ftaal Imumg.
AMONG THE BHTTEB-THBS.
L t one of our up-town [New York] hotels,
; full, a gentleman Bat placidly eating his
aer, when a waiter suddenly approached
deposited before him a plate of butter,
s gentleman’s countenance underwent a
id and astonishing change. He...paused'
h suspended fork for a moment, then
hed the plate from him with very evi
t scorn, and said sternly, “I told you—
butter.” The waiter retreated a little
lomfited, and a moment afterward said,
>ur hearing, “I know where that gentle
n’s from, certain “lndeed! where is
t?” we asked...-‘{Froni ,Philadelphia,”
iter answered", emphatically; ’“because £/iey
■er eat any butter here.” “ Never eat"
r butter here!” We pondered upon this
gular fact in epicurean annals, in doubt
ether to ascribe it to excessive frugality,
excessively Tjad taste, either of which
rht prevail to an unlimited extent in the
of Penn.
thortly afterward we found ourselves un
jfectedly in that same,city, and early one
my October morning we Avent to market.
■>,s a new experience; we passed through
h doubt, with wonder, with incredulity.
had there been each a going to mar
-0- us before ! We entered spacious halls,
arched domes and fretted windows, of
'ess architectural beauty and.finish, and
't in all their arrangements as a lady’s;
There were rows of white marble
.crs, and spotlessly clean wooden stalls,
,cd with their tempting display of'fruits
vegetables. There were apples, fragrant
mellow, as if they had ripened under a
cal sky; hives of clear, sparkling honey;
ars of snow-white lard; sausages that
eller could eat without a pang (before
. ward;) wondorful clusters of grapes,
■ieh golden cheeses. There were, too,
of ruddy-cheeked farmers, young and
mtlerncn in dress and deportment, re
ntatives of the industry and wealth of
djacent counties. There were even
rs’ wives and daughters, placid ma
and sober blit beautiful maidens, clad
akcr garb. Verily, it was almost Ar-
! But at, last we erownipg
' of thatfeast/of good things. , Wesayr
of wood absolutely spotless, bound with
i of brass filled
little rolls of butteir, cut to weigh a
or quarter pound, with yari
u-etty figures, and enclosed each in a
• little linen napkin. -One of those
is little rolls we tasted. Our new
ee reached its climax. Was that
? No! it was the essence of June
mgs caught and imprisoned in glowing
lies, the fragrance of clover fields ripen
into sweetness in the brooding sunshine,
warm delicious flavor of new milk foam
in the overflowing bucket. Oiu'eyes
' involuntarily, and we saw the low
“spring-house,” with the clear cool
flowing over its stone floor, and the
ig pans filled 'with yellow wrinkled
, and dripping with moisture. Higher
higher our fancies soared: We thought
Ganymede. But tho “beautiful boy”
not before us. In a sober
er gentleman, clad in gray, who would
resented such an allusion as heathen
in a supreme degree; and yet—and yet
Jupiter! thy nectar rare has come
to us moderns, and the fortunate chil
of Penn spread it on their—daily bread.
. Y. Independent. J. E. S. '
,M LAUDS CAPABLE OF ESTHETIC
TEEATMENT.
tlicious location of a farm-steading, with
jw to profit simply, will be always near
centre of the lands farmed: this isagree
>, moreover, to every landscape-ruling in
matter. The ricks, the chimney, the
■roofs, the dove-cots, the door-yard, with
kirting away of shrubbery and shade
if only order and neatness belong to
n, as good economy would dictate, form
arming nucleus for any stretch of fields,
-here be a stream whose power for me
nial purposes can be made available,
mmy dictates a location- of the farm
lings near to its banks: taste does the
If there be a hill whose sheltering
>e will offer a warm lea from the north
ti rs, a due'regard for the comfort of la
irs and of beasts, to say nothing of early
irden crops, will 'dictate the occupancy of
ich sheltered positionby the group of farm
lildings: taste will do the same. If such
ppe has its. rocky fastness, incapable of
Uage, and- of little -value for pasture;
sonomy will suggest that it be allowed to
ivelop its own wanton wild growth of for-,
jt : : a just landscape taste will sligges’t''the
une. If there be a broad stretch of meadow
jW marshland/aubject to occasional' oifer-;
iw, or by the necessity of its position not
pablc of thorough drainage, good farming
il demand that it bo kept in grass: good
adseapo gardening will also do the same,
jain, such rolling hill-sides as belong to
wt farms of the East, and which by reason
their declivity or impracticable nature are
t readily subject to any course of tillage,
11 be kept in pasture, and will have their
tie
EThe value of aVsheltering‘belt octrees is
lb sufiiciently appreciated as yet by prac
gal farmers; but those who are not insensi
i to the quick spring growth under the lee
K will one day learn
Kt an evergreen belt along the northern
Jp of their farms will show as decisive a
in their fields or their orcharding.
THE ENGLISH SPABEOWS.
he New York Evening Post has a corres
lent who writes:
[any thanks to the Commissioners of
Central Park fox* introducing this useful
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1867.
bird into our city four years ago. The spar
rows are daily fed and well provided for, and
they have greatly increased in, number.
They are also fed daily in four other parks
up town, where they are numerous and hap
py; but, not a bird-house is visible on,one
of the five hundi'ed trees in Washington
Park. Will not .some .birds see to
this at once, and have at least thrbfihun dred
erected ?
Flocks of one thousandjbirds can often be
seen in Central Park, and their pleasant
chatter is delightful. Aboat.fifty were seen
in Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street one
morning this week, by an early equestrian.
They have been seen forty miles north of
this city, arid if gentleihen would invite
them to their residences in the country, let
good bird-boxes be placed in every promi
nent fruit or shade’-tried* with some oats or
corn-meal, rice, &c., &c., in each compart
ment, arid -I will engage that the sparrows
will repay their kind friends this winter, or
early next springs firi,(l,abide: permanently.
We have no other bird so destructive to the
measuring worms, caterpillar race and in
sects, even to the mosquitoes. Jersey City
and four of riu/pfirks; hWe “bfien" kept clear
of worms the past summer by these little
stranger birds. It is reported that the owls
are making sad havoc rw.ith the sparrows in
Jersey City. * ‘Shoot the rascals.'”
frhnlific.
SCIENTIFIC) LECTURES BEFORE THE YOUNG
MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.,
\
PROFESSOR F. V. HAYDEN —THE. PLAINS.
The Hall of the association was.filled with
an eager and attentive audience to listen to
Professor Hayden’s account of his recent
scientific explorations on the-p I a iri sTo'f -K an -
sas, Colorado.,,Montana and Dacotah. The
whole ’-valley* of the > MissWrr tsarne* finder
review. The learned lecturer gave a com
plete account of its geography, its .inhabi
tants, its . plants, flowers and trees, its ani
mals and finally its geography.
Thegeneral appearance of the country was
described a? a rolling prairie* one wave fol
lowing another, much’ in the mariner ! -of the
waves of the ocean solidified. The absence
of' |ig3cs,Sexcept ; near thetwater bourses ,w!as
mentioned. The grasses were described—
upon which the Buffalo feed for fully ten
months in the year, the grass drying into
hay as it stands on the plains. The lectu
rer spoke of ;the vast herds, of buffalo, the
antelope, theipr'airie dog find the. extensive
villages in which he lives, also the grouse
and wild , turkey. As to the .Indians, who
inhabit this region, Professor Hayden said
that they had never, in fifteen years, while
travelling among them, betrayed the confi
dence he reposed in them. He had, time
and again, lain down to sleep near their
villages, totally unprotected, when he would
tacked'and murdered 1 him arid his ’party.
He had always treated them kindly, and had
never failed to receive similar treatment at
their hands. ’ ’ ' '
The'geology district was the next
topic. The upheaval of the whole Rocky
mountain chain was described,—the moun
tains being of primary formation. Passing
to Pike's Peak district, he said, the Peak
itself was of graiiite, and thrust through the
later formations. Around the granite, were
the azoic rocks, containing'the gold quartz of
region. Upon the upper part of the Mis
souri valley are extensive tracts of lignite,
or brown coal—and again, on the lower part
of the river, from Leavenworth, eastward,
we find another formation of bituminous,
coal. -The south-western portion of Dacotah
and the western part of Kansas, known as
the bad lands, are the most barren of all the
district, yet not devoid of grass. They
abound in myriads of fossil remains, telling
of the ancient sea of which this was once
the bottom—numerous tortoises, much like
those of the.present day. Also a species of
hog, that in later ages roamed these plains
in tens of thousands, was described. Speci
mens eif'remains; which the Professor had
brought with him, were exhibited. To- de
scribe what is in the plains now is compara
tively easy work; but to reconstruct the
district, as it existed in the former geologic
eras, is a different business altogether—in
volving, as it does, research and labor that
lead'us among the sublime manifestations of
the - great Creator of the universe., " The
Professbr * full “and complete in his
description, for, reason that many of
the young men before him would no doubt
in future years be finding their way out on
these plains in search of business and of
fortune. H| iKanjgnthusiastjiin his, scientific
researches. He displayed a fund of infor
mation gained by his observations that is
most interesting and entertaining to his au
dience. He will lecture again on the Indian
tribes of tie district, and give prairie life* in
full detail, which cannot fail to he highly
interesting.*! He' believes in our”young men
and in their Christian association, and is con
tributing his share toward their : mental im
provement.
E.~ S&cfcEßB ON CHEMISTRY.
' A brilliant- -l’ejpture was giyen -before. »
crowded audience on the philosophy of com
bustion by ProfessotEbgers.iiifHe began in
the most elementary way, describing matter
and the forces which operated upon it—
showed that the solid and liquid were held
together by cohesion, but- that>gases- were
apt to separate, and. expand, :9lhe action of
forces upon matter, when a-change took
place in the substances acted upon,, was
called chemical action. The attraction of
cohesion holds solid and liquid together; but
a stronger attraction than cohesion existed
between some substances, and when they
were brought together new combinations
resulted. Now, when the union.of different
substances is so'violent' as to cause’ l light
and heat, w,e call it combustion::
:Numerous experiments were shown .at
every step of the explanation. Fulminating
powder was exploded by a hammervessels
of solution of litmus were turned red by
acids, and blue again by alkalies. Then a
candle was burned under a receiver—and its
dying flame watched. The change in the air
fully described—the moisture deposited in
side the receiver fully accounted for—and the
whble theory of the union of carbon and
oxygen fully explained. Phosphorus was
burned by being merely brought ir, contact
with iodine. The fact that nothing was ab
solutely lost by combustion was then stated;
that the old elements merely went into new,
combinations. For every, sixpounds of ,coal
burnofi.m astove twenty-two pounds of car
bonic adid gas went up the chimney;—and
beside that increase .of weight, a certain
weight ofiashes always remained. Finely
divided, irpmwas then burned, and by a deli
cate balance', 1 4t .was proved to grow heavier
as it burned'’quite contrary, certainly, to our
generally received idea-of combustion.—
The-galvanic bfittery was ’next explained;
the 'fluid being the,result of chemical union
between an acid'fin'd'a series of zinc plates,
and the result being,the galvanic fluid, .by
which' combustion was produced.
The partial combustion oftplatinum wire was
exhibited, and then followed' a 'series of the
most brilliant experiments'Jfiith the celebra
ted "Euhm'korff'coil, which
erful generator of galvanic electricityknown.
Arapid series of -sparlts; eight 1 inches
long were given, which set fire io paper
held in the range; an exhalfisteSF - glass
tnbq, th|rpe| or Iquyfeet long agdijtifrfee f itacbLes
iri diameter, Waskttfiehed'heiwettf the
and a bright ribbon of lightning as broad as.
one’s finger and thfiee’feet long,',bl v 'a briglit
purple-tinge lighted : up the darkened rooms
Then the fluid was passed through various
tubes filled with different gases, which
changed the cflldr of the light,‘in each, to
green, orange, violet or blue.: The rapid re
port qf?,the sparks, the; ;brilliant 'succession
of colored illuminations, made a display, of
which words cannot corivdy 'any adequate
ideal The'class was loath to hfive the'fic
complished professor leaYe 'off his lecture.
It,lasted through nearly two hburs, .but many,
wanted two hours more.
Professor Kogers, too; has a high opinion
of the association apd of the ■v?o,rkitis > doing,
and voluntarily, lends his, walualile assist
ance in adding interest to its classes.” ,f;
CONSTITUENTS OF'THE SHOOTING STARS.
We come finally to the question, what is'
the material, what is the mineral constitu
tion of these strange bodies? We have al
ready observed that they sometimes split in
to pieces high in the mid-air,and occasional
ly stre\v the ground in their fall. • We shall
not now stop to give a catalogue of instan-;
ces; they-may be found elsewhere, and spe
cimens'mayftfe Seen'in almost evpry museum
of any consequence. On submitting them
to chemical analysjs they are found to con
sist most frequently of irdn In a metariic .and -
malleable, and not in an oxidized stale; the
iron is in general mixed' with nibkel, and
there are various compounds d’f inagne
sia and silica, and in some instances just
those veryingredients.yhich are seen in the
trap arid basaltic rbcfes of'our own'earth.’
These fiery messengers, then, bring with'
them tidings from the chill,-distant regions
of space, that matter therein abounds simi
lar to the matter which constitutes what
lies below the crust of our own plfiuet. But
not only so, the positive handling and the
actual analysis of this interplanetary, or, it
may after all'oCcasionfiliy'be, this interstel
lar matter, 1 serves only to corifirm what mo
dern skill has been able to detect regarding
the material constitution of the stars, nay
of the very sun himself. It might seem a
bold; and; aifitrange "asBei\t'ion to state that
we’ possess ? certain’ knowledge of the’
mineral constitution of thef,bodies
ceivably remote from us,,that we have no
means to measure their distances;: 1 and if we
had 1 the inefins, we possess’ fibi.arithmetic
which could conve3 r any intelligible concep
tion of the number of the miles; '<But so it is;
and, as. certain as it is, that a, well instructed
observer, by analyzing light, can detect the
material nature of the source from l whence’
it comes, wheiheri it may be from .the com-,
bustion of iron, or nickel; or magnesium, or
sodium; £0 certain it is, that the light from
the sun and from the stars indiqates the
combustion' of these very metals, in those
bodies which otherwise we' must have ebri-
Bidered, for such purposes, hopelessly remote.
It is not a little Satisfactory, then, to find
that so soon as we are t uucxpectq t dly able to
handle masses of matter, which are the
neighbours and thgicongepers of the sun and
of the stars, rather than of ourselves and of
our own planetary'home;-w.e:-find all our
scientific conjectures verified, and we ex
tract the vqjgr ipqn,fanditbe yery, niagnesium,
and the very materials from the meteor
planets, which we fiaw’ori fire.S'with
eyes in the mid-air and* which we shrewdly
guessed constitute the fires of the centre of
our universe,- ; : and; .of, . those-, lesser lamps
which are. too remote even tq feci the might
;of his iiifluenc'e. 'Thus suns arid stfirs and
comets, and riebfilse, and the" meteoric dust
which is sometimes spread upon our iields,
are all bound together-in-one common mate
rnal relationship.— Good Words.
PEOPOSED ENLAEGEMENT OF THE WATEE
STJPPLY OP GEEiT CITIES.
The principal cities^of'the civilized world
are now either enlarging their water works,
or looking for i ah additional, supply from,
new sources. The following statement of
the present and proposed works of several
cities, will enable us to form an idea of the
merits of the Perkiomen s'cheme, as com
pared with- 1 those of Paris, London, and
New York:; k
Paris jhaS a population of 1,600,000, and
an average daily water supply of 32*563,000
gallons per inhabitant, furnished by aque
duct, by pumping, and by artesian wells.
This supple is being enlarged'frjpn several
sources, dndrrwhcn : the he.waS'drks pro-
jected and now in course of construction,
are finished, the city will have a daily
supply of 105,400,000 gallons, or sixty-six
gallons per inhabitant.
London has a population of 3,200,000, and
an average daily water supply, furnished
by seven companies, of 108,500,000 gallons,
or thirty-four gallons per .inhabitant. The
new works, to bring in the head waters of
the Severn, will furnish, as it is proposed to
construct them, 120,000,000 gallons per day,
or thirty-seven and a half gallons per in
habitant, and, when the full capacity of the
works is used, 220,000,000 gallons per day,
or sixty-eight and three-quarters per in
habitant. There is another project for sup
plying London from the lakes of Cumber
land and Westmoreland, at a distance of
240 miles. By this scheme it is proposed
to furnish 250,000,000 gallons per day, or
seventy-eight, gallons :per inhabitant. ; -.._
New York has a population of 800,000,
and an average daily water supply by 1 the
Croton aqueduct, of 35,000,000 gallons, or
43f gallons per inhabitant. When the
improvements now being made to these
works are completed, 60,000,000 gallons per
day wilh be furnished, or seventy-five gal
lons per inhabitant. , •
Philadelphia has a population of .750,000,
and an average daily water supply of 35,000,-
000 gallons, or forty-six and a half gallons per
inhabitant, furnished by fifteen pumps'pro
pelled by water power, and- ten by steam.
The new works proposed; viz:—bringing
in water from the Perkiomen, will supply
75,000,000 gallons per day, or 100 gallons
jper inhabitant, and when the full capacity
of the works, as projected, is required, 150,-
1 6p3,000 gallons per day, or 200 gallons per
inhabitant; will be furnished.: ■
Thepupply of these four cities, when the
projectednow works and the improvements
in the old'jirp completed, will be, per inhabi
tant:
Paris, an average: of.- - . -66 gals, per day.
London (from the Severn,.) - -68 J *' . '.*
London (from the north.CQupty lakes),7B “
New York, from present works, - 75 “ ...
Philadelphia, from the Pertipmen, 200 “
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