lire guMislm* to the ^uhtic 
ENGRAVING BY ELECTRICITY 
THE DRUMMER - BOY 
Pome will have noticed Ihe machine in class VII, 
at the International Exhibition of 1862, in this city, 
for engraving the cylinders of copper and bras3, 
employed ill the printing oi woven fabrics and pa¬ 
per hangings. Its distinctive feature is in the appli¬ 
cation of voltaic electricity in communicating cer¬ 
tain necessary movements to important and delicate 
portions of the apparatus. The cylinder to be 
engraved is first coated on its outer surface with a 
thin film of varnish, sufficiently resistant to the con¬ 
tinuous action of the strongest fluids. The requisite 
number of copies of the original design are then 
traced or scratched simnltaneon sly by a series of 
diamond points, which are arranged on the machine 
parallel with the axis of the cylinder. Each dia¬ 
mond point is in correspondence with a small tem¬ 
porary magnet; and the entire series is so arranged 
m rapport with the original design, which had been 
previously etched on a metal cylinder fitted in with 
a non-conducting substance, (this cylinder being 
made to revolve in contact with a tracing point.) 
that when the electric enrrent passes, intermittent 
currents are established, whereby the diamonds are 
withdrawn from their work at the proper intervals. 
The metallic surface is thereby exposed in certain 
parte; and a bath of nitric or other acid being after¬ 
ward used to etch or deepen the engraved portion, 
the operation is completed. By means of this appa¬ 
ratus, engravings may be enlarged or diminished to 
any necessary extent from the same original.— 
London Builder, 
that 1 very soon became aware that I was regarded 
in my own town, os a “chit of a thing.' 1 worth 
nothing at all. Hugh trusted me—he only—I need 
not say, that when it was all over, aud I rode into 
W_I was about the size of a church mouse, in 
my own estimation. I ouly felt, sure of one thing, 
and that was my wardrobe. I was confident that 
my garments were sufficiently sombre. I was guilt¬ 
less of bright colors. Ural) predominated ; and it 
the object to be studied was, as f had been taught 
to believe, to make myself look ns ugly as po siblo, 
I think the ultimatum must have been reached, 
when I went to church the first Sunday in that gray 
bonnet, with the pale green face (riturnings. To this 
day, it is a standing consolation that, whatever else 
may be said of me, 1 have never been accused of 
that most heinous sin ill a minister's w ife—dressing 
becoming. I think my instructions before I left 
home had been so explicit that I was partially pre¬ 
pared for the numerous honors that awaited us, at 
the commencement of our new life, nugh was im¬ 
mediately put upon the School Committee, elected 
President of the Young Men’s Christian Association, 
invited to the Superintendedcy of the Sabbath 
School, and duly established as a society of one, for 
the promotion of the moral, religious, intellectual 
and social interest, of the town. The harness fitted 
Oin* JF&II Campaign! 
RECRUITS WANTED TOR THE RURAL BRIGADE 
*i captain Graham, they were sayin’ 
Ye would want a drummer lad. 
So I've brought my boy Sandie. 
Though my heart is wofu' sad. 
But nae bread is left to feed us. 
And nae siller to buy more, 
For the gtideman steeps forever, 
Where the heather blossoms o’er. 
“ Sandie. make your manners quickly, 
Play j our Wittiest measure true— 
Gie us ‘ Flowers of Edinboro’ 
White yon fifer plays it, too. 
Captain, heard ye e'er a player 
Strike in truer time than be ?” 
“ Nay, in truth, brave Sandie Murray 
Drummer of our corps shall be.’ 
“ 1 gio ye thanks—but, Captain, maybe 
Ye will hae ft kindly care 
For the friendless, lonely laddie, 
When the battle wark is salr; 
For Sandies aye been good and gentle, 
And I've nothing else to love, 
Nothing—but tiro grave off yonder, 
And the Father up above.” 
Then her rough hand lightly lay ing 
Ou the curl encircled head, 
Bhe blessed her boy. The tent was silent, 
And not another word was said; 
For Captain Graham was sadly dreaming 
Of a benison long ago 
Breathed ahove his head, then golden, 
Bending now, and touelied with snow. 
“ Good by, Sandie.” “Good-by, mither, 
I’ll come back some summer day; 
Don’t you fear—they don't shoot drummer* 
Ever. Do they, Captain Gra-V 
One more kiss—watch for me mither; 
You will know 'tis surely me 
Coming home—for you will hear me 
Playing soft the reveille.” 
ABOul* ELIEis. 
Flies do not breathe, like men, through the | 
mouth, but through a set of holes in the abdomen, - 
called stigmata, or spiracles. By these, the air 
passes iuto beautifully constructed tubes, called | 
trachac, or wind-pipes. The spiracles are furnished 
with a curious contrivance to prevent dust from enter¬ 
ing. The hole is closed by a sort of sieve or screen- 
which must be seen to be appreciated. A drawing 
gives you some idea of its nature, but the real thing 
is far better; and as not every one is up to such 
minute manipulation, recourse should be bad to 
microscopic preparations, which are furnished at a 
reasonable rate by Amadio, of Throgmorton street, 
London, and other first rate opticians. The fly sup¬ 
plies an interesting series of objects. Beside the 
compound eye. the anteunse, the foot, and the spira¬ 
cles, the proboscis of a fly is a thing to wonder at. 
It is more complicated than the trunk of an ele¬ 
phant. A portion of this proboscis acts as a lip; 
in addition to its lancets, a fly has teeth—yes, real 
teeth, like notched chisels, and as plain as pike- 
staves, if you only know where to look for them. 
With these claims on our interest, we can hardly 
be surprised that., in countrios not too much infested 
with them, flies should have had their patrons and 
protectors. Not to mention the Indian hospital for 
insects, a compassionate damsel is described as 
delighted to 
Save drowning flies that float along the stream. 
A toper invites a jolly fly to take a cheerful drop 
with him: 
Eager, busy, curious fly, 
Drink with tne, and drink as I. 
Uncle Toby had not the heart to retaliate on a fly. 
“ Go,” Bays he, one. day at dinner, to an over-grown 
one which had tormented him cruelly all dinner 
time. “ Go,” Bays he, lifting up the sash and open¬ 
ing his hand to let it escape; “ go, poor devil—get 
thee gone; why should I hurt thee? This world 
surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.” 
Shandean forbearance would be very well, if the 
flies would all agree, to go one way and let ub go 
another. But they are far too tenacious of their 
righls to make any Buch bargain. As insects are 
the first colonists of desert, islands, so they will be 
their latest inhabitants, picking the bones of the last 
human survivor. Intrusiveness is the peculiar char¬ 
acteristic of flies, from the flies that buzz about the 
Bick man’s chamber, to the flies that commit suicides 
by hundreds in cream jugs, honey pots, and treacle 
tubs. Who was it that made a brazen fly which, 
when wound up, went bouncing about the room 
like any other free and easy fly? There were no 
need to make flies more brazen than they are. They 
impudently intrude themselves at the feasts of the 
gentry and nobility; even of the very Pope himself, 
w-ho is supposed alwajs to dine alone. 
Files, unfortunately, cuunot be persuaded to leave 
either ourselves or our domestic animals at peace. 
The humming of' a fly, says Pascal, will disturb the 
thoughts of the gravest philosopher. Womans tem¬ 
per is especially apt to lie put out by these winged 
nuisances. They make our horses restive and skit¬ 
tish; they tease our cows into a fever, cutting off, at 
the fountain head, a proper supply of butter and 
cheese. They prevent our sheep from fatting, and 
ouv cold meat from keeping. They defile our pic¬ 
ture frames, furniture, and paper hangings. They 
worry nurses, and hospital doctors to death, by pre¬ 
venting sleep, converting patients into living prey, 
and changing curable wounds into incurable sores. 
Academies, learned societies, and institutions, would 
be doing no more than their duty if they offered 
prizes for the discovery of effectual and practical 
modes of destroying every fly that dares to enter 
any dwelling hoilse, stable, or hospital. We can 
quite understand the savage pleasure the Emperor 
Domitian took in killing flies, although, as an impe¬ 
rial hobby, he carried if a little too far. The saying, 
“Who is with the Emperor?”—“Nobody; not even 
a fly” — commemorates his skill as a fly-killer. 
True Last Quarter of Vol Xill of the Rural New-Yorker 
commenced two week sago - with October. Asa large number 
•f subscriptions expired with Sept., (aU which have No, 663 
printed after their address, we would remind those interested 
that a prompt renewal is necessary to secure the uninter¬ 
rupted continuance of the paper. We hope they, and thou¬ 
sands of would-be subscribers, will avail themselves of the 
favorable opportunity now presented to renew or subscribe. 
Single, Club and Trial Subscriptions are now in order and 
respectfully solicited. 
THE BEST, AT HALF PRICE! 
Jpgr" In order to introduce it more readily to the notice and 
support of comparative strangers, preparatory to the com- 
menceincut of a new volume, we have concluded to offer the 
Rural Nkw-Yokkkk for the ensuing Quarter—Oct. 1st to 
January, 13 numbers—at only Half Prick, thus placing it 
within the reach and means of all non-subscribers who wish 
to give it- a fair trial. We will send 4 copies for $1; 8 for 
$2; 12 for $3; 20 for $5, &e., and mail to as many persons 
and po&t-offiees as desired. We cannot make a farthings 
direct profit, yet shall be glad to thus circulate 6,000 to 20,ooo 
trial copies—for, though we may lose temporarily, it is be- 
lieved the bread thus cast abroad will return ere long, while 
thousands of families will be benefited by making the acquaint- 
tance of the Rural and becoming permanent subscribers. 
A REQUEST, AND WHEREFORE. 
We ask its friends all over the land to aid in *irculating the 
Rural’s Campaign Quarter. Almost any one can readily 
obtain from 4 to 20 subscribers. “Where there’s a will 
there’s a w ay,” and have not its friends in the East and West, 
North and South, the will to extend the. circulation and use¬ 
fulness of the favorite Rural WkjtKLT of America? Who 
will aid in recruiting for the Rural Rrioapr? 
The Census Tables. — The Census Tables ol 
Nativity prove that a very small portion of the gulf 
States sprung from the North, comparatively ppoak- 
iog. Thus, in ]8f>0, the State of Florida, had 636 na¬ 
tives or the six New England States; Alabama had 
1,861; Mississippi had 1,023; Louisiana, 3,714; Texas, 
1,306. The natives of foreign countries iu these 
States amounted to 1,200.046, while the foreign emi¬ 
grant population of the single State of Ohio summed 
up 1.980,427. The Fame table shows that there were 
in Florida of natives of Virginia, North and South 
Carolina and Georgia, 19,966 inhabitants, while the 
native population born in the Slate was 20,563. In 
Alabama, the natives of these four States were 145,- 
566, against 237,549 horn in the State. In Mississippi 
emigrants from the same States, 75,258; natives 
140,855. Iu Louisiana, emigrants from these States, 
16 , 639 ; natives, 145,474; and Louisiana is an old 
State iu the Uuion. In Texas these States contrib¬ 
uted 20,856, while the natives were 49,160. The same 
tables of nativity demonstrate that, there has been 
a greater emigration from South Carolina than from 
Maine. 
After battle. Moonbeams ghastly 
Seemed to blink iu strange affright, 
As the scudding clouds before them 
Shadowed faces dead aud white; 
And the night-wind godly whispered 
When low moans its light wing bore— 
Moans, that ferried spirits over 
Death's dark wave to yonder shore. 
Wandering where a footstep careless 
Might go plashing down in blood, 
Or » helpless hand lie grasping 
Death, and daises from the sod; 
Captain Graham walked swiftly onward, 
While a faintly-beaten drum 
Quickened heart and step together; 
“Bandic Murray ! Bee I come ! 
Is it thus I find you, laddie ? 
Wounded, lonely, lying here, 
Flaying thus the reveille ? 
See—the morning is not near.” 
A moment paused the drummer-boy, 
And lifted up his drooping head: 
O, Captain Graham I the light is coming, 
’Tis morning, and iny prayers are said. 
Morning 1 See the plains grow brighter,, 
Morning, and I'm going home; 
That is why 1 piny the measure, 
Mither will not &cc mu come; 
But you'll tell her, won't you Captain — 
Hush, the boy had spoken true; 
To him the day had dawned forever, 
Unbroken by the night tattoo. 
IRAN BE11R.Y PLANTS for sale by the subscriber. 
j P. D. CIULSON, Bellingham. Mass. 
rlAREES AND SEEDLING STOCKS.-JOHN 
UOtlNDltV, (formerly Bristol fc Wili.iahs.) Dansville, 
LiviUgtOn Co., .V Y., invites the attention of 
Planters, Nurserymen and Dealers, 
to his fine slock of tVr.r, Plum, and Apple Kei-tlUng*. Also. 
2 vest old Si a ndar d mid lhiari Fear Tree.-, of marling varieties, 
which h« 0)1, is lor the Fall and Bpiiutr trade, cheap for cash. 
66&-13t| JOHN 60 UN DRY. lJabsvillu. Liv. Co , N. Y 
TMPROVED EUTTBS PACKAGE. 
-L PATENTED SEPT. 8, IS tig, 
This js a cheap and durable Package, so constructed with a 
lining of MICA on ibe inside, os to secure ail the advantages of 
glass, with the lightness aud durability of a wooden package. 
It will preserve tlie hotter better than tubs or firkins, as them 
is No 1 .ms freon Soa/uu/v, aud tile butler is t ml. sj ioiU by coming 
ill contact with ihe wood 
The use of this Package will secure to the Dairymen pay for 
the Package or it* return; and it can he cleansed as easily as a 
Slone or GIiwh Jar, and can ho used for years until worn out, 
thus raving the expense of new Packages every season. 
Iff' State, County, and Town Rights for sale by 
A. T. PEEK, Patentee. 
Scott., N. Y., Sept, tt, 1862: 6«5-l.!t 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
BIBLICAL ENIGMA, 
eoo.ooo ;uale oR rai' E a(jents ’ 
LLOYD'S NEW STEEL PLATE COUNTY COLORED 
MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, 
CANADAS, AND NEW BRUNSWICK. 
From recent surveys, completed Aug. 10, 1862; cost $20,000 to 
engrave it and one v ear's time. 
Superior to iiuv 510 map ever made by Colton or Mitchell, and 
sells at. the low price of fifty cenlb; 370, two names are engraved 
on this map. 
It is not only a County Map, but it is also a 
COUNTY AND R All, ROAD MAP 
of the United States and Canadas combined in one, giving 
EVERY RAILROAD STATION, 
and distances belween. 
Guarantee any woman or man $3 to $5 per day, and will take 
back all maps that cannot be sold, aud refund the : oney. 
Send for $1 worth to try. 
Printed instructions how to canvass well, furnished all our 
agents. 
Wantfd — Wholesale Agents for our Maps in every State. 
California, Canada, England, France, and Cuba. A fortune may 
be made with a few hundred dollars capital No campelitimu 
J. T. Ll.OYD, No. 161 Broadway, New Voile. 
The War Department uses our Mai' of Virginia, Maryland and 
Pennsylvania, cost fJIHI.UbO, on which is marked Antielmn 
Creek. 8hai pshurg, Maryland Heights, Williamsport Ferry, 
RUorersville, Noland's Ford, and all nt.hers on the Potomac, 
and every other place in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, 
or money refunded. 
LLOYD’S 
TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP OF KENTUCKY, 
OHIO, INDIANA, ami ILLINOIS, 
is the only authority for General Buell aud the War Depart¬ 
ment Money refunded to any one finding au error in it— 
Price 60 cents. 
(From tho Tribune, Aug. 2.J 
“LLOYD'S MAP OF VIRGIN) A, MARYLAND, AND 
PENNSYLVANIA.'’- -This Map In very targe; its cost is but 26 
Cents, and is the best- uhicJi ronleim'cJuUCtl. 
LLOYD'S GREAT MAP of tub MISSISSIPPI RlVKIt- 
P'rotn actual surveys by Gupta. Bart aud Win. Bowen, Missis- 
rip i Iliver Pilots, of St Louis. Mo,, shows every mao’s planta¬ 
tion and owner s name from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico — 
1,360 fillips cvi-iy sand bar, island, town, binding, and alt 
places 2d miles buck from the rivn — colored ill counties and 
Slates. Price, SI in sheets $2, pocket.form, and $2.60on linuu, 
with rollers. Ready Sept, 20, 
Navy Dkpartmknt, Washington, Sept. 17; 1862. 
.1 T. l.I.OTD — iS’)V.• Send mo your Map of tho Mississippi 
River, with price pei hundred copies Roar-Admiral Outs 1L 
Davis, commanding the Mississippi squadron. is authorized to 
purchase as man v u- are required for use of that si|iiadiuM. 
6fi5-3t GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Nary. 
1 am composed of 55 letters. 
My 13,1, 5, 4 was a just man. 
My 2, 9. 45, 41, IS, IS, 34, IS was a prophet who lived in the 
reign of Jeremiah. 
My 21, 19, 48, 22, 52, 45, 29 was a woman of eminent wisdom 
and holiness. 
My 15. 50, 10, 3 is abundant, in Palestine. 
My 0, 7, 28, 34, 04 was converted to Christianity under the 
preaching of Paul. 
My 8, 26, 27 is the name of the mount on which Aaron was 
buried 
My 10, 20, 23, 37, 48 was tire man after God’s own heart. 
tty 11, 33, 52, 36 is one of the titles of Jesus Christ 
My 12, 23, 1, 27, 40 Solomon’s Throne was built of. 
My 25,17, 14 is a well known fruit which formerly abounded 
in Judea. 
My 30, 39, 12 is a descendant of Itliamar. 
My 40, 43, 66, 4, 5, 31, 45, 53, 35 was one of the twelve disci¬ 
ples. 
My 32, 2, 49, 45, 61 is a kind of grain that was produced abuiv 
datitly in the land of Canaan. 
My 38, 34, 62, 1, 42, IS is a word that may be found in Psalms 
06th, verse 10th. 
My 44, 24, 9, 52 is a portion of time. 
My whole is a portion of Ilavid’B prayer in distress. 
Hopewell, N. Y., 1862. Mary Elizabeth. 
Answer in two weeks. 
THE MINISTER’S WIFE, 
I — FIRST — PERSON — SPEAKING, 
a thing Dover entered into my calculations. And so 
onr parish cannot charge me with “malice afore¬ 
thought.'’ Aud I do honestly suppose that if Uttgh 
had carried Sarah Barrett’s books to and from school 
instead of mine —if he had twined forest leaves 
around her hat in summer, aud placed Lis sled at 
her disposal in winter, our people would be much 
better satisfied with Mrs. Hugh Smith than they are 
present; and I should be—not quite so happy. But 
as the Faddy said, “short of it is," people are very 
perverse afloat this matter of matrimony, and match¬ 
making don’t go as the world wills. So it. happened 
that I was courted from the very first day my braid 
was tied with blue ribbons, (1 have them yet—those 
ribbons, for 1 asn sure they did the business for me!) 
until the morning when I knelt in white at the foot 
of the church altar and the people whispered “she 
is indeed too young (o marry yet.” 
Hugh hadn’t always meant to he a minister; 
though old ladies always told him he was of a 
“thoughtful turn of miud.' 1 It waa during his last 
year in college that he decided to study Iheology. 
PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE SEAT OP WAR, 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker 
ACROSTICAL ENIGMA. 
Decidedly one of the institutions of our army is 
Ihe traveling portrait gallery. A camp is hardly 
pitched before one of tho omnipresent artists in col¬ 
lodion and amber-bead varnish drives tip his two- 
horse wagon, pitches his canvas gallery, aud un¬ 
packs his chemicals. Our army here (Fredericks¬ 
burg) is now so large that quite a company of 
these genllemen have gathered about its. The 
amount of business they find is remarkable. Their 
lents are thronged from morning to night, and 
*• while the day lastelh ” their golden harvest, runs 
on. Here, for instance, near Gen. Burnside's head¬ 
quarters, are the combined establishments of two 
brothers from. Pennsylvania, who rejoice in the 
wonderful name Bergstresser. They have followed 
the army for more thnn a year, and taken, the Lord 
only knows, how many thousand portraits. Iu one 
day since they catne here they took in one of the 
galleries, so 1 am told, ICO odd pictures at $1, (on 
which the net profit was probably ninety-five cents 
each ) If anybody knows au easier and better way 
of making money than that, the public should know 
it. The style of portrait affected by these traveling 
army portrait makers is that knowu to the profess¬ 
ion as the melainotypo, which is made by the collo¬ 
dion process on a sheet-iron plate and afterward set 
with amber-bead varnish.— Cor. Tribune. 
I am compound of 16 letters. 
My 1, 2, 7, <i is a pit or excavation in the earth from which 
metallic ores are tulcc-u by digging. 
My 2, 8, IS is congealed water. 
My 3, 9.10. 16 is a kind of grain. 
My 4, 2, 1 is a pronoun. 
My 6, S, 4, 6 is continued pain. 
My 6, 7, 7, 5 is a girl’s name. 
.My 7, 2, 3 is a falsehood. 
My 8, 12, 5, 7 is a mineral. 
My 9, 15 is a preposition. 
My 19, 5, 2, 15 is water falling in drops from the atmosphere. 
My 11, 9, 7. 7 is a small or close apartment. 
My 12, 2, 7 is an unctuous substance. 
My 13, 2,11, 4 means wealthy. 
My 14. 7, 6 is a malt liquor. 
My 16, 6, 7, 7, 2. 6 is a girl's name. 
My whole is a Brigadier-General that has attracted a great 
deal of attention. Albert B. Norton. 
Cary Collegiate Seminary, Gen. Co., N. Y., 1862. 
83?” Answer in two weeks. 
A llin, co., 
B ANKER S , 
53 Biiitii!o St., Opposite the liugle Hotel, 
nOCFUCS’CICI?,, 1ST. Y. 
Interest Cuupons ol U. S. seven and three-tenths per cent. 
Bonds, due August, tilth, 1862, paid at their Bonking Office, on 
presentation. 
Dighust premium paid for gold, silver, Canada currency, anil 
G. S. Demand Notes, of old issue _ _ , 
Interest paid on special deposits Sight drafts on England 
and Ireland in sinus to suit. 6FM6t 
K IX EIV Kirs SALE OR NltltHKK Y STOCK- 
'l')ie* undersigned, appointed receiver ot the N ursery Stock 
or the late firm ofUttKdqkT A GuLnaiilTH, now offers ihe same 
for sale to Deal era and Nurserymen. . 
The stock ctrowats ol forty thousand Dwell leers, 30,000 
Standards ; 30,991) Cherries ; 12,000 Apple Trees; end a lam* 
varietv ofEvergreens and Ornamental Shrub*, on the late fin m 
of .Iamks H Gkwiohy adjoining the Nursery of Ellwa-vokr 
& Barky. The Property is desirable, aud will be sold low. 
Application should tie' made at once to 
PATRICK BARKY, Receiver, or to lus Agent, 
Rochester, Aug. 1, 18U2. JAS. H. GREGORY 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
1 am composed of 62 letters. 
My 35, 43, 3, 21, 43, 60 was oneealliram student. 
My 30, 36, 27, 43, 19 is a spring mouth. 
My 20, SO. 4, 31, 43, 34 is the name of a friend. 
My H, 7, 34,10, 20 is (lie name of our Pastor. 
My 49, 50, 51, 62, 45, 5, 19, 81. 37 is the name of a flower. 
My 6, 15, 24, 25 is something worn by men. 
My 10, 1, 40, 2 is a Territory. 
My 49, 34, 12, 18, 48, 47, 11 is a bay in North America. 
My 22, 8, 47, 47, 9, 37, 36, 39 is a Western Htate. 
My 23, 29, 47, 44, 87, 49, 29,14, 21. 42 is the name of our town 
My 41, 28, 13, 40 is something used to make a fire. 
1,17, 39, 9, 47 is the name of a tree. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
THM LAflGKaT CIRCULATED 
agricultural, ijtmaky and family weekly, 
18 FUBLI8UKD EVERY 8ATUKDAY, 
by D. D. T. iUGOK.IL, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
THE NEW METAL THALLIUM 
Tms new metal, which was discovered by Mr. 
William Crookes, of London, Las lately been des¬ 
cribed by the discoverer in the Chemical News, and 
preparations of it have been placed in the Great 
Exhibition. Thallium, in most of its physical prop¬ 
erties, resembles lead. It is not so white as silver, 
but. when fleshly cut, it presents a brilliant metallic 
luster. It is soft, malleable, and easily cut with a 
knife, and it marks paper when rubbed upon it, 
leaving a yellowish streak, it has a great tendency 
to crystallize, and ingots of it crackle like those of 
tin when bent. To flame it communicates a deep 
green color; and in the spectrum, according to the 
researches of M. M. Bunson and Kirch off, its single 
green ray is as sharply defined as the yellow ray of 
sodium. Thailium rapidly tarnishes in the open 
air, and it becomes covered with a thin pellicle of 
oxide, which, like the oxide of tin, preserves the 
rest of the metal from oxidization. Its oxide is 
soluble, alkaline in its nature, and it has a taste and 
smell similar to potash, Sulphuric and nitric acids 
dissolve it under heat, and it burns in chlorine gas 
heated to 200°. It exists in many of the pyrites that 
are used in the manufacture ot sulphuric acid. 
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My 45, 35, ‘15, 38, a . . . 
My 33, 34, 11, 23, 43,47, 21, 48,24, 32 is what every one dreads. 
My whole is a patriotic tnotto. 
Huntsburgh, Geauga Co., Ohio. L. H. L. 
Answer in two weeks. 
Jerusalem ” not knowing, perhaps, the things which 
might befall me there. But I need not. tell how I 
answered that letter, and blotted Lite paper all over 
with tears, nor how Hugh bandied my poor little 
doves of excuses—nor how hard I tried to bo very 
good, and very sober, all these three years he was 
reading Genesis in Hebrew, and John in the origi¬ 
nal Greek; nor how he was settled over a church in 
the country, leading mo thither to be his help-male 
in the work of winning souls, and wondering why 
the parish didn’t pay — in which last 1 think I may 
modestly say he has ever found me a faithful co¬ 
laborer. 
But there are some other thfogs I do wish to tell, 
even at the risk of being tedious. I think no one 
ever entered upon a field of labor with a clearer 
view of the premises than myself. The only wed- 
Answer to Geographical Kngma:— 
As long as time shall last, 
Cookery as well as art, 
Of household charms 
Will ever form a part 
Answer to Anagram:— 
“ Long may our land be bright 
With freedom's holy light, 
Protect us by tby might, 
Great God—our King.” 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:-God and our Native 
Land. , 
Answer to Mechanical Problem:—19,6252128-i-tuns. 
