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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1876.—TWELVE PACGVE. THE FARM AND GARDEN. Arbor-Day---Kings of tho Foreste What and How to Plant, Arrangements for Driving Threo Iorses Abreast in Dlowing. English and Amecrican Wire.Worms, AUTOD-DAY. Arbor-Day bias becomos fixed fact in the Weat. Tho only trouble is, it is not gouerally remembered, In fact, every day lu(llma."ur troe-planting, throughout the entiro prairio- rogion of the West, should bo made an Arbor- Day, it othor work do not saverely presd tho farmerr, Lot ualook et tho figurcs of romo practical mon for the money-valio of timber- treos, to say nothing of the edvantages which therr shelter affords. AMr. Budd, of Khellaburg, I=., who has grown tho soveral species of ash Lo a cousiderable ex- tent, estimates the ot recoipts from 10 acre3 of rod pab (Frazinus pubesceus), of 11 yenrs' growth, to bo £3,720. Mr. Schofeld of Elgin, IN., estimates the valus of pitno and Luropean Treh plantationn at moco than doublo thewe figucen, Drof. MeAfeo, of tho Iows Agricul- ‘tural College,~a good Lotanist and a prac- tical cultivator,—ways, ftakiug knosu tices as s guido, after wakiug every deduc- tion for culturo, interest on invoestrment, and taxed, ho finds that the net profits npon 10 acros of red maple, Uenoy or ask-leaved maplo, *red clm, aud hickory, at 12 yeara eld, amount to OL152, or ALY por samo per year cloar proflt abova all oxpenzoa. KINGY OF TUD FORTST. Wa have horotofore asaerted, ord rtill Liold to tho belief, that, with ngo, the binck walnud vall give larger returna than any othor timber-tree that can be planted. Y Laa already driven ma- togany out for oruamental vencoring. Another genoration will seo tus moblo timber pracifeally exbiagstad, unless mears be taken for roplanting: and ho who, while planting for lim- saolf, also piants black and whito waloat, hickory, and osk, for bin children, will leave them auo- blo heritage, bettor than monoy. The nuts of thieao trecs, liowover, must bo planied whero they ara to sfand; althongh aome of them may Do traneplantcd if caro bo need in firat furnish- ing them with fibrous rooln by fraquont trane- planting in the nursery. Theso, with tho maples, the whito, 1ed, blue, snd bleck asl, whito pino and larch, whits elm, and the tulip-tree, are Lo bo kings among troen for cuittvation. Shall we commenco their cul- turo systomatically in timo to pot tho fufl ro- ward 2" Thosa who undortake tbeir culturo roon- cat will add most to the waluo of tLsir prairie- farms, and leavo to their children a euro zonrco of wealth, Strongy ond persistent efforts have basn mads to introdien the chesthut into the West for gou- ural caitisation, Will it succeed? No! Our praric-roil i not natural to it. This troo is natural to high ridges, with n deop, open roil. If rocky, just na well, provided thero is plenty of soil. Then it is ono of tho moat valu- hle of our timber-troes, bnrdy, and of quick, atrong growth. A fow might bo plantod for ex- per imcht, but not for their moncy-valus, on tho ralnie. L WHAT TO PLANT Finst? Cottonwood and willown, Either grows quick- 1y, and winuds a good deal of griel, Dotk prow from eattings, are essily cnitivated, soon shado the sraund, and quickly make fair fuel from the thinniugs of tho planta:ions, Tlant thick, sod thits quic'c: bat, if you want wvoward growth,—and for timber yon do,—kecp tho ground well shaded, Plant 4 fact npatt ba- tween tha rows by 6 inches in tho rows, and cultivato as loug as you ean got botvicen tha rows with a horso, \Whon they crowd each othor, cut ovt every other ono, or Lite weakert, and o nntil you get your trecs 4 feet apart. 'hon take out overy aiternata row, and then, again ovory alter- Dalo trea in the remainiug rows, Thus youbavo your troes 8 feot apart, When you get yonr plantation ®o sour iroem stand 10 ‘feol opart, yon will “find that you have cut a pile of timber, aod have @ noble grova laft, and. betior, ono that has really cost you nothing, bmt bas given you asgood n profit as any other Iaborou the farm. Plant that much.abnned tree, the whito willow, if you oan gat it, It males fair rails and fair fuel. not, plant the black willow, » native of tho West, Cottonwood and willow will give you gond re- tures in from 7 to 16 years: the sifver lenf, the aab leaf, aud tho red maplo, in from 12to 20 yeara: and othor trees named will follow in qnisk wiccesnion after. Ten acres inovery 100 planted in timber will ensble yon fa raiso ex Inrgo exops on the rewnining U0 acres ai the 100 acros would produce without tho ail of timbop—if tho planted timber be in the #hapo of belta 3 rods wide. I'lant ut lenst nlong the rosi- sidoa for a beginning, Remember, the roots K‘lll‘ll;ad from the rond, na woll aa the ficld adja- cont, ¢ W0 ROURTS THE YALTZ of timber for sheltor-bolis nud protoction, now- nduys 2 Very fow sensiblo men, thanks to tho mrsstonary-work dono by thoso who were onco called trec-crazy, bnt who aro now found fo havo boen tho oulv sano peoplo on this subject. Tho great tioubls is, ina new country, but few have the time and means to ongage in tree plantivg : but 3 beginning may bo made, if only au icre of cattings bo atuck. Wo hops te rco the timo not far distent whon farmors will trle Liold of this subject in resl dead ennest. Itis no longer an‘experiment. Tho time must como wheu overy prairlo farmer will as much oxpect to plant shelter-bolts aud a timber-lot as an orchurd. When the time doeacoino that overy fam han its quota of shado aud timbor, wo shall seo one of ~no, the moss glorious country the run ever ehono upon., Nature haa dono wueh for tho Wost,—has, in rcality, left but oue thing for man to do, save opening his farm. Tt one thing in the planting of tiaubcr, PLANTING BULUDS AND TREES, Long procorsions of trec-bearing teams ara mow to bo seon every day in the etieets of Chi- tago,—~many of them with only a sinzlo tiee, but large enongh to give tho toam snug work, excopl on tho pavements, Moving lurga treos bes now becoma reduced to auchi & scianco thst thero 16 but Jittle lovs in thoir romovul. Thoy sro planted with balls of oarch eatire, and landad mud removed from iho wagonu—which aro bulls for the purpose—by oppropriate fix- tures. fo imporiant liss this industry becomo that firma own twenly wagoun built axprosaly for moving large trees, sud thoy wie successfully truvuplavted, oven of the size of 12 inches diameter nuxt tho ground. 1t is of little tiees, Lowover, that wo would oow sposk, 'ILore Iy no reason why 1, per cont of thede ehould Lo lost, aud. yeb fuliy 80 per zont are 6o lost, or so bad'y damazed os to be- como & nulsance &t last. beforo thoy ara grubbed ap to muso 1oom for othe:s, Tha troublo is, the work 4 generally loft 1o iznorant labcrers, who kaow littlo and core lera, Tho i thity you vant to know iy, if your Lean properly packed; that is, that e roots have beon Lapt toist, and from con- sact with tle air ns much ad powsibis, We lava known un evergreen to L6 hilled from expoaure ol il roots to the sunaund wind for five ates ; and yet, it this bud been avolded, thers aro no treen easler to transplant, or more murs to live, \When you receiva your trues, it tho roots are ey, o tha roots in"wator fur 10, or 12, vr even 2 Lours, and then cover thow eutirely with fno, molt eart, until ready to plant Have tho loles alresdy preparad for them beforo thoy ars taken from whore you have heeled theia in, being iro that toeeo holes aro Iargo enough Lo recaivotham witliout cramping the roots, TNavo somo friable earilh, damp but not wet, for putting about Ly yuniv, téb tho tros but Yttla if sny deopor—pedinps £ duch—than it stood naturally ' Horcadtho roate, and pack tho earth flrml{ sbout” ninl Lotween them. Whon tlio troe will atand elone, end the raots arn come- })lualy cavered, shovel innenrly all the remaine ng oarth, orenough to nearly il thoe holo, Now, the eurth # 1ather dry, pour ou water onongh to saturats tha earth, aisd, when 4 has completely dried nviay, uhovol on the gomaining esrth, and corer it wile 3 or 4 inches of oarth, 1f tho (iics nee large, broos them with three strauds of wirs, wiapplog the three thickly with hay-baud4 shero tha wire iy fastened to tho tice,—~ths othor ends of tho wiro being fastened to stalies difvenu into the round at o proper distaucs, vo that the wire- aces will form su anglo of, say, 45 degreen, Thus you should Inco but very faw troes. “ltemember, tho intelligent * muper- vislon of an intolligont wan, who can {satruct himself by {xnuucn\ roading, 4 botter than that of lguorant pretenders. These aru poinon to trecs. ZLabel every tree and shind you plauc accu. zately, sud leayo them on umil'you aro antirely hmlfilr ‘with $hem, ¥o that you way kuow them o o * Hsre isanother point of nuportance, sz JOu may sducato youraslt so you vover forget; for each tren, ehrub, and plant hocomes an objoct-lerron, not ouly to yourself, but every visitor you bave, BUALT, YOU PLANT A LAWN? It no, do not plans too thickly, unless you in- tend to thn quicklv, Mote places have Leen npoiled thua than in any otaer way, Iuis true, thick planting looka nico at fust, amd is alt right and proper if you tsxo out thy supornus merary treos befoze thoy ahade your lawn too mueh. or injute other trecs by erowding them, Tla traubla ix, that If & treo i3 onco ret, unlons it dies, the owner hates to vomova it, nnd 8! lant tho placs breomes n forest or grove rather than praporty-ehade:d grouuds, A law, to bo attractive, should hiave enly just sbade enough for Nght and shadow,—uot enongit to ehavio mora than one-fourth of ita e faco if small, aud, if extonstve, still Joss,—only sufi~ cicnt to Uresk tho view, so thab it will nut be monotonoun. Indead, a lawn of emall size glould be plantod _with shrubbory rather then larzo trees, one of the latter bolng sufilcient for rhade. PREPAIIXG FOR THE FUTCRE. It you intend planting trocs i or § vearahence, bocaso you ate ot ready now. it will pay you to bay now, if yen have any ni v-piacs whers tha treer mny bo set; and ‘by the time you want thony, they will not only be firmly rooted, bit will havo grown into good irecs. Lesides, such Lrass aye moro Auro tu lIve. ‘Ito traneplauting is simple. All yon hava o do1a to plosw ous furtaw {or email trees, and two, turnnd apart, for Inracr ones, and et {hom tn theea furroas, 1, 3, or ) foet avart, according 10 the pize of tha ! tho Tows taba 4toLlg feet aport, acconding to tho xizo of tho trees, or tho length of time thoy are to etand. This wiil glve ampio room for horse-cultivation. 1f alarge Iot of evergrecns will bo wanted, soit waz buy emall 2 snd 8 year olds, of such propazators &a Itobors Douglass, who grow eud sell them vearly by the million. Two and 9 yoar old evergreons may ba plasted with o dibblo. in rowa 2 feet apart by sbous 3 inchon In tho rows, This, agam, wiil allow of cu.tivation with » small horse or mule, Bul sieit plants had battar be haavily muleched from the first, and porhinpa the second year, tince tho ground oceupied by 1,000 to 5,000 trees is but asmall atva. As the iraes increane in sizs, and crond cacn o'her, evory other onoin the row may be romoved, nud ko uatil thoy stand 2 fost apart each wav., Then take out avery otier row, aud you hovo them 2 foet by 4. Thon, when neeernary, every altecasto treo in Lho rows can be romoved, and they will thon bo 4 by 4 feet § and, if they are rooi-prurad every 3 or 4 yeara, they may stand thus unul thoy makoe larze, handsomo s2ces, svy two or throe of which, crinps, will bo Worth fiv6 or six times what »U00 or 10,000 originslly cost, DRIVING THREE ARREAST. 1Ya bave used somo complicatod arrangamouts, and many suuplo ouey, for driviog turce Loraes abrepst in plowing. Asaiulo, wo have alwavs found thoe more simplo onaos tho better. Weo Lave dono & gond deal of fall-plowing with throe Doreca, and abxays fonnd that we had na mach Tand tarned over at night, aud s deeply, a3 wo could bavo accomplishod with four bitched two balore two, Tho reascn jsobvions: The leadera aro so far from tho dralf, and tho attachmouts 4o henvy, that the labor of fully ono horeo ia ex- pended in overcoming ths difienlty, A great deal of ingennity bas boen- axpended, firat and Iass, in eo srranging tho several pecis of these (bree-borse drauzhit bars that tho posve er of cael horso should Lo equalized suceess- Tully: 0, in & considerable mensure, in th more comlicatod ones, and afso in some of the pat- aut clovises. In the Cenada Farnur wa lately saw n threo-horse-cqualizer figared, which com- mends iteolf at oncoas baing simpla and eifectivo, and which any farmer can make for himself, aud any rough blacksmith iron, T'o maiia it, take three precos of tough, hard wood, 9 inchos thick by 3 inches wido ; that for tha middle hot#e, 22 1chies long, and thoso for tho outsitoe horvas, each 47 inches long, — Thess aro jeined togothor in lino by Li{-inch strap- iron, ro that they will lave considorabls flexibility, and leaviog o spaco of 1 jnch between cuch bar. Now, lay theso pieces down benide a duuble-tree 5 fect loug, 2 inchen thick, 4 inchea wide at tho contrs and 3 inches at the cud, aud mark whero the mitachments of sirap-icom, as described for connecting tho draw.bars, should Le. Councet, aud tho whola will bo ready for uno. ‘Tho hiorses aro attached o tho ends of tho Ioug pleces, snd on tho midflo of tha short picce, oach by & cowman sin, BHGLISI AND. AMERICA ‘Theso alo a number of nef cylindrical larviv, mostly the lmvmolths or npring beotles,—snenping-bugs as they aro faunliarty eailod,—which, iu_pasticular seasdns, do wueh dawnge to crupi, Thoy are known os wiro-wormns awoog farmers. Tho true American wireeworay, Liowever, ki an Julus,—oot 3 {1u0 fonect, but belonga to tha class Myrianoda, tromn tha grent uumbor of foot poscssad by inwects welnded in thoys familles, fjomo of thore Amorican insects of tha Llaler tribes are allied to the English wirc-worm,—tha one most clogely resombling the English specios being the farve of tho Ltater (A ) dancus of 8sy, It found early in tho spring, amony the roots of tho grasses and coreal grains, upon which it feada. # ‘The Gardener's Magazine—en English horticnl- tural journal—says of the Lnplieh wite-worm, that thoy io very fond of notataes ; and that, if Innd infostod with them bo plauted in potn- foes, tho worma will eptor, ba lfted with ths ecrop, nnd but faw will cvor get back again into tho soil, and thua tho pest soou passas avey. Iu thorefore ndvisos planting cuts of po- tatoes In lands supposed to be infested wich thony, to ha dug up after a week, and boiled for tho plga and chickens. 'Fhin has been copled hy #oms Ameriean agricaltural fournats, evidontly under ths supposition that their and our wirs- worma aro ideutieal, which thoy ara not, Lven if they were, it would ba ridiculous to sunpans that “American farmers could afford” to plant & pes of land with potators, and then dip them up again, with avier of extesmmating an insect that, if birda ara not billad, doca but vory listlo dnmago, Tha English p'eu for oxterminating a varicty of in- sects iu by strewing freshiy-cut potatoos on tha gronnd, and examming them from time to timo, killing thie 13rvie feading thoreon ; and wa atrongly suapect that tho journal quoted has more theory than practice in what it bas aaserted, The plan usually pursuca in ths United States for preventing the attacks of wire-worms—and it Is 84 offectual as any ouo we know, #ave ono—iy ta #onk the seed in copporas,~—~sulpbate of iron,— and then roll in quick-limo or ashes, Tithor in obnoxiona to the tacct, and, sinco thev piorco tho recdr, the remedy gonerally s offcctual. The other plan ic one by which we savoed a 40- acre fleld of oorn that was so badly infosted that we havo talien from G to 10 larvio “from & single bLill of eorn. Wa hired a lot of Loys and gitla to go over tho fleld, pulling up the infestod corn, illing the wormw, “sud immodiatoly replanting. Cortly that, you will ony, You, it cost fifly cents per acre. besido the reed for replanting ; bus thon wohad G0cents’ worth of watisfaction in knotr- iny that wo bad done something in extorminating vormiuous insects which the birds ought to havo done, Dut, thon, tho prairiea ars 1ol natural Lunting-places for many varietion of birdy, ‘Ihigputs ** Tho Furm ond Gardon " jo mind that thera i3 one otbor and probably batter—oercain- 1y chcaper—remedy than eithor wmentioned. It 18 to plant_treea for nesting places of inmect< enting birds, and then Lunt thoso who shoot them, at o'l reasons, and olsn thovs who hunt game-bivds out of season. The trees will grow lotn valuabla timber; thoy will protect your floldn, turnish aholtor to tho birds, and the Dirds will destroy miltions of insccts, Dontroy rain, too, will thay? Yo, thay will take poma toll whon they can'tiind ingeeis, Dul which would you rather, focd usocts ou tha seed, or allow the birds some tall on the produce ? Oh Lirdy won's ost chingh-buyzs and potato-beetlon? Iry queils with chioch-buge, sl turkeys and ehickana with tho Colorsdo rascal, It is trua dotnestio fowln liava to bo tauuhit to nat the po- teto-huotle, hut some wild birds oat them, and lbhu nuail, at least, takes naturully to chinch- ugd. THE CLIFF, TIEra's 8 groat qray clif by the desp blua soa Thero Was & 1nalden that loved tot 1o, i To tlin raat gray eliff camo the voa to woo Wills 8 Juve that Wa groat, and deep, and tray, The sen eatne np aud kisead e foot Of the great gray cllf witl kissos weet, Tho cllif sald, * Nover ta thine ombrace Wil T atoup ; "4is enuugh taou should'st use my face” Rald tho ses, with 8 pyltig smito, @ ¢ e At e M L e And tho great gray cHff, 8o he tals Ala lototho fi:n- 5‘?.{.. blue sea fetl, lh Lloved my love; she was cold lo me As tha great gray clif to tho doop blus ses : I wooaoud tay love for many a day ; [ have wuit 10y 19y 0,—sb {4 wmino for aye, —Landow Orcheatrd, o IZows Cakes . Phitodelphia ress, All hopes of tho recovery of littls Charloy Ross have uow been almost chandoued. 1t is roport- ed thar Wenterveldt, Mcshier's brathor-in-law, is new locked up fu [oyamensiug Frixon awsitiug trial ou the churge of boiug coucarned in and having 8 guilty kuowledgo of tuc auduction of it nacdootaiy T oo Westotvabi e e otatly fe m Westorveld's I aburs time sgo in Now York, Hrex " SPARKS OF SCIENCE. CANLY SCIENTIFIC STUDIES IN AMERICA. The firat sactely inatituted for vromutaug uee- ful knowledga ta the United States was formed in Phiiadelphia, neder the title of the ** Ameri- can Philosophteal Nociots.” Benjamin Franklin wan one of the leadors in its organization, and to his carnest spirit of discovery §t owed much of fta early proapority, For many years tho deaigu of establisbing a similar Inatitntion had been couteruplated in the Colony of Marea- chusatts, but tho sehoras did not advance Leyond indefinite yropositions until 1770, when, deapite of the dietreesing and nintavorable virenmstanzon of the War of the tevolution, then in the height of its hostilities, Lho plan was resolved upen, nnd measures wero actively taken tocarry It tnto fmmediate excontion, luy 4, 1780, tho Infsar nty nas lncorporatod by nnact of Logslaturoe, iy thoname of * The American Academy of Aco sud Beiences,” Jamos Dowiloin, Gavernor of Maszsachusolts, was elect- ed Tresident of Iho young inatitution, aud the Rov. Joseph Willard, Prosident of Cam- bridge Univorsity, was appolintod Vice-1'reaidont and Corresponding 8ceretary. Tha Council of the Sociaty included tho Hon. Bamuel Adamwy, Eng. 3 bls Honor Thomas Cushing, Diq,y LL. D.. Licutenaut-Governor; tho Ion, Tobert T. Paive, Esq., Attorney-General 3 tho Hon, James Warron, Eaq, ; and the Rev, Hamuol Williams, L. D., Hol. Profossor Mathematics and Nat- ural Philosophiy. Among tho bome meiubers wore his Lscoiloney yolin Adams, 1sq., LL. D., Mintstor Pienipotentiary at London ; the 1fou. William Cusbing, Exq., LL. 1., Chief Justico of tha Supreas Court ; the Rev. Janaesch Cutlor, F. M. 8. and Philosophical Secioty, Philadelphin ; tho }on, John Hancock, Esn., Preetdont of Con- gress; tho Rav, Bamuel Masher, D, D, ; tho Ion. Bamuel Osgaal, and James Winthrop, Baq. In the list of Americau members were thio namen of hls Lxcelloucy Benjamin Franklin, Faq., of Pennsylvania, LL. D., Mioister Plenipatentiary at Uaria, President Philcaophical Socoty, Phila- delphis, ¥, R. %, rondon, sud R. A Paris; tho Hou. Jobn Tiumbull, Laq, of Councecticut, LL. D.; and Benjamin West, Egq., of Providence, ¥. Philof, Soe, Philadel- phia, The first volume of tha Transactions of tho Secioty was published in 1780, with tho titlo of *Memoirs of tho Amorican Acadomy of tho Arinand Sciences: To tho End of the Year M.DCC.LXXXIIL,” and beara tha lmprint of Adams & Nonrso, in Court street, Loston. Tho volumo 18 & squaro oclavo of 570 pagas, bound in leather, printed in the quainy style of thoe po- riod, aod {ilustrated with aevoral . wosd-cuts. Tho table of contents comprises ** A Philosopl feal Dircourns, publiely addroasad to the Amori- can Academy of Arts and Scieuces, in Doston, on the 8th of Novamber, 17903 when the President wan Inducted into Ollice. By Jam:s Bowdain, Esq., Prosident of tho Academys" and fifty- four papers contributed to tho Acadomy by va- Tious of its members and correspondents, to- gothor with the act by which tho Socioty was in corporated, tho etatutes by shich it was govorn- on, ete., ete, The papers are divided into three parts, the firet of which inclides thoao dealing with astronomy sud mutiematics; the secoud, those Licating of piveica, the Arty, and uajural nresory § sud the third, thoso discussing medical topice, 1t was not demandsd by the Academv that the papers presented beforo ib should contain the ruits of original investigation, Asiu tho dis- tarbed and impoverished coudition of the coun- tre, booka wero with difticulty pracured from tho Old YWorld, it was ratiounlly decided that often 1t would ba of more importanco to disserainate & kuowledgo of establishod aud uzeful facts than of doubtful discoverics baving novelty for thoir chiof recommendation. The Academy therefora wisaly determined to publinh thoss exporiments aud obenrvations that promised to bo of the graat- ost utility to tho Commonwealth. Tho aatronomi- cal papors rosinly record otsorvations of salar and lunar echpse, and of the trausit of ler- cury, aud aro cuutributed by the Rov, Manassel Cutlor, of Ipswich 3 Preastent Wiltard, of Cam- bridge ; Denjamin Went, Jamen Wiuthrop, eto,, alo, In their study of tho heavons, Mr. Culley uccd s rofiocting _tolossopo, magnifying forty-ivo times; tho Tov, Prof, Willisnis used a teiescono magnifying 260 timos ; Mr. Josoph Litawn, of Providencs, nded n S-foot retlecting telercopo, with spint lavels, a refleot- ing nleacopo of noar £ feat, and n prospoct giass of 3 feoc -4 iuchica levgth, **iountod on o cou- venient stand ;" and “othors had instrumonts of equally limited rango and Imporfoct construc- tion. Among tho papers_ombracod in tho second part in ono by Jamea Bowdoin (who {4 a quite copious contributor to the Memoirs) giving “ Ubsorvations tending to prove, by phenamena and Seriptars, tho axistenco of an orb, whish surrounds the whole visiblo material myatem, and wnich may ba necemsary to preserva ic from the ruin to which, without such a counterbal- ance, itseoms ltablo by that untversal principle io malter, gravitation,” The Rev, Poter Whit- noy furnislics **An account of & singular apple- trao, producing fruit of opposite dqualities; » pastof tho samo appld belng froquently sour and the other swool.”” Tha wrniler of thid papor closes bis deacription of the aterrant spple-tice with the following paragraph: For the truth of what I have asserled, T can appesl to muny persous of diatinction, wud Of nice_ Lastee, who Lave traveled 3 grout disiahce-to vicw tho treey aud tzate the fruits but to luvostigate the cauee of an effect o mitch out of tho commion courss of na- turo, muet, I think, be atiended with ditticulty, Tho ouly solut{on T can’conceivo b, tust tha eorcula, or Licurts of 4o seods, tho oua from a rour, tho other from & aweet, apple, might so incorpurate, in the round, as ta prodiice but one plent; ur that farina, rom biowsoms of those opposits ‘qualities, inight pasa {nto and faproznate thn same secd, ‘I'ne lon, James Bowdofy, Esq., forwards to tho Academy ** A lottor on the rotreat of house- swaliowa i winter,” from the Hon, Samuel Doxtor, Eaq. ‘Ths author of this lettor suataing tho opinlon, then uomowhat prevalont among nnsuralists, that cortain specica of migrating birds do not dopart to 4distant conntries, but ro- moain lu their pnmer-hannts during the winter, in a torpid stato. In proof that this is the Labit of tho housc-awallow, Mr, Doxter naya: ‘The lule Judge Fualer, of Nrookfleld, s year or two ‘befora is deatli, asunred mo that he suw A eertuln pord drained, adout tha reason of the year whea the awallows Lret appear, The buainesy bulug efocted, and the wuather fair ond warm, he, with scyoral nthiers, observed n rippling motion' in fmany pazis af 1lia etaptded koidow, which, ou s near {nspectiun, they found 10 be ozcasionsd by a wultituda of ewallows, en- deavoring to dlicngage themscives from the mud, which was scarcely covered by the shallow remalus o water. 1n viow of this aud other similar tostimony, Mr, Doxter states that ha began to make per- sonal obsorvations upon the wrrival and departe ure of tho awallows. [ils house was favoiably mituated for the accomplishment of hia purpogo, being near a large, and in many places shallow, river, with s muddy bottom, ~ }e nover aue- oceded 1n witnesing tho rise of tho birds from tho water, bat ‘‘at the proper time in the apring,” ho did see very large flocxa of them * go uear the margln of thu river, that, from that circumistanco, tho appearanco of their fonth- ary, and their bolng unabls to usa their wingsay atother timen,” ho concluded * thoy woro newly amerged 1rom the wator, When they atiorapted to fly, thoy conld not reach above 8 or 10 yards beforo_ thoy soitled to the Frunurl, and then might bo drove about Jike chiskens. They ap. peared unwilltug ta bo disturbed ; snd, if nov frightonad by soms noleo or motion, wouid cluster togethier, sooming 1o want to reat them- Solves, a4 1f fooble or fatigued, hey wera mob recoverad from tholr utupor,—thers wis a viy- cuous subslaico ou or about their wingy,—or thay wors tan weak to lly away.” 'To clinch tho sreument, Mr, Doxtar aseorts * thut thore have beon mioro instances thanouo of s pickorel's being caught in this river, at ihe season of the coming of swallows, with one in ita belly." Ouneof ths moet valuablo papars in the ool- lsctlon in that presanting **An Account of soma of the Vogambluluomucnnnu, naturally groxing {nthis part of Americs, botauically airauged,” by the itev, Mauasseh Cutler, This was the first attompt to nama and clasify the plauts nalive to Eastern Masanchuselts, Dotauste from Luropo had visited Canads and the Houthiern Htates oxsmiming tho flora of both regions, but, according to AMr. Cutlot’s neate~ mont, k groat part of tho extensive tract of country 1y botwaon thesa rogions, and in- cluding soveral dogross of tatizudo, romaiucd une explored. In tho preliminary portion of hiuw [Bner. Mr, Ontler utges tha utility of a general owledie of the vogelable producliovs of tho conutry, and deplorea Lhu fact that the science of Lotuuy Is taughit in none of tha schools, i list of plants collooted withiu o fow mitos of Ipawich, and noluding niearly 400 pocics, §n are rauged according 1o tha artltioial or Linusen sysiem. ‘Ko the uswmo of the ureater nunbor of the plauts is appended an sccount of thoir pocas sta., oto, eupt at with ex- a classiticution of Now Englaud plauts tremo luterese, Coples of this old volnme of ths of tho Acadoroy of Arts sud Helon 10, ng way bo ‘supposad, vory ¥sre. Mr, Whlsm Pauls Las one {n Lis posseswion, and to him we nro Lndahtml for the pleasurs uf examining the work. OAMPHOR. The ramphor of commorco in chisfly dorived from the- Camphora ogicinarum, a tree of the Laure! family (Lauracee) that growa lu China, Japan, Formosa, and Cochinchina. It Is ob- {ained from tho wood by distiflation. Tuo Dritiah Vice-Consnt at Tamauy and Kolnng, ina Iate report, doseriben tha procesn of distiliation in that reglon a8 a hazardous trads, on acconnt of tho hostility of tho sborigines, who resont the continual encrorchmonts upon their tor- ritory for Lha purpose of cuiting down the trees to extract tho camptor. No voung trees are planted to roplaco those destroyod, and at tho present rate of diminution the supply of cam- phor will ore long be entirely oxbauated. ‘Tha utiila Wwod by th operatives in this rgion are of very simple “pattern, and ses buailt up fn suci: o manner © an to bo easilv removed as tho Chiners advance into the mtorior, A long woondon trough, couated with clay snd halfe Miod with water, is placed over eicht or ton furnacen : on tho trough boards pioreed with lioles are fittad, and an tnesa boards aro placed jars contalniug the eamphor-oud chios, tho whale being aurmountod by luverted earthien- ware pota, and the jonls mado air-tight by filt- ing thom up with hemp. When the furnaces aro iit thia stonm pasren through tho pierced Loards, and, maturating tho chipw, eausen tho sublimated camphior to settla in eryatals on the iusida of the pots, from which it {s roraped and aftorwards re- finad. In summer Lbo camphor ofton losan as minch a8 20 per cent on Itn way from the produc- ing districts to tha po:t of slipment. A DRY-ROT ON LEMON FLANTATIONS, A malady eatled la sechoresse, or dry-rot, lias attacked tho lomon-piant, aud throatens great losa on lomon plantatioua, It Boizos tho ox- tromiticsof tho plant, sometimea the root, somo- times the bLranches, and, gradually sproading over the wholo treo, difrs up tho sap as It goes along. Al attompta to stay tho progross of tho dinoasa bave beon unavailivg. Tho lemon is a comparativoly Liardy tros, much more casily cnl- tivated than the orange, It Las, thorefore, beon carclesaiy tronted, and doubtless to this fact In owing the present diseaso, 20 well aa to tho habit of foreing 1t Leyond its eapacity, Tho troo is o nativo of tha dry aud hot soil of Porsin, but, travaferred to various ciitnazo, it haa boon mada to yiold a lurgely-increasod Larvost, 1o is mnggostod that by graltiva cuttings of tho healthy lemoa-plant on tho wild orange-treo s now 8took of sonnd and vigorows plauts may be obtained, and by care in enttivation tho diseass may bo nvoided. "It 18 waid that aymptoms of tho malady aro appoaring in orange plantations, SUMMER SGCIENTIFIC COURSE, A summer course of instruction v chomistry and botany fa announesd st Haevard Uni- versity, Cambridge, for tho bouefit of teachers and other adults. In the depart- ment of chemistry instrnction will bo given in general chemisiry, qualitative analyeis, quan- titative analysia, and determinative mineralogy. Tho extensive and voluablo coltectiony and np- prratus of the University will be open to the students, aud tho courso will oxtend from July 8to Aug, 19. Lessons in phaenogamic botany will be given i the botanical laboratory at Cambridge, the gresu-hcuecs, gardou, botanical muyoum, snd library of tho University offorin tho pupils thelr amplo facilitlen for atudy, A courso of lectures on cryptogamiv botany will olso bo given at some locality on tho scashore, not yet dctermined. W'welvo lectutes will be dovoted ta the algso, aud six to the fungi. MATILBA--A TRAGEDY. Destdo the stream at eventide Wa panved Leforo wo par: 8h, Leluy oldor, onty syl Dut I was broken-hearted, # Once more [T #aid) onr trotl wo plight Toride thin Lrimmbug occan : Tiso riser rolled ita uaval helght, ‘Tlio reat was all cinoticu, BL:e anatvored not,—my Lave, 1y Quosn bw- Blio gavo a geutis waivers iijver: {Old-reanoned Anltors know how kesa Tho breezo Liowa up tho rivor), 4 A flower (I salid] o flower a5 rlgn Of Love approved—confest ™ (L tuarked a Itose, iunre rad than wine, "Ihat Tosu uyon her Lresst), Bho gave i, Bubtlest eacenco felt From each pink petal- fold 3 1 wors {8, (hough niy renso of amold ‘Was sometuing dull—from cold, Bhe went, And yet no Fate has Lt Our hymoneal taper ; Bt thale uot al Lo worst of [ ‘ne Tuke waa ouly puper —Auatin Dubavn. i e A Mysierions and. Juckaon (3rea) Couricr-Herald, Monday our city wea unusnally excited by the exhibltien lu tha Courier-Herald oftieo of o baud of wood which grow out of s grave near York- villo, in Glbson County. It wus brouaht intoour oflice by Capt. G. 8. Andraws, of that county, who gives us {ts history. A man named Willjam Horron was out walking with his wite ono Sun~ day evoniug not long since, and, in passing au old nogloctod gravoynnd near the puble road, slio saw & gum bush with o bunch of mistietoo on ita top, and requested her husband to get it for her. 1To went and ent tho top off tho bush, and commeoncad broaking off the mixtlotos, whon to Lis surprire and torrar lio discoversd’that tho wood underneath prosented the perfect formof a buman band, Capt. Androws, hoaring of the wondorful discovery, went to tho bouse of Wr. Iorron, who, feeling rather uncomfartable over tho thought that he cut it from a grave, and per- haps baving eomo theory as to itn supernatural signilloancs, vory wilingly let Capt. Audraws buve it. Thero aro citizens of thiy oity Lo whom bath Onpt. Androws and Mr. Herron are kuown, and they are vouched for as trathful mon, but the haud’ itsolf iw proof encugh ol tho truth of thoir statomout concoiuing ita growth on abush, Tho busi from which it wns cut was 6 foot high, end ths hand was on tho top, I‘nlntiug upward, prosouting tho position of e miniator's hand whon pronouncing s ban- adiction, It is about ihe sizo of af-vear-oli child's baund, with long sleudor flugors liko thoss of a porron very much emaciated by sickncss. ‘Tha wood has entarged formationa on each Ay er and the thumb, topresonting and corresponi. ng with the folnta of tha buman band, Tho nuat remarkuple featare about it fn the natural appesranco of the nails, ‘I'moy hal a kind of flesk color, and the balanco of tho hand whero tho bark had heen entirely romoved, looks ghastly whito, The firat hnpression it mokes upon You i+ tho sanie oxporionced in handling n skoloton, and o larga tnajurity of thoso who seo it regard it with the samio eubducd, Lisif-super stitious ane iuspirad Dby the presance of o corpso. Mr, Andiews saya the grava from which it was cut is n{l’l'jlpnund to ba tho gravo of o yorv devout Mothodine minister by’ the name of Butehor, who waa Luried thore many years ago. Qruelty to Antmals In Foreign Parts. The London Sandard'scarrespondent in Italy, writing from Rome on Mareh 15, gives n droa ful scconnt of the cntolty to wlich horves a subjected in tho stroets of *0 Italian capital. Ho tolln us that ho has socn them beaton 4 gav- agely about the head,” and when b hns called & policoman’s attention to thesn acts of brutality tho lattor has answered, ** What have I todo with it ? 1t {s Lis horo ! The same gentloman bag witnessod & 1tomen carter, aftor exhausting all other moans of causing sufforing to the unfortunato aunimal intrusted to th eare, tdart st the wuuder part of the crea- ture's mock in R paroxywn of fury and bita it with bls teeth.” Tuo Italian Bociety for tue Prevontlon of Crualty ta Auimals, belng un- popular among the wealthy classes, and nusup- {mnud by the Jawn of the country, {4 powarless 0 protect thess unbappy quadrupeds, In Paris, M. Hostoms, wntivg to the Conatitutionnel, points out that, at ths meoting of the mombars of the French Soclety for the Pravoution of Cruelly to Avimals Lofd on the 170 of Decem- bor | yoar, & 3, Borel called attontion to tho suffering inflicted on the young elophant which apj.ears in the *“Tour du Alondse at tho Porto Bt. Martin Theatre. AL Borel fnformad tha meoting that in oue part of tho piocs the avlmal bad to uiter » ory, auda tuat this ory was causcd by mcute pain. A sors, Lo smid, waa_purposely kept opou (enlrelenue vive) bo~ hind ouo of tho creaturo’a eats, aud wheuaver it way neceasary for tho elsphant to mako itself heard this sore weas well probed with a pointed stick. Yhe President of the Hocioty promised that he would inquire futo the watter, aud {hat, if bo found the statement correct, is would com- muuicate with the manager of the theatrs, Ata more recunt mooting of the suaiely, when a Mile, Chretian askaed what stops had been taken 10 the mattor, she was inforwed that o lotter ahy about to be written to the manager of the theatre, wrglug lum to discontinue, it possibie, the ~ill-troatizent complalne of. “This method of apnaaling to the fuolinys of bruta crestion by the mid of & pointed stick and U 0P wore in by no muaus uew, Itis notan uncomnou thing to xeo Arabs {u tho etreots of Algiers quiatly sugeged in skinniog places about the rizo of half-a-crowm on the rmp-bones or shoulder-blades of mules nnd donkeys, Tneso plnoes nro also entrefenuc vives, A weekly jour- okl informs un that Indian crows ara groat thinvos, butas they aro aacrod birds tha Hindoos dinlike kilting them, When they catoh thow, bowevor, they take their revane by Elm-kmu thair feathers, leaving thom nothing but their wings and tails to gat away wi THE PLANET JUPITER. Now amd More Than n Century Ago. Tho planot Jupitor, the largest in the soler ryslem, I8 now a yery prominont sbject In the avening sky, Ilo comea {o the moildian near 11 o'clock, liaving bean in opposition to the sun about two wacls aince. Itis uot necersary to give directions for find- ing Lim, other than that ho is the bughtest star visblo aast from the gouthern line; but & note of Ius position with reforenco to o few mtars may rervs aaa helpls reesgnize thom, when o planst has laft their neighborhood, A littla to tho right of Juplor, and southing nbout 9 o'clock tn tha evening, i & very pretty figure—~n trapozium—of stars, the uppor side of whicly may be roughly described a3 seeming to bo abont a yard acroes. This figure 1 the con- stollation Corvus, the Crow. Atina from the two npper stars to Jupiter will pass through a bright star, veually classed na of the first mag- nitnde, It iy tho principal otar in Virgo, tho Virgin, or tha gleancr, and Is 'rapresonted on the globes ay fu & bamdful of corn carricd by tho foraslo. Honees tho star has been calied Bpica, and Azimech. It in also called Ariata; not from tha Greck word moaming *the bost,” an goma may suppose, but froma word signifying tha spika ol aun ear of corn, or Lho car itself. Tho constollation Corvue, with its four princl- pal stars, und two other oullying ones ot oppo- site cornors of the fouwi-wided figure, is very aasily recognized, when once the observer hag identiflod it in tha sky, Tho planet Jupitor has beon written abont so much rocoutly that wo écarvely noed essay an- other deactiption. Wo muay, however, noto riefly the resnits of thu lutest quantitative re- woarch, diffcring condidorably in reveral respocts from tho genorally accepted statoments of tho text-boola, Tho mean distanco of Jupiter from the pun is 477,600,000 miles, or n lttle more than 5.2 times the moan distanca of tha earth from the sun. o travels through spnca (sround tho sun) at theratoof o llttle moro inan 8 milos per second. Hia equa- torial diameter in 85,650 miles, or 10.8 timea tuat of the earth. Ly volumo s 1227.6 times that of tho earth. i weight gma-sj compares with that of tho earth as YUG.27 to 15 to that of the onsth pius tho moon as 501.56 to 1; and to that of the ain xs 1 to 1048 nearly, Jupiter is attended by foir satelliter, the ro- spective dinmetors of “which ara 2,350 milos, 2,110 miles, 3,448 miles, 2ud 2,950 miles. All but the second are Inrgor than our moon, Theo third phines as o star of the sisth magnitudo, anud could bo sron with tho naked oye if it woro not !)lrll:]lyobuured by the suparivr Lrightucss of the planot, A groat deal hes beon written within the post few years about the preat changes observablo in tho atmosphera of Jupiter, and tho fact that ho rollects to us so much light that his temporatura must be ovly o littie below sho point nocossary to self-lumivosity. 1t ia believed that tho planot ia too hot to patmit on his surfaco any of tho forms of lifoe with which wo aro acquainted; =and thw beliel bas benn writton up lu auch A way, or ways, a8 tu lesd many poople to think thut thoidea is original with some aatronomer of the prosent geuoration, It is rofroshing to tumn to tho worlia of tho eminent nntwialist, Buffon, who flourished moro than & century ngo, sud there fiud the whole speculstion spiead out in abso- Inte tdrma, Duffon ealoulatod that the planot had oceupicd 9,400 yoors in cdoling to tho solid cond.tion ; that ho would oceupy 110,000 years more in cooling down to the poiut whera his sur- faca could be tonched ; of which paricd at least 7,000 yeais nro yel unezpired ; that 240,400 yoars miora would b requircd to caol the planet down to th: temperaluro of the esith ; and that still avothor 483,000 {d‘l\'fi must clapss beforo the planet would bo chilled down to tho present con- dition of the moon, Buffoa calenlated further, that three of the antellites of Jupitor are slrendy died out wortls; that one of thont (the Jargost) is far advanced in 1he frigid phnso; amd that Haturn will requiro 85,000 vearn longer to cool down to the presout condition of tho earth. ‘I'u1s iy pretty good philosophy for o man who dicd only sovon yems aft.r Hoischol Hest turned Lia tcleacope upon Ursuus, long bofore the Bpectroseopo was invonted, or the law of {he corrolation of forces discoverad. Ilad Duffon lived Lil} now he would undoubtodly have rovised bis gigures in the light of moro re- cont knowledge; his - periods are too ehort, DBut it is dno to lim to suy that ho autloipated fportant deductions which liava Locn accredited to modern sciontiata ; and that na estimates of the present rolative temperatures of sll'the thon known plancts woro subatantially tio eamo as thosa warennted by the observations of the last fow years, Soloman waw not far wrung when he remarked that “Lhors 1a nothing vow uuder tho sun,” —_— CLEOPATRA’S RNIRROR, You have s thonsaud slaves, who do Unyiliingly thor duty 3 Al T one sarvics Lave for you, To imaga back your boauly § ut that vne norviro is so sweet, Twould I it my life would tledt, Your othier slaves any you aro aterny 1 alwaya oo you emiling, Ax froni ma #9nie now grice you learn Your Iovera for boguiting. Those w'aves, did thoy bui winns T Your stullea would dare thrica o'er to dle, ©ly, wouldt you that all lands should pass oucath your irm subjection | “Then deeni tho world your looking-glass, And mada for your reflection, Did yau but smite ou mensas mo, The whots world sbould in bon:is —F, W, Bourditlon in Londor Saecta gttt o o A Turkish Romances Camstantinoply Correscondence Alls California, « A certain Pushia In high pesition lnd a nifo— only one—to whom ko bad alwayd beon an fndul- gcmt aud loving husband, ‘I'hoy haa no ohild, ut atill hie kopt fuithful to his promuse to never tako nuothor wifs. Ope day whilo ho was out oue of the servanta camo and told bimto po home and enter the house by s private way, opan only to the servants. s did wo, and wentto his chamber to find it locked, With oye blow it waa opent, and his dishonor was only too apparent., 1o wan armed, but ha made no u4o of Lis plstols or sabre. Ho simply addressed tho man, who was ous af his intinate fiionds, and told bim Lo could not loave the room until e was pawl, ‘I'no man etared in_hopeless nstouiulinont and toar, whon the Y'asha demaudod b francs, The man paid it aud gladly loft. The Pasha nd- drowsed no word of rapronch to Lis wife, but laft tho 10om, and commanded o bun?ual o bo served thnt night, but only for himself and wife, Ha rematned ajons till then, 1lis wito bad al- ways eatan with bim aad beon his compenton, instaad of playthung. ste uad nl\m?'l lonored Lor above all the women in the world, and suo was treated by Lim In every respoct not only as an equal, but a8 a suporior boh:g. Llio banquet was spread. 1o wont and gave his sym to his wifo and conducted Ler to the table, placed lior as usnal, and took his seat opposite, 1lla umiled on hor and taliced as nsual, but bofore ho had eaton aunything Le had takon tha G-frana pi d lald it on the table bofora bier and between thewm, For six mouths he ate evary meal with her and slapt by hor sido, but always with that B-franopieco botween thum, Whiore o had bonflht her one elagant deens bo- fore ha now gave Lier thres. Wiiore hie had been kiud beforo he was ten-fold kinder in mauner, aud he allowed hor peifect liberty of action, Yot every day and evory night, like” an accusing angel, was that pioce of monoy Iaid Lotwaen tham, Bls could not eat, though pressed mest affectionately, with that silent accuser thero ; sho could not aleep, though the bost phyaicians tried thoir skill, with that spcctre beside her; and 8o, when six monthé wore pussed, one day tho wastod skeleton body of tho woman was tound dead on tha divan, e S Sorrow and Busvineas Clevetand Leader, an residing n this ‘city recently lost bis moiher-in-law. The dontls of this lady lefs Wi iu & quandry. If heclosed his store be might loso somo oywtom, nuless sumsoxplauation could be furulshed. A Lnppy thought struck him, le film:hund ahont & quarter of a yard of crapa, ung it ou his store door, then pastod on his shiow-nlcdow tho followlng: ‘‘Hore will bas open April 14 ; if you waut any boots and shoos it will pay you to wait,” A gentl: A lively urchin accoated s drug-stors man tho other day; *‘Alister, ploass giu e s whick of liquorica; your clask goes with zy aister.” BAFELING DETEOTIVES, '"La ntyle, a'eat I'homme,"™ Monaisur Buffon invented the phraso,—it Is romothing moro than a mof,—and the police fui- nisl a praotical applloation of it. Tho Idontity of all tho leading criminaly {s mos<nrably ar- rived at by tho polco kuowing the etslo in which thoy ovperale. This stylo is Lho kaoy to what would othorwise Lo an imponotrable oiphor, ‘The iustencted axports of tho Paris police nre nabla to detormine, with a procision and coriainty whicit soam marvelous to he unininted, whoso hand it was committod & cortalu robbery, or'viv Tatad tho law in any erucisl way. Haoul Surinn, & criminal of distinguisied omi- nrneo, had astyle of his own that, wialo very wuceessful in itn pecuniary results, was very troublosome in ita consequoncos to hiny, sinen it was a0 piainly marked as to be immediatoly roc- ognized by the police. Hengo, each time ho “oporated " he was rura to bo arrested, and not always salo Lo ezcapo conviction. As his apora- tiony wero numerous and extensive ho was often odnvieted, and st tho age of 40 lad parged fifteen of the last twenty yours of hiw lifa o prison, Tinonl Suvien, called Froluquat, was the son of an optician and fnstrumesnz muker of Marseilles, and followod tho trade of hin fotlier uttil hin 10th vear, whon he camo up to Paris to noek lis tortune, 1fedlrst hecams known to the polico through o rapld succcsslon of swindling opern- tlons, very snccessfully contrived, for tho doliv- ary of goods which ho did not possors eud tho appropriation of mouey which was not his own. Finally convicied, ha'was sentenced to closo con- fuement far threa yems, and graduated from prison & very accomplishod chevalier d'indusirle, Itis operations now assumned a boldor enuraoter, and ho worled in a largor ficld, Ho wna again couvieted of docoiving s wealthy hourgeots and cbtaining a “loan " from Lim of 100,000 francs. Thin timo he served five years, A third convie- tion insurea him s closo coutinement of tivo years moro. At ths expiration of this lzat sentence Raoul Surian returned to Faris and gundunced g m- toution to “raform.” Ilo had saved a licle money by ezlra iabor in privon, his tather way dead, and lie set up & smali hop ut Botlevillo for tho mala of wpoctacies, oye-glasses, and pithe- matical instrumeonts, lio. wns clodely obsorved by ths polict, hut sBromed to conduet hitaell i tho most exemplary manner, lis pasaport st thins time do.cribed & man of ordinary hoight aml figuro, modent but manly earringo, faco ratlier palo, bluude bair, no_baard, sud lirge, liqud, nuticeabls blae ayus, The faco, so thu signale- ment declared, woi ingenuous, frask, onou, with A rather enguging smiile, but nona of the featuroes were striking, unltess it were tho eyow, 1Is wax sront favorite of thae polico, who had novessur:!y a great solicitude on s bebalf, fur, instead o avoiding thow, hn assiduously culcivatel thoir acqumntance, made them lit:lo presents, and gave & fow franca now and thon to tho funds for tho napport of tho iadigent crlmimals and for tlin burinl of deconsad sergonts do villo. Hoal- mittod, with many shrups of tho shoulders, that ho bud beou a bud subjoct, but claimed that I was shrewd ounough to underataud that in any gontent botwixt him aud tho law ha tras cortain to feil underneath, He had tried it soveinl times, and was quite well satisiied with tho puntshment ho had roccived. In vhort, hio reformatton was dafinitivo and complote. Aftor o fow months’ shop-keopingat Datlovitle, Burion sold out lus oatablishment, fle had mada & gaod deal of monoy, ho eald, specalating in shares at the Bourve, and did not nced nny louger Lo continne the drudgery of shop-kecp- mg. Ho now reuted & modest spartment on tho third floor of a Laudsoino Louse in & siroot not far frum the Doulovard dos Itallena—a drawing- room, droxsing-room, breskfast-paclor, two bed- rooms, room for gervants, und a small room ‘which ho called tho taboratory. Hers heinsialled ‘* Madamo " Bunian, o very handsomo and viva- clous branetto, undoratood to hava heon o cer- tofn Ao, Cytherce, not unknown to froquentera of tho conhisen of the onora. In hiy *lsborato- vy" Surdan had a stook of frrnacow, crucibles, wheels, and yarions other jnntruments, and cas: aud ground glarsos for optical aud otuor instiie meonts, fur which he received mauy owders, bemng acconnted a slallful and ingevions workman, Ho bad an eseistant, o stohd-looking Alsating, oamed Julas Gochien, M prineipal work, how- over, secemed to bo at the Iourse, whers he apeedily beeamo known as a daring operator,who would oarry the heaviost load of whnresin tho faco of the mort nrduous diflienttion, who always aceeptod hix succorsen with modesty, and pakl Ing losees promptly as marurity. Ad the polica kept tho kocret of his past life iaithrully, aud ho himeolf of courso did not dirclosa Ic, it camo generally to bs admitted thist Raoul Surian was & very weanlthy nerson, who had made his touey by following civil onginsering in Bonth Anioricn, aid roturned to Paris to spond it hike & gontle- man, 1n 1809 thore wesa tromendons effort made nt the Bourse to ““corner™ tho suarcs of tho Herbo-Moldavinn R-ilwa{. Tho *corner” was broken promaturely, and s gront slaughter on- sicd among the “ bulls.” Among those pun- islied most coverely was M, Laoul Surian, whose net lossor, it was“whisporad, excocdod 700,000 francs, Ifo oamo up gallantly, however, paid every centime, and, ny if to show ho wan not burt, sot up a soupoe of his own, * Andame " hiad slroady long boen i the habit ot driving to the Lois in & vary handsome turn-out, but that, {z wau anderstvod, was only bired, Himultancously an operation of aunther kind amtated inancial esntron and attracted tho un- divided attontion of the police, Bilia on Ameri~ enn ncoonnt aggregatiog over 5,000,000 franey wora_sold In Loundon, Paris,'Amuterdam, and Tawburg, which woro found to be forgeriea. The patice, aftor loug conkultation aua corpati- gon of data, found no room to doubt thut ail thews oparaiiona were the work of ons toan, and thut tho “ style " was that of tho onco omment but now reformed contidonco man, 3f. Raoul Burlnn, A couplo of the most trusty agonts wore de- tailod to ** work up " the caso, and, ot the end of throo wooka, Surinn was arrosted and confrontcd with tho particy fu the weveral citics who had been wictimizod by the forgor. It was knawn that Surisn had boon abscnt [rom I'aris, and it wae hoped Lo idontify iy boyond mistake, Just \owevor, & must unoxpoctod biteh ocenr- T'ho swindlor was Anld to bo **somotning liko " Surian, but he had gray eyes, dark bair, and hight bloudo beard. “Ihio witucasea woro unaninious as to tho color and appearance of the ayes, which wore deseribod £3 boityy &9 dufferont a8 .0ssible from tha suspoctod 1nau'o oyos; and Burisn was accordingly discharged., Not eutlatled with this, urian went to polico hondquartore and complamod of the injury dons to his charnstor and business by this arrest upon 8o elight o 1nbrie of wuspicion. 1o Inid botoro the head of the Departmont what protended to be = full exhibit of s businesu affairs, amt ‘which shawod that, atter all bis debis wora paid, ho would still have n eurplus of 3,000,000 francs. “Ona door not steal nudor such cireumstances," said Butiun, Cho dolinquent ayonts were repris manded, sud Surian weut homa appareutly well contentad. It 18 probablo, however, that he suspectod what wos actusily the case; that ho was bolog carofully aud assiduounly watched, can- tractod hia whecalative operatlous vory orial- 1y, nud & million in gold, which he lind on de- posit 1 thoe Bank of France, was drawn out and ahipped to Amnovica, to pariies unknown to tho authoritied, The outbroak of tlis Franco-Prus- winn war, howovor, took Surian to tho Bouma again, aud Ls was loug of ** Hontes" whon tho culamity of Weissonbourg overtook Irance. Sarlan wont_down with tho funds, aud comipro- mised nith his creditors with & deficlt of & mill- fon and = balf, Two wooks inter Lo wua again arrested for passiug somo 20,000,000 francs ol frauduleut Quarlorinasters' drafts. Thiw time the poiice folt suco (hoy bad Burian, but the bat- fling mattor of 1dentity again spravg up, The actual crimmnal bad o gencral roscmblance to Surian, except that bis lakr and moustache wara dark and his eyos sa black aa jet, I'he suthori- tics were d\lm{»luundod. ‘I'he testimony, how- over, was direot aud uncontravertiblo, aud, after a ncavching raid npon Burinu's bouse, where, howaever, nuthing was discovered which tendod to c:lmm @ biw, the ox-convict was again ro- leased. . o Gormana now ¥apidly thro their tremen- dous cordons around L'arls, and the momarablo sicge of tho groat city began. Burian joinad a regiment of voluuteors aud wont on daty. Tho position assiguod his company was tho cliargo of a pickot post outeido the fort’ of Yauvros, whoro the Prusking broaching batteries wora fiually es- tablished, Quo duy be and four of his compans {ons were surprisod bywomo Ublaus riding in in the gray of tho morning. 'The other men woro spoarcd, snd Hurish Was reported mussing, “killod or captistod.” Twontv-four hour, lator Surian uppoared ot his post again and rej:oried fur duty, Ife tad tlad, Lo said, undor the celter of » houwo, aud could not got out auywooner. ‘Llreo dava lator ho was arestod with a sbow of preat solemnity, and carriod Lofira Gon, Villot, com- mandur of tho dlvision ta which ho was attache ed, The Cuolouel of the rugiment aud wanv other oflivets woro presout, ** In thiy thomau " asked Gen.Viliot, joinsiug 10 Suriae, aud wecost dpg s persou in Pros-lau uvifam, *4Tuat is tho man Leaw at Vorva:dles fony days 8go," eald thaspy | Yo willing to svoar to him. Hoecamo up tha streot, ascorted by Uh. nus, and went directly mto M, do Dismarck's headquartors, T raw Iim myneif,” ¢ Yon a1o ehariad with an offonss the penate of whicl in doath, Hurian," kakd Clen, Vidot, * Wit havo you (o say for yomreelt 2 Did you givo kufortation to the'enemv 2 * You say you saw mel " cried Rurlan, tarniny his full faco upon the apy ; are you vory sure sun B e 2" {I'ho spy staggored baok, aghant, * Moo Dien! nolnol “"Twillnot wwear! ‘Fhe mav § uaw was Nkio you—but it was not youl Thaman I s goiug Into Cound Biamarch's quarters had cere tainly hrown eyes ; and yours aro bino.” Hitrlan thus ascapod sgain. Ila wont intg Paris for tho fitrt tiwa kinco tho mioge Lo, Apparently the stato of hin dome:tlo wonage d:d ot snit bim, Ate I8 coming erouled g reat disturhince in nujrhborhood § tho fair stheres loft the houroln tonrs, and vowing vone gesnco, and the impassivo Julos Gachan was are restod s n Prussian spy, upon spacilie chargea Iaid by Ruonl Hura, sonvicted and shot. Suan allor tnin camo tha surronder and the Cominune, During tho ohemeral retgn of 31, Enscbs Birawbrot ot polive nhordqunttors, a dork-browed bewitty camo and taid charzes of trenson aud inciviem ngaivst M, Jtaoul Burian. Hhe gave her nams a8 ile. Cythereo, and rawd that Surian, ona of the adroitckt rolbers of tha azo, who continuaily oscaped couviction thiough D fnbitl dinuie g, hod Loon in constant caus munication with the Gormans during ho aago, Hor charges wero supported by ono Gsltaud, formerly of the polico, On tho other lLang, Surlan, whio was prenent, and sean a Communard Calonel of Artiliery, aud bigh tn favor with the soctiuna of Bellovilln, provad thut M. Guiland war an ex-nouclined and n Napoleontst, and $hal ilie, Crtherco had compromised heroslf with Jdunios Gaenon, Prosean spy, lately oxeeutod, Birambrot disminced the charges atd the wite nesaes. sl Surisn raturnod to his canoon, On the night after tha Vorsalllsty broke Into Paria S disappearvd. Holeft tho bnticry at Levills, [Jlu‘.)uuill;{ Lo return in fivo minutey witl some pereassion-fuscr, which were needod, He did not coma back at all, o sas areasad ia & vary oouspicnous uniforny, and was grimy with duat and emoko. Tho next morniug o compang ol Versaillos soldlers, bLetouging to tha On) Tlundied aud ity-necomd Batiation of the liw, was bnerying along tho ltue Neuve des Peliia Champs, uuder tha gudance of Folice Azent Qallaud, insearch of Communisty and Petrot. o, o plopsant-looaing gentleman, i the parb of a cure, with shovel-hat, well-toflucd tonsimg, brown balr, end bright black cvea, stoppad out of & cellar-way, over tho door of which was the wign, ** Collaert, marchand des habite,” Tuecurs toached lis hat and suwiivd ou the troops, and walked on, gontly trimming s nmts with sl pen-Kuife. Gallaud sinriod; ho spolin n word to the Caafn commanling the troopa ; thay ca'led & L. . aud Gulland r«&m\ng ferut Lo the pavemaont nnllaid e handon the cure's shoulder. . * Raoul Surian, Lacrest you!™ “ My son, are vou tot hasty? " sl {he cure gentty, * I am Fathor Thamay, ous of tho cures of it Bniplce,” aud ho bout his black 8503 upon Qal aud with & look of mild ropronch, *tile liou!" phricked a woman from acroas the stroot. I watehed hun! I paw hin thoio! Ihave novor loal sight of him!" ~ Ant thie prisoner was confronied by the infurinted Mlle, Cytheren, *Daughter,” said the cure, **this Is somo un- {orlyu.lmm uustake. Who is it thal you tako me or 2" **It mokea no difforance!" womau, *‘bluo eyes, Llack oyos, mages o differencol Surian, munord 1 will sottle this,” gaid the infantry Captain Ha tovk a fila of mon aud ran luto Colinoit's dingy nhop, Proscutl: ho returnod, Quo of big mon bors o bloody and smoko-siained uniform, and two mors had the trembling Collaert, an oid, dicty, sanfly Hollauder, by the throat, ** Actons tion!"" wald the Captain to Collnort. *If you do nat anbwer traly sud promptly you shall tonhot right hero. Who dues this unifoim bylong to— w0 loft it with you? " ““Lhat mau—thore! " Y \Who i thot man? ™ ** lnoul Burien " {“Itow cawo L to go to you? " ‘* o has beou 1n the habit, I have kept his clothes and his—dinguisos—for five years! O pray, do not shoot mo! " *“Enoughl Buriav, step out! Tientounnt, de- tail ten juen! Corporal, bind his haudat " Burian thruat his foot behind Gallaud’s heels, Imocksd tho Captain down with a blow of lia fist, ihrist by “olbow into the Carporal's ribs, and darted off, eccaping into Colinurt's coitur with swiprising agility aod amid & voley of mun- kotry, 1io was instantly pursned by half tho company, who rushed juto the eallar and prus- ently wore hoard bounding up stairs. Tho house wins B tall one, but suon shouts cane from tho roof, =ud those on tho street had barndly timo to look up, when thera camo two whois in quick ancceasion, and a dark body, rolledup like a ball, rushed down througl the air and crashod upon tha pavemont with a dull, sickening sound. Mllo, Cytheres faintod, Challand ntopped quickly to tho skl quivoring mass and turved it ever. 1t was tho body of Raoud Surian cruslicd alimoet juto a Jelly, “ Ay God I" eriod Gailaud, **ouuoyo is blsck still, but tho other ia bluo!" ** 1t must have broke in tho falll" cried the shivoring Collaert, ** I 'will show you wiioro Lo kopt thown, AL, Uallaud, i€ you will gu _ with nic.” "I'lio_troopy marchiod on. A neyghibor kindly took 3lle. Cytheres into bor honse, ‘Pho remaive of Surian weio carted away, aud Galland accom- panied Cotlnert, Only the blood still remwmned upon tho sidowalk, Arltor all, Burian’s secret wan vory simple, lika moat of the inventions of genfus, Ilo tnd an ne- sortment of very thin glass oyes, with perfectly traneparent puptly, sud theso ho wore and changed ns oconnion roemed to demund. A littlo practics euablod biw to do thta without any ine couvouiunor, tho mora #o that the workmauship of thu oyea wus axccadingly porfect. Uho poitca have vrders now, in caso s similar ehioat {8 Buspectod, to touck the winto of the eyo with & littlo vinegur on a camel’s bair brush, to %00 If it produces suffusion.—New York World, et soateiiinie ‘Tho Man with tho Flona, Turts Correspondmes New York Tivies. A man hinw just aled hers who hnd his Lours ot glory, and whoso fame has roached tho uttere it parts of the enrth. 1o was tho colleaguo of the man who bronks paving-stones with his fist and of the mnn who swallows a sword—a sallimbanque, or jugglor, hnown a8 *the man with tho floas.” deaun Losillis, flomme auc puecs, won n docided character, Ior many yoars ho exhibited his learned lloaa thronghont France, making ‘them do a number of natound- ing foats, Ameng otbor thingm, Le marshuled thom futo cotnpiwni mosging thom much like soldiers, then {minod thum iuto horsos, and miado them draswe s tiny chariot across o tablo. It wan roally wonderful to ses tue recming intelli- geuce of thess meeots. Ono duy lhomme auz puces was going through his nerformance at the Chisby Fnir,whon o big dog rusbod up and sofzod him by the calf of thelog, Joau Lemlliia had ordorod bis floas juku thoir box, and botd it in hia hand. The nip of the dogr nt his log made him turn in basio, and in bis feiehs ho dropped his box of fleas, 'Lhoir natural [netincts made thom jump upon tho dog for salety, and at the samie moment their master pavo the dog a nigorous kick, which sont hin honling away, It was not until he suw tho dog runuing that” ha _compteliondad the lors of lus pets. ‘Lo crowad began to laugh in the hiear- tieat manner; but it was no laughing matter to Joan Lesilla, s ocoupation wus gono; holimd boon despuiled in & woment of his moana of earning his daily bread for himself aud children, and tho poor fellow snuk down npon the ground weaping Liko s child, A crundisalivays touched by auch exbhibitlons of fanhing, and subneription was takien up, which, after all, amounted to only one day's recelpty, Whut was lio, thou, to do? It requirod 3 year's hard labor to train a now iut of fioan, and’ Jean Lesillin had uot tho moany. ‘Whon ko Lad first done xo ho wag a siuglo man; now ke was married and the tather of govoral young cluldren, lo turned rag-pickor, and during the past mnter worked as a cliffopnier to support his family, Dut tho tifo did not suit um, and chagrin and tho severity of the season soon brought lnm to s grave, e dicd in bLiv modast gariok, No. 14 Passage Sawte Mario, and thio children b bad to hwadsomely sapported befors the loss of bis learned iloas aro now objecta of clirity, O The lnttlo af Goldon Kil1. Hiatary of the Citraf New York, byJ, M, eGovan, ¥ ek v e et MeGovan; The battie of dolden Hill took place Jan, 20, 1770, caused by tho soldiors outting down tho libasty-pole of the “Sona of Liboyty.” ‘1ho fighy was batween tba Sixtoonth Reglinont of Foot aud tho **Bons of Liberty,”~tle rolliers falling rack to Golden flill, on' Johun stroet, be- twaew Wililam and Cift streots, closoly pursuod by sho cileons, bruncis Fiold recolved a xo- vore wound, ‘Lhreo cthor citizens woro wound- ed,—oue being thrust through tho budy with » bayonot. A wlhiort distuuco from thoro, s kailor was cub down, 'L hooitizens surrounded tho Hill, aud ket the soldicrs Wluciaded, No olicer wad in gowma.d of (Laeotdiors, Tho noxe day, i was renuwed by the soldierns. eerentied tho rag eyos, it 1 know you for Lacul oonvick, robuer, murderor, snd Cowme A man can porsuado bimself into atmost nny- thing uxeops un sfoctivn fo7 tho womsn who iy continually remiuding bim that hor daughter oaw't La {ncpcuod upou 80 luug a8 654 b aropud touse juitise dene,