , saturated with vapor, though it be invisible and the sky cloudless, if its temperature is sud denly rednced by cold currents descend ing from above, or rushing from a higher to a lower latitude, its capacity to retain moisture is ' , diminished. nloitta . formed, and rain is the result' , If con denses, cools, and like a sponire' filled with water and compressed, sours ont the water which its diminished capacity cannot hold... r . , inioMa ojf irojiEiayr t.a v it An The Hindus sie said to have, no word for "friend." .The Italians have i no equivalent ; for;' our luimility;'' The Russian dictionary gives a word the defi nition of which is V not to have enouch buttons on your; footman's waistcoat -J " a vjmv wRuia vj, -7T g&n .over again , a- Surd f to earn by dancing. ": The Germans call a thimble a " finger-hat," which it certainly is, and'a grasshoTJper a '''hav- horse.' i A glove 'with them is a " hand shoe,J1 showing that they wore shoes be loro gloves. Th French; Btrange to say, have -no verb r to " stand, " nor can a Frenchman speak f kicking any one; The'&earest approach he.'ia' his nohte- ness, makes to it is to' threaten to " give a blow with Ids foot," the" same thing, probably, to the recipient-hi either case, UBl 1C Becma to want 'the directness, the energy, of our "Tdak. The terms ' up stairs -and "down stairs" are also un known ia French." s ' - ! Ji-t-O SPELLING. -.. . - Frequently, cases of bad spelling crop out among the professions, and some lam entable instances of weakness in this respect come to light among the "hu manitarians." For instance, a vorm lawyer m an interior city one early morn ing locked his office door "and left upon it this mysterious legend ; " Gon , id brexfus." . In a small -New -England town a druggist was surprised and dis turbed to receive at the hands of a dirty-, looking customer the foUawihor prescrip tion : "Pleas give the bare sumpthin tonzicb him 15 cts worth.". Puruig the war a letter written by a rebel soldier to bis sweethearlj was captured, wherein the writer said : " We will lick the yanks 10-morrow rr godlemity spares our lives.' Some wonderful things in the Way of di rections appear on letters passing through me mails lor example, the. letter di rected to a Pittsburgh Judge, , indorsed,' ao tne onerable gug." The proprie tor of a country store once worked him self into a brain fever endeavoring to make t intelligible , the following note, given to him by a small boy, the son of one of his customers , "mister Gream Wunt yon let my boay hav a pare of Easy toad shuz?" However, he was probably not more horrified than the schoolmaster who received a letter from a man who wrote : " I have decided to inter my boy in your scull. " CAUGHT A.T LAST. ' ' For some months a London juvenile put money in his purse at the expense of blind beggars. His plan was to follow the victim, throw a piece of meat' to his dog, when the animal, thus adroitly en gaged with a bone, did not interfere with the mere abstraction of a few cents from a tin cup. ' This process had many successes, and but one failure. ; Even dogs are uncertain.', Evidently ;. a"' fine ofouurcii uciu uie . umu man s ipenny cazener in His mouth. It was a little wooden bowl, and there were three or four coppers in it; but the dog had had a tme bone -in the morning, and the boy, .TOSH BILLIXQ8 SEZ. , fit don't make enny diffrense what trade prprofeshunj-uput yer oa at, for if he ever sukceeds at enny, he haz got to do it by adding dignity to the one he adopts. Enny bizness that is lawfull 12 honara bel, and no buzness, simply, ever made enny one respektabel.. i . Buty is a women's prerogative, Jbut buty ma man iz the, oiext . kalamity to being a f 00L . . . - The man who kan think kan never be lonesum.' .' --" !" --. -..;. . It is no partikular kredit to say tuut word 12 az gopdaz hiz bond." . , Superstishun iz the child ov ignorause and fear, and iz wortliy ov its parents. Z ' Fickshun iz a narrow strip' ov very produktive land, lieing' between the dominyuns oy truth and falsehood, owing allegiance to neither. . The-fakulty to decide between right and wrong, and the power ov memory,, make reazon, and me planning ov things, and the doing ov them, iz man's chief 'buzness. -: ' . - .- : . -u ( " A' hungry man needs no bill ov fare. ' old age luvs to rekouht, the trials ov its ..youth, and from Abraham's time down to now, haz always mourned the growing degenerasy ov the times. : Tliare never haz lived a man yet who was willing to awop off a truth for, a lie, not if he kna it. ) i The man who hasn't got enny habits hasn't got enny thing that he kan call hiz own. t. .i, .-!1 .1 '., The best way i kno ov to lighten our .burdens, iz to look around and find sum one .who haz a bigger load than we hav, and then pity them. . ; Poverty iz a grate blessing to sum1 follss az long az they are poor they are endurable. .. .. , . Neither a good or a bad example haz ever yet been wasted on the world. The meanest buzness that enny one kan follow iz to trade in sekrets. " ' OLD-FA SJIIOXED W2fTERS. The New Haven Palladium . has been searching history for a colder winter than the present, and selects 1741 as a speci men. In that year the snow, which cov ered the whole' country as early as the J.3th of November, was still found the the next April covering the fences. In January, a tent was ; maintained ' on Charles river, Boston, for the entertain ment of travelers.. From Feb. 22, George Washington's ninth birthday, until March 6, the people crossed the sound on the ice every day from Strat ford, Conn., to Long Island, a distance of three leagues. Even as far east as New London the ice extended into , the sound as far as could be seen from the town, and Fisher's Island was united to themain land by a solid bed On March 28, the Boston News Letter re ports that the people living on, Thomp son s island nad crossed over to Dor- Chester to church on the ice for the fif teen preceding Sundays. As late as the 9th of July, a letter from New London, Conn., reports on the east side of the Connecticut river a body of ice, as large as two carts can draw, clear and solid, and adds very artlessly that " it might lie tiiere a month longer, were it not that so many resort out of curiosity to . drink punch -made out of it." On the 17th of Jnly snow was still lying in a mass in the town of Ipswich, Mass., nearly four feet thick. But the most marvelous record of that season is the statement made by Alonzo Lewis, author of the annals of Lynn, Mass., that Francis Lewis,' the signer of the Declaration of Independ ence, drove 'ids horse from New York to Barnstable, the whole length Of Lone Island sound, on the ice." A Memphis doctor treated a patient for asthma, when his disease was kidney complaint. A jury has put a $3,500 plaster on these fortunate glands. ho , depended, on ; that, . . depended irrationally. As he put his hand on the coppers the dog seized him by the throat. Assistance from the police was necessary to compel mm to relinquish his .hold. And the boy, did the thought of , prison stir his soulf t Not in the least.' He was busy with the other: subject. He .said, 'An ungrateful dog. ( Thatia unnatural, impossible even. , This, dog, ? therefore, must be mod." .And this fancy, pro trated the youth to such a degree that he was taken to the hospital and died short ly after, his case being stated; by ,-.th physcian in attendance, as a most acute case of hydrophobia.. . . , r,.t(t. r. Ak old lady called on us Wednesday to advertise' her ' house' 'for rent-' ! We offered to write it out for'her) butfaheT said she had it with her.'" She'took'a seai, : laid her muff on' a tablej ' thenpicked it up agam and placed' ft On h'er 'lap by' tiie ' side of ' her ' reticule. ' She 'ofcened ' th ' reticule to get at the advertisement, when the muff rolled off on -the 'floor ' We re Stored iti and shc; then arose and carried it across the room to a desk where she de posited it very carefully. Then she re sumed her-- seat' and reopened the "reti cule, and after a patient search among ifcj contents, brought out a folded handker- chief. v After unwinding the handker chief with extreme caution,-she produced a package of newspapers. 'f'JThis 'she olowty unfolded, layer after ' layer,' until she came to a half -page' oflnbte' baper' That was the announcement of rent There were only three lines of it, but it was there, just as perfect and unimpaired, WOLF GENERALSHIP. '" Owe pioneer method of hunting wolves. by encircling a large section of land and drawing i in, is imitated by the wolves themselves in India, if CoL W. Camp bell tells the ' truth. Through a tele scope he saw at a distance a small herd of antelopes, and. further, on a pack of wolves sitting together, apparently in consultation as to the mode of catching tne deer animals. Soon five of the wolves " marched, off and, cautiously sta tioned themselves in a circle around the herd, which did not perceive them. One wolf remained at the original station. and one crept ; up info "the midst of the herd of antelopes, . causinsr them to run. But the ..latter were soon met by one of the wolves, and starting in an opposite direction were'met by still another, and so on' till they huddled together in fear and , stood , in one place. Z, At this stage Mr. Campbell . interfered by a shot, which-scattered the wolves and relieved the antelopes.1. This, instance of animal ingenuity is onb one among thousands which , have . been related, showing that the , lower animals have every reasoning faculty thai man has,- only in a far lower degree. t " ' v i- -.-. 1 vj, ', XI fK11 1 THE SON O E XIMSUI. If you liave any sympathy on hand for wm .ym havW no Tparticular use you may as -well "bestow it upon a certain clergyman of New Haven, Connecticut. This clergyman has long wanted horse; but being afflicted with a want not en tirely unknown in his profession, the want of money, has been unable to pur-' chase the desired quadruped. Recently, however, he came into possession of a fine horse without payi for it. The clergyman has a friend, a sporting gentle man,' who remarked to him one" day that he had a horse totally1 useless rto him as it was too alow on. , the . road and sthat he should receive the animal as a gift. To sa?' ht the .reveren. . gentleman was elated woidd be to express in the most absurdly inefficient manner his satisfac tion and aatonishmcbl. u " Tbget a good horse for nothing was a wonderful stroke of f ortone, and to get a kindj slpw horse, one with a deliberate clerical, gait .was best of ali.J The horse was sent to him soon afterward, . and. its fine appearance but added to the clergyman's gratifi canon, as soon as possible a carriage was obtained and then the minister took the reins and drove out upon a popular avenue to give the staid horse an airing. Once upon the avenue where fast horses were careering by the clergyman's animal began all at once to conduct itself sigu larly. It pricked up its ears and champed and pulled at the bit and pawed out with its fore feet and snorted like a Tartar of the Ukraine. In vain, the reverened gentleman strove with , the beast as he would strive with the enemy of souls. fast horse encouraged by a fast driver dashed by and like a shot the divine's steed rushed forward in competition.. The fast man with . the fast, horse plied the lash, ljut the good niatfs steed gained steadily though the good man dug his heels into the floor 'Of his carriaare and togged at the reins, with perspiration on his forehead and holy horror in his eyes. People on the sidewalk stared to see their pastor havmgbraali with a jockey, and small boys shouted " hi 1 hi !" Lapping, neck-and-neci men ahead , dashed the clergyman's horse and the envious jockey yelled out an admiring curse, while the plaudits of lookers oi Were freely vented. Finally the horse of the minister slack ened his speed and its grief-stricken owner managed to get it home and in the stable. Then straightway he hunted up the donor of the fiery steed -and de manded an explanation, The" generous individual was all mystification and inno cence. ' " Fast!" said he, "why, that horsfe 'aint fast I bought him in New York for a fast one and took him but and tried him, and I was sick enough, I tell you, when . I found he could only make 2:45. There 'aint any ' speed in liim I That's the reason I gave Tiirp to vqu !'? And , that was all , the satisaction the clergyman got from the cause of, his discomfiture.; unconscious . .. AXOSIALZE8. Paper can be manufactured from iron. If a tallow candle be placed in a gun and shot at a door", jtt 'will go" 'through with out sustaining, injury and if a musket ball be fired 'into -the water." it will hot only Tebotuid, but m flattened; if fired through a pane of , glass, it will make the hole the size of the ball without cracking the glass; if suspended ' by a thread it will make no difference, and the thread will not even vibrate., Cork if sunk tw- hundred feet in the ocean will not rise on account of the pressure of water.'- In ttie Arctic regions, when the thermome ter ia below ' zero persons can' converse mure than, a. mile, distant. ' Dr. .Jamison, j- assert that Ae. heard every . word of a sermon at the distance of two miles. Anna Dickinson is announced to lect ure at Savannah, Ga., next month. FOR DOMESTIC DIFFICULTIES. - The following copy of an agreement prepared in 1846, by a woman who wanted to live happily with her trouble some husband, is published in the Knox- vilie JJre8 and Herald: "You do 1 solemnly swear that' you will -never beat, nor ens or abuse me without 'grater "pro vication than I have given you ; that you will not debar me from going to see my connection and neighbors when oper tunity permits nor them from coming to my amusement or assistance In sickness nor health ; that you will not be against going with me to meeting or for me to go1 on. ihe 'same" terms ; that you will never throw up what has been passed in angpir ; that : you will ; provide house room handy to water, and stay there that you will not move me out of the set tlement without I am willing to go ; that you will provide things to work on an with ; that you will hot treat me with the hardship, fioutor wound my feelings, as you have fdone, but perform the duties of a husband,' and try for a living in peace on all sids. I do solemnly swear mat i. will, not throw up what has been passed in angoir y that I will not flout or wound you feelings without cause ; that a win pen or m tue duty of a wife so far as health and reason will permit. I will treat you with kindness while you do me. and try lor a living in peace on all sids." fact is, fellows of that sort never do more than pick up bits. - They are never thorough. They can't be relied upon, I wouldn't take him in my office, and I don't want him in my family that's aJL! " J&patdmttds-ra& rigLtT ,-,'.-- j A SVROICAX CO JLfltJ k A troublesome murder case iirWisooip sin hasi just been settled by a verdict at 1,1 K ru)7-"H III. A 1 11 T-T 1 r ,a a. nniMimruv .t - - r - t i . . IJfjLj iucuui tu rvaymoua, wuiine,coancy. . His sbn'Al P. ' Martin, Borated' as ther doctor's collector, Dr. Martin attended a farmer named f Derrick West, during spell of sickness, andWeet disputed the bill presented by the:bu, I West was re solved to stand, a lawit o even deaiti Kither tlian pay- what hev regarded us an exorbitant biir for saving his life, and the collector went at him, with a danger ous knife and killed him: 'A. P. Martin was4 tried, for homicide, aiid the jury yaaieu. u manslaughter an the second de gree.? After the verdicf had been pro nounced, it , was yUsoreViid that one of the jurors ha4, expressed -,on opinion about the case previous to "the trial. On this ground the Verdict waa set aside and a-' neT- i rifd, granted. ' ..Mary.jn, jvas not , satisfied with the manner in which his surgical operation had b'en! viewed and treated in that' court, and, fearing a repe- , tition of tlie verdict there, J he applied for and obtained a change of venue to .Walworth ; oouuty' There rMartuv' was . found guilty of murder in the first de- -gree. He did not -tike ' this verdict any better, thaj).tha, other ; rin,fact, , it.dis- "ti'"" kii mo luuua oi comion mnnite- Iv Worse. TllA num wu nnrnl.,! u ' l I -'.V-. m UJ17 Supreme Court, which decided thai the , defendant could not be convicted of mur der in the first dogree after having been found guilty of manslaughter, in thef sec- . ond degree. The court remanded the case back for a new trial-- ilw next time the jury found a verdict , of - maiislanghter iu. thothii-d dcRroeL probably as a kind of comprcmiso and t ' get rid of the case. Martin will have to be satisfied with this opinion of his sur gical ability until he can get hold of an other subject. - . . rf LITTLE BO-FEEF" AND THJS DTINO CHILD. i, I remember when I was nursinf? in a hospital onoe, there was a poor little Ikjv about six years old "dying of rheumatic fever. - I was night nurse in that ward;, and regularly, when the attack of "pain came on, he used to scream out for ma : Nursey, sing. It' hurts me.' Simr the hurt away." , So then I'd prop him up on my arm . "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" to " Black-Eyed Susan," till the paroxysm of pain was over, an he'd "quiet down again. I always knew when that was by -his joiuiu his voice iiy too such a weak pipe of a voiceVpbor lambTf but i'l was. better glad to hear it than any music, for u toubu me uie,pam5was gone for -awhile, and I could lie him down to. sleep aganwy " 'V' Poor wee mite I I was singing Lit tle Bo-Peep " the night he died. . , I M him in my arms. He'd been sinking all day. I knew he couldn't last out anoth er ; an' though he tried to join in as usual, his voice went into a gasp an broke. I'd been sometimes used to call the children in the ward my little sheep, an when 1 came to the end of th verse- . , ; ' -. ; ? . .. -. . r. t. -1 . , . . , UttlA RfPM.n sIia h I An doceat know where to lind 'era, ' .. ' s-. ,-ORESTS OF RVSSIAr'Z.Z According to recent statistics, the . ex tent of the forests of Russia in .Europe is about 442,891,500 acres,; or 40 per cent of. the whole area. The forests are very unequally distributed, and although Cul tivation and communication are thus rendered impracticable,' -the facilities are becoming every year increased. Nearly per oenc 01 tne lorest land is situate in the four governmente, of the . north-- in Archangel, ' Vologda, Olonetz, and Perm. Between. 1866 and 1870 upward of 20,000 acres were planted, exclusive of .the .action . of private owners.. . The principal trees ,are the Scotch pine' spruce ,fir, larch, birch, lime, aspen, and oak. ;The value of . the . forest prodncts. exported in 1871 amounted to 16,026,553 roubles. 1 But the internal consumption gives a better idea of the immense wealth of these forests. The approx imate value, as stated by Mr. Werekhn, must be at least 265,450,000 roubles per annum. Wood is the only fuel used in Bussia,. aad the Jail ways consume wood to the annual value of 7,200,000 roubles. It is estimated that -40.000.000 (vln spoons are manufactured every yearj TRVE. I SfJ?9" .PflterfamWae, 'young Jones shall not marry my daughter, be cause he's not "steady. I don't mean that he drinks, or the like ; but he does not keep to a thing. He changed schools again and again." He'fhanged about "id college. Ho meant to be a lawyer now he is in for medicine, and think I heard him romancing the other night about the delight of being an artist, and living in the Yosemite, or in the polar regions, picking up bits for great pictures, i The . le Vm alone an" they'll Mine limnc. An' bring their tails behind 'cm he looked up in my face with a, bit of a , smile on his poor little drawn white, mouth, and said : " NurseyH know where to find Iter lickle sheep when he goes home. ' WflJ I be- long going home now, nursey f " IiohgF Ah; poor little Iambi' -Ten. minutes later an' he'd gone home. Caeseir 8 Magazine. ' V " CVRIOSITLES OF LANGITAGJB." r - Professor Hosmer, of Washingtoaa University, . Missouri, lectured ' on " Words " in St. Louis the other ' everi ing. The speaker criticised a number of quaint expressions and others that were characterized by some oddity, awkward ness, or other peculiarity. The first waa a remark to the following ; effect: I hain't hooked his handkerchief neither. Besides 'twan't "his'n. It's oiir'n; "ax . BilL" , He said that 'many , expressions which we iset down as intolerable for - their , grammar or ' pronunciation, , i once Btrictly proper, and iii many have been given up for poorer forma: In speaking of the double negative . which occurs .in the. s preceding passage' the lecturer quoted 'similar expreasiaRB . from "Martin Chuzzlewit," and thc writings of Shakespeare. , The, word Mt' was fop centuries used, in the besf v si .' ciety, and an Anglo-Saxon grammar -would suggest abetter way of accounting for :ourn: and " yonru " than to suppose they were the mere blunders of boors.""..' . , , ' ,Tbe lecturer cited some . lines sent fc . hia4 in a. valentine years ago:' - j . . - By theae four llnea ct meter, ; . . I'd have yon lor to knoy, That I to aeek a loT7er ' fti . . ,Ara a gola'far to go. , v . In .vindicating Patty's taste in Encliah he said there was not a thins? id tlw "- linos that was not once held to iMxtrMi . correct '.' " After, quotings Chaucor, to prove that I" Let her slide" was & nlnnai'n the lecturer amused his audience . witli the following Berkshire ditty: " axa tether young man looked hy at me, .- And from her seat nbe rl"n :' . ' " n -. a - . i Let"a you and I go our own way, j And VfeTl M hgx h;an. J j Algeria,' ,it appears, . rtunds' .firsl; among countries noted fir tiwir mineral wbhxtcb, ju rrapec -oi tne number, varis- tyi and" hygienic properties of her -. springs. In most cases ruins in tho im mediate vicinity atteht the fact of tho old Romans having appreciated the curative qualities of the waters quite as much a& the Arabs cf the present day do.