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)cto- irland, Tea S 3ott, '1812; Elijah Y., 1812; the Hale, Bridgewater, foyes, Croydon,England, Hallenbeek, Burlington, 'lijah Stansbury,Baltimore, Hiram Ferria, Fon du Lao, 115. In hia youth, and in the fhen Nantucket was a busy ren- |iia of the whale tiahermen, Mr. was a rigger by profession and ed auch profeasion until he ac hred the competency which sup- sorted his declining years. For over a century he had been the Sicre- k of his lodge, and the minutes ai ds care and zeal for the welfare i brethren. To the very hour of lease hia intellect was clear, his singularly bright, and, save ?ght', f he seemed in the posses- ^ever;/ faculty. He was an au- on all questions relating to the ler history of the islatd, lived a i of honest indurtry, and died to the general regret not only of the crafts men, but of all who knew him. V To Restore the Drowning. Bales That Shoald be Kept in Mind at This Season. The rules that ought to be observed treating^, person rescued from the id simple. Dr. H. R. is of restoring the ?ad or drowned—which have been approved by the royal medi cal and chiruvgical society—are prac tical, easily understood, and are in accordance with common sense. The one important point to be aimed at is, of course, the restoration of breathing and the efforts to accomplish this should be persevered in until the ar rival of medical assistance, or until the pijdse and breath have ceased for at /leastV n hour. Cleanse the mouth and ; open the mouth; draw for ward the patients tongue with a hand kerchief, and keep it forward ; remove all tight clothing from about the neck and chest. As to the patient’s position, place him on his back on a flat surface, inclined a little from the feet upwards; raise and support the head and shoulders on a small, firm cushion or /plded article of dress placed under tfae shoulder-blades, Then grasp the arms just above the elbow, and draw the arms gently and steadily upwards, until they meet above the head (this is for the purpose of draw ing air into the lungs) ; and keep the arms in that position for two seconds. Then turn down the patient’s arms, and press them gently and firmly for two seconds against the sides of the chest (with the object of pressing air out of the lungs; pressure on the breast bone will aid this). Repeat these measures alternately, deliberately and perseveriugly, fifteen times in a minute, uutil a spontaneous effort to respire is perceived, upon which cease to imitate the movements of breathing, and proceed to induce circulation and warmth. This may be done by wrap ping the patient in dry blankets and rubbing the limbs upwards, firmly and energetically. Promote the warmth of the body by the application of hot flannels, bottles of hot water, etc , to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, and to the soles of the feet. Warm clothing may generally be obtained from a bystander. On the restoration of life, stimulants should be given, and a disposition to sleep encouraged. Natural philosophy. — “Wby does lightning so rarely strike twice in the ame place?” asked a school teacher the new boy in the olass of natural llosophy. “Oh,” said the boy, “be lt never needs to?” rusty old bachelor says that i’s wife was called Eve because she appeared, man’s day cl ess was drawing to a close; Letter from Dr. Johnson. car Sir—Since my return hitber I applied myself diligently to the of my health. My nights grtfw r at your house, aud have nevei been bad ; but my breath wa3 very h obstructed, yet I have at last it tolerably free. This has not n done without great eflf arts ; of the fifty days I have taken mercurial sic I believe forty, and have lived h much less animal food than has my custom of late. From this ount you may, I think, derive hope comfort. I am older than you, disorders had been of very long continuance, and if it should please God that this recovery is lasting, you have reason to expect an abatement ol all the pains that incumber your life. Mr. Thrale has ft It a neavy blow. He was for some time without reason.aud, I think, without utterance. Heberden was iu great doubt whether his powers of mind would ever return. He lias, however, perfectly recovered all his faculties and all his vigor. He has a fontanel in his back. I make little doubt but that, notwithstanding your dismal prognostications, you may see one another again. He purposes this autumn to spend some time in hunt ing on the downs of Sussex. I hope you are diligent to take as much exer cise as you can bear. I had rather you rode twice a day than tired your self in the morning. I take the true definition of exercise to be labor with out weariness. When I left you there hung over you a cloud of discontent which is, I hope, dispersed. Drive it away as fast as you cau. Sadness only multiplies itself. Let us do our duty and be cheerful. Dear sir, your hum ble servaDt, Aug. 3, 1779. Sam Johnson. To the Rev. Dr. Taylor, at Ashbourne, Derbyshire. No Healthy Children. I said in my address at the Health Congress at Brighton what was quite true, that I had never in my life seen a child so healthy that it had not in it some actual or latent constitutional disease Touching the subject now in hand, it is equally true to say that it is all but impossible to find in. the board schools of our large towns any sem blance, critically viewed, of health. Constitutional taints, which under favorable circumstances may often be concealed, and which may or may not be apparent, are there. Various con ditions of disease are there indepen dently of the tendency ftom heredi ty ; there of themselves, in some irregularity of function, in some shade of mental aberration. Tfce field of the disease which is presented in some of the schools situated in crowded locali ties is indeed a sight at once for anxi ety and pity. To the eye of a physi cian who, like myself, has spent many years in hospital practice, it tells a story which is absolutely painful, if he permits the result to be calculated out of his mind at leisure hours; if that is to say, he compares what he has witnessed in his survey with what he has learned from long obser vation of the meaning of the phenom ena in the history of life. It is not necessary for him to strip the children, percuss and sound the chest, examine the spine, or practice any of those reflued arts of diagnosis with which he is familiar. He reads from, the indi cations of temperament, of expression of oountenance, of color of skin, of position of limb, of build of body, of gait, of voice, sufficient outward mani festations to discern what is the true physical state, what is the stamp and and extent of disease, what is the vital value of the lives generally that are before him. Tell the physician those lives are to be valued for some momen tary purpose as they stand and as they go on, accordiug to the present system, and he will give in brief time an esti mate of value which the keenest man of business might readily accept and act upon. Foremost among the evils which are thus presented are those common conditions of disease known as ancemia and cachexia. Btrictly these are not diseases, like diabetes, bronchitis or defined affections run- niug a regular course, but they are states of diseased form which by their presence indicate a faulty nutrition at the period of life when good nutrition is most required, and whioh cannot long go on without insuriug the con struction of an impaired bodily organi zation. The blood is not being duly oxygenated, aud food, therefore, though it be even fair in quality or quantity, is not properly applied. The l ervous system is imperfectly built yp ; the skeleton is imperfectly built p; the muscular system is imperfectly built up and sustained. How can the improvement which is called scholar ship be turned to fitting account in such recipients of it? I watched recently the afternoon working of a large class of scholars, and counted one third of them under the most decisive influence of these conditions of disease. Of the affected there would not be, in the ordinary averaging of life, twenty years of ex istence under the course that was being followed. The one saving clause iu their case was development by physi cal training, and that was withheld. The one destroying clause in their case was over-mental work without physical training, and that was assidu ously and regularly supplied. With or without the arise nia and cachexia, there is the constitutional disease struma or scrofula, presented in thes(e classes. The instances of this kind in varying degrees of intensity are most numerous. This condition again is a mal or bad nutrition. It, as much as cachexia or ame nia, with which it is so often allied, is fostered by the pre- vailing system of mental pressure. With these conditions before the eye there is to be seen, also, here and there in the classes of both sexes, but of the girl especially, the specimen of the phthisical or consumptive subject. In a class of fifty I pick out three thus doomed, if their circumstances be not changed—six per cent,, certainly a moderate proportion. The disease has not possibly developed, but the proba bility of its development is all but cer tain. unless it be checked by the one only remedial or preventive method— freedom from nervous exhaustion, combined with physical exercise in open breathing space. Such preven- tatives are not supplied, but undue nervous exhaustion and confinement are both supplied, and so the fatal dis ease is systematically fanned from latency into activity. Spinal defor mity and irregular construction of the skeleton is another condition of disease, or actual disease, readily detectable in these classes.—Dr. Richardson. Not Easy to Block up the Suei. Canal. Stopping the trtfli ; through the ca nal would be a much more difficult task to accomplish. This results from its size. For most of its length it is waiving fractions, over 300 feet wide At El Gaisr aud Serapeuui, where the sand was deep, it would have cost an immense labor to have kept up the full width at these places, so for a few miles it is only 60 metres, or about 18< feet. To dam up such spaces could nr i be do$e in minutes or hours Sinking au old veesel would also have its diffi culties. Arabi’s men might havt some difficulty in finding a ship ci sufficient size for the purpose ; and supposing this could be done, it wouli not take a very long time to rernovei again. Unless Arabi has means o which we yet are unaware, there i little chancfl of the traffic being stoppe* for any length of time. Oar gunboat will be quite able to keep the banks c the canal clear, so far as their guns cai reach, at any rate, from any body o Bedouins or of Arabi’s soldiery, an< they are likely to have a wholesou« fear of big guns for some lime to come Agricultural. Common Salt as a Fertilizer: Winning the Race with an In ferior Horse. The writer met the jockey of Ruth erford while dining at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg a short time after that huge sporting wrangle, and, in the course of a conversation on turf matters, the astute prodder of horse flesh said, with a childlike and ingen uous smile: “Would you like to know the dead inside facts as to how that race was won ?” “Wby, you rode the best horse, didn’t you?” we asked. “Not a bit of it,” replied the Jockey, with a grin. “The fact was chat Ruth erford was only about the fourth choice, and was not rated at more than eighth or ninth in the pools. True Blue, Katy Pease and Thad Stevens all had the call over Ruthy. Butic happened that my horse was a ‘bolter,’ and to steady him and prevent his flying the track I put blinders aud goggles on him. You noticed them, 1 suppose?” “Taere were two horses rigged that way,” we replied. “Exactly ; Stevens was a nervous critter also, and as soon as his trainer saw how the goggles steadied my horse he put ’em on Tuad too. The day be fore the race a big idea occurred to me. I got a couple of pairs of magnifying lenses and quietly put ’em in place of the plain glasses in the goggles of both horses. Catch on to the idea?” “Well partly.” “The only difference was that in Stevens’ bridles I fastened the glasses with the bulge inside, so as to make them diminishing glasses, don’t you see?” “Like looking through the wrong end of an opera glass, eh ?” “Exactly. Tae result was that, *while Rutherford was encouraged all the way by the course seeming only a couple of hundred yards long, the quarter flags appeared ten miles apart to Stevens. You see,* a horse can be discouraged as well as a man.” “Great Boheme, that.” “Well, I should smile. Ruthy thought he was iu for a little quarter race, and it kepi up his heart, so that when he had nearly done the last mile and swung into the homestretch, and I called on him to let out hiB last link, he thought the Judges’ stand was right under his nose, so he came home like an express train on a down grade; but Stevens, who thought he had about fifteen miles further to go, went all to pieces, as you remember, and almost lay down on the track, he waa ao mentally oaved In, aa it were*” Common salt is a compound of chlo rine and sodium, the first being a gas and the latter a metal. From sodium is derived soda by union with oxygen, and soda is usually met with in the shape of sulphate, carbonate, or bi-car bonate. Nearly all plants contain more or less soda, though it does not supply the place of potash to any ex tent. Common salt, therefore, supplies soda to all plants with which it may come in contact, and as chlorine is a very useful substance in the soil, it also yields up that element. It is a very difficult matter to separate the two which are so firmly bound to gether in the salt; still, there is a doubt that salt undergoes disintegra tion in the soil. But before this takes place it first performs several duties as salt, and experiments have proved this substance to be very important to the farmers. It will kill weeds to sow salt on them when wet with dew. Applied on land, after seeding to corn, wheat or turnips, provided it does not come in contact with plants just push ing through, it facilitates their growth and keeps cut-worms, turnip flies and even the Hessian fly away to a certain extent. It is also obnoxious to many other insects. In experimenting with salt it should not be overlooked that it is beneficial to some few weeds, but a positive injury to the majority. The celebrated Dr. Voelker, a German chemist, used the solutions of salt in order to test its effect on different plants, aud found that from three to twelve grains in a pint of water pro duced no effect on cabbages, beans, onions, lentils and thistles, but a solu tion of double strength instantly killed the sweet vernal grass. A solution'of twenty-four grains to the pint gave a fresher appearance to radishes, cabbages and lentils, the latter espe cially being highly benefited, but 1 a sortition of forty*eight grains exercised a prejudicial effect on lentils, while it did no injury to the other plants. From these experiments it appears that it is useless to apply more than the quantity actually re quired, and that fertilizers will give excellent results when used in proper proportions, but are sometimes injuri ous in large quantities. The plants most largely benefited by salt are cab bages, celery, asparagus, onions, rad ishes and tomatoes. Grasses are affected more readily by salt than other crops, and it is of especial advantage to bulb ous plauts and plants with succulent leaves. Salt is taken up into the body of plants without decomposition to a limited degree. Sawn on soils it ren ders them more friable, as it possesses the property of attracting moisture from the' atmosphere. Mr. William Senders, of Washington, D. C., writ ing to the National Farmer, states that this property has been signifi cantly utilized in the growth of tur nips, beets and other root orops iu dry seasons. An application of ten bushels to the acre on young beets that were languishing for want of moisture had an astonishing effect in the vigorous growth at once imparted to the young plants, and increased the crop to the extent of five tons per aore above that produced in the same field whioh was treated in the same way, but omitting salt. Even on the following wheat field the salted portion was clearly defined, as the wheat tn that poitiou stood better, gave a heavier crop and was superior in every respect. When salt is mixed with moist earth aud lime a considerable quantity of car bonate of soda and chloride of calcium is produced, the chlorine of a part of the salt uniting with the lime, while carbonic acid supplies its place, farm ing carbonate of soda. This, having the property of combining with silica aud rendering it soluble, is of great benefit to plants, and if it is thus able to assist plants in appropriating silica, which is a very insoluble substance under certain conditions, it no doubt possesses other chemical properties which are as desirable in the soil as the actual benefit derived by the plants directly from the salt. Fall Sown Bye. Fall sown rye makes the best early green food foi cattle. By sowing broad-cast from two to four bushels to the aere iu September or October, in the corn field, or where a potato, cab bage or any other crop has been gath ered, and harrowing it in, there will be a strong, succulent growth, fully three feet high, to cut in April. After cutting, the stubble cau be turned under in time to plant corn and gar den vegetables, such as beaus, peas, cabbages, melons and potatoes. W ith- in the last week or two, Professor W. N. McDonald has expressed to us his thanks for having suggested to him this plan of sowing rye in the fall, for the benefit of his cows in the spring, and he says that the rye fed in April astonished them all in the wonderful increase in butter that it caused. It produced at once a flaw of rich milk from cows that previously were almost dry. This experience shows quite clearly how much the quantity and quality of the rniik is influenced by the kind of food. The Time for Catting Grass. There is a great deal said in agricul tural journals about the proper time in cut grass. We hardly think that any practical farmer needs information about this, the oldest crop perhaps ever raised upon the farm, and one that no fafmer ever thinks of doing without. It is a thing that presents itself directly to the judgment and ex perience of every one. The farmer is perfectly familiar with the difference in quality and price of bay cut at the proper time—that is, just when it is about done growing—and a later period when the blossoms are dead and th« stock is beginning to losy its fresh, green app'earance. No owner cf horses, or those having, charge of horses, who knows anything about hay—and they all ought to be familiar with this important and expensive article of food—can readily judge of its quality from its color and size or stiff ness of the stalk. We are speaking of timothy, which is almost wholly used for driving horses at least, though a mixture of one-fourth or one-eighth of clover is preferred by many. Clover should of course be cut earlier—say when the heads are jn full bloom—and cured as rapidly as possible, and as moderate^ as it will answer to store away without, fear of moulding. It is then worth a full third more than if allowed t® stand uutil the blossoms are dead, when it loses a portion of its sweetness and becomes brittle, the heads break ing off and in a great measure lost. . Sheep oa the Farm. A correspondent of the Farmer'i Iteview makes some good points in the following plea for sheep keeping: “On almost every farm are fields and pas tures where weeds grow which horses and cattle would ne^er think of eating] 1 On this sheep will browse snd thrive. Turn them into these pastures early in the spring, and they will take care cf themselves all summer. Tne pas ture must be proportionate to the number of sheep it is expected to sup port. If too great a number are turned into it early In the season they will keep it fed down so closely that the crop will be a scant one all summer. But if the number is not too large for the range given they will do well where other animals would starve. Nothing escapes them. They browse on briars with great relish, and in fields where other bushes have begun to start they will soon exterminate them, far they crop off every young shoot as soon as it makes its appear ance. It is a good plan to divide your pasture into two or mare fields. Let them run in one until they have cropped it pretty close. Waile they are doing this the other will be getting a good start. By and by you cau turn them into it, and the one they have occupied can have a ehance to do something. In this way you will be likely to get the better feed far them than you will by allowing them full range of the entire pasture all the time.”