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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
then take a woolen cloth in his hand, and dip 
it in a pail of lye, and wrap the cloth closely 
around the tree ; then rub down and up again 
till the bark is thoroughly cleansed. Repeat 
THE WHITE BLACKBERRY. 
The White Blackberry is a most vigorous } C_9-^ 
grower, often attaining a height of ten feet.— ' 
m %xh, &c. 
DOCK RAILWAY, LIVERPOOL 
THE GARDEN-ABOUT PIE PLANT. 
It will soon be time to make garden, and a 
great many farmers do not take half pains 
enough with their gardens. Some seem to 
think that a piece of ground that's manured 
once in two or three years, and plowed in the 
spring once, and planted to a few hills of corn, 
some cucumbers, and a few onions, beet and 
carrot seeds put in so badly that half don’t 
grow, and the other half ought not to, is a 
garden. The same men probably think the 
moon a luminous cabbage. Now, a garden is 
a different thing altogether. It need not be 
large, but it should be well fenced. In it 
should be planted strawberries, currants, black, 
white and red, raspberries, asparagus, and 
pie plant. It does not take a large plot of 
ground to supply a family with all the aspa¬ 
ragus or pie plant they can possibly use. A 
plot of ground twelve feet by eighteen, would 
make as large an asparagu or pie plant bed 
as would be profitable; and one twenty feet 
square, well cultivated, would furnish all the 
strawberries. But a garden should never be 
plowed. It should have plenty of well rotted 
manure, and always be cultivated with a 
spade, and kept clean : a quarter or an eighth 
of an acre would make a garden plenty large 
for any common sized family, and furnish it 
with an abundance of comforts and luxuries, 
and be really more profitable than any two or 
three acres in wheat or corn, for garden vege¬ 
tables save a great deal of meat and flour in 
making up the living of the family. 
Rhubarb, or pie plant as it is commonly 
called, is so easy of cultivation, and such a 
capital institution in the way of pies and sauce, 
that it should be found in every garden. For 
a family, make a bed twelve by twenty feet, 
dig it well, and put in or dig in plenty of well 
rotted manure. Get plants of the Common 
Early, the Giant, and the Victoria, say one 
row of ten plants of Giant, one row of the 
Victoria, and about three rows of the Com¬ 
mon. Set the plants two feet and a half each 
way, keep the ground clean, keep down the 
seed stalk, and do not gather much the first 
year. In the fall put a shovelfull of good 
manure over the crown of the root, and spade 
it in as early in the spring as possible, or as 
soon as the leaves show themselves. The 
great secret in raising the pie plant in perfec¬ 
tion is to keep the ground clean and rich, and 
not allow the seed stalks to grow. In gather¬ 
ing for use, select the leaf that ha3 fully 
opened, and slip it off from the stem by run¬ 
ning your finger down between the leaf stalk 
and the stem ; never cut the leaf; always pull 
it off as described. If properly attended a 
dozen plants of each kind will furnish all that 
any family can well consume. The Giant is 
late, and both that and the Victoria should be 
planted at least three and a half feet each way. 
We have found the flavor of pie plant 
much improved by using maple sugar in pref¬ 
erence to cane sugar. 
„ . , ., It is a much more prolific bearer than the 
this every year until the tree is so large that it common variet y ; or fie!d blackberry, the buds 
cannot be reached around with both hands. being set on the stalks in the immediate vicin- 
I have had great success in this mode of pro- ity of each other — there being generally not 
cedure. I have got trees only three years from more than the distance of two inches between 
the graft, mere whips, that would, in three ail, I eac ^ bud having two spurs instead 
_of one, as in the case with the latter. The 
years time, measure twelve inches in circum- are of large size> amber colored , and I ^es. 
LIST OF PATENTS 
Issued from the United States Patent Office for the week¬ 
ending March 6, 1865. 
Geo. C. Allen, Key West, improvement In machines for 
At the last meeting of the British Associa¬ 
tion, there was exhibited a large model of a 
high level railway, which it is proposed to 
carry along the east side of the whole line of 
docks at Liverpool. The construction will 
consist of iron frame-work supporting two 
platforms. The lower will be about 52 feet 
them, and each bud having two spurs instead c1 ' jotm S Allen) NewVork^mp^^^ wide and 20 feet above the present quays, 
of one, as in the case with the latter. The J. J. Anderson, Beaver, Penn., improvement in cook signed entirely for goods traffic, having 1 
ference oce foot above Ike earth, and the poeseseing a flavor remarkably rich and st-cet. JfflHS&SSSS. "" '" 5r0 ™‘ " 
branches w r ould spread over six feet each way There is no difficulty whatever attending its wm. Ballauf and Fi 
from the trunk, and the third year have ma- cultivation; all that is essentially requisite m | nt c" Benyard°, r Phi 
tured as many as thirty-three fine specimens being a rich, light, and moderately warm soil, pins, Ac. 
of the Rhode Island Greening. I consider it and a co P] ons and ^stained supply of forest 
,, , c • 1 e *1, * , , . „ leaves and scrapings. A compost formed of Charles Crum, Huds 
equally as beneficial for other s andard trees these, with a small quantitv of gvpeum. and making bread. 
as I do for the apple. Bo not omit the wash- f requ ent hoeings to lighten'the soil, and pre- m^n^Pari^FYance 
ing on any account, lor I consider it of great vent the radiation and growth of weeds, will manure’and oil. 
importance. It takes off all insects, and makes almost invariably secure success in the culti- 
the bark smooth and the tree more beautiful. va tion of this valuable fruit. The original F a. Gleason, Rome 
T , T cultivatior of this fruit in this country, is Mr. and other joints. 
Jas. Whitney. j q Needham of Danvers Massnehnaetts _ Robt. B. Gorsuch, N 
Big Flatte, Chemung Co., N. Y., March, 1855. Jit y-.V, .. a ™’ , , Massachusetts. draulic steaIn pump . 
__ The White Blackberry and Black Raspberry Guy H. Hubbard, 5 
r< Tw ono™, f „ „„ are both valuable fruits, and should have a auger handle fastening 
Care of Cherry Irees.— In answer to an , . , . ,, Marcus f. Hyde, b 
inouirv in a recent number I would recommend P laC ® m l and klt ° hen garden m the soda water apparatus, 
inquiry in a recent numoer,i wouiu recoin menu j an( j —n. E. Farmer. Geo. Martz, Pottsviii 
lime as a remedy for imperfect bearing in the it??’ 7 
Harmon w. Raiiard, Burlington, vt., improved ar- lines of railway. the two nearest the docks to 
.ngement of the springs on wagons. be used as sidings for trucks while loading 
Win. Ballauf and Fred. Wurth, Cinninnati, improve- aD( J unloading, and the Other two as up and 
E. C. Benyard, Philadelphia, safe catch for breast- down Hues tor trucks in motion. The upper 
pins, &c. platform is to be about 23 feet wide, and to 
nsonville, Mass., improvement in hand cultivators. ba ' e two lines 01 railvay, intended fol. pas- 
Charles Crum, Hudson, improvement in processes for sengers Only. The lower platform will be 
making bread. provided with hydraulic cranes, which will 
Rene Charles Demolon and George Alex. Charles Thur- f c ’ , 
meysen, Paris, France, improvement in treating fish for transfer goods either IrOHl Or to the vessels or 
manure and oil. the trucks, as well as work through the hatch- 
harness saddteto'ees.^ 1 ' 8 ^ 0 ^* ^ rin ® 3 ’ ‘“Pavement in ways in t he platform to the quays. The 
F. a. Gleason, Rome, N. y., machine for cutting mitre scheme embraces the construction of deposit 
and other joints. and transit-sheds, a connection with existing: 
Robt. B. Gorsuch, New York, direct double acting hy- c . , & 
draulic steam pump. or future railways, and with private ware- 
Guy h. Hubbard, Shelburne Falls, Mass., improved houses, and the erection of passenger-stations. 
Mlrc^ F 6 Hvde nin Burlin K ton. N. J., improvement in The g reat thoroughfares will be crossed by 
are both valuable fruits, and should have a au 8 er handle fastening. 
an A Marcus F. Hyde, Burlington, N. J., improvement in 
Geo. Martz, Pottsvilie, improved coal screen. 
bridges, and the line will be equally applicable 
for horses or locomotive power. The cost is 
cherry tree. The season before this last, the .♦ Jesse Reed, ifarshtieid, Mass., improvements in steer- includes hydraulic cranes and platforms, wi 
drouth affected a young Tartarian cherry tree Robins, Edinburg, md., improvement in the Stationary steam power to work them. ( 
SO much that the leaves curled up and grew Czj ** v XJx 4V/V4* + combination of an air chamber water cooler and force the other hand, it IS CaxCUfated that the val 
very little. Very late in tie fell, I placed a ...- p “£ P w£imjr.,,™., i„ Ml- of the quay space gainrf by the platforms 
J j ,, , , , ro-id car coupling the railway, at the low rate ot £5 a yai 
quantity of slacked lime around the tree, but To Make Honey. —Take five pounds of John W. Smith and Johns. Galia«her, Jr., Washington, will yield a return of about £210,000 a mi 
not so as to touch the trunk ; and last summer coffee sugar, and two pounds of water; heat im j 0 r hn^inthorp C Buffaio, improvement in machines for not much below the estimated expenditure, 
it grew very fast — the leaves not curling, al- over a slow fire ; when nearly scalding hot making candles. -- - --- -- 
muffo'r grinding and ^ toproTed estimated at less than £250,000 a mile. This 
Jesse Reed, Marshfield, Mass., improvements in steer- includes hydraulic Cranes and platforms, with 
in fiewton a D U Robins, Edinburg, md., improvement in the stationary steam power to work them. On 
combination of an air chamber water cooler and force the other hand, it IS calculated that the value 
pump in soda fountains. of the quay space gained by the platforms of 
Edward Rice, of Canandaigua, improvement in rail- ,, J ± .v° , 
road car coupling. the railway, at the low rate of £5 a yard, 
John w. Smith and Johns. Gallagher, Jr., Washington, will yield a return of about £210,000 a mile, 
though the drouth was harder than the year tabe f rom the fire and add one-half pound Of niocle of constructing saw plates and setting teeth therein, 
before. Scrape the bark and dig about the h0 ney in the comb; when blood warm add imp '™“ 
roots, and apply lime. Old bones that are one-fourth of a pound, when cold strain and John Williams, Dunkirk, improved arrangement of ex¬ 
left after making soap, will make plum trees -JJ c — j -C ib.- — C -haustpipes_in locomotive engines. 
one-fourth of a pound, when cold strain and 
add five drops of the essence of peppermint.— 
ETHER AND STEAM. 
La France, a large French steamship, has 
been fitted up with M. de Trembley’s combin- 
Wm. W. Willis, Orange, Mass., Improved mode of ex- . , , 1 '. J 
bear, if applied around the ro«ts of the trees. I it will add to the flavor if there is a little bee I trading stumps. ed ether and steani engines. In a voyage from 
’ TJ7 p . 7 d « is a nuue Vlrg u Woodcock, Swanzey, N. H., improvement m the Marseilles to the Black Sea, it made nine knots 
—J. P. Youi.en, West Rupert, Vt. 
TREES FROM SEED. 
A few years ago we made a large collection 
of the seeds of shade and ornamental trees, 
bread in the comb. This is excellent on buck- arragement of desks in school rooms. npr Vmnr hnt with what, pconomv of fnpl wp 
. T _ , vr Dexier H. Chamberlain, West Roxbury, assignor to P er Hour, out wiin wnao economy oi iuei we 
wheat cakes, try it.—1. I -, Koyalton, iV. Henry Woodward, Boston. Mass., improvement in appa- have not been able to learn 
Y., March, 1855. 
of the seeds of shade and ornamental trees, Recife for Corn Lread. One quart o 
both deciduous and evergreen, and planted meal; one quart of flour ; oue quart of butter- ^o.Ji. Mai 
with much care, but did not get a seed to milk ; one tea-cup of molasses; one table- j^n^Ie^issT 
vegetate. This season we have found out spoonful of salt; one tablespoonful saleratus. 
what was the matter; we planted too deep - Bake with a slow fire ._H., West Henrietta. THE STEA 
It is well known that m the pine regions of 
Georgia this has been a great mast year, and 
we now find everywhere where the winged 
Henry Woodward, Boston, Mass., improvement in appa- have not been able to learn. As described On 
ratus for purifying illuminating gas. pasre 405, vol. 8 Scientific American, the ex- 
Amsterdam, N. Y., improvement in grain and grass bar- haust steam IS employed to heat ether in a sep- 
vesters. arate vessel into vapor, which is admitted to 
Jno. H. Manny, RockfortTlL, improvement in grain work a piston in a duplicate Cylinder, (like a 
and grass harvesters. Patented Oct. 17,1854; ante-dated YVoife engine,) where it is afterwards condens- 
june 16, 1854. _ _ ed by stirface contact, and the same ether used 
over and over again. It is expected, and has 
THE STEAM FIRE ENGINE—ITS DESCRIP- been asserted, that such a combination must 
TI0N AND TRIAL. 
To Cure the Earache. —Roast the sap 
Through the personal attentions of Mr. 
effect a great saving in fuel. We cannot see 
how this can be, and we believe it will so turn 
out. The boiling point of ether is no doubt 
seeds have met the surface soil, they have from a green stick of black ash, put one drop Latta, the inventor of the steam fire engine, V g ry j ow 96°—but its vapor is dense°in pro- 
thrown out roots, and begun the form of a into the ear and stop with cotton or wool to we were permitted a few days since to examine p 0r tl 0n to the difference of its latent heat to 
tree. Thev had no nlantiner but what nature ovnlnGp iLe n.ir v 1 +a mpnLnnism and hoar a. luo.id exnln.nat.ion .. _<•_.... i___ j. _i_ •. _ 
tree. They had no planting but what nature exclude the air 
gave them, and dame nature is a tolerable 
horticulturist. 
We invariably plant tree seed ; just soil 
enough to preserve the moisture is all that is We give to 
necessary. ” * 1 p 
exclude the air. x. its mechanism, and hear a lucid explanation 0 j- Wfder; bence we cannot see how it can 
mTTT “* ’' '' of its construction, its advantages, the difficul- be more economical than steam alone. With 
THE KITCHEN, ties overcome to bring it to its present state a ii the care exercised, it has been found impossi- 
. °f perfection, and also various other matters b ] e to prevent the escape of the ether vapor, 
We give to intellect, to morality, to re- relating to steam machinery, and the use ot w bich makes its use both dangerous and disa- 
ncv;ca?ui j. ligion, and to all the virtues, the honor that heated vapor as a motor ; and we deem it but tn-eeable._ Scientific American 
An ornamental tree, grown from seed, may belongs to them. And still, it may be boldly an act of justice to pay a tribute of respect . 
be made anything the cultivator wishes it. A affirmed, that economy, taste, skill, and neat- to the practical talent, genius, inventive pow- j **^*~~~, 
fruit tree grown by seed is most likely to be ness in the kitchen have a great deal to do in ers and energy of the man w r ho built the first A TERRIBLE MISSILE, 
healthy, and may prove a sure and valuable making life happy and prosperous. Nor is it locomotive in the West. Mr. Latta is aprac- 
variety. It has been a question of time with indispensably necessary that a house should be tical man, laboring daily among his mechanics Among the numberless new inventions ot 
most of us; we could not wait for tree seeds filled with luxuries. All the qualifications for yet the data of science is at his command, and engines of destruction to which the war has 
to form trees. A pine seed will make boards good housekeeping can be displayed as well on well has he used it in thus developing what, in given birth, one much talked, of at present in 
in twelve years. a small scale as on a large one. A small one sense, may be called a new principle—that the scientific world of Paris, is a shell invented 
A TERRIBLE MISSILE, 
Among the numberless new inventions of 
most of us ; we could not wait for 
to form trees. A pine seed will m 
in twelve years. 
Apple seeds will make fruit bearing trees in house can be more easily kept clean, than a of exposing a small quantity of water to a by M. Chaslin, a member of the Council Gen- 
four veal’s. Grapes iu eight and ten years, palace. Economy is most needed in the ab- large quantity of fire—whereas the reverse of era I the Yonne, which he asserts will not 
Peaches and plums in two years. The Chi- sence of an abundance. Taste is as well dis- this is the ordinary mode of generating steam. ° r *ly double the force of the powder used,.but 
na-tree seed will make a good shade tree in played in placing the dishes on a pine table, as He contends that this principle,—which is be5n S witb out a match, will have the inestima- 
four years. A man may have a forest or an in arranging the folds of a damask curtain.— the one applied to the steani fire engine—is b! . e Vantage of falling on the spot desired 
orchard from seed, if he will. Even the acorn And skillful cooking is as readily discovered the true one. and that it needs onlv to be aD- wltbout g!y in g notice to the enemy by that 
and hickory nut may be planted with profit. j n a nicely baked potato, or in a' respectable plied to other machinery to demonstrate its stl ’ eam of light in the air which accompanies 
Plant tree seeds, reader, and you will be as- jonny cake, as in a nut-brown sirloin, ora truth; not that he has invented the best the present shell, ignition is.brought about 
tonished at the work of your own hands in a 
few years. 
brace of canvass-back. The charm of good method of applying the principle, but that the bv a chemical process, which is said to be so y 
i i • •• i i 7 . _ . riwO i J. nnmnlotolTT nriHor nnritrA 1 Ihol o chol 1 mn-tr % 
few years. housekeeping is in order, economy, aud taste i de a is correct.' * ’ completely under control, that a shell may ex- 
—~►-»- . displayed in attention to little things. And The steam fire engine which has been con- p] 0( te> according to the will of the projector, 
One of Pharaoh’s Dahlias.— Lord Lind- these little things have a wonderful influence, structed for the city of Boston is, in many re- e Bher .in two minutes or twenty-tour hours 
say states that, in the course of his wandering’s A dirty kitchen, and bail cooking have driven spects, different from those in operation in Cin- a ^® r being projected. Thus it would be 
amid the pyramids of. Egypt, he stumbled on many a one from home, to seek for comfort cinnat’i. It is lighter, more compact, more P ossibIe to tb row any number of shells, succes- 
a mummy proved by its hieroglyphics to be at and happiness somewhere else. Domestic simple, yet equally effective. It is strongly sively upon a. given point, and to adjust the 
least 2,000 years of age. In examining the economy is a science—a theory of life, which built-, well braced in all parts exposed to strain, P er i°d of their explosion, so ^ that all should 
mummy, after it w 7 as unwrapped, he found in a ll sensible women ought to study and prac- and 4 constructed of the best materials. Its burs ^ * be same moment. This shell would 
one of its closed hands a tuberous or bulbous tice. None of our excellent girls are fit to be o-eneral appearance is a cross between a loco- ^P 1 ?^ 03 certainly under water as on land, 
root. He w r as interested in the question how married, until they are thoroughly educated in motive and velocipede—the third, or steering and ^' s asser ^ e d that the principle will corn- 
long vegetable life could last, and he therefore the deep and profound mysteries of the kitch- w heel. o-iving the last characteristic. The fire P} ete tbe idea of the bculets asphixiants, which 
took that tuberous root from the mummy s en. See to it, all ye who are mothers, that }g a t the bottom of the engine, with an ample hitherto ha\e not been ^ery effective. A. I . 
hand, planted it in a sunny soil, allow-ed the your daughters are all accomplished by an ex- orate to secure a draft of air, above which is i 
rains and dews of heaven-to descend upon it, perimental knowledge of good housekeeping, the boiler—simply a range of pipes like the-— *—->• ——- 
THE BLACK RASPBERRY. 
Eds. Rural :—I have often wondered why 
farmers do not cultivate a greater variety of 
fruits in their gardens. In addition to what 
is generally cultivated, I would mention the 
Black Raspberry — a small fruit well known 
in most parts of the United States. It grows 
wild by the sides of fences, edges of forests, &c., 
but common as it is, and delicious as is the fruit, 
but few think of cultivating it. H. Perry, 
of Porter, has a fine lot of twenty-five or thirty 
bushes, which for the past three seasons have 
yielded a good supply for his own table, some 
for his frends and neighbors, and also to dry for 
future use, and richly paying for the little 
trouble they cost. He took them from the 
forest and other places, in the fall of the year, 
and planted them in his garden. This, any 
one will see, is attended with no expease, and 
very little trouble. It may be done in the 
spring. They may be set along the sides of 
fences, as this situation appears to be the most 
natural for them. Give the Black Raspberry 
a trial, and you will not regret it—J. Sibley, 
Wilson, N. Y., March, 1855. 
CULTIVATION OF APPLE TREES. 
To give young fruit trees a beautiful aud 
healthy growth, first have the land they are to 
be set iu plowed deep and well tilled; then 
take pains to have them set in straight rows 
each way. I prefer to set in the fall immedi¬ 
ately after the leaves drop off. Then put a 
small pile of half-rotted manure—say two or 
three wheel-barrow loads—to each tree, leaving 
it a little the lowest next to the tree, and pack¬ 
ing it down well to prevent the mice from com¬ 
mitting depredations in the course of the win¬ 
ter. Leave it there till the new moon of May, 
when the sap commences flowing upwards— 
then spreading it over the surlace of the ground 
near the tree, thick enough to retain the moist¬ 
ure. Then wash the trees with lye nearly 
6trong enough to bear up an egg. To do this 
effectually, let the operator grease his hand 
thoroughly with some kind of soft grease; 
rains and dews of heaven -to descend upon it, perimental knowledge of good housekeeping, 
and in the course of a few weeks, to his aston- __ 
ishment and joy, the root brought forth and 
bloomed in a beauteous dahlia. 
-- steam pipes in buildings warmed by steam.— 
POKE ROOT, MILK WEED, AND DANDELION. The fire, when kindled, flames around these, 
- bringing them in a short time to the degree of 
Prom long and repeated use of the above- heat necessary for the generation of steam, 
CIRCULAR SAWS. 
Very many saws are permanently injured 
by the heating of the arbor ; the middle cf the 
A Cheap Hot-Bed May be made by named vegetables as culinary articles, both and when at this heat, the water is let into the saw becomes expanded by the beat, and work¬ 
procuring a couple ot sash, say three feet by myse ff and family consider either one of them boiler or pipe, and is at once converted into ing it in this state inevitably strains it. This 
four, and fitting them to a box. Any rough ag equaling in value the Asparagus or the Pie steam. Length of pipe is equivalent to sur- is a very common error, and as it generally 
boards will do. Remove the surtace soil the pi an t t q’Ue g rs t two named may be cooked face, and by this means sufficient steam is ob- occurs a little at a time, often escapes observa- 
size of the box, and put m horse manure a and dressed in the same manner as Asparagus, tained to work the forcing pump. tion. The mere heating of the saw, even to 
toot or eighteen inches deep. Co’ver the ma- and w j d be f ound to equal, if not surpass it in Upon the sides ot the engine are two large blueing it, does not start the temper, as manv 
nure with six inches of soil, put over your delicacy and richness. The last named may be suction hose, which by a simple mechanical suppose, but makes it spring temper ; it should 
box the sashes, and you have a cheap liot-bed, rende red equal to Eudive or Lettuce, as a salad, arrangement may be swung around in any di- therefore be heated all over or not at all. Saws 
where you may sow early \ ork cabbage seed, by niea i is 0 f bleaching. All these are among rection, and which, when not in use, are laid of a uniform thickness are less liable to strain, 
a few tomatos, lettuce, peppers, &c., and in ^he tenderest of our early spring greens. in such positions that they appear a part and j The thin places of saws are those parts that 
the middle of the bed, where there is the most Experience has demonstrated satisfactorily, parcel of the engine. buckle first, and from the first are the cause of 
heat, a few egg plants. Ihe cost is but a that the Dandelion in particular, exerts at that Pour streams of water may be thrown at a vibration; however well a circular saw may 
trifle, and it gives us. vegetables several weeks 0 f the year, a mild but favorable influ- time, or a less number il required. Its weight j be made in other respects, it mast be ground 
in advance ot their time. Am. Agriculturist. ence over tbe secretion of bile, improving, per- is eight thousand pounds ; it has two hoseca - ! even to work well. The collars on the arbor 
- haps, both its quality and quantity. Several riages in connection, bearing upon their reels j should be concaved a little, because a well- 
Spring Manuring.—A correspondent of individuals have been enabled to dispense with one thousand feet of hose each. The numbe ground saw gradually thickens from the teeth 
the Mass. Ploughman says : the use of aperient mediciues by employing as of men composing the company, as now adopt- to the hole.—A Saw Maker, in Scientific Am. 
I have pear trees that appeared to be dying, food a suitable Amount of this vegetable. ed in Cincinnati, is ten. Six horses are re- ' 
and had not made any wood or borne fruit for In localities in which they do'not abound, quired to draw the engine and hose—four to ~ * 
years, that matured a fine crop of fruit the they will pay for the trouble of introducing the engine, and one to each hose carriage. Yhinfse I aper.—L he Chinese have nmde 
first year after the early application of ma- and cultivating them in the garden. Neither These are the main features of the machin their peculiar kind of paper for many aunorefi 
nure, aud made on some branches 20 inches of would require more room or attention than The whole may be summed up in the words, ; - v . ears \ 1 11 is probab.e that the Arabs derived 
wood. These trees had been manured and dug Asparagus.— Cor. Ohio Farmer. that it is a steam engine of sufficient power to j tbeir jueas ot paper-making from the Chinese, 
around, and every effort made to start them __ wash four engines .—Boston Journal. . and introduced its manufacture into Spain 
the summer before, but all to no purpose. I Light Suppfrs _Oue of the great secrets of -- i early in the thirteenth century. aper was 
Wvp npjir ornft* that made hetwpen four and v r 1 7 uue 01 me great seciets or manufactured entirely by hand up to the com- 
uave pear giatts that made between lour and health is a light supper, and yet it is a great Railways in V irginia.—T he yearly re.' ! mencement ot - t ho D 4«ent century a verv la 
five feet in one season, on trees that were not self-denial, when one is hungry and tired at the way list of the American Railway Times gives borim,? and P \-nSn<Fvc process. Bv mean, of 
making any wood before. c l ose 0 f the day, to. eat little or nothing. Let 21,310 miles completed in the United States, mac bi ne rv what is accomplished now in about 
-«—--such a one take leisurely a single cup of tea and 16,975 in course of construction. Of this tbree m ; nu ’t eSi fifty years ago required at least 
Remedy for the Peach Worm. — Lay and a piece of cold bread wdth butter, and he sum, 837 miles of finished road are assigned to j t | ire e week-* tV> perform. 
arouud each tree, early iu spring, say April, will leave the table as fully pleased with himself Virginia. Our usually correct contemporary! ' '_____ _ 
half a peck to a peck of air-slaked lime, or and all the world, as if he had eaten a heavy is here mistaken. It could hardly be expected! ,, ,. ■ , ■ 
wood ashes. Spread them over the ground in meal, and be tenfold the better for it the next indeed to bring up the figures of so many lines,! d HE r ' rit p ‘ ct0 . r y w . as ' nvonte, l by 
the fall, and it will make a good dressing.— morning. Take any two men under similar in constant course of extension, to a fixed dayj a Germain >oon aucr the invention of gunpow- 
Renew again in the spring. Besides this, ex- circumstances, strong hard-working men of with absolute precision. According to ourj ^ er ’ aai ^_. ar: . er Y v ' a ? hj“st used by the Moors 
amine the trees several times during the sea- twenty-five years ; let one take his bread and reckoning, Virginia had in operation, on the at Aigefn as, in t'pam, in the siege of 1341, 
son, and il the grub has made its way into any butter with a cup of tea, and the other a hearty 1st of January, 1855, one thousand aud thir- —- 
of the trees, cut it out. Covering the tree meal of meat, bread, potatoes, and the ordinary teen miles of railway, not including the Balti-j Let the motto of every man be punctuality, 
with muslin at the time the fly lays her eggs, et ceteras, as the last meal ot the day, and I will more and Ohio road, in this State; besides; Let this virtue be manifested in a high degree 
might be effectual. The point attacked is venture to affirm, that the teardrinker will some eight hundred under contract .—WvnchesA iu all our actions, and. .life's rugged°pathway 
generally at the surface of the ground. outlive the other by thirty years. ter Virginian. 1 will be much more pleasant. 
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ie engine, and one to each hose carriage.— ( hinese Paper. Lhe Chinese have made 
hese are the main features of the machine. lbeir P ecil - iar kind of paper for many hundred 
he whole may be summed up in the words, - v , ea . rs \ ^ * s P r °bab!e that the Arabs derived 
lat it is a steam engine of sufficient power to , tbeir ideas ot paper-making from the Chinese, 
ash four engines .—Boston Journal. j and introduced its manulacture into Spain 
__ ( . . t „_ l early in the thirteenth century. 1 aper was 
| manufactured entirely by hand up to the com- 
Railways in Y irginia.— 1 he yearly rail- mencement of the present century, a very la- 
rt-rr 1 1 of r\r f hn A nirmi/ion PmlnroTT li mao mx-. ! . _ t »\ * 
