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.