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DU. GIRDWOOD’S LECTURE ON POISONS.
We extract the following from the third
Somerville lecture of the course now being
delivered in the Hall of the Natural His
tory Society: —
“ But there were.other poisons of a some
what different class—he meant that of
special disease which we knew little about
in themselves, but which were too frequently
found producing their effects among-t us,
such as cholera, typhus, measles, small
pox, &c. That eaoh of these had a posion
peouliar to itself was generally recognized,
for in every ease was found a certain fixed
series of symptoms—for the most part run
ning their course in a certain given time.
Such poisons were difficult of detection,
and their presence was only known by their
effects. Some articles of food commonly
used become poison to certain individuals.
This was the case with pork, certain kindß
of shell-fish, and mushrooms. The lecturer
went on to show how poisons had an elec
tive affinity for particular organs of the
body, and produced their effects on them
especially; how, but with few exceptions,
they acted through the medium of the
blood, and said it was not necessary that
poison should be actually swallowed —it
might be introduced through the skin di
rectly into the blood. Diseased, or over
driven cattle, and newly killed meat, was
in general liable to produce violent gastric
irritation, and even cholera. It was neces
sary that some means should be taken to
protect the public ot cities from having
such meat supplied them. The lecturer
next referred to the pork disease in Ger
many, stating that at one single wedding
feast some sixty people lost their lives,
having eaten at the feast of sausages made
from a pig that was suffering from a small
parasite, which, when swallowed, perforates
the alimentary canal, and takes up its abode
in the muscles, upon which it lives, and
there multiplies, till at last it produces
such a state of exhaustion, that the patient
sinks. Both pork and veal were unwhole
some food, and, unless thoroughly cooked,
were very apt to produce poisonous results.
The lecturer quoted authorities to prove this.
He went on to refer to the habits ofthe farm
ers in bringing into market in spring time
very young veal, before the snow was off the
ground, and before the cows could obtain
their natural food, good wholesome grass.
He did not consider this food wholesome,
and he mentioned one case of dysentery
where death ensued, attributable to its
use. He alluded to another practice which
prevails here of driving calves and sheep
to market with their feet tied together.
These cattle brought in long distances are
often tossed down on the pavement, and
left for whole hours during our summer sun
without water, and even without shelter.
Poultry also was brought in pairs with their
legs very tightly tied together. Animals
treated in this Way cannot be considered
as fit for food, being in a feverish state
from the sufferings they undergo. The
only condition of atmosphere which can
be compared with that arising from over
crowding in its effect upon , the spread of
the cholera, is that produced by the dif
fusion of the effluvia of drains, sewers,
slaughter-houses, manure manufactories,
&c., which correspond closely in their
nature and effeots with the putrescent ema
nations from the living human body. The
emanations from drains were, for the most
part, deleterious in reducing the system
by the quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen
present, and by its being charged with or
ganic matter, thereby preventing the exha
lation of the, lungs of such matters as are
formed during the circulation of the blood,
from the waste of tissues. Thus the blood
becomes charged with worn-out materials
and rendered unfit to keep the body in
health, an epidemic of disease arises, and
such as are within the pale of these delete
rious influences are the viotims.” The lec
turer's remarks were earnestly listened to,
and, on conclusion, he was heartily applaud
ed by the large audience present.
FORM OF PRAYER DURING THE CAT
TLE PLAGUE LAST CENTURY.
A correspondent, says an English jour
nal, has sent us the subjoined copy of a
form of prayer used in that country during
the cattle plague in 1745. The visitation
then raged fiercely for three years, and did
not quit the kingdom for ten years :—“ 0
gracious God ! who, in thy bounty to man
kind, has given them the beasts ol the
field for their provision and nourishment,
continue to us, we beseech thee, this bless
ing, and suffer us not to be reduced to
scarcity and distress by the contagious dis
temper whioh has raged, and still rages,
among the cattle in many parts of this
kingdom. In this, and all other, thy dis
pensations towards us. we see and adore
the justice of thy providence, and do with
sorrowful and penitent hearts confess that
our manifold sins and impieties have deser
vedly provoked thine anger and indignation
against us. But we earnestly entreat thee,
Almighty Father, in this calamitous state,
to look down upt u us with an eye of pity
and compassion; and, if it be thy blessed
will, to forbid the spreading of this sore
visitation, and in thy good time to remove
it from all the inhabitants of this land, for
the sake of thy mercies in Christ Jesus,
our only Saviour and Reedeemer. Amen."
MANURES OUT WEST. '
Speaking of the land in lowa, the Home
stead, of that State, makes the folio to
us unique remarks:—“ So inexhaustibly
rich are most of our lowa lands, that a
man who would take the trouble to draw
manure from his barnyard to his fields with
a view of enriohiog them would b e looked
upon as a curiosity in some localities. We
know of a field that has been cropped an
nually with wheat and corn for eighteen
years, and this year has as promising a
stand ■of Catawba club upon it as we remem
ber to have seen in the Genesee Valley of
New York. The time will come, doubt
less, when manuring will be necessary, but
not in this generation ; until then the straw
stacks will be burned to get rid of them,
and the manure piles continue to accumu
late into vast nuisances. Our readers will
from this understand why we say so little
upon the subject of manures, phosphates.
carbonates, etc., etc. It would be labor
wasted upon a people who never use them,
simply because they do not yet see the
necessity. While admitting that this
gradual wasting of the strength of the soil
is short-sighted policy for our farmers, we
are thankful that the soil is rich enough
to stand the drain for so many years to
come ”
THE PEACH CROP.
A number of the members of the Legis
lature have, at the request of Dr Trimble,
of Newark, furnished him peach buds from
their respective counties for inspection, in |
order to discover whether the crop has
been entirely destroyed by the extreme
cold weather of January. Several hun
dred buds have been examined from the
counties of Sussex, Warren, Morris, Hunt
erdon, Somerset, Mercer, Essex, Passaic,
Bergen, and Hudson, and not a living one
has been found. About one in five buds
in a few twigs from the counties of Salem
and Cumberland were found not killed.
One in about ten were found alive in those
trom Egg Harbor city,, in Atlantic county.
Peach buds are killed at eighteen degrees
below zero, proving that in the northern
part of the State the mercury fell at least
that low on the Dight of January Bth. It
is expected that m re living buds will be
found in the southern portion of the State,
but the prospects of the crop will be seen
to be poor indeed. — Newark , N. J. , Adver
tiser, February 17.
KEEPING HORSES’ FEET AND LEGS IN
ORDER.
If I were asked to account for my |
horses’ legs and feet being in better order
than those of my neighbor, I should attrib
ute it to the four following 'circumstances :
—First, they are all shod with a few nails,
so placed in the shoe as to permit the foot
to expand every time they move; second,
that they all live in boxes instead of stalls,
and can move whenever they please; third,
they spend two hours, daily, walking-exer
cise when they were not at work; and
fourth, that I have not a headstall or track
chain in my stall These tour circum
stances comprehend the whole mystery of
keeping horses’ legs fine, and their feet in
sound working condition up to old age. —
Miles.
SHOEING HORSES THAT OVERREACH.
It is very annoying to ride or drive a
horse that is constantly pounding his fore
shoes with his hind ones. It is click, click
all the time. We have had a number of
horses with this fault, but latterly have
been able to cure them or greatly benefit
them by a peculiarity of shoeing. Make
high heel-caulks on the fore feet and very
low toe-caulks, standing a little under and
the shoe setting well backward. The fore
foot thus managed will roll over and be
sooner out of the way of the hind foot.
On the hind foot make the heel-caulk low,
and the toe-caulk high, projecting forward.
If these directions are followed, the horse
will travel clean, and the habit will soon be
broken up. —Rural World. ..
HOW TO FRESHEN-SALT BUTTER.
Churn the butter with new milk, in the
proportion of a pound of butter to a quart
of milk; treat the butter in all respects in
churning as if it was fresh.
Bad butter may be improved greatly by
dissolving it thoroughly in hot water. Let
it cool, then skim it off and churn again,
adding a small quantity of good salt and
sugar. A small quantity may be tried and
approved before trying a larger one. The
water should be merely hot enough to melt
the butter.
JJtinrtifit.
MAGNESIUM LIGHT.
The brilliant white light produced by
burning .the metal magnesium has lately
attracted much attention. Magnesium is
the metal contained in ordinary magnesia
and Epsom salts, in soapstone, and meer
schautu, and might be a very common
metal if uses were found for it. Within
two or three years it has been produced in
England in considerable quantities, and its
price has rapidly fallen as the production
increased, till it now costs in London only
ten shillings an ounce. This weight cor
responds to a considerable bulk, because of
the low specific gravity of the metal, which
is seven times lighter than lead. In the
metallic state it looks much like zinc, a
metal to which it bears a close chemical as
well as physical resemblance. Zinc may
be readily burned in a coal fire, and in the
burning it also produces a white light, due,
like the magnesium light, to the, incan
descent particles of the solid oxide. A
small ribbon of magnesium may be lit by
the heat of an alcohol or gas lamp, and it
will burn steadily so long as it is properly
protected from currents of air, provided
there be no flaws in the ribbon. A slight
puff of idtod may blow out the flame. The
magnesiffii light is remarkable for other
qualities besides its brilliancy. The ultra
violet portion of the spectrum is more than
six times as'broad as the common spectrum
produced by sunlight. Henee the pheno
mena of fluorescence are very finely exhi
bited with the magnesium light. Its
chemical and photographic power is in
tense. Dry chloride of silver is colored
dark blue by it in a few seconds. If a
mixture of. equal volumes ol chlorine and
hydrogen be exposed, in a glass cylinder to
the light of a burning magnesium wire, a
mist of bydro-chlorio acid will at once ap
pear; and if a second burning wire be
brought to reiniorce the first, the two gases
will,'after a few seconds, unite with explo
sion precisely as they.do when exposed to
direct sunlight. Bodies which will emit
light in the dark after five or ten minutes
exposure to the direct rays of the sun, as
do the phosphides ot calcium, strontium,
barium, and some varieties of the diamond,
of fluorspar, and of alumina, attain their
maximum of phosphorescence from as many
seconds’ exposure to the magnesium light.
A perfect lamp for burning magnesium
is yet to be invented. The product of the
combustion is a white, solid, bulky ash,
which consists ef nothing but pure mag-
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1866.
nesia. It is difficult to get rid of this ash, 1
which forms very rapidly and greatly dims
the brilliancy of the light. Progress has,
however, been make towards this most
desirable end, both by English experi
menters and by the American Magnesium
Company, of Boston. One of the most in
genious suggestions which has heen made
is to reduce the magnesium to powder, mix
it with sand, and let the mixture run into
a jet of gas, as sand runs from an hour
glass. The greater part of the magnesium
now manufactured is consumed by the
theaters, and for such-purposes it is cer
tainly much more convenient and manage
able than either the Drummond or the
electric light. For light-houses and for
signal-lights at sea and upon railways, the
magnesium light possesses great advantages
over any light which has ever been used
for such purposes; but the actual employ-1
ment of the metal for ships and light
houses must depend upon the invention of
a lamp which will insure the uninterrupted
combustion of the metal, and the complete
and immediate removal of ’the smoke and
ash. For fire-works,'mixtures of zinc and
magnesium may be used with excellent
effect. By the magnesium light photogra
phers may work at night or in dark wea
ther, and the interiors of caves, catacombs,
and mines may be reproduced with all the
distinctness- of a sun-picture. Professor
Smyth has obtained by its use photographs
of the interior of the great Pyramid,
and of the granite coffer in the King’s j
chamber of the Pyramid. Colors look j
by the magnesium light just as they look
sunlight, so that in those countries J)f
Europe where sunshine is scarce the light
may prove a convenience to dealers in
delicately-colored fabrics of silk, cotton, or
paper. — The Nation.
ANCIENT CAVE-DWELLERS,
A report to the Belgian Minister of the
Interior, by Messrs. Van. Beneden and
Dupont, furnishes additional information
regarding the curious researches in the
primeval history of the human family that
now occupy so large a portion of the atten
tion of the scientific world. These gentle
men, who have long been engaged in the
pursuit, have been rewarded by the dis
covery of what may be considered a model
cave-dwelling on the banks of the river
Lesse. It is described as well lighted,
traversed by a spring, easy of access, and
! its situation most picturesque; in short,
presenting every requisite ctf a “ desirable
family masion” for our troglodytic ancestors.
The evidences of occupation presented by
this cavern are most numerous and import
ant. The materials of the various stone
implements found in immense numbers,
fragments of minerals, flints, jet, sharks’
teeth, etc., show that the inhabitants must
have enjoyed extended commercial relations
Vith other portions of Europe. Judging
lrom the quantity of bones found in the
cavern, the principal food of the cave
dwellers must have been horse-flesh, as the
teeth of more than forty horses were found.
The bones of the water-rat, badger, hare,
boar, show that variety in diet was studied.
The fore-arm of an elephant or mammoth
found in the same dwelling is regarded by
the discoverer rather as a fetish or idola
trous charm placed near the hearth, in the
same manner as still practised by some
I African nations. The worked flints, in
various stages of manufacture, collected are
more than thirty thousand. The cave
appears to-have been abandoned so suddenly
that the inhabitants left behind them their
tools, ornaments, and the remains of their
meals. According to M. Dupont’s theory,
this must have arii-en from the approach of
the sudden inundation which covered the
whole of Belgum and Northern France, and
swept away that generation of the cave
people. Immediately after they had left
it, the roof and sides of the cave fell in,
the pieces detached covering the floor, and
thus preserving the remains from the action
of the waters uudisturbed to the present
day. The writer, reconstructs from 1 the
materials at hand, whose evidence seems
incontrovertible, a stricking picture of the
condition and habits of the early races of
men in Belgium, a state that seems to have
prevailed over the greater part of Europe.
I The remaining unsettled point of investiga
tion is the ancestral relation held by these
primitive populations to the present race of
man. It will need more extensive discove
ries of human remains than have yet been
made, for its final settlement. — Ibid.
MANUFACTURE OF ARABIC TYPE.
Mr. Homan Hallock gives, in the Bible
Society Record, an interesting description
of the manufacture of Arabic type, for
printing an edition of the Bible. He
says: —
“At the time when Rev. Dr. Eli Smith
and myself commenced oui efforts at Smyrna
on the Arabic type, in 1813, although there
were existing fonts of tyj.-i in that language
in England, France, Germany, Constanti
nople, Mount Lebanon and Egypt, not one
of them was at all endurable by the all-fas
tidious Arabs and Turks, who, notwith
standing their semi-barbarous state, are
without equal in the exceeding beauty and
symmetry of their manuscript, of which all
printing in that language is an imitation.
Still, in the absolute necessity for type to
supply the almost total want of books, any
one of these fonts would most gladly have
been purchased and used at the Mission
Press, but that, for various ■ reasons, they
could not be procured. In fact, Dr. Smith
and his associates had made unwearied ef
forts to this end, but to no purpose.
u Atlength,in despair of success,he called
on me one day at Smyrna, proposing that I
should commence the difficult work of man
ufacturing Arabic type. Previously to this,
Dr .‘Smith, in pursuing his missionary work,
had visited numerous parts of Syria, and
had most carefully studied the forms of the
Arabic letters, finding many good speci
mens of manuscript; but until about this
time he had not found any that were drawn
with sufficient accuracy for us as models for
printing type. Now, however, by some
means to him almost mysterious, some
scores of pages of the elegant and perfect
■ copies used by the renowned Turkish and
Arab writing-masters came within his reach.
Of these he most joyfully took possession
i and they proved a key on which J
i implicitly rely for all the andc ves,
, and slopes, and other nice forms for which
- this writing is so remarkable.
“After rough-shaping about one hundred
punches, with tolerable prospect of success,
though not without long and painful effort,
a wakeful hour of the night suggested to
me that by reversing a certain part of a
pantograph in my possession, I could trace
my models direct upon the polished face of
pieces of steel, reduced to any desired scale,
and have only to follow my lines to make a
perfect imitation of my patterns. This
process was so clear and. intelligible, that
its first suggestion to my own mind, and
also to his, at once removed our doubt of
ultimate success.
“Dr. Smith now commenced drawing a
second set of patterns of the size of the
palm of my. hand, and after about ten days
spent in new modelling my pantograph, I
made my first steel letter, which, with its
succeeding companions, is still in existence,
has just now been used in making the type
in hand, and has not since been improved
in form, or scarcely in execution, in any
succeeding font.
i “ From that day to this, now about thirty
years, I have made it my ruling business,
I ind effort, and desire, to complete sets of
ihese punches, of which four different sizes
are done and are now in use at Beirut,
the fifth I am now making at the Bible •
House, at New York, and the sixth will be
commenced probably after a few months.
The smallest of these fonts is the same with
that in which the beautiful pocket Testa
ment has just been printed at Beirut; the
two large sizes will be used for the promi
nent words in large title pages, school-cards
and the like, and in an edition 6f the Bible
for the aged and weak-sighted, go frequently
found in that region of the world. The
intermediate sizes have long been in use at
Beirut, in printing portions of the Bible
and a multitude of other promiscuous
works.”
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As the) prevailed some fifty years afro;
At leas. that phase of fashion which oonveye
Hints o' those instrnments of torture — statb I
And then compare the old, complex machine.
With thi't which in these modern d&yß is seen:
No mors v steel and whalebone is the chest.
Or side, o liver, terribly compressed;
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The Collegiate Course embraces
BOOK-KEEPING.
as applied to all Departments of Business; Jobbing,
Importing. Retailing, Commission. Banking, Manu
facturing, Railroading. Shipping. £c.
PENMAN? "TP
both’Plain and Ornament
COMMERCIAL Law,
Treating of Property, Partnership, Contract', Corpo
rations, Insurance. Negotiable Paper, General Aver
age, Ac.
COMMERCIAL CALCULATIONS.— Treating of
Commission and Brokerage, Insurance, Taxes, Du
ties, Bankruptcy, General Average, Interest, Dis-
Annuities, Exchange, Averaging Accounts,
Equation of Payments, Partnership Settlements, Ac.
BUSINESS PAPER. —Notes. Checks, Drafts, Bills
of Exchange, Invoices, Order, Certified Checks, Cer
tificates of Stocks, Transfer of Stock'. Account of
Sales, Freight, Receipts, Snipping Receipts, Ac.
TELEGRAPHING,
by Sound and Paper, taught by an able ond experi
enced Operator. A Department opened 1-ir the ex
clusive use of Ladies.
PHONOGR APHY
Taught by a practical Reporter.
Diplomas awarded ou a .* s «.ri’ j fi' , ?ory Examination.
Students received at any rime. 1030-ly
THE WEST CHESTER ACADEMY
MILITARY INSTITUTE,
The Second Term of the scholastic year commences
on the Ist of February next, and closes on the Ituft
Thursday in June. The Corps of Instructors numbers
Ten gentlemen of ability, tact, and experience, beside
the Principal, who is always at his post in the Sohool
room.
The Principal haying purchased the extensive
school property of the late A. Bolmar, lately occupied
by the Pennsylvania Military Academy, designs re
moving his school there before or during the Easter
Recess.
For Catalogues, apply at the Office of the AMERI
CAN PRESBYTERIAN, or to
WILLIAM F. WYERS, A. M„ PrinoipaL
EISHSI HE CLASSICAL SIM,
FORTIETH STREET AKB BAXTIMORR
AVENUE,
WEST PHILADELPHIA.
REV. S. H. McMTJLLIN,
PRINCIPAL,.
Pupils Received at any time and Fitted
for Business Life or for College.
References:
Rev. J. G. Butler, DJ).: Rev. J. W. Meats; Rev.
Jonathau Edwards* D.D.; Rev. James M. Crowell*
D.D.; Dr. C. A. Finley, U. S. Army; Samuel Field,
Esq. 1023-tf
WOODLAND SEMINARY
YOUNG LADIES,
Nos. 9 and lo 'Woodland Terrace, West
Philadelphia,
nits 8ph««, f»r Solid lp
(traction and Home Influences and Comforts.
Testimonials of a‘ high ordor can be famished Jox
thoroughnesss and success..
Situation highly attractive and healthful.
1029-2 m Rev. HENRY Principal,
TREEMOUNT SEMINARY,
NOBRISTOWH, PA.,
FOR YOUNG MEN & BOYS*
The Summer Session of Four Months will com
mence on
TUESDAY, APRIL 10,1866.
Students are fitted for any calling in life or to es
ter any class in College. For circular .address
1032-lm JOHN W. LOCH, Principal.
fim cum linims
YOUNG LADIES,
NOBTWEST CORNER OF CHESTNUT ud
EIGHTEENTH STREETS.
REV. CHARLES A SMITH, D.D„
PRINCIPAL.
fteg &i.
& DIET 2. \
No. 43 STRAWBERRY STREET
Second door above Chesnat street.
•PHILADELPHIA.
Strawberry street is between Second and Bast
streets.
CARPETINGS,
OIL CLOTHS,
NEW STYLES, MODERATE PRICES.
IVINS & DIETZ,
43 STRAWBERRY Street, Philada-
tap Caipet Store. Ay
*ks & Dt^
"sy EXCELLENCE.
O t
THE SUREST REMEDY FOE
to CQDGhs&CO^'
\ ® # o % %, O
"o ?\ % c,°
This moat popnlarbrand of Oils generally prescribed
by the Physioians of Philadelphia, may be had at
retail* in this city from all Apothecaries* and whole*
bh|a fr om
Messrs. JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY A COWDEN.
NoT 23 North Sixth Street; /BENCH, RICHARDS
A CO., No. 630 Market Street: WRKJHT A SID
DALL. 119 Market Street: T. W. D 1 OTT A CO., No.
217 N. 20th Street, and the Proprietor,
CHARLES W. NOLEN,
No. 123 South Front Street
MATTINGS, AC.