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forwarded two sittings of eggs to the far north | 
of England, one packed most carefully in bran, 
the other in hay; of the first not one egg was 
hatched, whilst every one of the second produced 
a chick; and of a sitting that I received this 
season, which was similarly packed, every egg 
was fertile, although the basket had travelled 
from the north, by coach, rail, and carrier —ANN 
R., Halsted. 

The Climate of England—When we speak of 
the climate of England, we take in a very wide 
range of temperature. The air on the south-west 
coast of England is, at an average, seven degrees 
higher at night than it is in London, and ten 
degrees higher than in the midland and eastern 
counties. The harvest of the south is always a 
month, and sometimes nearly two months, in ad- 
vance of the harvest of the north. The island of 
Great Britain is a little type of the world itself; 
and invalids, instead of travelling abroad for 
health, may easily find, within a few miles of 
home, the species of climate which their disease 
requires. The heat may be less intense than it 
is in continental places of resort, but the cold is 
less intense alse. The extremes of climate are 
both reduced and moderated in England in a most 
remarkable manner. The frosts of London are not 
So severe as those of Madrid, where the sentinels 
have been known to be frozen to death at their 
posts; neither are they so severe as they are in 
Rome, and many other cities which enjoy a much 
higher temperature in the summer months. More- 
over, we are free in this country from the malaria 
which prevails almost everywhere else; so that, 
with all our disadvantages, we have reason to con- 
gratulate ourselves upon the favorable position 
which we occupy on the globe. The uniform 
temperature of the Atlantic ocean, which almost 
surrounds us, tends to preserve this uniformity, 
which so happily distinguishes even the changeable 
climate of England. If we may judge from the 
physical, intellectual, and moral character of the 
English, from the duration of life, and the progress 
of civilisation, there is no country in the world 
which has more to boast of; yet many countries 
have mild evenings and warm nights, and long 
seasons of cloudless skies, which we do not enjoy 
—they have vineyards also, and olive gardens, and 
orange groves, of which we know nothing. But 
they also have evils to counterbalance these bles- 
sings—evils of which we are ignorant. One thing 
is balanced with another in this world—blessings 
and curses, like two hampers on an ass’s back, go 
always together, and the weight of the one seems 
generally to correspond to that of the other.— 
Lecror. 
The Dardanelles—Apropos des bottes. The 
strait of the Dardanelles, which divides Europe 
from Asia, is upwards of fifty miles in length, 
with an average breadth of two miles. The shore 
on either side is fringed with cypress groves, and 
the strait itself presents a very animated appear- 
ance ; thousands of white-sailed caiques gliding 
lightly over the waves, and coming and going 
incessantly from shore to shore. There is a strong 
current setting constantly from the sea of Marmora 
in the Archipelago, and this, added to the defences 
of the place, render the forcing of the passage by 

armed vessels a very hazardous undertaking. 
The fortifications originally consisted of four 
castles; two on the European, and two on the 
Asiatic side. Of these, two stand at the southern 
extremity, and two about eighteen miles further 
tp the strait. The name Dardanelles is now 
especially applied to some fortifications erected in 
modern times between the new and the old castles, 
a short distance from the entrance of the straits. 
The number of guns mounted on these fortifi- 
cations, and some others of lesser importance, is 
nearly seven hundred ; besides eight large mortars 
for throwing shells. Among them are several 
immense guns, from which stone shot are: dis- 
charged. The quantity of powder which these 
guns require is enormous ; the largest is charged 
with 330lbs of powder, and throws a stone shot 
800 or 1000]bs weight. They are more for- 
midable in appearance than reality, and the 
firing of such large pieces of ordnance is not un- 
attended with danger to their own artillerymen.— 
Pua@se, Brighton. 
Bronchitis —A writer in the Baltimore Sun, 
whose family has been severely afflicted with 
bronchitis, recommends the following as a remedy 
from which he experienced great relief :—“ ‘lake 
honey in the comb. Squeeze it out, and dilute it 
with a little water; occasionally moistening the 
lips and mouth with it. It has never been known 
to fail; in cases even, where children had throats 
so swollen as to be unable to swallow.” This is 
certainly a simple remedy; and it may be a very 
efficacious one. The simplest remedies are almost 
ever the best.—VioLzt, Worcester. 

How to Protect Plants from Frost.—Great 
protection will be afforded to plants, if near a wall, 
by the following very simple method. Tie together 
smal] handfuls of straw-—say perhaps forty in each 
—suspend them on lines before the plants or trees, 
letting one line overlap the other. Small branches 
of birch, beech, or fir may be used instead, sus- 
pending it on cords in the same manner. A neater 
practice is found in the use of the woollen net. 
This article is woven for the purpose, with a mesh 
of from half an inch to aninch square, If a board 
two feet wide be affixed to the top of the wall, in 
a roof-like direction, and the net be fastened to its 
edge, and extended thence téthe foot of the wall, 
a neat and efficient protection will be afforded, and 
no disfigurement to the most ornamental garden.— 
ANGELINA. 

The Sun, glorious in his great Might—The 
action of the sun, says Dick, upon all things that 
receive his rays is, in a general way, a matter of 
common notoriety. But we suspect that few 
persons are aware of the amount of that force, or 
of the views of modern philosophers as to the 
manner in which it takes effect. We may view 
the surface of a lake exposed to the sun’s rays 
during a warm summer’s day, whilst the whole 
scene may seem to be one of the utmost tran- 
quillity, so that we might naturally conclude that 
no movement of any importance was then going 
on. It will be found, however, that such, in 
reality is not the case; for the rays of the sun 
exert a force of which we can scarcely form any 
adequate idea. Supposing the lake is only two 


