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uomenou to the development of a fungus wbicb lie calls Tanehium, and 

 Vv'bich has a strong relationship to Empusa. 



PoisoNma OF cattle by aoorns. — It is stated that cattle died by 

 scores in Gloncestershire, England, during the past fall, from having 

 eaten acorns that had fallen otf duriug a gale. When once talcen ill, 

 death followed more or less quickly in each case, no remedy being sufifl- 

 cieut to allay the resulting inflammation. The poison appeared to in- 

 duce a blackening and rotting away of the mucous membrane. 



Calomel a poison for mice. — A preparation of one part calomel, 

 five parts of wheat Hour, one part of sugar, and one-tenth of a part of 

 idtramarine, all mixed together in fine i)owder and placed in a dish, is 

 said to be a most efficient poison for mice. 



(jtLYCOjNIN. — A mixture of five parts of glycerine and four parts of 

 yolk of ^g^^ under the name of glyconin, has been used to some advan- 

 tage for the healing of wounds, the mixture forming a varnish over the 

 skin impenetrable to air and moisture. 



GiATs'T MAEMONT POTATO. — A potato known as the Giant Marmont 

 is much praised by late German writers, as occupying the very first rank 

 among potatoes, in consequence of various excellent peculiarities. A 

 single tuber was said to have produced a weight of twenty pounds. 



ITEMS FROM VAKIOUS SOURCES. 



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 Coal in Wyoming Teeeitory. — A correspondent of the New York 

 Evening Post writing from Cheyenne concerning the coal deposit of 

 Wyoming, says that an analysis of the Evanstou coal shows that in 

 one hundred parts there are, of carbon, 72.16; ashes, 2.50; sulphur, 

 none; water, 3.31; volatile matter, 22. This coal is supposed to be 

 the purest found in the Territory. The Hallville mine, in Carter 

 County, on the line of the Union Pacific, contains two veins, with a 

 stratum of soapstone lying between. The upper vein is ten feet and 

 the lower six feet in thickness. Fifteen thousand tons from this mine 

 have been used in Omaha during the past jear. It is used principally 

 for domestic purposes. The Vandyke mine, forty miles west of Hall- 

 ville, produces coal which is used mainly for steam and blacksmithing 

 purposes. Of this coal 80,000 tons were sold in Omaha in 1870, and 

 the remainder of the year's production was distributed throughout 

 the Western Territories for manufacturing purposes. The Carbon mines, 

 recently burned, are on the railroad one hundred and forty miles west 

 of Cheyenne. The coal is reached by a perpendicular shaft, seventy 

 feet deep. The vein is from six to nine feet thick. Before the ox- 

 plosion it produced 300 tons daily, and the Denver division of the 

 Kansas Pacific Railroad was supplied from it. The Rock Spring mine, 

 three hundred and fifteen miles west of Cheyenne, is eight feet in 

 height, and is reached by an open drift in the side of the hill. The 

 product of this mine in 1870 was about 2,000 tons per mouth. Ex- 

 plorations lately made show that the coal deposits of Wyoming cover 

 a very large area. Many of the best veins have not yet been worked. 

 The lignite deposits of the Laramie Plains, in beds from five to eleven 

 feet thick, have been traced ten miles east of Rock Creek, a branch of 

 Medicine Bow River, and crop out along the North Platte, Muddy 



