294 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
11. Hugh Miller—Hveu Miter, one of the best known and most 
honored of Scotland’s sons, died at Portobello, near Edinburgh, his place 
of residence, on Wednesday the 24th of December. In consequence of 
excessive mental labor his mind had become disordered, and under de- 
rangement, he died by his own hand. He had just finished a new work, 
one of a series that has done more than all else published in the world to 
popularize and christianize science; and he leaves this “ Testimony of the 
Rocks” as a testimony to his own greatness and goodness of soul, as 
well as to the treasures of wisdom in the volume of creation which he so 
delightingly read—We cite the following from accounts abroad of this 
sad occurrence. : 
“Most people know that Hugh Miller has been a hard worker. He has 
not wrought out his way from the stone-mason’s quarry to so distinguished 
a position in science and literature without living a life of incessant and 
wearing mental toil. In fact, he had worked much too hard and con- 
geen work, to be called ‘The Testimony of the Rocks.’ His brain 
may be found in the fact that he has suffered greatly of late from terror 
at the depredations of the ‘ ticket-of-leave’ men, dreading lest they might 
break in and rob his museum of some of its cherished rarities. So much 
told : 
early on Tuesday night, after using a sponge bath that had been pre 
cribed. What caused him to get up in the night can never be known. 
ie tbl than ever, must have returned. All 
