VOL. XV. ajo. 30. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



indee.l courage was necessary, for the bees had 

 jiist missed their queen. To these alone wlio 

 have witnessed such commotion can an idea he 

 conveyed. 



"Now came the delightful scene, — my queen 

 was restored by the genial warmth of my hand, 

 and walked comfortably about it, the bees, her 

 subjects, were whirling in incensed crowds around 

 the hive ; the buzz of discontent was incessant, 

 and clearly marked. At this moment, I called all 

 who were in the house to witness the scene. I 

 placed the queen on the alighting-hoard at the 

 doorof the hive : she was recognized in a mo- 

 ment ; the pass-touch, or pass-word, or pass-hum 

 w.as communicated. The great comirotion was 

 mstantly changed to peace. She was caressed,— 

 licked over and fondled,— the bees pressing round, 

 who, with an affection worthy of the best subjects 

 of a beloved monarch, showed their attachment 

 in terms that even human tongues could not ex- 

 ceed. 



" From that moment all was peace and harmo- 

 ny, and joyful labor. Very few of the brood were 

 destroyed by the accident which gave rise to the 

 developement of this peculiar instinct ; and 1 hope 

 I treasure up the remembrance of the circumstance, 

 OS one more proof of the truth of that passage of 

 Scripture, ' God doeth great things, and unsearch- 

 able ; marvellous things without number.'" 



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him two years since. The silk was manufacKrred 

 by Mrs Messenger on a common spinning wheel, 

 and wound from the cocoons by the aid of a com- 

 mon reel. Mrs M. has had no other information 

 in relation to the mode of manufacturing silk, ex- 

 cept what she derived from books, and has been 

 enabled to gather casually from others — no ex- 

 perimental knowledge. One' of the skeins we 

 examined was wound from 100 cocoons, the other 

 from 200. The former, although of even and uni- 

 ferm texture, is not sufficient sized thread for com- 

 mon use: the latter, in our opinion, is equal in 

 size, texture, and beauty of manufacture, to any 

 we have ever examined. We hail these first iruits 

 of Mr M's success as an omen of the triumph of 

 the silk business iu New England. — JVew Hamp 

 shire Argus. 



ease. Whereas in cities, or among people who 

 adopt the mode of dress common in cities, this 

 frightful disease is, in proportion to the population, 

 vastly more frequent. During a practice of six 

 years among the ' Pennsylvania Dutch,' he met 

 with but a single case of this affection ; and this 

 case occurre<l in a family, who had adopted the 

 present universal mode of suffering the neck and 

 superior part of the breast to remain uncovered — 

 Ball. Trans. 



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^-FECTs OF LioHTNi.vG. — M. BaHc, of La 

 Haye, has communicated to the French Academy 

 of Sciences the remarkable trowth of a poplar 

 which had been struck with lightning. It grew in 

 an avenue belonging to him. The lightning broke 

 some branches at the top, and the fluid ran along 

 the trunk, from the top to the bottom of the north- 

 ern side, without injuring the bark, went into the 

 ground at the root and turned up two large masses 

 each nearly a cubic foot in size. The tree at that 

 time measured twelve inches in circumference, and 

 it was in the month of July that the circumstance 

 occurred. In April following, the trunk had ex- 

 actly doubled its size, while the trees close to it 

 retained the same girth ; and the sap flowed in 

 su<^h abundance as to force its way through the 

 bark. 



Lightning. — Perha|>s human ingenuity and 

 daring were never more strongly manifested than 

 in a recent instance in Prussia. — In order to get 

 rid of an enormous rock, the expense of removing 

 which, by ordinary means, would have been as 

 enormous, a deep hole was bored in it, into which 

 was fixed a bar of iron, twentyeight feet high, for 

 the purpose ef attracting ligbtninj. 'Ihe experi- 

 ment was successful. On the first thunder storm, 

 the rock was shattered into fragments which of 

 course was easily carried away. 



CuEiocs Sdrgery. — A noble horse took fright 

 in this town the other day, and ran off with alight 

 wagon at his heels. In attempting to leap a pick- 

 et fence near Mrs Henshaw's, he failed in his ef- 

 forts, and hung impaled, uf>on the toj) of it. His 

 body was shockingly torn and his bowels came 

 out by pailsful. It was with great difficulty he 

 couUI be dislodged from his horrible position, and 

 a surgeon being in attendance, the intestines were 

 replaced, the aperture closed up, and the beast is 

 now in a fair way of recovery. — J^orihampton 

 Courier. 



Quick Work. — We were yesterday an eye 

 witness to a specimen of despatch, which, had it 

 not fallen under our own inspection, we should 

 have been sceptical iu delieving. It was the op- 

 eration, at the Fair of the American Institute, of 

 reducing wheat in straw, to baked bread in ten 

 riiinutes. The process was as follows: — Twelve 

 bundles of straw were placed in a machine in the 

 garden, which came out threshed in a minute and 

 a hall ; the winnowing was effected in a minute; 

 the grinding and bolting occupied a minute and a 

 half; the dough was kneaded and the cakesform- 

 cd in tivo minutes. The whole contents of the 

 twelve bundles were placed in a kitchen range, 

 and came out thoroughly baked in four minutes 

 — making, in the whole, ten minutes. 'J he cakes 

 were distributed around, and ihey only wanted tlie 

 aid of a cooler, and a few pounds of Goshen but- 

 ti.r to have been swallowed in another minute, 

 without the aid of mastication. — JV. Y. Gaz. 



Sir Walter Scott in one of his letters, Jati.ly 

 brought to light, alluding to his fondness for plant- 

 ing and agriculture, playfully sayss, » I promise you 

 my oaks will outlast my laurels ; and I pique my- 

 self more on my compositions for manures, than 

 on any other comjiositions whatsoever, to which I 

 was ever accessory. 



Native Silk Manufacture. — Two skeins of 

 sewing silk have been exhibited to us by Mr Cal- 

 vin Messenger of this town, which are the pro- 

 duct of worms fed upon the mulberry planted by 



Carbonic acid in the air. — Dr. Dalton, an 

 English physician, who has for years turned his 

 attention to the amount of carbonic acid in the at- 

 mosphere, says that he has satisfied himself that its 

 average quantity in one part in 1,000. He is also 

 of opinion that the quantity of this gas in the at- 

 mosphere is constantly the same in town and conn- 

 try, and that even in a crowded theatre it seldom 

 rises to one per cont. 



War with the Locusts — Ibrahim Pacha 

 Governor of Syria —who, if we mistake not, has 

 formerly distinguished himself in arms against 

 men— has latterly added to his brow a new 

 wreath of glory by his achievements against the 

 locusts. 



In the beginning of the summer, there was bucTi 

 a prodigious flight of locusts as to threaten all the 

 crops with certain destruction. Hereupon the 

 brave Pacha ordered out his troops, putting himself 

 at their head, scoured the country. He also put 

 in requisition all the population of Aleppo, and 

 some other districts; and dividing them into .sec- 

 tions, compelled ihem to march against the lo- 

 custs. 



The consequence was, that after an uninter- 

 rupted war of forty days, the enemy were com- 

 pletely vanquished. The number of slain was im- 

 mense — or, perhaps we should rather say the 



quantity of the slain — for they were measured 



not numbered. According to a statement drawn 

 up by Ibrahim, there were 482,160 ardebs. Each 

 ardeb is equal to eight bushels. The whole amount 

 therefore, was no less than 3,517,280 bushels of 

 slain locusts; which would make a pile equal to 

 all the men slain by Julius Caesar in all his wars 



Warm Ci.othing vs. Croup. — Eberle in his 

 excellent work on the diseases of children, says, 

 the mode of clothing infants with their necks and 

 upper part of the breast bare, cannot fail to render 

 them niore subject to the influence of cold, and its 

 dangerous consequences. In this country, espe- 

 cially among the Germans, who are in the habit 

 of clothing their children in such a manner, as to 

 leave no part of the breast and lower portion of 

 the neck exposed, Croup is an exceeding raredis- 



Advantages OF Railroads. — During the last 

 war, a Company of volunteers left Baltimore for 

 the Capitol — and by fon ed marches reached 

 Bladensbiirg in two days and a half! A few days 

 since, a volunteer Company left Kaltimore in the 

 morning in the rail road cars, arrived at ^Vash- 

 ington, and spent a greater portion of the day in 

 that city, and returned home at an early hour ia 

 the evening. "I'his circumstance shows the im- 

 mense advantage which would result from the use 

 of rail roads, in the event of a war with a foreign 

 power. 



A farmer in Southampton took one hundred 

 and fifty buthels of potatoes from a single acre of 

 land for his own use, and sold the remainder of 

 its product for one hundred dollars. 



Butter is selling at from twentyfive to thirty- 

 one cents a pound at Columbia. The Spy says it 

 is some fifteen cents more than the article iswoith 

 and affords clear profit to the manufacturers of at. 

 least one hundred per cent. 'Ihe editor blesses 

 his stars that bread and molasses agree wonderful- 

 ly with liis stomach. 



It is said that the property of the famous Rath- 

 bun, of Buffalo has sold much better than was an- 

 ticipated, it is thought that his creditors will get 

 all iheir demands, principal and interest. 



Method of preserving Cheese from Worms 

 AND Mites. — Grains of whole pejiper, put into a 

 vessel in which cheese is kejit, will drive away 

 the above mentioned insects. 



