Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 7, 1874, Page 9

v " / : . Lona, Nov York: f, # PRATRIE AND FOREST} LITERATURE. Teavols spnrllnm;;‘la 8 Adventure, ERIOAN WILD-FOWE-SHOOTING, 1y Josarm L B, Fard & Go, A_DERURIPTION OF THR Gamz or NORTH AMERICA, By ANKER GILMORE, Now Yorks larper & Drotiers, 1874, PIIE Wil NORTILLAND: BEmnu Tnr Sronr or ‘a WiNTER JOURNEY, Wivit Dous, AcROMs NonTie Snx Nonta AMenor, Ty Maj, W, ¥, Uutler, 0. D, F.R.G.*, Thijedelphin: Povier & Conten, 1674, Pho three worka sbove named aro but a por- ton of those recantly issued upon the kindred aubjects of travol, gporling, and adventure. A wort of cpidemic seems Lo have broken out—s xivalry, perhaps—botween the two Anglo-Amerl- vau paticas, aa to which should he tho most ouger in the pursuit of gamo, or tho most suc- ') cessful in ita capturo, 1tis hard to oradicato that spirit of vagabond- ism—thot relic, it may be, of our primeval sav- age condition—which prompts us, at {ntervals ‘oro or Icea widoly separatod by tho cares of ‘busiuess ur tho foreo of cireumstances, to ontor into the pursuit of the wild gamo of tho forest; to sbandon tho comforts and luxuries of civilization, and to becomo duwellers in tonts, to rost boforo camp-fires ln pine- forests, to, float along cold mountain- + mtronms, or wado acrosa trackless marshes, where gama of whatever description dwolla iu a state of prture, An ever-oxisting fores of un- rest is prewent in the mental composition of most ‘men, bo they rich or poor, workers or idlors, which, burating bonnds a8 the impulse gathera Rlrength vwith tho changs Of seasous or the smiles of fortuno, carmes them to the woods, lakes, and etroams, snd places them faco to faco with the dilicultics aud tho dangers which Na- turo first iropoges upon him who penetrates her dominion, and the glonous recompense with which sbe then rewards him. Of tho vork of Mr. Long we shall sy but lit- tle. Confined to the shooting of wild-fowl, more pardeulsrly of the Weotorn Statesi to suggontiot 8, hints, and Information, concoruing b discorary and capture of duckio; the appa- Tatus used, aud the management of dogs, boots, and decoyiy—it presents fow features that aro oviginal, nod may bo looked upon rathoross pleasant and rendablo manual for the duck- shooter than o work of travel or adventure. Mr. Giliaore’s book occupies o wider fleld, s grenter 1nago of country sud of game, and, ssido Trom the personal reminiscencos, 1t vnnn‘nu, i tho mgiu, careful doeeriptions of tho gamo, Surred sud foathered, mot with on the Contineuy of Nortl: Amerien.’ Hig book is well written, fresh, and vigorous, and benry tho mark of & nan gdept. in hus ernft, and untinng in dovotion toit. We wmust, however, domur to an nesumed superiolil;? when dealing with cortain ** Ameri- caniwng,” ~50 eatled,—nad the nomenclatute of Amciicon birds, That in America & meadow s tomotimes termed (in mountainoua districts) & “pack,” that a master I callod o ¢ boss,” n buf- tulo a ** L:8on,” a meigunsor o * eholl-drake,” & wapiti an *olk,” aphoassnt w * grouss,” or & quoil an *tortix " ien passont, we may say tlat & quail i3 usatly called 2 quail, aad not au ortyx, —much L#s an *ortix "), are matters of tasle, and ave ss etrictly proper in Americn as the lerming of a muwn.{ vehicle & *‘cmriago,” a sowdueto: o * goard,” ox a lorse-railway o twumwa 7,” in England, ‘That a ** boe-lino™ is “ comi ;on Americenivm,” wo may E:h’m”'v ad- 5 bat that wild turkeys ‘*can found in Wiaconsi 1 in_ auficiont numbers to remuncrate the sporisman for tho time nud lsoor passed in iheir purenit,” wo eteadfustly dony. A shede of a suspicion comes over us whon we 1ind M. (Hiimoro speaking of a paiuter (**Anglico, puma”) aithout quotution-merke. A man who rvalls & Pauthers,* painter” I8 usnolly clasoed with ¥hoko posons who speak of n broken country na * mounfain-i-ous.” No, No. 1, Mr, Gilmore! ‘Wo aimiro your pluck, your heerty lovo of forest and pra‘rie, end tho excellanco of your **bags ™ of game ; but do not, in o book intonded for the *broad, lappiog Amoriean our,” talk tao much of suootiug deer with & ten-gauge shol-gun, or e too eritical of the Quoen's Touplish, which is apt to bo quita 8 corpectly spoken in Americn ag in the Mother-Land, Ono 1rore point before we quit Mr. Gilmore: With reazd to sevoral ittustrations interspersed through bis work (aud algo 1n the book of Alr. ‘Long, t2d_notably in an article ju Harper's Magazine for November), we consider a word anay pur be smiss, Long ouough have we had illustvations copfed from older works, machine- made labdecapus, and ducks whoee woadennoss outrivaia tho sbop-made snd puinted decoys. Severnl of tho illnstrations in Mr. Gilmore's book ave eapitsl; bnt, nlas! we sre informed ‘zhat thay are purloined ficm o work published vy » Captaln of artillery in 1300, Iv i time that 8 reform took place in this meepect, Any man conversant with out- Qoor-#):ooting knows that thoe illustrations pur- porting to represont wild fowl ere govarally o~ Tonoovs to a degreo that it is impossible to ex- aggorate. Better no illustrations theu such as thoso of tho Ruffed Grouso (page 231), or the Mallard (pago 259), in Mr. Gilmore's book. For Maj. Butler's book we profess on un- houndi enthusinem, In spite of an accasional “irritating remark about boundavy-lines (64:40 or fight 1), wo commoud chaptors as filled with a gentino love of wild life, ustrue to Nafuro, although at times rathor Lighly~colored, wud as showiug 8 nerve and courago which goem to us ratherthe prerogativeof Arcticexplorers or ¥lud- ron-Bay Company’s cmployes than of a self- cousututed travelor, vn\nnmmipvnnknting the wildeness of tho Wild North-Land. A fow yeors_ago, the Red River of tho North wasa Ioythicsl land. An advancing civilization hse ‘pushad onward tll the Sasketchowan, tho Atha- bascs, snd tho Peace Rivers, stand for the out- poste. New Govornmonts and Statos bave baen Touuded, stago-lines have been supplanted b ratlways, aud still tho grand ompire of Britis North Amorloa stands, another ¢ Colossus of tho North,” awsiting settlementand the vitaliz- ing force of immigration. The regime of the Hudson's Bay Company still lingors, but the sd- vancivg pioneers forcshadow an inter-occanic 1adiway, which shall bind the fortilo pri s and brond forests which atretch serosstho Continent, It would bo but pueriiity to descend to tho capture of gamo, and the petty detaila of every- ‘day-life, in o book of the stamp of Muj. Butlor’s, Of 1ailea of trackloss forest and prairie ; of $rad- ing-posts hundreds of mileé apart; of jowney- ing "by long hours of day sud night down the icy aurface of broad rivers, by thomidnight stara and through bitter cold,—tho solo companion- ship_that of brutal hslf-brecds and—strange an- omaly—of even more inteliigent dogs ; of grand recohes of prairie seen from eomo high peak ; of rosring eanons in the dark mountains ; of hoir-broaath ’ecapes by icy flood,—of thess we read, and wonder, and edmiro, following the fortunes of our suthor with & sympathy which is Lrrn of an innate love, .aud with bim laoking back fondly, nnd biddlng adiew, with a lngering hopo of m fature oxpericuce of the trackless wildorness, the grand old Wild North-Laud he Jravea upon the upper waters of the Fruzer River of British Cnl{:\mbu. Religions THE GENESIS OF THE NEW-ENGLAND CHURCH- xS, Lroxanp Bacod, With Tliustrations. 12 o . 480, New Yora: Hurpor & Drothers, uODEE SHATSTTANITY A CIVILIY lw‘.é &,'An(hur of “’l‘hleul‘i bt ?l D‘{S}‘L\F&: 120, . ton 3 i s Co, s R In ordor to have & cloar undomitandlng of the epirit whioh moved the Reformation of tho ix- teeuth century, of tho motives of the men who wearried it trinaphantly through, and of the anl- mus nf the succeoding religions difforencos, an- sagouisms, poraccutions, and soparations, thab peew out of tho Roformation, snd Aually, as vno of the most womentous results, is- sued in the entablishmont of @ Pilgrim Colony aud s Pilgim Church in New England, we must consider the subject with the broxdest charity. We must not only lay sside all projudice, bot we wnuat atep out of the light o the ninoteonth century, and ro-onter the gloom of three, and two, and oue huudred yoats 120, that we may roalize how great wed the in- tolloctusl darkpess in which men groped after Mse path loading up to truth and fo CGod, Not- withstanding the fanstichim, the bigatry, theals tiborality, that provalled among all roliglous sacta In these last centarios, which gave rise to pitilens sracliles, to opprasslons, and to frequont ronrtyre dom, there s u subliwty in that devotlon to principle which mduces wegk, lite-loving huaan uature to dio rathor than donert its feitl, whick: w0 cenuot contemplate without youoration, We may regard our Pilgrim apd Puritan fore- fathers with something like sversion for their grimoess, thotr austerity, their iufloxi- bility ; but, when we come to read tho wstory of thair saciillces, thoir onfferings, thelr patient endurance ot avils and wrongs for con- woience sake, we con bub wcknowiedge them s imoral berces, whoso fortitude, and bravery, aod 2eal, have never beon surpassed, . Men wre but now lewrning to live poacefully fi. esoh other ; to tolerste differences of oplos U to-moot cordinlly sud plasssutly oo the soe platfofis;, witoedd duestioniug yllal magtual THE CHICAGO DAILY -TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1874--TWELVE PAGES private or protensed valiplous bollots. Tha brute 1nstinets of sollisbnese, and aggression, aud dos- potium, wero in fnll force whon the Reformation dnwnod, nod wers but hopinning to loarn subjoc. tion when tho_Mayflowor landed at Plymouth Tock, fit 1620, It ina elow process to Leach tho lion and tho lamb fn human form to lio down harmlessly togother, It s . only of latn yenra that men opposed i docitings, ‘capocially of theology, could liva ido by side without quarroling.—usy, with- out striving with sll thelr might 10 ses which abould push the other to the wall, and compal bim to fea or surrondor. 'T'his is to bio romoin- borod when we would judgo of tho geant raligions conilicts thnt inve from time to wmo ugitated 1o world, and aroused tho woust paseions of mankind in defenso or In prosecution of their Lighest and deareat principles, Tho Rev, Dr. Baeon hen, with tuo soundness, tho fatrness, and the ability, that wo might ex- puot fram hum, rolated tho lustory of the origin of tho Now-Lingland churclies, o begins tio uarrativo with” a rapid, yet comprebensive, skoteh of the Christian’ Church in tho oarly couturics, of {ts subsoquens subjection to tho Papal power, and of the in- fluence of the Raformation upon ecclesing- tical polity, o thon taken np the acoount of the Englialy Roformation, and, carefully traclng its metion and efects, cloarly defince tho idoas which govorned Lotk tho Purllans aud Sop- aratista. Ono of his prmclpal aims is to shiow how thess two Lodies of Reformers differed in tloir opinious nnd requircments, to mako the fact plaiu that tho ono wished meroly to purify tho Church of Eugland, and continuoits allisnce with the State ; wiule {ho othor demanded freo- dom from thio intorferencs of eithor Chnreh or Btate, and liborty to worship Qod according Lo tho dictates of 4 nan's consiciencs, and tho rules which were revealrd to him in tho Holy Sorip- tures. The distincijon o well brought outin the courso of the bistory, and many roadors will learn from i, for tho first Lime, that Puritanand Pilgrim aro not synonywous terms, and that in the idew of tha lattar, anly, lay the gorm of por- fect lihorty. Although wo have had divera histories of tho colonization of Now Englaud, and af tha birth of Cougreeationalism, wo hava had nothing which covers the gronud_taken by this volumo of Dr. Bacou's, 1t dexcribies the growth of the Pilgrira Chureh, from the origin of Sepsratism to ifn banietunent (rom Luglond, through its twalve years of exilo in JIoHand, nnd the first nino yeara of its existence in \ho Plymouth Colony. “The nccount is of oxcoeding intereats for It is platuly and impartially told, and many tinibs of history, swhich iss been bofora but helf-undostood, or Loen wholl{l misunderstood, aro sot forth by 1t in their right light and proper relations. The author mialtes no protension to origioal stalo- ments, but BlmEl\' 10 BOmIO WO intor rremflons ¥ and these tho intolligent reader will apprecinte ot their just value. The littlo book ealled #Modorn Christianity Civilized Henthanivm,” ig, a3 its title ndicates, an open and bold attack upon tho rehgion of the New Testament, It 18 presontod in th golse of = convorsation between au infidol and a clorgy- mau of tho Chrch of Englaad. Tho former, Fu & good-nataved hut ost franks and fearless dig- cussion, oxpoues ud ridionles the inconsisten- cies betweon the modera Chnstinn's faith ond conduct, Ho accuses the wholo world nf practi- cal infldelity: and declarcs that, if mon really Dbotloved that Christ wan the Bon of God, tust Tis plnlmnph{ ia Diviuo, and that thers 18, nc cordiny to is Word, a ouven and & Hell wait~ ing to receivs hnumun gouls aftor this life, thoy coutd no. ecat, and sleop, sud Iaugh, and _play, mnd amuso thumsolves after the lizbt-heartod fawhion that s _customary with them. Ie therofora gemnuds thay, i common konest, thoxe who reaolve atill to liold to the Obristion religion sbail sell all they bave and give {0 tho poor.—shull pags’ thelr liven ju doeds of penitence nnd chanty, and iu piayer and efforts for their ovn and others' ealvation ; or, it they will not thus conform to the com- mands of the New Tesiawment, that thoy sball abjuro thoir faith, repounco their protenkion to Cbristionity, nnd avow themsolves what they are,—eivilized heatbens, and notuing more. Ho would have Christinns obey tho literal word of Chrlst, or diseard it altogother. Selectinug, mod- ifieation of Seriptural doctrives, he will not nl- low,—decluring that tha whole is truo to tho lotter, or thut all of it is utterly faise, Ilis po- sition in extrome, and #o fer ircatiopal: yot his srguments are not withour force. Instead of leadiog the Judicial mind, however, to a rejec- tion of the Havior and Ifis Gospel, tbhey will rather stimulato 1t to o wmore thoughtiil sud carsful agreoment betwoen tho faith und tho life. Real-Eatate Luw of 11ltnois. REAL-ESTATE STATUTES O ILLINOIS, FROS( ITS, TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION To THE PRESENT TIME: Touzvmen witd Corlous Norux ruou wur Reronarp DRomions or Ti §upurau: Count, CONOTRUING SUCK STATUTFS, OB OyuENWISE RELATING 70 IRAL E81ATE 3N TroLrs Tirero. Dy Jous B, Apaun and W, J, Dunsast, of tho Clriesgo Bar, Vol I Culcsgo: Callaghcu & Cowpany. )5k This book oupplies & want long felt by the legel professicn. The renl-estate legislation of Tibnols i scatterod through s great many vol- umes of statutes, o largo oumber of which can- not now bo procured. This work, when com- pleted,—the second and last volumo will, we ara informed, follow tho firat without detay,—willdo nwoy with the necessity of comsmlily the mev- eral volumes of stetutes. Every ennctuent of ony importanco beuring on roal-cstate titles In thisState, whether pagsodin Torntoriel tlmes or since, witl be found here. Tho ficta of tho ses- sion of 1878-'4 will be given in tha appendix tha second volume. The bool containa, besides, very full notes from all the decisions of the Su- preme Couvt in which statntes rolating to real oatatn hiave beon construed, To Ianwvors with anythiug of o real-estate practice, and to con- vovanedrs, this book will 'be o great eaver of timo and Inbor. Mesera, Adams and Dorham hiavo executed their texk in & way most flaitering to thoir industry, Not tho loast recommendation of tho book is, that it is very coovenient for purposes of refersnco and consaltation, 'Pypo- grapbically and mecbenically, it fa cqual, if not suyerior, 10 apy siunar vork ever publiahed in Chiczgo. Wit nnd fiumor, THE WORLD OF WIT AND DUMOR, Edited by ‘@somou MAnvILLE FLNN, Squato octavo, pp, 480, Unlted States: I, A, Peckhon, Sola Ageut, Tho reader who likos jokes, snd puns, and witty sallios, and bumorons sketches, and fon, and droliery, and' nonsense, gerved up in every conceivablo fashion, will discover o good deal that 1o to his liking in this volnmo. 1t is bulky sud closoly paclod, and it wontd bo straugoe jn- deed If there wore not matter for many & hesrly and wholeeowo burst of loughter v iis diverai- fied contents. A considerablo number of its pugos pro Mled with tho little witticiems which travel through fbe uewspapers: but s good joke, like & good svug, 18 Dok worn out with tho sirst hewring. We notice, too, that Amevican _ humorists have a largo placo in tho work: Dr. Holmow, Brot Havto, J. . Huxe, Artemus Ward, Murk Pwain, and Josh Billiugs furnish a gnod provor- tion, and somo of the best quality, of tho selees tious In prose and vosiry. Ameriea copares very favorably indeed with Hugiand fu this *World of Wit and Humor.” Amoug the Ea- glish_writers who contrivute to the collection are Qeorgo Aui(’uamu Hala, Walter LThorooury, Bawnel Lover, Dougias Jerrold, Charles Lever, F. O. Burnaud, ete,, ate. tions, initiale, vohime, Tuall-poge lantye~ and viguoltes, umbolivh the Bayard Faylor's [Rictory of Germany. A SCHOOL-HISTORY OF GEEMANY: EARLIGST PAKION TO 787 EGTAULIINENT OF TIH% Genuar Expsus ™5 1971, Dy Davand Tarion: 12mo.,, pp. 603, New Yurk: D, Appleton & Co. Mr, Taglor Lna condonsod this work from the recant historiew of . Dittmar, Vou Roebaw, and Dr. David Muller, Thoe varrativo iv entively uow, and {8 compresded futo less thun hn)t tho space ooonpied by cither of the Germau authors from swhich its materinle 2ro drawn. It {8 fresh and snimated in atylo, wod givos s clesr aud cou- nocted ontlive of the grewt aud Intluential events that hevo trangjired in the lifo of tha German raco, frow iis oarlicst migration into Enropa to its consolidation futo the Gernanio Lrwplro in 1871 The book is provided with questions at the foot of each page, mth an abnndanca of waps ood Hustrations, and with & full chronological tablo, Tho woll-known quall- Tieations of Mr. Tayler for the production of o mapaal of Gorman history, adapted fu all rewpects to tha needs of tho pupil, will com- mend bis work to taschors snd Boards of Edu- catiou. Tragio Htoriey, 3 , Fadited by NMOLAITRR JOHNEON, e Vot Bqiare 1400, 1. 56, Jioaton: Jawen K, Osgood & Co. The Lappy thought which gave tine to thie gorles 18 welcomed on every aide. 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Library ia now seid to foclude 2,377,571 volumen, ‘Tho administration han just finlshed publisbing printed cotalogues of 411,838 works reluting to tho hialory of Frauce, —~''he **Ravelations of Maria Mouls,' goruo thirty yeaws ago convulued the i raligious world, ure now followed by the '* Rave- Iatious of Maris Mouk'a Daugiier,” by Mrs. 8t Julin Eckel, —1t is no longer coneldored nocessary, sayu un glish raviawer, that thova ehould bo any con- vection betwesn o novel and it titlo, Tley ara thiugs apory from each othov, When the uoyel s written & nams {4 bowtowed upon it, 1nob fu arder to indicate ita contonts, but (o call abtou- tion to tha fact that the uovel exjet, —'*Lotos Leaves" ld tha titla of n_naw hook to he publishod by Willlam L., Gill & Co. 1t will contain origionl contribntions by Wilkis Colline, Mark ‘Twain, Whoitclaw Refd, Joho Eroughur, aud otbers, mewbors_of the Lutos Club, aud will be {ljustratad by Fredeicks, L~ tatge, Lumley, and Durling, formorly uamos of - sbook mive. FAMILIAR TALK. THE BLAGK DRATIE For several contdries aftor that benighted poriod in tho world's bistory, donominated the Dark Agos, bad bogun slowly to rocodo in the dintanco, the physical habits of mon throngh all Christendom romained shookingly dirty and sloventy, snd postilonce, foeding on the loath- somo filth aud corruption resking iu all inhabited plares, atalked to ond fyo over the earth, count- ing ita slain, in overy populous dlatrict, by tho thousand, Larly fu tho fonrtoonth contury, tho Dlack Death {ssued from ita cradle in the Far East, swept ovar Chins, and, alter trausforming that country into eme grent ' charncl-housy, awooped down upon Europe, and ihero 1epeated its avful work of devsatation. In China jte vic- time wero estimotod at 19,000,000, and, fn the rost of tho Eaat, at 24,000,000, In Europo, whore thelr numbers conld be reck- oned with conaiderablo oxnciness, thoy wore sob down at 25,000,000 In London alono tho deaths nmounted to 100,000, Qermrny lost 1,244,494 souls, and Italy ano-half of its population, Af- rica was not exompt from tho cruel spoliation, nor auy otber apot of jand or gon whick held tho tranguro of human lito, Bhips wore robbed of their crows, and drifted holplossly from sboro to shora, earryiug contegion wherevor they touched, No placs waa so romuto or A0 hidden but, whero non had taken rofngoe thero, tho scouryo found thiem out and hurried ihem fo a terriblo diath. 1In Norway, during tho fonr awfal yenrs betweon 1247 nnd 151, tha popnlation was raduced from, 2,000,000 to 800.000. Tiven Ieoland, Greenland and the newly-discovered point in Amoriea called Vinland, was visited by the curse, which finally ontirely cut thom off from commutication with other postions of tho globe. No wonder mon's hesrts wore frozen with fear, sud thoy fled from cach oiber iu horror whon the plague-spot was seen to redden on thoir faces, ' Flusbeuds desoxted thoir wives ; mothers forook their babes; overy tie of bu- manity was broken and disregarded, Tho tainted, sickening, and dying wretch, who, In liealth, could boast of wealth, nnd friends, aod ail the joye that both can fatch, waa loft to gusp his agonized hreath in utter solitudo and meg- Ject, Worse than the mark of Cam was on tho brow of tho plague-stricken 48 soon as the touch of tho Biack Death Lad loft its 1mprint on lis flosh, hio was a thing accuraed and shuvned with nurendoning terror. 1n tho train of the plzgue, befora and ~alter, eamo storms, sud floods, and carthguakes, sud eruptions of voleanoes, rod mophitic sirs ‘like s denso and awfal fog" rigmg up to the heavous, until it ecemed that tio_Destroying Angel, with ono foot on the Jaud and ono on 1ho ges, were pouring ont tho viale of his wrath upou thu doomod and sbud- doyivge plenet. Iu the fiftecuth, pixtoonth, and ssyenteenth conturics, the Bisck Death again raged through Burope, but with less fury than during its fivat torrible invasion, Mitig&todss ite virulonce was, bowever. tho talss which ara toid of it malignity, on these lattor occasiong, cen searecly be comprebended. 1n tho lstter por of tho sixteeuth centurs, the plagae broke out in Bor- deanx, then the tosidonco of loutsigue, aud apread thance ovor tho whole of Guichna sod Pangoua, dentroying entiio vitlages, rad leaving in the regon, nccording ta Montaigne, vot ono in n bundred of tho pupulation, e grapeg yemained wugrthered, tha corn unranped, and the people etill waiting for desrh, noua caring for anything but to get sopulture: men, whilo still in Leaith, dug thelr own yraves, —aovon got into_them liviug, to escapo the wikil beasis, 2outaizno himaslt exw oue of his own waorgien, with the Jass tovewents Joft to him of bauda aud feet, dragging the earth over fim- rIf, Tha population of Bordanux wes reduced, during this awful seoson, from 40,000 to 18,000, Montaigne himself loft his chatean, witu his fawily, and travelod from pleco to plade to keep oat of the way of the dire doslroyer. "Ilsa Jant visit of th:o pingna Lo Eoglaod was in 166865, when it tuveged tho ontirs ivland, In 1665, thoro wera 540 deutbs in London in the month of Fune, $124 in July, 20,016 iu August, 26,250 i Ssptember, 14,873 October, 8,419 in Novemnbor, aiid lezs than 1,000 in Decombsy, Inell, {lio Qeathys were neaviy 70,000 during this singlo wammer aud fatl, In 1720 tho disoune appoarad far tho lokt tima In Finuce, oud doatroyed nesrly one-half ths population of Meracilles,” Boyenty veurs Jater it praviled an Bnswis snd Poland’y bat, sinen e pociod, the s of it haveo bave been confined to E Syris, Auntolie, Grouce, and Turkey, the bordera of Russia, und the Inland of Maita. It fs undoubtedly owing to their imoproved habits of living that enlightene ed natione have sueceadad in banishing the plagne from thaiz dowlvious. Fio ¢ ablutions, cleanliness of poreou and abode, aud an increas- ing couformanco Lo tho Iawe of sanity. aro ron- dering il cluwes of Edrope and America, in the ninetconth ceutury, more and more xeoure from the destructive preveca of cuntagioua sud mnalignont diseasos. 1CCLAND. In bis recent travels in Iceland, Bayard Tay- lor way sccompauied by & young guido named Qeir, o paor, fathorlesy boy of 17. The lad was anative of the dedolato island, and had nover Jett ica ice-bound shoros ; yet, with tho etrango pasglon of his countrymen, he bad pored aver tho literatara of hix ovn and of othor lands, and opoke, benido his mother-tongue, Latin, Engliah, ond Germen, “ Tho boy Geir," writes M., Tay- lor, ** rodo Leside me, esger to learn somothing wore of o world he had uever seon. When puz- zled to undwsstand somo English word, orata lovs to find the ono he wanted, he would goner- aby zek: ¢ Whot is st in Latin 7' Presently he surprised me by the question, * What do you thiok of Byron us ¢ poot ' ¢ Heils one of the very fist in modern Ruglish Hitorsturs,’ Ian- swered. *Is.nat the Soug of the spirity, in Manfied, considoted very fluo?' Geir esked ngain. * 1 liko it very much.’ “ Happemng to mention German, the boybegan {o talk the language, withnbout an much fluency an Vophsh. e lied read Schiller's hallods sud ¢Tno Robbers,’ which latter scemod to heve wado a great impression upon Lis mind ; but ho wie most desirons to hear eomotbing of the works with which he was still uneequainted, ‘I bave heard that Goeth's ** Faust " i vory diffieult to underswud,’ hoe said: ‘Ao T have noi yet Iried to read it, but 1 ops to be ublo in a yoaror two more. Shakba-ipey-gro,"—s0 he prononnced the nems onco, but, as uoon .28 I gorrocted him, alweys properly aftorvards,—* Shakspoars is al- 0 difficult, bud T havo yoad ** King Loar," zud mern to road all tho other plays, — Ie* Faume " anythiug liko Shakupaaro 7 And 80 tho young hoy prattled on, modeutly, yet crrnestly, pressing iuquirios of the mtolliont wnd uymputhotic scranger, which would odd ta his provions atocic of knowlddgs. Whore, but in this remote and bairen islend, conld onos chance upon o humbls guido of ?'ouu:ml years, whose converdstivii Sould persfstontly tury upon Gootbe, aud Byron, sud Shakupenre, now in Bnglish, nown Gor- un, ond sguin in Latin? 3loro nove! thon Mouut Heelo or the Goysers is tho strango spec- tacle which 1neots the ~ traveler hece, ol & lilile budy of solatod aud impoverished poople, capa- Wle of discussing with him, in variouu touguca, thio geniuy anid the achievemonts of the greutost wen of ell time," In ths brsinof the Geysers, whora o numbsr of tho inhabitants Lad eotlected, drawn by the prosenco of their King ond hin goy 10tiuue, Mr. Taylor approached a group of commoa farm- ors, with rudo dress and dull feces. At firsb thoy were smbarinased sud congiralned in_ their sposch; but, when he asked, “Do you know Basmund's Edds?" there wos an inxtaut chango im thelr munuer, aud all hnsitation aud awkwarduess vamhied, *‘Thy Njnl aud Voleunga Sagas, Snorre Sturleaon, with » ucore of obscuvar Sagas of which I had nevor heard, wera usgorly meutioned and disennsed, It wag remurkabla to sov their full knowledga of cvlandic Litorature, and shoir vital iotorest to it “* Do you know who first discoverod America?” 1 aaled. 4+ Yen, yeo!' they all cried in o body; ‘it wa Liof, tho son of Erlk the Iod.” v \When wey it ?' “¢About the yaar of 1000, And thers was Thorsdun Karlsofors, who wont afisewerd, aod Thorwall, They eallod the country Vinland." “OWa Luow It saia I *Iam & Vivlsnder' They silently strotoled out tuelr bauds and Ap inutinet of tho truo nulure of tho peoplo arove lu me. , . . Yo must theum wes liko beivg sudaenly pushod back to the thizteenth ountury ; for il the rich, complex, later-developed hfe of tho rave hay Dot touched . Iu Iojkiavik the beat housoy ars constructed; nupon the samo plan: a littlo ball opening into & atudy or yecaptiou-roam of the avmer, wnd through t8 to tho rilting-room of (ho ladies ‘The furnituso nnd decorations of the Itter apartmont invarighly Inclnde & earpet, & 8ots, o centre-tablo with books aud photogvophs, pies turcs on the walla, whito curtains aud potaol towers in the windows, With thesn checrfnl sud ryefined swrroondingd, the stranger V forgots both latitnds and loeatity, au ho loukn out upon currant-bushes and notaio-plunts, whilo - veralng with o grave, eernost-faced young lady upon Shakspoare, Garmun kitaratiss, of the lateat munto, Lo carlier years, #vory rospectable habitatlon on the ielond had its bath-roowm, with other con- vontoneoes for comtort and cloanlinesn; but, in the presont atato of docay in which tho fortunen of tho land have fallen, tho bath te an nuknown Juxury, and here, ga elsowhare, squalor is the insoparable companion of paverty. :(1 air of tho honsos, and thoe lack of wholesomo labits of neatnoss, cocasion great mortality among childron, Only one-bnlf of the juvenilo popniation reach the oga of 14, Owing aldo to the uttor zbsonco of sanitary precautlons, the island 1w ofton raveged by epldemio dinraos, which decimate the number of it {nhabitants, The nopuletion of the islsud was, in proaporous timas, 100,000, 1t was at one period redueed 1 famino and discasn (o 48,142, Enfi it is now entf- mated st about 70,000 LOISROUERT, It wau to Francols lo pfetel de Bolsrohort, the rafined wit, tbo olever mimio, the finiehod actor, the commonplaco poot, anil the rockloss proii. gato, who waa attached Lo tha Qourt of Richellon in the charactar of Lmftoon, thattha origin of tho Frouch Academy must bo roferred. A little company of prigs and podanty, who called thom- solvey poots, were in tho habit of meoting every weok b tho honso of Conrart, a friend of Boisrobort. Thore was Godean, o littls, ngly- visaged, but pura-souled man, who wrote muny inferior books, and made an examplaty Bishop ; there wag Gombant, a prolific author of ouce popular verses, who had the mortifice~ tion to lve so long—mearly n century— as to ®oe himselt and thom utterly forgotien; thore was Giry, an admivable lawyoer aud & polished writer, with the credit of ponving the purost I'ronch of any porson living . thers waus Habert, the noldior-poct, who com- posed a single poom And fousht in msny sioges, ~—boing at luse killed in one, hefore Emmordick, in Halusult; thero was Cerlny, tho youngor Dbrothor of Habnrt, also o wardior with litorary proclisitiea ; end Mallovillo, whouo colo business inlifo wan tho manufacture of sonaols, which layo_perishod with him; and Sorisay, tho con- coitud scholrr, whose passion was tho rofine- mant of the Fronch lzuguage, and who, could ho have had thiugs all his own way, would have do- prived it of every oloment of homely strongth and vigors and, lastly, there was Courart, who held tho ofiice of Socrotary of the Acadomy for forty fimm‘ sustaloing lid quolifications for, the post by tho cecazional production of soms littly work, in which patnsiaking was more conspic- uons than originel talent, I woy out @f theuo prossic materials that lue Fronch Acatlomy waw in the boginning cou- utiucted, with Boisrobort to conceivae the plan and carry it into exccution, and with Richelien to give it-the ranction of his nawme, and adroitly uno it to atrewmthen the influence of tho State, Tho sociaty was founded in 1634, sud s fow mem- bors bosides ihosa deseribed wore sdmitted et tho time, for iho kake of tha prestige their socinl pusition would lend, or beeauss their admiesion wonld ba complimontary to the Cardina), Dos- marete de 8aint-Lorlin was the first Chaocollor, wnd Coprarl, 26 wo have sald, the first perma- nent Socromary. It was Tmot untl many yearn ufler ite eatablinhment that the Academy Lecame a cenitn of the litorary genius of Yronen, and attained decided honor and dis. tingtion, Doriny Boisrobert’s time, tho gocisly exed {rom his good naturs,—hi not having firmuens to resist the upplication for meniber- ship of men who had no talenta to recommond them to the position. ITe wittily eallod thesn pensionors uyon his clomenoy, “ledf enfanis do la p{lw) de Bowrabert " (childron of Boisrabert's ity). Spenking ot Doisrobert yeoalls a comical inel- dont rolated of bim_whilo, at on early pericd of e life, to s at Rouen, vory much out of his nphere a8 the priestly incumbont of & canonry. Ono of his fuvorite smnusoutonts was gotting up theatricals, nhick at that time worw fusbiooeblo o the form of Mysteries, Ilo hird just mado up the caat for a piny of his own drametizing, “The Death of Abel,” when onn of hie parishionory, u jdy of tuflarmen, begged (it ber son might take a part,—ofioring, if ho were permittod to do no, to pay ¢he exponees of thae reprosentation, "Ih1a opportunidy of gatting tha billa for one of thawe rather rostly sntertninments so eusily footed, was not (o be thrown wway, and Bois- robert toskod hin wits to wako use of it No rusourco wan possiblo but to invont u new obar- aster ; o Doturohost drossed the boy in red velvot, called him the flood of.Aliel, and hed bim volled up and down the stepe, bawling, * Vengeanca! ™ Alothor and son wera enchant- ed, and_tho cluvor priest hud the sntisfaction of witnossing hin play with no distreasing worries concorniug the cost of tho spoctacls, et S AN OLD LIAN'S THOUGHT OF SCHOOL. 2 BT WALT WHITMAS, (o fallawiniz poim was recitod personslly by the author, Ssturda ¢ afleruoan, Qct, 41, 2 the fnugira. tlon of tho Sne’ new Cooper Public School, Camden, An okl man's thought of school: ‘An cld man, gatuering youthiul memories sad blooms, that youth itael? ¢annot, Now, enly do Lnow you! 0 1l anroral shies | O moymng.dew upen the gres) And (hedo I geo--theso apsrkling eyos, "Thaso atores of 1myatlc meaning—Ihess young lives, Billldhfi, equipping, liko a ticet of ships—immortal Bht ) Hoon to £ail out-over tho moasurelels deas, On the Houl' yoyage, . Only alot of buys and glels? Only tie tiresomie spolliug, writing, eiphering classes? Quly a public sauool 2 Al more—infinitely wore ; {As George Fox ra'd his Warnlng cry, * I3 it this pile of brclt oud martar—thess dead foors, win- dows, ralki—you call tke enuren? Why, this I# 110k tho chusch at all—the church {s iving, evor-living; souls,” And yon, Amerdia, Cast you tho revh reczoning for your present ? The lighti und tlndows of your futurs—good or evil? “This Unton multiforio, with all its dazzlug bopes aud ternbie funrs 7 Took deever, nentor, sariier far—provide ahead— couusel {u tune; Not to your veulicts of election-days—not {0 your yoters Jool:s To girihood, boghood laok—the texchor and tha schiool. DROWNED. {The London T/orld ofiers every month prize of 10 guineas’ worth of hooks for tha beus poem on s glven wubject, We gio its prize poom for Ootober 1) The favhing: lghe-lousa bracon pales bofors Thio ruddy bt resteinaon‘s intonser ray, Thot bathies, and. changes inlo sparkling ore, 1ta s2oues of granito gray. Tiound the tall hirign tho groedy Tipple laps, As with the vl u‘é& Uun‘flw}' B E‘ H A shiore-kel tea~bird rlowly Saps Tia ctrong-plumed, dusky wing, Tha pler-lighta, imaged an the waters, melt To vilver pillers, aurh as vicions aliow luces whenn fabled Caliphs dwelt In ligunds 1ong ago. A pingls Loat steuly down the moonlit track, ‘Throuph the #i il night 1w oar-srokes ocho fary Fringod with cle(* Hight, the outline abarply blick’ ‘e ou the hurbor-bur, What atrange fusight fls 1 Sondor lioavy uatl Coverd somo e of biver'd and aliapeleas dread, Rude 1 the pall, out Stted well to veil "Lud wepan’s outcast dead, His name, bis stary? Vala fc wero to guass, But shuit to awn & a wall, » mystery ; Dauth's mockingy glosk upoi 1ifa's lovaliuese; A sétret of \he a2, THROUGH LIFE, * Wa alight thegifts that every sosson haars, . Audlat tbetn fall nuliceded Crars onr yrasp, 1n our gresi sagerness 1o reach zod clas, The procitaed {ressrcs of 1 CCIRING years; O elte we maurn saino great gosd passed aws; “Nad, In ine,abadow of our graf ¢aut dny " tofulse the waer good we ye' 1eigt win, Thie aered Fhaco aud gladuwa of ta-day, Ho thraugh tha chambors of aur lifo we pase, “Atad Jetvo Y v, Oue by oncy aud uBVUr aLaY, Not knowing lanw much DleiAntieas thars waa 11 vach, uatil khin cloving of the duor Tins soundivl ihtongh the houso and died awag, And'in our hinstts vwa sigh, * Foravermiors, —Chuniliers! Jox Tio Livery of the Churchs The Norwich (Uonn,) Hullelin relatos 4 carious story of the dirlvanding of 1ke Norwich and Now (ork tue of bo ety, by w oklilful swindlor. Waits the Chureh Catngrers wes inwoesion fn Now Yori:, 2190 who dookeid very inch en Cpiscopsl clergymun, cailod ot the Now York ofies of the Horwich line 1@ waozod (0 ko arangomonts for the trauspairtatson of G0 Eplscopal elergy- a0 zud laymam, bulanging in Now Englaod, (o Doaton, Thens orwand i rultable ot of dis- cunsion and of tolngraphivg to Lhe ralicoad men in Norwien, tnd st fength & bargaln was etrack for carrying tho gronl 800 at &5 per 10nn, tha agont 1o rocelv a 30 cante. por tivked ne Div coms ymiksion, nwoni ting to $500, He then paid for tha tickots willa a chack for £1,800, sigped Will- {at I, Dodgo, wnd they paid him biscommisaion. Time cams for the buat to lexve, bub nel ho 00, Mot aue of thio grent 500 ward fortlicoming, ond the ideas du“‘l\fl"! with startling rapidity w cloae succentid iy upaa tha ralndd of tho elepme boat omiciale. | Who cheak wes found to ba & fore goxy, but shaMfotger bas 40 far ceomped vapturo, 1o canfined | Ine, SPARKS OF SCIENCE. OILNCHONA, The valuablo alkalolds, quinino sud cincho- which wro o much uscd in mediciuo, aro obtalned from tho bark of o gonus of ivess named Cinchona, and natlves of South Ameriun. Tho product is known to commerce as Peruvian bark, Jesuit's bark, Clina bark, quion, quin- quina, Cinchona hark, ete. 'Who nlkalold exiaty in noveral wpeeios of tho treos in an equal de- greo of fulensity, 1t was first introdnced into Europe in 1639, by the Conntens Del Cinchon, or Chinchon, tho wifo of the Viceroy of Poru, ond congequently Look ita name from her, For many years ith just value in the pharmnacopein wua not epprecisted ; but, after it wag bronught to Eanglaud, In 1671, lto lmporteuce os & ranedy for {otormittont fovers was spoedily aoknowledged. In order to satisfy tho do- mand for thoe artloty, the Cinchonu forests of Bonith America have buen de})]elcd. and mnoh anxiety hion Loen entortained lont thi‘y shonld bie altogether destroyed, In viow of thix poselblo calsimby, an attonpt was mado, (n 1831, to culti- vaie tho Cinchonas ju India, This offort falud ; but, fu 1861, it wan succersfully repoatad, und, 40 Fents Inter, 156,000 plants, of oloven specles wero thrifiily nro\vl’n;; ou the Nellghorry I in Houth iudoostun, and 40,000 treas weto out in pormauent plantations, Tho bark from thosu trecd yields & porcontage of tho wlkaloidn fally egual to thot of the saino upecten grown in South Ameyics. Soven or eight yeavs ago, plantations of tho Cinohone. were miade on the Iolaud of fL. Helonn, at Dinna's Penk. For threo years the plants grew lusuriuntly ; but, & changs {hen oo~ curring in the (Governorahip of the land, they were given over to uegleet, Attention has now again been dirooted 10 the plants, wad it is found that thiero arn abouk 800 which have attained o height of 12 toot and o dinwoter of from $io 4 fect. Tho bark isn quorter of un fveh thick, and han an jotensoly bittor quiviue-lante. Lho oxperiment wos tried of binding moss sround the lowor sters of #omo of tho planty, to oo if the barkt would not swell aud thicken more ravtdly ; but, instead, the rosult was, thut root~ lais put forth fromn the bark thus bownd,—show-~ Ing&nu tho plroty 1nay oo ensily propagated by cuttings, T'ae Cinchonss aro all overgroen troes, with leaves liltlo the laurel, and paniclen of white, rose-colored, or purplish flowers, rosambling the lila¢, aud vory fragrout. ODD ANTS. Upwards of & thoueand difforent spactos of onts buve been desoribed by entomologists, and yot it i3 by no meons supposed that the whols fomily havo buen enmnerated. New specios are from time to time turuing up in differeut paris of tho world, and, as thoy are all wondorfully intelligent, and addioted to the straugest habits, wo muy oxpect to ba outertatned with now aud onvious stories abont the racs as long as lifo shall 1ast. Dr. Gideon Lincecun, of Long Point. Tox., lis been cultivating the ucquaintance of a spectes of awoet-scanted ants which live in biy vicinity., Lach individual ant sooms to be a vial or vase of precions porfumery, sweet as the oitar of xozes, Ciush it betwoeen tho fingers, sud it yields o fragrancs of exquisit quabity, Theso ants ero axtromely seoice, but no donbt the dsy will come when Loy will bo cultivatod, as the Onentehs cultivete gardens of ro=08, fur the rare odors they disull. fmugive & bouquol of thsze ewoel-acented suts impsied ou soparaie pine, and enusting dolicate nnd delicious aromas with ev- ery contortion. Scientisty are trying to prove tliat tho lower orders ol aniwmals do not achn from stebs wnd wonods, and whoy tell us that ingects will tranquilly feed whon trunsfized with a bodin ; thorofore, we might reficsh the duiuty senne of taioll with o nuscgay of blesding Rid quivering suts withous suifuriug oy twingos af consciouce, But tuis treatrgent of the nnts wonld be no wouse than that which the various species un- gerupuloualy uceord to sach other, We are in- dabted agaiu to Dr. Lincacn tor tho dotails of a wholesuts sleughtor of ouo trino by anothor, whieh oyourrect uudor hus ovservation. A colony of tue emallust specics of blacik ants, which dwelt io b yawd, discovered one day w quantity of virop tbot bad hegn spilled o the ground, and muiediately swarwed out and began carrying 1t to thor wagazine, The vessel in whicu oy trankportod ib was the littlo sack in tha abdomen. ut they had not long been en- goged in thw work before a lurgor species of bluck anta loarned wust thuy wers abous, and Lo 1o vilo thein on thelr way homowvard. The tugz, hiack butcuess would seize the listle follows, wiliog along uader thoir burdous, and, biting open thoir rodomen, drew ont the full sacks and uwallow them, ‘Lhen, castiog aside the wutlat- ed carcayd, oach would woizs upon anuther and repowt the murdercus oporation. 'The bloody brigands greatly outuumuored their helpless vie- tin, and, ywhan the rutuless masscro was ovor, the peacoful populous colony ,was ontiroly ex- termiuatod. A ¥ROG'S CDY. A correspondent of Nalure hns lately made tho discovery that the common frog bag, hesidos the ordinary crosk with whica all are funiliar, » shrfll, weiling ery, which it utters whon in poril. ‘Ihio fact was proved in the cass of & frog whiok Tia takon up its abode in a iaap of slates st the foot of an ivied wsll in the correspondent's garden. A irio of meddlosoma cals, alio at- tuchud to tho premiget, uro in the habit of tous- ing this frog whenavar it ventures in sight, by patting it with thowr paws. With each blow the frigutened frog drops its jaw sud gives & flong-drawn cry of terror. The gouund frightons the cats in turn, sbriple back in alarm, und fe W mowents seem paralyzed, IBut, Hkoe obildron ovay ghost-stories, there is an irovintiblo fasci- patiou in the pauics of fuight vhich they them- EBivoY Provoke; and, &4 xoul 88 thoy Lavo re- covercd courage, they xuvuu their pats, on pur- poso Lo cell out tho frog's cry agmn aud renow their own tromors. After diiving the cats away and breaking up their maliolous pastime, tho obeeryor bas ropeatedly drawn the scme plaiut frous tho frog by touching it with his hand, T'ho ery s descrived 28 & cros betweon a buby'a wail and the pota of a pouuwy-trnmpot, LThay who eujoy muste of tho sorv will be intorested to learn from this that thero is o _new note regis- tered in tho grand symphony of Naturo. ARCIIC DISCOVEWIES. Tbe voysgo of the Dritisis oxploring ship Challooge in the Arctic Beas has beea product- fvo of lwportant results, inosmuch aw it Lss proved the worthlessness of muny pravious dis- coveriea, Tho oblef cbject accomplished by wuceessive tours in thoto frozen regions sesms to bo n grest digpersion of oionoy wud destruc- tion of life, wnd the exploslon of thoories brsed upon the ohaervations of pravious navigetors, "The ship Challonge xoports that the continent disvoverod by Capl. Wilkos does not exist! What information, with regard to hithorto- unkuown enzs or lands tho Chollenge Lay brought back for some subsequent explorerto reluts, our advices donot stute. L'rankliu, Ross, Kollett, Koue, »nd others, have roported Inod whera their followers sailod on un open GOk, or they located wator whero shose coming aftor them walvad dry-shod. Tho unususl ofraction in theno cold egions often brings objects into yiow by s nurage, or olovatea lovel iocs futo high Iand, or crested Romblances whers wuh- stances do nat exiet, Cant. Kollett, vouccious of tho trioks plavod with the wense of sight by the airy #pirlts thut hover urouud the North Yole, r1emarks: "It becomes o norvous thivg to report & discovery of laud in thess regiouw without sctually landing ou ib; but, 4 far uv a msu ean be curtain wio bias 180 psin of uru o asgist him, sud all sgreaing, Iamcertaln L bave discoverad an oxtonnive Jand. 1 ilnnk it ip also wore thau prohablo that thove pouku we Baw wra & coutluuation of 2 tauge of mountaina sean by tho natives of CapoJaken aud montioned by Duron Wrongel,” And yoi thoss pouke ¥ wers such _sluif ks dreams ave mado of,” aod wera found by (ater oxplorers * meltod loto alir,—~into Gl als! PIRATICAL PLANTS. Dr, Mllichamp, of Blufton, & O, who has bean studyiog the inscct-traps of the Southorn Pitchor-Plani (Serracenic varola), ropurts thet thare i & sugary mecretion within the rim of tho leat-oup, extondivg wll the way urutnd the thiaut, und from ene-tinl? to thyoo-fourths of zu inch in depth, Yaf, what {8 wmost curious, this saceliariue wocrotion contfuues externslly in o lino wloug the adgn of tho wiug of the louf-cup down b the ground,—thus forming o houeyed pathway to denoy inscts, eppecisily mnts, up to tho thront af tho cup, Wivoce thoy bumble tnto thu water 1t hoids, sud uve drawued, Could s fox La mors ounning ¥ From his sxperimuuty Dr. Mellichwmp won uuwblo to discover thal thoro Was any infosivating quality an the nugary kectetivn. Oo cntting off the rim of the uu&m, or pitelisrs, mul exposing them to the fliva in kg bouse, he found thet thu ineeals woulkd Toed npou Jt and Ny wwvay unbarmed, The fduid in the pitchers, howevar, scoms to powsesa an- oathelio praporties, Wioran-flicx, nfter o brief lm- wmorsion 10 1t, or after walking wbout in a shin Iayor of if, Wave stupatled of pavalyzed fn Prom lslf o minnte to thres or five minutes, but wauld graduslly rovive in the courno of u? ‘hour OF HO. DENTAL PARASITES, If all woro awara of tho fsct that bath vogoe tables and enimald effact a lodgement in the Interatices of unclosn taeth, snd floarisk: in that situation, thord would bo o niore universal and rigoroun adminiatration of the tooth-brush thaw at prevont provaits, To bo sure, the vogetable oud anjwal pariuitos that thrive i tho mouth are vory minuto—misoroscovical In fact; but tise vory ides, in ita most shiadowy prosentation, it ropuiguant to & rofined tasts. Oue of the plani most connnonly found in the tooth, and tho tost fruitfulcouseof caries, 13 tho Leptothriz buccalis It i u littlo affair, but has no slmplor namotoga Ly, Its fuvorite Jocality s in tho opaninga Lo twean the, feeth, Wheu aclds tkken with food or medicines, or soctated abnormaily by tho moull ijtsclf, bave softanod tho ei- mmol of tho teeth, this fungus acts with grnnl n&mity in eifocting tho docay of tha teeth. 'lws ordinary means of clsaningtho tooih do not nifect tho parasitio growth, It sonpy wator ap- pours {o destroy thom. Dr. Demité, sa anthorie ty in dotistry, recommonds that Lhe teeth he brushod ut Joast twico a day with a tine powdor nud o Jittle soup. Tho brushk should bo soft, with the hairs not tao fiuely nat, {u order thut ll.hegh sy penotrate into tho Intoratices of the eth, PENERESE. The atudentsof Penokese, during last sum- mer's sonufon, numbored forty-ihree, of whom twenty-twe were gonllemen und iweniy- one ludles, From a slotch of the work done at this sehool, given by Prof. Pack- ard ot ths Mariford mooting of the Amer- can Associstion for (Lo Advancomont of Buleucs, wo lexrn that text-books sra not used, the puplls being sout diroctly to Nature to gain Iesaons In otigmal investigation. For inalance, in puraving fchthyology, each pupil receives & tlohy, with diractions to study 1t exterior for two dayw, and then report tho obsocvationa mado to the foetructor. Next, its anatomy is investigat~ el in thosame manuer, ond #o on. This prac- tico results tn babity of indepondent study, and in a thorough kuowledgo of the object undor ox- amination, ~Qno listle, elgpificaut” fact wes do- voloped this sumtaer, vihiok applica to s muck mootad quustion. Tho ladies were tho first to meko original discovorios, aud four or tive hed mado actual coutributions to Seience before any of tbu gentlomen fad Lic upon a now fact. LIGUT 16 DANGEROTS PLACES. In Parie, the watchmon in all magazines whera intlummablo or exploatve muterials are storod e, tor purposes of illumiation, a light pro- vided according to the following mothod: *I'ake an ahlong visl 81 tho olennast glass; pat into it a plecs of phosphorua about the size of & pos, npob which pour some olive-oll heated to the hoiliog point, diliog the vial about one- third full, and then close tho vial with a tight cark. Touso it, removs tho vork, sod allow tbe air to upter the vial, sud then recork it, The whole empty epacs in the bottlo will then be- come luminouy, and the hght ebisined will bo equal fo thut of a lamp. Aw soon 8s the lighs oA wonli, its powar can bo incrossed by opeu~ ug the viul and allomng o frexh supply of air to enter. 1n winter it is somellmes noc to gm";l !Ehoo \"i&i b:_t,won;’ the h-nd‘- to E“:i:l. the i 0 0il. Thuu prepsred, the be uuu{l for siz months.” Biephol e ARCHEOLOGIUAL. Dr. Schlsimann, the celebrated discoversr of tbe romains of the ancient eity of Troy, bos obe tained pormission of the Govoromeut of Groeoe to tuke down 2 squsro tower in the Acropulis a6 Atbens. It is known ssthe Athenian Tower, and was probably built in the fourtesnth century. It {8 80 faot high, has walls 5 foat thick, and covers an aroa of 1,600 square fool. The materials of which it is composod were taken from the Acrop= olis and from tho Theutre Herodos Athens. Tho oxpenso of demolishing the tower, which will winount to abont 33,325, will bo et by Dr. Hebleimsun, and, in raturn, he bos the uxc{ullfi right for three years of poblishing uny insorip- tions uacoversd. The tower cccupios & most in- torasting part of the Propylaca; and 1t is hoped that, by itaremoval, many’ inacriptions and valu~ ablo antiquities may bs breugbt to bght. work of dewolition waa hegun in Juno. ASTOOKOMICAL. Great aciivity provails among the astrono- mers of France, Germany, and Austria, 1. the wrounds of the Paris Obscrvatory s 4-foot Foucault minor is bang erected, and M. Le Borrier has obtained a grant for a 80-inch refrac- tor. The Vionna Obaervatory is making arran, menta for tho recoption of a teloscops of similar zporture, whilo Mot Mors Liave noarly com-~ pleted a lens of 20-inch aportur- for the fiyniflt- sity of Strassburg. COAL AT SPITAEERGEY, The Englisb achooner Samson, which has been oruiging in tho Arctio Seas, bas brought the news, on ber late return, that rich deposits of coa! bave baco digcovercd st Bpitabergon, Tus Apt Quotations. . Teom the Swiss Tinea, There i & famous story of Bhoridan that in a debeto in tha House of Commous he heard = mebor on tho opposite vide quote againit him sowmo Greak lines; rising, e replied at onco that, ~thongh the liues niighy sesm conclusive, the Hon. zzntlonsn, it bu bad completod tho puasage, wonld have shown tho House thal their remd moaninyg was juat tho contrary, Ho thon pro- ceeded wilh the utmost gravity to ropest what soamod to ho s sentance of Greek, but was in ro~ ulity a atring of gibberish, such a8 ho could fu- veat ou tho spur of tho mowent. The House was, of course, astonished at his loarning and momory, sud obeored him loudly, 8 lus oppo- nent, diacomfted, #at without reply. A ready ‘memory is a good substitato for want of rouds wit, but Aometimes it must fail ; the man who s eble to think of & word whon he wants it is more clovar then the mian who can recall whafe pages at ony other time. A bappy quotation, howover, oftun shows roal wit, a0 when the Lord Derby, thoo Afr, Stauloy, c{unmd ugaiust 0'Connell, wha had epolien threv fimes in committeo on the snuio question, coutrmy to the rules of the House, *Thrice the bnindled cat has mewed,” from Shakupearo; and whon Bwift, on Beeing tho matlo **non rupni sed recopi * an a wedal ot William LIL, remurkod ; “'lhe Teceiver ia a8 bad s the thief,” But such esamplau aro raro, and not atien, when reisted to bo depeudod on as au- thentie, Quoen Llizabuth's * Ho blow with Hix winds and they wars acaltored,” in referonce e tho Armoda; Blrafford’s ¢ Put vot your tsust e Prineee,” when Clistles ubandoned him; Ed- ward VL5 suying whon ut bLis_coronation the swords of State were delivored to hum, *Yon huve fargotton tho sword of tho apirit;” and 1nuny move sre, a8 tho Italisosuxy, *Stnonveri, ben travati "—if uQt tric, at least are weall i~ vented. _Huch are Lord Denmsn's reference 14 QGeoyge 11, a8 vomelhing whiok Thu seniblaues of # Wiugly erown lud onj aud tha application to the Isto Lord Brougham oud Vauz af ths words *Vauxr, ot proteres nihil," whick ny be considered parallol to a ro- cent college suwry. A groal univorsity proposed €90 ton yoars #3o the * Discovery of thie Sourca of the Nile " as tho yubject of » prize vseay, the wampatitors to vond in ihowr compouitions” with wottoes attacued by which the successful elfurt 1aight ho ideutifled. One of thess wou: *Ex Nilo nibil 1it," whi u this gase, at Joast, turnod ouk but too trno. 'The poom wus nos considered 4L Of course, the vast majority of Englih stories of thin kind tarn on bappy applicatious of tazts of Soriptuze, Many of these ara too irreve- vout, but somo are of historieal valus, and some uro wall worlh remenioering. The Apooryplis Laya been Httle ured in this way, thongh the wall-kuown proverb, ' Magna est verltas et pro- valebit,” tho motto of th city of Oxford, cowes from them: *but the often quoted injunction, *! Tiook to the end,” usnally zivon in its Latin form, ¢ Kespioe finem,” from tho suvonth chap- Lor of the book of Hcclosiustes, One of tho bap- pieat applications from Beripture wan that of tha Baturday Ioviow, of ** L kept silence, yos, evan trom Good Waords," tothe Jute Dean Aifoxd, whou bo bud veared for w tuue to coutribute to 4 popu. lar 1004azine ; snd the tasts of sormous prexchod o publiv occasions affoid ¢otau oxcellont oxai- ples. Thus, an sloquent dean took for hia tozt. ut the reopsuing of wn aocieot church which had bion partially Gostroyed by ire, the words s M Gatlier up tha fragmauts thiat pothiog boloat ; and & country clorgymun heving o ollicinto oo foro onw of tho Pritiwens, it said t0 hava used tha nutilutod varap: 4 Tho King's daughter s lf sloriony,” tor the ocousion uf his discoarut. iveral pleend clulto tho wiuister who - haliove. St gk Dayid lived s hin paciul hie uiight b sa1d, uot io hast, bits aleinure, that wimen liurd; wud mors thun ohe suthor relatos tho in- cldent ut fawily praysrs whera the old gontls. Diaw addu to thetosts “11a clothud himeulf wily g 84 §6 wore with & guruionk, * theconimiwt, w1t fe cechitoly & vory bad Lebit,* An Osterd olorggman canvod sonte romark by coranenciug u nerimon with, *8t. Paul sagy, and I partly sgres with hit—' —fuisgine b6 wrath uf & youug womsn who risen trout ler aeut iu & boras-cur to give it to an. old lady whon sho twus round and sos¢ tnnt the vvmnf Toan apguhu {8 Jooking out of ths wige doty, inntend of Rasing at her approviugly.