EDITOR S TABLE. 



A Pound of Cotton, was manufactured and exhibited at the Crystal Palace into four 

 thousand two hundred hanks of the same number of yards each, making two thousand 

 miles from the single pound ! If therefore we multiply the produce of one year or one 

 billion four hundred and eighty million pound'i only by four hundred and thirty, the 

 length of thread that a single crop of cotton could make, would be over six hun- 

 dred billions of miles, or sufficient for a web of stout calico, a yard wide, and containing 

 eighty five threads to the inch that would be more than enough to reach from us to the 

 sun. — Ewhank. — "The World a WorTcsliop-' 



A Belt round the Sun. — And yet the above is from cotton alone. In the rapidly 

 increasing demand for material for woven fabrics and for machinery to manufacture it, 

 but a few years would be required for our looms to fill an order for webs of double belting, 

 sufficiently long to connect the sun with each of the planets, in the way motion is com- 

 municated from the large drum of a factory to a number of smaller ones. We enclose 

 our bodies in artificial cocoons ; in winter a lady is enwrapped in a hundred miles of 

 thread, she throws over her shoulders from thirty to fifty in a shawl. A gentleman winds 

 between three and four miles round his neck and uses four more in a pocket handker- 

 chief. At night he throws ofi" his clothing and buries himself like a larva, in four or five 

 hundred miles of convolved filaments. — Ibid. 



Cemeteries. — Mr. Philips who dates his letter from Edwards, Miss., says: — A. D. G. of 

 Clinton. N. Y. on "Rural Cemeteries" in a late Horticulturist, gives so much good sense and 

 to my notion evinces so much true taste, that I beg to ask your readers to read over again, 

 and treasure up its principles. I have witnessed so much false taste, that I would like to 

 impress the article on the minds of every citizen in America. To see a marble column, with 

 gilt letters over the grave of a man who was a working man all his life, savors more of 

 ostentation, gingerbread-work than of true taste. The will quoted by A. D. G. should be 

 engraven on every entrance to a cemetery. "A monument should betray no desire to exhibit 

 great costliness, and no endeavor to avoid a reasonable expense. " I would as soon propose a 

 monument of loaf sugar surrounded with red, blue, and yellow plumes, as such as are too 

 often erected. 



I should propose for instance in South Carolina, to place in memory of her great statesman, 

 as large a block of granite, a native of her hills, as could be conveyed to the spot ; it ought 

 to be in Columbia, in front of the State House, without a chisel mark, no carving, no gilding, 

 nothing save an immense block, if possible to convey it, with CALHOUN, deeply engraven 

 thereon, in large letters and filled up with a black cement, so as to give perspicuity to the 

 name. The material would cost nothing, the drawing to the spot might cost largely. Suppose 

 ten thousand dollars. What of it. M. W. Philips. 



As an oifset to the tawdryness of some memento's, I have seen a plain slab on which was, 



'•Our Son;" another, "Our Daughter lies here. Died ." Such 



simple memento's are sweeter than carving and gilding. "Sweet Alice is no more — She lies 

 buried here." 



The United States Agricultural Society. — We would call especial attention to the 

 grand scale of preparations for the approaching show of the United States Agricultural 

 Society at Boston. Under the direction of Mr. Wilder, backed by the liberality of the other 

 merchant princes of Boston, we fuel confident that it will surpass any Exhibition that has 

 been yet held. 



and national exhiliition of Stock — Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Swine — open to co 

 all the States of the Union, and to the British Provinces, will be held by the 



