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PLANT TREES. 
Certainly, plant troes. Thoy aro a 
blessing money cannot measure—an invest¬ 
ment sure to return its profits four-fold.— 
Plant trees and shrubs for fruit, for orna¬ 
ment, for shade, for timber;—in the yard, 
in the field, in the gardon, in the nooks and 
corners, in tho waste places, in the high¬ 
ways and tho by-ways. Give them caro and 
attention, and thoy will grow to increase 
your store and bloss your life, when you arc 
weary and caro-worn, sick or asleep. 
By all means, plant out trees as you have 
means and opportunities. If it be but one, 
plant and nurse it with caro. By and by 
your opportunity may enlarge and you may 
plant a dozen, a score, or a hundred. Be 
sure to seek the best. It may be a trifle 
more troublo, or it may cost a few pennies 
more, but tho produce, when you corno to 
that, or tho elegance, if it be for ornamont, 
will be far superior. Mark what a differ¬ 
ence. Single pears of superior quality have 
of late readily commanded six and eight 
shillings in the markets of our large cities, 
whilst others havo been raised that were 
unmarketable at any price. Is it not then, 
an object to select the very best varieties for 
cultivation? So of apples or any other fruit 
for market or for any purpose,—ono had 
better pay any price for a tree whoso pro¬ 
duce may warrant a dollar a bushel, than to 
take as a gift, one that cannot yield any¬ 
thing worth a sixponce. 
In these days, however, if ono who has a 
native stock, or a poor bearer, or ono of 
worthless fruit, ho can readily improvo it, 
by a little pains in grafting or budding so- 
lect varieties. In tho way of fruit, whore 
tho climate will permit, and where one has 
tho land, don’t bo afraid of planting too 
much, provided you give your plantation 
the after culturo it requires. Tho market 
cannot very easily bo overstocked with choice 
fruit. It will always command remunera¬ 
ting prices, for if a surplus accumulate at 
any point, tho increased and rapid means of 
transit will soon transport it to less favored 
regions. 
It is a bettor policy for tho farmer, where 
he may, to combine soveral branchos of his 
business together, as fruit culture, wool 
growing, wheat raising, stock breeding, &c., 
for ono servos to chock losses from tho 
other, and at tho same time, more effectu¬ 
ally to keep up and advance tho fertility of 
the soil, and beside time tho little wastings 
into profitable channels. Where one’s at¬ 
tention is wholly absorbed in ono branch of 
industry, any rovulsion in tho market, un¬ 
towardness of tho season or accident, is 
much moro suro to paralize his efforts and 
swallow up his profits. 
Besidos its direct profit to the purso, fruit 
adds greatly to tho porsonal enjoymont, and 
by its uso inducos a hoalthv condition of 
the physical functions, which indiroctly 
swells tho gains vory materially. By all 
moans, wo repeat, remember tho orchard 
and garden fruits with a gonerous hand.— 
If you havo been putting off tho good time, 
delay no longer, but go immediately about 
the matter, thoughtfully yot earnestly. 
If you are a now beginner, in a now re¬ 
gion, don’t despair. Got a few troes at 
first, just as soon as you make your “open¬ 
ing.” Then obtain seods and plant them in 
their proper time, look to tho tondor shoots, 
and whon it is proper, socuro your scions of 
tho choicost varieties and bud or graft your 
seedlings. Thus, in a vory few years, al¬ 
most bofore you know it — time flies so 
beautiful and easy of cultivation. In the 
selection of them, or others from tho forest, 
much judgmont must bo used. Thoso ta¬ 
ken from the depth of tho wood, or from a 
dense thicket, are sure to faro poorly when 
changed to the open field, and subjected 
without protection, to tho hot sun and chi 
ling winds. (Select from tho skirts of the 
wood, or from open situations, whero young 
trees havo sprung up under tho genial 
warmth of a full sun. 
In many parts of tho west, tho beginners 
on new locations, can make their premises 
just as beautiful as thoy please, simply by 
selecting the best treos and leaving them 
just as they grow. This is particularly the 
case on all “ opening lands.” Whero heavy 
timbered woods abound, it is much more 
difficult—owing to tho great and sudden 
change from the shade of tho wood, to the 
full sun. If indeed, such live, thoy too of¬ 
ten make a sickly appearance, while tho 
larger trees, unable to resist tho greater 
forco of the wind in their changed situa^ 
tions, soon bow bofore it. Ilenco, thoso 
who live on such lands must resort to trans¬ 
planting and raising from tho seed to sup¬ 
ply tho proper shade treos. 
Tho practice adoptod in some of tho old 
covntries, of planting choico fruit along the 
road sido, for tho ospecial onjoyment of tlio 
traveller, is ono worthy of imitation by our 
own people. What a chango it would work 
in tho fruit-stealing propensity of our pop¬ 
ulation, whilst it would not othorwiso tako 
anything from tho pockot of tho planter.— 
Let us urgo then, with all our influence, 
that fruit treos bo liberally mingled with 
thoso that shall adorn tho public highways 
of our land. 
done early in spring as soon as tho frost is 
out of the ground. 
Farmers and gardeners can raise rasp 
berries with little labor or expenso, and we 
hope to soo them corao into general culti 
vation. + 
GIRDLED TREES AND THE REMEDY. 
Messrs. Editors :—I saw in your paper, 
No. 164, that Mr. Wrigutt, of Brighton, had 
a number of apple trees girdled, and wish 
ed to know how to save them. I also saw 
in No. 166, Mr. R. N. Y.’s a plan for saving 
them; I will tell you of a moro simple one, 
My father had a row of apple trees by tho 
fence, where a large drift formed round 
them. In tho spring he saw his trees wore 
all girdled by tho mico. On a few of them 
ho tried tho following experiment:—lie took 
manure from tho cow stablo and bound it 
to the tree, two or moro inches thick, where 
the bark was off, and then banked about the 
tree with coarse straw manure, to prevent 
the sun from striking the tree. Thoso 
treated in this way, leaved out in the spring, 
and aro now bearing apples.—C. A. W. 
Fort Covington, JY. Y. 
GARDEN VISITORS. 
CULTIVATION OF RASPBERRIES. 
RED ANN'TWERP, 
swifty from the truly occupied — you aro 
plucking and feasting on the delicious fruits, 
tho products of your judicious exertions.— 
Is not this something worth moro than tho 
little effort required and which may bo made • 
a delightsome pastimo even ? 
If you are old, don’t forget to plant troos. 
You may live many years yot to enjoy tho 
blessings thoy cortainly will give. If not, 
tako consolation that, though small tho act, 
great may bo tho bonofit to others. If you 
aro middle-aged or young, by all moans 
plant treos, and plant all that your oppor¬ 
tunities may allow. Sot tho children at it; 
it will havo a charm for them. Give thorn 
tho instructions, and soo in how few years 
tho bloak landscapes will bo adornod with 
tho highost beauty. Tho Agricultural pub¬ 
lications of the country give instruction to 
thoso who lack oxporionco, and thero are 
thoso who, devoting thoir lives to this busi¬ 
ness, and becoming well qualified to teach, 
have given tho public their rich experience 
in books. Consult their pages, and follow 
their hints, as your good judgment shall do- 
cido them suited to your circumstances, and 
you can hardly fail of success. 
In tho matter of shade treos, much of the 
usoful may bo combined with tho ornamen¬ 
tal, without detracting at all from tho latter. 
Many of our nut-bearing treos are vory 
Very few of our readers are aware how 
easily raspberries may bo raised. They aro 
a healthy, delicious fruit, ripening little 
Iator than tho strawberry, and thus furnish¬ 
ing an excellent succession of a valuable 
dessert dish, which may bo continued some 
time, by means of different varieties, and 
when tow other good fruits are in eating.— 
Tho market domand for them, will increase 
in proportion as they bocome known. Tho 
common red and black raspborrios are 
much improved by cultivation, and aro 
groat bearers. It requires but a few bushes 
in the odd cornors of tho garden, to supply 
tho wants of a family. For this purpose 
wo should prefer tho black. 
Within a few years other varieties have 
been introduced, which have been cultivated 
with succoss, and promise to bo a great aux¬ 
iliary to dessert fruits. These aro tho Red 
and Yellow Antwerp, which prove quite 
hardy, enduring tho cold of our winters, and 
unless in very unfavorable localities may bo 
relied upon for fruit. They are now sup¬ 
plied to a considerable extent in our market 
—meoting with a ready sale, and hold in 
high estimation. In New England and more 
northern latitudes than Now York, tho 
Franconia does bettor. A variety known 
as tho Victoria, is said to bo a prolific bear 
or, but in northern latitudes it doos not 
stand tho winter woll. This varioty holds 
its fruit late in tho fall, furnishing a succes 
sion of raspberries whon grown with the 
othor varieties. Another kind, tho Ohio 
Everbearing, prolongs tho season, being a 
very late variety, and is worthy of attention 
This fruit can bo cultivated with as much 
oaso as any other gardon fruit. For warmth, 
tho ground should have a gontle southern 
and eastern slope. Trenching would bo 
proforable, but in placo thereof, subsoil or 
plow very deep and thoroughly pulverize 
tho soil, using strong fertilizers, as guano, 
mixed with plaster, as a top-dressing. The 
top soil and loavos, whero tho red and black 
raspberries flourish, will bo found service¬ 
able. Good strong roots of ono year’s 
growth, sot in largo doep holes, woll ma¬ 
nured with fino stable manure, or compost, 
will bo sure to grow with no more care than 
should bo bestowed upon all new sot plants 
and shrubs. Thoy should bo placod in 
rows, soino throo or four foot apart, each 
way, and carefully hood, keoping tho oartb 
looso. Planting to beans, will bo a good 
crop and ensure cultivation. The plants 
may bo sot oithor in spring or fall, though 
wo prefer oarly spring. Tho second year 
thoy will requiro staking and pruning. Af¬ 
ter bearing, tho pruning oach yoar should 
consist of cutting away all tho old wood 
that boro tho fruit, and all tho sprouts ex- 
copt threo or four. The pruning should be 
It was only last summor that a friond 
from the city, affecting for the moment a 
taste for horticulture, sought admission to 
our little garden. We took him thither, 
and ho rushed through it as if a railway 
whistle had piorcod the tympanum of his 
oar, or if ho had been bent on “ proving by 
his heels tho prowess of his head.” We 
waited at tho door until his return, and had 
not long to wait, when taking tho adjoining 
border as our text, wo proceeded to descant 
upon its inhabitants. The first was a Peru¬ 
vian novelty, which had nover flowered be¬ 
neath tho Tay, and for whoso inflorescence 
wo were waiting in high expectancy. The 
second was a hybrid Veronica, tho gift of an 
oarly cherished friend, and most accomplish¬ 
ed floriculturist—a child from a marriage of 
his own making ; for our friend’s is highly 
potential in commanding parties to join 
hands—in manipulating those quaint clan¬ 
destine marriages, for which naturo does 
not provido—in tying thoso mystic hyrnen- 
ial knots among Flora’s children, tho pro- 
gony whereof doos oftentimes give a pleas¬ 
ant surpriso at once to tho parent and priest. 
The third was a rose—the Goant de Battail- 
les—a gift from another friend, who varies 
his oxercitation in tho gloomy provinco of 
criminal law by frequent recreations among 
the innocent and lovely denizens of his ex- 
quisito Rosarium. We wero making slow 
progross in our descriptive narrative—for, 
indeed to us a flower border is not a mero 
bordor of flowers, but an unrolled volume 
of many-colored history. Each plant has 
its podigreeand its parentage—its peculiar¬ 
ities of habit and education, and its biogra¬ 
phy. Ono brings to our rocollection doar 
friends in a distant land ; anothor transports 
us to its native home among the snowy 
Himalayas. Every plant form a nucleus of 
kindly associations, and “ on every bough 
wo have learned to hang gontlo thoughts and 
ploasant memories.” To number threo in 
the border we had only reached, whon, acci¬ 
dentally looking into the face of our friend 
from tho city, wo saw depicted thero blank 
ignorance, and a cold negation of all sym¬ 
pathy with our floricultural enthusiasm.— 
It was enough ; wo were throwing words 
away. Wo conducted Mr. Urban out of the 
garden ; but not before ho had croppod, 
with most rash and profane fingers, tho flow- 
ors of an antir-rhinum of such cloan and 
brilliant stripes, that wo had severed it 
from its compeors for the purpose of seed¬ 
ing ! Smothering our indignation we lod 
the gentleman back to our parlor, and put 
into his hands an Edinburgh newspaper !— 
We havo made up our mind on tho subject. 
A man that can walk rapidly through a gar¬ 
den is an undoubted barbarian, ilo ought 
to keep to the highway—or tho boards*" of 
tho Parliament House ; or if he must outer 
a garden, lot it bo a largo one, whore he 
may tako an airing, and pedestrianizo at his 
pleasure.— Blackwood's Mugazine. 
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LIST OE PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
For the week ending April 12, 1853. 
Win. Berlin, of Berryville, Va., for Improvement 
in Harrows. 
Edwin L. Bushnell, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., for 
Improvement in Spring Mattresses. 
H. L. Fulton, of Chicago, Ill., for Improvement 
in Smut Machines. 
Jacob J. Hatcher, of the District of Spring Gar¬ 
den, Pa., for Improved Coin Safe and Detector. 
Samuel W. Hawes, of Boston, Mass., for Im¬ 
provement in Manufacturing Rosin Oil. 
Simeon Ingersoll, of New York, N. Y., for Im¬ 
provement in Shingle Machines. 
Edward A. Tuttle, of Williamsburgh, Pa., for 
Improvement in Hot Air Registers. 
Wm. H. Johnson, of Granville, Mass., for Im¬ 
provement in Feeding Clamps for Sewing Ma¬ 
chines. 
Benj. F. Upton, of Bath, Me., for Improvement 
in Mercury Baths for Daguerrotyping. 
Chas. F. Wilgus, of West Troy, N. Y., for Im¬ 
provement in Washing Machines. 
Chas. Goodyear and Robert Hearing, of New 
Haven, Conn., assignors to Chas. Goodyear, of the 
same place, for Improvement in manufacturing 
Gutta Percha and India Rubber. Patented in 
England, March 4, 1851. 
Cullen Whipple, of Providence, R. I., assignor 
to the New England Screw Company, of the same 
place, for Improvement in Machinery for Shaving 
the Heads of Screw Blanks. Patented in England) 
Nov. 30,1852. 
THE “GREAT BORE” AT THE HOOSAC 
MOUNTAIN. 
CLOTH DRYING APPARATUS. 
GRAFTING GRAPE VINES. 
“ W. II.” can turn his thrifty wild grape 
vino to good account by grafting. Saw off 
tho vino an inch or so below tho surfaco of 
tho ground. Then with a gimlet or small 
auger, just tho size of tho graft, boro ono or 
moro holos porpondicularly, or parallel with 
tho grain, about two inches deep, in the top 
of tho root whero sawn off, and into those 
insert tho scions, the full doptli of tho holes. 
Let the scions bo of the last year’s growth, 
well ripened, and about six inches in length, 
with a bud or eye at tho top; thoy should 
bo cut from tho vine during winter or early 
in tho spring, before tho sap gets in motion, 
and tho operation should be performed be¬ 
fore it is expected tho sap will start—al¬ 
though it will usually succeed afterwards if 
the top of tho stock is woll waxed. After 
inserting the scions, cover tho wound firm¬ 
ly with moist clay, up to tho oyo of the 
scions, and placo a board so as to protect 
from washing by rain, till the leaves appear. 
This method is surer than cleft grafting.— 
Ohio Cultivator. 
Sage Roots.— How to preserve them .— 
Cut off tho tops close to the ground in April. 
Troated in this manner annually, tho plants 
aro continually renewed, and bocome po- 
rennial. Seeding is prevented, and an 
abundant supply of loaves is produced. So 
says one who has pursued tho practice suc¬ 
cessfully for fiftoon years.— Wayne Sent. 
Crush tho catorpillars in tho egg and you 
will save much time and injury. 
Tiie Committee of the Massachusetts 
Legislature, to whom was referred the pe¬ 
tition of the Troy and Greenfield railroad 
company, asking for a loan of $2,000,000 to 
aid them in tunneling tho Hoosac Mountain, 
arrived hore this morning from Troy, whero 
they tarried over last night. The Commit¬ 
tee, consisting of seventeen members of the 
Senate and House, left Boston on Tuesday 
morning last, and arrived at tho mountain 
in tho town of Floriday, on Wednesday, 
where they had an opportunity of witness¬ 
ing tho great boring machine operate upon 
the solid rock. Tho weather was cold, and 
the machinery was quite frosty, but notwith¬ 
standing, the mammoth instrument was put 
in motion, and in the space of fifteen min¬ 
utes boredfour and one eighth inches. The 
circle is twenty-four feet in diameter, 
and will admit a double track. The ma¬ 
chine was several times tested and with like 
success. It has bored at the rate of twenty- 
four inches per hour. 
Thero is said to bo room for great im¬ 
provement in the knive3. Tho machine is 
also very unsteady at present, and will con¬ 
tinue to bo so until it enters far enough into 
the tunnel to be better secured. Tho Com¬ 
mittee were accompanied on their visit by 
several distinguished scientific gentlemen, 
citizens of Massachusetts, and members of 
the press, the whole party numbering about 
sixty. After witnessing the experiment, 
they crossed the mountain in sleighs, over 
the proposed line of the tunnel, which is four 
and a half miles in length. Tho West— 
highest—summit is 1,700 feet. Cold river 
—a small stream—flows down the center of 
mountain, running South to within 800 feet 
of tho grade level. 
We learn from a gentleman who was pres¬ 
ent when the machine worked that it gave 
the greatest satisfaction in its operations.— 
Every person seomod to bo agreeably sur¬ 
prised. Scientific gentlemen who were pres¬ 
ent consider it clearly demonstrated that 
the mountain can bo easily tunnoled. The 
only question remaining is a mattor of dol¬ 
lars and cents.— Tribune. 
Note. —Tho Legislature of Mass, have 
passed a bill for loaning the ci’odit of the 
State for $2,000,000, for tho purpose of 
completing this tunnel.— Ed. Rural. 
CHEAP MODE OF FILTERING WATER. 
At different stages in the manufacture of 
woolen cloth, tho pioco requires to bo dried 
and tins is commonly done by stretching it 
on tenter frames, which are placed in the 
open air. An improvement on tho above, 
by winch tho process of drying can 
carried on much more rapidly, as well as 
sido the factory, has been invented bv Rob¬ 
ert I reston, of North Pownal, Vt., who has 
taken measures to socuro a patent. Tho 
apparatus consists of a large iron box sun- 
, ,[- v standards having furnaces under- 
rinH h °i h f t k rom which before its escape, 
‘ conducted about by means of lluos ex¬ 
tending along the back and sides of the 
chamber or box. Inside this aro arranged 
anTfov h r ° n fu S ^ ich ^ th0 cloth back 
and forth until it is sufficiently dried, but 
tl US 0peration > th « fabric is sub¬ 
mitted to the action of a nap-laying card 
and alter having mado the circuit °of tho 
whole series of rollers, it is carried over a 
cyhiulei brush for the purpose of smoothing 
it. I he rollers aro worked by a shaft and 
pulloys, which aro properly arrangod to 
transmit the required motion by means of 
belts and tho wholo is oporatod by any 
suitable power. J * 
IMPROVED LARD LAMP. 
i hr great objection to tho employment of 
tho above-named lamps is the difficulty that 
LiTTfr 1 ” (Vick from tho 
om n^ S * th f ard ’ and consequently hard¬ 
ening around the wick. To remedy this in¬ 
convenience, an improvement has been in- 
S Ct y iho aC h V^holomew, ofNorHi- 
•I TVLtmif’ T? hastakon measures to secure 
oi l mm inventor uses an additional 
re J ^ > • a COppor or ot bor metallic 
tube, which is suspended over this last 
named amp, and furnished with reflectors 
by which tho lard round the wick of thooth- 
ei amp is moited and also tho lard in tho 
body ot tho lamp. Both apparatus boin° 
When the d u T'* th<3 purposo is effected" 
J' , 1 Jamp 13 extinguished and tlio 
heat conductor removed.— Sci. Am. 
I aper.—A bout 1822 an ingonious Eng¬ 
lish manufacturer of this material, in expori- 
mon mg oi the purpose of producing a su- 
porior bank-bill paper, eventually succeeded 
in forming from tho stalks of tho nettle a 
"°f ly as fou S h ^ parchment 
aid difficult to tear. The piece shown to 
tho writer of this, though too thick for bank¬ 
note purposes, evidently proved that a val¬ 
uable paper might bo produced from this 
abundant source; and successive operations 
would doubtless eventuate in affording to 
tho manufacturer almost any degree of fine¬ 
ness he might requiro. This hint maybe 
of servico to our manufacturers, and is, at 
least, worth a trial.— Tribune. 
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COLD FEET. 
Many 
As efficient a filter as can possibly bo con¬ 
structed may be mado in a few minutes by 
any person, and at tho cost of a very few 
ponco. Procure a clean flower-pot of tho 
common kind, close the opening in tho bot¬ 
tom by a piece of sponge; then placo in tho 
inside a layer of small stones, previously 
well cleansed by washing: this layer may be 
about two inches deop, the upper stones be- 
very small. Next procuro somo freshly 
burnt charcoal, which has not boon kept in 
a damp or foul placo, as it rapidly absorbs 
any strong smells, and so becomes tainted 
and unfit for such purpose ; roduee this to 
powder, and with it twice its bulk of clear, 
well-washed, sharp sand; with this mixture 
fill the pot to within a short distance of tho 
top, covering it with a layer of small stones, 
or what is porhaps better, place a piece of 
thick flannel over it, large enough to tie 
round tho rim of tho pot outside, and to 
form a hollow inside, into which tho water 
to bo filtered is to bo poured, and which will 
bo found to flow out rapidly through tho 
sponge in an excellent pure state. Tho 
flannel romovos tho grosser impurities float¬ 
ing in the water, but tho latter absorbs 
much of tho decaying animal and vogotablo 
bodies actually dissolved in it; when it be¬ 
comes charged with them it losos this pow¬ 
er, hence the necessity for a supply of fresh 
charcoal at intervals.— Monthly Observer. 
Modeller’s Clay. —Sculptors and mod¬ 
ellers are frequently exposed to inconveni¬ 
ence if obliged to loave their work for a 
time, by tho rapid dossieation of tho clay 
which they employ. This evil may bo ob- 
viatod by moistening tho clay with the con¬ 
centrated solution of glycerine. 
people complain of cold foot, 
especially in winter, who seem not to un¬ 
derstand either the cause or tho remedy._ 
I ho causo is, tho moisture of tho feet. As 
soon as tho shoes and stockings aro remov¬ 
ed, tins moisture begins to ovaporate. To 
effect evaporation, heat is taken from tho 
foot, which immediately become cold. This 
coldness retards evaporation, which will not 
go on without heat, and as the heat of the 
teot is constantly diminished by the process, 
the evaporation (or the drying of tho foot,) 
i® r0 tardod, and the coldness protracted._ 
Remedy —Dry tho feet thoroughly by the 
firo, before retiring to rest. Jr 
TO MAKE BLACKING. 
Take 1 1-2 oz. gum arabic, half an oz. 
copporas, 2 oz. muriatic acid (spirits of salt) 
and 4 oz. ivory black moistened with half 
oz. oil of vitriol diluted with throo or four 
times its weight of water. Mix thorn woll 
togethoi, and then add 4 oz. of sugar can¬ 
dy, 1 1-2 of sweet oil, and threo pints of 
vinegar, which being shaken, then spread 
lightly over tho boots, and rub with a stiff 
brush until dry, when it will give a brilliant 
jot black. 
Tho following is anothor mothod for ren¬ 
dering leather impervious to wator ; 
Dissolve 1 oz. of ivory black in 2 pint3 of 
water, and add 4 oz. of ivory black and 2 or 
3 oz. of sugar; mix this with a solution of 
gum elastic (India rubber,) and rosin, pre¬ 
pared with spirits ot turpentino and linseed 
oil. Having first moistened the leather 
with a decoction of oak bark, apply this 
composition, which, when dry, will render 
tho leather water proof. In the above prep¬ 
arations, lamp-black will answer when ivorv 
black cannot bo obtained. 
. To Make Coffee.— The best way of mak¬ 
ing coft'oo is to put the ground coffee into a 
wido-mouthod bottle over night and pour 
rathormoro than a half pint of wator upon 
each ounco and a half, to cork tho bottle in 
tho morning to loosen tho cork, put the bottle 
into a pan ot water, and bring the water to 
a boiling heat; tho coffee is then to be pour- 
ed oil clear, and tho latter portion strained,* 
that which is not drunk immediately is kept 
closely stoppered, and heated as it is want¬ 
ed-— Scientific American. 
Sore Toes.— A correspondent who has 
tnod it informs the public that a simple 
remedy tor tho difficulty occasioned bv tho 
too nail growing into the llosb, may be had 
by tho pressing with the point of a knife a 
pioco of soft rag under tho cornor of the 
nail. By persisting in the practice a radi¬ 
cal cure may be had. 
