was formerly rua through the hill is stnck into 
the cork, which will act as a support to the bird's 
head, while drying, and may be placed in any po¬ 
sition required; and if the wings arc to be ele¬ 
vated, place a little c otton under them. Place 
the box out of reach of suu or fire, that it may 
dry slowly, and frequently adjust the feathers. 
When the legs begin to stillon, place them in their 
desired position, arrange and curve the toes, so 
as to hold a branch,in which, when the bird is dry, 
place two spikes for their reception. 
It is often difficult to get branches of trees that 
are suitable for arranging groups upon, and they 
can ho made to any shape by a frame of wire, and 
winding round it 11 ax, securing it with a string, 
and covering with green or brown paper; or bet¬ 
tor, by Bizing and coating the paper with thick 
white paint, which may be covered with moss, 
| dried and rubbed with the hand and dusted on. 
All subjects should bojkept in glass cases, or the 
flies and dust in one season will spoil all your 
labor. 
SKINNING IJITADRUPETI8. 
Plug up the mouth, nostrils, and any shot holes, 
with cotton, lay it on its back, and make a longi¬ 
tudinal incision in the skin of the abdomen, ta¬ 
king care not to penetrate the abdominal muscles, 
lu this operation the hairs must be carefully sep¬ 
arated to the right and left, and nono of them cat 
if possible. Separate the skin to the right and 
left, putting pads of cotton between it and the 
muscles, as you proceed. After removing the 
skin as far as the incision will permit, each 
of the thigh hones mast be separated at its 
junction with the body. The intestinal canal 
is then cut across and the tail cut off as 
close to tho body us possible. After this the pel¬ 
vis is palled out of the skin, and the skin removed 
from the back until the shoulders are reached, 
which are cut at, the shoulder joint. Bkin tho 
neck and cutoff the head at tho upper joint, extract 
the brain by enlarging the bole through which the 
spinal marrow passes, and remove all the muscles 
Care must be taken not to 
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Hems art> a score or more of vigorous, natural and 
withal humorous sketches, recounting the haps aud mis¬ 
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what, betel them among wild beasts and Indians, and 
stories and anecdotes related around their camp Arcs. 
Most of the sketches were ori.inally published in the 
Spirit of the Times, under the title of ** Cnmp-l'ire Sto- 
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in the more dignified book form. Mingling the humor¬ 
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CAYUGA IIHMIGE — FOOT OP f'AYt'G A LAKE, 
After having examined the ruins of the bridge 
and other points of interest, we went on board of 
a pretty little steamer, the Kate Morgan, and soou 
were steaming up the lake. The water is clear 
and deep, the bunks presenting every variety of 
the graceful and beautiful in scenery, while some 
pleasant village was almost constantly In view. 
Nothing can surpass in rural beauty the slopes 
of both eastern and western shores, smiling with 
forests, fields, and hamlets. There may be lakes 
more beautiful than Cayuga, but we have never 
seen them, and we thought that neither Nature 
nor Art could add another grace. 
The lake is about 111) miles in length, and vary¬ 
ing from one to four miles in breadth. Ithaca iB 
at tho head, or southern extremity, and Cayuga 
at the foot. Some six or seven miles from the 
bridge, on the eastern shore, is the pretty village 
of Union Springs. Here the traveler might spend 
a day very pleasantly, and in August should visit 
the elegant natural flower garden a mile or two 
north of the village, oil the border of the lake, 
called Hibiscus Point. 
It was at Union BpringB the venerable David 
Tuomas spent the lust years of his life. A little 
further south we come to the little village of D«- 
vanna, where the eye is at once attracted and 
oh armed by the quiet, rural beauty of Ingleside, a 
line old mansion, surrounded with woods and 
green fields, spotted over with flocks and herds. 
This is the residence and farm of W. It. GhinnBLI. 
and it was here that Washington Irving de¬ 
lighted to spend a few woeks in rural pleasures. 
A few miles further south is tho charming vil¬ 
lage of Aurora. A settlement was commenced 
here in 1700, and it was the first point settled in 
Cayuga county. The shore of the lake is lined 
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seas. (Jn their bosom the Morm-Mng hotels uis 
revels, while, as far as tho eye can penetrate 
naught is to be seen hut the crested waves and 
the blue horizon, often gilded by the setting sun 
as it sinks beneath the waste of waters. But, in 
Western and Central Ncvr York, we have many 
beautiful small lakes, and one of the most charm¬ 
ing of these is the Cayuga. 
Often, in our travels by railroad, had we crossed 
the northern extremity of tho lake—for the track 
of the “old road,” between Auburn and Geneva, 
lies directly across, as seen in the engraving, but 
we were never fairly upon its waters until last 
summer, when, on one of those warm days in 
August, when a little relaxation is so pleasant and 
beneficial, we found ourselves on board of the 
ears with a ticket for Cayuga Bridge. After a 
few hours’ ride we left the cars at the Bridge, as 
the station is called, though the “ long bridge 
shown in the engraving, hud been swept away by 
the ice a year or so previous. This bridge was 
commenced in 1798, by a New York company, and 
completed in 18 months, at an expense of $150,- 
000. The grant to the company extended through 
a period of 75 years, and has not yet expired. The 
bridge was a mile and a quarter in length, and 
twenty-two feet in width, and was on the great 
Genesee Turnpike, following nearly the old trail 
of the Iroquois Indians from the Hudson to Lake 
Erie. Before the building of the Erie Canal this 
was the great thoroughfare, and the Bridge was, 
for a long time, regarded as the connecting link 
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clean from tho skull, 
injure the eye lids, and to cut the ears as close to 
tho skull as possible. The fore legs are now 
drawn out of the skin as far as tho claws of the 
foot, and all the muscles removed; but be careful 
not to injure the ligaments and tendons. These 
should bo left adhering to the knee. When clean¬ 
ed return them into tho skin, and treat the hind 
legs in the same way. Lay bare the first two or 
three joints of the tail, tie firmly around them a 
small oord, fasten the other end to a nail or hook 
in the wall, and introduce a pointed stick between 
the tail and tho skin, and by, forcing tho stick tho 
tail will come ont of its sheath. Remove all fat 
or muscles that may remain, and the skinning is 
completed. 
• STUFFING qUADRUPEDS. 
First prepare the wires by taking annealed wire 
of sullioient strength to support the animal; the 
center wire must be six or eight inches longer 
than the animal from the extremity of the tail to 
the head. A ring must be turned on the wire at 
tiie hip joint, leaving enough on the shortest end 
t.o reach tho extremity of tho tail by correct 
measurement. Another-ring must he turned at 
the shoulder joint, and the end pointed sharp. 
Four other wires must bo prepared for the legs, 
and pointed. Make an artificial tail of liax or 
cotton, bind it in shape with a string, give it a 
coat of paste, and when dry, another of arsenical 
soap. 
The skin is uow extended on a table, and the 
skull pushed back again into the skin. It must 
be well coated with the preservative, and all the 
muscles replaced with chopped cotton, or llax. 
The long wire is now passed through the middle 
of the skull and skin. The inner surface of the 
skin is now thoroughly coated with arsenical soap. 
The tail may be coated by tying a piece of old 
cotton cloth on a wire and introducing it into tho 
skin. Put In the artificial tail and lay under the 
wire, along the back, a layer of cotton. Then 
stuff the neck, but nothing like pressure must be 
used, as the skin will stretch with the least force. 
Next put in a fore log wire, along the hack of the 
bone, and the point passed out under the highest 
ball of the paw; draw up the bones of the leg into 
the body, and tic the urm and foro arm to the wire. 
The muscles that were removed must be perfectly 
imitated. Every protuberance and cavity must 
exhibit its natural appearance in the attitude 
you intend to represent. The wire 
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Between two does, which hath the deeper mouth, 
Between two blades, which hath the better temper, 
Between two horses, which doth bear him best., 
Between two girls, which hath the merr.rr eye, 
I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment; 
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Good faith! I am no wiser than a daw,'* 
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Night Air. 
An extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night 
air. What air can we breathe at night but night 
air? The choice ia between pure night air from 
without and foul nigbt air from within. Moat 
people prefer the latter. An unaccountable 
choice. What will they say if it ia proved to be 
true that fully one-half of all the disease we 
suffer from Ib occasioned by people sleeping with 
their windows shut? An open window most 
nights in the year can never hurt any one. This 
ia not to say that light ia not necessary for re¬ 
covery. In great cities night air its often the best 
and purest air to be had in the twenty-four hours. 
I could better understand shutting the windows 
in towns, during the day, than during the night, 
for the sake of the sick. The absence of smoke, 
the quiet, all tend to make night the best time 
for airing the patient. One of onr highest medi- 
A Voyage Down the Amook: With a Land Journey 
through Siberia, and incidental Notices of Manchooria, 
Kawscliatka, and Japan. By Perry MoDo.votnni Col¬ 
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view to learn its resources and determine the practica¬ 
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VIEW OF ACROKA. 
creek, which, narrow at first, gradually widens 
into a grand amphitheater, witli walls of rock 
varying from 3.70 to 400 feet in height, the ravine 
through which the torrent leaps being 101) feet 
deep. The stieam in a dry time, as when we saw 
it, almost disappears in mist before it readies the 
reservoir below. 
We have on hand a fine engraving of these Falls, 
and in a future number will give a more full de¬ 
scription of this natural wonder, which is so com¬ 
paratively unknown to tourists. We have not 
space for a more extended notice of the beauties 
of Cayuga Lake, hut to all who wish to enjoy a 
little quiet beauty, we say it can be found and en¬ 
joyed ou the waters and banks of the Cayuga. 
with fine residences. Our engraving shows a 
view of Aurora, taken from a point a little further 
up the lake. Among the many beautiful villas 
and grounds here, there are none that surpass 
New Park, the residence of Mr. Wells, well 
known as the pioneer express-man. It partakes 
more of the character of the English Villa and 
Park than we often see in this country. T)r. 
Thompson, well known to horticulturists, has 
also a fine place. 
But the tourist on Cayuga Lake should by no 
means neglect to visit Tagbauic Falls, on the west 
shore of the lake, about ten miles from the head. 
The fall ia about a mile from the lake, and may 
be approached through the dark ravine of the 
ia passed 
through the ring and twisted or tied to the cen¬ 
tral wire, and tho other leg is proceeded with in 
the same way. The shape Is now given to the 
shoulder-blade, and tho muscles of the shoulders 
imitated. Commence to sew up the upper part to 
enable you to complete the neck and junction of 
the neck with tho shoulders. This part is of 
much importance, and much of its beauty will 
depend on its being well executed. Imitate as 
near as possible the muscles on tho carcass, by 
observing which you will notice many points that 
otherwise would be neglected. The hind legs and 
thighs are done the same as the fore legs, with 
this difference, they must be wound round with 
thread tight at tbe bottom, and a thread drawn 
throngli the stuffing a few times to prevent its 
slipping. When it is returned to the skin, pass 
the wires through the ring and secure as the fore 
legs. Give the body its natural shape and size, 
and sew it carefully up, stuffing it as you proceed, 
as may be required. When dosed, prime the seam 
well with corrosive sublimate. The joints of tho 
legs are now bent, and pressure used at the natu¬ 
rally fiat places, and this will make tho prominent 
parts more distinct. 
A hoard is now prepared with holes for the feet 
wires, on which it may be placed in its proper 
position, and when you arc satisfied with it, give 
a finish to the face, head, aud neck, by stuffing it at 
the eyes and moutli till the imitation is perfect, 
or bring tho stuffing first put in forward for the 
purpose. Next insert the eves and place tho eye¬ 
lids naturally over the ball of the eye. The lips 
may be kept in place with a pin or two. Put two 
small balls of cotton, dipped in the soap, up the 
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water and a rough towel and rubbing, than with 
a whole apparatus of hath, and soap, and sponge, 
without rubbing. It is qnlte nonsense to say that 
anybody need be dirty, Patients have been kept 
as clean by these means on a long voyage, and 
when a basinful of water could not be afforded, 
and when they could not be moved out of their 
berths, as if all appurtenances of home had been 
at hand. Washing, however, with a large quantity 
of water, has quite other effects than those of 
mere cleanliness. The skin absorbs the water, 
and becomes softer and more perspirable. To 
wash with soap and soft water is, therefore, desir¬ 
able from other points of view than that of clean¬ 
liness.— Ibid. 
PRESERVATION OF BIRDS, &C.-N0. IV. 
MOUNTING UtUDS WITHOUT WIRE. 
Mr. AVaterton, a celebrated English Naturalist, 
objects to the use of wire, aud recommends tbe 
following plan. I have tried it on small birds, 
with success. After skinning, in the usual way, 
and coating with preservatives, stuff the body 
with cotton and sew it up. Tie the bill together 
by putting a thread through the nostrils, and a 
needle must be stuck under the lower mandible, 
perpendicularly. Bring the feet and knees to¬ 
gether, to their natural position, by running a 
thread through them, and add the eyes. Take 
any ordinary box, large enough tu hold tbe bird, 
and fill three-fourths of It at one end with cotton, 
at the other form an inclined plane. Make a hol¬ 
low in it for the reception of the bird, and place 
it in the box with its legs in a Bitting posture. 
Then take a cork into which three pins have been 
stuck, for legs, like a three-legged stool,—place it 
under the bill of the bird, and the needle which 
reader some idea of tbe variety comprised in 
and tbe labor necessarily bestowed upon its compilation. 
E. R. Hall is agent for tbe work in Rochester and vicin¬ 
ity, and wo believe it is one of tbe books for which be 
wishes to procure canvassers. 
Cassell's Illustrated Family Bible, published by 
Cassell, Better & Galkin, New York, and sold by E. 
R Hall, Rochester, is a splendid aerial, in quarto form. 
It was commenced Feb. 15, and a Part is issued tbe 1st 
and 15th of each month. We have received the parts 
(five) issued to the present time, and shall notice the 
work more particularly in a future number. 
nostrils, to keep out moths; also in tho cars. The 
nose, lipa, and paws, should have several coats of 
spirits of turpentine, applied with a brush, at in¬ 
tervals of two or three days; and lastly, a coat of 
corrosive sublimate; and when perfectly dry, cut 
off the wire protruding through the skull, w. v. 
