WILLAMETTE FARMER. Copper in the Human Organism. Becent experiments by M. Bergeron demon--utrate tho presence of traces of copper in the human body. The organs examined were the livers and kidneys; and in fourteen Instances copper was detected. The experiment were made with 800 to 1,000 grammes of organio materials in eaoh case. Special precautions were taken to prevent the accidental Introduc tion of copper into the eolation undergoing analysis. A special chamber was constructed containing no copper; the laboratory tables were of wood; the balance, water-baths, gas burners, etc., were of iron; and the filter paper, distilled water and reagents were carefully tested, and found to be free from this metal. The organs were heated in a large porcelain capsule to complete dryness, and afterwards to carbonization. Incineration of the carbona ceous mass was performed in a muffle furnace at a low temperature. The ash, treated with nitrio acid, evaporated to dryness and, redissolved in water, pro duced a solution which gave reactions for cop per with ammonia, with ferrocyanide ot pc tasslum, and with polished steel. In eleven cases, the organs being taken from individuals varying in age from seventeen to fifty-eight, the maximum amount of copper 'found was .002 grms.; the minimum amount ..0007 grms. In one case, the individual being seventy-eight years of age, the amonnt of cop per was found to be .003 grms. In six other cases, where festal organs were examined, cop per was detected in minute traces. The copper existing in the organism is with out doubt introduced in the use of food. The use of copper vessels, the daily contact with various objects of copper or brass, coins, keys, eto, introduce in our organs traces of copper, of which the greater part is eliminated; but there remains in a state of combination a minute trace of the metal, which is found in the liver and the kidneys, and this is true whatever the age, sex or mode of life, and averages, .002 grammes in weight. Routine Work. The recurring duties whioh the change of seasons Brings naturally suggests tne tact tnat the greater part of the, life of the average man and woman is f pent in doing the same thing right over and over and over again. Every spring the housewife renews her house, in order, in cleanliness, in comfort, reclothes the members of her family, and makes due prep aration for the summer. She does essentially at this time the very same thing that she did the last season, that she will do the next. If she is a good housekeeper, each succeeding season makes the task easier because she is more ao customed to it and should know how to take it to better advantage than ever before, bat the task is still the same. The farmer plows the came fields that he plowed last spring, harrows tbem, plants them, and then goes over them again and again and again with hoe or cultivator till the harvest, so far as he can make it so, is secure. The mer chant takes account of stock just as ht did last year, lays in his goods for the summer season, deepens and widens the channels of his trade, if possible, but lets the channels remain the same. In like manner the mason, the carpen ter, the compositor, the teacher, the editor, the lawyer, the physician, minister, do over the same work fiom week to week, from month to month, from year to year, with variations so Blight that the routine seems essentially the same. Of course all this monotony sometimes gets tiresome and we clamor for a change and laucy that some other mode of industry will be easier and more agreeable than that which cir cumstance or choice has made ours that some body else is better off in this respect than we are. Bat when we get inside of the life of that somebody else we find that routine work makes, up the larger portion of it, and that without the mastery of routine work in the lower fields success in the higher ones had never been at tained. The biographies of all who have achieved nobly, shows this so plainly that he who runs may read. N. Y. Tribune. Foreign Talent as an Aid to Pboobess. Some countries, such as Bassia for instance, have always done their best to attract foreign workmen, foreign artists, foreign talent of every sort, conceding special rights and immu nities to the valuable colonists whose skill and kuowledge silently help to reclaim the natives from barbarism. But for such importations from England, Holland and Germany the great empire of the Czars would not at the accession of Peter the Great have possessed a ship, or a sailor to navigate it, or a foundry for cannon. Some famous old manufactures are now all but extinct in the birthplace of the art. To ledo and Damascus no longer furni-h their his toric sword-blades to half a world; Florence and Mantua no longer clothe Europe; the Ven etian glass has been but artificially revived, for none can chain the subtle sprite Prosperity to their chariot wheels; and when greed or neglect has brought about the period of decay, it is but a blank prospect that awaits native industry. Needle Making;. There is a needle factory in New Haven where the whole process is done by a single machine without the manual labor of any person. A coil of steel wire is put in. The machine cuts itoflf at the required lengths. It cuts the cteel pieces consecutively, punches the eye-holes, countersinks the eyes and grinds the points, and in fact does everything until the needles drop ut completely formed. An other machine picks tbem up and arranges their heads and points together, and a third piece of mechanism puts them into paper. One of these machines occupies no more space than an ordi nary table, and each of them turns out from thirty to forty thousand needles a day. Most of the needles in use in this country have been imported from England until a few years past . A Gun MiNUPAOTtTBED in an Houit. A gen tleman reoently called at the Remington gun manufactory at Ilion, N. Y., with the view of making the purchase of some arms He was shown through the works, and evinced great interest in all the prccesses. At the close ol his tour of inspection a gun was shown him and repeatedly discharged in his presence. He was then told that since his entrance into the works every part of the identical gun just fired bad been manufactured and put together, and that his own eyes had witnessed every stage of the work. He then offered to purchase five car loads of gons which the Spanish inspectors had recently rejected, probably with the view of getting some small reduction, and paid the Messrs. Remington the price named in the original contract. It is supposed that this un known gentleman was an agent of Don Carlos. If this be the case the Spanish government has through its officials quite overreached itself. Failube of Coppeb Sulphate. Railway sleepers injected with sulphate of copper will be preserved indefinitely, provided the copper remains in its original combination with the ligneous tissue. But M. Max Faulet shovs that, on railways where carbonate of lime ex ists in the stone ballasting ot the track or in the soil, the carbonate gradually penetrates the wood and substitutes the copper. Deoiy then follows, for carbonate of lime is not a septic agent. Pacific Mail Steamship Co. New York to San Francisco, via Panama. RATES OF1 PASSAGE. o P O o a Q o i "VAr tJEsThe Rates include the transit of the Isthmus of Panama via Panama Railroad. Also, Bed ding, Board and all necessaries for the voyage. An experienced Surgeon is on each ship, and no charge is made foi medicines or medical attendance. Steamers leave New York every Saturday at 12 o'clock, Noon, And Make the Trip to San Francisco in Three Weeks. This Route offers Special Inducements to EMIGRANTS, wlio vill avoid the delays, discomfort and expense of the tedious trip overland' by rail. 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The very large Bales and the hearty and universal commendation of the little work, The Pathon's Mori tob, published some months since by Master Bmedley, and the very numerous and oft recurring questions of law and usage, which were pouring in upon him by every mall, and not alone from this State, but from every State In the Union, suggested to him the want In the Order of a more complete treatlso upon the several subjects therein briefly touched on, and of a more comprehensive discussion of all the many question connected wl'h the Jurisprudence of our growing Order. The burdensome correspondence which wal entailed on him by reason of bis official position, and the high esteem In which bis extensive knowledge of all these matters and hla good Judgment concerning them were held by members of the Order everywhere, literally forced him to prepare this book as a measure of relief, and his long experience admirably qualified htm to do It. 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