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alj at the evening of day, might be tempteil to abolish the 

 women and marry his kitchen 1 Particularly as this kitchen 

 ■costs but twelve dollars — hardly enough to pay for a poor cook's 

 Sunday bonnet. 



This magic is lighted up in a minute with a mere match, and 

 when done a breath extinguishes it, saving the tedious pro- 

 cess of building a common fire and the loss of fuel by its con- 

 tinued burning long after the cooking is over. One fact is that 

 one cenfs worth of alcohol hoils one gallon of water. 



Mr. Lundy exhibited a specimen of stone ware pipe with 

 branches diverging. The strength of it is doubtless great enough 

 for any natural pressure to which it will be exposed. It is in a 

 measui-e glazed so as to be probably not very permeable to water. 

 This specimen, whose calibre is over one inch, is sold for six cents 

 ^ running foot, made at No's 192 and 194 West Fortieth street, 

 New-York. 



William Phillips, brother of John, the assignee of the patent 

 self-protecting wind mill, from Eastdn, Pennsylvania, explained 

 the model to the Club as being perfectly capable of avoiding all 

 damages from heavy squalls by means of its entirely original and 

 novel attachment, viz : a fan placed vertically, which on the 

 instant that the wind strikes it, by leverage at its foot, instantly 

 causes all the fans of the mill to present their edges to the wind 

 and keep there as long as the wind blows hard enough, and then 

 resuming their working angles as much as is desirable — that 

 amount of force being under the command of the operator. It 

 is probable that it may be rendered less complex, but the idea of 

 this premonitory guard or sentry is new and excellent. 



Mr. Lowe, on the calling up of Wheat, the subject assigned for 

 this day, begged to make some preliminary remarks and would 

 then ask for a continuance to the fii-st Tuesday in June, the next 

 regular meeting of this Club. 



He had been for some long time past assiduously occupied with 

 that most interesting matter — the insects which destroy such 

 immense amounts of our wheat. Mr. Lowe adverted to the 

 immense loss of wheat by the drought of 1854, and the chief 

 cause thereof, viz : the wretched shallow ploughing and poor 

 manuring and managing of the land. Europe knew her obliga- 

 tions to Liebig, for his well deserving lessons in agriculture, and 

 Mr. Lowe said that we had a citizen busy among our soils whose 

 ability was no less than Liebig's, and that was Professor James J. 

 Mapes, of America, whose teachings in fertilization, deep and 

 thorough tillage by his sole subsoil plow, and in many more 



