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the gold of the new world." In Thibet and China this animal serves 

 as a horse, an ass, a cow, and a sheep ; it bears heavy burdens, 

 draws large loads, supplies milk, has flesh which is excellent, and hair 

 which can be wrought into warm cloths. To naturalize them, therefore, 

 in Europe would be an immense service to mankind ; and as they bear 

 cold bravely, the French naturalists have every hope that they will be 

 able to do so. Some Chinese have been brought over to attend the 

 Yaks, and they will teach the French the way of treating them and of 

 curing them in sickness. The Yaks are of lowish stature, are singu- 

 larly shaggy, and have tails more bushy than those of horses. 



It is to be hoped that the people of the United States will take 

 their share in endeavoring to accustom Asiatic and African animals 

 to our climates. It is not very creditable to our boasted nineteenth 

 century, that in this respect it is far behind the old Romans. Out of 

 the many thousand species of which the animal creation consists, only 

 between forty and fifty are, in fact, domesticated. 



Some attempts to introduce the new system of breeding fish have 

 been successfully made in the United States. Mr. R. L. Pell, of New 

 York, in a recent communication to the Farmers' Club of the Ameri- 

 can Institute, stated that he had taken the spawn from the female 

 shad and impregnated it with the male shad, and that the eggs pro- 

 duced shad in great numbers. He has numerous fish ponds, in which 

 there are forty-five varieties of foreign and native fish, thousands of 

 which come at the ringing of a bell to be fed out of his hand. Stur- 

 geons nine feet long may be seen in his ponds. 



Mr. Pell has made arrangements to import the Ova of the Tench, 

 Barbel and Carp from Europe, for his ponds, and likewise the spawn 

 of the famous Turbot and Sole. 



At the State Agricultural Fair of Ohio, specimens of trout propa- 

 gated artificially were exhibited. 



The electrical loom, invented by Bonneli, as a substitute for the 

 Jacquard, excites much attention in Europe. Some reject it out and 

 out ; others consider it as an important invention. An improvement 

 in the Jacquard loom has also been made by a Mr. Acklin. He has 

 succeeded in substituting paper for the pasteboard patterns, which 

 produces an enormous economy in the use of the Jacquard loom. 



When the Pilgrims came to New England, they may be said to 

 have brought over with them their Universities, so early did they in- 

 stitute the Universities of Cambridge and New Haven. The same 

 blood warms in the veins of the Oregonians. Their territory is yet 

 but a babe so small that every additional company's arrival, by sea 

 or over the plains, is chronicled as matter of important bearing on its 

 growth. Still it is old enough to lay the foundations of a school for 



