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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[August, 
ber of lepers healed by Christ at one time; a man 
smitten for touching the ark; a girl who heard 
Peter knock; a man who lived with beasts ; one 
who could not find repentance ; a doubter; one who 
lived in a college at Jerusalem; a blind prophetess; 
what the Sadduces and Pharisees were warned from; 
a tent-maker; what Jeroboam said the king had 
made grievous ; the place where the forerunner an¬ 
nounced Christ; a young woman who came to draw 
water from a well; a man whose hair caused his 
death ; one whose mother and grandmother taught 
him the scriptures ; a man who sold a cave. 
The first letter of each of the names and words 
indicated above, will give a Scripture proverb. 
What is the proverb, and what are the names ? 
Answers to Problems in July No. 
No. 15.— Interest and Discount Question. (See page 
318.)—Seven answers have been received, as follows : 
$3641.80 ; $2849. (by two readers); $3657.1-7tli by 
two readers); $3597.59, and $3646.09. These can not 
all be right. We shall leave it another month for 
our young readers to work at. 
No. 16.— Arithmetical Question. —(July No., page 
218.) —Gold is weighed by Troy weight, in which 
5760 grains equal a pound; lead is weighed by 
Avoirdupois weight, in which 7000 grains equal a 
pound. Hence it requires of 16 ounces of lead 
to equal the weight of a pound of gold, or 13.-4® 
ounces. 
No. 17.—Military letter written in cypher. The 
key to the translation is as follows : each letter of 
the words, is replaced by another found three let¬ 
ters distant from it in the alphabet. Thus: S is 
represented by V; E is represented by II; etc.— 
Vhqg zlwkrxw ghodb wkuhh uhjlphqwv ri lqidq- 
wub wr dohadqguld zlwk udwlrqv iru wkuhh gdbv. 
Answer : Send without delay, three regiments of 
infantry to Alexandria, with rations for three days. 
Correct answers received, and not previously 
acknowledged, from; 
E. E. and C. F. B., No. 8 (in May No. The only one 
exactly right), 9, 10 ; Nellt Earring, 9 ; Mollie and Sallie 
Elliott, 8, 11 ; Delia S. Mitchell, 10; L. T. Updike, 9; 
Jarvis H. Arnold, 9, 10 ; Mills P. Baker jr., 8, 9 ; A. W. 
Sexton, 12; Horace P. Gage, 12 (with solution complete); 
Elisha Cook, 11, 12; C. L. Siewers, 11,12, 13, 14 (well 
done !); William G. Kieffer, 11, 12; Gertrude Kieffer, 11 ; 
Davault K. Millikan, 13 ; Isaac Oliver, 12, 13 ; Eleazer 
Kersey, 11 ; H. B- Ten Eyck, 11 ; Theodore T. Kieffer, 
11; Eli Phillips, 12 ; Olive Robinson, 11 ; George Wright, 
Mary Costellie, 11, 12; Herrick J. Raynor, 12; “Sub¬ 
scriber ” at Brandywine Hundred, 12 ; Justus Riehl, 12 ; 
Alexander' Chalmers, 12; William Wiley, 12; Harry 
Jones, 12 ; Olive A. Barghey, 13 ; Elizabeth E. Ferington, 
13 ; B. Sullivan, 11; G. K. Owen, 11, 12 ; Wilford Wil¬ 
son, 11; Almon S. Givitzer, 12; William Burton, 9. 11, 
12; Wesley Carpenter, 12; Joseph Vipoy, 12; W. Boy¬ 
ers, 12; H. N. Tiffany, 12; John N.. Wells, 11 ; C. B. 
Harvey, 12, 14 ; E. C. Long, 12. R. Jennings Harris, 12 ; 
Jacob Staeffler, 12; Lottie Myers, 12, 14; J. Frank Phil¬ 
lips, 16 ; Joseph Badger, 16, 17 ; J. E. Brown, 15 ; C. Ev¬ 
erett, 17 ; E. W., 17 ; Geo. E. Hull, 16 ; Ermon A. Hull, 
16; T. D. Stevenson, 16; Acuslmet, 16, 17; Thomas 
McDonogh, 16, 17. 
Scraps and Clippings. 
Major Jack Downing once said to Gen. Jack- 
eon : “ Gin’ral, I have always observed that those 
persons who have a great deal to say about being 
ready to shed their last drop of blood, are amazin’ 
purtic’lar about the first drop. 
Eternity has no gray hairs. Here the flowers fade, 
the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies 
down in the sepulchre of ages; but time writes no wrinkles 
on eternity ! Stupendous thought! Earth has its beau¬ 
ties, but time shrouds them for the grave ; its honors are 
but the sunshine of an hour; its palaces—they are but 
gullded sepulchres; its pleasures—they are but as burst¬ 
ing bubbles. Not so in the untried bourne. In the dwel¬ 
ling of the Almighty can come no footsteps of decay. 
Its way will know no darkening—eternal splendor forbids 
the approach of night. 
Very Conscientious. —“ 1 sells peppermints on Sun¬ 
day,” said an old lady who kept a candy shop, “ because 
they carries them to church and eats ’em, and keeps 
awake to hear the sermon; but if you wants pickled 
limes, you must come on week days. They’re secular 
commodities.” 
Pursuit of Pleasure under Difficulties. —At¬ 
tempting to eat soft mush and milk out of a jug with a 
knitting needle. 
If you lost your nose what would you do for another ? 
lake the first that turns up, 
The Arab’s Prayer. —“ O God, be kind to the wicked; 
to the good thou hast already been sufficiently kind in 
making them good.” 
Whoever in the darkness lighteth another with a lamp, 
lighteth himself also. Gellert. 
“ Accept God’s gifts with resignation, 
Content to lack what thou hast not: 
In eveiy lot there’s consolation: 
There’s trouble, too, in every lot - ” Gellert. 
An exchange gives reasons for not publishing a “poetic” 
effusion, as follows: “ The rythm sounds like pumpkins 
rolling over a barn floor, while some lines appear to have 
been measured with a yard stick, and others with a ten 
foot pole.” 
John Wesley says, “ When I was young, I was sure of 
everything. In a few years, having been mistaken a 
thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I 
was before. At present I am hardly sure of anything, 
but'what God has revealed to man.” 
A pleasant, cheerful wife is as a rainbow set in the 
sky when her husband’s mind is tossed with storms and 
tempests ; but a dissatisfied and fretful wife, in the hour 
of trouble, is like one of those fiends who are appointed 
to torture lost spirits. 
A sad thing it is in human nature, that a man may guide 
others in a good path, without walking in it himself; that 
he may pilot others well over dangerous reefs, and yet 
wreck his own vessel, on its first and only passage over 
the same rocks. 
“ Angels in the grave, will not question thee as to the 
amount of wealth thou hast left behind thee, but of good 
deeds thou hast done in the world, to entitle thee to a seat 
among the blessed.”— Koran. 
Follow the laws of Nature, and you will never be poor. 
Your wants will be but few. Follow the laws of the 
world, and you will never be rich. You will want more 
than you can acquire. 
If It be important to know whether a man will cheat 
you If he can, sound Mm as to his willingness to help you 
cheat somebody else. 
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes sat¬ 
in. What difficulty is there at which a man should quail, 
when a worm can accomplish so much from a leaf. 
A man who covers himself with costly apparel and neg¬ 
lects his mind, is like one who illuminates the outside 
of his house and sits within in the dark. 
Ignorance and conceit are two of the worst qualities to 
combat. It is vastly easier to dispute with a statesman 
than a blockhead. 
There is an essential meanness in the wish to get the 
better of any one; the only competition worthy a wise 
man is with himself. 
Be calm and quiet in your life. You are not necessari¬ 
ly serviceable to others when you are troublesome to 
yourself. 
The lays of a nightingale may be very delightful to a 
well fed man, but the “lays” of a hen are liked better by 
a hungry one. 
An inventive Yankee has produced an apparatus which 
he says is a cure for snoring. He fastens upon the mouth 
a gutta-percha tube leading to the sleeper’s own ear. 
A recent philosopher has discovered a method to avoid 
being dunned.—“ How ?—How ? How ?” Everybody 
asks. Never run in debt. 
Dr. Franklin says, that “ every little fragment of the 
day should be saved”—therefore when the day breaks, we 
should begin to save the pieces. 
It is said that pearls are formed in Oysters by the se¬ 
cretion of crystalline matter caused by wounds, hence 
these gems have been called “ the tears of the oyster.” 
None ever have been so good and so great, or have 
raised themselves so high, as to be above the reach of 
troubles. Our Lord was “ a man of sorrows.” 
No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he 
pleases to do right.” 
In matters of conscience, the Jirst thoughts are the best; 
in matteis of prudence, the last. 
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. 
Merryman. 
Which is the queen of roses in the garden ’—The rose 
of the watering pot; it rains over all the others. 
It is a great waste of raw materials to put five dollars’ 
worth of beaver on ten cents’ worth of brains. 
When is a man, like friendship, most severely tried ? 
When he stands a loan. 
We may always joke when we please, if we are always 
careful to please when we joke. 
The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not 
what we are, but what we ought to be. 
It is a dull and hurtful pleasure to have to do with peo¬ 
ple who approve of all we do or say. 
It is a glorious thing to resist temptations, but it is a safe 
tMng to avoid them. 
If a man cheats you once, blame him ; if a second time, 
blame yourself. 
The man who confines Mmself to the drink which is 
best for him is lucll-supplied. 
The discontented man finds no easy chair. 
Newspapers and Periodicals in the 
United States. 
We give below an abstract from a list of Periodicals 
issued in the United- States for the present year, accord¬ 
ing to the “ American Newspaper Directory, etc.,” recently 
issued in this city. The list, made up for the beginning 
of the year, was far too large, we are quite sure, and a 
large number of papers have “died” since January. 
The list names 61 as devoted to agriculture and farming, 
but there are not 50 of this class—we can not number 
over 45, including horticultural and agricultural. There 
are now, we judge, just about 4,400 periodicals, including 
dailies, semi-weeklies, weeklies, monthlies, and quarter¬ 
lies. The Directory gives 5,253, issued in 2,042 cities and 
towns, and distributed as follows : 
Daily papers....450 
Tri- weekly papers...... 74 
Semi-weekly papers.... 63 
Weekly papers..4,273 
Monthly papers. 355 
Quarterly papers.__ 38 
Of these, there are set down to New-York City, 256 , 
to Boston, 136 ; to Philadelphia, 93 ; to Cincinnati, 70 ; to 
San Francisco, 57 ; to St. Louis, 55 ; to CMcago, 53; to 
New-Orleans, 48 ; to Baltimore, 37 ; to Louisville, 27 ; to 
Richmond, 20 •, to Charleston, S. C., 12; to Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 8. 
By States they stand; 
New-York_ 851 
Illinois.453 
Pennsylvania. .440 
Ohio....436 
Massachusetts..282, 
Indiana.262 
Iowa .197 
Virginia.186 
Louisiana... . 117|Connecticut.... 64 
South Carolina 60 
Arkansas___ 56 
Kansas. 49 
New-Hampsh’e 45 
Vermont. 42 
Florida. 28 
Rhode Island.. 22 
Oregon.. 18 
Delaware...... 15 
Dist. Columbia 15 
Territories .... 26 
Alabama.114 
California.113 
New-Jersey ... 108 
Tennessee.100 
Maryland. 92 
Georgia. 91 
„ North Carolina 91 
Missouri.178| Mississippi..... 86 
Michigan.152|Kentucky ... . 84 
Wisconsin.143 Maine___74 
Texas .128IMinnesota..... 66 
The Union States have 4,193 of these periodicals, and 
the Seceding States 1,057. 
In language, there are 253 German ; 16 French; 5 
Welsh ; 4 Spanish, (tMs is too small); 3 Italian ; 1 Indian. 
In contents they are classified; Politics and news, 
4,728; Religious, 324; Agriculture, 61; Medical, 44; 
Price Currents, 26 ; Tempei ance, 13 ; Arts and Sciences, 
10 ; Railroads, 10 ; Mining, 9 ; Music, 8 ; Law, 6; Scien¬ 
tific, 5 ; Free Masonry, 5 ; Printing, 4. 
Our Exhibition Tables. 
The following articles not before noticed, have been 
recently exhibited at the office of the American Agricul 
turist . 
Fruit. — Strawberries .— Boyden’s Mammoth, inches 
in circumference, and Wilson’s seedling, by C. S. Pell, 
Supt. N. Y. Orphan Asylum ; Chorlton’s Prolific, W. 
Chorlton, Staten Island, N. Y.; Austin’s Seedling Iroin 
Shakers at Watervliet, by W. S. Carpenter, N. Y.; also 
specimens by J. C. Thompson, Staten Island, N. Y.; 
Triomphe de Gand, very fine, Scottish Seedling, Wil¬ 
son’s Improved, and Chorlton’s, W. F. Heins, Esq., N. Y. 
Union, O. Judd ; Boyden’s Mammoth and Austin’s Seed¬ 
ling, Robert Benner, Queens Co., N. Y.; Wilson’s Seed¬ 
ling, and Hurd’s Goliah, splendid specimens, J. Knox, Al¬ 
leghany Co., Pa.- Mulberries , two varieties, S. Tut¬ 
tle, New-IIaven Co., Conn.- Gooseberries.—G. M. 
Usher, and J. C. Thompson, Staten Island, N. Y. Fine 
branches, by Robert R. Dare, N. Y.- Currants, 
White Grape, very fine, J. C. Thompson; Red Dutch a 
very full branch of beautifuJ berries, George Pollock, 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 
Flowers ; Double Apple Blossoms, very curious, J. 
F. Cleu, Dutchess Co., N. Y.; Papaver Orientate, a mag¬ 
nificent bloom, also Arum dracunculus, or Dragon flower, 
very large and showy ; H. T. Haviland, Kings Co., N. 
Y. Ilhodanthe Manglesli, Forget-me-nots, Swan River 
Daisy, Zinnias, a beautiful collection of Poppies, and oth¬ 
er cut flowers, O. Judd; Cereus Grandiflora, a splendid 
bloom preserved in Alcohol, A. Janes, Westchester Co.. 
N. Y. New variegated Larkspurs, very pretty, Mr. Wil¬ 
son, N. Y. 
Vegetables, Fine growth of Victoria Rhubwii 
