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United States, which shall be represented by a commission composed 

 of one delegate from each State and Territory, to be appointed, within 

 one year from the passage of the act, by the President of the United 

 States, npon the nomination of the governors of the States and Terri- 

 tories, respectively. This commission is empowered to prescribe all 

 necessary regulations for holding the exhibition, and these regiilatious 

 the President is authorized to make public by proclamation and to com- 

 municate to the diplomatic rejn'esentatives of all nations. The exhibition 

 will present an opportunity for a comparison of progress in the arts of 

 civilization accomplished in a single century in this country with the 

 best results of human effort elsewhere. 



Proposed dog law in Illinois. — A bill introduced iu the legislature 

 of Illinois, provides stringent regulations concerning dogs. It declares 

 that every owner of a dog shall, on or before the 1st of September, procure 

 from the town clerk, and cause to be worn, a collar for each dog he may 

 own ; the clerk to keep a record and description of all dogs for which col- 

 lars are obtained, with the names of their owners. For each dog regis- 

 tered he is to be paid a fee of $1. Any dog not wearing a collar and 

 registered is to be considered as abandoned, and it shall be lawful for 

 any person to slay such dog as he would a wild animal. The assessors 

 shall procure lists of all registered dogs, and shall also make return of 

 all abandoned dogs, with the names of persons who harbor them. A tax 

 of $1 shall be paid for each registered male dog, and a tax of $2 for each 

 registered female dog. Owners of dogs are made liable for all injuries 

 the latter may inflict. Any person may kill a dog which makes a sud- 

 den assault npon him outside the inclosure of his owner or keeper, and 

 any person may kill a dog found outside the inclosure or immediate care 

 of its keeper worrying, wounding, or killing any domestic animal. 



Almond trees in California. — A record of the growth of an almond 

 stock, reported by the editor of the Santa Barbara (California) Press, 

 illustrates the adaptability of that favored region to the i^roduction of 

 this valuable fruit. Early in 1860 he made several grafts, all of which 

 are now promising. One of these, a terminal bud of the Languedoc 

 variety, made February 23, was measured three months afterward, when 

 the new stock above the old wood was found to be an inch and a half in 

 circumference and three feet high, with six or eight branches averaging 

 eighteen inches in length. On the 22d of March last, exactly two years 

 and one month from the day of grafting, the tree measured nine and 

 three-fourths inches iu circumference at the ground, and was ten and a 

 half feet high, with twenty flourishing branches within four feet of the 

 ground, and over thirty in all. Up to that date it had furnished more 

 than a thousand buds and several hundred grafts. A three-year old 

 seedling, planted also by Mr. Johnson, now measures fourteen and a half 

 inches in circumference, and was fifteen feet high when recently cut off 

 for grafting. 



Sewage irrigation. — Dr. Spencer Cobbold, of England, has i.nicro- 

 scopically demonstrated the presence of thousands of entozoa in pork 

 which had been fed npon the produce of lands irrigated with sewage. 

 The introduction into the human system of countless entozoa, through 

 the medium of cattle fed upon sewage-irrigation grass, and swine fed 

 upon other food similarly produced, is regarded as a new danger with 

 which the public health is threatened. It is the deliberate opinion of 

 Dr. Cobbold that thousands of cattle in England are thus rendered untit 

 to be use<l as food. 



