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About Willamette farmer. (Salem, Or.) 1869-1887 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1876)
:xr.C3Kas SSass!CjK3?ns!5SsKr:.iass; SSgyMMIhlff'.l'.Ja'JL'l"' ff mi SS'SMvWjittrm. WHJLAMETTE FARMER. 2 1.1 & If!! Tlfi Hofii Cijvcli. Men. Strang tapestry, by Nature spun On viewless loom, kloof from sun. And spread through lonely nook and grots Where ebtdowi reign ind leafy rest, O, mou, ol ell your dwelling spots, In which one are yon loveliest f I It when near grim rootf thet coil Their aneiy bleck through bnmld toll? Or when yarn wrap. In woodletid gloomi. The gretnone pine tranke, rotted red f Or when you dim on sombre tombs, The requlescats of the desdf ' Or Is It when your lot le cut In tome quaint gerden of the put. On tome grey crumbled basin's brim, With conche that mildewed Tritone blow, While yonder through I he poplars prim. Looms up the tnrreted chateau J Kay, loveliest are yon when time weaves "Your emerald films on low, dark eaves. Above where pink porcb-roees peer. And wocdblnes bresk In fragrant fosm, -And children laugh, and yon can hear The beatings oi the heart of home. Edgar Fawcdt. Our Duty to One Another. From the Pacific Iiural Frees. 'This Centennial year is surely a year of great things. Nature is taking the initiative, purify ing the house no as to make it olean for the great celebration in July. Would that each heart would adopt a purifying process, entering upon the great duties of the hour, so as to present olean hands and pure hearts, as au offering for the blessings of self-government. Each and every man and woman too should 80 order his walk and conversation as if the stability of our institutions rested upon his shoulders in life and conduct. My great hopes for the perpetuity of present blessings are based upon the moral and physioal health and stability of the rural population. They surely constitute the salt for the earth, even if refine ment bus not attained that degree of emi nence which is to be found in oities. But there is more genuine purity covered up by rough surroundings, less that requires to be hidden by tinsel and broadcloth, whioh claim our regard and esteem. A prinoiple is involved which gives security for the stability of the best government our little planet presents. The progress of the nation may also be traced to the progress of agriculture and the enlightenment of the rural population; without this element of industry, society would soon relap o Into barbarism. Art and science are only adjuncts of pro ducing pursuits, supplying the necessary intel ligence for making the different agricultural avocations successful. The Orange is a move ment in the right direction, and introduced at the proper time. The agriculturist is receiving a personal education in scientific farming, sooial and governmental philosophy, assuming responsibilities in the more intricate details of business relationships, taking a higher stand in the power of judging right from wrong in the general concerns of life, mapping out bb it were the great duties devolving upon the Granger in the near future as well as the present. Besponsibilities thicken around him. The higher law appeals to his better nature, to so conduct his life that when the last messenger arrives he may be enabled to look within and find but few dark spots to mar the brightness of the future. One of the duties devolving on the present, while nature is weeping its watery legaoy, is to see that no hearthstone is darkened by want or privation; that no heart yields in des pair whioh might be upheld by hands of cheer and maternal kindness. Bright and bannv homes oan be made brighter and happier still by acting the part of the good Samaritan. Doing good creates, unoiuaen, a good to tne donor. One of the grand uses of the Orange is the planting of this rate fraternal plant wherj grew only weeds and tares, watered by selfish ness, and whioh will produce fruit to enrich the splrliusl life of tne husbandman. "Do good to the poor, helping the afflicted," cannot be too olten presented. For euoh a winter as this is, is enough to make paupers of those hitherto considered in easy oircumstances. Cities, too, feel the pressure as well as the coun try. There is work for the good Samaritan also in your midst. Many fires refuse to give out warmth for the want of fuel; matiy stom achs are empty for the bread which satufielh. The voice of the oppressed poor crleth from the depths of despair for a crust from the rich man's table; too often unheeded is that little voice within, while rioting amidst luxuries whioh soon pale from the absence of duty to wards the afflicted and poverty stricken. If the world would really court true happiness let the world try to secure happiness toothers, thereby reaping a harvest of good to itself. Messrs. Editors, this is a day adapted to moralizing. The wind howls and the rain pours down, and thought is attracted to the re flective organs for food. When we sit down to n well filled board and sttlsfy the cravings of appetite, we rise from the repast with a pleas ant sense of satisfaction. But a cloud will shade the sunshine of the heart when ware fleet that many of God's children may be bunkered, without the means of having it sat isfied. We Bometimes make the observation after leaving satisfied at the table, "Thanks for that Hope every man may have as good to appease appetite and satisfy nature." Is it not our duty to act as well as think, so we may ft el the glow of satisfaction derived from kindly acts of duly? It is aspiritual feast to enjoy the hnppluess derived from making others happy. The eyes beaming thanks, the heart responding to the generous gift and fraternal greetiug. Poor, iudeed, is the man who is a stranger lo such omotioDB, even though he may oonut his wealth by millions. It is our duly to be good 'citizens, good Graugers, good Samaritans lo one another, and the outside world in general, If we adopt these rules for guidance in this Centennial year of great events our pre sent condition will ba improved, and our hopes of a happy eternity strengthened, John Tatlob .Mount Fleasant, Tuolumne Co., March 7th, A Pleasant Kitcukn. Considering that so many women of the middle classes are obliged to pass a great portion of their time in the kitchen, why not make it an attractive apart ment, r ither than stow it away iu the base ment, or in some dark comer of the bouse, as is now too treaueutly doue? Most hoiiBes dis play pleasant sitting-rooms; but it we judge of me convenience uuu general uieasuumesa oi the kitchen by the rooms iu the front of the house, we find, in many iustaucea, we utteily fall iu our conjectures. To make a little show in oompau) -rooms, how many act ual kitchen comforts are deuied iu mauy house holds I It is surely better to begin our house furnishing at the kitchen, aud work toward the front as we are able. Let the kitoheu closet be well sucked, even though the parlor buffers a little. Surely the health of the household, aud the comfort of the women folks should be ? laced above every other consideration. OAlo Urmtr Decorations for the Table. Decorating the dinner table with flowers, fruit, and otber ornaments, has become so com mon that it is most desirable for every house, keeper to acquire some degree of proficiency in tne art. This part of the business of the house generally falls to the lot of the young la dles of the family, to whom a few hint on the subject may not come amiss. Of course, noth ing is so pretty for table decoration as flowers or leaves, and they need not be so very expen sive as might be imagined, especially to those living in tbe country. Even in oili'S a very pretty and attractive display of flowers may be made at a very small expense. A ruslio basket, arranged with ferns, for tbe middle of tbe ta ble, is highly effective; an ordinary sized basket, with a handle and sides wbioh turn over, is best; a tin filled with wet sand should be placed inside, and ferns and grasses of all tizes arranged tastefully, with some ivy around the handle, will complete a very pretty orna ment. If there is a slender glass center-piece to be batt It will look very pretty in summer time, arranged with currants and green leaves twined round the stem. Bound and low baskets, en tirely covered with moss and piled up with fruit, have an exellent eff-ot. Then, in au tumn, nothing is lovelier tban a selection of our various tinted leaves, mixed with fruit. Smilax should also never bo forgotten by those who can afford it, as it twines so very grace fully about glass or silver. Large blaokbenies, in a pretty basket, are very nice for an every day dinner table in summer; the basket should be of straw, glass, or silver, to make a pretty contrast. When the young housekeeper has tried all or nearly all these devices for making her.table look attractive, she will find by prac tice that many other ways will Busiest them selves to ber mind, and that the time devoted to tbe cultivation of this graceful little aft will no be thrown away. Tee Man of Honob What a glorious title that is I Who would not rather have it than any that kings can bestow ? It is worth all the gold and silver in the earth. He who merits it wears a jewel within his soul, and needs nose upon his bosom. His word is good; and if mere was no law in tbe land, be might be just as safely dealt with. To take unfair advantage is not in mm; to quibble and guatdhls speech, so that he says something which he does not mean, even while they never cau prove that it is so, would be impossible to his frank nature, His speeches are never riddles. He looks you in the eye and says straight out what he has to say, without mental reservation, and he does unto others what he would have others do unto him. It is not only in business that be may show his right to a glorious title. Who ever beard him betray the faults and follies of his friends, or sneak slidhlinel v of bis near kindred ? The man of honor is always a good son and a good brother, and when the time comes makes an excellent husband, making the vow to love aud cherish and protect with a perfeot compre hension of its holiness; he never breaks it. What woman need fear to obey a man of honor ? Heaven be thanked that, amid tbe villains and tricksters of this world, there are many such men left, loved and respected by all who know them. Exchange. A Sell, not a Sale. Amiable shop keepers deserve to be canonized. Here is an illustra tion of the trials to which thev ate subjeoted. One midsummer day, when iEolus slept, and the thermometer stood in the nineties, a lady entered a store not a thousand miles off, and inquired for parasols. The obliging proprietor spread out before her samples of a large and varied Block. "Have you any of this shade a size larger?" said the lady. The size larger was produced. "I think on the whole I pre fer the size smaller." The size smaller was presented. "Have you," any of this size a lighter shade of blue?" Tbe required thade was brought out "Have'nt you any of this kind, with a crooked handle?" The shade with the crooked handle appeared. "Have you any with the orooked handle not quite so heavy?" said the lady, and so continued her inquiries lor every conceivable size, sbape and weight possible in the line of parasols. After nearly an hour had thus been consumed the fair shopper gathered up her handkerchief and gloves, aud moved for the door. ' 'Can't I sell you a parasol?" inquired the exhausted propri etor. "O dear, no," replied the lady, "I wan merely inquiring tbe prices. I am going into mourning myself, and have one for sale." New Bedford Mercury, Silent Men. Washington never made a speech. In the zenith of his fame be ones at tempted it, failed, and gave it up confused and abashed. In framing the Constitution of the United States the labor was almost wholly per formed in committee of the whole, of which George Washington was the chairman; yet be made but two speeches during the conven tion, which were a very few words each. The convention, however, acknowledged tbe mas ter spirit, and historians affirm that, had it not been for his personal popularity, and the 30 words of his first speeoh, pronounoing it the best that could be united upon, tbe Con stitution would have been rejected by the peo ple. Thomas Jefferson never mado a speeoh. He couldn't do it. Napoleon, whose executive ability was almost without a parallel, said that bis greatest trouble was in finding men of deeds rather than words. When asked how he main tained his influence over his superiors in age aud experience, when oonimauder-in-chlef of the army in Italy, he said, " by reserve." The greatness of man ia not measured by the length of his speeches and their number. A Cause or Failubk in Life. One great canse of failure is tbat there are not enough fools in tbe world. You lazy hireling fails, loses his place, because his employer is not a fool. Generals have failed because tbe oppos ing generals were not fools; lawyers, because there were not enough foo's to go to law; and publishers, beoause there were no fools to sub scribe for a small trifliug paper, when a larger aud batter one could be had for the Bame money. There is sn artist who has not suc ceeded for tbe reason that those able to employ him were not rich fools, but oompetent judges of works of art. Many an asplriug author has failed beo rase there were no fools to buy and read his senseless productions; while poets have been kept out of the temple of fame because, there were no fools to go into raptures over poems whioh would not raise a man's thoughts biiiuer than a child's nonsense. Phrenological Journal. CniLcnoon's Lessons. Education does not commence with the alphabet. It begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approba tion, or his sign of reproof; with a sister s gen tle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of foibearance; with a bandlul of flowers in green and daisy meadows; with a bird's nest admired but not touobed; with pleasant walks iu shady lanes; and with thoughts di rected, iu sweet and kindly tones and words, to nature, to beauty, to acts of benevolence, to deeds of virtue, aud to the source of all good to God himself I -BAicJhrood. Thk most receut case of absence of mind is tbat of an editor who lately copied from a hostile paper one of his own articles, and headed It, "Wretched attempt at wit." "Those Old Folks." "I don't see why we should make onr cells the same way as they have been made till now," said a young queen bee to the crowd around her. "Those old folks will have them with six sides. And why, pray? Let us try a new plan; let us have them round. The old folks think they know so much!" "Yes, yes I cried the bees with one voice; for they had just been put into a new hire, and could do as they liked. "Those old folksl Because their way is an old way, they think it must be the best We will let them see what young folks oan do. We will teach them." So they tried ronnd cells. But they soon found it was great waste of room and of wax to make them. Tben they tried square, but found the walls would not bear tbe weight when the cells were full. Then tbey tried two or three shspes at the same time, and made them fit as Ihey could ; but that gave them more work and was of no use. Time went on all the same, and their heads were so fall of their own plans, and of scorn for those "old folks," and tbey had tried so many odd snipes, tbat at last no one knew what the old shape bad been. At last, when they had tried all tbe shapes they could, and none of them had proved good, a young bee, one day, cried out, "Let us try c-lls wiih six sides 1 " "Six sides I Ah, yes t " said the queen, "that is a bright thought." So they pulled down the old cells, and built them up with six sides, and these tbey found, to tbeir joy, just right. "There," cried they, "See what we have found out I This is the best way that could b'. What would those old folks say if they could see our new plan 1 Ah 1 it takes a young brain to flud out things." And so t jose young bees went on jeering at tne old folks. Xet tbe ceiis oi six sides was not a new plan at all, but just tbe one that the old folks have always used, and had known to be the best. ufAor of Dick and J. At a collection made at a charity fair, a lady offered the plate to a rich man who was well known for his stinginess. "I have nothing," was the curt reply. "Then take something, sir," said the lady, "You know I am begging for the poor." Rkiiabkablk and Significant Coincidence. During the week ending January lt there were 2,494 births in London, and, what very rarely happens, the number of boys and girls was exaotly equil being 1,247 of each. YdfQ Polks' CoLdfJ. A Wish. Bau W. Cooxz, In Pacific Rural Press. Little robin, Dlltlng there In the hemlock shade; The bougbs bend down And touih your crown, But you are not afraid. Winds may whistle. Piping load. Tossing shrub and flower; You do nut nilod A puff of wind, Within your mimic bower. Little hummer, Darting there Htd the bTohSouis red; Why, don't you fear, You little dear. That you will bump yonr head I Laughing pansles, Btsrtog up. Shake tleir heads at you; Yon can defy The daisy's eye. And race the garden through. Little darlings, I love you Better thin the flowers Or winds can love, But If I move You rush, like wind-blown showers. You would never Fear me thus, If you only knew I wish some bird Would mske a word That I could say to you. Salem, Oregon, March S2d, 1876. Queer Little Homes. A wren is a pert-looking little bird in a little brown coat a kind of Quaker bird that does not believe in gay colors. The baby wrens are never dressed up, either; you wouldn't get them to wear a string of blue or yellow beads around their necks, such as you wear, my dears, you and your dollies, for anything. They seem to be satisfied with their little plain feathers; but one good thing about them is, that the older they grow the better they look. Wouldn't it be a comfort, little Sue or Maud or Bessie, if your pretty blue dress should grow prettier all the time, ins ead of wearing out every day as fast as it can? If you didn't care about it, you jolly little things, your mammas would, that's certain. But I must tell you about that little Quaker ish bird. It generally makes a oosy little n'-st in a tree; but over 100 years ago some little wrens made their nests in very queer places. At that time there lived a very lovely lady, whom everybody dvliulited to know and love, and ber house was iu the country. There were so many trees on the place that the birds were singing there all day long, and this kind lady loved the little birds so much that she would not have any of them injured. iney seemed to know their cood friend, for they went to woik and made their nests inside of her porch, which was covered with vines. Oh, how they chirped when she and ber friends were taking their tea in the warm sum mer afternoons 1 Sometimes while this cosy tea-drinking was going on, the little mother birds seemed to be reminded that their children were hungry; so they would fly back aud forth with nice little fat worms in their bills, to make a good hearty supper for the baby wrens. Well, these nosts around the porch and in the trees were not all they had, by any means; for the mistress, as she was called, was so kind to the people around her, -as well as to the birds, that it taught them to be kind too; and tbey fixed up tome very queer things for the wrens to build tbeir nests iu. Sometimes it was a horse's head, and some times the crown of an old hat. The poor horse had no use for his head, of course, for it was after his death, when bis head looked like nothing but a big white bone, and tbe birdies went in and out through the openiDg, perfectly at home there, and maile their little nests inside, iustead of on the boughs of the trees. This house of theirs was fastened on the fence in some way. They enjoyed the crowns of old hats equally well, the servants usilins every one they could find on the outside of tbe kitchen, and then making a little round hole for a doorway, and in all these little houses tbe wrens felt so safe that they never bolted up st night. CAurcA-man. Domestic Ecof,oft.y- Cooking Carrots. It is a notorious fact, says tbe Boston Jour nal of Chemistry, that we Yankees, like our En glish cousins, are lamentably unskillful in cook ing vegetable, whi.-h the French serve up in such an endless variety of delicious forms. In the country, where fresh vegetables can be had so easily, they are even worse treated than in the city. In fact, they are usually cooked for tbe family just as they are for tbe cattle and the pigs. There is no more thought in the one case tban in the other of making them savory as well as wholesome. We have before given some excellent foreign recipes for cooking po tatoes, which with us are almost invariably boiled or fried, and abominably in eitber case. We now select from the London Garden some hints for cooking carrots, whioh tbe average Yankee housewife never thinks of serving in any otber way than "plain boiled." Tbe con tributor has tested all these, and vouches for their merit: Cabeot Soup. Take one and a half ponnds of carrots which hive been first brasbed very clean, then boiled, nnlil tender, in slightly salted water; mash them to a Bmooth paste, or rub them through a sieve; mix the paste with two quarts of boding soup (strong beef broth will do); season this with pepper and salt, and add, before being finally boiled up, a small lump of sugar and a piece of butter. Serve with a dish of bread out into small dloe and fried in butler. Cabottes ac Biurbe. Boil sufficient carrots for a dish until they are quite tender; drain mem wen, ana wnust mis is being done, dls solve from two to three dunces of batter in a saucepan, and strew iu some minced parsley, some salt, and white pepper or cayenne; then add tbe carrots, and toss them very gently until tbey aro covered with tbe stuoe, whioh should not be allowed to boil. Cold oarrots may be re warmed in this manner. Stewed Cakbots. Half boil abalf dozn large carrots wiiuom cutting tnem; men slice tnem into a stewpan; put in enough good stock to nearly cover them, with pepper and salt to taste. Stew them till tender; theu mix in a separate vess-1 half a pint of cream and a table spoonful of flour, and add to the carrot with one ounce of butter. Bjil up and serve. Small young carrots may be dressed in the same man ner, and will, ot course, require less time to cook them. Cahottks a la Mattbk d'Hotel. This is a genuine French recipe. Scrape twenty small joung carrots and wipe them, but do not wash them. Put them into a pan with six ounces of frrsb butter; cover the pan aud toss the carrots over the fire from time to time. After a quar ter of an hour add salt and pepper, a ohopped onion and parsley. Cover the pan and geutly toss it again from time to time, until the car rots are tender. If you use large oarrots, cut thein into slices and boil them in water until they are nearly done. Drain and fiuiab them as above. Cabottes a la Poolette. Take some young cirrots; scrape and wipe them carefully. Put them in a pan over a moderate fire, wiih t-ix ounces of butter and a tablespoonfnl of flour; toss them repeatedly, and take care the flour does not become brown. Pour a tumblerful ol milk into the pan. cover it and let the carrots simmer slowly until ihey are done. Then take the pan from the fire, and pour into it two yolks of eggs, mixed with a tablespoonfnl of good cream, and a little pepper and salt; warm these ingredients, taking care not to let them ooll, and serve. Cabottes au jambon. Put into a pan six ounoes of butter and a tablespoonfnl of flour; simmer these over a quick fire, until they be oome slightly brown. Add a gill of boiling water, then six ounces of raw ham cut into small dice, a little salt aud peoner. a bav leaf. a small bunch of thyme and parsley, a large onion, and six large carrots out into slices the size of a half crown. Cover tbe pan, and let tbe carrots boil until they are done. Then take out the seasoning, and seive. This recipe also answers wen ior turnips. Split Pea Soup. Take any bones of roast meat, lay ihem on a clean meat board, pound and break tbem, (a small hatchet oarelutlv wiped clean is very sood for this nurDosel. Put tbe bones and any trimmings of cold meat into a soup Kettle or a large saucepan, cover well with cold water, set it on the baok of the stove, cover it closely. When it first bubbles, skim it well, cover it, and let it simmer slowly four uuu.ru. xi necessary to prevent it trom boiling hard, set a tin plate on a brick under the sauce pan. At the end of four hours take the soup from the fire, pour off the liquor through a strainer or colander into a shallow pan, let it become cold, then remove every particle of fat from the surface, and strain the sjup through a cloth. An hour before it is wanted, put it on tbe stove to heat Allow for three pints o stock, a large coffee cup full of split peas. which should be soaked if very old. Pour off tuose which rise to the top, put tbe others on tbe stove to boil for two or three hours, until ihey are perfectly soft. Then rub them through a colander, and when the stock is boiling, add the peas, and a small piece of butter, and pep per and salt. This soup is good and nourish ing, besides being very economical. Excellent broth and soup can be made of bones left from roast meat of any kind, and they should be saved for the purpose. An Intebestino Expebiment. There are some substances arsenic, for example whioh under ordinary at mospherio pressure pass from tbe solid to the gaseous state without first fusing; whereas, with inoreasej pressure, they can be fused. A good lecture experiment for bowing that tbe phenomenon depends on pres sure has ben described by II. Mever. to the Berlin chemical society. Into two similar tubes, with one end open, are introduced a few grammes of iodine. The upper open ends are drawn out, the air is removed from one of the tubes, while that in the other is gently heated; then both are dosed by fu-intr. The iodine in the two tubes is now heated with a Bunsen burner. In the air-containing tube the ioline fuses, while a colored almost opaque vapor is givm off, aud on turniug up tbe tube the fused iodine runs down and solidifies again on the com sides, in me vacuous tube, on the otber hand, the iodine does not fuse, bnt is at onoe vaporized, and a vapor cushion is formed be tween the crystals and the glass, as iu Leiden front's phenomenon. Toe vapor is but little colored and 'quite transparent; beoause, air being absent, it rises at once to tbe oold parts of the tule and forms a ring of sublimated iodine. Boston Jour of ChemUtry, Tbe Electric Lioht in Paris. We learn from recent foreigu journals that the luggage room of the Paris terminus of the Great Northern railway has been lighted by means of electricity for some days, aud o successful has the experiment proved tbat it has been de cided lo ligbt all the waiting and luggage rooms cf the principal Paris r.ilway stations by nieaus ot electricity. By working tbe Gramme machine with three-horse power, as muoh light is obtained as tbat given by a hundred gas burners. The electno lantern is placed at a bight of 10 meters (about 32 feet) from the ground, and sheds a soft, clear light over an area .f 20,000 square feet. The Glacial Epoch. From the Scientific Press. The impression whioh generally, obtain in regard to tbe glacial epoch is that it consisted of an enormously long and unbroken period of oold, during which the northern hemisphere of the earth was covered with an immense ice cap of many miles in thlokness within tbe Arctio circle, and gradually thinning out to nothing as it approached the tropic Thia indeed was, at first, regarded as a fact by all scientists. But, as observations multiplied tbe interpretations of the deposits failed, in many instanoes, to sustain such a theory. Deposits containing organic remains of tropi cal and temperate fauna and flora were found placed between immense deposits of unmistak able glacial origin. Remains of the elephant, the rhinosceros, the hyena, and of the tropical plants which always accompany those animals, were found in heavy strata, which rested directly upon other deposits whioh must at some time nave been covered for a long period with an ice sheet; and these animal remains were again found covered with otber glacial de posits of a later period. Such reports were at first ignored as too uncertain to be reoeived as facts, or o'berand local causes wereasigned for' such peculiar superpositions; but the accumu lation of evidence finally led to a division of the glacial epooh into three parts the second being a.Iong period of interglaoial warmth, daring which Greenland and the northern portions of Amerioa and Europe were subjected to a semi tropioal climate. But as observations have been extended, geologists have been compelled to fur her modify their theories and admit of still further divisions of the glacial epoch. The ev deuce now points to quite a number of changes be tween tbe extremes of heat and oold. These evidences have been found in numerous in stances of well marked river terraoesln Switzar land, Scotland and otber portions of Europe, and also in the Lake Champlaln and St. Law rence river valleys in this oountry. In addition to tbe surface indications numerous borings have also been made at a distance inland from the terrace fronts, which fully sustain the multiple theory. The first to detect the signiflcence of these peculiar intercalations was the eminent Swiss geologist, M. Marlot, who some 20 years ago announced the existence of a warm interval intercalated between two glacial periods. The times of the continuance of those periods have also been made a subject of study by Professors Heer and Libeg, the first of whom p'aced the time required to deposit a certain peat bog at 6,00il years, while Leibeg assigned 10,000 years for tbe same purpose. As this peat bog was about 60 feet thick and contained large quantities of the remains of elephants, stags, cave bears and other temperate or semi-tropioal animals, besides insects, it is quite certain that the ice age must h we been broken for a long time to admit of such an intercalated deposit. These evidences add still further to the vast ac-umnlation of proof that the earth must have been inhabited by the higher order of ani mals for an almost indefinite length of time. Tbe fact is also now placed quite beyond the region of doubt that man existed on the earth anterior to tbe time of tbe last glacial period, the continuance of which cannot be set at less than 10,000 years, while a mcob greater duration must be allowed to the present era of warmth, during wbioh man has been a con stant occupant of the temperate zone. It has been assumed, and with a gre it degree of probability, that these irregularities of sea sons may be attributed to the gradual change of the inclination of the earth's axis that the earth is constantly vibrating in its inclination, from and tia perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptio that on an approach to the perpendicu lar the tropics are extended north, while iih its retrocession therefrom tbe frigid zone is brought down to near the tropics and we have a glacial period, whioh continues until by another ap proach to a perpendicular tbe ioe is malted pre paratory to another period of warmth. If this assumpiion is oorreot, a record must be inevit ably made upon tbe earth's crust, and it is now the province of the geologist to determine how many limes the earth has thus swung back and forth since its crust become sufficiently nnlMi. fled to keep the record, and to calculate, ap proximately, the periods of time thus occupied. It is now well known that the ancient Egyp tians and Chaldeans made astronomy a matter of very close study, and tbat they mapped the heavens so far as visible to the naked eye. It has also been pretty well ascertained that the pyramids had more or less connection with the astronomical studies of th? Egyptians. JEhe great pyramid stands with its four sides exactly facing the four points of the compass. It has also been observed that a line of its masonary points very nearly in a line to the North star, near, but not exactly to whioh the North pole of the earth also points. May it not be that the ohanges of the seasons of the earth to which we have alluded, were also known to that an cient and mysterious people, and that they also were curipus to learn tbe cause ? They knew nothing of a "North pole;" tbeir theory was tbat the earth and the North star were fixed and immovable; that the sun in its revolutions around tbe earth came further north in sum mer tban in winter. May they not a'so have suspected that the inclination of tbe earth might have a slow movement to and from the average position of the sun ? Admitting these suppositions, what more natural inference tban that a uradual increase of that inclination would produce the great season of cold, tbe ex istence of which might have been handed down from primeval races which had been driven from their warm and pleasant northern homs thousands of years before, to seek more south ern latitudes as the earth gradually inclined it self away from the sun ? Perhaps these same Egyptians might have been Ihe descendants of those people. Admitting these further suppo sitions, would not suoh an intelligent and en quiring people have endeavored to devise some plan to detect and keepa record of the progress of suoh an important change ? What more icitsiuits way oi aoing so man to have fixed a permanent line, pointing to the onlv fixed star in the heavens, so that its possible deviati ns might ba watohed from generation to genera tion? That line, which has now maintained its position for 4,000 years, varies in pointing out the North star just about as much as the North pole varies therefrom I Have we here data from whioh to calculate the quantity of the enomous periods, whose effacta are now so surely read by tbe geological student ? Have we thus conneoted the observations of the an. cientEgyptiin astronomers with those of our owndiy? Another period of 4,00 J years will be required to prove or disprove this assump tion; but we need not ereot a costly pyramid or even keep watch over that already erected to hand down our observations to the astronomers or A. O. 5876. The ptinting press will surely preserve our reoards, and ibe improved instru ments of to-day will serve our astronomers fmofA,nCrS?r'el,' ibt dU the skill'"-l " tects of 4,000 years ago. Death of a Famous SiiixioN. Bysdick'g famous stallion, " Hambletonian." died at Chester. N. Y., March 27th, aged about 28 Jff", , He w?g ,be 8ire ' tbe mist noted and valuable trotting stock in the omutry WCagSH,