the public will do well to take heed, as these have, among some other things, been lately 

 so constructed in vast numbers. Ladies should know that what they wear as gold is far 



otherwise. A few tablespoonfuls of brown sugar will preserve fresh fish for some days, 



so as to be as good, when boiled, as if just caught. If dried, and kept free from mouldiness, 

 there seems to be no limit to their preservation, and they are much more nutritious in this 

 way than when salted. If salt be desired, a teaspoonful or two may be added. Saltpetre 

 may be used instead of salt, if it be wished to make the fish hard. Efforts should be made 

 to furnish our cities with fish at less cost than is now done ; they bring twice their value, 

 for instance, in our Philadelphia markets, which are brought by railroad within two hours 



of the sea. The best remedy for the nuisance of mice in a house, is to starve them. 



What food is carelessly left on the floors, &c., constitutes the food of mice. Remove every 

 particle of food from floors and tables every evening, and burn it, and place all food fit for 

 use in safes of some kind which they cannot enter, and the propagation of these trouble- 

 some little animals would nearly cease in large towns, or confine them to drains and 



sewers. The lotus leaf turns water off its upper surface in a pool like quicksilver. The 



cause has been ascertained to be that it is covered with short, microscopic papillae, which 

 entangle the air, and establish an air-plate over the whole surface, with which, in reality, 

 the water never comes into contact at all. The same phenomenon is believed to be exhibited 

 by water-fowl, and that this is not due to the presence of grease or oil. The suggestion 

 may be turned to account by practical men, perhaps, viz : Might not the manufacturers of 

 water-proof cloth manage to produce a surface such as would entangle and retain a film of 

 air while it permitted transmission of air through it ? Somebody told Jerrold that a cele- 

 brated auctioneer was dead, and, of course, his business would go to the devil. " Oh, then, 

 he'll get it again," said the wit. " Well, my dear Jerrold," said a tedious old gentleman, 

 " what is going on ?" " I am," quoth the questioned, and immediately shot off along the 



pavement. The most magnificent specimen of Chinese Wistaria in Europe, is trained 



upon the walls of the London Horticultural Society, where it occupies a space three hundred 

 and seventy -five feet in length. This plant may be forged to advantage, and is by no means 

 to be despised as a greenhouse climber. Its recommendations are, great freedom in the 

 production of its flowers, great beauty, and' fragrance. Pruned, it may be brought into a 

 dwarf condition, and grows well in ordinary garden earth. It is now evident, that what- 

 ever the home of the cotton 'plant, primarily, it is most valuable near the northern or cold 

 limit of its actual cultivation, from the climatological advantages there presented. As to 

 forced Indian cultivation of cotton, there is little to be expected ; the American adaptation 

 was apparently a spontaneous result, and not the triumph of a conflict with climatological 

 difficulties, and it appears to be wholly impossible to transplant its peculiar success. About 

 400,000 bales of inferior cotton, is all that has ever been received from India, in one year, 

 after efforts spread over many years and various temperatures ; its tropical climate not only 



injures the annual varieties, but also soon changes them to perennials. The sub-tropical 



tree-forms begin to be abundant in Ohio, and, southward, they increase in number rapidly, 

 till they become exclusively tropical in the oranges, palms, live oaks, and mangroves of the 

 lower half of the Florida peninsula. The papaw, cypress, and gum-trees, commence in the 

 Ohio Valley, while long-leafed pines, cypress, and live oak, appear on the Atlantic coast, at 

 Norfolk ; evergeen magnolias, pahnettoes, and the wild olive, follow before reaching Savan- 

 nah, and the border of the Gulf affords many constant forms equally marked as tropical. 

 The forest of the coast at Charleston is rich witli tropical forms, red and white bays, giant 

 laurels, cabbage palms, live oaks, &c. At St. Augustine, the wild orange is added, and, in 

 the southern part of the peninsula, satin-wood, mahogany, mangroves, the cocoa-nut, and a 

 iety of truly tropical palms. 



