CHAPTEE XXIX. 



Etherisation at Boston. Hospital and medical school. Mammoth 

 skeleton. Improvement of the negro race. Quincy and Braintrce. 

 Expense of clearing land. Apple, pear, and peach borers. Husk 

 of Indian corn. Hock from the Catawba grape. Vineyards of the 

 Ohio river. Agricultural implement stores. Importers and jobbers 

 at Boston. German hosiery excluding English. Smuggling into 

 Canada, Gallantry of the Kentucky Legislature. Reasons of 

 divorce in the different States. Position of the female sex in the 

 United States. Proportion of male and female immigrants. High 

 price of native-born females. Corresponding depression of females at 

 home. Plymouth and Forefathers Rock. Poor soil. Labourers and 

 their wages. Pilgrim hall and graveyard. The clam, a valuable and 

 abundant shell-fish. A clam bake. Cultivation of cranberries. 

 Fresh water in sand-banks. Anniversary addresses and the Pilgrim 

 forefathers. Their alleged great lights, and their tendency to perse 

 cution. Providence in Rhode Island. Farming in this State. 

 Position of the agricultural class. Brown University. Causes of its 

 declension. The existing universities do not supply what the most 

 progressive classes of society require. Comparative lowering of the 

 professions. Right of all to an education adapted to the pursuits of 

 their after life. Civilisation progressing in the line of material 

 development. Proposed changes and new courses of study in Brown 

 University, to adapt it to the wants of the whole community. Con 

 stitution and success of the University of Virginia. 



MARCH 1. One of the most interesting applications of 

 modern science to human comfort the practice of 

 etherisation had its origin in Boston. The gentlemen 

 to whom the world owes this happy application, are Dr 

 Charles T. Jackson, who discovered and announced the 

 principle, and Dr J. C. Warren, who first applied it in 



