lis TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



Date. 



Oct. 11 



Nov. 1 

 Dec. 27 



" By adding the snow melted to the rain, it makes 4 feet 5 inches 

 and 12-100 of water fallen this year — 12-100 less than 1864. 



" There were 24 days of thunder this year ; on the 12th of May 

 the hills of Oneida county were covered with snow." 



The Tomato as Food. 

 A good medical authority ascribes to the tomato the following 

 very important medical qualities : 



1. That the tomato is one of the most powerful aperients of the 

 liver and other organs ; where calomel is indicated, it is one of 

 the most eflective and least harmful medical agents known to the 

 profession. 



2. That a chemical extract will l3e obtained from it that will 

 supersede the use of calomel in the cure of disease. 



3. That he has successfully treated diarrhoea with this article 

 alone. 



4. That when used as an article of diet, it is almost sovereign 

 for dyspepsia and indigestion. 



5. That it should be constantly used for daily food. Either 

 cooked or raw, or in the form of catsup, it is the most wholesome 

 article in use. 



Information for Emigrants. 



Mr. J. G. Mitchell, Ralston, Lycoming Co., Pa., who has trav- 

 eled extensively during the past winter through the south, gives 

 the following valuable information for emigrants to Florida : 

 "Isothermal lines in Florida are very irregular and arbitrary. 

 Northwesters are more frequent and severe on the Gulf than upon 

 the Atlantic coast; northeasters the most so on the Atlantic; but 

 they seem to ])ecome modified in their passage across the water, 

 and are not so cold as a northwester on the Gulf. For instance, 

 ou the 15th and 16th of February, at Pensacola, a northwester 

 of three days' duration, ran the thermometer down to 20 deg., 

 killing the leaves of the oleander, curling up those of the orange, 



