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MOORE'S RTJ&AZ, HSW-YOHKKR. 



COMMENCEMENT WEEK IN BOCHXSTER. 



; RSsftstfr, and ll "' Anniversary of 

 logical Seminary, were cete 

 brsU'ri lul week. Though Uie we*tbtr was el 

 cccdinglyerafl 



.d appieciattveaodieoces 



including many friends of these institutions from 



abroad. We ore unable lo give more than a brief 



romineot eiflnc very interct- 



iog and creditable proceedings ol the week. 



On Sunday evening, July 10th, the Rev. Dr. 



iLtcuco«, "I tbe i Dion Theological Seminary, 



re iIh .lud»on Society." In the 



Ibc llili Prof. James II. Amiell, of 



...... 



Ob Thursday, 



Hihui»l.. the of the Toeelogi- 



. . ru duly honored ai the Firel Bap- 



.ngOrmioDa by 



i Addrcasio the 



. : . , i, , h, i;..m ..-.. TbeUmdu- 



utiugcloM numbered twelve, BJ fellows: —J. R 



. , irk, Pi Y.;t .1 Oatbbb, Vn : U. 



■ ,.-, If, V . Cnmms P Wbstox, Me.; 



Addmo.i Josas, 0.; K. M. Kkott, Me.; D. M. 



Bnrn, Ala.; E. T. Rodisbox, Rochester, N V , 



;. N. \ : N Sm pfabd, 



Philadelphia; (;. A. STAnnwcATiiEn, 0.; \V. C. 



\V . 1 1 



. Mich. 



Tin' An niir run iv Kxi-a-iseaof ilieSi'minurv were 

 and Professors, 



and liio.l DBCOD :• Of the inslilll- 



tion and its laudable objects— the proper education 

 and training of intellectually endowed and devout 

 Young Men for the Christian Ministry. Under tbe 

 (barge oT Rev. Dr. BonlXSOff, and Rev. I'rofrssors 



Nobtbrot mi'J BosBKOAbSCBttneBocb- 



1 The 





ti<ug -. repul* 



Hoi 1 influence winch must give it a prominent 



P'i-iin>n among the best institutions of its class in 

 this country -rendering it eminently worthy ibe 

 l'Iic genient iii nl Mipporl of the d e no mi nation it 



i' I'" 'ii' ::..■;' ;i ,.l t\„- best wishes of the 

 1. i.illy 

 The INiie Deductions bj members ol tbe 



H"pl ■ Clu 1 ..1 the 1 11 iiy, on Monday 



evening woie very commendable —superior to those 

 dVto heard. 

 ■ ■ co m memo nil iv e of tbe lute Jobs 

 ncM.h-nt of tbe Ihianl of Truster, of 



I I ■■ President .' 



the university op bochester. 



|TiHS Institution ii B model in i« line, and 

 worthily represents ibc ta*te, enterprise an9 lib- 

 era! i'j of its founders aod tbecitueus of Rochester 

 and Western New York. Ii is accomplishing so 

 much in behalf of liberal education, and has so 

 many ardent friends among nur readers throughout 

 the Slate, that we are conGdent the following 

 mocrat will be read with 

 peculiar inters 



. to av„il ourselves ol 

 excited by the Literary Festivities of Commence- 

 ment week, to soy a few w^rds respecting the Uni- 

 versity which is the occasion of tbem. 



While very many of the ciiizen- 1 

 have never failed lo understand and acknowledge 

 the great advantage* conferred upon the city by 

 the University, nor the University to acknowledge 

 tbe efforts and sacrifice* of its benefactors and 







■i.i, J t 



■ongh - 



r people ol 



knowledge 



of what the University really is— of 

 aims, of iu means of general usefulness, and of its 

 direct advantage lo tbem, it would be productive 

 orrery beneficial consequences both to tbe Univer- 

 sity and to themselves. Some men are prone to 

 regard our higher institutions of learning as mere 

 exotics — as something apart from and above the 

 common people — as objects proper to engage the 

 attention and command the patronage of the rich, 

 bui with which men in bumble and moderate 

 reuiiistaiicfs have nothing to do. This view is a 

 istuken one, and nny nction or course of conduct 

 ba«cd upon it, tmisl be, injurious to all concerned. 

 Tbe University should be regarded as established 

 by and for tbe benefit of the whole people. There 



and does not receive some benctit, either edu- 

 onalor pecuniary, or both, from t lie University 

 the other band, tbe University is chieOy in- 

 debted to the pruelienl recognition of this fuel On 

 ie part of the people at large for its distinguished 



Tbe University has been in operation about ten 



years. It has graduated nine classes, uad one 



hundred and sixty-three students — a result wbicb 



may challenge comparison by any other College in 



laud. It has an endowment ofJW2,OI 



Tlieidiwieal Seminary cinch, (bon^ti . ■! 



linct charter^ yet working sTpfclosoly and 



natcly with the University, that Ibey may be 



egurded as twin sisters, has nu endowment of 



about $100,000. Here there is a fund of $832,000 



part for the purposeof Academical and Relig- 



educatton in our midst. The subscribers to 



this fund number about eight hundred—their sub- 



lUous ranging from $25 to $25,000. There are 



in all the classes, about two hundred students. 



Their number has increased from year to year so 



pidly and constantly, that we may safely predict 



toaalylike this Rod Btjei i" peculiarly situated 

 snd das remarkable adaptations for seats of (earn 

 ing. The highest conditions known to the besl 

 city life may be found and enjoyed here, in connec- 

 tion with tbe peerless attractions and more solid 

 enjoyments of the best rural life. It is a city of 

 Scbools oud Churches, of productive industry 

 high culture; and has comparatively none of those 

 vices which are so pre volent s.nd GeBteneiiM is oni 

 large commercial cities- It is but natural, there- 

 fore, that many men who have sons to educate, and 

 who have acquired an ample fortune in metropc-li 



1 prospi 





should be attracted hither by the edi 

 vantages offered by our Uoirersity. and by tin 

 more elevated enjoyments of our citj 

 life. This will give to us the advantage of then 

 accumulated means as a productive element, and 

 the still greater advantage of their society, experi- 

 ence and benevolence. We might mention other 

 benefits ol'like kind, both immediate and incidental, 

 accruing to our city by means of the University, 

 and others of a still higher nature which the mere 

 utilitarian can neither conceive nor comprehend ; 

 but tbe object we aimed at will be accomplished if, 

 by the few practical suggestions we have made, 

 the attention and thoughts of our people shall be 

 turned to the University us an object worthy of 

 their constant solicitude and highest favor. More 

 of the sons of Rochester parents should enter Ibc 

 balls of learning in this University. It has 1 

 Faculty equal to any iu our country. The sons 

 the rich can here be educated without leaving th( 

 enjoyments or the salutary restraints of home ; one 

 tbe sous of the poor can here, almost without 

 money and without price, receive an education as 

 thorough and extended as can be acquired in this 

 country. What other American city offers oppor 





■ Uon 



l m 1/,.. Del ( 

 inl ivitl ■ 



wus devoted to lbe*Annivei 

 .■ ■. ■ 

 u«i Led ivitli Mm I 'Hn TfMiy, WhiU mi Oration was 



It. .1 1; ll,..i 1 .-,,., „i Springli. ' I 

 ■ I'oem rend bv Uct V ■ 

 ■ . It I W.-dnes.hii \ " 



t -I in ■ -.'ii' .ni livi. im -; took placcut Corinthian 



Null I "in- I rn 1 .■!■:. 1 1 ..nir.lcii-il the Academic 



year by commencing another The Grnduiiling 



. . .1 -ii even 1 lombi rs, and di 



rcprescntativea ablj perforiued the tusks assigned 



!l"in, 11'.' honoMiig themselves, the chtiS of 



\ ■■, Ik i, ,1 then Alma M..t,i. - M 



\ii.-i il„- delivery of the Orations, the TiWa- 



number of its students, as i 

 t everything else, the oldest 

 iean Colleges, The price of 



the best of 



- - *" -■ »» 

 pay at all, $37,60 o year. Tbe city of 

 is entitled to twelve perpetual free 

 ps. These scholars are selected on the 



■ ,', ■-. 



» fol- 



D nn Hamilton ItoDiNioK, Weedsport, 

 ■■ 1 I I . Caoandniguo, N. Y., En- 



H tap POI lOI ■ i'. Vl ■ 8l :-; .imnlu-ld, Tu .; Ab- 



D RATUliiN.Oaktield, N. V.; Wn.UMl 



iw, Limn 1,1.', K3 , KiiiMis Enn-AitD 



I'll iti 1 , ili.in. i Rapids, Uicb , rVusL Gobabo, 



j .1.. ,.. \\. ■ 



Springfleld, Pa.; Ebbkbub Packwood, Auburn, 



N 1 . .Imms I'l, 1. Im .,., Siihil:., N, Y.; Eluohe 



U 11 11 Mii hiAisuv, .St. Louis, Mo.; Iiia Collins 



■ iter, H. J . 'I'm I'm- km ii ■ 



1 \v . .inns (j. Ostaoos Clabkb, 



S 1 ; I". 1 I R] BBsBTOT SVITB, TjHO, 

 N. Y.; StBPBIH PsbB) BsOBBTT, l-.iDgsvillc.Okio; 



1 '.ni' II... i.iifnv, 1 ishkill Plains, 



N. Y.j WlKMBLO SCOTT, Farmer. N. Y.\ AllbB 



1 W,; FSAXCIfl 



BJ 1 HI U 1 hi 1.. klabBDM , 11 m 1 .., ,-..,. I ..1 



lomaalt, N \ . Job ■ ^ vmi a Dslobo, Maoidon 



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1 McVn mi. Toronto, C. W ; DaMII l 



ELLIOT I - m, Towandu, l'a , .Inns limn-im, fair- 



port, N. x,\ Jchbdm QuatUL, utcyolton, N. \ . 



The Degree of Master or Arts was conferred, in 



• \ .ill... 1 , . . 



H 1 Ua 1 v and Ukorok M. Coxnnox. 



II, Mil II I \ ■, . \ , :•, j .., 



K 1 KaTUN u Lti ■ P«tm Frt.and John a. 



A.m.s, Waterford, l'a.. M \. WlLUAJI QaBUBL, 



■ Qist«ry nn, I Political Economy at 



■■.II l» . 1:, . M Q w ■ . 

 New York. I,. , | , . ,. ( i; (1 , „, and 



R , ,1 i, r. 



■ ' in. nccment Excr- 

 Boardj Alumni and invited 

 m-s Mall »ud participa- 



t.d 





,,f the AnmiL 



■ ■ "thelkttt 

 rotwn and flow ef soul" nhicb followed Se 

 baumiet Tbe occasion 

 ible and , nt rtainin 



f Mr i',.,r- 



''ion, and of 



. ., IB80.V, were followed I 



thQ grave and gay, lively and serene, 



m guests and graduates— the remarks of the 



preventatives of the various eUsses being alter. 



.■ 



■ 1 Biretsity, 

 --T.^fn altogsthex, the eiero 

 em Week were apparrutlT most pleasant, inte 

 ting and prolitable to all partisipanU, and 

 ich a character as to augment 1 

 cfulnew of both the Seminary and I 



"bieh tbe ciiueiis of Rochester 

 1 the whole 

 " be prowl. 



hey cannot be take 



u from any pr 



chool. This provis 



on made by the 



oyvning as it does, 1 





r lligb School, make; 



,. tin- 



1 ob- 





thoul the cost of one dullur 

 There are also in the University at 

 lime, about forty free ministerial 

 lolarsbips. These scholars are selected, we be- 

 lievc, by urtue of au arrangement by which any 

 person who bus subscribed or may subscribe $1,- 

 000 to the funds of tbe. University, may designate 

 any young man mLmili.'d in the Mini.-n \ , :.- n 'i,,, 



:•'.-! iiil.ir ;iiidsu.-h Mnilig in nu i of whatever i elisions 



persuasion he may be) 13 then educated free of 

 charge. In this connection we should add, that 

 lition in the ThaJ_bgicuI Seminary is all free. 

 The University oT Rochester, like other institu- 

 ms ofthe kind, is deuomtnationnl, but uot secto- 

 an. Its Hoard <if Ttutti.es and its Faculty are 

 cuiiiposed of men ol the principal religious denom-* 

 inatious among us, and the students are uol only 

 permitted, but required to attend such Churches 

 as their parents or guardians desire tbey should 

 attend. Prayers arc soid daily at tbe University, 

 but beyond this, there is 110 religious exercises 

 cujoined. 



We should like, bad we space, to make a some- 

 what extended mention of the University Library, 

 itn Geological and Mineralogical collections, its 

 1'liilosophicul Apparatus, and its various means of 

 an able internal working, but we must leave each 

 of these for occasional mention hereafter. We 

 canuol, however, refrain from congratulating our 

 people that the time has come for the erection of 

 the new University Buildings. Tbe beautiful 

 piece of ground, in the Tenth Ward, (eight acres 

 of which were donated by Sir. Boonr, und seven- 

 teen more purchased for the purpose.) will soon be 

 crowned with a structure more imposing than any- 

 thing now existing in Rochester. Theplansof the 

 buildings are already drown, and tbe work of con- 

 struction will be pressed rapidly forward. 



As we before remarked, eight hundred men have 

 subscribed to the funds of tbe University. These, 

 of course, ore men of liberality and benevolence ; 

 and many of them possess large means. They 

 have in their own persous and by their example 

 incited to the highest realization the blessings of 

 giving. They have given us a pledge ol their per- 

 manent good will and substantial favor. Many of 

 Ihexa live at a distance, but they come up annually, 

 and some of theni much ofteuer, to witnt a the re- 

 sults ol their benefactions, and to connect their 

 .iiNniiit.'lv Bud strongly With ours, 

 VVeneed not say to the merchant, the manufac- 

 telligeot business man, that an 

 ir city so many men 

 n DBn«Toionea and wttlih, and Which educates so 

 1. young meu to go abroad with the attain- 

 termed here, confers im- 

 •iv end all its 

 P«* U Tl - . ,'biehapros- 





ORIGIN OF THE PRAISIES 



t Win 



1 of in 



bus recently delivered use nes i.tf nd uit ruble led ores 

 on his favorite science. We copy frodjhe Genesee 

 Republican the following abstract of his theory on 

 the origin and formation of tbe prairies; 



Prof. Wilbcr adopts tbe theory that at one time- 

 very far back in its history — this vast country 

 formed a portion ofthe bottom ocean— that through 

 the eruptions caused by tbe internal beat, together 

 with the labor and activity of those master masons, 



llie . 





Tot 



bold proposition lie refers to tbe many indications 

 of salt water presence, the frequent occurrence of 

 .shells which legitimately only belong to animals of 

 tbe sea — tbe evidence famished by the rocks of 

 the labor of ti,, .'ile in its de- 



of monsters of the sen imbedded iu our .limestone 

 system, the existence upon .our surface of huge 

 boulderftj the former appendages of polar shores, 

 drifted far away to tho south-west, imbedded m 

 huge frames of ice and dropped down al length 

 upon tbe ocean's bed, whence they arose with our 

 continent. The argument?, it not quite conclusive, 

 are eminently suguestive, and slnmld open the eyes 

 of thinking men to tbe wondrous mysteries buried 

 deep in the earth upon which we so laS iliarlj 



The ■-■ 



.- ,,t' ., 



prairies is accounted for in 

 this wise. Tbe result ofthe "drift system* a as to 

 give to this port of the count iy «. mh| of unparal- 

 leled fertility, and arising from ibis, were the 

 very large grasses, which are peculiar to this soil 

 alone; luxuriant, and uudisturbed, tbey grow to a 

 great height, and fairly wove tbe surfuce of the 

 earth with a thick, almost impenetrable covering. 

 In the autumn, when this mass of combustible 

 matter was dry, how ea-V for a slmft of lightning 

 to send a conflagration from one boundary of the 

 country to tbe other. Tbe sprouting twigsot stur- 

 dier growth would perish by the occurrence of 

 these fires, aud hence the treeJeaa ibpeoronce of 

 th£ West. To aid the idea, it is claimed that the 

 Indians, when tbey did arrive, winch is supposed 

 to have been long subsequent to the first period 

 mentioned, regularly burned tbe prairie graaaes, 

 for the purpose of driving the game into more cir- 

 cumscribed quarters so that it might fall an easy 

 prey to their arrows, und lo lessen thi 

 traveling.— Lift Illurtratvl. 



A SHORT CHAPTEB ABOUT MONEY. 



• desire by \ 



thins was more wanted than 

 desired commodity was taken iu exchange. Burlb, 

 iu Negritia, was a whole day exchanging to get at 

 some particular article. He found narrow strips 

 of cotton to be money. In South Africa lances are 

 this medium of exchange. They have one advnn- 

 tii-e— tin v may be kept without spoiling. That is 

 a requisite. We all wont ice in summer, but it 

 would hardly do to make it a medium of exchange. 

 Clapperton speaks of blocks of salt used for money 



111 tlieinti'ii I' Aliii.ii , I'm i"i 1. the historian, of 



cocoa be.u,.- in Mexico. Tbismonw Qj 

 itself and grows naturally out of the state cf things. 

 People don't come together and say let us adopt 

 money. It conies onto US. It ii also not merely 

 an exchangeable thing, but it is used 1 

 Dflinmoditics. It is not a measure of value, taken 

 I -L-use. fortheri- are two things to be 

 valued, tbe moi ■ u "■' '" '"<■ 



the motive ol 



utility, though : "' Il '< 1 - H&rba- 



rmis people seek om an wUts, but . mnnionly of some 

 lasting material, 

 money was weighed. Thi 



always ireighed i 'ibenameaof 



pounds, ounces, livre, niina, all di 

 . 



a 



On private coinage in Rutherford county, North 



Carolina. Ilia coins were stamped with his name 



■ iiunatiuii- ; liny circulated freely in 



'1 tnd South Carolina and Tennessee. 



- stated by Dr. Lieher, 



observation . 



A merchant from tbe South brought to Philadel- 

 phia the sum of ?_'.Ti.>t\ in Bechtlet's coinage — it 

 produced between one and two dollars premium on 

 the wliole amount, showing the accuracy of tbe 

 assay and valuation. Bechtler, on bis death, was 

 succeeded by bis son. The establishment of the 

 mint at Charlotte superseded these works. The 

 business was conducted by the Bechllers, from the 

 beginning lo the end, with the entire confidence of 



Coinage was 11 necessity from the difficulty of 

 ni'i^hiug and „--.n ,:ig metals. 



'l '-v. .1 common coin, was developed during 

 the formative period of naturalization, iu the mid- 

 dle ages, when the languages arose, and after litera- 

 ture, the law. It is never so difficult to convince 

 p'-"pl'.' in iniitii-rs of law, politics or theology, as it 

 is to change their habits. This problem was, in 

 reforms of the currency, to change the money in 

 the minds of market womeu. Fifty years after the 

 change by the revolution iu France, it needed an 

 edict of Louis I'hillippe to enforce it. Even in our 

 own country, with our convenient dollars and 

 cent-, arc we not still, in the different States, 

 thinking inconveniently in shillings and pence'' 

 Just so with the use of thermometers. People 

 would not be cold in Centrigrude, or perspire by 

 Reaumur; they would freeze and thaw only by 

 their accustomed Fahrenheit. Still the tendency 

 to uniformity went on, just as with dress, which 

 bad drawn the habits of modern nations ton resem- 

 blance, while aSpartan going to Athens was known 

 at once by tbe difference of his gnrb, and nobody 

 uow-a-days can distinguish a gentleman from St. 

 Fetersburg in that way, und thus society would go 

 on till the work of uniformization, if the word can 

 be ullowed, shall be completed.— Tl* 1 



SLEEPING BOOMS. 



Tiik largest part of our rest is taken in sleep. 

 Of course the kind of room in which we sleep is 

 worthy of consideration. Hopeland soys: — "It 

 must not be forgotten that we spend a considerable 

 portion of our lives iu tbe bed-chamber, and con- 

 sequently that its healthiness or unhealtbness can- 

 not fail to hare a very important influence upon 

 our well being." It should at least be large. That 

 is of prime importance, because during tbe several 

 hours that we are in bed, we need to breathe a 

 great deal of air, aud ourbealth is injured when wo 

 are obliged to breathe it several limes over. We 

 should at least pay as much attention to the size, 

 situation, temperature ami cleanliness ofthe room 

 we occupy during the hours of repose, as to the 

 parlors or drawing-room, or any other apartment. 

 And yet bow different from this is tbe generol 

 practice of families. The smallest room in the 

 house is commonly set apart for tbe bed and its 

 nightly occupants. The sleeping room should have 

 a good location, so as to be dry. It should be kept 

 clean, and neither too hot nor too cold. Aud more 



bed occupied by two persons is as much as should 

 ever be allowed in a single room ; though two beds 



room. Both are objectionable.— Ira Warrm t 3f,D. 



GAPES IN CHICKENS. 



f your re«d erti , nd particularly mjielf, by 

 "c n.r.o.Bt, the eoloinn. of the Rua*L tbe 

 illve, and cure ot lho 0aprs u , cWoKCBi , 

 " ~" tt lw * Mliject, having just 



Islngol poultri. 





J tl^^j d LU ^-^^iAiljML^Lra 



MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA 



GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 







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My -1, 



A, 0, 87, 





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My 2,1. 









Mv 82, 1 



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ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM. 



I, boughl 6 bushel* of apple 



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?-;!■;.:;>. 



Charlotte, Eaton C 



ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, 4c, LN No. 496, 



re bad a good deal of eipcri- 

 ence with poultry, und only by cure to ha»« every- 

 thing clean, and to provide everything necessary 

 for the young chickens, have we beeu able to save 

 them from this disease. Even then, some become 

 affected, and iu curiug we have had but poor suc- 

 cess. For tbe benetit of all our young readers we 

 give a chapter on Ibis disease from Btmwt'* I\mt- 

 try Book. Preserve it, aud vr.11 will have Ibo facts 

 on band at all times. 



Of oil diseases, real or presumed, to 

 which our domestic fowls are subjected, lbs most 

 frequent is the gapt$, sometimes called f-u " IS 

 a very common and troublesome disorder, and 

 often proves fatal. All domestic birds, particu- 

 ly young fowls, are peculiarly liable to it, and 

 generally iu the hot weather of July and August. 

 Hy some it is considejed a cuturthul <i 



thickened slate ofthe membrane I mi ml- the nostrils, 

 mouth and tongue. 



CauMs.— This disease is supposed to be produced 

 from filthy, sour diet, and drinking from duly 

 paddle water, infected With putrid decaying sub- 

 stances, ill-ventilated fowl-house confinement, or a 

 spot of ground tenanted year atlcryear by fmvls, 

 without attention to cleanliness, to renovutiou of 

 the soil, etc. At the same time, let it be borne in 

 mind that the " gapes " is an epidemic disease, 



Tbe gapes is supposed by some to be caused by a 

 sort ot internal worm infesting the windpipe; but 

 though this may have, iu same instances, been 

 observed, it is by no means uniformly met with in 

 all the disorders act-oinpanied w ith gaping. 



,Ki/ni}>!:)M.~- Tbe name is sufficiently expressive 

 as to the symptoms of this disease; piping, cough- 

 ing, nud sneezing, dullness and inactivity, ruffled 

 feather?, and loss of appetite. 



On the dissection of chickcni .lying with this 

 disease, it will be found that the wind pipe contains 

 numerous small red worms about the size of a small 

 cambric needle; on the first glance they would 

 likely be in i-t uken for blood-vessels. It is supposed 

 that these worms continue to increase in size until 

 tbe wind-pipe becomes completely filled up, and 

 tbe chicken suffocated. The disease first shows 

 itself when the chicken is between three and four 

 months old, and not generally after, by causing a 

 sneezing or snuffing through tbe noslrils, and a 

 itchingofiteelfat the roots ol thehllL 

 -The plan tormenj auupieo, w B »r- 



not It good one.ns tho medicine has to be absorbed, 

 pass into the blood, and act powerfully upon tho 

 body of the fowl, before its purpose can be accom- 

 plished ; its direct application to the worms IS 

 therefore preferable. This is readily secured by 

 stripping Ibc vnne from u small quill feather, ex- 

 cept half an inch from its extremity ; this should 

 then be dipped iu spiiils ol" turpentine; and, tho 

 chicken being securely held by an n 



ired is passed neatly down through 

 the small opening of tin- u itid-pipe, which is readily 

 seen at the base of the. tongue, andgiviug il one or 

 two turns will generally bring up and destroy tbe 

 worms. The turpentine nt once kills the nouns, 

 and its application ev ite- n lit ofeoughing, during 

 which those that w. ie \< U by tbe feather are ex- 

 pelled. This mod,. ,.f .i|.|il'..i 1 requires smiie 



dexterity, and at times the irritation proves fatal. 

 ittingiiDOf the chicken 

 in a bos, with some -havings dipped in spirits of 

 turpentine, when tbe vapor arising from the ex- 

 tended surface, produces, in most cases, an equally 

 beneficial resull Creosote, used in the same man- 

 ner, has been found most extraordinarily elficu- 



V. "■■ I, mm ii |,'i ,>u,a very large 

 breeder of fowls, who always gives his chickens, 

 at six weeks old, wheat steeped 111 turpentine. — 

 given them once in the morning, when 



fasting, mid i 





ugai 





a] of, the gapes. Let their 

 first food he coarse corn meal, almost dry; fieri 

 give cracked corn. As soon as they cm s"j!I"*> 

 whole grains, let tbem have tbem unbroken. All 

 poultry-yards, of course, should he supplied "i'b 

 lime, and the chickens should have free access to 

 water. After the gapes appear, the cure is always 

 doubtful ; but crushed corn, soaked in very strong 

 alum-water, is a good remedy 



SPHLNGS AND TIDES. 



MssflBfl.EMT-Tbesrticl | 



nl.lom-llili. inward <olbe"Supp]yofSt« ' 





but the theory in 

 -ard to the same influence governing the sources 

 , .["st reams, ami causing the water to flow, that gov. 

 eras the tides, is not founded on good philosophy. 

 The flow of the tides-is an untUady or periodical 

 motion, ami not a steady one as in thecaseof water 

 the earth injq.ringM. The same caun: 

 cannot produce the same rttulbt. Then the idea of 

 the earth's pressing the water up, is, I think, 

 equally wrong philosophy. There is no principle 

 in hydrostatics that I am acquainted with that will 

 warrant tbe conclusion. The Bubjeot is an inter- 

 and 1 should like u> have it more 

 thoroughly agitated and dismissed, but not to/our 

 ^convenience. In other words, I can't insist on 

 thers doing the talking aud your doing the work 

 nless you say come on, Jsww R. Tibuits. 





