1 TORNADOES. IT RICHARD A. PEOCrOR, B. A., F.R.A.S., AUTHOR OF "BATURH AKD ITS BYBTBM," BTC. The inhabitants of the earth are inhjected fte agencies which beneficial, doubtless, ia the long run, perhaps neceesar to the very xistence ot terrestrial rsoes appear, at first Bight, energetically destructive. Suoh are in order of destructireness the hurricane, the artbquake, the rolcano, and the thunder storm. When we read of earthquakes, each lus those which overthrew Lisbon, Callao, and Jllobamba, and karn that one hundred thou sand persons fell victims In the great Sicilian earthquake In 1CG3, and probably three hun dred thousand in the two earthquakes which assailed Antioch in the years 526 and 612, we are disposed to assign at once to this devasta ting phenomenon the foremost place among the agents of destruction. But this judgment jnuet be reversed when we cousider that earth quakes though bo fearfully and suddenly destructive both to life and property, yet eocur but seldom compared with wind storms, while the effects of a real, hurricane are scarcely leBS destructive than those of the t harpeBt shocks of earthquake. After ordi nary storms, long miles of the Bea-coast are Strewn with the wreaks of many once gallant thips, and with the bodies of their hapless crews. In the spring of 18Gb' there might be peen at a single view from the heights near Plymouth twenty-two shipwrecked vessels, and this after a storm which, though severe was but trilling compared with the hurri canes which sweep over the torrid zones, and thence, scarcely diminished in force, aa far north sometimes as our own latitudes. It was in such a hurricane that the Sojal Charter was wrecked, and hundreds of Stout ships with her. In the great hurricane of 1780, which commenced at Barbadoes and Swept across the whole breadth of the North Atlantic, fifty sail were driven ashore at the Dermudas, two line-of-battle ships went down at sea, and upwards of twenty thousand per sons loBt their lives on the land. So tremen dous was the force of this hurricane (Captain Maury tells us) that "the bark was blown from the trees, and the fruits of the earth de stroyed; the very bottom and depths of the sea were uprooted forts and castles were Washed away, and their great guns carried in the air like chaff; houses were ra.e1, ships wrecked, and the bodies of men and beasts lifted up in the air and dashed to pieces iu the Storm" on account, however, which (though doubtless faithfully rendered by Maury from the authorities he consulted) must perhaps be accepted cum grano, and especially in reference to the great guns carried in the air "like chaff." In the gale of August, 1782, all the trophie3 of Lord Rodney's victory, except the "Ardent," Were destroyed, two British ships-of-the-Jine foundered at sea, numbers of merchantmen under Admiral Uraves' convoy were wrecked, and at sea alone three thousand lives were lost. But, quite recently, a storm far "more de structive than these swept over the Biy of Bengal. Most of our readers doubtlesi re member the great gale of October, 1864, in Which all the ships in harbor at Calcutta were Swept from their anchorage, and driven one upon another in inextricable confusion. Fear ful as was the loss of life and property in Cal- ... 1 1 1 3 . . . vuu uarDor, me destruction eu land was greater, a vast wave swept for miles over the surrounding country, embankments were destroyed, and whole villages, with their in habitants, swept away. Fifty thousand souls. it 1b believed, perished in this fearful hur ricane. The gale which has just ravaged the Gulf of Mexico adds another to the long list of dis astrous hurricanes. As we write, the effects produced by this' tornado are beginning to be xaade known. Already its destructiveneaa has twoome but too certainly evidenced. The laws which appear to regulate the gene ration and the progress of cyclonio storms are well worthy of careful study. The regions chiefly infested by hurricanes are the West Indies, the southern parts of the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and the China seas. Each region has its special hurri cane season. In the West Indies, cyclones occur princi pally in August and September, when the southeast monBOons are at their height. At the same season the African southwesterly Snonsoons are blowiDg. Accordingly there are two Bets of winds, both blowing heavily and Steadily from the Atlantic, disturbing the atmospherlo equilibrium, and thus in all pro Lability generating the great West Iudiau hurricanes. The storms thus arising show their force first at a distance of about six or Seven hundred miles from the equator, and far to the east of the region in which they attain their greatest fury. They sweep with a north westerly course to the Gulf of Mexico, pass thenoe northwards, and so to the northeast, Sweeping in a wide curve (resembling the letter U placed thus c) around the West Indian seas, and thence travelling across -the Atlantic, generally expending their fury befire tney reach the shores ol Western This course i:VaeKo,m.lr(lov (or W shall call it.) Of the behavior of the win 13 as they traverse this track, we. shall have to speak when we comtfto consider the peculiarity from which these storms derive their names Of 'cyclones" and "tornadoes." The hurricanes of the Indian Ocean occur at the "changing of the monsoons." "During the Interregnum," writes Maury, "the fiends of the storm hold their terrific sway." Be calmed, often, for a day or two, seamen hear moaning sounds in the air, forewarning them of the coming storm. Then, suddenly, the winds break loose from the foroes which have for awhile controlled them, and "seem to rage with a fury that would break up the fountains of the deep." In the North Indian seas hurricanes rage at the same season as iu the West Indies. In the China seas otour those fearful gales lenown among sailors as "typhoons," or "white squalls." These take place at the changing f the monsoons. Generated, like the West Indian hurricanes, at a distance of some ten r twelve degrees from the eqnator, typhoons Sweep In a curve similar to that followed by the Atlantio storms around the East Indian Archipelago, and the shores of China to the Japanese Islands. There occur land storms also, of a cyclonio character, in the valley of the Mississippi. "I kave often observed the paths of such storms," says Maury, "through the forests of the Mis sissippi. There the track of these tornadoes is called a 'wind road,' because they make au avenue through the wood straight along, aud as clear of trees as if the old denizens of the foreet had been cleared with an axe. I have Seen trees three or four feet la diameter torn op by the roots, and the top, with its liinb, lying nest the hole whence the root came." Another writer, who was an eye-witness to the progress of one of these American land-storms, thus speaks of its deBtructive effects. "I saw, ts) my great astonishment, that the noblest trees of the forest were falling into pieces. A Sums of branches, twigs, foliage, and dtut THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1867. moved through the air, whirled onwards like a cloud of feathers, and passing, disclosed a wide rpace filled with broken trees, naked stomp, and heaps of shapeless ruins, which marked the path of the tempest." If it appeared, on a careful comparison of observations mRdo iu different places, that these winds swept direotly along those tracks which they appear to follow, a comparatively simple problem would be presented to the meteorologist. Bat this is not fouod to be the case. At one part of a hurricane's course the storm appears to be travelling with fearful fury along the true Btorm- ej; at another less futiously directed across the storm-track; at another, but with yet diminished force, though still fiercely, in a dltet tion exactly opposite to that of the storm-track. All these motions appear to be fairly accounted for by the theery that the true path of the storm is a spiral or rather, that while the centre of disturbance con tinually travels onwards in a widely extended curve, the storm-wind sweeps continually around the centre of disturbance, as a whirl pool around its vortex. And hern a remarkable circumstanoe attracts our notice, the consideration of which points to the mode in which cyclones may be con ceived to be generated.. It ia found, by a care ful study of different observations made upon the same Btorm, that cyclones in the northern hemiepbere invariably sweep round the onward travelling vortex ot disturbance in one direction and southern cyclones in the contrary direc tion. If we place a watch-face upwards upon one of the northern cyclone regions in a Mer cator's chart, then the motion ef the hands is contrary to the direction in whioh the cyclone whirls; when the watch is shifted to a south ern cyclone region, the motion of the hands takes place in the same direction as the cyclone motion. This peculiarity is converted into the following rnle-of-thumb for sailors who encounter a cyclone, and seek to escape from the region of fiercest storm: Facing the wind, the centre or vortex of the storm lies to the right in the northern, to the left in the south ern hemisphere. Safety lies in flying from the centre in every case saveone that is, when the sailor lies in the direct track of the ad vancing vortex. In this case, to fly from the centre would be to keep in the storm-track; the proper course for the sailor wheu thus situated is to steer for the calmer side of the Btorm track. Tola is always the outside of the d, as will appear from a moment's con sideration of a spiral curve traced out by a cy clonehe will probably escape unscathed. There is, however, this danger, that the storm track may extend to or even slightly overlap the land, in which case scudding before the gale would bring the ship upon a lee shore. And in this way many gallant ships have, doubtless, Buffered wreck. The danger of the Bailor is obviously greater, however, when he is overtaken by the storm on the inner Bide of the storm- c;. Here he has to encounter the double force of the cyclo nic whirl and of the advancing Btorm-system, instead of the difference of the two motions, as on the outer side of the storm-track. Ilia chance of escape will depend on his distance from the central path of the cyclone. If near to this, it is equally dangerous for him to attempt to scud to the safer side of the track, or to beat against the wind by the shorter course, which would lead him out of the Btorm- cj on its inner side. It has been shown by Colonel Sir W. Reid that thia is the quarter in which vessels have been most frequently lost. But even the danger of thia most dangerous quarter admits of degrees. It is greatest where the storm is sweapiDg round the most curved part of its track, which happens in about latitude twenty-live or thirty degrees. In this case, a ship may pass twice through the vortex of the Btorm. Here hurricanes have worked their most destructive effects. And thus it happens that Bailors dread, most of all, the part of the Atlantio near Florida and the Bahamas, and the region of the Indian Ocean which lies south of Bourbon and Mau ritius. To Bhow how important it is that captains should understand the theory of cyolones in both hemispheres, we shall here relate the manner in which Captain J. V. Hall escaped from a typhoon of the Chinese seas. About noon, when three days out from Macao, Cap tain Hall saw "a most wild aud uncommon looking halo round the sun." On the after noon of the next day, the barometer had commenced to fall rapidly; and though, as yet, the weather was fine, orders were at once given to prepare for a heavy gale. Towards evening, a bank of cloud was seen in the southeast, but when night closed the weather was still calm and the water smooth, though the sky looked wild, and a scud was coming ou from the northeast. "I was much interested," says Captain Hall, "in wa ching for the commencement of the gale, which 1 now felt sure waa coming. That bank to the southeast was the meteor (cy clone) approaching us, the northeast scud the outer northwest portion of it; and when at night a strong gale came on about north, or north-northwest, I felt certain we were on its weBtern ana southwestern verge- ;t raoidlv increased in violence1 v. t nUo Bee the wyi veeriDg'to the northwest, a3 it convinced me that I had put the ship on the right track namely, on the starboard tack, standing, of course, to the southwest. From ten A. M. to three P. M. it blew with great violence, Vut the ship, being well prepared, rode comparatively easy. The barometer was now very low, the centre of the storm passing to the northward of us, to which we might have been very near had we in the first part put the ship on the larboard tack." But the most remarkable point of Captain Hall's account remains to be mentioned. He had gone out of his course to avoid the storm, but when the wind fell to a moderate gale he thought it a pity to lie so far from his proper course, and made Bail to the northwest. "Iu leps than two hours the barometer again began to fall and the storm to rage iu heavy gusts. He bore again to the Boutheast, and the weather rapidly improved." There can be little doubt that but lor Captain Hall's know ledge of the law of cyclones, his ship and crew would have been placed in set ions jeo ardy, bince iu the heart of a Chinese tihoon a Bhip has been known to be thrown on her beam ends when not showing a yard of canvas. If we consider the regions in which the cycloDes appear, the paths they follow, and the direction iu which they whirl, we shall be able to form a guess at their origin. In the opt-n Pacific Oceau (as its name, indeed, im plies) Btoinis are uncommon; they are unfit), queut also in the South Atlantio aud South Indian Oceans. Around Cape Horn aud the Cape of Good Hope, heavy storms prevail, but they are not cyclonic, nor are they equal ia fury and frequency, Maury tells us, to the true tornado. Along the equator, and for Several degrees on either side of it, cyclones are also unknown. If we turn to a map in which ocean currents are laid down, we shall see that in every "cyclone region" there is a Btrongly marked current, and that each cur rent follows closely the track which we have denominated the stoi m-d. In the North At lantio we have the great Gulf Stream, which sweeps from tquatorial regiona into the Gulf of Mexico, and thence across the Atlantic to the shores of Western Europe. In the South Indian Ocean there is the "sonth-equatorial current," which sweeps past Mauritius and Bourbon, and thence returns towards the east. In the Chinese Sea there is the north equatorial current, which sweeps round the F.;i.-t Indian Archipelago, and then merges into the Japanese current. There is also the current iu the Hay of Bengal, flowing through the region iu which, as we have Been, cyclones are commonly met with. There are other sea currents besides these, which yet breed no cyclones. . But we may notice two peculiari ties in the currents we have named. IMiey all flow from equatorial to temperate regions, and secondly, they are all "horse-shoe currents." So far as we are aware, there is but one other current which presents bo'h these peculiari ties, namely, tho great Australian current, between New Zealand nd the eastern shores of Australia. We have not yet met with any record of cyclones occuring over the Australian current, but heavy storms are known to prevail in that region, and we believe that when these storms have lieen studied as closely as the storms in better known regions, they will be found to present the true cyclonio character. Now, it we inquire why an ocean current travelling from the equator should be a "Btoim-breeder," we Bhall find a ready answer. Such a current, carrying the warmth of inter tropical regions to the temperate zones, pro duces, in the first pi ace, by the mere difference of temperature, important atmospheric dis turbances. The difference is so great, that Franklin suggested the use of the thermome ter in the North Atlantio Ocean as a ready means of determining the longitude, since the position of the Gulf Stream at any given season is almost constant. But the warmth of the stream itself is not the only cause of atmospheric disturbance. Over the warm water vapor is continually rising; and, as it rises, is continually condensed (like the steam from a locomotive) by the colder air round. "An observer ou the moon," says Captain Maury, "would, ou a winter's day, be able to trace out by the mist iu the air the path of the Gulf Stream through the sea." But what must happen when vapor is con densed f We know that to turn water into vapor is a process requiring that is, using up a large amount of heat; aud, conversely, the return of vapor to the state of water sets free an equivalent quantity of heat. The amount of heat thus set free over the Gulf Stream is thousands of times greater than that which would be generated by the whole coal Bupply annually raided in Great Britain. Here, then, we have au efficient cause for the wildest hurricanes. For, along the whole of the Gulf Stream, from Bernini to the Grand Banks, there is a channel of heated that is, rarefied air. Into this channel the denser atmosphere on both sides ia continu ally pouring, with greater or less Btrength, and when a Btoim begins in the Atlantio, it always makes for this channel, "and, reaching it, turns and follows it in its course, sometimes en tirely across the Atlantic." "The southern points of America and Africa have won for themBelves," says Maury, "the name of 'the stormy capes,' but there is not a storm-fiend in the wide ocean can out-top that whioh rages aloDg the Atlantio coast of North America. The China seas and the North Patifio may vie in the fury of their gales with this part of the Atlantic, but Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope cannot equal them, certainly in frequency, nor, do I believe, in fury." We read of a West Indian Btorm so violent that "it forced the Gulf Stream back to its eourcen, and piled up the water to a height of thirty feet in the Uulf of Mexico. The ship Ledbury Snow attempted to ride the storm. When it abated she found herself high up on the dry laud, and discovered that she had let go her anchor among the tree tops on Elliott's Key." By a like reasoning we can account for the cyclonic storms prevailing in the North Facifio' Ocean. Nor do the tornadoes which rage in parts of the United States present any serious difficulty. The region along which these Btorms travel is the valley of the great Mis sissippi. This river at certain seasons is con siderably warmer than the surrounding lauds. From its surface, also, aqueous vapor ia con tinually being raised. When the surrounding air is colder, this vapor is presently con dented, generating in the change a vast amount of heat. We have thus a channel of rarefied air over the Mississippi valley,, and this chan nel becomes a Btorm-track like the correspond ing channels over the warm ooean-ourrents. The extreme violence of land-storms ia proba bly due to the narrowness of the traok within which they are. compelled to travel. For it has been noticed that the fury of a sea-cyclone Increases as the range of the "whirl" dimin ishes, and vice versd. There seems, however, no special reason why cjlones should follow the storm-cj in one direction rather than in the other. We must, to understand this, recall the fact that under the torrid zones the conditions necessary to the generation of storms prevail fa more intensely iiian in tem perate regionB. Thus the probability is far greater that cyclones should be generated at the tropical than at the temperate end of the Btorm- q. Still it is worthy of notioe, that in the land-locked North Facifio Ocean true typhoons have been known to follow the storm-track in a direction contrary to that commonly noticed. The direction in which a true tornado whirls Is invariably that we have mentioned. The explanation of this peculiarity would occupy more space than we can afford. 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Or 1 HOMAH R, HKARi.lC. No. 17 Wa LN UT Mtruet, 12 3Sm PhiiadHlpbla, Pa, FyPfV, PABSAUk TO AiP FROM - OKKAT Bill TAIN AND IRPXANJ) HV bTKAM;-HIP ANM SAILINM PACKET. AT KU'1'CK.ll RATRS. DRAFTS AVAILAHLKTH IIOUU HOUT ENHLANH 1RKLAND. BCOTLAD, AND WALKH. For particulars api-ly lo 1 A PMJOTTH, BROTHFRH OO No. 96 SOUTH Ktreet. and No. 28 BROADWAY, 11 OrtoTHOtf. T. 9hA.RL.tt. No. 217 WALNDT rf THE PHILADELPHIA AND uU. ROU'lHKRN tiAIUMMMatllP COM. A.N Y'H Rt-Ulil-AK Hrlll-MONTH l,V LINK. IbK M.W 4IHI.KA.NS, L.,V1A HAVANA. Jbrl ATA. ivb t--iiN. (upturn P. F. Huxle. UTAH OKI H & t'MON.Ii'TS ton. Capt. T. N.Cooksey. Tbe b'TARuF THK UMUM will leave fur New Orleans on Tui-Hday, January 7, at 8 o'clock A. M.r Iri Bi Nn. IS Souili Wharves. Tbe JUNIATA will leuve New Orleans for this port on b.turday, Jmiuary 4. Through bills t iadiiix eigned for freight to Mobile, GalventoD, N'alcbic. Vkrknburg. Men puin, NaxUvllle, Cairo, HU Lotnn, Loulavllle, auu Ciuctunall. Ageuls at New Oneuna Cr evy Niokeraen. & Co, WILLIAM L. JAM KH, Oeneral Axent, CI1A1U.LH . HI LKKS, FreUhi Agenc, 11 21 No. 814 H. Delaware avenue. THE PHILADELPHIA awn Ja. ROL lliKlUN MAIL. r 1 k. A M.-iH I P fXiM. Kilt M II.MIXi'lO.N, K. '. Tbe etcanjHbip 1-IO.NKivK, Mli.ious. Captain J. Tion Dell, will leave lor Ibe above port on bulurjuy. liecrmber in, at 6 o'clock P. M., lroui Pier la boutli Wharves. linls ol lading signed at through and reduced rales to all priuclpai polum lu Not In Caroliua. Ageum al Wliuilngiuu, Worib A Daniel. WILLIAM L. JAMiC. Ueueral Agent, CD-AllLLS K. DlLK hJS, rreibl ageut, 11 2j No. 314 o. Delaware avenoa. THE PHILADELPHIA AND aPff. BO U'lHtKH MAIL bl'KAMaHIP COM. StaMfeitiLFA Y'U KbUULAR U1NK 10lt4AHJiAII,U4, TONAWACnJia 850 loua, Captain Win. Jennings. W . OM lNt, 860 tun.. Captain Jacob Teal, 'ibe steauiabip WYOMING will leave for the above purl ou Saturday, Dt-ceu.ber 2d, at S o'clock A. M., Irum pier 18 bouib Wharves, Ti rough passage tickets .old, and freight taken for all points lu couuecilon wilb the Oeorgia Central Kail road. WlLilaM L. JAME-t, Ueueral Agent, CHAKLJ&i K DlLKruS, Freight Ageut, No. 814 4. idtLAWAttK Ayeuue. Agents at Bavannah, Hunter & Uammeiu 11 22 PHILADELPHIA. RICIIMOKn fe, AND NORFOLK b 1 rL A Mb 11 1 r LINK. xxiivuuuti a i n Lima iu itxn bourn A K 1. 17 LV'l. THROUGH REUJUPTW TO NKWBEKN. Also all point In Norib aud boutn Carolina, TlS Beaboard aud Roanoke Railroad, aud to Lynchburg, Va., lenneaaee aud tbe Went, via Nortolic, Peters, burg, boutuide itailroad, aud Richmond and Dao VII le iiallroad. Tbe regularity, aafety and cheapness of this rents oounieud It to ibe public as the most deatrabb) medium lor carrying every deaci Ipllon of frelght.- Mo cuarga tor eonuuUaion, dray age, or any xDeAsfl fir tr.ll.IAr. m-trm bteaniBbipa lnanre at lowest rates, and leava rem. larly troin itrsi wharf above Market street. a reigui received aaiiy. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A CO., No. 14 North aud bouib WHA.RV.EH. pW.( P. PORT'lutt, Ageut al Kicbmoud And UtJ T. P. CROWELL A CO., Agents at Norfolk. 1 1 jtmnm opp4sition to mona J-gffOLY. -DAILY LINK FOr2"lTI sg.rT;ajy.m A MOiHC, via Oaesapeaks aud Dels Philadelphia and Baltimore Union Steamboat Com. paiy, dauy at 8 o'cloca P.M. iJuro- 1 be bu-aniers ol lb la line are now plying reenlarl petweeu this port and Baltimore, leavlug thePlur No. 2N. De aware aveuue, above Market street daily o'clock P. M (buudaya eacepied). "y.M Other'ane? sJi description or Freight as low as any Freight bandied with great care, delivered promptly, and forwarded to all points beyond tba tei minus tree ot comuiluiion. Particular attention paid to the transportation nf all debcrlpllon of Merchandise, Hoisea, Carriages. For further Information apply to .... JOliN D. RTJOFF, Agent, lt N0.1SN. DAXAWAitii Aveuue. -- W EXPRESS LUBTS TWTh Ai?a!l'l eorgewwn. and Waaulugtoa, 3a&&$ L. C., via Chiwapeake and Delaware CauaL wiiu connections at Alexandria from the moat dlreos route fur Lynchburg, Bristol, KnoxvUle. NsshvllLa Dalton.and the bouibweal, Hieaniers leave regularly from the first Wharf a Sots Market street, . Freight received dally. WM. P. CLYDE A CO., No, 14 Norib and bouib Wharves! J. B. DAVIDSON, Agent at Georgetown. M.KLDKIDUlfi k Co., Agents at Alexandria. TV l-lnis. If fff roB NEW TORK.TIA DELAr rjSiairaiia ware and Rarltan Cauai. - in preaa bleaniboat Company Steam Propellers) leave Dally from brat wharl below Market street. Tbronub in twenty-four hours. Uooda forwarded ho all points. North, kasl, aud Waal, tree of oouiiuiaalon Freight received at tbe loweal rates. WM. P. CLYDK A CO.. Agents, No, 14 bouib Wharves. JA B HAND. Agent. No. 104 Wall street. New York. m TUB HIW TSBKNWirr. rTiv,,f bllKa.Traupjrlalluu Company De. JiiriF-i-A- spalch aud bwlitaure Llum. via Dela. Warn uo Harltau Cauai, on aud alter the Ifcib of March. InaviDK dallv al li M. aud S P. M.. ainni.'Uii With all Nortberuaud Eastern Uuea. Fur freight, which will be taken oo accommodating terms, apply to -vvii.i.iam K Raird a CO.. 1 1 No. im b. DkM WAKK A venue, fTpr-tv TO &IIIP CAPT A133 AN 0 OWNERS. ai.l' fr'a- '' be ui Oemlgued havtia lenaeu ibe KaN-bu-uio.v bCKk.W DO K, beas t lulorua bis Irieiuis aud tbe patruus uf the Di ck bat he ia prepared wlib. kirrenbtd facilities lo arcinjmlate lb use having VfBnt is to be raised or re paired, all being a practical abliw sr (tenter aud caulker, wuu 4ve peisuual alien, tiuu to the vessels eutruHted lo IiliAtor repairs. Cbptaiuaor Aneuia hblii-l'arpetitin aud ivlacblnlala having vesaela to lepalr, are eollcidl to call. Having tbe ageucy lur the aaleiit Weiieratedts' Paient Meiall Com poslilou" lor popper lalut, fur the preservation ot vetmels' botlouiolur tins cily, I am piepaxed to lurulsb tbe sauieou reat.uable terius. Keiisingtoiliscrew Hra Ir. DELAWARE A veuue.auo Laurel street. BOARDINQ. F I li 8 T - C 1j A B 8 B I N 6, Central location. No. llil rjIRARDfctreot, west of Kleveuih, above Cheauutatreel. A baiomeseoontl , story front room, unlurulsbed.m; wyas.it. t T.r.rvuhR a NtVY cuuiisunp T.rcr. I 1 iure as being delivered at lue New Miuteuut Ol Auauinjy.iuibisclug Hie bubjeol-: I 'How w live ai d ahul lo live lor YouS Maturity, and old age iaub-d geuerally revi4yMd Tua causes ul lKdlgeMion, flatulence, an . Nero uineasea aco uuted lor Marriage pbllusophloabf buslduia. eu . etc." ' j-i.ket volume containing Ihese yurea will bs forwarded to parlies unable to aiteu' on recevpt of four stamps, by addreesing "SWKIAHY. New York Museum ot Anatomy audclence. No. tu BROADWAY. New York." ' U8u UK10N PAbTB AND SlZli C01LPAMY. A Paste for Box-makers, -kSlnUera, Paper, bangers, bboeuiakera, Hockei''k Makers, bill Poslers. etc. Jl will Dot sour. I cheap and always ready lor uae. Refer to J. M. I.f Incml A Co.. Devac A Keller, William Mann, I'Sadelphla iruer, Maroer Brothers. American Tr bocletv.and other. hole A genu, L is CUAUIN '. WH ft. CSV COaj.
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