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growing cells, etc., are extemporized for immediate use and with- 
out care as to their durability. ; 
New AprrLICAaTION or Srarninc TO ParmoLocy.— Dr. H. C. 
Major claims that healthy and morbid tissues are affected by log- 
wood staining-fluid— with such different degrees of facility as to 
afford a really valuable means of discrimination. Thus staining 
becomes a means of diagnosis as well as of defining the structure 
of cells, etc. He instances sections of brain in cases of acute 
mania and of senile atrophy, in the former the gray cortical layer 
and in the latter the internal white substance being most deeply 
stained and best defined. 
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Tue governor of Minnesota calls on the general government 
for aid, as owing to the ravages of the grasshoppers for two years 
.past “ many thousands are now (July 8) suffering for food.” An 
“utter and wide-spread destitution exists in the southwestern 
Counties of this state among the new settlers, whose crops have 
been destroyed for two years.” He asks for contributions of 
money and provisions to relieve the immediate necessities of 
the sufferers. Why should not the grasshopper be eaten in turn? 
The grasshopper or locust of the east is universally eaten in por- 
tions of Africa and western Asia, and pronounced a nutritious and 
palatable article of diet by Arab chiefs as well as Hottentot sav- 
- ages. They are eaten roasted whole, minus the legs, or roasted and 
powdered. We would recommend that experiments be made as to. 
the best mode of preparing the locust for food. They should be 
thoroughly cooked to guard against parasitic worms. Not willing 
to urge the use of grasshoppers as food for others without first 
eating them ourselves, we may say that we have found the grass- 
hopper, first killed by boiling water, and then fried in butter, at 
least as palatable as many articles of food eaten by civilized people ; 
and to people actually famishing, as is said to be the case in Min- 
nesota, it will be worth their while to avail themselves of a food 
stuff which millions perhaps of people of other lands regard as 
wholesome. 
: Tar Proceedings of the 22d, or Portland meeting of the Amer- 
ican Association make a much more bulky volume than any of its 
Predecessors. It is noticeable that while the papers in the section 
