of your knife,—for if you out it you will leave a 
hole, and take otf ail the muscles and the eyes, 
leaving nothing hat the hone, and your bird is 
skinned. Give it a good coating of arsenical 
soap, and substitute cotton for the muscles re¬ 
moved, and draw the skin over it. It will aid in 
replacing the skull before skinning Is com 
menced, to pass a thread through the nostrils, 
and tie it tight around the beak. On this you 
cau pull slightly. To absorb moisture and fatty 
matter while skinning, keep the body well dusted 
with powdered chalk. 
The bird Is now ready for stuffing, hut yon must 
first prepare the wires to support it, and these 
should be of sufficient strength for the purpose. 
No. 3 for the robin, No. 1 for the pigoon. and No. 
5 for the duck, and so on in proportion to their 
Bize. It.must he annealed bypassing it through 
the lire, till it Is red hot. Blacksmith’s charcoal 
(ire, gently blown, is best. Gut the center wire 
double the length of the bird. At about one- 
third its length it is bent into an oval form, and 
twisted two turns, the shortest end being passed 
into the oval A, and B, and again brought back 
and twisted twice more round the long end, so as 
to produce a ring at the end outside the oval, 
large enough to admit the two leg wires as seen 
in engraving, It. File the point very sharp and 
straighten it. The oval must not ho larger than 
the body of the bird, but rather smaller. The 
leg wire C should be perfectly straight and well 
pointed. The tail hearer, I>, Is another oval the 
size of the first,—see engraving,—hut with two 
points. For small birds, a straight wire, pointed 
at both ends, with a ring turned and placed at 
the hip joint, to receive the leg wires, will be 
E shows the oval and tail bearer 
OCR LIVING ReprbSKNTAtive Men. From Official and 
Original Sources. By John SAVAGE. [12mo.—pp. 503.] 
Philadelphia: Childs J* Peterson. 
Tan Scriptures say there is a time for all things, and 
the enterprising publishers of the volume before us have 
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CITY OF KINGSTON, CANADA WEST 
STORIES OF INVKNTORH AND DlSCOVRRKKS I.V SCIENCE 
XSJ> thk USEFUL ARTS. A Book for Old and Young, 
By Join* Timms. F. S. A. With Illustrations. [16mo. 
pp. 473] New York: Harper & Bros. 
This volume embraces some sixty narratives, ranging 
through ages, from Archimiden to Brunei.,— though 
most of them consist of modern instances. The proroi- 
population of about 16,000, and ib the sixth com 
mercial city of Canada. Among its objeota of 
interest, are the fortifications of Fort Henry, on 
a hill upon the eastern side of the Itiileau Canal; 
two Martello Towers off the town, and other de¬ 
fensive works; the University of Queen's College; 
the Roman Catholic College of Regiopolis; and 
the Provincial Penitentiary a little to the west 
of the city. 
the scene of various sieges and exploits before 
it passed, with all the territory of the Canadas, 
from French to British rule. It was from this 
point that murderous expeditions were made by 
the Indians in the olden times against Albany 
and other English settlements of New York, 
which in turn sent back here its retributive 
blows. The present city was founded in 1783, 
and incorporated a city in 1838. It has now a 
Tiik city of Kingston is situated at the noith- 
eastern extremity of Lake Ontario, immediately 
above its outlet, the tit. Lawrence River, 108 miles 
west of Montreal, and 165 east of Toronto. The 
city, modern as it appears, looks f.ir hack fur Its 
history, as its advantageous locale did not tail to 
attract the notice of the early French discoverers. 
It was once occupied as a small fort called Cata- 
ranni. otherwise known as Frontenac, and was 
sufficient, 
inserted. 
The wires being prepared, the bird is laid on 
the table with its head turned toward the left, 
and the legs and wings adjusted in their proper 
position; a pieeo of thread is then attached to 
the first joint of each wing, from the shoulder 
inside, and they are drawn together to such a 
distance us they may be supposed to bo apart 
when tlie body was perfect. This will give them 
a set, so that they will fall into their proper 
position, if the bird is eurelully stufied. 1 lace a 
weight on the tail to keep it from moving; raise 
the feathers at the edge of the opening with your 
thumb and forefinger, or place a little cotton 
under to prevent their being soiled, and with 
your brush coat the neck with arsenical soap, 
into it, or a match is used, as either might cause 
a dangerous explosion. This odor is a providen¬ 
tial quality or property, designed, undoubtedly, 
for our safety. If the gas was destitute of odor, 
persons might, be dying from HUlTocatioii, or the 
dwelling be dashed to ruin, before a warning 
could be given. It would be next (o impossible 
to use it in our dwellings: for families would live 
in a state of dreadful apprehension. The danger 
would be far greater than it now is from the most 
explosive horning fluid; for it would be constant, 
by day arid night, whether the light is in use 
or not. 
As the oils, tallow, spermaceti, and the like, in 
burning, form carbonic acid gas and vapor of 
water, liko gas-lights, the last will prove no more 
injurious In our rooms, unless a larger proportion 
of illuminating gas is burned in tjie same time. 
Indeed, this is the danger, not so inrfch to respira¬ 
tion, as to the eyes, from the brilliancy or inten¬ 
sity of the light. The preventive is a shade. 
Rochester, N. Y., April, I860, C. D. 
sleep again. Because pain, like irritability of 
brain, perpetuates and intensities itself. If you 
have gained a respite of either in sleep, yod have 
gained more than the mere respite. Both the 
probability of recurrence and of the same inten¬ 
sity will bo diminished; whereas both will be 
terribly increased by want of sleep. This Is 
the reason why sleep is so all - important.— 
This is the reason why a patient, waked in the 
early part of his sleep, loses not only his sleep, 
hut his power to sleep. A healthy person who 
allows himself to sleep during the day, will lose 
his sleep at night; but it is exactly the reverse 
with the sick generally; the more they sleep, the 
better will they ho able to sleep.— Ibid* 
Habit.— “ I trust everything under God,” said 
Lord Brougham, "to habit, upon which, in all 
ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, 
has mainly placed his reliance; it is habit which 
makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties 
upon the deviation from a wonted course. Make 
sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hate¬ 
ful; make prudence a habit, and reckless pvotli- 
gacy.will ho as contrary to the nature of the child) 
grown or ndnlt, as the most atrocious crimes are 
to any of our lordships. Give the child the habit 
of sacredly regarding the truth, of carefully re¬ 
specting the property of others, of scrupulously 
ILLUMINATING GAS - GAS - LIGHTS. 
Sitting by our splf "idij gas-lights, the sense of 
comfort and pleasure animates us, as one recalls 
times of candles, oil-lamps, or even spermaceti. 
When the gas fails for an evening, one wonders 
that he ever lived in such gloom and obscurity 
before the gas-lights appeared. 
It had long been known that, by the distillation 
of wqod, resin, or bituminous coal, in iron retorts^ 
an inflammable gas resulted, possessing a variable 
illuminating power. At length, a very pure gas 
was obtained by heating alcohol with three or 
four times its weight of oil of vitriol. This is 
the true illuminating gas, a compound of carbon 
(charcoal,) and hydrogen, or, as the chemists call 
it, a hydro-carburet, or heavy carburetted hydro¬ 
gen, winch burns with a liame splendidly white, 
and produces a violent explosion when burned 
by three or four times its volume of oxygen. 
This illuminating gas is composed of about 85.7 
of carbon combined with 14.3 of hydrogen, to the 
hundred parts, and is very little lighter than 
air. It would be too expensive for 
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cannot be posted concerning the “feast of good things” 
monthly served therein, while, with such as watch for its 
coming, it is entirely needless to write a single word in 
its favor. The volume began with January. For sale by 
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religious Denominations os thk World; Comprising 
a General View of the Origin, History and Condition of 
the various Sects of Christian*, the Jews and Mahom¬ 
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iu the different Countries or the Earth; with Sketches 
of the Founders ot various Religious .Sects. From the 
best authorities. By Vincent Milnkk. [12mo.-pp. 
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Fundamental Ideas of Mechanics and Experimental 
Data By If. MouiN. Revised, Translated, and Re¬ 
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nett, Civil Engineer [8vo.—pp. 445.J New York: 
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atmospheric 
illumination. 
For gas lights, the dearer material distilled has 
been either whale oil, or common reaiu, or pitch; 
the last, at a rod heat, yields very excellent gas, 
at a cost of six to eight dollars a thousand feet, to 
consumers over the country. 
The cheaper material for gas-lights is bitumin¬ 
ous coal, so abundant in our coal fields. The 
lighter product of distillation is tar, salts of 
ammonia, light hydro-carburet, hydrogen, sul¬ 
phuretted hydrogen, and heavy hydro-carburet 
The more of the last, the greater is the power of 
illumination. After the deposition of the tar and 
the washing out of the salts of ammonia, the mix¬ 
ture of the other four gases moves on to be puri tied 
from the (fetid,) hydro - solphuret, by passing 
through quicklime. The other three mixed gases 
pass into the great gas-holder, to be distributed 
through the mains to the consumers. The less of 
the heavy hydro-carburet, the lighter is the gna, 
so tliat it is often used for the inflation of ballooDs. 
The lighter the gas, the less is its illuminating 
power. If, however, these mixed gases are dif¬ 
fused through the proper proportion of atmos¬ 
pheric air, on lighting the mixture a dangerous 
explosion is the result. 
When this illuminating gas burns in contact 
with common air, the carbon is burned into car¬ 
bonic acid gus, and the hydrogen into water, and 
both are evolved in our rooms. 
Another property of illuminating gas is its 
offensive odor. This odor belongs to it; but as the 
gas is burned in atmospheric air the odor is de- 
ipirable also, or, It. will uotaupport 
PRESERVATION OF BIRDS, ANIMALS, &c, 
With some of your numerous readers please 
inform me as to the method of preserving and 
stuffing birds, and much oblige— Frank, Argyle, 
Washington Co., A'. }', 
Wk have had many inquiries similar to the above, 
from Young Ruralists, to whom we have sent 
numbers containing articles previously published 
on this subject, until our stuck is exhausted. We 
have therefore reBOlved to re-puhliah as much as 
maybe necessary to give the desired information. 
Immediately after a bird is killed, the throat 
and nostrils should be stuffed with cotton, and a 
small quantity wound around the bill to prevent 
the blood staining the feathers, which should 
remain while skinning, or be replaced occasion¬ 
ally with fresh. Should there he any stain from 
shot wounds, it must he wiped oil' immediately 
with a damp Bponge. In proceeding to skin the 
tenant Donelson,” says the General, in one of his 
letters of 1821, "is young, but I trust you will 
find him modest and unassuming; possessing as 
good an edneation as any of bis age in America; 
of good, moral habits, and entirely clear of all 
the dissipations too common to the youth of the 
modem day.” Beside the young gentlemen, there 
was always a young niece or two of Mrs. Jackson 
living at the Hermitage. They could easily please 
the General with their music. Two songs espe¬ 
cially, always delighted him—“ Auld Lang Syne," 
and “Scots wha ha’ wi’ Wallace bled.” When 
ladies asked him to write something in their 
album h, he was as likely to write, “ When I can 
read my title clear,” us anything else.— “ Life of 
Andrew Jackson,” l>y James 1’ASTON. 
JIoveinent» in iHo Sick Room. 
A firm, light, quick step, a steady, quick 
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shutlling foot, the timid, uncertain touch. Slow¬ 
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quite compatible. Again, if friendB and doctors 
did hut watch, as nurses can and should watch, 
the features sharpening, the eyes growing almost 
wild, of fever patients who are listening tor the 
entrance from the corridor of the persons whose 
voltes they are hearing there, these would never 
run the risk again of creating such expectation or 
irritation of mind. Such unnecessary noiBC Ihib 
undoubtedly induced or aggravated delirium in 
many cases. I have known such—in one case 
death ensued .— 11 Notes on Nursingby Florence 
Nightingale. 
Noise. 
Never to allow a patient to be waked, inten¬ 
tionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all 
good nursing. If he Is roused out of his first 
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Another method Is to make a body of flax, by 
winding it on a wire, and drawing it with a string 
to the required shape, measuring the body of the 
bird with calipers. After getting it as near the 
size as possible, introduce it into the skiu, filling 
up any deficiency that may bo discovered in 
sewiug up. The wire must be [minted and pass 
through the skull, as in the preceding method. 
[This Hubject will be continued in our next, 
when we will give the composition and method 
of making the arsenical soap recommended, and 
all necessary information in regard to mounting, 
putting in the eyes, &c.] 
stroyed. It is irrespirabte ulsO, Or, It will notsupport 
life by respiration; an animal or man would soon 
die in it for want of breath, or of that air whieh 
we breathe to live. It is a dangerous gas, as it 
may destroy by explosion or by suffocation from 
being irrespiruble. 
Though its offensive odor is destroyed by com¬ 
bustion, this very odor becomes our safe-guar a and 
protection. It shows us that the gas is leaking 
from the pipes, and that danger is approaching. 
The room must be ventilated, if the gas is in any 
considerable quantity, before a light is brought 
Be Punctual.— When Washington's Secretary 
excused himself for the lateness of his attendance, 
and laid the blame upon his watch, his master 
quietly said, “ Then you must get another watch, 
or I another Secretary.”— Smiles' Self Help. 
A docile disposition will, with application, sur 
mount every difficulty. — Manlius. 
