iUtral Itmumg. GIVE THE BOYS A WORKSHOP. Every farmer who has hoys, should pro vide them a workshop. It should be neatly made, and pleasantly situated, for it should be attractive to those for whom it is intend ed. It should be tight and comfortable, furnished with a small stove, so as to make it warm iu winter. It should be provided with a workbench and vice, a shaving-horse for using the drawing-knife, and perhaps a small foot-lathe, which is very convenient, but not essential, however. The other tools should be two or three planes, augurs of different sizes, a few chisels, a bit-stock with bits, drawing-knife, saw, and hammer. For those who cannot afford the whole, a small part of these would answer, and to those who can, other tools may be added— the cost of the tools would be but a trifle compared with the advantages one would derive from the use of them. The greatest is the assistance it will render the cause of practical education: It has been said that “ the best inheritance any man can leave his children, is not wealth to support them, but the ability to help and take care of themselves " A young man, whose natural ingenuity developed by practice that he can at any moment mend a rake, fit a helve in an ax, set a clock in running order, mend a broken harness, give edge to a pair of shears, mend tiD-ware, repair an umbrella, white-wash a ceiling, paper a room, make a bee-hive, bottom a chair, or mend a bro ken rocker, and do a hundred other little jobs, will pass through the world more comfortably to himself, and profitably to those around him, than the one who is obliged to send for a mechanic to do Buch little jobs which he is too helpless to per form himself. Another important advant age afforded by such a workshop is its moral influence,furnishing pleasant employ ment to boys during stormy weather, or other leisure hours, and lessening the tempt ation to frequent taverns, and to attend places of diversion—which oft'en leads to the most pernicious habits. Almost every Yankee boy has a' longing for the use of tools, from the moment his hand grasps a jack-knife and he begins to whittle. Provide cheering work for your boys, something that will be relaxation from the drudgery of the plow tail, and the compost heap, something that will satis fy their longings for progress, and open to them new realms of thought. If they are not skilled with the mallet and the chisel, the saw and the plane at home, they will quite likely bcoome adepts at the pipe and the bottle abroad.— Cor. Rural N. Yorker. AGRICRLTURAL STATISTICS. “ It is a matter of'great regret,” says the Country Gentleman , “ that the agricultural returns oalled for in taking the State and National census can be received with so little confidence by the public. Collected hurriedly by enumerators who, for the most part, only care to get through the job as easily as possible, from farmers who don’t generally keep very accurate records and often make random replies to the questions put—they are also marred, in too many oases, by blunders of oarelessness or igno rance which go unnoticed until too late to reotify them, even if then observed by some more thoughtful or critical official. Their only value, as we have remarked heretofore, is for purposes of comparison— taking our chief crops for large areas, it may be presumed that the average of error will not be very different in different States or at different times: so that we may get some idea at least of the leading changes in our agriculture from one decennial period to another, or as to the radical differences in its returns in different localities. “ These remarks are prompted by an ad ditional instance, just afforded us, of the fact that the census returns, taken piece meal, are so little able to bear intelligent scrutiny. Mr. Secretary Harold, of the Q"ecns County Agricultural Sooiety, has been looking into the figures officially sub mitted for that county in the State census for iB6O. It gives the gross value of mar ket garden products for the town of Oyster Bay, at §5998, ‘ when it is believed that the single article of onions alone, raised at Matinccock, sold for twice that amount, and probably asparagus for an equal sum.’ Mr. Harold adds that, according to ‘returns procured by the State Aricultural Society in 1862, the produce of market gardens in one town'(Newtown) was valued at $368,- 915, while this year, from the whole six towns, the value is only returned at $491,- 806. But the moat singular fact is, a re turn by one enumerator of about 4000 pounds of butter from one district, yet not a single cow to make it from. This is not striking ile, but is a very ourious way of striking butter/ ” POULTRY. The greatest nu »ber of eggs laid in one day by my thirty-two hens, during the month of February, was twenty-Beven; the average cost of the food of the hens was seven cents. A hen with the best care, will not commence laying until she has en tirely recovered from the effects of moult ing, whioh is not often until February; while pullets begin when they are seven or eight months old; consequently the earlier in the spring you can get chickens, the earlier next fall you will have eggs. My brother’s chickens, hatched in February, made their nests in October, and his March pullets furnished him two or three dozen eggs weekly in the middle of the next winter. Never keep a hen 'after she be gins to moult, unlesß Bhe has some pecu liarly good qualities. — Cor. Rural New Yorker. A CHEST OF OLD IRON. When I was a boy, my father kept what he called the “ old iron chest.” It was simply a heavy, hardwood box with iron corners, and a till in one end. This served as a depository of the old “ odds andends”' ot iron not in immediate use. There you would find old bolts, nuts, washers, screws, rivets, horse shoes, clevises, plow points, ■‘hits of band and hoop iron, strips of tin, °ld files, staples, eft)., eto. hi very man and boy on the farm was en joined to deposit any old iron they found “ lying loose around” in the chest. When anything was to be repaired or built, the “ old iron chest” was almost sure to be called upon to furnish some of the materi als. Very seldom was it appealed to in vain. Such a variety of materials did it contain, that a search would generally re veal within its depths the desired article needed in the repair ot the various farm implements. The economy of having an “ old iron chest,” so strongly commends itself, that no farmer should let another month pass without providing a depository for such worn, broken and surplus articles as are not wanted for immediate use.— Cor. Rural Neio. Yorker. GROWTH OF TIMBER. It is a sipgular fact, that what were vast treeless prairies in Illinois, twelve years ago, are now covered with a dense growth of thrifty young forest trees, comprising various species of oak, hiekory, cotton-wood, ash, etc. So rapid has been the change in many localities, that where some of the earlier settlers located, twenty-five years ago, without a tree around them, they can now cut and hew good building timber a foot square. • Prairie land, when kept from the annual fall burning formerly practiced by the Indians, rapidly produces a growth of trees. Some of the old citizens, who greedily located the .timber land when they came to this country, and were careless about acquiring prairie, now find the latter of more value than the former, their timber having grown faster than they used it. VALUABLE GRANT TO AMERICANS. Three American, gentlemen, Messrs. Moses, Elcock, and Hoes, have recently had conferred on them, in the island of .Borneo, East Indies, by the Sultan, a grant of a large tract of most valuable laud, yielding largely various samples of com merce, together with pearl fisheries and extraordinary water facilities, rendering them wealthy almost beyond the power of estimation, and causing great chagrin on the part of certain Englismen who were scheming to secure these favors for them selves. Mr. Moses is the American Con sul, and Messrs. Elcock and Hoes served as officers in our army during the late re bellion. Ucitniifit. AGASSIZ AND THE AMAZON. A great degree of interest is felt among us generally in the results of the scientific expedition to the Amazon, with Agassiz as its leader and chiet investigator. Some reports of his wonderful success in finding new species of fishes have already been made public. The field" of exploration is probably the widest in the world, for either the man of science or the man of business. We have all been taught from childhood that the Amazon is the greatest river in the world, but, it is probable, we have not so generally become familiar with its really wonderful character. We are going to throw together a few of the traits of this river, ‘which justify what we have just said of its surpassing interest. It is the largest river in the world. More properly, it is the largest system of rivers, for no great river is a unity, but a system made up of many parts. The head waters of the Amazon are supposed'to traverse a distance of more than four thousand miles in reaching the ocean, lu this one respect, it is not certain that the head-waters of the Missouri are behind it; 'but in volume of water there is an im mense difference. The Amazon is made up of a considerable number of streams, rising on the eastern slope of the Andes, and uniting so soon that when the river, at the junction of the Huallaya,-takes the name of Maranon, it is already a third of a mile wide, and rolls a deep, strong current, capable of being navigated by large steam boats. It drains a region of country vari ously estimated at from two millions to twenty-five hundred thousand square miles. The Mississippi is supposed to drain a little over one million. It has twenty large rivers as its tributaries. The largest of these, the Rio Negro, is more than two miles mide for some distance above its mouth. The amount of internal navigation on its main and tributary streams, is thought to be fifty thousand miles, twice the circum ference of the globe. It is united by a natural canal with the Orinoco, the second river in size of South America, an instance not paralled, or very partially so, elsewhere in the world. This natural canal, the Cas iquiari, is formed by a natural bifurcation of the Orinoco, one portion running to the north of the Duida Mountain, and forming the main stream of the Orinoco: the other, a stream about about equal to the Rhine, turning to the south, after a rapid course of one hundred and eighty miles, entering the Rio Negro, the great northern affluent of the Amazon. The current of the Cast quiari is about eight miles an hour, and it is navigable for steamboats of the largest class. The secondary affluents of the Ama-. zon, the branches of its branches, would be called first-class rivers in Europe. The mouth of the Amazon i 3 almost pre cisely equatorial. Its course is nearly east, and of course the climate tropical. But this trait of its position is modified by the altitude of the regions in which its upper streams rise This is so great, that the cli mate near the source is like that of the higher latitudes of the temperate zones. It begins in regions abounding in the trees which oharaterize a semi-arctic flora; and in its gradual descent, passes through re gions representing the animal and vegetable productions of all but the frigid zones. So that a population inhabiting and - cultivat ing the soil'bordering on this great stream, oould, by means of river navigation, with out leaving their own country, give and re ceive in trade the productions of all the climates of the earth. Among its more characteristic natural productions, this great valley yields in large amounts the cinchona, a Peruvian hark ; the sarsaparilla plant; the caoutchouc, or India rubber; cacao, or chocolate tree; the coffee plant, as well as the common fruits and woods of tropical climates. Herndon, of the U. S. ■ Navy, says : “ From its mountains you may dig silver, iron, coal, copper, quick-silver, THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY zinc and tin ; from the sands of its tribu taries you may wash gold, diamonds, and precious stones; from its forests you may gather drugs ot virtues the most rare, spices of aroma the most exquisite, gums and resins of the most varied and useful proper ties, dyes of hues most brilliant, with cabi net and building woods of the finest polish and most enduring texture/’ Besides the things already named, we may add cotton, tobacco, sugar-cane, indigo, maize, four crops in the year, cassava, good for bread and starch, bananas and rice Pine-apples grow wild in great abundance. In a word, as to mineral and vegetable products, the valley of the Amazon may be considered a world "in itself. But this bare enumeration gives little idea of the profuseness and splendor of ve getation in this wonderful region. Under the stimulus of a fervid heat and abundant moisture, acting on a soil of unsurpassed fertility, every form of vegetable life is urgedintotheintensestgrowtb. Vast forests of majestic trees are filled with a dense un dergrowth of shrubs and twining plants, the latter especially like huge serpents stretch ing from tree to tree and interlaced with each other, often armed with thorny prick les, producing a body of vegetation so dense' that no animal of any considerable size oan traverse it. On the banks of the rivers, the boat navigators will often see openings in the dense forest' growth, where animals of various sizes and habits, by a kind of com pelled co-operation, keep a path trodden by which they can come down to the shore of the stream to drink. When startled by the passing canoe, they do not attempt to regain the forest by breaking through, but stalk leisurely along between the river and the hedge, or edge of the forest, until they have reached the nearest opening, when they disappear through it. To this wonder ful growth in the valley of the Amazon, Humboldt says the term primeval forest may best be applied; a forest so truly im penetrable that it is impossible to clear with an axe any passage between trees of eight or twelve feet in diameter for more than a few paces; the chief obstacles being not the enormous climbers, but an undergrowth of plants filling up every interval The animal life is, of course, abundant and va ried; but owing to the impenetrable char acter of the forest. growth, has been but little studied, by far the larger part of the whole region being still a wilderness, and the few settlements, mostly on the banks of the rivers, communicating with each other by boats. Some of our readers may have seen the exquisite collection of pictures by one of our New England artists, lately on exhibition at the store of Messrs. Williams & Everett, representing some of the beau tiful birds, chiefly humming-birds, of*Bra-' zil, as well as choice specimens of insect and floral beauty. There are but few danger ous animals, the jaguar being the- largest beast of prey. Monkeysin great profusion, and of most astounding vocal powers, in habit the forfest, and at times make night hideous with their cries, as they fly iu ter ror from the attack of the jaguar and other beasts of prey that hunt them even in their leafy retreat among the tree-tops. Hum boldt describes such a nocturnal commotion, and in contrast with it the stillness of a noon day of intense heat. “At such times, the larger animals seek shelter in the recesses of the forest, and the birds hide themselves under the thick foliage of the trees, or in the clefts of the rocks; but if, in this ap parent entire stillness of nature, one listens for the faintest tones which au attentive ear can seize, there is perceived an all-pervad ing rustling sound, a humming and flutter ing of insects close to the ground, and in the lower strata-of the atmosphere. Everything announces a world of organic activity and life. In every bush, in the cracked bark of trees, in the earth undermined by hy menopterous insects, life stirs audibly. It is, as it were, one of the many voices of nature, heard only by the sensitive and rev erent ear of her true votaries.” It seems evidentthat this region exercised a kind of fascination over the mind of the great traveller and seientist, and it can hardly be less attractive to our honored naturalist, who has his own specialty so richly stored with new species and genera in the great river itself. We can hardly help a feeling of apprehension that in the richness and extent of the field opened to his examination, the professor will find it impossible to tear himself away, even to bring to his pet museum the products of his search. Of this vast region, as already said, little has ever been explored. There i 3 nowhere else in the world so great afield for economical enterprise, whenever the obstacles shall ho overcome, and a free navigation of these streams grow up to meet the wants and develop ti e industries of a free and civilized population on their hanks. To this end, the expedition of Agassiz, so liberally fitted out by tie bounty of Our generous fellow-citizens, will contribute its sbare, by directing attention to the wonder ful features of the great river, and bring ing its attractions to the knowledge both of the savant and the merchant.— Register. One ■ doesn’t find good coffee on every table, especially at this time, when the pure berry has so many counterfeits. But those who love a cup of the genuine article, well made, may receive some hints from the French method of preparing it, as set forth in the following paragraph : In Paris the coffee is nectar, compared with the beverage we in common call coffee. I was desirous to know how it was pre pared, and soon learned. The French use three kinds of coffee, Mocha, Java, and Rio, mixed in equal parts The coffee, before roasting, is winnowed, to .cleanse it of dust, etc.; it is then culled or picked overevery black or defective kernal is picked out, as well as small stones, seeds, and rat drop pings, which are'abundant in most coffee. It is then put into tubs of clean water and well washed, then spread to dry; when dry it is ready for roasting. The coffee required is roasted daily at large establishments; whila. warm it is ground, and put up m glazed papers of & conical shape, bolding from two ounces to half a pound, and sealed up. Gentlemen, as they leave their places of business for home and dinner, when con venient, call and take the needed supply. The coffee is put into a pot or digestor m cold water, and then set over a ex pressly for the purpose, and there heated, COFFEE IN PARIS. not holed, but, steeped ; from this digestor nil steam or fumes arise; when ready, you have your rup of coffee. 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