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BY BREWSTER & CO. I DIRECTORY- STATE GOVERNMENT. James >l. Smith, Governor. -v N. C. Barnet, Secretary of State. J. W. Goldsmith, Comptroller General. John Jones, Treasurer. Joel Branluun, Libr|rian. / John T. Brown, Principal "Keeper of the Penitentiary. - Gustavus J. Orr, State School Commis srener. I V J MJ./ • >’‘ J. N, Janes, Commissioner of Agricul ture. Thomas D. Little, State Geologist. JUDICIAL. . 1 BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT. Noel B. Knight, Judge. <O. D. Phillips, Solicitor General. • Jgtfdfag Court. •*-«hsßoic<e—Fourth Monday in Febru- Mgy, and first-. Monday tn August. Cobb—Second Monday in March and Dawson—Third Monday in April and oseond Msunflay in September. Famkin— Third Monday in May and Oc- Jan Mr. . . ’• ’ ’ Forsyth—First Monday in April and fourth Monday in August, Gilmer--Second Monday in May and October. Lumpkin—Second Monday in April and Mrefe Monday in September. —Fpurth Monday in Mafch and day in August. s—Fourth Monday in April ami TowNS--M<>nday after fourth Monday in May and October. Union—Fourth Monday in May and Oc tober. "iti-.ii 1 ,i *T-/> 1 roi) ! COUNTY OFFICERS. C. M. McClure, Ordinary. Regular court first Monday in each month. J..W> Mwbon, Clerk Superior Court „*M, P. Morris, Sheriff. jf G. Gramling, Deputy Sheriff z , John G. Evans, Treasurer. Wm. N. Wilson, Tax Receiver. Joseph G. Dupree, Tax Collector. Wm. W. Hawkins, Surveyor. n 'Wm. Rampley, Coroner. COURT—CANTON DIS. Joseph E. Hutson, J. P. It F. Daniel, N. P. H. G. Daniel, L. C TOWN GOVERNMENT. W. A. Tenseley, Mayor. J. W. Hudson, Recorder. James H. Kilby, Jaliez Galt. J. M. Ilsr 4la, J. M. McAfee, Theodore Turk, Alder »M. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. James O. Do*d«, President. , <, James W. Hudson, County School Cpm- Fros. James U. Vincent, Examiner. Jrfaaph M McAfiw, Allen Keith, Jowph J. Maddox, John R. Moore. . Meeting* quarterly, in the court-house. 4MKROKKE TEACHERS' ASSOCIA m !•>! (:> .T|fXN. A JammGi Dpwda,.President., M. B. Tugglfl, vice-PreM lent. ’ * * C. M. MrCW. Secretary. s * Jewj AtlaWay, Treasurer. John D Attaway, Censor .Morunt. Prof. James U. Vincent, Association Cor respondent. 11 <* * Mt-giiUr meetings avery second Saturday in each month, at 10 a, m. jh I o s i z :n r i r Baptist Church, Canton Ga., time of service fourth Sum lay in each month. Rev. M. B. Tuggle, Pastor. M. K. CKurchl thn« of service, preachers to charge Rev. R R Johnson, first Sunday. * Rtr. B. R liedl>e«Tf, second. Rev. J. M. Hardin thlWl * , A MASOJHC- > Canton Lorane, No. 77, meets first and third Monday nights in each month. Joaenh M. McAfee, W. M. B. E. Ledbetter, Secretary. Sixes Lodge, No. 382, meets first and third Saturdays, 2 p. in. C. 8. Steele, W. M. D. W. i'utniau, Bttcaetary. d j GOOD TEMPLARS. ' Carton Mmik Me« lift, meets every Saturday, ft price w < « . JabwtWt, W. G. T W. H* Guppage, HecnHMV. i... W j.M> i V*f*v--? 1 ■' fi».- ‘• f e?f .vv-ia.4 L, ■■ Danton Grange No. 235, Canton Ga. Jabei Galt, Master. • .11 ml 1 > Joanph M. McAfee, Secretary. Stable I N. J. GARRISON Has Opened a Livery Stable In Canton, *•4 *» prop’«d to furnish Horace, Buggies, and wagons to the public for reasonable Compmaatlon. He will also do Hauling to and from this railroad and - elsewhere for lh<we desiring such service. The starting ot.a livery stable in Canton so only an experiment, but Mr. Garrison hopes by attention to business and satisfac chargee to make his experiment a suc xsmful undertaking. > . tS f ~ , ... yy , JAMES O. DDWDA, Attorney at Law, CANTON, -' < u - GBORPU. Ilf ILL practice In the Superior Coarte oi .Cherokee and adjoining counitea. •’ WRi fiaiUHully and prmuplly attend to the of all claims put in his hands. * < Vffire in sh& >2vuri house. Canton, Ga. anx 1’ 1 ly —FSrtr —axrn-tg —nmnsl y.- ■•-i < • ■ ” ■ . ©he ©ljewhee WeaqjiML — DON'T TAKE IT TO HEART. There’s many a trouble Would break like a bubble, And into the wafers of Lethe depart, Did not we rqhearse it, And tenderly nurse it, And give it a permanent, place in tire heart. 1 There’s many a sorrow Would vanish to-mor.ow, [wings; ’ Were we got to furnish the And quietly brooding, It hatches out all sorts of horrible things. •iji i< How welcome the seeming Os looks that are beaming, [poor! Whether one’s wealthy, or whether one’s Eyes bright as a berry, Cheeks red as a cherry, [can cure. The groan and the curse and the heartache Resolved to be merry, All worry to fierry .. - ; Across tls fanned paters that bid us And no longer tearful, _ But happy and cheerful, [for yet.: We fee! life has much thaj’b worth living The iStene in the Road. There was a duke once who disguised himself, and placed a great rock iu the mid dle of |h£,r&%d -pear his 11»/* u JJext morning a peasant came that way with his ox-cart. “Oh, those lazy people !” said he, “there is this big stone lying right in the middle of the road, and no one will take the trouble to put it out of the way.” And Hans went on, scolding about the lazi ness of the people. Next came a g*iy soldier along. His head was held so far back that hd didn’t notice the stone, and he stumbled over it. Ho Jtegan to storm at the country people arqnnd there for leaving a huge rock in the road. Then he went on. Next came a company of merchants. Wl«en ? they came to the stone, the road was so narrow tliat they had tb go off in single file on the other side. One of them cried out, “Did aip body ever see the like of that big st<»ne Ij lheiiholexif the morn ing, and not a single person stopping to take it away *?” It laid* there for three weeks, and no one tried to move R. Then the duke sent around word to all the people on his lands to meet where this rock lay, as he had something to tell them. The day came .and a great crowd gather ed. Old Hans, |lie farmer, was there, and so were the merehants. A horn was heard, and a sphuidid cavalcade came galloping up. The duke got down ftom his horse, and began to speak to the people gathered fyerk. “My friend#, it was J who pyt this stone here ®very ii&ser-by has left it just where it was, and has scolded Ids neiglriior for not taking it but of |he way.” He stooped down and lifted hp the stone. Directly u.iderneath ft was a round hollow, and in the hollow lay a leathern bag. The duke h«kd up this bag, that .all might see what was written on it. “For him who lilts up the stone.” lie untied the bag; and turned it upside down, and out upon the stone fill a boaiitifiil gold ring and twenty large bright coins. So flnjv ajt Jb«t the prize bemuse they had not learned tlie lesson, Qr fermed the haUt of d iligcncC* * t ’’’vhfyttiW'iT*- Many men, I belicye, would retain the warm affection and romantic love of the women they marry much longer, if they would express the tenderness they feel oßcne-. Wamcn love to hear things talked idxmt. They like to hear a husband say that be lovcS, ro’et nftd over Htttin. Tlwy like to have bip| yill them, in plain terms, that he misses them when Urey are absent. They kfcecompliments that ootne Blt>m ’he heart Ivoweycr ffee they msjß*be from vanity. And a lldWpraisef of dress, or face, w ban ner, is a mighty c<yutbrl 10-mae who has giv en herself to one man for Her life time. It is said that women have more imagi nation than men, but iu matters of love I sekreriy tliiirlt that *ll is so. Man will |e in w.unun s love with fur less visible tokens of it lhaa is necessary to prove his tenderness th htm Bbe wants more speech es and longer letters than he does. The moment of ppomise gnj vow must be stfjS plemented by many fond wools scattered all through her iifc, etee grieving doubts creep Into fjef soiil? A term of endearment, a pet name, some lit'.le token that she is to him what w other woman is, will make fjer feel than the mewi shows other women that he esteems her and values her society, jealousy can never pois on There is a great dual of talk about wo men “loving forever,” however the man theylove may .turn out. It is true in one sense ; he may be a rascal to other folks and not alienate her tenderness; but once con viace aay high sjarded woman that her husband Is tafse If her. that be lores her no hanger, haw a "reman tic friendship"—the »uFSt of all till taiions —with another wo- in place of sere comes emqtipn I too cold to be called hate, acd then puts a isUvugcr barrier bvlwcvu them than aagcr Virtue a,nd Intelligence—The Safeguards of Liberty. CANTOX, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1876. —q can raise. Silence is apt to foster the doubts that bring this feeling with it. Often just saying, “You are better, sweeter, dearer than any one else,” would save her. But man, after his boyhood, rather sinks from wordy love-making. He thinks that Ins wife should take his affection for granted even if he sits in the corner whispering to ; Miss Flin with bis back turned to her all ! the evening, and lets her put on her shawl herself while he interests himself in Miss Flip’s boa. Little works, little deeds, a little thought fulness, would xvard off many of those “separations” which blight so many lives. Truly, these come of greater things, but lit tle omissions often lead to them. By his neglect he spoils his temper, and the spoilt temper drives him from her at last, anil turns her first foolish suspicions into reali : ties.—[New York Ledger. The Necessity of Labor. —Labor is • man’s great function. The earth and the atmosphere are his laboratory. With spade and plow, with mining salts, furnaces and forges, with fire and steam, amid the noise and whirl of swift and bright machinery, and abroad in the silent fields, beneath the roofing sky, inan was made to be ever work ing, ever experimenting. In all the worlds of philosophy, in the universe of intellect, man must be a worker. He is nothing, he enn bo nothing, he can achieve nothing, ful fill nothing, without working. Not only can he gain no lofty improvement without this, but without it he can gain no tolerable hap piness. 80 that he who gives himself up to utter indolence finds It hard for him, and is obliged in self-defense, unless he be an to'th) something. The miserable vic ftmttof id?enei*» are driven at last from their chosen resort, and compelled fe work, to do something ; yes, to employ their wretched and worthless lives in killing time. They must'hunt down the hours as their prev Yes, time, that mere abstraction that sinks light as the air upon the eyelids of the busy and the weary, to the idle, is an enemy clotheU with gigantic armor; and all the difference between them and others is, that they employ Jheir activity to no end. They find indeed that the hardest work is to do nothing. Scdden Return of Reason. —Augus- tus Hemenwav, of Boston, one of the rich est men in America, who has lately resum ed bus’ness, after thirteen years of r tire meet from the world, has had a remarkable history. When a lad be was se’t to Valpa raiso, tn manage the affairs nf the late Ben iamin Bang, and after a few years of im porting South American products and ex nnrting American nyinufiictures on his own hook, he retnrmM k richer than than his fernier employer. Overwork inqueed a monoman’a, and he fancied that he could not meet his IfabifttlCß. But he had sense 'mnngh to take the advice of physicians, and he retired to Litchfield, Conn., where r year# he vemainfed tn wfed was supposed to lie hopeless insanity. A year and a half asm, his reason suddenly re’urn-, d, and he ,t<!b*grnphed to his brother, “bring on your trial balance,” and, sure enough, lie wa? able to review the history of his house during his long absence. He is now at ids and dropped a thon*and dollar bill into the contribution box on a recent Sunday. _ New Discovert in Telegraphy.—lt is Grimed that a new kind of electricity has been obtained, differing from the old In several particulars, and notably in not re qniring for transmission that the conduct ing wire shall be insulated. While the teality and valueW this discovery can only t»e ascertained by further experiment, it may hcie be mentioned ’.hat there is noth ing inherently improl>able about it The ■dhferente claimed between th® new and old te’ettriciries is scarcely greater in kind between polarize! and non-polarized light, or between ordinary Iron and that which has been so changer! b, contact with platimtm that the-strongest -nitric acid dteeortry of’ the sort would be of inestimable service in ctreapening the telegraph, cable rates would sdnu be permanently reduced, yndtbc un sightly poles that now disfigure our cities would quickly disappear.—[New York Ftibnne. i Wooden Railways.—Experiments that | have been made on one of the railways of ’ PeensylvaaH to tret the efficiency of wood en rails are said to l*ave succeeded much | beyond the expectation of the projectors of | the enterprise. The rails are of sugar ■ maple seven inches by four in thickness, and about twelve feet in length. The ties | are laid down in the ordinary way, notch-, ed;, and the rads are Jet into them about [ tour inches. They Xre thin kept firmly ’ with wooden wedges driven on the sides. . The cost of laying these rails is four hun dred and fifty dollars a mile. No iron spikes are required, and the cost of track laying is about the same as in the care of trow rads. The highest rate of speed for locomotives to pas» over such a track with safety has been fixed al sixteen miles an hour. It has been estimated that a wooden track will last, ordinarily, from three io four years. 7 . • Strange Japanese Customs Falling into Disuse, The Japanese women are unusually small and dumpy, but are often very beautiful, with small hands, and are excei dingly neat ] in dicss and coiffure. Their hair is not, as is generally supposed, a true black, but is av« ry dark brown;, in some instances is pronounced red. Its blackness, and unfor tunately coarseness also, is promoted by the custom of shaving the heads of children from their very birth. It is made to appear very black and glossy by the use of ungu ents and bandoline made from a mucilagi nous plant. Like the ether sex (and this custom is universal among people p£ every age in Japan), they b ribe daily Fn hot water, a public bath costing only half a cent. Since 1868 the government has prohibited the promisenous bathing of both sexes, for merly common. The women above twenty years ol I, from time immemorial, have • blackened their teeth with a mixture of gtsll and powdered iron ; .but Jiie Empress does not, and many ladies are now abandoning the fashion. The former custom of married women shaving off their eyebrows is also felling into disuse. The peculiar style of coiffure at once distinguishes a Japanese maiden, wife, widow! or prostitute; All women Are carefully educated, fn hous-hold duties; but the lower classes acquire very little Book learning, though nearly all wo men can read and write. The young ladies of the classes devote much time to fancy work, their bright cob red robes being embroidered with gay silks and gold. They are carefully taught from various books de voted to the duties of a wife, mother, house keeper. The three principal duties, as set forth in a large volume entitled, “Women’s Great Study,” are: 1. Oliedient to parents when a child. 2. Obedient to her husband when a wife. 3. Obedient to her eldest son when a widow. Half their education is in books of etiquette. There is no distinction made between politt-ness and morals. Lying, cheat’ng, deceiving, slandering and like vi ces are simply “not polite,” and so are not permissible. Giris thus scrupulously brought up make the beat of women and of wives. The jfew constantly Starring intercourse between Japan and the Western powers leads to the hope that some of the refine ments of Japanese civilization will event fully reach othei countries. Church Sociables. —A writer in an ex change says in regard to church sociables: The fault !ies in the place. There is a place to laugh, as well ns a time ; and a church is not the place where a mnn loves to explode a r< Cket-lik»‘joke, or where a wng can tickle the company with the dryness of his drol lery. As long as religion is preached as ap plicable only to a certain range of faculties, it will never elicit the hearty co-operation of the remaining faculties in man. Our ex perience has been that a soclalde held in a public hall or private house is worth ten held tn the rooms of the church If you waiit flic people to be funny, to bo joHy, to !w happy, meaning by these terms what the average human being means by them, bring them together in a place where these exercises do not seem a desecration. Wo have been delightfully surprised to see how much good fellowship there is in people if they onty have an opportunity to show it. 4 matt cast laugh through atube twenty feet long. No more can you get a good human joke through a church door. Throw open the doors of your houses, friends, and ask all the people to come down and see you ; throw formality trt the dogs and let them eome together fn a hearty, off hand fashion, and your rooms will l>e as full of the hearty murraunol happy fellowship,as a grove in sum mer is full of the murmurs when the wind is Coquetting with the branches. “Rejoice evermore.** Growth of Christianity.—Tn con trasting American Christianity a century ago and now, we caa not but be struck with its enormous strength end growth. In 1777 the number of churches was less than 9JS): by the census of 1870, the num I ber was 72,000. Churches have multiplied nea ly 37 fold; population, 11 fold. In 1870 religion* societies owned $354,000,000 worth of property. The most extraordi nary iucrease has been among Methodists and Roman Catholics. The rapid ratio of ■ increase of religious bodies might well I seem alarming, were It not that the vast ‘ amount of property held by religious or i ganizations is distributed among ; bodies. A century ago the Congregation- ; alists were largely in advance; Methodists t were hardly known in the land. One hun dred years ago, the more important reli- . gious bodies wtre reckoned in the following ; order: CongregatiOßalisls. Baptists,Church ’ of England, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Ger : man Reformed, Dutch Reformed, and Ro man Catholics; in 1870, by Methodists, Bip'.istSj Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Christiana, Lutherans, Congregational iris, and Protestant Episcopalians. The zeal of American Christianity has nowhere ex pendtMi itself wHh Mich force as it has in founding schools and college*, and precise ly al this point the Roman Catholic church : emerges into significance. It ranks aow as the fourth in population and second for the value of church property. * Commercial and Political Sins. From a Sermon by Rev. DeWitt Talmadge. Sin is on every side of us, and it seems as though it is imposs’ble to find anything i that is good and true. The shriek of bias* phemy rolls up from the d<*ns of hell, blast ing the heavens; the cry of <he lost soul is heard at every street corner; there is the cla«b of the decanter and the click of the gambler’s dice, and everywhere a horrible wail rises that is enough to make the deni- Z*rtS of the infernal pit cluse the doors, put their fingers to their ears, and rattle theft chains with an utter despair. These temp tations to Commercial dishonesty were D®ver so potent as they are to-day, and it has become almost an impossibility for a Christian business man to exist, for the Shy locks of trade fill all the stores and the great marts. They care only fift their gains, despise God, and fear only the sher iff. They think that by an occasional con tribution to the Lord they can make every thing right for them in heaven. But they are rotten through and through, and they will go down to hell. The whole commer cial world is iotten. rotten The- political history of our city, and of our whore- country, is the history of fraud and dishonesty. There is not one man in a thousand of our politicians who is pure and upright. If an honest, benevolent, and Christian gentleman steps info the arena and proclaims his intention to stand on a pure platform and purify the slums of poli tics, then he is at once beset by the press, which so blackens his character that he is soon led to thiuk that he is better fitted for Sing Sing than for public office. Oh, what a creature one must become in order to en ter the poliiical arena I The respectable young man who goes from a Christian home must clasp hands with the lecherous wretch from the rum-cellar; he must asso ciate with the lowest villains, chuckle with them over their coarse jokes, and join in their blasphemy. The most God-forsaken people in our city (New York] are the pol iticians. I can pray for the prisoner in Raymond street jail, [Tweed] but I don’t think there is any use in praying for an old politician. Faudulent election inspectors sit around fraudulent ballot-boxes taking fraudulent votes from fraudulent voters, making fraudulent returns, which send men to our legislatures that are better sub jects for the penitentiary or the asylum for idiots than for 1< gislators. Female Subscriber on Her Temper. She came bounding through the 'sanctnm door like a cannon brill, and without paus ing to say “Howd’ye do?” she brought down her umbrella on the table with a mighty crash, and shouted : “I want to stop my paper.” “All right, madam.” “Stop it right off, too,” she persisted, whacking the table again, “for 1 have wait ed long enough for you to do the square thing.” She quieted down for a moment as we ran our finger down the list of names, and when *ve go! to here and scratched it out, she said : “There; mebbe you’ll do as you ought to after this, and not slight a woman jest’cause she’s poor. If some rich folks happen to have a little red-headed, bandy-legged, squint-eyed, wheezy squaller born to them, you puff it to the skies and make it out an angel, but when poor people have a baby you don’t say a word about it, even if it is lhe squarest toed, blackest haired, biggest headed little kid that ever kept a woman awake at nights. That's what’s the matter, and that’s why I’ve stopped my paper.” And she dashed out as rapidly as slie came. Last of the Royal Stuarts—A his torieal figure has just phased away in Scot land. Lady Louisa Stuart, the last descend ant of the royal family of Scotland, having died at Traquair House, near Peebles, in tier one hundredth year. Lady Louisa Stuart was the last surviving representa tive of a once powerful border clan. She was the daughter of the seventh Earl, and npon the death, in 1861, of her brother,' Charles the VIII.. peer, the ancient title of the line became extinct. Born in 1776, she had almost completed ber hundredth year, and retaining her faculties unimpair- ■ •d, she was able to re r er from personal I knowledge toevents which are matter® of remote history to the present generation. 1 Iler venerable age made her an object of much tender interest and attraction. A woman in the case ! Was there ever a case without a woman in it? “What mighty ills have not been done by woman ?” Congress ought to piss a law abolishing women. It might be inconvenient in its operation for while, but the men would soon get used to nursing the chklren and running through the housework, and we'd , have less shooting. An Englishman invented a pulpit which promises to be popular with congre gations. Attached to the pulpit is » clock, i which at the end of the half hour gives an ; alarm, and if the preacher doesn't end with-1 in four minutes thereafter, down comes the I pulpit with its occupant. VOLUME I.—NUMBER 25. Interesting Fa<Jts. We mirk 13,00ff,00C ROWS in this country,- keep 8,000 creameries and cheese and have a cheese and butter product of $450,000,000. An analysis of the English clergy list gives these figures: Total number < f cler gymen, 23,738 —composed of dignitaries -172; incumbents, 18,300; curates, 5,765 (■ masti rs in school, 709 ; chaplains, heads of training- schools, tto , 465; unattached’,• 2,863 ; clerical fellows of universities, chap lains in In lia, and some missionaries, 484- Tife editor of a pap r in Salt Lake city,- Utah, writes that the citizens of that city “do not appear to lack educational, e* m mercial, or religious facilities, to enable' them to con-pete with other cities, and w 1 far as newspapers are concerned there are ' few cities of thirty thousand which can boast of a larger number. Tw©' morning and three evening dailies, two* semi-weeklies, three Weeklies; four semi-* monthlies, and tWo monthlies —sixteen in ! all—are published here. We have twenty* seven places of worship, divided among.' six or seven religions sects, with sittings ' for 25,000 people, and there is as mud business actually done as in any Easters 1 cities of 50,000 people. It seems that the practice of scalping it not peculiar to the North American Itt di-m. An inquiry put forth in Nature draws out the following inforination.on thi subject: Herodotus mentions tliat it wa*« one of the most characteristic customs oft the ancient Scythians. It is said that tha? custom s’ill prevails among the wild tribet of the frontier in the northern district of Bengal. The “Friend of India” remarks, that “the Naga tribes use the scalping knife with a ferocity that is only equaled by the North American Indians, and tho scalps are carefully preserved as evidences of their prowess and vengeance over their enemies On the death of theft chief all the scalps taken by him during his warlike career are burned with the remains.” T1 e largest State senates in the Union are those of North Carolina and Indiana— -50 members each. New York has 82; Pennsylvania 83, Massachusetts 40, Cali-, fornia and lowa 40, Georgia 44, 43. In sixteen States the Senate numbers* between 30 and 40 members; in nine, be tween 20 and 30; in five —Delaware, New Hampshire, Nevada, Nebraska, Oregon less than 20. The smallest Senate is thafc of Delaware, nine members, against Lit.lp. Rbody’s 36. In the popular branches, New Hampshire leads off with 341; Vermont comes next with 241; then follow Massa chusetts with 240, and Missouri with 200,. In nine States the of tbfo House is more than 100 and less than 200; in six, it is the even and symmetrical 100; in seventeen, it is less than 100. Thq, smallest House of all is Delaware’s, 21, A marvelous piece of mechanism hast just been exhibited st Paris. It is an eight day clock, which chimes the quarters,plays, sixteen tunes, playing three times every twelve hours, or at any intervals required; The hands go round as follows: One once a minute, one once an hour, one ones week, one onee a month, oue once a year. It shows the moon’s age, the rising and. setting of the sun, the time of high and low water, half ebb and half flood, and by a beautiful contrivance there m a part tha| represents the water, which rises and falls, lifting some ships St high water tide as if they were in motion, and, as it leaving these automaton ships on the sand. The clock shows the hour of the day, day of the month, month of the year, and the day of the month there is a provision made for the long and short months. It shows the sign of the sodiac; it strikes or not, chimes or not, as may be desired, and it has the equation table, showing the de ference of clock and sun every day in thn year. The fiber of wood cummon’y termed by chemists lignine, containing as it does the principles including the majority of vege table substances, has at times been utilized for food. By skillful manipulation a toleie ably good loaf of bread has beeb made by Professor Auterith of Turbingen, from d 1 board The operat’on h described ns follows: Everything which was soluble In water was removed by prolonged maeera? ’ lion and boiling; resindus matter was ex 7 tracted by alcohol; and the wood was then I reduced to fiber, dried in an oven, and ground as corn, when it had the smell and : tnste of corn flour. On adding water and I yeast, and upon being baked, it had crust, and a much t etter taste than bread made from bran or husks of corn. It is I found that wood flour, boiled irith water, j furnishes a nutritioue Jelly; and Professor Auterith states that he ate ft fn the form of soup or gruel, and in dumplings or pan cake?, which were palatable and whokfe ’so ne. Professor Brande, in his lectures, ! record* an analogous result. Gum and Ba sra r, be says, may be obtained by the action of sulphuric acid upon woody fiber, froa| which substance bread has been made, and in view of the dose resemblance betwrs* IhelfoGipcsition nf star/th and lignine, th® conversion of the latter into bread is by no ' means remarkable.