ri 1 112111 V. _ , ... .._.... A .,._ ... , i _ , 1 . ,; .; taltut r.....„ .., ... y • 11 'The itatietud Ecthemit Museum. &Sine since = Nit:. Townsend Glover, EntanioldgistOfthe . Agrictatural Detainment, conceived the idea of ere rating a National' Economic Museum, and collection =of insects, birds, greins, ggrasses; • impressions of perishable 11%64, *dawns of rainersls, fibr,es; - &C.; &C,,,*sraattierpselt„ BbsiOes forming ;his coneetiO,P;Of. Glover hes inaimkrataa I system of conianinication with • scientific men in all parts of the, orld for the pnr pose ;of'obtaining, , by interchange, the results of their experience and. observe. The object of this museum is not to es , tablish a Government curiosity shop; hut, on the contrary, it is for the purpose of generatutility. It is arranged in three grand divisiona, as follows: 1. The general division ' containing the ; history of every product of the United States. , ~• 2.• A case to each State to contain sam pies of its products. 3. Economic—to shbw what different materials can be manufactured from the mineral, vegetable and animal productions of the United States. The museum is so arranged that when inquirleearepade by a Visitor or by let tter, a'reference to - samples of the product, material' Or insect,. and from them to the library, will shbw at once all that is known in reference to it.-, For example: A few .. days since a tobacco grower called to nom plain that a peculiar insect -•injured his plant. He wt...a shown plates exhibiting ` every insect that infests 'that pro. duct, and immediately singled one ; from the number, recognizing it i•• at once as the depredator. He was then sh9wn the insect in all its different ,de grees of development, from the larvte to full growth, and instructed how to kill it. ,1 Another applied • to 'ascertain whether a It certain insect- he had noticed in large nuMbers in his vineyards was prejudicial tto thegratievine. A ' similar reference 3 and recognition proved it perfectly harm. less. • Another inquires whether &certain bird injures his crop. Reference to the muse= showed it to be insectivorous; and settled the question at once. : In one show-case Pennsylvania fruit, t grain, mining, manufacturing •and other ?, interests are represented. Petroleum, in its crude state, and different stages- of manufacture into refined oil, ,parafine,. aniline colors."linel eierything . that can • be made it.-- Glam. tubes show the • differentfstratathrough which it is neces;: sary to bore ,toixesch •petroleum .in the t• different 3 sectiona . of -the countxy, and giv , ing the -'experience of the well-borerg, showing also the -Oill-bearingsand stones t k and Other' minerals. In fact, S' - 'ciearer I, idea of the iMportarice arid Magnitude of, the coal and 'coal oil interest ; can bejoh tained an examination of this case I than in any other way. • In brief, the design-of the Museum is in liceord&nce• with the nation's present net wait Any_ one emigrating from a • foreign bind, - or mom' one portion of the gUm on,agor, at oncelearn *hat productil,, axe; hest adapted' -to their con templated homes, ,and the , information • thus imparted. is -well calculated to in crease the productive power of the station. t. 1 74i , ,. . citii., ht Sort of jigna . tion , . , .::: Theliew lirCilt:Exatniner Mid ChrOni ii de, a. leadlnwand very. Influential • organ f of the" Baptist , denomination, closes a strong article on the _question of politics 1 and tetiaperanceiltiti follows :- - • The temperance question is an etni , nently practical one. , -The ravages of in-, temperance, In all'" their •ghastly" „boner, confront the eye and sicken the helrf on tl everyliend..l But , it is one of those evils that cannothelegislMed out cf existence,. A unless behind the legislation lies a vast, controlling moral sentiment, bearing it I up and giving it force. Before the tern. perance men of this State can hope for the passage and execution—the latter is the moreedifflenit tisk& the twii—of thbreugh prohibitory laws, suctia sentiment must t be.. created. ,It „cani. be crested only ; by . persistent, 'Well-directed, prayerful work There is no legislative -"short cut" to re fornis that tare hold lof men's Mires 'end habits. • Dabblifig in politics, bargaining '. with party schemers,igissping at the'hal , I mice or power,":' int fritter' Way . the I strength that is all needed to forward the : • grand result: Whenever, and only when, , the4preponderating-oentiment of-the peo. . pieta for the suppresSion by law of-the in iquitous traffic- in hoison _ for body and soul, will it'be possible to carry such a . I measure into effective oferation. The 1 great, need now is for a , Christian temper .. 4 ance revival. ( , Feou "L'Homme -t ..e. tiz.~~..~Ea:.w.~.v'lY-.,.>.~~' s,~ri~'.r~ .~.ra~~,~ctng_ v C• olCominon Council. jelB =3 II