ftiurfiftt.
THE MUSIC OF INSECTS.
Any contrivance that will cause two hun
dred and fifty-six impressions on the ear per
secondhand those at a uniform distance
apart, produces that musical note which
ought to bo given by a key near the middle
of a piano key-board, called middle do or
middle C. If the impressions are more rapid
than that, the sound is higher, if slower,
then it is lower. The sound may be produc
ed by shot falling on a board or on a sheet
of tin by scraping comb-teeth under a finger
nail, by the vibration of a stretched string,
of a piece of metal or of a tube-full of dir.
The quality of the note depends on the char
acter of the individual'impressions, its pitch
on the rapidity of them. Hefice, if you hear
but a single note you can guess very well
whether it is from air in a trumpet or the
vibration of a string or of a bell. And if
yon can ascertain the pitch you can calcu
late the number of vibrations.
I hear a fly buzzing, and try the keys of
a piano till I find one of the same pitch, and
then I know that the fly is making one hun
dred and seventy motions per second of some
kind or other. They are-the beats of bis
w'ings, of course-. If ah insect makes fewer
strokes than sixteen pe# Second lie flies' si
lently. The humming-bird makes more,
and so 4 he (alone, perhaps, of all birds) 1 makes
a note. ■
The note of the mosquito that serenaded
you last night, is said to be on middle:do or
C; if so, you know that the attentive musi
cian made two hundred and fifty-six beats
per second; and in the little time wasting
her song on your inappreciative earß she
made as many beats as there are steps be
tween Boston and Mew York. The drowsy
beetles fly much more leisurely. If you ever
imprisoned a bumble-bee in /the flower: of a
pumpkin or squash, yep have noticed, then,
how fear or a desire to escape has;quickened
his wings, whieJijftK4it!iailUy.,n),ake but,eighty
five beats per second. The same.increase of
action is noticed in ithftfLjf in the spider’s
wob. ' T' ■ 1
But the noise of flight is involuntary. In
sects do not breathe through their throats,
neither does any considerable part of their
breath pass thrdugh any on6'channel, for the
usual number df stigifiata or breath-holes is
eighteen. So the insdct must bo incapable
of vocal' music. A very few of them are fur
nished with musical instruments* but, per
haps more have apparatus for producing light
than sound. The eiead.ee among the hemip
ters, and the juniping orthopters, that is the
cricket, grasshopper and locust, families emit
sound.
I find no indubitable-eyidepce of any oth
ers, and of these the males are only favored
with musical organs. An Italian naturalist
—he must have been badly mated- 1 -says,
that the reason why the cicadce and grass
hoppers are so merry is because their yvives
are dumb. But among birds, the piale is
more gifted with song than the female,
though among hawks, at least, the female is
larger and Btronger. Avery wide diversity
in the Bexes characterizes the whole animal
world. Ido not mean that the emission of
sound, or even the voluntary production of
sound is so limited. The ticking of the death
watch by blows given by the jaws against
whatever the insect stands on, is done by
either sex, and probably for the sound. The
death’s-head moth emits a tone caused by
some rapid movement, as do bees, after their
wings are cut off. Any movement rapidly
repeated should produce a note.
I do not know* how the snapping locust,
locusta corallina, makes its noise when it flies;
I suspect that it Is involuntary and that it
is common to the two sexes. Nature has
supplied others of this family with two Ad
dles apiece, they stand on five legs and
double up one gf the,hindmost to use as a
bow. The shank is furnished with rows of
short spires like comb-teeth, and by rubbing
these back and forth over the edge of the
iving-cover tho elements of a note are ob
tained. When one leg is tired houses the
other. The sounding-boards to these violins
(and in all such instruments, —even the hu
man voice—they are very essential) are a
couple of oavitieß in the sideßof the aodomen
under the first ribg and probably also the
surface of the wing-bover. If locußts have
fiddles, the grasshoppers and crickets have
taborets. These are flat discs with ridges.
One slides over the other, and the acuteness
of the note depends on the frequency with
which the ridges Strike each other. .There
is, of course, a cavity beneath to give vol
ume to the sound. The taborets are attach
ed to (or are a part of) the bases of the
wing-covers. The katydid, perhaps the loud
est of the grasshoppers, can be heard a quar
ter of a mile. Lastly,, tho male cicadas are
furnished with 1 a pair of internal kettle
drums, sounded' by a complicated set of in
ternal muscles. The requisite sounding cav
ity is seen by raising, two large valves be
neath the abdomen. They can be heard a
mile.
Why is this musical apparatus given to
one sex only? Perhapsin each of the three
eases a like amount of mechanism is requir
ed for the boring and sawing apparatus of
the female; and ah equal amount of space
required for the development of the eggs.
So, by requiring music of the male only, the
sexes are Kept more nearly balanced. They
are intended to; he different—not inferior
and superior.
The chirping of the cricket is pitched the
highest, or nearly so, of any that the human
ear can hear. In Southern Europe either
they or their neighbors the grasshoppers,
are kept in cages for their music.:—Watch
man and Reflector.
The Cost of, . a Storm.— f The, j>| one
ward in Philadelphia ,-eaya that, nearly
be necessary to repair the streets in, his ward after
the late storms. . The whole damage to the city.and.'
neighborhood is-.estimated at nearly a million of,
dollars.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1867.
A NEW COMMODITY.
Scientific research and intelligent investi
gation are constantly adding new sub
stances to those already recognized as pos
sessing a mercantile value. Within a few
months a new textile has been announced,
but a more recent discovery promises practi
cal results not only immediate, but havingan
important bearing upon various interests.
A species of sponge (not the ordinary sponge
of commerce, but grass-sponge heretofore
considered useless,) which grows in exhaust
less quantities among the coral formations
of the Bahama Islands and ori the' coast of
Mexico and Florida, is ascertained to be ex
actly suitod to a large variety of mechanical
purposes, and is destined to enter largely
into domestic consumption. It grows in
very shallow water, and hence requires no
skill or labor for its production. >
Although the peculiar properties of this
vegetable growth were unknown.until with
in a recent period, Vessels are leaving New
York and Boston regularly to obtain cargoes
and the substance, as prepared by machi
nery at the factory in Birmingham, Ct., is
in demand for bedding and upholstering
.purposes far beyond, .the HLeauß.n.o.w.at.com
mand for its supply. A 8 a substitute for
curled-, hair, add .feathers which f Were too
expensive for any except 1 th'e OpiileAt classes,
it , seems complete. Henceforth the poor
man can throw away his bed of straw, and
at a moderate Expense provide himself with
a* place of rest as soft and: luxurious as those
more favored with worldly goods. ,
The newly discovered sponge grows in a
scraggly form among the corals of the sea
shore, and is gathered by natives of the Ba
hamas, and delivered dry at a certain price
-per pound, payable in merchandise at the
various places pf -deposit. A schooner be
longing to the New. York Elastic;Sponge
Manufacturing Company left this city last
'Week on her fbiirth trip; and another be
longing to the AmJeHCiih Patent Sponge
Company, of. Boston, left at the same time—
the latter company paying a royalty: tothe
former. Each vessel brings from 80,000 to
i(W,ood.H>s.; compressed into bales by machi
nery. To tender this Substance merchanta
ble, the first process is to put it into what
paper manufacturers call a. “ stuff engine,”
where it is cut, washed, and freed from, cal
careous matter and other impurities. It is
afterward passed through a series of rubber
rollers, saturated 'with glycerine (which
preserves its natural elasticity,) and is th eh
seasoned in ovens and’baled.’; A single inch
will expand to twelve.times its bulk. , Thus
prepared the sponge is free from all forms
6f insect life, never,'packs, and is not liable
to decay, and is much Softer and more elas
tic than other, materials which it seems des
tined to displace—at least to a certain ex
tent. One pound is considered equivalent
to one and a half or two of either feathers
or hair, and its cost is comparatively small.
Eor carriage upholstery, car-seats, church
ouabions, mattrass, &c., sponge.is already in
extensive use, and is highly commended.
As a new commodity, furnishing employ
ment for skill and labor, starling new pro
cesses in machinery, and especially as af
fording to all classes additional means of
comfort without a corresponding tax updn
pecuniary resources, the discovery thus an
nounced possesses not little commercial
importance.—JT. Yi Journal of Commerce.
THE OHOLEEA IN ITALY.
The Italian correspondent of the JS T . Y_
Tribune says: .
The cholera is, alas, rapidly oh the in
crease, and this year seems more than ever
resolved to baffle medical science. In Ca
tania the cases in one day reached 500 ; the
town is , deserted, the public functionaries
having struck. Palermo, too, despite the
unreinitting efforts ; of public authorities,
seconded by the citizens,. ■ seems doomed.
“ The streets,” writes a friend on the sth,
“ are deserted, fear and. squalor reign su
preme; an extraordinary number of families
have gone to the continent; the shops are
closed, the courts and tribunals are abandon
ed; neither buyers nor sellers are seen on
the. exchange. Despite the use of disinfec
tants, of all the preventive .measures'that
science Can suggest, the disease spreads 'with
groater energy and vehemence than ever;
nearly all of the cases prbve mortal ; and
from, the time of seizure to the time of death
barely three hours intervene ; a rapidity, ex
ceeding that of 1837 v Biitheftd ! it was' be
lieved that dirt and poverty were marked
by the r awful monster as its prey; but this
year the rich and cleanly have been the
greatest Bufferers, and we find the majority
of victims among the upper classes, even
among families whose sobriety and 'regular
habits cannot bo contested. Last year the
quarter of the Tribunali was devastated; this
year there are but few cases, whereas the
quarter of Monte Pieta is disseminated.” The
phenomenon is noted everywhere 1 that the
cholera has this year become aristocratic.
Como, and the villages near thb valley of
Aosta, the province of Novara, are the chief
sufferers in the North; but it is impossible
to form any idea of the number of the vic
tims. There have been daily eases ‘for weeks
in Genoa'; but the' Municipality insisted on
ignoring them; at fast the Prefect interfered,
and insisted on a daily bulletin, which com
menced on the 7th. Seven cases and six
deaths were announced, but as a physician
said to me on that very day :■ “ These steps
are useless, the bulletins only frighten peo
ple! and you do not get at the .true figure ;
: .yesterday there were forty eases-, but the.list
. of those in the hospital was alone publish-'
ed.” Certain it is, that as soon as; the offi
cial (Gazette recognized th e existence of the en
emy, a gen era! exodus commenced, aud soon
we shall hav.e shops closed andbisbreetS' de
serted as in Palermo. .-As fori the precau
tions thqy neyt to. useless. If L
So hence, to Mbjrbnce'j^y^iedJiw'r.';!,must re
lainseveh daysmquarantineat Leghorn,
■. Tout if I go by rail 1 am only fumigated at
the Btation, and can enter the capital oh the
same day. Tho doctors despair of finding a
remedy; the highest authorities affirm that
they have made no progress toward the dis
covery of eiiher cause or cure. When any
one suggests a method, they say try it, by
all means, we have no confidence in any
thing that we attempt. In some parts even
of the North of Italy, chemists’ shops and
the houses of the doctors have been attacked
by the populace and the owners stoned as
“ poisorrers.”
A STAB HIDDEN BY A THBEAD.
David Eittenhouse, of Pennsylvania, was
a great astronomer. He was skilful in
measuring the sizes of planets and deter
mining the position of the stars. But he
found that, such was the distance of the
stars, a silk-thread stretched across the glass
of his telescope would entirely cover a star;
and,moreover r that a silk fiber, however small,
placed upon the same glass, would coyer so
much of the heavens that the star, if a small
one and near the pole, would remain ob
scured behind that silk fiber several seconds.
Thus a silk fiber appeared to be. larger in
diameter than a star. ; , ,
, You' know that every star is a heavenly
world, a world of light, a sun shining upon
other worlds as our sun shines upon ' this
world.
, Oup sun,is' 886,000 . mile s-in diameter, -and
yet, seen frqm.a.djigtant star, our sun could
,be covered, gbseured, hidden behind a thread,
that thread was, near the eye, although
a6Q tilUb Lux
in a telescope. '' " y
Just': so We. have seen some who never
could, ibehfli.d,' the., heavenly; world.. They
always complained of dim ness, ;of vision,
dullness of comprehension, When they looked
in the heayerityidirection. You might strive
to comfort theto iti afßictiWj Or p'overty/or
distress; but no, they could,not see Jesus as
the Sun of Righteousness.!; You might di
rect their eyes to the Star of Bethlehem
through the telescope of fa th and holy con
fidence; but alas! there iissi secret thready
a filament; a silken fiber which, holding
them in sabserviiencytOithi world, in some
way obscures the light, and jesus, the Star of
Hope, is eclipsed, and tbeii hope darkened.
There are times when aver/small self-grat
ification, a very little love o 1 pleasure, a very
small thread, may hide thought. To some
sinners Jesus, as Saviour, Appears very far
off;<ibut far off as He mam appear, He cer
tainly can he and shall bejseen where the
heart lets nothing, nothing yitervene.
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WHEAT AND ITS
Every year seems to mul
to this crop, and renders a
turn more uncertain; henci
skill of the husbandman sh'
to the fullest extent to mitiAato the evils.
The Hessian' fly has bemme a general
enemy to the crop, but muoh|can be done to
avert its attacks by observing the proper
time of sowing. It is the eijfrly sown wheat
that is attacked by tho fLyJ If the sowing
is deferred until after the insect nas ap
peared, there is little dangsr from it. This
nifty be done and still alliw the crop suffi
cient time, to become weH rooted before
Winter sets in. We can.fiano precise date
for sowing the seed that i ill apply to all
sections', but the experienc of the farmer
should suggest the proper ( me for his 'par
ticular locality.. ■ When w eat is attacked
by this insect, its mischief is not confined
to the Fall, but remains di ring Winter be
tween the leaf and the m .in body of the
plant, ready to continue its vork of destruc
tion until its period of full maturity in the
Spring. Little injury will I e sustained from
this insect if ,the proper tlx ,e of sowing the
seed is, observed.
The next serious difficul y in the way-of
wheat growing, is its liabil ty to water-kill.
The injury from this 1 can e depends, in a
great degree, upon the . obiracter'and me
chanical condition of the sc iL Wheat upon
any soil that retains an u idue quantity of
water, is subject to tlie' gre !test injury from =
•this,'cause. Th'e only rein sdy for this evil
upon r soil of- this, oharae ;er, is thorough
drainage—ah f improvemen that is destined,
to work a wonderful revolt tion in American
•’farming. ‘
Of'all the insect depr da tors to w-inch
wheat is subject, the midgi is-the most for
midable. Less than forty years; ago this
enemy first made its appearance in this
country, and for a long tim« its depredatiO'nß.
wevo confined to narrow lijails; it has since
spread over a vast area-of jour country. 'lt
is multiplied in immense mumberSyand we
know of no means by which its rapid in
crease earn be checked. . It is, most destruc
tive in those varieties Of wheat that are
characterized by the tbii nest chaff, the'eggs,
being inserted through the chaff into the
forming grain: soon; aftcr it haß;gqne...ou,t .of
blossom. In fields of wiic;il that come for
ward a few days earlier than the crop gen
erally, the midge will b found only in the
lower and later heads, that happen to be
soft just at the time thfe insect is ready to
lay its eggs; this fact has suggested to some
of the best farmers the importance of pro
curing those kinds of wheat that mature
the earli est, SO that it % ay” become hard be
fore the insect emerges frbm its: Winter
quarters. Wheats eight or „teh days,iin.- ! ad- >
vance of the ordinary, period, of. ripening;,'
often entirely escapes injury from this in
sect. Mr. John Johnston", of Geneva, NV
Y., secures from: half to two-thirds' of a crop
of wheat, by having it ripen a, fey days,
earlier.than others, who qften lose their en
tire cr6p. This ad vantage, he derives from
having his soil drained, and the application
of salt a'nd other manures, by which means
: his crop is advtfnCcd several days. r In. ad
dition to this, he sows the best early varie
ties of wheat he can procure. ' ,
There are othqr; casualties to which wheat
-is liable, but the forhiidable tfiat'
we have not before alluded to, is rust.
This we believe, is entirely owing to the
state of the weather at the time the grains
are filling. Wet, warm, sultry weather, is
the fruitful cause of this malady. Early
maturity is the only means by which this
evil can be avoided.
Early maturity, then, is a matter of the
first importance, as a means of avoiding the
evil effects of most of these causes. To se
cure this, the land must first be put in the
best possible order before sowing. Where
land is wet, nothing adds more to the early
maturity of any crop than complete drain
ing. 2sTo soil can be warm and suitable for
any growing crop, that is saturated with
water. Warming and stimulating manures
afford additional means to promote early
maturity. Another, and the most impor
tant consideration of all, is to secure early
varieties for seed. Like all other varieties
of grain, there is a marked difference in the
period of maturity.ofAhe.differentLinds now
cultivated among us; and if the proper
mean's were employed, new varieties might
be produced, that would ripen earlier than
any of the kinds now cultivated. Some of
the best varieties of wheat now known
among us, have been obtained by selecting
the largest matured heads that showed
marks of superiority over the general crop.
—Rural World.
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723 Market Street.
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all. . , < i .-
Old Agents, Tjadies, Clergymen will find it a charming work to
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