MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
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FRUIT PROSPECTS, CROPS, ETC. 
Eds. Rural :— The accounts you have, 
from time to time, published in your columns, 
in respect to the fruit prospects in Western 
New York, describe the condition of things 
in this locality pretty well. 
As to peaches, they are nowhere to be 
found in all this region. Plums would be 
abundant, if we only had the benefit of the 
Hon. Mr. Matthews’ “infallible curculio 
remedy,” or some other. As it is, however, 
that remorseless depredator has taken far 
more than his just proportion of them. Our 
pear trees are bearing well, and the fruit 
promises to be unusually fine. Cherries and 
strawberries were plenty and very fine this 
season. Apples were never more plenty or 
finer than they now promise to be. The 
grape crop in this section is mostly a total 
failure; and this I attribute to the severe 
drouth of last season. During the summer 
months the vines did not make their usual 
amount of growth, but as soon as the rains 
commenced in the fall, they began to grow, 
and continued to grow vigorously, much later 
than usual, or until the frost killed the foliage. 
Thus the time spent in ordinary seasons in 
ripening the young wood, was last season oc¬ 
cupied in growing it, and hence the wood did 
not ripen. Under these circumstances, I 
think any ordinary winter would have killed 
the most of the fruit buds. Be this as it may, 
they became an easy prey to the intense cold 
of last February. However, the vines are 
not killed, and they will fully recover this sea¬ 
son and become “just as good as new,” as a 
sufficient number of dormant buds on the old 
wood have grown to afford an abundant sup¬ 
ply of branches for fruiting next season. 
While engaged a few days since in tying 
some grape branches upon the trellis, I dis¬ 
covered that the old wood was throwirg out 
numerous roots, many of them three or four 
inches in length, and as large as No. 14 wire. 
In some instances, this singular process was 
going on full six feet from the ground.— 
Whether they had any very sanguine hopesof 
ever reaching the ground, I know not. The 
cause of this is, of course, involved in no 
mystery. The unusual duration of hot and 
wet weather during July and a part of Au¬ 
gust explains it fully. They were only imi¬ 
tating the wheat in the adjoining fields. This 
singular freak of nature is not confined to a 
single vine, but is observable all over the 
vineyard. 
The farmers in all this region have secured 
a bountiful crop of wheat, nearly all of it 
more or less sprouted, but probably not as bad 
as was at first anticipated. 
I was sorry to see an account in a late 
number of the Rural of my old friend 
Brooks’ loss on wheat last season 1 — $1,800 
is a large sum for one man to lose on one 
crop of wheat. I suppose if he had raised 
8,000 bushels his loss would have been just 
double what it was. Well, he must not raise 
such large crops of wheat if he don’t want to 
meet with heavy losses on it. After all, if he 
had stated how much he made on his crop by 
selling it for more than he expected to at the 
time he sowed it, I doubt not he would have 
shown a pretty fair balance on the right side 
of the amount. If he gets fifteen and six” 
offered for his crop this season, I don’t believe 
he will lose anything by taking it. 
Oats, rye, and barley, hereabouts, are all 
uncommonly good crops. Corn was very 
backward the fore part of the season, but at 
the present time promises to be more than an 
average crop. And never since the potato 
rot came in fashion has there been so large a 
potato crop as we are likely to have this sea 
son—and up to this time I hear of no serious 
symptoms of disease among them. 
The crop of hay is so abundant that our 
farmers cannot hope to realize more for their 
surplus than barely enough to pay them for 
the labor expended in sowing it. Of course, 
if they act wisely they will increase their 
stock of cattle, sheep, Ac., and consume it on 
their farms. Yours, E. A. McKay. 
Naples, N. Y., Aug., 1S55. 
Canker Worms. — Mr. William Plumer, 
of Lexington, a correspondent of the Boston 
Journal, recommends covering the ground 
under apple trees with muriate of lime, as a 
remedy lor the destructive ravages ot the 
canker worm. This preparation should be 
applied immediately, and dug in the fall. 
Mr. Plumer has seen it trial with excellent 
success. The next spring after the applica¬ 
tion, not a canker worm was to be seen in 
the trees to which it was applied. He says 
it has been tested both in this country, and 
in England, and in every case with perfect 
success. 
The Charter Oak Grape —Mr. J. D. In- 
gersoll writes us that this grape has been of¬ 
fered in his vicinity and successfully sold at a 
high price by “ humbugging pretenders as a 
delicious Muscat; say two to five dollars a 
root, according to age and quality!” This 
grape is utterly valueless, and the sale of it 
around the country among ill-informed people 
is rank imposture. Every man should set his 
face against it.— Horticulturist. 
THE TRUFFLE. 
“ It has been suggested to the Patent. Office 
that measures be taken to introduce the truf 
lie into the United Sta’es. This esculent has 
been a favorite dish of epicures from time im¬ 
memorial to the present day, and yet, strange 
to say, they have always been scarce and high- 
priced, few knowing how to raise them.” 
Friend Moore :—Noticing the above in 
the Rural of Aug. 25th, and feeling that the 
introduction of the esculent indicated would 
prove a valuable acquisition to cur vegetable 
productions, I have obtained some data in re- 
ga.td to its history, uses, habits, <fec. 
The Truffle is a species of fungu.s growing 
entirely under ground, sometimes called the 
ground-mushroom. Form, irregular; color, 
dark grey or brown ; surface, a thick, wart 
like skin ; flesh, firm, cellular, veiny in ap¬ 
pearance, and of a brownish hue; size, vary¬ 
ing from a filbert to as large as the fist. Be¬ 
fore maturity it has merely an earthy smell ; 
when ripe it diffuses a peculiar, powerful and 
pleasant odor. Ripe, end of August or early 
in September. It is to be found in most 
parts of the globe. The southern portions of 
Italy, Spain, France and England seem best 
adapted to its full development. It chooses 
open forest grounds, and plantations of decid¬ 
uous trees, where the soil is a light loam and 
well shaded. 
The principal use of the Truffle is for fla¬ 
voring the more expensive aDd luxuriant kinds 
of animal food. They are also eaten roasted, 
boiled, prepared in sauces, catsups, and in 
sweet oil, similar to the Sardine. Game of 
all kinds and meat pies of every description, 
are plentifully savored with them — to so 
great use are they put in France that a culi¬ 
nary department of any pretensions has its 
compound of these delicacies in some form. 
Many attempts have been made to bring 
this vegetable under cultivation but without 
success, as no one has found how it is dissem¬ 
inated or what areitsorgaDS of fructification. 
If th : s starting point has been attained, their 
culture would doubtless be profitable, their 
value in English markets ranging from two 
to three dollars per pound. w. t. k. 
Franklin Square, N. Y., 1355. 
Choice Summer Apples — Ripening in 
August, and in eating till the 10th of Sep¬ 
tember. We have tested during August of 
this season, four varieties of summer apples, 
which should be in all collections—viz., Sum¬ 
mer Rose, Summer Queen, Benoni, and Early 
Joe. They are sprightly, juicy and tender, 
and we recommend them highly.— j. h. w. 
To Preserve a Boquf.t. — A florist of 
many years experience gives the following re- 
cpie for preserving boquets for an indefinite 
period, may be useful to our lady readers : 
When you receive a boquet sprinkle it 
lightly with fiesh water. Then put it into a 
vessel containing some soap-suds; this will nu¬ 
trify the roots, and keep the flowers as bright 
as new. Take the boquet out of the suds ev¬ 
ery morning and lay it sideways) the stock 
entering first) into clean water ; keep it there 
a minute or two, then take it out and sprinkle 
the flowers lightly by the hand with water.— 
Replace it in the soap-suds, and it will bloom 
as fresh as when first gathered. The soap¬ 
suds need changing every three or four days. 
By observing these rules a boquet can be kept 
bright and beautiful for at least a month, and 
will last still longer in a very passable state ; 
but attention to the fair and frail creatures, 
as directed above, must be strictly observed, 
or all will perish. 
Melon Apple.— A late number of the 
Horticulturist has a beautiful cut of this ap¬ 
ple, which is now obtaining so great celebrity 
in New York and the East. We have never 
saen but a single specimen of the apple. — 
About nine years ago a friend, returning 
from Central New York, brought us some 
specimens of different varieties of fruit, and 
among them some Northern Spys, over which 
he seemed to desire us to be much elated.— 
After test mg these, we came upon a rich, red, 
good sized, symmetrical apple, and which 
seemed to us to excel any apple we had ever 
eaten. On inquiring the name of it, we were 
told it was a new variety called the “ Melon” 
apple. We have never forgotten that fruit, 
and are not surprised at the celebrity it i3 now 
obtaining. Judging by that spe:imen, it is 
as much superior to the Northern Spy as the 
Spy is to a cucumber. True, further ac¬ 
quaintance with it might modify our opinion 
of it somewhat; but we are ready to say of 
it, a3 we have said of single good speeches, 
that the man who could make one such ought 
to be able to make more.— Prairie Farmer. 
Cucumber Seed. — Some people do not 
know how to cleaixse the cucumber seeds 
which they save from their own gardens.— 
They cut the cucumbers open, dry them and 
dig out the seed with the dried mucilage ad¬ 
hering to the seeds. A better way is—when 
the cucumbers are ripe, cut them open and 
scrape out the seed, with all the mucilage, in¬ 
to an iron or tin vessel large enough to con¬ 
tain them. Rut water into the vessel and set 
it in a place moderately warm. In a few 
hours fermentation will take place, that will 
collect all the mucilage together on the top of 
the water, leaving the sound and heavy seeds 
to sink clean at the bottom. Pour off the 
water with the thick stuff on the top, and then 
you have the seeds clean. Put them where 
they will dry, and then lay them away till 
next spring.— Rural Intelligencer. 
PRESERVATION OF FRUIT, Ac. 
Mr. Grf.ely, in a recent letter to the New 
York Tribune, on the Paris Exhibition, 
speaking of an invention by M. Masson, for 
the preservation of all descriptions of fruit and 
vegetables says: 
The process consists mainly, I am inform¬ 
ed, in the slow and complete evaporation of 
the wa 4 er contained in the esculents to be pre¬ 
served, by means of a series of ovens, in which 
they are subjected first to a very gentle, after¬ 
ward to a higher, but still moderate warmth, 
until the last particle of moisture has exhaled. 
The dried residuum is. now simply packed in 
papers, (not air-tight cans,) where it may re¬ 
main for years under any skies, subjected to 
any sudden alteration of temperature, and 
when opened requires only to be soaked in 
water to restore it to its original state. I 
see no reason why fruits may not in time be 
operated on with like success, and thus 
peaches, grapes, strawberries, pine-apples, 
&c., be enjoyed not merely at all seasons but 
in all climates, and a whaler frozen up in 
Lancaster Sound make his G’hristmas dinner 
of turtle soup, roast (fre3h) beef, green peas, 
cucumbers, apricots, bananas, muskmelons, 
and all the delicac’es of New York or Paris 
of every season. This process, I learn, has 
now been several years in use, until its suc¬ 
cess on the largest scale is no longer a ques¬ 
tion. I presume it has ere this been trans¬ 
planted to the United States ; if not, it speed¬ 
ily should be. It is of far more consequence 
to mankind than the fate of Sebastopol. 
Setting Tea Things. — Instead of ever- 
recurriDg clatter and the loss of time inciden¬ 
tal to putting all that i3 wanted twice a day 
in most families entirely away, and getting it 
out again for breakfast and tea, I have learned 
to get the necessary articles ready for the next 
meal immediately after washing them up from 
the former. Of course, this necessitates the 
consecration of one tray to cups and saucers, 
&c , and will make it advisable to find or pro¬ 
vide a shelf wide enough to hold it. But, as 
materially hastening to the operation of 
“ bringing tea ” fourteen times in every week, 
it would be worth some contrivance, for its 
comfortable accomplishment in all houses. It 
might be a curious test of the comparative 
prevalence of what is by courtesy termed 
“ common sense,” to ascertain how many indi¬ 
viduals in the different classes of mistresses and 
servants, in their endeavors to carry out the 
above method, would naturally wash the tray 
firsthand how many would begin with the 
cups and saucers.— Godey's Ladies’’ Book. 
To Preserve Plums. —Make a syrup of 
clean bro^n sugar, clarify as directed in the 
recipes ; when perfectly clear and boiling hot, 
pour it over the plums, having pieked out all 
unsound ones and stems ; let them remain in 
the syrup two days, then drain it off; make it 
boiliDg hot, skim it, and pour it over again ; 
let them remain another day or two, then put 
them in a preserving kettle ever the fire, and 
simmer gently until the syrup is reduced, and 
thick or rich. One pound of sugar for each 
pound of plums. Small damsons are very fine 
preserved as cherries or any other ripe fruit; 
clarify the syrup, and when boiling hot put in 
the plums; let them boil very gently until 
they are cooked, and the syrup rich. Put 
them in pots or jars ; and secure as directed 
To Make Good Apple Jelly. —Take ap¬ 
ples of the best quality and good flavor, (not 
too sweet.) cut them iu quarters or slices and 
stew them till soft; then strain ont the juice, 
being careful not to let any of the pulp go 
through the strainer. Boil it to consistency 
of molasses, then weigh it ard add as many 
pounds of crushed sugar, stirring it constantly 
till the sugar is dissolved. Add one ounce of 
extract of lemon to every twenty pounds of 
jelly, and when cold set it away in close jars. 
It will keep fer years. Those who have not 
made in this way will do well to try it; they 
will find it superior to currant jelly. 
One Way to Cook Chickens. — The fol¬ 
lowing is highly recommended :—“ Cut the 
chicken up, put it in a pan and cover it over 
with water ; let it stew as usual, and when 
dene make a thickening of cream and flour, 
adding a piece of butter and pepper and salt; 
have made and baked a pair of short cakes, 
made as for pie-crust, but rolled thin and cut 
in small squares. This is much better than 
chicken pie and more simple to make. The 
crusts should belaid on a dish, and the chick¬ 
en gravy put over it while both are hot.” 
Cheap Carpeting —Sew together strips of 
the cheapest cotton cloth, of the size of the 
room, and tack the edges to the floor. Then 
paper the cloth with any sort of room paper. 
After being well dried give it two coats of 
varnish, and your carpet is complete. It can 
be washed like carpets without injury, retains 
its gloss, and on chambers or sleeping rooms, 
where it will not meet with rough usage, it 
will last two years as good as new. 
To Make Watermelon Butter. —Split the 
watermelon open, with a spoon scrape out the 
pulp into a cullender, and strain the water 
into vessels : boil it down to syrup ; then put 
iu apples or peaches, like making apple butter 
or any kind of preserves. Or the syrup may 
be boiled without fruit down to molasses, 
which will be found to be as fine as the best 
I sugar house molasses. 
Fleas, Bed-Bugs, Ac.— A writer in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle recommends the use of 
oil of wormwood to keep off the insects above 
named. Put a few drops on a handkerchief 
or a piece of folded muslin, and put in the 
bed haunted by the enemy. Neither of these 
tribes can bear wormwood, and the hint is 
especially commended to travelers who are li¬ 
able to foil among the topers of blood. 
LIST OF PATENTS. 
Issved frtrtn. the United States Patent Offiee far the week 
ending Aug. 21. 1865. 
C. W. Blakeslee, Northfleld, Conn., improvement in 
condlesticks. 
John C. Briggs, Concord, N. H., improvement in the 
application of the conical pendulum to time keepers. 
William Burnett, Cincinnati improvement in sealing 
cans. 
Almond C. Buffum, Chicago, improvement in obstetri¬ 
cal extractor. 
Edward Campbell, Columbus, Ohio, improvement in 
glass journal box. 
Dugald Campbell. New York, for swimming glove. 
John D. Dale, Philadelphia, improved wrench. 
Henry Ealing, New York, improved basin stop cock. 
Wm. Helds and Solomon Gerhard, Wilmington, Dei., 
improved pressure water-wheel. 
Sylvester II. Gray, Bridgeport, Conn , improvement 
in pumps. . 
ohn L. Hardeman, Arrow Rock, Mo., improvement 
in hemp cutters. 
Horace L. Hervey, Quincy. Ill., and Robert D. Osborne, 
Springfield, Ohio, improvement in bridges. 
John and Thomas Hope, Providence, machines for en¬ 
graving calico printers rollers. 
Joseph Hyde, New York, improved apparatus for ves¬ 
sels, to indicate their locality, when they sink, and to 
apply a means of raising them. 
Kbenezer Jeffreys, I)«rchester, Mass., Improvement in 
railroad car seats. 
Benjamin F. Lawton M. D., Troy, for improvement in 
journal box alloys. 
Lewis H. Lefebvre, New Orleans, for improvement in 
warm bath apparatus. 
John Matthews, Jr., of-'New York, improvrmect in 
pressure guages. 
Augustus McBurih, Elizabeth, N. J., improvement in 
percussion projectiles. 
Stephen P. Ruggies, Boston, hand rtamp. 
Albert M. Smith. Rochester, improvement in railroad 
car seats. 
John Woodward, Wilmot Flat, N. II , improvement in 
horse yokes. 
Alonzo E. Young, Dorchester, Mass., assignor to him¬ 
self and Mark Worthley, Boston, Mass., improved door 
knob. 
John Swyncy. assignor to himself and Jame3 Dan- 
dridge, Boston, Mas3., improvement in breech-loading 
migazine fire-arms. 
Charles Ketchum, Penn Yan, assignor to Charles G. 
Judd and Andrew Oliver, of same place, machtne for 
sawing shingles. 
Daniel S. James, New Market. Va., assignor to himself 
.1 B. White, Dinwiddle C. H., Va., and J. W. McIntyre, 
Dinwiddie county, Va., improvement in corn and cob 
mills. 
Wm. C. Densain, Boston, assignor to A. B. Ely, of the 
same place, machine for paging books, &c. 
Albert Bingham, Poston, assignor in himself and An¬ 
drew J. Bailey, of same place, for burglar’s alarm. 
John Cram, Boston, assignor to himself and John S. 
Cram, of same place, improvement in folding chairs. 
Chas. S. Bradfleld Philadelphia, improvement in har¬ 
vesters. 
Dexter H. Chamberlain, West Roxbury, Mass., for 
improvement in curtain rollers. 
John J. Crooke, Sew York, improvement in window 
shades. 
RK-IsSUES. 
Wm. G. Phillips, Newport, Del., method of closing and 
opening gates. Patented March 7, 1854. 
Hugh and James Sangster, of Buffalo, improvement in 
lanterns. Patented June 10, 1854. 
DESIGNS. 
Minnard H. Fowler and Enoch Jacobs Cincinnati, de¬ 
signs for iron railings. 
ADDITIONAL ISIFROVIMENT. 
Wm. D. Jones, Poughkeepsie, asfignor to Henry 
Whinfleld, of New York, improvement in propellers.— 
! Patented April 17, 1855. 
THE H00SAC TUNNEL. 
The firm of Edward W. Serrell & Co , be 
new contractors upon this great work, are 
pushing their enterprise with much spirit — 
The town subscriptions having been comple¬ 
ted, a large force has been employed at each 
extremity of the Tunnel, and by a slight 
charge in the route the length of the road 
has been diminished and the eastern approach 
to the Tunnel materially improved. A force 
of about 500 men is distributed aloDg the 
line of the work, and more advertised for. 
Shanties have been erected for the men, and 
some $40,000 has been expended in construc¬ 
tion since the work was commenced. A little 
west of the Hoosac in North Adams, a short 
tunnel of 400 feet in length is in rapid pro¬ 
gress through strata of mica slate, resembling 
those which compose the mountain. Here 
two parties are at work with one change of 
hands on two faces, working but sixteen 
hours daily, and their progress in those six¬ 
teen hours has for some time past averaged 
ten to twelve feet, being at the rate of fifteen 
to eighteen feet per day of twenty-four hours. 
Should the rate of progress be continued, the 
mountain will be perforated by I860. We 
learn further that the contractors have by no 
means abandoned the idea of usirg mechanism 
on the main tunnel, but have a machine in 
progress at the Novelty Works in New York, 
of an improved construction, designed to open 
a drift of eight feet in diameter in advance of 
the tunnel. The diminished size will render 
it more managable than the larger machine, 
and the workmen who follow it can easily 
enlarge the aperture by splitting ont the stra¬ 
ta of slate, which are nearly perpendicular. 
WETTING BRICKS. 
Very few people, or even builders, are 
aware of the advantage of wetting bricks be¬ 
fore laying them, or if they are aware of it, 
they do not practice it; for of the many 
houses now in progress in this city, there are 
very few in which wet bricks are used. A 
wall twelve inches thick, built of good mortar 
with bricks well soaked, is stronger in every 
respect than one sixteen inches thick, built 
dry. The reason of this is, that if the bricks 
are saturated with water, they will not ab¬ 
stract from the mortar the moisture which is 
necessary to its crystelization ; and on the 
contrary they will unite chemically with the 
mortar, and become solid as a reck. On the 
other hand, if the bricks are put up dry, they 
immediately take all the moisture from the 
mortar, leaving it too dry to harden, and the 
consequence is, that when a building of this 
description is taken down or tumbles down of 
its own accord, the mortar from it is like so 
much sand.— Scientific American. 
A Monster Railway along the whole 
THE WINDS. course of the Mississippi river from New Or- 
- leans to the Falls of St. Anthony, is spoken 
The New York Tribune in its report of of by the Dubuque Tribune as being in pro- 
the meeting at Providence of the American cess of construction. From New Orleans to 
Association for the advancement of Science, Memphis the road lies east cf the river, ard 
<. j!_• „ „ __j the distance 13 390 miles. At Memphis it 
tt-- ^ T - i , , cresses to the Arkansas side of the river, and 
by Capt. Y ilkks, L. S. IN., on the oubject of traverses that State seventy miles. From the 
winds : Arkansas boundary to the city of St. Louis, 
Capt. Wilkes approached this subject with H is called the St. Louis and Iron Mountain 
diffidence, as the theory of storms is very old. Rrailroad, and is in chayge of a company 
There is found to be a belt of heated water w .Rieh is making preparations to run an en- 
running around the world. The equator of fP Ee on R* this year. From St. Louis to St. 
heat lies mostly north of the Equator, dipping Charles, Mo., it is called the North Missouri 
only once south of the Equator for a few de- R&Rroad. From thence to Keokuk, Iowa, it 
grees in the centre of the Pacific. Tempera- is „ called the Mississippi Valley Railroad 
ture is the great destroyer of the equilibrium ^ortb, and a company has been organized to 
of the atmosphere. Franklin first discovered build the line one hundred and forty miles.— 
that a north-west storm began at the south- from thence to St. Anthony, Minnesota, corn- 
west Trade winds have no connection with P aE * €s a ' e already chartered to build the 
the rotary motion of the earth. Under the rEad - When fin *Led, as all these various di- 
Equator we find winds blowing from the west, visions will be at no distant day, Ike road will 
Take the world over, there is mere west wind °e t ~ ae largest m the world. 
than from the east. The south-east trade -—-«*■» - 
winds are entirely different trom these of the The Steam Whistle.— Many persons who 
north. Trade-windi never blow home to the are constantly in the way of listening to the 
land—calms or monsoons intervene. In the horrid howl of the steam whistle, are unac- 
Pacific the trade winds are much more irreg- quainted with the mechanical means by which 
u’ar than in the Atlantic. The heated belt its effects are produced. The whistle is form- 
of water, the heated deserts, and the heatei ed of two cups, placed one above the other, 
mass of water in the centre of the Pacific, are and opening towards one another. The lower 
the causes of trade wmds. All of them rush cup is nearly filled by a ball or gland, so as 
toward the heated areas. The circulation of to leave a narrow annular opening of 1-32 
the atmosphere is not between the Equator inch in width, around the edge of the cup.— 
and Poles, but between the upper and lower The upper cup is hollow, and its lower edge 
regions of the atmosphere. Y hen the trade- is about one inch, or iy^ inches from the 
winds pass the Andes they make a leap of lower cup. By admitting steam through a 
300 or 400 mi.es before touching the sea again, valve to the lower cup, it escapes through an 
and in that space are the monsoons. V hen annular opening and impirges against the 
the sun is vertical the trade winds are fitful edge of the inverted cup. This produces the 
and sqnally, and not regular as the monsoons ; sound. The heaviest whistles for locomotives 
are. The land and the sea breezes are the il- are six inches in diameter. The hollow up b er 
lustration of all winds, and even of storms.— cup is made of sheet brass or copper. 
Cold air will go the warm, and never the __ 
warm te the cold. No return current was F .„ rTRir LiriIT _p rof (v] ]a . y BV rwvnt 
noted at the top of Mannahoa. The earth , V,- , , . ‘ . .". , ~ 
, , F f ., , , ly published an interesting paper, giving the 
does not slip sway from its atmosphere, as ™ lt3 of a serie! of bv him 
metereolcgists suppose. Thts is shown by on decomposition of water by the galvanic 
he ascent of aeronauts. Here he proved to b wit A view ob . ata aconstant and 
the sat.sfact.on of aU doubters that the winds bril|ja £ t Une ,j ht He statfs , hat gcme of 
are not caused by the inert., of the atmos- hig expetiments \ aTe led bim t0 wieTe , bat 
phere, letting the earth slip past it, which, if . AL f th arrar „ empnt of thp P i Pctr odra 
it made the wind, would make it blow 1,000 meanS 01 tEe arrangementot tneeiectrodes 
miles an hour. There are uo rain-beaiing f or a cnIren ‘ £ W‘“tensity.the decompcs- 
winds. Vapor percolates or Alters through . ! c 6 |°'»lf t:he 1cattery may be eonstderably 
,, , ,u . , ,, . °j increased, but from other experiments he was 
the atmosphere, and travels against the wind. qompwhat disTHwd t o infer that bv such ar 
On a point of the western coast of South somewEat dls P°^ cd t0 1Eter tbat by suc ? 
4 .v . , . ., . . , 4 . rangement no lacrease of power can be gained. 
America in the rainy season it rains just fave T y.Jr Professor nromisrs to relieve his doubts 
hours each day, and then clears ofl, audit , e , F ‘ 
takes the sun just about the same time to : fnrther > a «st,gatiors.-A. 1. Eve. Post. 
cross the Atlantic, and it seems to bring its ;-- - 
daily supply of rain with it. Monster Guns. — Wrought-iron guns of 
_, ,... _monster size and calibre are in course of man- 
Tub Hartford Time, claims that the largest ! afact “I e »< ,' be ( ir0D Nas “J th f 
silk factory in the Union, is the one at South “ ear Manchester. They will be upwards of 
Manchester. Connecticut, which, with its three feet m dtamei®. and about twelve feet 
branch at Hartford, gives employment to I lM f “P W . ±n(f 
about five hundred operators, ami btings into m ‘i,S The Art Sn't'a^ 
“ Fren,:h ° r ?hftf ZsIt efpS’ 
k h PP y ' from these guns, on acconnt of a defective 
*■■**■*mode of mounting them, no allowance being 
A photograph on steel is said to be a feat made for horizontal recoil in the manner they 
accomplished in Paris. I are slung. 
cup is made of sheet brass or copper, 
Electric Light.— Prof. Callan has recent¬ 
ly published an interesting paper, giving the 
