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editor’s table. 
(£Mtor’0 (liable. 
Removal. —A. B. Allen & Co. have removed from 
No. 1S7 Water Street, to the two buildings adjoining 
above. Nos. 189 and 191, where they will be happy to 
see their friends and customers as usual. Their ware¬ 
house is now double the size it was before, being 44 
feet wide, 70 feet long, and five stories high. It is 
stocked with the largest and most complete assortment 
of Agricultural Implements, and Field and Garden 
Seeds, ever yet offered to the public. 
Time of Holding the Show of the New York 
State Ag. Society Changed. —We are requested 
to state that the next show of this society will be held 
at Buffalo on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 
5th, 6th, and 7th of September. Further notices, em¬ 
bracing the conditions of the show, will seasonably 
be given. 
State of Vegetation in New York. —On the 
25th of April, the apple and pear were in full blow, 
and the European linden was just bursting its leaves 
May 1st, the elm in leaf, the lilac in flower, and the 
Paulownia nearly ready to open its buds. May 12th, 
the horse chestnut and paper mulberry in flower, the 
ailantus, locust, and sycamore unfolding their leaves, 
and the pear nearly out of bloom. On the 20th, the 
blossoms of the apple had quite disappeared. 
Orange County Milk and Butter Company. 
—We would call the attention of our city subscribers 
to a milk and butter depot, lately established at the 
corner of Reade and Washington streets. Pure milk 
and choice butter is punctually furnished directly from 
the best dairies of the several counties, through which 
tiie New York and Erie Railroad passes. Price of 
milk delivered to customers, 5 cents a quart, or 4 
cents at the depot. 
The Thousand-and-one Nights ; translated and 
arranged expressly for Family Reading, with explan¬ 
atory notes, by E. W Lane. To be illustrated by 600 
Beautiful Designs on Wood. New York: Harper and 
Brothers. Price 25 cents a number. This suberb 
edition of the “ Arabian Nights 5 Entertainment,” is 
in course of publication and will be comprised 
in two volumes of twelve parts, each containing 
96 duodecimo pages. We heartily rejoice at 
the re-appearance of this enchanting book of magic 
rings, wonderful lamps, flying horses, genii, afrites, 
and other creatures of fancy, in so cheap and attrac¬ 
tive a form. One of the peculiar and most interesting 
features of this new translation, is the introduction, 
by way of notes, of many short tales and anecdotes, 
which form an integral portion of the original work, 
but which have been omitted, for the most part, by 
all previous translators. These annotations and anec¬ 
dotes form of themselves an invaluable auxiliary, as 
illustrating many oriental customs and modes of 
thought. 
Symptoms of Disease. —A white fur on the 
tongue attends a fever or inflammation ; yellowness on 
the tongue shows a disease of the liver, and is com¬ 
mon to billious and typhus fevers. A tongue vividly 
red on the tip and edges, or down the centre, or over 
the whole surface, arises from an inflammation of the 
mucus membrane of the stomach or bowels. A white 
velvety tongue exhibits mental disease. A tongue 
red at the tip, turning brown, is the symptom of a 
typhus state .—Exchange paper. 
A Fruitful Apple Tree. —Mr. Samuel C. Cor¬ 
win, of Phelps, Ontario county, has an apple tree 
(greening), which bore 70 bushels the past year. Of 
the 70 bushels 65 were good merchantable apples. 
This may be considered “ rather steep” by some of 
our readers, but we are assured the statement is cor¬ 
rect .—Exchange Paper. 
An Illustrated History of the Hat, from the 
Earliest Ages to the Present Time. By John N. Genin, 
Hatter, 214 Broadway, New York. Truly, this is an 
age of wonders, and to the genius and versatility of 
man there seems no end. In this amusing and ex¬ 
ceedingly curious little work, the author shows him¬ 
self equally au fait as an artisan, a litterateur, an an 
tiquary, and a fashionable provider for the “ externals 
of the head,” if not for the brains. The performance 
is decidedly a “ feather in his cap,” and we trust that 
the public, in testimony of his success, will be ready 
to evince, that he is no “ man of straw.” 
“ The Moral Centre of the Intellectual 
World.” —Mr John Doyle, the most polite, courteous, 
and obliging bookseller, 146 Nassau st. N. Y., whose 
place of business is-not inappropriately designated by 
himself under the name at the head of this notice, has 
just issued a full and carefully-prepared Catalogue of 
his large and extensive collection of ancient and mod¬ 
ern books, new and second hand, treating on every 
department of literature, science, and art. 
Grapes and Wine. —An interesting little work of 
166 pages, has lately been published by C. S. Francis 
& Co., 252 Broadway, N. Y., entitled “ A Visit to the 
Principal Vineyards of Spain and France ; giving a 
Minute Account of the Different Methods pursued in 
the Cultivation of the Vine and the Manufacture of 
Wine, with a Catalogue of the Different Varieties of 
Grape, &c., &c.” By James Busby, Esq. Price, 37£ 
cents. 
Le Doyen’s Disinfecting, or Deodorizing Fluid. 
—This invention consists in neutralizing the nox¬ 
ious substances, containing sulphuretted hydrogen and 
sulphuret of ammonium, which are the prevailing re¬ 
sults of the decomposition of animal and vegetable 
matter. It is successfully employed in depriving night 
soil of its offensive effluvia, and rendering it applicable 
as manure, without injury to public health, or to the 
individuals engaged in handling it. It has also been 
used for purifying hospitals and sick rooms, as a 
means of neutralizing the odor arising from faecal mat¬ 
ter, or putridity, and for removing the bad smell from 
water closets, sesspools, steerages of passenger ships, 
bilge water, &c., &c. See advertisement, at page 
198, of the present number. 
Beef Law in Massachusetts. —All beef cattle, 
except bulls, sold in market by weight, shall, when 
slaughtered, be prepared for weighing in the following 
manner:—The legs shall be taken off at the knee and 
gambrel joint; the skin shall be taken from all other 
parts of the animal; the head shall be taken off at the 
second joint of the neck ; the entrails taken out, and 
all the fat of the same be taken off and weighed as 
rough tallow, and every other part of the animal, ex¬ 
cepting the hide and rough tallow (the udder of cows 
excepted), shall be weighed. 
All beef shall be weighed upon the first week day 
succeeding that on which it may be slaughtered. 
The Studbornest Animal in the World.—A 
crowd, who had gathered about a tavern door, was busy 
in discussing what animal, of all others, is the most 
contrary. Some contended that the mule is, some a 
hog, and others a yoke of oxen. A Dutchman, who 
had very gravely listened to the conversation, gave hi3 
experience as follows:— “ Der mule, der hoc, und der 
ox,” said he, “ ish vary stupporn, poot der hen ish 
der stuppornest animal in der worldt. I had von und 
I vanted to hatch zom chiggen. I made von fine leetle 
nest, und boot him in it, und she gits up und runs 
avay. I den makes anodershmall nest, und boots him 
on dat, und she runs avay agin. I den makes von nice 
leetle pox, und boots it all over der hen ; und for all 
der trouble mit I have, fen I beeped unter der leetle 
pox, der hen vas shettin’ standin’.” 
