In an easy flowing style. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES. 
sic hath a witching power, A power be - yond control : Its 
dence wild, at midnight hour, Steals softly o’er the soul 
morn 
April shower, Bring each a 
that Nature claims her own, The ocean, earth, and 
sure’s golden bowl is bright: The laurel wreath seems fair; And 
sticks, stones, &c., and throws them to one 
side. The peat then falls into a box below, and 
sufficient water is mixed with it to render it of 
the consistency of mortar, after which, by means 
of a slide under the control of the engineer, it is 
sent to the rear of the machine. Here the con¬ 
veyor, 100 feet long, t ikes it and carries’it to 
within two rods of the end, at which point the 
peat begins to drop throusrh to the ground to 
the depth of about four inches. When sufficient 
has passed through to cover the ground to the 
end of the conveyor, the conveyor is thenjswung 
around about, two feet, aud (the same process is 
repeated. Eighteen rods can be so covered wit h- 
out moving the machine. At each swing of the 
elevator the peat spread out is cut into blocks 
by means of knives attached to the elevator. 
The peat lies in this state for a week, at which 
time the blocks are turned over to facilitate the 
process of drying. After remaining npon the 
ground for two weeks, it is carted off and packed 
under cover, and in a short time thereafter is 
ready for use as fuel. The novel features of this 
invention ire the elevator and conveyor; and 
the advantage claimed by this machine over 
those now in use in some rmrts of the Eastern 
States, is that it will do fur more work in a day 
with a less number of hands. Four men can run 
and supply this machine, and turn out 30 or 40 
tons of peat daily, while it is alleged that other 
machines require from eight to eleven hands, 
and turn out only 90 tuns. Mr. Roberts ex¬ 
pects to produce peat by his process at a much 
lower cost than it has ever yet been obtained. I 
have by me now a specimen of the Pekin peat. 
It is very black and fine, and is capable of almost 
as brilliant a polish as cannel-coal. 
youth - ful hearts would fain be light, But, ah.' a thorn is there, 
The twinkling star, the moonlit sky, the stilly breath of night 
Each leaves a sigh in 
passing 
sient sad de 
The sun that throws his halo 
The wild waves of the 
The rock-bound coast they lave 
ocean s 
ocean 
yawning grave, Seems eager for its 
The famed of earth, the 
Bloom but to 
Earth hath 
no joy unmixed with pain 
Pure friendship is unknown; There’s dis - cord in its 
purest strain 
Peace blooms in heave* 
For Moore'3 Rural New-Yorker, 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS. 
m Middlesex county. It is dated December 94, 
1S62, and contains the following provision: 
“He disposes of his library, and all books, 
pamphlets, maps and prints not given to his 
wile, in the following manner:—Ho gives to 
tho library of Harvard university an suen dic¬ 
tionaries and glossaries of the English language 
as are found in his library, but are not found in 
that library; al9o his dictionaries of any other 
laugnage than English, and of which said Uni¬ 
versity does not possess copies, in case either of 
his brothers do not want them. 
“ He gives to the American Bible Society, 
formed in New York in lSlti, and to the Ameri¬ 
can Peace Society, Incorporated by the Legisla¬ 
ture of Massachusetts, the copyright of his 
Quarto Dictionary of the English language, 
each to have one -half of the annual income 
thereof, subject to any incumbrances, charges or 
contracts existing at his death, said devise to 
take effect after his death.” 
Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Y orker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 9*1 letters. 
My 5. 2, IS, 15, St. 2, S is a river in Virginia. 
Jly 13, 20, IT, 12, 23, IS js a boy’s name. 
My 1,11, 34,15,19,4, SB is the capital of one i the 
Western States. 
My 3,25, 8,21 is a girl's name. 
My 0, 9, 2*5, 7, 22, 2,1« is a title. 
My 14,10 is found among the abbreviations. 
My It* represents a number. 
My whole is the name of an officer of the Union 
„ F. K. 
larger than a farmer’s dinner-pot, is a common 
three-quarter inch gas pipe running to within a 
few Inches of the bottom, and terminating in a 
small ball or sprinkler, perforated with forty 
’diminutive holes. The fire is built under the 
globe, and in the sprinkler is a. tablespoonful of 
water. Now, most people would suppose that 
in order to generate steam all that would be 
necessary is to discharge* the water in the pipe 
against the hot iron. Not so. The air in the 
sphere is at a temperature of from live hundred to 
six hundred degrees Fahrenheit, The water in the 
sprinkler is hot, and the sprinkler soon becomes 
surrounded by a superheated vapor, into which 
the water is spurted, becomlug heated steam 
before it can reach the surrounding sphere. 
This spurting or ejectment of water from the 
pipe is repeated as soon as a revolution of the 
engine attached has consumed the steam just 
made, aud the engine itself—a live horse-power, 
with a cylinder of five inches boro and u piston 
eight luches long—is propelled with the force of 
an engine of fifteen horse power, with a pressure 
of 130 pounds, running two corn mills, and turn¬ 
ing out feed at the rate of forty bushels an 
hour.” Thus it will be seen that there is actu- 
ally no danger, for there is no boiler and only a 
very small quantity ot warm water, and the 
steam as it is generated passes instantly into 
whole ot lasso’s Jonsaltm Deliivrcd, and not 
only recite it consecutively, hut repeat any stau* 
zas in any given book, repeat those stanzas in 
utter defiauee of the sense either backwards or 
forwards, or from the Sth to the 1st line altern¬ 
ately. We have heard of several persons (nota¬ 
bly the late blind Jamie ot Stirling) who could 
repeat the whole of the Bible, or any required 
chapter or verso of it. There are besides doz¬ 
ens of living persons with most marvelous 
memories, the chief ol whom is perhaps Mr. 
Etihu Burritt, the Mezzofanti of the present day. 
ONE OF LAMB’S BEST 
and revived his courage. He ran to the house, 
slipped Into his uniform, and, seizing his faith¬ 
ful fire-loek, returned to the beach, and posted 
himself on sentry at the moment the French 
were landing. 
“ W ho goes there ?” he shouted iu a voice like 
thunder. 
“ Who goes there, yourself V” replied one in a 
boat. 41 Who are you?” 
“A sentinel.” 
“ How long have you been ou guard ?” 
“ Five years.” 
Davoust, for he it was, laughed at the quaint 
reply, and gave a discharge in due form to his 
involuntary deserter. 
FUNERAL OF A BEE. 
A correspondent of the Glasgow Herald 
transmits the following 
For Moore'3 Rural New-Yorker. 
AN ANAGRAM. 
On Sunday morn- 
iug last I had the pleasure of witnessing a most 
interesting ceremony, which I desire to record 
for the benefit of your readers. Whilst walking 
with a friend iu a garden near Falkirk, we 
observed two bees issuing from one of the 
Nope het tmseanec, nail pa htwi eth nus! 
Shi tagnall renujoy si stuj geuub ; 
Revo teh shill ish tarleho si 'droll, 
D’rennab hitw logyr, dan shinrubed whit dolg, 
Evro eht silhl eh somec milebus, 
Broowridge fo herat, nad hotberr fo mite! 
kipon, Wis. Hattie & Carrie, 
IS - Answer in two weeks. 
Tiie Sau Francisco Morning Press June 17th 
says:—'* We have received a call duriBg the past 
week from Mr. George E. Wiilete of El Dorado 
Canon, Arizona, who visits this city for the pur¬ 
pose of procuring supplies. Mr. Wiilete brings 
favorable reports from that region, lie also 
brings us samples of rock salt from the salt 
mountains, located some sixty miles above El 
Dorado Canon, up the Colorado. The salt is in 
large, beautifully transparent crystals, and is 
probably of the finest quality attainable on this 
coast. Just previous to the time at which Mr. 
Wiilete left the Canon, a pack train arrived from 
the Salt mountains with a load of salt from the 
mill. These mountains are said to be a perfect 
mass ol beautifully crystallized salt, and are a 
great curiosity and wouder to all travellers who 
have visited them. One of them is within six 
miles of the river aud the otherjis about twenty 
miles distant. The packers chop it out of the 
mass with axes.” 
My first is in Town, in County aud State; 
My second in you will appear; 
My third is an insect that lights on your pate. 
And creates a sensation of fear. 
My whole bad existence in most ancient days 
Was by a philosopher kept; 
He lugged it about ’ueath the sun’s burning ra 
And often at night in it slept. 
S® - Answer in two weeks. 
head downwards, to tho earth—and the solici¬ 
tude with which they afterwards pushed against 
it two little stones, doubtless 
Girard’s Secret. — Stephen Girard, than 
whom no shrewder business man ever lived, 
used to say in his old age: — 44 1 have always 
considered advertising liberally and long to be 
tho great medium of success in business, and 
tho prelude to wealth. And I have made it an 
invariable rule, too, to advertise in tho dullest 
tinn-s, as well as the busiest, long experience 
having taught me that^mouey thus spent is well 
laid out; as by keepiug’my business continually 
before the public, it has sec urod me many sales 
that I would otherwise have lost. ’ 
in memoriam.” 
Their task being ended, they paused for about a 
minute, perhaps to drop over the grave of their 
Mend a sympathizing tear, and tlieu they flew 
away to the hive.” 
Our Losses in Generals, 
-From some sta¬ 
tistics made up at the War Department of tho 
casualties to our general officers during tho war, 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, Ac., IN No. 826, 
THAT “ CURIOUS FACT” AGAIN. 
1 had hardly hoped to be able to elicit any¬ 
thing from so renowned an authority a6 the 
r venerable G. D., by any question which my 
i ignorance might compel mo to ask through your 
columns; but I am very happy to see a reply 
\ from kiin-in the Rural of the nth inst.,-to 'a 
A query put in one of my former contributions. 1 
would, however, with your permission, like to 
ask him one more question. Ami right, Doctor, 
\ in supposing you to assert that molten is more 
dense than solid iron ? Iu making iron eastimr* 
Answer to Illustrated Rebus:—Many a warm heart 
beats under a ragged coat. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—Charity and 
Cride have different aims, yet both feed the poor. 
Auswer to Geographical Enigma:—Francis Marion. 
Answer to Anagram ; 
Sooner or later the storm shall beat 
Over my slumber from head to feet; 
Sooner or later the winds shall rave 
In the long grass above my grave. 
I shall not heed them where I He, 
Nothing their sound shall signify. 
Nothing the headstone’s fret of rain. 
Nothing to me the dark day’s pain. 
it appears that we had eight Major-Generals and 
seventeen Brigadier-Generals killed outright in 
An Insect Landscape. —At the Parisian Ihfais 
tl' Industrie is a landscape, executed not in oils, 
pastels, or water colors, but iu European and 
foreign insects. The foreground is composed of 
•45,000 coleopterea, the remainder of the picture 
being formed of almost as great, a number o' 
four thousand varieties of the insect tribe, which 
supply every tone requisite for the landscape. 
The completion of the^work occupied the artist 
four years. 
