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'• I i Epping Forest. . L"- ' On May G, <h° 5.600 seres of lend to the Diortlieast of London known as tapping Forest was declared free to the public. Tue value of this immense tact of land, from a scientific point of view, lies, says Nature, in its wild ness. By fir the greater portion is piirnitive woodl ind, which has been but little interfered with by man in com pad son with the heaths and com mons to the north, west and south of London. Such an expanse requins little in the way of “improvement.” The nquirementi of the ordinary holiday-maker and of the field natu ralist are in this case identical. To be aide to roam through many miles of wild forest is a* truly a pleasure and novelts to the former as it is a neces sity to the the latter. But iu addition to ’he forest rroper there are open spaces amounting to (more than 2,000 acres and the best Imode of improving these is now under 'discussion. One of t ie most unique suggestions thus fur made was that of Mr Alfred R. Wallace in a recent number of Ihe FortnighVy Review. After provi ling for playgrounds, etc., k Mr. Wallace would plant these spaces I such a way as to give a fair repre- Fntation of t\ pical landscapes in va rious pads of the world. Thus, for istauce, by planting a section with Lickories, sassafras, ! quid amber, ma ples, oaks, rhododendrons, catalpas, magnolias, locusts, tulip trees, butter nut, bald cypress, Virginia creeper, hemlock spruce, kalmias and other American trees and >-hrubs he would produce a North American landscape. Bo again, by the use of the California big trees, red woo is, pines, spruce, cypresses, silver firs, gigantic arbor- vittes, and other growths found east of the R >cky Mountains, he would .imitate a landscape on the Pacific [31ope. In like manner another section hould be devoted to the trees of Europe find Western Asia, including such ex miples as the nettle tree, the red bud, Ithe flowering ash, the wild olive, the liop hornbeam, Nordmanu’s Russian lilver fir, and the picea pinsapo ol Spain ; another to the singular vegeta tion found on the eastern shores of Asia, as the ailantus, the sophnra, cryptomeiia, paulownia, the retino- apotas, the gingko tree, the Chinese arbor vitces, the wistaria, and the glyptostrobus; while one landscape might be devoted to trees and ehruns peculiar to the Southern hemisphere, including such specimens as Chilian pine, the gum tree of Australia the huon pine of Tasmania, the pittospo- rurns of New-Zealand, and many cbaiming shrubs and climbers from Brazil. Pietical Prose and Verse. The Blue Sky. We do not care what men think of us to-day, but do hope that wo shall stand well under the light of time. “He Shall Bo LlVe A Tree.” V barren tree against ft sunset sky; A brnwn.bleuk. tree, whose leaves of emerald sheen, Which singing birds were wont to peep be tween, Long since hare fallen. Through lti summit high The winter winds have swept with hitter cry, Vnd left it desolute, a crownless queen, ^ut beautiful, where golden clouds serene The ahai p, black outlines All and glorify, Ah, Lord, dei r Lord, my life Is dry and bare; How stripped ol suimn r grace Is known to tbee, -Shall niguts ol wearln> s* and days of care Be pleasing In tliy sight? Yea, pass ng fair, 11 thus thy love stream thro gh me, so . be Within thy gracious light a naked tree. The eye grows weary, the ear dull, and the tongue tired, but the brain never rests from the cradle to the grave. Longfellow’s Finest Sonnet. “As a lond mother, when the day is o’er, L°ads by ihe baud her little child to bed, Halt willing, half reluct ml to be led, And leaves his broken playthings on the floor, Still gazing at them through the open door, Not wholly renssure t and comforted By promises or others in their stead, Which, tboujh more splendid, may not piease him more; So nature deals with us, and takes away Our play things one by oue and bv tue hand LeadN us to rest so gently that we go Scarce knowing If we wish to go or stay, 11 -lug too full of sleep to understand flow tar the uuknown transcends the what we know.” God’s Flans of Yoir Life. Never complain of your birth, your training, your empl >yment, your uaid-'hips; never fancy that you could Be something if you only had a differ- ent loc and sphere assigned you. God understands His own plans, and He knows what you want a great deal better than you do. The very things that you most depreciate as fatal limi tations or obstructions, are probably God’s opportunities; and it is nothing new that the patient should dislike his mediciiles or any certain proof that they are poisons. No! a truce to all impatience! Choke that ’oolish envy which gnaws at your heart because you are not in the same lot with others, bring down your soul, or rather, bring it up to receive God’s will, and do His work in your lot in your sphere, under your cloud of obscurity, against yout temptations ; and then you shall find that your condition is never opposed to your good, but really consistent with it. The Early Days of Printing Professor Brucke has constructed an artificial blue sky by droppinga spirit uous solution of rosin into water until the liquid #*comes turbid and milky. When a black board is placed behind the glass containing this turbid solu tion, aud the light is allowed to fall upon the liquid obliquely from above, It assumes the aspect of a clear blue sky. Professor Helmholtz very un- poetically, aud almost irreverently, speakb of a blue eye as simply au eye with turbid humors. Professor Tyndall has followed up this interestiug branch of investigation by showing that an artificial blue sky can also be produced by throwing a strong beam of electric light upon certain kinds of*gas con tained in long glass tubes. The effect heconctives to be iu some measure dependent upon the decomposition of the gas through the agency of the light. One portion of the gas is sud denly precipitated in the condition of a delicate cloud, capable of catching and turning bat k the blue vibrations. In some modifications of the experi ments the attenuated vapor makes its first appearance in an exquisitely deli cate form. The light rt fleeted from these artificially constructed blue clouds is always polarized where it is thrown off at an angle of 90° from the course by which it has fallen upon the reflecting particles. The most perfect polarization always occurs in the di rection that is perpendicular to the path of the illuminating beam. The ellect gradually grows weaker aud ultimately fades away, as this perpen dicularity is departed from. The po larization of the sky is most distinctly developed in one particular track of of the blue vault, and fades gradually away as the neighboring regions are brought euccefcbfully under examina tion. There is an old story about Faust, the associate of Guteuberg, the inven tor of printing, which, whether true or false, well illustrates this. As soon as the Bible, which these two pioneers of the art had printed, was complete, Faust took a number of copies to Paris to sell. The first copy he sold to the kiug for 750 crowns, and another to the anhbishop for GHO crowns, aud to less ilia trious or less woithy persons he sold other copie* for much smaller sums, each oue thinking that he pos sessed a marvel of penmanship. So delighted was the archbishop with his purchase that he took it to the king, who, in emulation, produced his volume. In spite of differences in the great inital letters, which were painted by hand, the text in both was found to be indentical, down to the smallest details, which would be im possible in books written by hand. O-her copies, too, it came to be known bad been sold. There was no way of accounting for the mystery except by magic, and poor Faust was committed to stand his trial for sorcery aud was imprisoned; Only upon a full dis closure of his process of priuting, which bad hitherto been jealously se cret, did lie obtain his liberty, ami tills he did not long enjoy, dying shortly after of the plague, before he could re turn to his owu country. Fishing by Electricity. a weight below and a float above, so that it can be raised or lowered t > the desired depth. As soon as the catboas are ignited and the glass in proper position, alt these* in its vicin ity is illuminated brilliantly, and the fi-h, over wham light is well known to exercise an irresistible influence at night, come eagerly, and sometimes in large schools, within the rays. They may be seen from above disporting themselves in the unaccustomed brightness, and little dreaming of tlie sinister purpose with which the little fete is organized for thtm. It is then that the oilier fishing-boats, armed with nets, come up and set to work at the unconscious victims, which they surround as well as they can without interring with the apparatus con nected with the lighted globe. It may be supjiosed that this device is calcula ted to operate with much deadly effect whenever it is used and ttiere seeuis to be much doubt whether it will ever tie allowed as a recognized kind ot fishing within territorial waters. In deed, the license granted by the Gov ernment is said to be merely provi sional, and for the purpose of testing the new machine. Scientific Economies, A Possible Rival to Chichona. \ The Trinctss Christian uppeared as yplauUte at a comert iu Windsor ring the first week in May. uag A French yachting paper gives some description of the new apparatus which Is being used, with the per mission of the Government of that country, for fishing by electricity at night. It consists of a globe of glass, within which the electiio light is shown. Two conductors encased in gutta percha are arranged so as to meet one another on tire inside, \er>' much on the same principle which is now familiar to all vi-itors to the Ctystal Palace. They communicate with a fishii g-boat anchored at a convenient distance, and can, of course, tie set into activity by the occupants of the boat. As to the globe, it is attached to During the last two or three years n baik containing quinine and quini- dine has been obtained from Columbia in enormous quantities. The botani cal source of this bark, which is known in commerce under the name of Cuprea Cinchona, on account of its peculiar coppery tint, lias hitherto been a mystery. M. Tiiana, the well- known quinologist, has recently suc ceeded iu tracing it out, and has stated in the British Pharmaceutical Jour nal for April 22 that it is derived in great measure from two species of the nearly allied genius Remijia, none of the members of which were previously known to contain quinine. 8cveral species of It nnij ; a have leaves resem bling those of the true Cinchonas, and of these M. Triana has determined tnat R Purdieana, Wedd., and It. pedunculata, Karsten, certainly yield Cuprea bark, the firmer being the species which contains the alkaloid Cinchonamine recently discovered by M Arnaud. It appears probable that other species also yield the Cuprea Cinchona of commerce, but definite information on thl a point is still want ing. The value of this bark has led, according toM. Triana, to gteat devas tation of the forests in which ihe trees grow, and has produced a financial stagnation, business being neglected in order to follow the more profitable occupation of collecting the bark. The tree is likely to prove valuable for cultivation in countries where malariift fever abounds, since it grow;* at an elevation of 2UQ-1,000 metres above the sea, at which oven red Cin chona bark will not flourish. But a still more formidable rival to cinchona is occupying public atten tion. M. E. S. Maumene, a distin guished French chemist has definitely announced verbally that he has suc ceeded in making quinine aitificially, that is to say, without having recourse to the natural bark. He does not wish kfannouuee the details of his process just yet, as he does not consider them perfect; but he Las deuoslted a sealed packet containing au account of the n with the Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences. M. M nmiene’s announcem nt is clear and distinct, au t his reputation as a philosopher is too high for him to imperil it by a premature or ill-considered statement. If M. Maumene has succeeded in making artificial quinine at a cheaper rate than by extracting it from bark, he has both fume aud fortune before Lilui; and the Peruvian bark planta tions of South America, India, Cey- and Java, whether natural or artifi cial, may bo out down for firewood. If, on the contrary, he can only pro duce it at a dearer rate, he will have achieved a result that will baud down bis name to posterity as the first chemist who 1ms succeeded In tire ar tificial formation ot a vegetable alka loid. Scotch Hum®r. Food for Thought. Old Scotch gen'lenrian sitting in a Toronto car—a young lady enters, and makes a rush for the topmost seat. The car smarts rattier suddenly, the lady lands on the old gentleman’s knee, blushing and eic’alming :‘ Oj! beg your pardon.” "Oil G.—Duma mention it, lat-sle, I’d rayther liae ye in’ on my kute, than staun’m on The gastric juice is more acid while digestion is going on than in the in tervals of the process. Northern corn contains most oil aott starch and Southern corn moat min eral aud albuminous matter. Sea anemones have no real nervous system ; the sense of touch is distribu ted throughout the whole animal. Sugar, according to a prominent physician, promotes digestion, and may lie prescribed iu certain cases of dyspepsia. Poisons closely resembling the ptomaines have been obtained by M. Armand Gautier from the poison of the cobra and the human salvia. The London Mining Journal says that a contract has been concluded for 070,000 tons of iron ore in Africa for consumption in the United States. The locomotives on some Russian railroads are heated with crude naph tha, which is introduced into the ten der as it comes from the wells. Efforts are being made iu Belgium to stimulate the study of astronomy. A recent speech by M. Folte has done much to further tire movement. Gits; s from the furnaces in iron dis tricts are very injurious to trees in the ueigbborbo )d. The sulphuric acid contained in the gases >u absorbed by ihe leaves. Pure butter at fifteen degrees has the same specific gravity as alcohol ol 53 7 per cent. ( 956) and oleomargarine as at ohol of 69.2 per cent., or .915 -ipecific gravity. The Germans adulterate thei papers with clay to sucu au extent that the American market now’ refuses to im port German paper. Clay ruins tjpe and is gt nerally undesirable. The Mmiteur des Products Chem- iques advises melon growers to put cufiee grounds on their melon beds ; they form a very stimulating manure and greatly Improve the flavor of the fruit. Lizirds and crocodiles have two lungs, usually somewhat divided, and extending through the whole trunk. By their inflation the cuameleon can give itself a plump appearance. Wood plied in a tank aud covered w-th quicklime which is gradually slaked with water is said to acquire great Uarduess and consistency after the lime has acted upon it for a week or more. O l February 8th the first eel taken in California was caught on the east ern shore of San Francisco Bay. It measured three feet in len th, and was the first result of the “plant” of the California Fish Commissioners. Professor O wen, iu an article lately published, questions whether man ever receives a third set of teeth. He ascribes alleged cases to the reappear ance of old and worn stumps, iw con sequence of the shrinkage aud absorp tion of the jaws. A baker in Paris, having used for fuel the boards from old houses, many people w 10 ate the bread were seized with symptoms of lea 1 poisoning. The heat converted the paint into oxide of lead, which adhered to the surface of the loaves. Dr. Miguel Faragas ascribes the aroma of roasted coffee to a peculiar substance called cafeone, which is de vt loped during the process of roasting. Its action on the heart is oppo ed to that of caffeine, as it increases the force and frequency of its pulsations, An Italian engineer proposes to fret ze silk-worm eggs with an ice ma chine, tliii3 retarding their develop ment without destroying their vitality. The object is to keep the eggs, iu years when the development of the mul berry trees is backward, until a more auspicious period, and thus avoid the losses incident to such seasons. Near Cambridge, England, ihe por tion of the wait letter-box*s surround ing the apertures has been treated with luminous paint to enable the people to see where to post their letters after dark. The result has been sat isfactory. ■—■ —-*■ ♦ •- • — A gentleman thus addressed his butler : “James, how is it my butolrer's Earnestness commands the respect of mankind. A waveriug, vacillating, dead-and-alive Chiistian does not get the respe t of the church or the world. —John Hall. bit) ceremony. It is said that there are upward of 3(!0i) steam-ploughing machines now tmployed in Eugland and Seotluud. Little Things. One small stone upon anot'ier, And llie highest wall is laid; One wee stitch, and tnen another, And trie largest garment’s made. Many tiny drops of water Make the mighty livers flow ; One short second, then anoiher Aud ihe ages come aud go. Place one bit «i knowledge On another tiny mile, Keep on adding, time will make them Stilus witn wisdom’s burnii g light. Each small act of perseverance Nerves you to some greater deed; From oDe little grain of forethought Often grand i emits proceed. If.you want to be a hero On the battie-Iield of life, Do not scorn the numb lest vlct.’ry, For ’iwlll aid you in the strife, Little acts of care and pattenee Grow to g ants in the fight; They will nerve your soul lo oonquer, And will win you laurels bright. Many boys are muddy-headed till they be cladded with age, and <>uch afterwards prove the btat.—ThomaM Fuller. Faith’s Recompense. I stood and watched my ships go nut, Each one by one,unmooring, tree. Wuat time ttu- quiet harbor fl led With flooU-tldo from the sea. The first that sailed, her name was Joy; She spread a Kim otb, white ample sail, And eastward drove, with be-rdiug spars, Beiore the singing gale. The ne xt that sailed, her name was Hope; No cargo in her old sue bore, Thinking to find in wistern lands Of merchandize a store. Another sal ed, her name was Love : She showed b red flag at tlie nia-t, A flag as red as blood she s owed, And she sped south right fast. The la>l that sailed, her name was Faith; Slowly she took her passage forth, Tacked, and lay too; at last she steered A straight course lor the noith. My gallant ships they sailed away, Over the shimmering, summer sea; I sat and watched lor many a day. But only one came back to me. For Joy was caught by pirate Pain, Hope ran upon a hidden reef, And Love caught fire and foundered fast Iu • whelming seas of grief. Faith came at last, storm-beat and torn She recompensed me all my loss; For as a cargo home she brought A crown linked to a cr-es. Professor Moriey’s Predictions, bills are so large aud I always have such bad dinners? ’ “Really, sir, I don’t know,” said James; “for I’m sure that we never have anything nice in tbe kitchen that we don’t send seine of it tip to the dining-room.” Boiling Cabbage.—Talking of cabbage, Mrs. R> e^e tell* us that we cun get rtil of the abominable smell of cabbage boiling by putting in the wa ter a piece of breadcrumb tied up iu a flue white rag. Prophesying the Appearance of an Intel* )e :tual Genius. I have just heard of a remarkable prediction made by a remarkable man. The man is Professir Henry Morlev, perhaps the most thorough explorer of literary history, and his prophesy is that a great iutel ectual figure will arise In the mar Juture. If our astronomers were to predio that a new planet would probably be discovered iu a certain region of space the telescopes of the world would be turned in that direction ; (here is no reason why we should not heed as well the prediction of a man who has so long studied literary epochs. Pro fessor Morley bases his calculation, I believe, upon the fact that a certain average of po; ulor culture and a cer tain proportion of literary reputations hhve never failed to be represented by some mind of extraordinrry power, aud that average and proportion have now been reached or exceeded. The Professor is a solid aud rather un imaginative man ; but there is a touch of transcendentalism about this idea of his. Such a hope were a true star amid the darkness closing round the graves of the men who made our epoch—Carlyle, Darwin aud Emer son. Just as so many are asking who is left to look up to, liete is something to raise all bowed beads, and direct re- rctrospecting eyes; for the representa tive of a larger ago must be a larger genius than any predecessor. It is said tbat prophecies tend to fulfil themselves. It may be that the dreams of generations of Madonnas flowered in the man of Nazareth. H-ine believed that lire beauty and dignity cf the Italians were largely owing to the geueral worship of pic tured saints. Wlnvt a beautiful com petition it would be for the Madonnas of America aud Eugland, turning from the graves of great teachers who have taught their generation the se cret of heieditary genius, laws of vari ation and the power of culture, to ful fil this prophesy! And how grand would be the rcst.lt if the result should he that the English race iu both worlds, led by ihe same ideal, should bring forth again majestic minds, re lated to each other as the Old World to the ftew, like those they j dntlj lost and foil >wed In ooutiuuou^ Ion to th^p graves.