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Now let our great light givers furnish a safe brilliant ! It is a 

 scandal to us not to have done it long ago. Everybody knows 

 the great fame acquired by Argand, of France, about 100 years 

 ago, by his splendid lamps ! a tubular wick liolder, which ad- 

 mitted air from within as well as without, to feed the flame abun- 

 dantly, was as bright as our best gas lights ! Its consumption of 

 oil was compensated by that brilliance. I suggest the Argand 

 burner as being nearest in perfect combustion. I have seen many 

 little contrivances for warming the oil, &c., in the lamp, by 

 means of a metallic rod heated by the flame and transmitting 

 that heat to the oil below. 



At all events, the Republic must have in every house a bright 

 liglit, from substances which cannot, under any possible circum- 

 stances explode. We have not a list of those victims of explosive 

 fluids of the last fifteen years ! but it would make one of the most 

 terrible catalogues of horror — " Young girls burned to death ;" 

 surpassing the atrocities of Nina-Sahib, of India. 



Chester Coleman, of Canandaigua, sends a prospectus by Henry 

 Howe, Esq., of that city, for his Agricultural School, at his resi- 

 dence, two and a half miles distant from the raih'oad station in 

 Canandaigua, where conveyance to his school is always conven- 

 ient. He holds two sessions per annum — first Wednesday of 

 April, for seven months ; first Wednesday of December, three 

 months. First session, $140 per student ; second, $60 — one half 

 in advance, &c. 



Mr. Fuller, horticulturist of Williamsburgh, presented cones 

 and leaves of the Washington Gigantea, of California, and a 

 young tree of a few days growth from the seed. The seed of this 

 vegetable monster is smaller than parsnip seed, and very like it 

 in form. 



Mr. Meigs distributed some of the seeds he had received from 

 Mr. Novcross, of San Francisco, through the kind agency of 

 J. Connor Smith, Esq., of the Metropolitan Bank, of New- York. 



HORSE SHOEING. 



The Chairman on this subject remarked, that when you ob- 

 serve your horse straightening his pastern bone, and thus throw- 

 ing the weight of his leg on his coflin bone, and sparing the 



