MOORE’S EUEAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Thus, we have the Papaw, a tropical fruit, and 
the Paw paw, a low shrub ; one belongs to the 
Fig tribe, ( Moraceaes ,) while the other is closely 
allied to the Magnolias; one is a native of the 
tropics, the other is a well known indigenous 
shrub in the United States. We have, in a 
work just issued from the press, the lihus 
Cotinus, or Mist tree, designated as the Burning 
bush, ( Euonymus ,) and the Acacia is described 
as belonging to the Mimosa family. We have 
also noted in a late number of the Horticultu¬ 
rist a statement copied from the Calaveras Chron¬ 
icle, of the Nutmeg tree having been found wild 
in that fertile country: the editor asks the 
California Farmer if it will corroborate the 
doubtful statement. But does not the unscien¬ 
tific scribe of the Chronicle mean the California 
Nutmeg (Torreya Myristica ) described in a very 
reeent number of the Horticulturist itself, which 
has a ruminated fruit similar to that of the Nut¬ 
meg tree of the Moluccas, ( Myristeca Moschata,) 
but totally dissimilar in other respects; if he 
does not mean this, he must be dreaming, for 
no true Myristica, we presume, will travel so far 
North. • 
We could multiply popular fallacies respect¬ 
ing plants, that it were well to refer to, and 
may at a future time offer a few additional 
examples.—s. 
We may look for abundance of fruit, in North¬ 
ern Illinois, this year. At least the flower buds 
say so ; and what they say, on Christmas day, is 
very apt to find a verification in due season. 
Indeed, it is seldom, if ever, necessary in this 
region to wait until Christmas to consult the 
fruit buds in regard to the prospects of the com¬ 
ing crop. The oracle usually speaks in Novem¬ 
ber; for more depends upon the condition of 
warmth and moisture during that and the pre¬ 
ceding month, than the degree of cold in De¬ 
cember and January. So far as the experience 
of twenty years can establish a principle, we 
may safely predict a fruit season whenever the 
fruit buds go into winter quarters in that per¬ 
fect condition of seasonable maturity and unin¬ 
terrupted dormancy—the result of favorable 
autumnal weather. 
The past autumn has been reasonably dry, 
early frosts checked the late growth, and there 
have been no growing days since to start the 
well-ripened buds, and thus uncover the germ 
to the alternate attacks of a temperature- of per¬ 
haps 20 deg. below, and a bright sun of 40 deg. 
above zero. Against all but the last—a bright 
sun on a hard frost—we are secure ; and we ad¬ 
vise our friends who have peach trees, to get 
their baskets ready this winter — we are bound 
to have a peach crop in 1856.— Prairie Farmer. 
The following recipes, prepared by a practical 
painter, have been sold for a dollar. We give 
them to our readers, taken from the Hue West 
Telescope : 
1. To Boil Oil. —In boiling oil, never fill your 
kettle more than two-thirds, or it may run over 
and take fire. Place your kettle on the coals, 
simmer your oil till it will scorch a feather, 
when it will be fit for use. 
2. To Grind Paint. —Put your paint on a large 
flat stone, with a smooth face, wet your paint 
with oil, and grind until fine; be careful to 
grind fine, or there will be a waste of the paint, 
and your work will not look well. 
3. A Mixture for Prying Paint. —Take 8 ounces 
of red lead, 8 ounces of litharge, 4 ounces of 
umber; make fine, put them into a gallon of 
oil; simmer together one hour, then strain, pour 
in one pint of spirits of turpentine. Add one 
gill to one quart of paint to make it dry fast. 
4. Painting on Wood. —In any kind of painting, 
your paint must be of the proper consistency, 
your wood clean and smooth, and you must 
have a proper brush, or you cannot do good work. 
It is as necessary that a painter have good tools 
as any other mechanic, to enable him to make a 
good job. I have seen houses and other things 
spoiled with poor brushes. 
5. To Paint a House White. —Mix 4 quarts of 
linseed oil with one keg of white-lead thoroughly. 
Commence at the top and paint six or eight boards 
at once through, using great care to lay the paint 
even and smooth. In putting on three coats, 
make the second the thickest, adding a little 
Prussian blue to the last coat, to make the white 
more clear. Be careful not to use too much blue; 
and you must putty all the holes and cracks 
before the last coat is applied. 
6. Cream Color. —Add finely ground chrome 
yellow to white paint, (see No. 5,) a little at a 
time till the shade pleases you. You must add 
yellow every coat to have a good finish. 
7. Lead Color. —Add finely ground lamp-black 
to white paint, (No. 5,) till the color suits you. 
8. Blue Paint.— Prepare a sufficient quantity 
of white paint, then add finely ground Prussian 
blue in oil. Add a little at a time, until the 
color is light or dark as you may want the shade. 
9. Black. —In preparing black paint, grind 
lamp-black in oil; and as black dries slowly,, 
you should add two ounces of litharge to every 
pint of paint. Always use boiled oil for black, 
to give it a body. 
10. Verdigris Green. —AVrap verdigris in cab¬ 
bage or other large leaves, and place it on the 
hearth, over which scatter cold ashes, then cover 
with coals; let it roast one hour, remove, and 
when cold grind in oil. This is not so apt to 
fade as other green, and is used for outside work. 
11. Common Green. —This is composed of near¬ 
ly equal quantities of Prussian blue and chrome 
yellow. It must be ground very fine in oil.— 
LIST OF PATENTS, 
losucd from the United States Patent Office for two 
weeks ending December 85, 1855. 
POPULAR AND SCIENTIFIC NAMES, 
■ It has been frequently objected by the gen¬ 
eral reader, that his attempts to acquire infor¬ 
mation on special subjects, such as Horticulture 
and Agriculture, as well as other branches of 
Natural Philosophy, hare been obstructed, if 
not entirely prostrated, at the very outset, by 
the multiplicity of difficult and technical terms 
in use by the majority'of writers on these sub¬ 
jects ; and appeals are made on behalf of the 
unscientific reading public for their discontinu¬ 
ance. We cannot boast of being very deeply 
read in any science, yet have experienced 
enough of the value of scientific technology, to 
offer a few arguments in favor of calling natural 
objects by their proper names—the names 
agreed upon by the corps of intelligent men 
who have devoted themselves to the worthy and 
laborious task of elucidating the wonderful sys¬ 
tem of animated Nature. It is not now our pur¬ 
pose to note the many futile objections Avhich 
have from age to age been urged against strug¬ 
gling Naturalists, in the course of their progress 
towards systematic arrangement—from Linnjjus 
down to the humble traveler in California 
ranches—they have borne the sneers of those 
who seek wealth only in its simple form of dol¬ 
lars and cents, while pursuing modestly in 
wood and thicket organized forms deemed by 
them of equal if not greater value. 
Reminded that we write for the million—that 
the items of information and intelligence weekly 
prepared by us find their way, more to the fire¬ 
side of the farmer and mechanic, than to the 
laboratory of the chemist or studio of the phi¬ 
losopher — we omit any detailed arguments in 
favor of the study of natural science ; yet the 
confusion Avhich everywhere follows the at¬ 
tempts of popular writers to describe the vege¬ 
table forms met with in their pleasant rambles 
over the hills of our country, luxuriant in its 
varied vegetation, is disheartening. Nor can 
we peruse the journal or narrative of an ex¬ 
ploring expedition, that we are not annoyed by 
part ial descriptions of curious trees and plants, 
without any clue being furnished to their natu¬ 
ral history, identity, or position in any known 
arrangement. Thus Ave are compelled to trans¬ 
fer to our columns glowing notices of new trees 
from California, sometimes under an arbitrary 
name bestowed by the ingenious discoverer, 
Avho in his simplicity imagines that the plant 
is neAV and unknown. Many undescribed trees 
and shrubs have been .brought to the notice of 
the botanist, within the past feAv years, but be¬ 
fore their identity could be satisfactorily settled, 
what a mass of newspaper paragraphs haA r e 
heralded in varied' and exaggerated terms the 
denizens of that prolific region, each adding a 
new name to the novelty to suit his fancy. 
A correspondent recently took pains to cor¬ 
rect the error of a cotemporary “ Rural” journal 
in failing to describe accurately the well-knoAvn 
Chick Pea of the agriculturist, styled by the 
more accurate botanist Cicer arietinum. The 
difference between the Coffee plant of commerce 
and the Chick pea, need not surely be demon¬ 
strated at this day to any Rural Editor. The 
confusion was merely in the name, for names of 
plants are not quite so unimportant as those of 
popular floAvers Avere in Siiakspeare’s time. If 
he had used the term Coffee pea, there could 
have been no misconception, but a coffee bean, 
or coffee plant, as your correspondent has 
shown, are not quite identical. 
It is not, however, a very easy matter to 
demonstrate (on paper) this difference, because 
in the attempt, the form, habit, and other im¬ 
portant characteristics of each of the objects in 
dispute, must be stated. Could the two indi¬ 
vidual plants be produced, the task Avere easy 
and pleasant. And here we must allude to the 
necessity for adherence to a correct and brief 
description of those parts of the tree or plant 
which differ most essentially from other plants, 
so as to convey, not so much the entire aspect 
or detail of the various points in its structure 
which are of importance, but to seize upon those 
which clearly distinguish it from all others, and 
give them prominence. These are termed diag¬ 
nostic characters by naturalists, and are in all 
questions of comparison and identity, the most 
important. 
To convince the writer of the article on the 
“ Coffee plant in Maine ” of his error, your cor¬ 
respondent resorts to the Linnaian system of 
classification, but here he gains very little ad¬ 
vantage, for the fact that the Coffee tree belongs 
to the fifth class, Avhile the Chick Pea belongs 
to the seventeenth, will not carry conviction to 
the mind of a person unacquainted with the 
characteristics of these classes, whereas if he 
had relied upon the method of reasoning sup¬ 
plied by the natural system of Botany, he could 
have made himself much better understood; 
for example :—The Coffee tree belongs to the 
Natural Order Cinchonaceae, or Peruvian Bark 
tribe ; all the individuals comprised in this 
group produce a double-berried fruit, and have 
regular, generally five-parted monopetalous 
floAvers or corollas. The Chick Pea belongs to 
the Natural Order Leguminosae, or Plants bear¬ 
ing fruit in legumes or pods, and have all irreg¬ 
ular corollas. And following up the two indi¬ 
viduals, it could at once be shown that the 
Chick Pea answered the conditions required in 
the latter tribe, while the Coffee evidently pro¬ 
duced its fruit in the form of a bean, without 
being inclosed in a legume or pod. 
It gratifies us much to have so accurate an 
observer as our correspondent G., and should be 
glad to have his opinion on several other popu¬ 
lar errors in the identity of plants, solely on 
account of not adhering to the accurate scientific 
name by which they are knoAvn to authors.— 
Erastus Bigelow, Boston, improremsnt in looms lor 
weaving pile fabrics. 
Jonathan L. Booth, Cuyahoga Falls, O, improvement 
in grain-cleaning machines. 
T. C. Bush, New London, Conn., improved saw set. 
Win. E. Cooper, Dunkirk, improved nozzle for exhaust 
pipes of locomotives. 
Frederic W. Capen, Newton, Mass., for improvement in 
paddle wheels. 
Joseph C. Day, Hackettstown, N. J., improvement in 
fire-arms. 
Spencer B. Driggs, Detroit, improvement in piano fortes ; 
dated December 11, 1855 ; patented in England, November 
1,1855. 
John Gourlay, Ogdensburg, for adjustable crank-brace 
for augers. 
Henry C. Green, Clarence, Wisconsin, improved auto¬ 
matic feed motion for saw mills. 
A. M. George, New York, for improvement in spike ma¬ 
chines. 
H. B. Horton, Akron, 0., machine for registering music. 
Wm. W. Johnson, Clifford, Pa., machine for planing fel¬ 
loes. 
Eber J ones, Troy, improA-ement in mould for casting bells. 
S. B. McCorkle, Greenville, Tenn., for improvement in 
machines for stuffing horse collars. 
Jean Pierre Molliere, Lyons, France, for improvement in 
machines for polishing and burnishing the edges of soles 
and heels of boots and shoes ; dated Dec. 11,1855 ; patent¬ 
ed in France, Jan. 5, 1855. 
Jean Pierre Molliere, Lyons, France, for improvement in 
machines for mounting the “ uppers” of boots and shoes 
on lasts ; dated Dec. 18, 1855 ; patented in France, August 
19,1854. 
Oldin Nichols, Lowell, and Ammi M. George, Nashua, for 
improvement in stone-dressing machines. 
Daniel Parish, New York, for improvement in instru¬ 
ments for modifying focal length of the eye. 
Isaac N. Parker, Lewiston, Me., for improvement in mill 
spindle steps. 
Samuel Felton, New AVindsor, Md., for improvement in 
horse porvers. 
George B. Pullinger, Philadelphia, for improvement in 
automatic gate for railroad crossings. 
John P. Robinson, Mattawan, for plane for finishing 
grooA'es in patterns, &c. 
Joel Tiffany and Milo Harris, Painesvllle, Ohio, for shin¬ 
gle machine. 
Thomas F/Thornton, Buffalo, for improA r ement in organ 
melodeons. 
Hubert Schonacker, Detroit, for improved piano fortes. 
Julius E. SchAvabe, New York, for improvement in treat¬ 
ing Galena or lead ore. 
Eliphalet S. Scripture, Green Point, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in attaching hubs to axles. 
Isaac Searles, Newark, for improvement in felting hat 
bodies. 
Isaac Spaulding, Saratoga Springs, for improved saAV set. 
Samuel Shattuc, Henrietta, 0,. improved horse collar. 
Isaaq N. Singer, N. Y., improvement in seAving machines 
Jos. Weis, Bordentown, for improvement in suckers for 
pumps. 
Thomas Bowles, NeAV York, assignor to Robert M. Pat¬ 
rick, of same place, for improvement in locks. 
Jeremiah Burnite, Puseyville, Pa„ assignor to himself 
and James Clark, of same place, for improved arrangements 
and combinations of machinery for regulating velocity of 
wind wheels. 
John Healey, Bolton-le-Moors, England, assignor to 
James Bishop, NeAV Brunswick, N. J., for improvement in 
Avoven fabrics ; dated Dec. 18, 1855 ; patented in England, 
Nov. 17,1846. 
Joseph B. Lancaster, administrator of John R. Lancaster, 
deceased, of Tampa, Florida, for improvement in cooking 
stoves. 
Elijah Richmond, Abington, Mass., assignor to Iia Noyes, 
of same place, for improvement in lamp extinguishers. 
LeAvis C. Ashley, Troy, for improvement in candle mould 
apparatus. 
Joseph Buhler, M. D., of NeAV York, for improvement in 
the pipes of a vapor bath. 
Joseph Buhler, M. D., New York, for improvement in the 
combination of injecting syringes. 
Benijah J. Burnett, NeAV York, improvement in cranes. 
George Byington, Rochester, for improvement in time in¬ 
dicators. 
Robert L. Currey, Philadelphia, for improvement in dou¬ 
ble-acting steam brake. 
Thomas Crane, Fort Atkinson, for improvement in rotary 
pumps. 
Thomas Danforth, Roxbury, for improvement in windoAV 
shades. 
Isaac Davis, Mechanicsburg, Ohio, for improvement in 
machinery for whipping hair. 
Soranus Dunham, North Bridgewater, Mass., for improv¬ 
ed method of hanging saws. 
Henry F. ana Louis A. Gossin, Thibodeaux, La., for im¬ 
provement in steam boiler furnaces. 
John Grilfen, Safe Harbor, Pa., for improved manufacture 
of wrought iron cannon. 
Bishop J. Harris, Auburn, Pa., for improved mode of 
dressing mill-stones for scouring and hulling buckwheat. 
Reuben Hurd, Spring Hill, Ill., for improvement in seed¬ 
ing machines. 
Jno. P. Hale, Kanawha Court House, Va., for impro\-e- 
ment in apparatus formaking salt. 
Benj. Hill, Rochester, for improvement in paddle-wheels. 
Westel W. HurlbUt, Boonville, for improved method of 
hanging circular saAvs. 
Alexander Lightheiser, Reading, for improvement in ma¬ 
chines for mincing meat. 
Wm. II. Merrill, of Taunton, for improvement in hoisting 
blocks. 
Charles Miller, Carroll Township, Pa., for improvement 
in hulling machines. 
Henry M. Parkhurst, Perth Amboy, for improvement in 
proportional dividers. 
Adolphe Pecoul, Marseilles, France, for combined log an<) 
sounding line. 
Newell A. Prince, Brooklyn, for improvement in fountain 
pens. 
Ezra Ripley, Troy, for improvement in mills for grinding 
grain, &c. 
James Robb, LeAviston, Pa., for improvement in corn- 
shellers. 
JohnP. Rollins, Boston, for improved extension bit. 
E. K. Root, Hartford, Conn., for improvement in revolv¬ 
ing fire-arms. 
Geo. W. Smith, Mauch Chunk, for improvement in looms 
for Aveaving wire. 
Gilbert Smith, Buttermilk Falls, for improvement in 
breach-loading fire-arms. 
Thos. B. Stout, Keyport, N. J., for improvement in corn 
and cob mills. 
Ancil Stickney r , Concord, N. H., for improvement in hand 
seed planters. 
Isaac D. Wheelock, Maysville, Wis., for improvement in 
sad iron heaters. 
AVm. Wilber, NeAV Orleans, for improvement in hydraulic 
oil presses. 
Charles II. Butterfield, Nashua, assignor to Amory 
Houghton, Boston, for improvement in guards for lanterns. 
Charles Evans Charleston, Mass., assignor to himself and 
George K. Goodwin, Roxbury, Mass., for improvement in 
revolving grates. 
RE-ISSUES. 
Wm. C. Grimes, Philadelphia, for improvement in spark- 
arresters : patented Feb. 12,1842. 
Charles F. Martin, Boston, improvement in sofa bed¬ 
steads ; patented June 6,1854. 
Handsome trellises, covered 'with 'beautiful 
climbing vines, produce a fine effect, and there 
is scarcely anything so cheap which proves so 
ornamental to yards and gardens. We give two 
of them of cheap and durable character, which 
can appropriately be prepared during the leisure 
of winter. 
Goal Ashes for Cherry Trees.—A n Indiana 
correspondent of the Hollar Newspaper says :— 
“ I recollect well, when a boy, of carrying the 
coal ashes from the grate, and piling them 
round a little cherry tree, which was known by 
all the family as the ‘ little orphan,’ on account 
of its sprouting from the roots of an old tree 
which died, and the peculiar hard time it had 
in reaching the stature of even a bush. The 
summer after the coal ashes were, deposited 
around its base, it put forth vigorously, and in 
three years Avas quite a thrifty tree, heavily 
ladened with luscious fruit. My father seeing 
the good result of the ashes, a wagon load Avas 
throAvn around the base of each tree on the 
farm, and the effect Avas astonishing. Old trees 
that were fast decaying were resuscitated, and 
sent forth neAV branches, and bore fruit abun¬ 
dantly.” 
Rabbits Barking Apple Trees.—A corres¬ 
pondent of the Prairie Farmer gives the follow¬ 
ing preventive :—“ Take one dozen sheaves of 
good oats, and with a sharp axe cut off the heads 
and butts even, leaving the straw eighteen 
inches long ; drop them at convenient distances 
throughout the orchard, and with a hall of tAvine 
in your pocket and a sharp knife in hand, pro¬ 
ceed to business. Take a handful of straw, suf¬ 
ficient to cover the body of the tree, spread it 
around the base of the tree, tying at the top and 
bottom as tightly as the tAvine Avill bear; cut 
the twine off close to the knot, and the work is 
done.” 
Fig. 1. Fig. 2. 
Figure 1 is made by taking young cedars or 
pines tAvo or three inches in diameter and six to 
eight feet high, stripping off the foliage, and 
leaving.a foot of the loAver branches and less of 
the upper ones, so that a string or wire carried 
from top to bottom all around, makes a pyramid. 
About tAvo feet of the bottom is cleared of 
branches entirely, and sunk in the ground.— 
Three or four of these placed near each other, 
with the strings or wires carried from the top of 
one to the other, make pretty festoons with rapid 
growing, luxuriant plants. 
Figure 2 is a very tasteful, conical, three-side 
support, made of light strips of timber—if pre¬ 
ferred rustic, of saplings Avith the bark on. It 
may be six or eight feet high, and should he 
placed at least tAvo feet in the ground. The 
plants or seeds intended to cover it, may be set 
in the centre of the space between the feet. It 
will answer equally Avell for climbing roses, 
honeysuckles, cobeas, maurandias, ipomosas, or 
annuals such as convolvulus or scarlet runners. 
Baked Apple Pudding. —Take one pint of 
buttermilk, one teaspoonful of saleratus, and a 
little salt; add one egg, and make a very stiff 
batter. Have ready some sour apples sliced 
very fine, stir these into the batter, pour into a 
buttered tin, and bake half an hour. Eat with 
any sauce you please.-r-M. E. Coryell, Hoop¬ 
er’s Valley, N. Y. 
Cold Buckwheat Cakes.—W hile flour is so 
high, it will he well for yo ur readers to knoAV 
that if they have any cold buckAvheat cakes left, 
after breakfast, they can soak them in Avarm 
milk, rub them fine and put them with fresh 
ones, and they will find it as much of an im¬ 
provement as it is a saving.— m. e. c. 
Bread from Groavn Wheat. —In making 
bread from grown Avheat flour, use Ordinary 
yeast and add potatoes — about two potatoes for 
a medium sized loaf (a mealy potato is the best, 
such as the Mercer or Pink-eye). It restores 
the starch, and makes first- rate bread.—A Sub¬ 
scriber. 
Eds. Rural :—I Avould like to knoAV some¬ 
thing about the Angers quince stocks for pears. 
Where are they to be procured ? Are they 
really better than the common quince ? I never 
see them advertised in the catalogues of nur¬ 
serymen. I think a little light upon this sub¬ 
ject Avould be acceptable to a number of your 
readers.—W., Johnsville, Hutchess Co. 
Remarks. —The Angers quince is generally 
preferred for stocks on account of its free and 
rapid groAvth. The demand has been so great 
for the last few seasons, that the stock on hand 
has not been increased to such an extent as to 
induce Nurserymen to offer any great induce¬ 
ments to purchasers. A large supply is annu¬ 
ally imported from France, and though readily 
propagated from cuttings, it has not yet accu¬ 
mulated in our nurseries. Further hints will 
he supplied when treating of fruit trees gener¬ 
ally. 
Stewed Celery.—T he Horticulturist highly 
recommends stewed celery. Cut the blanched 
or Avhite portions of the celery stalks in pieces 
about, an inch in length, and put them in a 
saucepan over the fire, Avith milk and Avater, in 
in equal proportions, barely sufficient to cover 
them ; add a little salt, and let them steAV gent¬ 
ly, until perfectly tender. Then take out the 
celery, add a piece of butter to the liquid it was 
boiled in, thicken it slightly with flour, pour it 
over the celery and serve it up. 
Frozen Flesh.— Mr. A. Bronson, of Mead- 
ville. Pa., says, from fifteen years experience he 
finds that Indian meal poultice, covered Avith 
young hyson tea, softened with hot Avater, and 
laid over burns or frozen flesh, as hot as can be 
borne, will relieve the pain in five minutes. If 
blisters have not arisen before, they Avill not 
after it is put on ; that one poultice is generally 
sufficient to effect a cure. 
The Fruit Groavers’ Society of Western N. 
Y., met this (Tuesday) morning, but going to 
press at noon, we can only announce tbe names 
of principal contributors to tbe Exhibition of 
Fruit. Further particulars next week : 
Apples —John Parks, Rochester, 15 varieties ; 
II. E. Hooker, 28 ; Hooker, Farley & Co., 18 ; 
Elhvanger & Barry, 42. F. W. Lay, Greece, N. 
Y„ 14; R. II. Brown, 36 ; J. Donellan, 13. T. 
Stillman, Dunkirk, N. Y., 15. A. G. Hanford, 
Waukesha, Wis., 15. J. J. Thomas, Macedon, 
2D. A. Pinney, Clarkson, N. Y., 12. J. W. 
Seward, 23. J. R. Lee, Buffalo, Northern Spy. 
Pears —Ellwanger & Barry, 40 varieties ; C. 
L. Hoag, Lockport, 7. 
How to Cut a Shirt.—G randmother says 
there is a rule for everything. I suppose there is. 
I have a rule for cutting a shirt by a yard-stick 
for a common sized man. Make the body one 
yard long ; if the muslin is a yard Avide, take a 
quarter of a yard off the side ; this Avill make 
the gussets, collar, Avristbands, facings, Ac.; cut 
the lining for the back 17 inches deep, collar 
l'GJfi inches long, sleeves 20 inches long ; a yard 
Avide will just make the tAvo sleeves and wrist- 
hands, 8jA inches long.— Ohio Farmer. 
Cart. John Norton, of Dublin, Ireland, has 
patented a mode of using fulminating powder 
as a priming for cartridges, so as to cause an 
explosion through the unbroken cartridge case ; 
also, for puncturing the case of cartridges at the 
base, to enable the charge to he ignited from 
the flame of the cap of the nipple. 
