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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
FEEDING PIGS. 
1. Avoid foul feeding. 
2. Do not omit adding salt in moderate 
quantities to tho mess given : you will find 
it to your account in attending to this. 
3. Feed at regular intervals. 
4. Cloanse the troughs previous to feed¬ 
ing. 
5. Do not overfeed—give only as much 
as will be consumed at the meal, 
G. Vary your bill of fare. Variety will 
creato, or, at all events, increase appetito, 
and it is further most conductive to health; 
let your variations bo guided by the state of 
the dung cast-, this should bo of medium 
consistence, and of a grayish brown color; 
if hard, increase the quantity of bran and 
succulent roots; if too liquid, diminish or 
dispense with bran, and let the moss bo 
firmer; if you add a portion of corn, that 
which is injured, and thus rendered unfit 
for other purposes, will bo found to answer 
well. 
7. Foed your stock separately in classes 
according to their condition; keep sows in 
young by themselves ; stores by themselves 
—and bacon hogs and porkers by them¬ 
selves. It is not advisable to keep your 
stores too high in flesh, for high feeding is 
calculated to retard development of form 
and bulk. It is better to feed pigs intended 
to be cut up for bacon loosely and not too 
abundantly, until they have attained their 
full stature; you can bring them into the 
highest possible condition in an inconceiva¬ 
bly short space of time. 
8. Do not regret the loss or scarcity of 
potatoes so far as swine-feeding is concern¬ 
ed. Its loss has been the means of stimu 
lating inquiry and producing experiments, 
which has resulted in the discovery that 
many other superior vegetables have been 
hitherto neglected and foolishly passed 
aside. 
9. Do not neglect to keep your swine 
clean, dry, and warm. These are essentials, 
and not a whit less imperative than feeding, 
for an inferior description of food will by 
their aid succeed far better than tho highest 
feeding will without them; and suffer me 
to reiterato the benefit derivable from wash¬ 
ing your hogs; this will repay your trouble 
manifold. 
10. Watch tho markets. Sell when you 
see a reasonable profit before you. Many 
and many a man has swamped himself by 
giving way to covetousness, and by desiring 
to realize an unusual amount of gain; re¬ 
collect how very fluctuating are the markets, 
and that a certain gain is far better than 
the risk of loss. 
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THE ARMY WORM. 
A Long Island minister writes to the 
Christian Advocate and Journal as follows : 
I do not know but your readers are most¬ 
ly acquainted with the army worm. There 
is nothing very singular in its appearance. 
Its medium length is about an inch, its size 
around the middle about that of the smal¬ 
ler point of a small goose quill, has fourteen 
logs, or, perhaps sixteen, reckoning the two 
at its extremity, which open and shut like a 
pair of tongs, by which it clings around any 
small object, as the straw of grain, while it 
is crawling up; has a smooth skin, with 
stripes on its back, which, I think, would 
look beautiful through a microscope. 
As I was passing along one of our roads 
yesterday, I found them so thick in the path 
that I could not step without crushing them. 
They all seemed to be making their way 
towards the south ; and I hope they found 
a watery grave in the ocean close by; but I 
expect they were only stepping over into 
our neighbor’s field, to eat up five or six 
hundred bushels of his oats, to appease their 
hunger after their tedious journey from the 
fields they had just laid waste a little to tho 
north. 
Their brains must be in their bellies, for 
they glory in the motto—“ Let us eat and 
drink, for to-morrow wo die.” I will give 
you one specimen of their voracious pro¬ 
pensity. 
Last Sabbath one of my neighbors had 
four or five hundred bushels of very fine 
oats growing in a field, almost roady to cut, 
and on Thursday night, if tho whole had 
been threshed, thirty bushels could not have 
been obtained. Curiosity led mo to visit 
tho field. Tho bare straw, completely strip¬ 
ped, was all that remained. They do not 
oat up tho berry itself, but eat the loaves, 
then bite off the little stem which supports 
the kernel, and it drops upon tho ground. 
This is only ono example. Many have suf¬ 
fered in tho same way. If they do not 
leave us, the corn will be dostroyed also.— 
I brought threo home. In an hour one had 
eat up another, and in the morning the third 
had devoured the other two, except a few 
fragments. 
The army worm was here about five years 
ago; but its effects wore not as destructive 
iEitiAL Horticulture. —While others are 
content to grovel on capacious but often 
half tilled garden plots, our ingenious and 
persevering citizen neighbor, Henry Sedam, 
is more aspiring in his aims. Within the 
small enclosure of his garden are to bo seen 
substantial proofs, that 
“Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined." 
lie has trained an elm of less than an inch 
diameter, till it has risen to tho height of 14 
feet, and Morning Glories to as much as 20. 
His Tomatoes, supported by a fence, aro 
(like a whilom Gubernatorial candidate.) 
considerably over six feet high, and woll 
proportioned; but his Cucumbers are the 
greatest curiosity of this little garden in tho 
air — they being grown upon a scaffold some 
12 feet above the ground, and surmounted 
by a frame from whence they hang liko 
grapes, and have already yioldod an abun¬ 
dant crop.— Herkimer Journal. 
SHORTENING VINES* 
Pinch off the ends of all your pumpkin 
and squash vines immediately, if you have 
not already done it. They will commence 
bearing sooner, which will give them more 
time to mature. 
I had one year a pumpkin vine that camo 
up and grew by itself. It spread over a 
large surface, and was continuing to spread 
about tho first of September*. The young 
pumpkins would blast and fall off when the 
size of hen,s eggs. 1 then went around and 
pinched off every end of the vino, and the 
result was that it immediately set with a 
large numbor of pumpkins, which grew to 
half their proper size, when a frost came 
and put a stop to further proceedings. If 
I had attended to it a few weeks sooner, I 
should no doubt have gained “ some pump¬ 
kins.” Jonas Doolittle. 
Grand Lodge, Michigan, Aug. 12, 1852. 
Spent Tan B.vrk. —The Pa. Farm Jour¬ 
nal tells of a sucessful application of tan 
bai-k, made by mistake to a portion of the 
editor’s garden. He ordered a certain part 
to be well spaded and manured for beans, 
but the gardener dug up another plot and 
applied a heavy coating of pretty well de¬ 
composed tan bark. The soil was a stiff 
clay, and no other manure was applied or 
had been to this bed for several years previ¬ 
ously. The beans were planted, and are 
the most thrifty and vigorous in the neigh¬ 
borhood, and tho stiff soil has become quite 
mellow, and appears to retain its warmth 
and moisture much bettor than any other in 
the garden. 
Growth or Rose Bushes. —Mr. C. Sayre, 
of Phelps, has a rose bush which had grown 
the present season up to August 7th, twelve 
feet two inches. Another stem has grown 
eleven feet. The variety is the “ Queen of 
the Prairie.” Mr. A. Willson, of Marcollus, 
has a double Michigan rose, which, August 
9th, had reached the length of ten feet 
eleven inches, the present year. 
BLACK KNOT ON PLUM TREES. 
The following course of treatment pur¬ 
sued by me with a knot on my plum tree, 
and by which 1 believo I have destroyed the 
disease, is communicated rather as a possi¬ 
ble method, than as a certain cure. Last 
summer I noticed tho excrescence, and at 
onco cut off' all the bark, to which the dis¬ 
ease had extended; shortly afterwards it 
again made its appearance, farther up tho 
limb, as it constituted about one-sixth of the 
whole tree. It did not appear again until 
the spring, when it broke out at the ex¬ 
tremities of the previously excised portion 
of the bark; the upper excrescence I again 
cut out, and proceeded to puncture the low¬ 
er ono with a sharp penknife point, at tho 
same time cutting across the bark below 
this excrescence, to soperate it from the 
healthy part of tho bark. 
At several times since I punctured the ex- 
crescenco, it growing out larger from the 
tree all the while, until yesterday, when on 
sticking my knife into it I found it was hol¬ 
low. 1 then dug out the whole, and with it 
took out two grub-like looking worms, about 
three-eights of an inch in length, and am 
inclined to believe from tho appearance of 
the wood under the wart or knot, that I 
have succeeded in removing tho diseaso and 
its causo. The wood where the bark had 
previously been cut off, presents an appoar- 
ance as if it had been perforated in very 
many placos, and a continuous depression 
running in its length, as though a channel 
for tho passage of the chief causo of the 
disease.— Cor. Albany Cultivator. 
PLUMS AND THE CURCULIO. 
Two or three years since, it was announc¬ 
ed in the agricultural periodicals that syring¬ 
ing plum trees with lime-water, so as to 
cover the fruit with tho lime, was a certain 
remedy against tho cureulio. It was tried 
in numerous experiments, and the final con¬ 
clusion was that the practice was of littlo 
service. It is now said, that if a portion of 
sulphur be added, the mixture will be effect¬ 
ual for the purpose. Thos. W. Ludlow, jr., 
of Yonkers, says: 
“ Fond’s Seedling Plum I have succeeded 
in raising for the second year, as well as 
several other later and finer varieties, by 
syringing tho trees with a mixture of lime 
and sulphur, just after tho fall of the blos¬ 
som. which I repeated threo times a week 
for four weeks. The mixture was made in 
the following way :—Having a barrel upon 
wheels, I had a thick white-wash made, such 
as is generally used for whitewashing walls; 
to this I added 18 double handfuls of flour 
of sulphur. After it was thoroughly mixed 
it was applied to the trees with a valved 
syringe, having a spout with a lip to it, 
which flattened the stream as it passed out, 
and was thus dispersed over tho tree. The 
sediment of the barrel furnished sufficient 
strength to have it filled twice more with 
water only.” 
Grape Vines.— A hint to be remembered. 
—The grape is a great feeder. Many peo¬ 
ple wonder why their vines do not bear.— 
It is simply bocauso they are not fed. Give 
them an immense top dressing of stablo ma¬ 
nure, spreading over all tho ground where 
the roots run, remembering that they run a 
great distance. Then in the spring pruno 
closely. 
The Curculio. —This insect is tho great 
obstacle to plum growing. A writer in the 
Horticulturist has succeeded completely in 
syringing his trees with a lime whitewash 
strongly impregnated with sulphur. He 
bogan the application when the plums were 
about as large as a pea, and applied the wash 
at intervals of three or four days, say five 
times. The result is that ho has an abund¬ 
ance of fruit, while previously ho has lost 
the whole crop. 
Seeking tho welfare of man is goodness 
—of all virtues the greatest—because it is 
aiming to imitate God. 
Jomfgftt (Bcouottitj. 
GREEN THINGS. 
Much has been and may be justly said 
about “ green trash ” at this season of the 
year. Yet all that is green is not trash. 
Unripe fruits and half grown vegetables 
crowd our markets, and are eagorly devour¬ 
ed by our infantile population, and in many 
instances by “ children of a larger growth. ’ 
Many adults and hundreds of children an¬ 
nually lose their lives in this city from this 
causo. Small, hard, sour, or bitter apples, 
not much larger than a walnut, are sold 
“ tw r o for a penny ” at every corner ; and po¬ 
tatoes not one-third grown are common at 
tho groceries and provision shops. And 
what is yet stranger, the traffic in them is 
permitted to the fullest extent, notwith¬ 
standing the general sentiment of tho com¬ 
munity pronounces them pernicious and 
even deathful. 
But, to use and not abuse green things of 
tho eatable kind, some judgment is necessa¬ 
ry. Because many articles are injurious, 
our medical men generally have got in a 
way of denouncing “fruits and vegetables ” 
so indiscriminately, that as much sickness 
and death have resulted from abandoning 
tho good as from employing the bad. Now 
many green vegetables are more or less nu¬ 
tritious at all stages of growth, besides being 
not only innocuous but even salutary. In 
this list are spinach, asparagus, peas and 
beans, and green corn, cabbage, &c. Others, 
including the more nutritive roots, as pota¬ 
toes, turnips, parsnips, &c., undergo great 
changes of proximate composition in the 
process of development, and are not fit ali¬ 
mentary substances until full-grown and 
quite ripe. 
Very few fruits are truly alimentary in 
their green state. There are, however, 
some exceptions, of which the currant is an 
example ; and the principal objection to for¬ 
eign fruits, oranges, pine-apples, &c.,is, that 
they are picked long before ripening. Many 
persons suffer exceedingly, and somo actu¬ 
ally dio, because in ignorance of tho true 
dietetic nature of various fruits and vegeta¬ 
bles, they imbibe a prejudice against all, and 
in the warm seasons, subsist mainly on an¬ 
imal food, and farinaceous preparations. 
There is a very simple rule for guidance 
in this matter. Always select ripe full grown 
roots, and mild flavored, well ripened fruits, 
and then eat thorn freely, at meal time of 
course. If this is done the only restrictions 
necessary to impose on the quantity, concern 
tho purse rather than the stomach. The 
best anti-cholera, anti-dysentery, anti- diar¬ 
rhoea ; anti-billious, anti-fever, anti-all-kinds 
of summer complaint specific on earth, is an 
abundance of good fruit. — Water Cure 
Journal. 
TOMATO COOKING. 
It is a goneral improssion, countenanced 
by medical men, that the use of this vegeta¬ 
ble is greatly promotivo of health. Dun- 
glison says that it may be called ono of the 
most wholesome and valuable esculents be¬ 
longing to the vegetable kingdom. Prof. 
Rafinosque calls it healthful and valuable. 
It probably has somo property which acts 
upon the liver, tending to keep it in a healthy 
action ; and either by sympathy of this or¬ 
gan with tho lungs, or by some direct action, 
its influence upon them is said to be unmis¬ 
takable. The cases are numerous in which 
its use has cured a cough. At all events it 
is an agreeable article of food, supplying 
what the taste craves, especially in hot and 
bilious climates. It has become within fif¬ 
teen years, a sort of indispensable vegetable, 
and is now more relied on than any other 
which lasts no longer than it docs. To cook 
it satisfactorily is somewhat of an art, and 
many people refuse to eat it because it is 
not rightly served up to meet their tastes. 
It may be preserved or pickled, and serve 
a good purpose in either mode of keeping. 
For the latter use. the small sorts of it are 
best, say the pear or plum shaped, red and 
yellow. An excellent way of pickling is a 
pound of sugar to a pint of vinegar, and 
spice it well. Any body will relish toma¬ 
toes thus prepared, and they will keep a 
long time. Put them in whole, selecting 
sound ones rather under than over ripened. 
To cook tho tomato for the table thero aro 
several ways. That which we prefer and do 
not wish to change, is to scald and remove 
tho skins, then stew them a long time, which 
is the great secret, adding salt, butter, pep¬ 
per, and a small quantity of brown sugar, 
enough to temper the acid but not enough 
to make them decidedly sweet. Cooked in 
this way they relish with meats, and a con¬ 
siderable quantity may be cooked at a time 
to be kept over, and will improve, like baked 
beans, with repeated warmings.— Prairie 
Herald. 
To Destroy Ants. —Ants that frequent 
houses or gardens may be destroyed by tak¬ 
ing flour of brimstono half a pound, and 
potash four ounces ; set them in an iron or 
earthen pan over the fire until dissolved 
and united ; afterwards beat them to a pow¬ 
der, and infuse a littlo of this powder in wa¬ 
ter—and wherever you sprinkle it tho ants 
will dio, or fly the place. 
Binljatiic Urte & frmiu. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
For the week ending August 17, 1852. 
Mortimer M. Camp, of New Haven, Conn., for 
improvement in ventilators. 
John W. Conklin, Henry L.Sidman and Eugene 
Whritner, of Rarnapo, N. Y., for improvements in 
file cutting machinery. 
Robert Griffiths, of Newport, Ky., for machine 
for making wrought iron railroad chairs. 
Jos.- Leeds, Geo. H. Ovat, Jr., and Alfred A. Oat, 
of Philadelphia Pa., assignor to Joseph Leeds, of 
same place for improvements in spark arresters. 
Lewis Lewis, of Vicksburg, Miss., for improve¬ 
ment in cotton presses. 
Allen J. Lounsbcrry, of Soramerville, Tenn., 
for improvement in hernia truss. 
R. Frank Palmer, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provements in artificial legs. 
Calvin L. Rawdon, of Bristol, 0., for improve¬ 
ment in the neck yoke of horses. 
Jonathan Russell, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in artificial legs. 
Wm. Shaw, of Clarion, Pa., for improvement 
in bedstead fastenings. 
Geo. S. G. Spense, of Boston, Mass., for im¬ 
provement iu hot air furnaces. 
Thomas Walber, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in machinery for forming hat bodies. 
Samuel Whitmarsli, of Northampton, Mass., for 
improvement in caloriferes. 
James D. Willoughby, of Carlisle, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in the currier’s beam and knife. 
Washington F. Davis of New York, N. Y., as¬ 
signor to Boidsill Cornell, of same place, for im¬ 
provement in processes for making paints. 
Erasmus Smith, of Norwich, N. Y., assignor to 
David Maydole, of same place, for improved fast¬ 
ener of bits to braces. 
Nelson Perkins, of Wawarsing, N. Y., assignor 
to Samuel Dow, of Westfield, Mass., for improve¬ 
ment in manufacturing cord buttons. 
DESIGNS. 
Dutee Arnold, of Providence, R. I., for design 
for a parlor stove. 
Samuel F. Pratt, of Boston, Mass., assignor to 
Jagger, Treadwell & Perry, of Albany, N. Y., for 
design for a six plate stove. 
John S. Perry, of Albany, N. Y., assignor to 
Jagger, Treadwell A Perry of same place, for two 
designs for cooking stoves. 
ARTIFICIAL STONE FRONTS ON HOUSES. 
A great number of houses arc now built 
with coarse brick fronts, which afterwards 
receive two or three coats of boiled oil, and 
aro then covered with a coat of peculiar 
mastic cement, which is composed, we are 
told, mostly of dried sand, some boiled oil. 
some red lead, and a little plaster of Paris. 
This cement resembles moist sand when put 
on, but it sticks well, and in a short time be¬ 
comes as hard as freestone, which it greatly 
resembles. This plaster is streaked off in 
blocks, and a building so covered looks like 
one built of dark brown polished freestone. 
Wo have heard objections made to such 
buildings, but not one by a person who had 
taste and experience in architecture. This 
cement does not scale off’; it endures and 
forms a thorough coating of artificial stone. 
The only objection worthy of note, urged 
against them, that we havo heard, is this— 
“ after all they are not so good as brick 
buildings, which are no shams;” these words 
wo have marked, for they have appeared in 
print in a daily paper in our city, but the 
objection, urged against the artificial stone 
fronts can be as strongly urged against the 
painting of any building. Paint is put on 
to preserve and beautify a building, so also 
is the artificial stone cement, 
SAWING FELLOES. 
Asa George & Setii Stubbs, of Lincoln- 
ton, N. C., have taken measures to secure 
a patent for a useful improvement in a ma¬ 
chine for sawing felloes and other articles 
forming parts of circles. The nature of tho 
improvement consists in providing a revolv¬ 
ing table on which the plank or staff’ out of 
which the felloes are to bo made is placed ; 
this table is so arranged as to have different 
centres, either of which may be employed 
as desired, so that the felloes may be cut to 
form parts of circles of different diameters 
according to the centres on which the staff’ 
is placed. The saw sash is of ordinary con¬ 
struction, and two saws are secured at one 
end of it, and made adjustable, so as to cut 
felloes of different widths. There is a sta¬ 
tionary table adjoining to the movable one, 
on which the plank partially rests, while tho 
saws aro cutting to keep tho stuff firm and 
steady under the saws.— Scien. American. 
NEW MACHINE EOR SPLITING LEATHER. 
Henry F. Patton, of Dansvillo, N. Y., 
has invented some improvements on ma¬ 
chinery for splitting leather. Tho nature 
of the invention consists in the employment 
of a knife having a horizontal reciprocating 
motion imparted to it by a serpentine cam 
which is secured on the end of tho feeding 
roller that is placed behind tho knife, and 
which draws the hide through between the 
two gauging pressure rollers in front, against 
tho edge of tho knife. It is common to 
have but ono guago roller or leather split¬ 
ting machines; this one has two, the extra 
one being placed above and entirely sepa¬ 
rate from the lower one ; it is socurod on a 
frame attached to springs, and acts as a 
pressure roller, thus enabling tho knife to 
operate upon tho leather in a very correct 
and superior manner. Measures havo been 
taken to secure a patent.— Scien. American. 
Beauty is the flower of virtue. 
THE USES OF IRON. 
This indurated metal has become at last 
a familiar household thing. Not contented 
with girdling the thunder in tho mystic days 
of Vulcan and his forgo, it must girdlo tho 
earth also; and hence its shining sinews 
crossed and re-crossed and intertwined all 
over the surface of its underground home. 
And when its triumph was thus established, 
and it was called the great king of aids to 
commerce, it made itself more than famil¬ 
iar with the arts and sciences, and still far¬ 
ther stooping that it might conquer, it has 
adapted itself to the fashions, and entered 
tho very boudoir like an old and privileged 
friend. 
What is this so light and fanciful! Tho 
clothes-horse, surely, all iron, and so nicely 
wrought that you might lift it in your hand 
and balance it. And what is this, with its 
delicate wreaths of roses and beautiful fig¬ 
ures bending in postures of grace. The 
fire screen? Why! is that all iron? Every 
bit of it; and those fairy-like chairs, with 
their lythe forms, and sprightly patterns, 
these sofas with their scroll-work and vino 
leaves, these tables that seem airy enough 
for a sprite’s parlor, are all of iron. We 
take up a beautiful ornamental basket from 
the mantel, tho sprays, tho curling tendrils, 
the buds, leaves, and roses are of iron ; we 
lift a vase that has upon its surface tho soft 
blending of a hundred tints, that is iron, too. 
Yonder is a magnificent picture—the frame, 
so profusely gilded, so elaborate in detail, is 
iron : we inspect the tall mirrors, they aro 
surrounded by a casing of iron ; farther up 
in “ my ladj’s chamber,’ stand iron couches, 
an iron bedstead with ornaments disposed 
very elegantly about it: tho toilet tablo is 
also of iron. Varied indeed are “ tho uses 
of iron.”— Boston Olive Branch. 
RAILROAD HAND CAR. 
We saw lately at the office of the House 
Telegraph, a portable Hand Car, the manu¬ 
facture and invention ofF. M. Mattice,of this 
city which for its lightness, portability, sim¬ 
plicity of operation and utility, seems to us 
likely to take tho place of all other Rail¬ 
road Hand Cars in use, when the burden to 
be carried is only that of ono man. It has 
only threo wheels and is constructed so 
that when not on tho rail, it can be doubled 
up and run from point to point like a wheel¬ 
barrow, or thrown into a baggage car to bo 
carried, occupying only about the room of 
an ordinary trunk. It is also adapted to 
be guaged for any width of track as occa¬ 
sion may requiro, and shifted in a moment’s 
time. 
When in operation, the passenger sits 
upon a saddle-like frame, over one track 
on which two wheels run, and the car is bal- 
lanced by the third wheel which runs on 
the other track. It is propelled by a double 
crank which is worked with both hands of 
the person riding, and with which by very 
little labor ho can run his vehicle at a con¬ 
siderable rapidity.— Buffalo Courier. 
PERPETUAL LIGHT. 
A most curious and interesting discovery 
has just been made at Laugres, in France, 
which we have no doubt will cause a search¬ 
ing scientific inquiry as to the material and 
properties of the perpetually burning lamps, 
said to have been in use by the ancients.— 
Workmen were recently excavating for a 
foundation for a new building in a debris, 
evidently the remains of Gallo-Roman erec¬ 
tion, when they came to the roof of an un¬ 
der ground sort of cave, which time had 
rendered almost of metallic hardness. An 
opening was, however, effected, when one of 
the workmen instantly exclaimed that there 
was light at tho bottom of the cavern. The 
parties present entered, when they found a 
bronzed sepulchral lamp of remarkable 
workmanship suspended from the roof by 
chains of tho samo metal. It was entirely 
filled with acombstible substance, which did 
not appear to have diminished, although the 
probability is the combustion has been going 
on for ages. This discovery will, we trust, 
throw somo light on a question which has 
caused so many disputes among learned an¬ 
tiquaries, although it is stated that ono was 
discovered at Viterbo, in 1850, from which, 
however, no fresh information was afforded 
on the subject. 
FIRST USE OF MAHOGANY. 
Dr. Gibbons, an eminent physician in tho 
latter end of the seventeenth century, had 
a brother a sea-captain, who was the first 
that brought from tho West Indies somo 
mahogany logs to London for ballast. The 
Doctor was then building him a house in 
Covent Garden, and his brother, the cap¬ 
tain, thought they might bo of service to 
him; but tho carpenters found tho wood 
too hard for their tools, and it was laid asido 
as useless. Soon after, Mr. Gibbons want¬ 
ed a candle-box, and got a cabinet-maker to 
make it out of the useless wood lying in tho 
garden. Tho box was made, anil the Doc¬ 
tor was so pleased with it, that he got tho 
cabinet-maker to make him a bureau of it, 
and the fine color and polish of it induced 
him to invite a great number of his friends 
to see it, and among them tho Duchess of 
Buckingham. Her Grace begged the Doc¬ 
tor for some of tho wood, and got Wollas¬ 
ton, tho cabinet-maker, to make her a 
bureau also, on which the fame of mahoga¬ 
ny and Wollaston were much raised, and it 
became the rage for grand furniture. No 
other wood exceeds it yet. 
Human Strength. —An active man. work¬ 
ing to the best advantage, can raise 10 lbs.. 
10 feet in a second for 10 hours in the day, 
or 100 lbs. one foot in a second. 
The rich man lives happily so long as ho 
uses his riches temperately, and the poor 
man who patiently ondureth all his wants is 
rich enough. 
