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ir Sex. “If I had a dozen them all boys,” -‘Boys can take , T es, they are energetic, l it doesn’t take half so to keep a family of hoys w, if I should have my I Mrs. Workliard, “1 have my children all j Girls are so gentle, so helpful, so much more refinement than s; And then it is such a pleasure to for them, they look so prettily in garments made for them.” “Very ladies,” said Mrs. Sensible, “you right and wrong. I believe in family—part boys, part girls, nfiuence the girls to self-reli- girls refine the boys by their i. A boy who is brought up isters makes the most manly the girl who is brought up the brothers makes the most manly woman.” 'Sweet-Minded Women.—So great the influence of a sweet-minded oman on those around her that it is most boundless. It is to her that •iends come in seasons of sorrow and | sickness for help and comfort, one nothing touch of her kindly hand works wonders in the feverish child, a ew words let fall from her lips into the ar of a sorrowing sister do much to the load of grief that is bowing victim down to the dust in anguish. 'i husband comes home worn out i the pressure of business, and irri- e with the world in general, but n he enters the cosv sitting room, sees the blaze of the bright lire, and ts his wife’s smiling face, he suc- in a moment to the soothing in- mes" which act as a balm of Gilead founded spirits that are wearied abutting with the stern realities The rough schoolboy Hies in a a the taunts of his companions solace in his mother’s smile; little one, full of grief with his own trouble, finds a haven of rest on its r’s breast; and so one might go nstances of the influence that a minded ivoman has in the social ith which she is connected. i r is an insignificant power when red with hers. eautiful Indian Legend.— ad of the Cherokee rose is as the flower itself. An Indian Seminole tribe was taken enemies, the Cherokees, but became so ne necessary to to health before fire. And as he isease in the cabin of daughter of the t-faced maid was n love with the wishing to save to escape; but he woud would flee with him. gone far, impelled home, she ver to return away some her foot- he white of her during 'ilderness, of her new home .Seminole. And from beautiful flower has known between the capes and throughout the southern the name of Cherokee rose.— Advocate. Science. fabric, recently patented, is |en into matting for floors, lers, window shades, chair pie covers, etc. These goods (admired, and it is claimed re much more durabel kttlng, and can be sup- lied at pricoi^that will insure their (le. The Lay torpedo was lately subjected i) a severe test by its inventor in the sphorus. It was discharged over a a mile long at a target only feet in length. In going to the the torpedo lmd to pass through distinct currents and a very lumpy (lit the trial proved very suceess- ziuctwp^^arts of tobacco 1 Itothchild’s ^Bozard, oa meteorology, say that prognostics will never lie superseded for use at sea and isolated and remote places on land. Prognostics can also be usefully combined with charts in synoptic fore casting, especially in certain classes of showers and thunder-storins, which do not affect the reading of the barometer. The following simple test for ascer taining the presence of cottonseed oil in olive oil is given by the Druggists' 1 Cir cular : An aqueous solution of acetate of lead is stirred up with the oil and the mixture put aside for twelve hours. If there be present even so small a quan tity as 5 per cent, of cottonseed oil the mixture will have a reddish color. This reaction is said to be peculiar to cotton seed oil. As to the preservation of wood, M. Fayol finds that treatment with tar in creases and sometimes doubles the dura- ration of oak timber used in collieries but has little influence upon that o pine. Oak wood prepared with ferrous sulphate lasts longer—ten times—than in its unprepared state, after it has immersed for twenty-four! hours in a solution of 200 grammes of ferrous sifl- pliate per litre. Contrary to the opinion of old fisher men, statistics clearly prove that tlieje has been a steady increase of the her ring taken annually on the northeast •of Scotland. From observations made by Dr. Day the herring of late years seems to take to deeper waters, but at intervals to return to the shallower waters, usually frequented for feeding or for breeding purposes, from which it had been apparently frightened^by ex cessive netting, vast shoals of dogfish, etc. The bread crumb comprises a multi tude of cells of thin walls containing carbonic acid gas, the product of fer mentation in the dough. These walls of the cells contain both gluten and starch and traces of dextrine sugar. As a consequence of the treatment with water and the application of heat, the starch grains, which, in their normal condition are little sacs filled with mi nute granules of . starch proper, have been swollen and burst. A non-conductor of electricity has yet to be found, for all substances hitherto discovered are conductors of the force under certain known conditions ; but those which offer a great resistance to it serve the purpose of non-conductors in practice, although they may be all classed as good or bad conductors. The best conductor known at present is sil ver , the worst conductor is solid par- ratline. Most bronze statues in the o]>en air soon assume an appearance of iron. Very few take on that peculiar delicate green transparent film known as patina. To produce the patina covering an at mosphere free from deleterious vapors, the presence of moisture in the air and a certain composition of the metal are required. White zinc alloys or brass soon turn black. Tin alloys or bronze are less rapidly oxidized. Mr. II. Weber finds that the ancients used very little zinc in their fine statuary, and hence he fine patina formation. Mixing of Races. It will be remembered by those who have been familiar with our writings for the last thirty years, that we have counted very much upon an improved race in this country growing out of the mixture of races. Herbert Spencer, in giving his impressions of America, says: “It may, I think, be reasonably held, that both because of its size and the neterogenity of its components, the American nation will be a long time in evolving its ultimate form, but its ulti mate form will be high. One result fit, 1 think, tolerably clear. From biologi cal truths it is to be inferred that the eventual mixture of the allied varieties of the Aryan race forming the popula tion, will produce a more powerful type of them than lias hitherto existed, and a typo of men more plastic, more adapt able, more capable of undergoing the complications needful for social life. 1 think that, whatever difliculties they may have to surmount, and whatever tribulations they may have to pass through, the Americans may reasona bly look forward to a time when they will have produced a civilization grander than any the world has onwn.” Illinois court hasjieoided that j about Agricultural. Jefferson county (N. Y.) farmers now carry their milk to the limburger cheese factories where they are paid 12 and 12 j cents per gallon for it. Trees intended for planting should not have their roots exposed to the sun or wind so that the can dry out. The roots must lie kept moist if the trees are expected to live. Parmentier says that the best method of storing thoroughly dry and clean wheat is in sacks isolated from each other, care being taken to keep a suffi ciently low temperature in the granary. That “Eastern methods” of farming are equally well adapted to the broad prairies of the West is shown in the experience of Mr. A. Reser, who thir teen years ago moved from the East to the high praric land in Marshall county, Kansas. Mr. Reser farms but eighty acres, but lie lias been remarkably suc cessful, and h : s success, has, observes the Topeka/a? mcr, in spite of droughts, verified the lepeated statement that more grain car. be raised from a well- tilled field of ten acres than from forty acres i>oorly tended. Farmers who co-operate together in buying and selling should endeavor to make arrangements with the working men of the cities, whereby either party may be benefited from the transactions. All that is needed is organization, and there is no reason why an organized body of fanners may not get larger prices for produce and at the same time cheapen iv to the consumer. The work ingmen are always ready to organize for such purpose, and the farmers should profit by it. Thf parts of animals generally used for giue-making are the paring of Hides and skins from tanneries and slaughter houses known as glue pieces, fleshing, pelts from furriers, hoofs and ears of cattle, horses and sheep. Animal skins in every form, when unacted upon by tannic acid, are excellent material for the glue-rnaker. It is said that the partings of oxen and other thick hides make the best glue. Fish-bones, the core of horns, sinews and animal mem brane are all utilized for the same purpose. • Peter Ivory, who is an experienced cattle raiser, says the following remedy will cure the blackleg or diphtheria. We give it for the benefit of our farmer readers. lie says : “When the animal is first taken it will exhibit lameness in some one of its legs. With a sharp knife open the lame member between the knee and the hoof, where will be found a lump or a sack filled with a white substance; squeeze all this out, then fill the opening with salt and pep per. and bind the limb up with a rag.” This is all that is required, and Mr. i vory vouches for its good effects. The remedy is certainly cheap and simple, and is worthy a trial. The Richmond (Va.) Southern Plant er, relates thus of one-eighth of an acre of lucerne : It has no superior for soil ing purposes. On the 11th and 12th of April it was killed down to the ground by a severe frost, when it was fully knee high, and would have been ready to cut in a few days. On the 22d of May it was first mowed, and again on July 21st and August 14th. The three mowings yielded 4560 pounds of green food for soiling, from one-eightli of an acre, or at the rate of .16,480 pounds per acre. Fed with a little meal and salt sprinkled over it, it is a wholesome and highly nutritious food for horses and cattle of all kinds. Sir J. B. Lawes thus reasons from experiments, as stated in the Countrij Gentleman: “To obtain maximum crops of grain the proper course to pursue is to precede them with a crop of legumi nous plants—that is, peas, clover, vetches, etc.—to which tlie minerals should be applied, and this enables these plants to make an unusual growth, which renders them capable of storing up a large amount of ammonia—more than is necessary for the grain crop that follows—and the latter, by this.active stimulant, is rendered capable of obtain ing all the minerals required from the soil and the decaying vegetation for maximum crops.” The quantity of water which passes through the roots of a plant is enor mous. Dr. Lawes, of England, found that an average of 2000 pounds of water is absorbed by a plant for every pound of mineral matter absorbed by it. At the French Agricultural Obseiva- tory, at Montsouris, it was found that 7702 pounds of water passed through e roots of the whet] pounds for each pound of grain, in a rich soil; while in a very poor soil 1616 pounds were passed through the same quantity of wheat for a product of about half a pound of grain, or 265)3 pounds of water for each pound of grain.—Ann York limes. A successful fruit-grower thinks many apple trees are set too near to gether ; two rods apart is near enough. The land for an orchard must be kept in good condition, lie top-dresses his orchard once in three years, principally with a thick coating of straw. He al lows hogs to run in his orchards, and plows the land until the trees are so large as to interfere with such a prac tice. Last year he picked forty-five barrels of Greenings from four trees. Orchards thrive best near bodies of water. Trees should be judiciously trimmed while young. Many trees are injured by overpruning. Trees should be grafted when they are from one inch to one and one-lialf inches in diameter. Judge Eaton, of Ottawa, 111., notes, in an article on the history of the Irish potato, a fact which many farmers have observed, despite the assurance by scien tists that “mixing in the hill is impos sible: ’ “A curious fact connected with the growth of the Irish potato, and which most farmers have no doubt observed, is that they will hybridize in the hill. Plant a red and a white potato in the same hill, or so near together that their bearing roots will intertwine, and part of the tubers of either plant are liable to be marked with red and white patches, or one-half may be red and the other half white. This is an interesting field for the investigation of some one inclined to the work.” In order to have successive crops of green food for stock small pieces of ground should be sown at intervals for that purpose. Some sections will not produce grass in abundance, but such difficulty may partially be avoided by sowing peas and oats mixed, mustard, radish, collards, kale, or anything else that comes early. Though the quan tity may not be large, the green stuff will answer for a change of diet, and serves an excellent purpose in that res pect. The orchard should be cultivated at least eight years, or till it comes well into bearing in any hoed crop, or sown to buckwheat and let fall back on the ground ; care should be taken not to plow too near or too deep near the trees ; when you seed use red clover. It is advisable to shorten in the branches two-thirds the last year’s growth, for the reason that the tree has lost roots in being taken up, and that equalizes the top and root. Dr. Gilbert, of England, the long time associate of Sir J. B. Lawes in the Rothamstead experiments, thinks the clover failure in this country, generally attributed to insects, is rea^y line to clover sickness—condition of the soil in which clover refuses to grow. He believes the insects which are generally credited with the failure only come in because of the feeble growth of the l#ant. This opinion, coming from so high an authority, is worth investi gating. • AVool waste from the shoddy mills in Franklin, Mass., is used and valued quite highly for agricultural purposes. It is composed of the short fragments andtine dus gathered unde* the ma chines that prepare the most valuable por tions of the wool for use in manufactures. The gr-.ase from the scouring mills is quite another substance, containing a large percentage of potash, we believe, while wool waste is valued chiefly for ils nitrogenous elements. Mr. John G. Lemmon has reported to the California Academy of Sciences the discovery of two or three varieties of indigenous potatoes among the moun tain ranges along the Mexican frontier of Arizona. They grow abundantly in high mountain meadows surrounded by peaks attaining a height of 10,000 feet above sea level. The tubers were about the size of walnuts. Mr. Lem mon brought home a supply which will lie carefully cultivated. Andrew Burnett, of Wellesley, who raises considerable quantities of fiat turnips for feeding to his milch cows, writes as follows: “When I grass down on well-manured lands the mid dle or last of August, I sow quarter of a pound of white flat turnip seed to tlie acre with the grass seed, harvesting the turnips after about three months growth. Too much seed is commonly used iuflBfeiiM^ui'niiuteltaaihoidd the acre if I were sowing not' at the time. ” Fertile and Barren Soils. The fertility of all soils depetn the quantitiycontained therein of t substances that are taken up by pit as bod and converted into on matter. .No two soils are alike, to soils are constantly augment it diminishing in quality, whether in plete fallow or occupied by cultiv crops. But very few soils are pletelv barren though they may largely deficient in the greater nut of essential substances that are c» pletely assimilable. Sometimes a is fertile for a particular plant barren to another, which may be i! tinted in the comparison of clover v sweet potatoes, for crops of the lat are often grown on soils that are tie ly sterile, while clover cannot exist nr less under certain conditions. The fit est and best sweet pototoes can lie duced in that section of country dvi by the Cape Fear River, in the cm; of Bladen, Brunswick and Columb North Carolina, and yet the soil only complete sand but low and The only fertilizer used is the leave the pitch pine composted with ra and gatherings around the farm. Cl is foreign to that region. It is claimed that carbon is one of the priir factors of a fertile soil, despite th known fact that plants appropriate from the air, and should this claim satisfactorily demonstrated it willcai a revolution in our methods of usi fertilizers. At present it is scarce alknved a place in the list of ingredien and posseses no commercial value that account whatever. Sand and clay are not in themsef valuable food for plants, but rathe mechanical in action. All soils {xiase; lime, with traces of iron and magnesi; as well as a small proportion of orj. matter ; but fertile soils must oo phosphoric acid, potash, lime and a amount of organic matter. There long list of compounds known to present in a fertile soil, the quantities, however, being small and varying, and in composition according to the charac ter of rocks of w’lncli they were ori nally a part, the chemical character however, being modified by time, dis integration and the action of surround ing substances and additions, which, though changing them in structure, do not destroy them. A fertile soil can be deprived of the whole or a part of its fertility by par ticular crops. It can be rendered defi cient in nitrogen and yet remain rich in potash, or it can be deprived of potash and yet contain lime. Soils are affected also by the methods of cultivation, manner of manuring and by draughts. A sterile soil can generally be rendered fertile by cultivation without the use of manure, for constant exposure to heat and moisture causes the t>artli to gradually form and give off particles of matter suitable for some indigenous weed, which, when plowed in, assist to furnish nourishment to a more numer ous family, until, by a continued pro cess of green manuring the land can put to use. As such a method is slow however, the use of barnyard manuri and the covering under of green crop grown especially for the purpose cheaper and quicker. The quest with our farmers atnresenfe^^ how to keep up the fefll^pir soils with the least expense rather than that of at tempting to work those that tire barren. Good barnyard manure, as a general thing, contains all the elements of fer tility, and it should never be omitted from its place in the list as the chief reliance for success, for, say what we will, in favor of commercial fertilizers, there can be nothing urged by any one to give them the preference, though when used with the manure the result is more satisfactory. The greatest dif ficulty is to procure a sufficiency of manure, but that which is usually made on wtll-regulated farms, together with the use of fertilizers and green manurial crops, if rightly managed will not only keep the soil fertile, bq allow full crops and a the least co In the Coluinbvian Journal for .h nary, 1855, is the following translati from the original Welsh of THE (’YC'LE OF THE WOULD AND OF LIFE. Poverty causes exertion ; Exertion causes success; Suecc.-s causes wealth ; Wealth causes pride; Pride causes contention; iCon o.ition causes war ; War lovei