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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MARCH 30, I878—TWELVE PAGES g 9 his men to obey orders. When the first bomb was fired [nto the whale it failed to explode. ‘This made the whale farious, when at this fn- atant he strnck one of the boats and knocked it rome feet above the water. The captain then fired another bomb; this faled of explosion; the fight was still getting more farfous. Tho third bomb was fired, and exploded near tha hesrt. This conquered the monster. The hlood spouted some ten feet hih, and, as the crew rushed up to stick their lances in him, the blood fell In showers upon them and thelr boats. The storer of the English nave; the founder of our ‘The vresent work contlny he nrgu- E,"' 3 :nllu-; y {memaum‘?llfi n:;ln;'lnhglr;:‘ Iu:v.n",‘\l ment by an endeasor to prove that no genulne cClurg & Co. rie Englishman, h he 0l traces of man have been found [n the lactal o none of the glaring faults of his Plantagen % PERIODICALS RECFIVED, Conors, ho sianda forth a8 the typleal el pre-glacial ages; and that, when he did anpear | o\ Ny TARIAN for Aoril (A, N. Bell, New York), hero, At the same time, he in o iaborlo ot the earth, he was ln all respects as complete- | AMERICAN MISSIONARY for Apti (American of businees, o self-denving and hardy w 1y endowed a3 nt the prerent day, The queation Missionary Associstion, New York), a cnltivated scholar, and & most devout and | 4a discussed wholly apart trom theoldgical prel- Sty charitable Christian, Fortunately perhaps for | udicea or preposessions, its deciston resting FAMILIAR TALK. himseit, unfortuvately for his country, he was Purely upon an investivation of the materinls ® cut off ?Ic{lorlz I."mn:"%l olll(mu n;li‘l‘exrlwricx;.m )el:lrlm:l np?ndlt ‘:hlcr halvu‘ bccnlbrmlllu ul.v- JATERARY ITEMS, was applic ry the flxedness of his character | gether by students of geol and pre-historie ! < g and the possible permanence of his plans.” archeology, The spirit of ‘fil’u w,"'e',. 18 tore Father Sccchi's work on the Bun, translated ~ LITERATURE. The Constitutional History of England, in Its Origin and Development. for epliepay. An infusion of the young branches [ three feet, opposite I , and clustered flow- of Celtia sustralls Is given In dysentery and | ers. blenurrhics. Most of the elma afford excellent In waste places everywhere the Hemp Canna- timber,—soft, tough, and coarse-fibred. bis may be found. It {s a tall herb, rising to the But one reprerentative of the Artocarpae | hight of from seven to ten feet, and Dearing exists In our reglon: the Red Mulberry, Morus | large digitate leaves, Tire Common Hup, Hu- rubra. 1t fs occasjonally met with among the | mulus Lupulus, grows wild on_the banks of the trees skirtlog the DesPlalnes at Riverside. The | Des Plaiues at Riverside. The vine is too leaves are heart-ovate; the flowers frequently | familiar ta need description. A narcotfe and in- diwelous; and the fertile epikes are auccceded | toxicating principle is_estracted fruin both the by Jong, dnk-bnr?)a berries, ripentug in July. Hemp and the Hop. From the tirst, the famous The Artocarpals are all shrubs or trees, | hasheesh is aptained, and a substance with simi- ahounding In o milky julce. The leaves are | lar qualities {3 procured from it by the native poems by Edgar Faweottes= [ 0, ibfsizd fon of s, splen) " onarch | ageabis atie 1 n s calor work, Ueng | by . A, Procir, i to be publshod by the | stmplo anl aterote, with Taee siona; and ?]rv'firzouu contrien, The diTerent Uses of the | koot eeven miies abive by Fhey foace on en 'n his infanc o heritage of a lesa confident and dogmatic. Messrs. Longmans. e flowers ar jously srraneed over a fles! op are untversall W crown and the leadership of @ grest nation, has | . The positinn assumed by Prof. Rawlinson tn el B g ¥ Knows Sigidellgbi, onls wishing they eould gt ity Argunments Against the Evolution Theory. ;elceull.n:hlc" ‘\:)‘xgcn "l! conu\':', gln)lzoulg, nr| n}nl(e". hey Inhal he Temperate and Tropleal Jatl- tudes of both worlds. p“i‘hu flrurl-lrufl? and the THE ENGLISIL SPARROW. Fii trees are the most important members of | The controversy with regard to the Lelligerent the tribe, The Orst of thesc Is a native of the | naturc of the English sparrow has not yet been ':l‘:"‘l’i’;&: xfifzam:n.}'f:'."fiu'i.’fi'fi'en"fl?- :hu ln‘xlll,l:: scttied detinitely. The February Naturalist con- Arcl 3 der tree, ris! to the higit" of from forty to ALy fect, with | Li0ed 8 note by Prof. 8. S. flaldeman, slating often not o branch springing from' the | thal for about forty years the Pewee Fyeatcher, stem until Lalf its whole hight is meas. | or common Pheehe-bird, had neated under his ured. Its large, deeply-lobed leaves arca dark, | portico. 1n 1877 the Eoallsh Sparrow appeared wlossy green. ‘The male flowers are in catkins, , % ana the female flowers sra acated upon a round, 95 Lifsiicency Sud Meot ey attacked the Teslit fleshy receptacle, During the ripening of the ing Pewces during scveral days, when these fruit, the receptacle becomes atill more feshy | Were Yepairing their mest. but, as fast .as and succulent, and constitutes the edible por- | one party bullt, the " other demolished, tlon. In an immature state, the Irult | tearing the mest to pleces, and littering the z s mil d J e u';:z lughoul Ikl'hn". |\xem":,'; porch below, without renewing or occupying O raot™ 14y gatoered butore tna rine | Lhe premises.’” Tne March numberof the ssme stage {s reached, and winle the pulp is white | magazine contalns a communication, bearing and mealy, and of the texture of new bread. To | similar testimony, from Dr, W. F. Hoflman, of such a bloody contest, The whale was forty- two feut long, and exlnme!, fat. This fish will probably bring sbout $WN. " A DEAD MAN'S EYE. Curloua Resascitation of nn old Superstition by Modern Hetentific Esperimenta—A Now Possibility In the Detection of Crime~de- tion of Light on the Retinal Red of the Anitmal Eye, New York Times. 11, aa Prol. Huxley somewhere observes, the pathwvays of science are strewn with the mor- dered myths of antiquity, it is equally true that of late physfological (nquiry has Leen Instru- mental [n resuscitatiog maoy a previously-re- Jected saperstition. Front comparatively old times—for the nincteenth century compresses Higored fn history s & weak and imbecito. King, | his treatiés on “The Orfain of Natfons™ isin | The Buthorof \Thorcau: HisTifa snd Afms," whose_mankiold sorrows and tragicend bave | harmony with that ot My, Southall, but his rea- ‘Thomas De Quincey,” etc., ete., hides under elicited iittls aympathy. A truer understanding | sonlng {a aitogethier from & historical paink of | the pseudonym of II. A, Page Lis real name of ti: uac mnl:u': u(lhls’ m:nlkl:rh:nm I: nmzlnhid"gy view, ll.'lu his pulrnom l;» fln'(} Ir;llhe mrllnlt Alexander Zapo. r. Btubba’ analysis of his character and of thie | records of the nations of antlquity evidonces ° Clveamatances of His situation, and & fecling of | that mou were not oflginalls in o stato of | _Taine's new book on “The French Revolu. commiecration softens the judgment upon his | ravagery, and lence that the doctrine of cvolu- | fon,” which torms the second volume of his feebleness and faflure. As this author plctures | tion muat be unsound. Me reviews the history | work entitied ** The Beginning of Contemporary Henry V1., * Before he was 4 years old, he ind | of the civitizations of Egypt, Babylon, Phe- | France,” will be publishied this spring by (enry bfif" Lml{gm lnm' the l’;l?’m‘l‘ Chur'x'ulu:r ‘tu'nu-- nicla. o(l I(\Jm ‘l\;lhwr' and fivn‘trm Aslul of 'Eu- Holt & Co, side st d ning of 'arlfament, and from | rope and Great Britafn, and discovers in them = that thioe bad " generally officlated in persan on | all corraboration of the histurical statements of The author of Ndokd ',}l\"!fflt" Jins 1t such ocensions, Before ho was 8, hic was crowned | tho Old Testament. The sccund part of his | [ITess of Jlessrs, ""“l Blackett & blography King of Englond; and, a8 soon as he was 10, | volume s a commentary on the tenth chapter of l“"“"’ T imes ont ”,"" “: “"‘“cs"h""" the King of France, 'At the age of 11, ho had had | Genests, traciog the cthinic afMnities of the an- | L o Py malus 0'-1"1"11 artin, Echooliaster o make peace between hiis uncles of Bedford | clont world, Pldents of i pald “;‘ ‘“d'““’” ey }}‘“ and pancaster; ant, at 13, had shed bitter tears = neldents of a very touching and loteresting life. over the defection of Burpundy, Whilst CERAMICS IN GREAT BRITAIN, The Germans pubiished in 1877 12,025 bouks, newos still under the discipline of o tutor, | TIIE HISTORY OF CERAMIC ART IN GREAT | agueinet 18,357 in 1870, The largest number, ll:l-\o é" ue‘x;uilnn:’ flhgmscmu&n ‘-: Irl.‘hu vm‘ ggw%l:_}“"flmm‘ g:l!‘lgfimflr ll;.'s“;[enlnés }fl were, tdu;-nununldl»uka: u]nle ‘nm ;-dmul, of the Counctl, he had been made familior with N oL EACH 'E- | 1,268, wero on jurisprudence, politica, and sta- the grest problems of state-work, Under tne | RIOD TQ THE PRESENT DAY: Bmino a Min- | tisticas the third lnemm. 1,253, ‘were on thee £ History of Ceramic Art in Great Britain—The COonquest of New Merico and Oalifornie. Hoore and Chatterton---Literary and- Art Items---Death of Jonclim John Mon- £ be prepared for eating, it 18 generally baked, | yesding, Pa., wh s “iniSnl 2 1 dy & 1 telro. B e e b hadk Toarmed KNIRhily | TONT orduy Tik KNown AXcizxe axp oneny | (Yoovt’ ‘ana Sho sty 1,135, "Inchuded belles. | and whl thon Keep oo for several woeks. IF | Heading, Pa, who saya: o In 16741 occupled a | aqce into decadiorlins Gescended the curloua accom Ilzlshmcntr. Hloucester had presseid him | Porvent anp Poncxragx Wonke or wie Kixa: et ATy sllowed to ripen, iy pulp becomes yeilow and | Slecolng apartment, bout elght or ten feet | supposition that the object last visible to tho m&:xm E::fglrc“ngzlstz;m Hcal;;?;:.“ nhc.vd 'i'x"é'#fii“l f"‘;l’h n’u "“,“,:"'g"; ',,l??.u N A”’ Meesrs. Blote, Woodman & Co. will shortly Juley, and bas n decayed favor. The tres pro- | from the winduws of which a pair of Robins had | dsing ese is imperishably photographed I, L.ocal Becretary of the Soclety ol ntiquaries of n Uuces two or even three crops of fruit in a year, | constructed s nest In the branches of a maple and yiclds to the natives of the countrles it In- | tree. The female had scarcely time to warm lahits the princtoal pars of thelr subsistence. | her abode before alot of Bparrows came, and The fibrous fnner bark of the younz trees is | during the melee the former was vanquished upun the dead retins. Most readers wiil ro- call to mind tales of retributive justice based 1pon the tlentification and conviction of a mur- Flora Round About Chicago: The somewhat prococions scholar, too clrlhuugm, Londe e ate. Tinatrated with Nearly 3, 000 Isaue a eBllcetion of Mark Twain's pavers, in- Nettlaworts- 3 4 luding his remnrkable abcech on the weather; to recognize his wbrk ns successor of Heury V. | Engiavings. InTivo Volumes, New Yares Sérlo- | Hotifi s FETTIRA e GREEE OB ABG, FERLIETE 1t ts touchi Yead the lotiors written uider | mer, Wellora & Armwirony,. Chicayo: dansen, ! ) : mbling Hin .,e.“.".,“’.‘fixt‘n’. he_petitions for the canonlza- | McClurg & Co. ~ 8vo., po. Bi1-545, *Brico. g1, | Notes™ and telephonu story ‘from the Atiantic, ; beaten inta a kind of cloth, which 1s much worn | and driven away, The nest was then | derer through the agency of his puotograplt in Sparrow- e sl Wi Adfeed or des | My, Jawitt has been for about twenty years | Sico ete. Funch, Hrothers Punch: ‘and | by Yyl Koutiikon *faiandém. A thic, mock. | bulled up and partlally’ denirosed, In the | 8 dcad man's eye: and at least once within tho Notes reribes the Intercst ho takes fu the Cuuncll of | engaied In collectiug tho matertals for a history h ¥ Yolume. Inginous fluld exudes from the bark of the | spring of 187 o pair of Robius came (and 1 | last ten years the plot of an acting drama, not s llu‘-“-{‘ and n‘rcucu o{l the ;inlclxlun'l.cl u(l Elaul. of ceramic art fn_ Grent Britaln, Tho tirst re- m'ru?‘:slu‘s‘fnm.&l’mlrléfi ‘{A::";e. Jon the Afix& :."famflm 152605113'; uunclure\t!, ¢,l|m} lhls,flv&hcn imulbtlm‘f xI'nl\t ‘3:?2‘?’;’;“: the -n:uu). ‘il" - | tomeution ha!f a dozen sensation novels foand- 1 Vest the grest opportun| or ocelesins- = )iy Lt upy ol he EL” an ardened ans ed {n cocoanut ol s 18 as ned the debris, ich had been pretty well set- LITERATURE. e e abhed v the Counclle of | 8ults of Lis rescarchus wera published in a seriea | Willk of 'the Dead," which bears the name of | cement for he reams of canoce, paile, etor, wnd | ted during the winter, and hminenced tha | & ubon the eame thesis, has beer made to turn . Tloreuce and Ferrara, Thus, at the age ot 15, | of papers In the London Art Journa', and the | Princess Nedfem, mother of Her-Hor, the Jie ma hard ut the mnklwlc\-u had &'(“"“f,‘;‘e‘i inal consummatlon ot his labor is now reached | Lligh-Friost o lo::‘;n;;lr'n& 3}'.‘.'»:';',"5?3‘ tho rosal the greatest Kings that had relgncd before him, s us, | pow o l | he Ramacs, £0 i s wodono st In tho work of the | 1 te tro larke and etegant volamos befera b | filifucunth dynaaty of Maretho, ‘The paperus Universitics, like Duke Iumuhrey himself, e pasel Is i admiraplc condition, and will be placed on was carly inferested; his foundations at Kton | Work comprehensive, cxact, and completo; and | expibition fn the Egyptian muscum at the and C::;lmrdz»:hw»m begun when he was 18, "l‘d has suceeeded In glving to thuse Intercated In | Louvre. watched with the greatest caro as long as ho | the subject of Coramics an exhaustiveaccountof | sfr, Stanley's fortbeoniing book will bo pub- lived. The education ‘,’r‘ hin alf-brothiers Ed- | (ho growth of the mapufacture In England, | Mstied n Encland by i Sampson, Tow & muod aud Jasper Tudor wes & mil | Heotiand, aud Ireland, from tho carly Celtic | Co,: in New York, by Messrs, Harpor & Bros.; ter of scrious thought to him, whilel | geriod to the present day. n France, by Mesars, lachette & Co.; fn Letor ho was o chill ~himself. ! ‘eak i | i firat four chaptera of the work ara occu- | e, by M. Brockhaus; and in Christiania, by M. henlth, . . . aud precoclousrather t it MEONE | yied with @ doscriptin of the existiog examples | Mallings, These édiilons, though in differen in mind, he was ‘ZV"'{"’"‘“-‘ from his e ’"“"“‘“_]- of the potter's art, which shiow its condition In | janguages, witl appear nearly simultancousty. and theoverivork, Lelling upon o framo tn which | Englana during sixteen ecnturie impos- | Negotlutions aro pending for transluting the e germs of hereditary nsanityalready existad | aiblg to determine when tho art irst arose fn | wwork 10to Swedlss, Spumlab, Ttalta, aud Kus- broke down Loth body anamind at the moat | yy; Britigh Ialands, but there are sullldent re- | slan. critfcal period of his reign, Heory was perhaps 4 AT o o tiust unfortunate King who ever relzneds | e L0 provo that It was paucticed ’:;f_:‘j“"’;{"t The attendance at the University of 8t. Pe- ! sy o or he outlived power, ,'"“,‘l wealth, l"}‘"‘"'f'l“‘"k"‘f the Elghteentl Uun‘::ry tiie idusiry wus estab- .‘l",:':bl;‘rg;‘:"r'_bf{ 3}"',:‘,:;':"‘."‘::{; “);:;_’ ey saw all wiio ud luved bim perlsh for his soked | jahed st muuy powte through the Kingduins | B0 SIS0 0 O oot St te Bty *ubt oai) and, to crown all, the IUI‘I—'-’H! 1hm. and dearest | 11 hgs been Mr. Jewitt's task to mote: tho Lot v i F ey ”"l{ L i ll"um vfl'lfll'h“ I.Dmuzi ‘:m vrocesses aud products characterizing cach society of former students pays_the 15..'- for centro of all bis hoves, the pusttory of the | house since engaged i the manufucture. To | Gl Fotle yonng men, At ot ot L L O s ooy, | 9aslat bim [ thio Wluatention of ‘hls_subloct, } ,{Gscuts in at present 770, Mere again thero is sot nsltle und sluln. And he was, withaut doutt, | yearly 2,000 cuzravings havs been employed, 8 | nl0i'of hecuntary assistance, and 503 students :}:;';l m:‘:-:’n‘::"fl? Xhl‘:nl tl"‘l’u;‘:";}:u‘ wcncnl-lnm.: few of which are Incvloryy aud all of o high | ore freed from the payment of lecture-fecs, . . pure, 3 enee: ¢ A vatlent, sitiple, true, and just, humble, merel- °'=}f.1.°.'.‘;‘:fi'fl$' tl'l'lm book by Mr. Jowitt at- whlll: 125 receive stipends smountlng to 86,000 ful, fastidiously vunsciontious, modest, aud | yogtyne his kuowledge of the coramic art ln Bu. | FWPE" temberate, lie pilght bave scemed made to rulé | yang, and bis painataxing elforts to collect and 8 quiet people 1n quict tines. . o . It 18 | Gigseninato luformation on what fs o most in- necdlesn to say thut fur the throne of England | otryctive subject. Hia *Life of Josiah Wedgc- In tho midst of the death-strucglo of nations, | wood 1 (1803) rovenled his enthusinsm for the pactles, nud llbortics, thonry lad not, o sihitld | art, aod bis capabiiities for treating 1t with WHo attempted to rale England as & Conatitt. | thoreughness snd intcliigence, tional Kingdom or Commonwenlth.” - 9 The third voluma is, perhaps, tue most inter- A MILITARY NARRATIVE, eating of Mr. Btubbs’ book. It denls with the | TUE CONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO AND CALI- INIAS AN HhisTomican AXp Pritsosan Nane perind isordered by tho Wars o the Roses; [ LU p. o 2o The 1oaruing and. research that have boor fl:::.:f‘_“{'u,},’,cfi,“f{,fl“"m&“'flf’“x'f"‘ Dripadlecy brought to bear upou it st in g clear view many segcenes and Adventures in the Arn, ote, ints fn the history of thetline which have | Now lork: G. P, Patnam's Sons, Chlcavo: B‘l’lhcrln remalned in the dark, or been mfacon- | Jansen, McClurg & Co. 12mo., pp. 307, Frice, strued, Of the entire work, It §3 to be sald tuat .50, ) nono of greater yalue ard tmportance has been At the outbreak of the war between Mexico givento the student of English history during | gnq the United States, In May, 1816, Col. i preAcuk cBuIry, 4 8tephon W, Kearney organized a force ot Fort - v Leavenworth, Kni., for the conquest of New PANI"TRE'"I?N%‘PIE?I?JQRB];::: anpff,;.fi Mexicoand California. Capt. 8t. Georpa Cooko Tioston: Toberts Bros. 18mo., pp, 101, DPrice, | was placed in comnmand of o body of troups 31.26. attached to the expedition, and marched from In the pocrs which Mr, Fawcett bas ranged | gory Leavenworth on tho Gth of July. The under the head of “Minor Chords,” fantasy | yyip nerors the Plaina was concluded carly in alone Ia present, and often In rich and sumptu- | Aygust, Capt. Cooku onteriug Santa Fe on the ous forms, Objects In natare, especlally GoW- | 13y, as the bearer of dispatelies from hls ers, are the most frequent themesin this sec- | puperfor oflicer. A few days later, the town tion; and their treatment shows the keenest wu‘ |nflthu l{;mceuhla vml:“ldun eul: ll;;u! forces and fondest appreclution of their dolieate beau- | Under Gen, Kearnoy, wno had rocelycd promo- ties. One brief song, addressed * To an Orlole," :',‘:,‘,‘.,LZ-""E.S{’. ‘E:‘:m"l‘::m:n %::hiim !lll‘l: ‘l?e?x baa g0 much blended rraco and !guunx toat we | of X drazoons to cross thu then Rive it to our readers: | unknown willerncas stretching between upon the terrible witness of such a rogucs’ gal- lery. The fact—for it Is the fact that such tus- thnony is pdssible—has teen suthoritutively de- nled, uver and over again, by physlotzais of eatablished reputatfons sucered. at as a relic of metaohysical_speculntlon relnforeed by orbil tancys ‘and finaily scolfed down as wionie e utier impossibilitics. Hut it turna vut, as hus often been the case befure, that thls sceim con- ception of poetle justice was founded in fact, and that under certain drcumstances the ide- velopment of such in arliculo morlis wages, latent thungh they are, a3 ideatiflable photo- gruplis, 18 u very slnpte and practicable process, 1 moral ia that whatever s Leautiful hins ul- ways, i somestrange way, € capucity lor nsing Seotn the dead, and contains withln ftiell the gerin ol fts own resurrec i wystie, from woom Mr, thie inapiration of tnort a bird-lme, The timber (= soft, Jight, and of a | construction of another nest. This time thev h yellow liue, turming dark with oge, 3% ms- | were unmolestad until after the eyes had been hogany. deposited, 1 commenced 1o feel Inore secure The Bread-nut tree, Brostmam allcasteum, | for my little neighbors, but my grotifcation anothier useiul Artocachiad, 18 2 uative of Jumai- | was of short duration. About & weck hal ca. Itsbounds i a tenacious, gummy milk; | elapsed when ' the Sparrows made auother at- its Iraves and young shoots are caten by cattle; | tack, inally conquering their opponeuts and and its nuts, wiien roasted or botled, have the | drivine them away, ‘They tore the nest lnto taste of hazel-uuts, and are uscd 88 o substitute | Onc mase ol rubbish, wlien all but one palr re- forbread, The fanous Cow-tree, or Palo de | tired, which then worked an cotrance, and fitted Vaca, of South America, belougs_to the same | it up, where they remalued until two bs Fenus us thn'llr,e:ld'-y‘ml. ,(\ |llrcslmmn of | werehatched.” ulana grows to the hight of sixty or sevent feet, and Its bcn“tllulgtlmhcr Ia of un'-.edim; RRIEF NOTES. ’° Jmrduocss. 1t 1s called snake-wood, or Buls de Near 7,000,000 whitefish witl be spawned at Lettres: on aceount of the inarkinks It presents. | the Wisconstu State Hatehery tols aeason. tre among the roc n s vatlon of oot 5,000 feet. It Isw lulty tree, | 1418 stated 10 the Honifeur Vinicole that, de- with thick, glossy leaves from ten to sixtecn | spite the devastations of the phiylioxers, the fnches long, und” minute flowers, Duriug the | wine-product of Franve has suffered no diminu- ilryklu:on. ;'o‘ll(n ‘llf’ .yrnn‘uhuk ui.em tlmnl llor tlon, . ack of molsture, e trunk be plerced a stream of sweet, Douridhing milk cusics forth, | The Gesgraphleal Magarine for March hand- This flows must frecly at aunrisc. acd then 18 | somely ucknowledges that its former severe carclully gathered by the natives. 1t hus un | judment of Mr. Btanley’s conduct toward the agreeablo odor, and a constderable viscldity, 1t} 114ices was unjustifiavie quickly grows yeilow, and a sort of cream rises | 7% g Yo the surface, graduatly thickewing tou cheesy { The comuon hones-bee, when imported to conslstency, Australia, contluues Its accustomed habits of The miiky juice of some of the Artocarpads | {ndustry for o year or two, accumulating honey m;:‘:;‘f".:.,”."“.'.f;“ ;‘::I'(l\fif(-;:;f‘nm;ffl::;)‘rg and maintaining order fu the hive, atter whict the Sunda nd_ Phlippive Ialungs. Is noted as [ 1t csses to lay by stores of food, and beconcs most rapld and acadfy poison. ‘Fiie fable of the | utterly barren. nmgtlnll}uuln exltmlnlnlu?: l'ruu‘l"mh tr;:fi nrev?flili:‘z Among odd places for birds’ nests, it 1a notcd aay life In its vicinity is oroughly exploded, A ) aslt i found 1o grow in the niidst of farests | 10 foratt aud Sream that » pair of robing without njuring the vezetation surroundiny it, | bullt their domicile on the zround at the base o and the birda and otler antuals sport amid fs | on apole tree, between two sweltingroots. The branches unharmed, The juice of the tree is | tree stood on a stecn fncline, and the nest was used by the Malays topolson thelr arrows, and | on tye Jower side of the stem. tlie only remedy for the wound conalste i iu- | The collection of Indian relics formed by ducing_severc vomitiugs aud protuse persvira- | George Catiin, the famous historlan of (ndlan tion. ‘The flesh of the suimals Killed by tbe | yife, {s to rass into the vossession of the Smith- poison may be eaten with impunity. A cloth is | wgulan Justitutiou. It emnbraces, besides fin- fabrieated from the lner fibre of Lhe tree, nnd] plemunts, weapone, and curfosizics, 300 por!raits it this benot very thoroughiy cleaused, it whil | g o), aud 200 vaintines {iustrating the differ- produce a most distresstuge ftchiug. cut phascs of ludian dife. The bark of cies of Antlarls growlng In the West Indk manufacturcd Into sacks by An invention providinz the motive-power of a the following curiuus broceas: **A branch is | sewing-machineln s coll of serony eprings b cut corresponding to the length and disnicter of | been perfected in Vicons. The speed of ru the anck wontud, it {ssoakel a bittie, and then | 1ing the machine can be regulated with ease by beaten with clubs thl the tibro scporates from | the operator, and the motion continued for the wood. This dane, Uho sack formed by the | hours—thus dotug nway with the wearlog ex- bark 18 turoed inslde out, and pulied down till | ertion imposed by impelliog it with the fect. the wood I8 sawed off, with the exception of An spplieation of electeieity to prevent rall- amall Plccom{r. to formthe bottom of the sack.” | wav-colltsfons i being tried at the station at ‘The Fhytocreue, an artocarpod ludizenous to | Marsetlles, It cunsists of an clectrle mirror, in Martaban, 1s called tho Water-Vine, from the | which all the movements on a }ne 100 kilume- coloriuss and wholesome fluld it discharves i | tros fn longth are brought vividly before the Jarge quantities when wounded; and in this | gye, cuabling the station-niasters to follow ex- peeullarity is distinet from tho rest of the tribe. | iy the progress of every tralu. It s hopea ‘The cenus Ficus, Fig, which belongs fn this | ¢hat by this meaus accldents resultiog from de- sub-order, Includes over 10 spd Nearly | Jays o too rapid runs may bo avolded. ull are Troplesl or semi<Tropleal plunts, and CONSTITUTIONAL I_HSTDIT.Y OI" EN~ JLAND, THE CONSTITUTIONAL IISTORY OF EN- GUANU, IN_ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOP- By WiLLiAX Stusne, M. A.. Regius Professor of Modern Mistory. InThree Volumer, Second Editfon. Oxford: At the Clareudon Press, Chleago: Jansen, McClurg & Co. 12ma.. pp. 6:38—-024—633, Price, $10, Tue scholarship of England has turned much of its attention, during tho past flfty years, lo e ciucldation of history, and many noble monunients have heen erected testifying to its fadustry In research, it liberality in judgment, its philosophical methods of inveatization, and e brilltancy of its menlus. Among these pro- Juctions which throw essentlally uew light upon the eharacter of fudividuals and of na- tlons, which cdueate the worlil to wiser and truer views of men and of affatrs, and which 1ift their authora hizh fn the universal estcom, the Constitutional History of England, by Mr. $tubbs, Is ranked with the first. Tho con- struction of & work of fts kind {s not among the teartlly gratciul ofliees that nn author wsumed from a consclonsncss, not only that there §s o need of ita Lelng undertaken, but that a reward will grow up from the beginning In the surety that the subject may be rendered foritiog a3 well 18 informing to the uqpular misd. As Mr, Stubbs Justly says in the open- {ng lines of his preface, * ''he History of Insti- 1ntfons cannot be mastered—enn scarccly be pprosched—without an effort. It alfords littlo of the romantic incldent or of the pleturesqua grouping which constitutes thecharm of History fngeneral. and holda out small temptation to the mind that requires to be tempted to the study of Truth.'" Nevertholess, tho duty. which tvas in this instance accepted with a full understanding of the Inbors and sacrifices it fmpiled, has been so falthiully and splondidly wromplished that no lack of roturn can be felt by the author in the contemplation of his work. Hsown great value, and the unanimous ap- plause it has gatned, must gencrously repay all ftbas cost, ‘The perlod which comes within the scope of the work closes with tho nccession of Menry VIL to the British Throne. Its {ntroduc- tion comprises o brief «comparison of the orivin of Cavstitutional History In Germany, France, BSpain, and England; wd then pasees divectly toa careful study of thetraces of constitutional organization which o one wuhorisi : e Uiuhet seil aic Wuhet "7 typlfving beauty. ol col under the symbol of that poetically hackneyed blossum, Plato, dreamicst of all dreamers, has the same futcy that Mr. Emerson has paredled frowm the Gee- man in For It the ey was made for '“'"fi;c ‘lien beauty is its own excine for being, in one of his wonderful dialogues. Himeell and bia cronles are engaged in_ alscussing the beasutitul ewer goblets 1 the Falerulon, when, in one of the pregnant pauses of the oceasion, l)Iullnwrhur observes us follo *+‘That heputy is neither finmort e tie Gods, nur ke men, mortal, but tn b dure of the val- leys lives and blossoins for a day, having anoth- er fife to-morrow.” Wuat tue uid iun meaos Is, tuut which fn her externality beautv Is cpuein- eraly in her Intenur reality she never dics, wherefore he ulds that (n the Llossoms of the valley she js constantiy dving and constantly sl agaiu from the dead, ‘The regencration of this old myth s In ita way au example of the Jougevity of all things beautiful, tlat may well botnt 2 moral to euch selentitic Aleibiaaes us have dured 1o spe, whether v can coexist with science, .y a8 this Inatance, a deeper Aulence cobatautly cn #hat o shiallow science has denfed,—thy pity of the beautitul bucause it s beonu- tul,—une need not troudlo vne's sell to arzue, where argument 1s not ouly Joss of tine, buc 1ues of temper und pationce alsu, Ilowever, n gluyes at the evidence, Leve and other cianent phyalvloglsta ave o roj vdly stated the one lsomted Jact, that the fresh reting (n frogs and other sulinuls bas a redatsn tinge, thut the polnt (3 familiar to the wost cursory reader of histolozieal treatlses. Tols fact nlone, thourh szuiileant, demonstrated nothiog, sud for years it lay fallow. lecently, Prof, Boll (Zur Anatumie wnd Physiotwgie der Jtetina), the celebrated DuBols, Raymond, amd Prof. Kuhug (Neber der SeApurpur), haye ‘on- trtbuted very important -lata ta retinul p ology, all of which have teen printed within ART GOssSIP, An Internatfonal Exhibitidn fs to bo held at Mtlan fn 1579, under the ausplees of King llum- bert. A statue of Marcua Aurelius, [n wonderfully. beautitul armor adorned with retlels, as been found at Olympta. The veteran English sculptor, Lewis Macdon- nld, recently died at Rome. Tho dangerous ill- ness of Joseph Severn, the friend of Keata, Is also reported from the same city. A German arccritic of high outhority has prosounced sgainst the genuineness of the #Quplil " at the Houth Kensington Muscum, :mcul hias beon regarded as tho work of Michacl ngelo. ‘Tho Louvre bas been enriched DJ casts of all the principal sculptures obtained at Olympla, thelr lle the remalns discovered gy the Morea scientifie expedition fn 1820, alrcady in the Louvre, recelve valuable ald toward recon. structlon, The Flench art-criticof the Alineum sug- gests that the woolen vell known to have hung in tha Tewple of Olymptu was the vell of the 'l‘om{)ln of Jerusalens, which was carried off by Antlochus IV. with otber spolls of the Ioly City, and presented to the Olymplan sanctuary. ‘Tho last number of Indusfrlal Art contalns . bai . M'B. Park, which ar- Vi 8 . Y Coaat. Th % they vary much I their hablt of growth, Some | The Britlsh bark D. ; 3 thy lust two years. 1t appears froin these ue “ksar(n tho recants of «the Audlon and: Baxons. | lowdalladty orlobe, thafustcoms fody ) Bante e s i.::,l.eclmm'.'filp;‘;': Joaruey. Aretros of the most. Gigantic eizd: otbers ar il ak Weat Cowen, Sarch 90, from Batavld, | yor untranslated essaya sud volumes that not fathe last-named countey. Tho Inquiry con- wen = 7 of the lack of suitable vrovision, forage, and luw, strazglivg shrubs: aud otbers agaln uro | Téports the occurrence of several subusriue | gy s the living retina alivass red, but that it tines down to the Norman conquest, and | At somo giad moment was it Natura's cholco \rater, and tha fathuy and exposurs consequent | Art i Souih Wales. Fresco-Palntiog and | creepiug or trailing vines, that cliug to the voleauovs in tha equatorial reglon, inthe month | coior fs subjoct to materiul iteratfons fron tho T : Wdan, 29,0t 7 e through tho era 4 scrap of Wwith B volce? : ted marches tons | Moderu Mossics, Drawing Matcrinls—Paper, | neareat support, covering focks or surubs, or | of January, Tho report rune: Cdan. . wetlon of lizht. The coloration ta, It shoutd e o e :..’:,‘:i‘?;‘;";‘.}t:‘.,‘,’“’;‘, e T 3333&3?.‘73&‘%K'{’::T;?fiui‘.’,‘m“&'{:m‘.’,&."‘.'“éfifi Netes an the Purls Expasttion or 1978, Indlan | elimblie. the. stoms of treea aud. wlsing 8y dn dut. 420 N ot R a2 e | vreinlsed, linlied s tn external avect of the theNormais Klozs, | In. closiog. 40 Suvey of lDr did soma cmz: ‘I:‘{Ip, e‘:‘fla n\:lih black, Diego. then an Indlan wmission, was reaclicd the | ATt ete, cte from thelr branches, The fertile fluwers of the | tral ~svbmaring volcanocs ' th 2 188C0 | rurinal ruds, & consideruble proportion of whicl A . n tomo forgotten garde, ek, - 0 8ol ¢ columus of water about 100 feet In the alr, :’Jfifix{fx"u'i“fi’ nfiinl’-‘flc::&ll‘fls:‘; “flflm 'fiz?‘-': while the sea was In great commution, os it is ersof the Fig, both male and temale, are sey | When there {8 u very stroux under-current, tho upou the telde of a hollaw, almost closed, top- swesther ot thethue belug very cloudy,with raln, stiapea receptacle, whicl cularves to form tne | 80d nearly calm, *The sound was liko dlstaut fruit, and embeds the many oue-sceded carpels lnuydur. {u tts pulp, Naturehasa communication glving some In- ‘Pie nust notable members of the renus Ficus | teresting evideoce relative to au antidote for are_the Common Fig, F. carlcas the Banyun, F. | strychnine, w terrier was u:t-lcmull{ lud'ea, which 3 '.mhlnlr dnnui[y, nbom.‘l“c weeks nllm the ar- rival of Gen. Kearuey at the sane polnt. Fearning toward Nearon untlh jia wisli was heard, | *rhe history of tho vxpedition across the cunc tinent, and of tha circumstances of the finnl ‘The author proves by these four couplets hls | copquent of California by the united land and posscsslon of o flue poctic fustinet,—an instinct | uaval forces assctnbled In tho Btate, s taken which apprehiends with subtle power the occue- | for the most parv from the journals of Capt. rence of beauty wherbver It exists, ond, when | (@fterward Lieut-Col.) Cooke. 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Vho object of this latest book on forms 1s Lo | For incldentsconuccted with tho professious! aud jprovide & book sultable for persous fu all States | private carcer of this artlst, It has heretofore of tbe Unlon, It professes to be for profes- | been ncceasary Lo refer to thy shurt sketches of Slonal ns well as buslncss men; but it wiil be | bi8 1ifc and work which are incorporated in tho found most serviceabls for tho lstter, as its ;?‘:’r"‘{""r‘l‘-{,‘:"fi‘,‘l %’ffi:."f,’,'.,":‘,fitf.fl“fl“fi:fi ut least [n the frwe, are aiso of a blu green tiot, 1t exists fn all unlmals L rotinal rods, invertel bratea, ol baving usce pods and authropads, and in all the fshes » amphibla trought under exatnination, tihans and birds the colored cli globules. beauttful mlcrosconle objects—iutefers with its detection; and In the retina of the lizand and etuber natr, which offer no retinal rods to sclentific luspectlon, the nerveus orcani: viston teie Jurnistied with cones only, was unabla to discuver any traces ol coloring matter, It Is abacnt In the hawk betd the numerous ts furnlshed witts ol globules, ent clsewhers: hut the toug ni ene pinctun) ure of u ¥ not occurriug inday- inz anfuals, vialet In Its tit, und fuding very alowly oh exposure Lo light, hoe retinal red wus first observed by L cxamining thie oyes of on exeented winal, Adler states that the colur 18 abseut in the ot blind persone, [hicse are dull detalls, only udduced pecouso they are the material symbols of a nascent new theory of the percoption of calor, sl probably of colur-blindue, The fnportant duct is (it tho retinal red 18 very seusitive to the action uf light, versists after death jor from tweive to twenty-tour bo 1t tho eve is kept in a dark: cued room; but bs rapldiy Waitened to o silvery fustre dn 8 tew minutes when exposed to o= dinary daylight, although it saay, In some anle wals, by regencrated even after o post-moriom whiteniugr, by plazing it in a dark box. The rapidity of tuls post-morieis process des pends uppn thy constitution of the Hzht to whici the retins ta expostd, as wetl us upon ita intensity, The raye of the spectrum bes tween the yellow and tho green posseas, i cordig to Ruhue, a pecullar influcuco fn this reapeer, white tho retina fudes very graduaily lndeed when the rods are ooty exposed ™ to the rays between the green und the vivlet end of the shectrum, Ad coneerns the Hiving reting, ved Hzht darkens the rods until they exbibit 8 decp brown, which, i fading to red ugaln under exposury to ordhiary Jight, passes through u vellow stace, Yellow ravs only render the color clearer; 2reen rays of moderate jutensdty produce a purple ultsration of the rea rods, while rendering the blnsh- greeni ones morg brilliauty biue and violet bava proximately, but iy lees degree, the same actlon as green, wid ultea violet no action st all, It wili be puthered from thesu data that retinal tuquiry (s Hkely to resule Ina uew aud well- grounded theory of color and of volor pereep- tlony—Iu s word, In the resolution of vue of tho most intricate provlutus of ort criticlsm, that ot the relation o colur to nervous {mpresslon, feeling, sentiment, nud idea, Huat the picturcsque aspeet of the subject, aud The exnlbition of Mr, Ruskin's Turner draw- ings at the Fine-Art Soclety, London, Is oue of wreat lmportance. The Academy says that, not- withstanding the rare geuerosity with whlch Mr. Ruskin hes given to Oxford and Cambridge possussivus that must bave been an jmmense delight to him, he1s sthl the owner of a col- lection of Turners which, 08 o whole, s not to be surpussed In England, save by the onu- mental assemblage of the National Gallery. The series of works on exhibition are so or- ranged us to elucklato the progreas of Turner in his art, tbrough the diffcrent stages that wark its coursc. DEATIIOF JOACUIM MONTEIRO. The readers of that very Intersstivg volume, “ Angola and the River Congo," oublished In 1875, wilt learn with regret of the death of its suthior, Mr, Juachim John Montetro. Ife was of Portuguesu descent, but an Englishman by birthand educstion, aud was ‘trained at the Bcehool of Mines In Lundon for the profession of nining geolomst. During cighteen years he was engaged in exploring the mining districts of Angols, and with the duties of his position combined the study of the natural history of tho region In which ho was located. In his last Journey to Angola, previous to the publication of bis book, he was accompanied by his wife, a lady who shured bis teate and cothuslasm for natural science. In tho sutumn of 1876 Mr, aud Mra, Monteiro left Englund for the eastern coaat of Alrica, with the intention of nmnlnlufi sume years 1 thy vicinity of Delagoa Bay, su devotlne thelr Icisuro to the Investigntion vt the 1auna aud flors of that almost uuknown coun- try, Mr. Montelro was counccted with the ‘Transylvanian Raflrond, and had been but Jittle over 8 year engaged fu the work, aud tho study which attracted biw to Delagon Bay, when he wae seized with a tatal {llucss, which terminsted Jan. U, 1873, ——— SPARKS OF SCIENCE. FLORA ROUND ABOUT CHICAGO. Tue Nertueworrs.—~The welcome season for Nowers Las coume round much earlfer this spring than usual, and many days ago the crocuses sud snowdrops fu our gardens lifted their swect faces 1o the wurin suushive, and the willows in the woodlands hung out their soft feathery eat- kius frowm every point, allurivg the busy bee to #ip ot their nectar, und scattering showers of yellow pollen oo the wings of cvery passing breeze. The returning birds, the fitting but- tertllessthe general stir of fnsect-life, the open tUis period, My, Btubbs nsserts tho superiority ol the early literaturo of Englaud over that of eny Contluental mation. In the arts, too, it bal madu considerablo progress; whilo In do- mestle clvilization 1t was for beyoud that of ¥rance. “The Norman knights,” he declares, “despised, undervalued, and dostroved much that thiey could not comprehend. Eugland woa Lehiud Europa In some of the arts which thev Iad not incommon; but she had much that washer own, and developed what she bad 1 tomwon by her own gentus, . o . At la sel- dom remembered, in comparing Nornan and Anglofazon fn point of- clvilization, how very lutle tho Norman brought tn cowmparison with ¥hat be destroyed, nud how very liitlo be Lroueht fhat was bls own, % o . Dut he was 8 splendld suldicr; bo haod scen tho great world tstand weat; ho knew the balance of power letween Popes and Emperors; and ho was a woquerors his held the rod ot discipline which ¥astoschiool England to the knowledge of her ‘,’,.'“ streugth and freedom; Lo was to drag her 1o tle rencral notwork of the spiritual and :imnoml volltics of the world, rousing her reby 10 8 consclousucss of unsuspected, un- auuap«n PO he waa to givo u vew direc. on o tier eiergles,—to widen, and uulte, sud twasolidate her sympatiies,—to traln ber to los- alty gnd patrjotism,—and, {u tho process, to {m- 1art g0 miuch, that, when the tine of awakening fame, the conquleror and the.conquered, the e ot the oppressor and the race of the op- bressed, were to lind themselyes one people,” As My, Stubbs foilows the gradual develop- :flc’nlnl tle political featurcs of each succeed- Y reigo, vmvume opportuaity Is alforded him lue the Introduction ot showy and atelking nar- ntlve passupes. Indeed, every temptation s ::mm o employ such pxpeddints for tho sake b hightenlng” (he Iiterest of bis book. With oy burpose ho Lolds ta the sovero work i sn:mhhu; among dry aud obscure rec- e facts oud’ hiote that con Dest be H ted fn !Aluln und homely speech. Yety n oveastonal fnstauces, as whery comments w‘wn tndividuale and cvents are called for, ho e :ll!‘l the pawer, well kuown to bls former Tiersre, of captivatiing by tho uraces of a chiolce Klt Ay stle. u bis brief portraitures of the 5 hlu of England as thoy cyter one after une "ncr upon the scene, ho predents notoworthy wfimluut bis fuculty for bold, swiit, keen, - n!hu;dcllnu-uon. Lu puzzling to sclect m‘"‘ ‘m Cruphic sketches auy which shall i lustrute the uuthos's skill than the ot Tk ;“‘ Gla L tho following lines aro een Iroin the descrintiou of Richard the Lion- ‘:;l‘t‘;lr.“ :ubo:‘t, Hm‘n chlvlllry aod X 'rumnu« . ing @ charin. * Ho was o bad King," saya tuls terse weiter; **hls creat 3 KKy nds down roots frow its branch- | polsoned with * Buttie's Verniu-Kliler,* whic! es, And Lhus spreads over un jminense area; the | contaius str, chniue along with fluur and Pras- Péepol, F. religlusa, o tree held o veneration | slan blue. When lifo wus nearly extinet, forty- by tho ‘tindovs; aud the India-Rubber tree of | five grains of chloral hydrate wero injected un- Cootinental India, ¥, clastica. Cuoutchoug is | der thechin of the milmal, A guarter of an furniehed by msny of the Artocarpods and by | hour after, itlay apparentiy dead; but, onhelng several species of Fleus, ‘The milky julce fs fre- | toushed with the foot, srose, stagsered to Its quently excessively acrid, and thut of the Com- usual corner by the parlor-fire, drank some mon l"{t tree causcs a burnlug seosation tn the | wilk, aud, althaueh auleter than deunl, secined throat. otherwise none the worse for its double duse of The frult of the Mulbcrries ls cdible, yet not | bofsom. entfrely harmloss, A Kiud of vaver 18 manu- M. de Quatrefages noticed, a fow monthis Az, factured from tho Broussenetls vapyritern:, thato ilgmd cock lad 80 fl:llvcl‘lfl"{lfllllllll“' “Tue dye-wood called Fustlc is the pruluctof | o4 1o his descendants the pecullurity that the Maclura tinctoria. ‘Tl useful Ledge-planty | pigrked him, and it had lnrwrm wldely, that the Usuge Orange, {8 the Maclura aurautiea. | \he orainary five-toed varicty had disuopeared Divers “other specles of tho trlbe vield wube | jy" 1o distriet, M. Lenzicn, a physician of '{""c{",:’%]',_“‘““ to the uatives of the cuantries | Arcas, has lately described s romarkuble per- Shey inha : tuntion of @ peculfur formation In the humau “Tho sut-onder Urtices contalns the true Net- | Iiicics, " A miat uamed M. Gamelon, 1 tho Tust tleworts, which ate trees, srubs, or herbs, with | GCUtues Bad two thutiba on cach hand snd two & watery juiee, alternate leaves, usually rouga | great.toes on each foot. The pecullarity was and bursi, or covered. with, stiugiug lsin, abd { ot transmitted ta his own offaoriug, bit an- iuconspleuous Howers. The wood ul 1408t | peyred in each of the three subsequent gener- which attai the staturs of trees s light and | yjong —some of the children at present sbowing spongy, sud strungly charcterized by cellular | i, o clearly marked manner, e T o The tsas | _ Tho atention of tho London Liuneen Soslety earth, rangini from the coldesd ¢ mnel.l ‘lnd thriving In tho poorest us in the rich- ‘rl:-hw:ull.vrfi:llml‘:g l;hf-“‘rlm-h){“.: %:Eu::‘&r.t);: “"i‘:x% l'r'flw {s represeuted by tive specles in the abundance in India. ‘Fho fuwers, of whicha region around Chicago. The Urtlea gracills (e’ | singzlc tree will bear soveral Lundrud pounds, "ol gy ble in taste the dried weedless erapes not common, but bas been found at Calumet, | Fesom o e ol ane 1t Is @ stout berd, from two to six feet Ligh, and nllj‘l lnfiul s and ate uaverly devauren liv wuch lm.‘m\ml vmhl formidable ‘:mu}eh mfl“ mlm:: aisle 0l 1LKIIA, oy it Lutsitious ?nl.ge:'x:nlu;‘ s aro s abiiadant aa ;5‘.: Ing catile. A strong-smellin -vlpl- a kind of spontancousfy discharzed from the whole sur- | arrack, is obtatned h‘)' distitlation of'the corallag fave of the feafl. The U, urentissin of Timor coscntial ol is ;‘lded“:w the rl:“]“' ITulmm 43 named Deovil’s Leal from the virulence of its | BX Lel"ll in lmmn Ing, umt,n.e n\l' uudu. stiug, whicls {s eveu said tn_cause death, Tho g“ut ) onli l& ¢ _‘l.ul‘l‘u:: nor“er U. stimulaus of Java {5 8 dangerous species, | Bapotaces, suf l.ulmo the apecics 0 Butter aud the U. crenulata of Indus is inost violent fu | tres of Mungo Park, lts painful effe Leschnualt de |a Tour, who We arc ablo to speak in wordsof sincers haudled specitnens of thls last, thus describes | pegtsw of the Young Scientist, o periodical starts the consequences: **One of the leaves Sty | ed with the now year, which has for it aln the touched thio first three dugers of my left huud. | fucruction of young readers fn elcmentary At the time 1 only perceived” 8 slight | gefence, In tne practice of experiments, and it pricking, to whicn peld nu ottoutiou. | the inventions and discoveries continually ad This was ot 7 In the mornlng, ‘The | yonclng the varlous brauches of kuowledze. palu contloucd to increasu; fu oue hour | fpery ts nowore certaln and satislactory way it bhad become futolerablo; It secmed | of providing hualthful und protitable gmuse- /s {f some ouo was rubblug my fingers With & | yuent for children thon to engaze thcirfutten- hot frou, Neverthieless thero was no remarks | (juy in some department of _natural bisvory or able sppearance; uelthier swelllug, nor P“ill‘m of thephvaicsl sclences, ‘They take to such C " the aspect in which it appealy to the Imagipation SOOI Biary Sene b ot dndor | 8c0pe 18 not suffclently broad to huluds wnore | rolstod 1n tho ekliitul manoer wo have leurueu | akics, 1o well 4 tho budding trees and dowery, | IX% Ioanuniton, | Tho pain ripldly” woicad | studies wita avidiy, andgud fn chem | L CL v G, D e .ln'agnnuu,lnl poetical tastes, his adventurous | Shab s small vortion of the forms of legal {n- | Lo expeet from thu sutbor, aud forus & wel- | rewind us that it 4s time to resumo the “Flora | then selzed with frequent sucezing, and with a | geqvities. It s the best sort ““ol u],ulhaPonlhlll:y of vutaluing persisteoy fin- Wiaaiiy 9t ferve to cluak bls entiee waut of | struments eeded by a lawy Within it | come addition to tho current lteraturs of art. ( Round About Chlcago,” not vet concluded by s | coplous runuiniz st the nose, as 3t { liad cauzbt | gort 1o scour th elds and foreats for insecta | Bec8 on tie dead retinas 8 quustlon that Bus or cven consideration, for his peo- | range, however, the work fs well and aceur ately e considerable 1ist of separato famligs. Tho task | 8 violeot cold it the hesd. About noou 1 expe- | or wild lowers, oF to cxperlment with chem- been settivd i the atiinnstive Ly Kuhue, who, Y. Ho wag g En, A BOOKS RECEIVED. o " huving placed the decapitated head “of 4 rabbit Rlighmon; but it doe: t ECEIVED. rlenced a painful contraction of the back of the | 4. Wl o 63 co en- | B ed the p 'A",:":”' :‘?’flthz\'lrwzéxvu o Norin andy, Allln'u,":f ;u‘,mmumuu% m.m: :-m:-:‘:‘: m.:l:.mlfle::-lrallegc't%l'fl.- meAn}lu‘swfi‘\)'" l)‘(,c 5"‘!?'&?5& }""F"fi" :,::I:::'“,zx ::: '::l:l Ll :“ L \}own h;: juws, which wade mf. 1“”' an attack of W“‘““,"i :A'l't.wul:lv::rl'(l p&nh flm'“.“."‘fl’r‘ffi.g'fi'hé\'.’;}'a‘u {?.:d‘fk'gff:?t:u‘;;\&%y‘nl;lglmufi.;l l“‘,"":f:.; ipuital; 5 i . ¢ A L M, o Fo G Bey ural order Urticacem, ¢ 1 hat ko el b Jig! w asa Kiagdom, i b&;‘r‘:fi-vmgfinllfiu‘:vu:r(:;nu also, ar¢ devoted ta the rates of duterost In the | Jugngeor 1A Birst Book of Minoralogy, ™ eie; | Nettleworts toeu went 1o bed, bopiug that reposs woul provided agalust the tonptutions to mischiel Hor: lie would 2 ght tor anything whatever, but ho ‘“i:hlull‘e\‘u)lmuulhllywu Sorth Gabiing for R, that be soygut was that of victory "llt:n n:l;nnqllull. Bowc pari of his reputation Eaglien h.-m“ I?:m:nluu ol qualities which the ditferont States) Lo tho Louostead-exemption |yl L “rux laws, mechanica’ lens, and otuer kludred sub- XU ccts, which will also be found very serviceuble, | G, P. Pitoam's Sons, Chicago: Jansen, M- 'hie low prive wiil likewlss commend it {0 not 8 Clurg & Co. 16mo,, pp. 200, Price, 81, few who do uot fecl llke payiug the ordinary | THE BOURCE OF MUSCULAR POWEN: Amav- price of & law-book for such a'work, As far us MENTS AND CONCLUStUN® DRAWN yHOM Obnegi- ::n“““l‘r:r" ‘l“'f‘;:,'l‘l‘ i ul:’l‘x]ld:bfl!ll:' ‘;‘{"z"w:l‘n 08 | which beset the Idiu hours of gounc people. con ? e lh: (ouuwn{& uight, bus L lost the coutraction Armngetncots are making for Avtryeompit'h“ of tho Juws ubout 7' tho cvenluz, Thy uext | exposition of tho vrogress of Beleuce, at tho woruing the palu began Lo leave we, and § fell [ fortheoming World’s Falr. An _enornous miven. I costinued to sufler twa days; and | bullding fn the Trocadero Park will be devoted tardened the retiua of theeye In & & vfir cent solution of alum for twenty-four bours in tha dark, and thus obtained a distinet aud indeatit- able photograph of the window upou its red posterior uspect, Buch hages uro scientilically styled optogrsms, aud retiuus thus treated can ‘The three sub-orders—the Ulmacrm, or Elm- worts; the Artocarpes, or Bread-frult sud Fig- worts; snd the Urticem, or Nettloworts—are united fu the classitization we adopt, furmlug a = 3 > ¢ .M Tnthis an sudience- | by dried and mouuted for perwanent llus- s vbportunitics of testing: they | we have examl t, the £ Y oxson vits HUNAN Hourme Urben Conots | large order of above 600 spectes. Tho first di- | the pain returned with tull forc when £ put my | to the * sclentific disblay. o ¢ iy proud ofu Klug whose exploits wwakeued | ibie, ned i, tho formy are entirely 10- | TN IANE Ln O Wuscaran. Kxcnciy. | vision fncludos trees or shrubs, with alternate | hand ato water, 1 uid nok tinally losa 10 tor | foou Is to ba coustructed seutlog above 4000 | tration ol the - curlagitis L reduat taang ot of Chirstendan; thoy” siunnured Ly AUwTin FLNT, oyt B ew Jork: D | lcaves and Gowers fu looso clusters. Tuey ary | blis daye i Jrople i o b Ui SXDIoANlY il shau e | O ey ity eves. BEhoFile Whee ULty gnereaiose mediation brcks the ANTI-EVOLUTION. dopiston e Co. ChleaLo! Jhgmen. McOlrg & | o jjives of Northern Asts aud of bigh grounds |, Thetuculty foraunglagis uot tho onty tealt | 30y, ClCntile work o Goue, and thern will be | ud doge i the dissectiig-goom of one of uur 'g‘,"::f |u v 2 that would otherwlse 11111:‘?}‘?00“_‘_‘1(1) ND(YIPT#AEN"GIE‘O“;(W?‘?IEAI‘:R LTTI}F ol X mut‘f;fi l‘,} TH‘E ,{ Ax'l’nu'xxummou. in Iudia aud China, of Eutope and North Amer- :‘:‘v, \'\?m‘n‘;{m&: ::‘&‘::u .uu‘:;\sm “r‘t‘l“n.p“l‘:: ;_ mllwufi\l ll]uu:ruunulzltb‘; nsl'en‘unu :hx.’\‘l.emrhe: L-ulh;fig.. with the ‘:;.fll.;] n{ li‘.ml’l‘xm;" ns ‘u,flu.. » Liardly falr to the suthor t: . 4 e M % > MDCCCLXXVEL, By Hsxuy Sraviss, G, M. | fca, sud number upward of sisty specics, In 5 arkable, aud tough cordags has | Frunce wecomplished durdy, regent | talued by German physlologls at such op- Jestary dederlptions from Torie? erriar T2 | O ot nein A7 Ma i Wita i o Auv ote. Now York: berlbner, | oot yiciulty e Randoid Y e Son 4 el M “alforded | {ogracas can be readily taken wituln ous hout ecles of tho genus beep manufactured from them. Kecently ex- ;culury. Every fucility will Ulus: thie U. fulve, or Slippery Khn’ at Hing or thg conventious of scientific soclctiesy & - B, PoHA ML R Libpecon % | Witford & Arustong, 'Chicago: id thew i u, Ne- r thy death of the splwal, aud developed by tion; yet ml“&‘“: view fn an {solsted coudi- alter thy de: trations. Philadelphl st may be veutured awain fu tho o, Cll Clurg & Co. bvo., pp. 147. Price, §3. periments bave been tried fn the Prusglan Co. caxo: Junsea, McClurg & Co. 12mo, dale, and U. incs of Nassa et th 1 ho | lecture-rooms witl be provided gratis; adver- | pupidly disecting out the retius aud fus ay 50, 350, ) LIOTHEC SANA 4, Lo ale, and tbe U, Americana, or ‘Amerlcan Ela, rovince o u, totest the working of tho e iy | e s t’h‘:",""“’_'“‘“fl"" peragraphs which | b0 430 Frice, BRI Parta. 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The tubers of U. exclaluis in doepaln, * We surcly must, after | dresws of romance are olten verlficd by realitv. ¢ Ut UDWOrtlY 1o be plac Prigt, © placed by the mde, ':m:-ilww L' 'No soverelen \!ho ever Py bas won from vontemporary writers TS g &, Alucular “untson of > pralcs h ?:ln:lh:(uxu vure in Lfe, temperate, hb- Tihcuretul ud yet soleadid, wercltul, truthe g vaoravle Lscreet lu word, provident i uueel, prudent fu Judgugat, modeat fn "uflxlu‘fl&:‘:fl{m‘ I -;x’;‘ & ballwut soldier, utiat, 4o 8bI6 orgunizg - Vlldator ot all furces ag bls wfimufi%‘fl Nodoubt a Coroner’s jurv would trust the rTevelutions of a dead retina with o listlo var- donable disrespect to begia with, but & slule demoustration would sulllce to couviuce even tho toost skepticul of protessional jurymen, In's late work, stylod the “ Recont Origin of | AJrea: Calls Desecto, Juprenis do Hazos. 13- Mag.' Mr. Bouthall sttempted to ovestbrow | pyg PUTURE OF SANITARY SCIENCE, By the couclusions of Darwin, Huxley, sud other n‘:-uymlfo w.l-:»h lnfinnfiwfi. A, LN l.}.‘.1 0., scicutists of thelr school, with regerd to tho | ¢c.s Fellow uf the Royal Lollege of bbyslciaus, antiquity of the buman race. Tho theory of [ 55 ,{;‘3?,‘;:-,‘5:““}',‘,,’;5 "1'1',“:" i hed thcluudnnl d-vu:uvment of ali grudes of ani- mlv’li’l_l'_%l&’?;.gz’? (LZ"BI; n?ig{?fin‘fio*éfi"lué' [ON A X 'l . fual 'k‘”d" e e Lo s 182 | FOWTS AND AWARDS. . Editud by ¥usscus A attacked, and & vast arey of evideaco was | wiixzs, Chief of tug Duresu of Awsrds. brought forward to ‘l.lw\l its wesknesy and flloun“lv.. 1K, XIL, XV., XVUL Poilsdele crs in both specics precede the leaves, and ex- pand tmyu the eprivg. On the DesPlajucs KRiver, vorth of Thatcher, tho tuckberry, Celtts occidevtalls, accurs, vhough rurely,” ‘This is an undersized tree, with tho &spect of au elw, and bears sweet, edible {ruit, s largo us a cherry, and ripeniog fu au- tuwn. They are sometlmes admlolstered in dyscotery. The root, burk, and lcaves of Celtls oricutally, 8 species growivg in the Orlept, ars soewhat aromutic, and are uscd as & reyedy all, be merely a nation of shopkeerers, sceiu fiberita aru siaLcliioum il cwica by savage St ot Hbyal Commiasioncns n.vu"dcnmc:!- Tu the grovelands of Riveraide and Cslumet, | our capabilities Lo wuy other direction! stiugless Plles pumils, Richweed, 15 common. = ——— Itis's low berb, with pellucid, shinlog stems, Fighting s Whale, coarsely-toothed leaves, and flowers nettle-like A correspondent of tho Ralelgls Observer, writ- lu aspect, sppeariug in tho latter part of the | fng frowm Morelaod Cnfi, cosst of North Cure- aummer. Aing, says: “Ou Tucsdsy thers was the most mfi& Cuamez' thsa!'-'vua!:i ettle, &thlmflalcr:- exclting ‘T«ll dlr&emu“vtfilu flxh‘tf n‘hn:o l‘lnuu : Abyndan & baruless plap! vor occurred ou the cous! wed with :hpb ko al -u-hfh up Lom gnlfi culty that the captain of the crow could gut A gentlensn sulleriog from gout was explain- oz tu s frieod thae bi3 doctor did uot permit bim to ¢ab wweets, potatoes, (ruits, tarivaccous yegetables, gy, wing— * Well, ' gxcluimed tho TR WY A0a you et wavlhar doctort!