'jt: ii ' ' ' ' " 3 t - y ' J- . . . . r-1 1' ,m-mujjmji ui jjumjwuim - .-jji ii i m-imi mwuroi ScDotcJr to $3olitks, literature, Qlgriatlture, Saicncc, JHoralitij, axxb (Bcmxal intelligence. t h S V iw WL 18. STROUDSBUKG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. AUGUST 12, 1858. iT0t 34. Published by Theodore ScllOCfci ! services, Steven1? was to help about all the them all. He had sis hundred fair mel '.'TErms. Two doiinrs "er annum in ndvnncc Two ' ox W0I"k the jouth might need. Next one, for which he received fourteen cents ioliare and a quarter, half yeariv ami if uoi paid be- Peter went to the hotel, where there was apiece by the lot. making eighty-four dol- fore the end ol the year, Two dollars and a half. . ,,i r t 11 jftKo papers discontinued until all arrearages ate paid, ' quite a stable, and engaged a hundred lars tor the whole. "KaK load of raauure, the landlord promising! During the whole summer Peter was pne.or three insertions, $i oo. Each additional inser- to take his pay in produce when harvest kept busy in attending to the gathering ion, 25 cents. Longer ones in proportion. .. r J a , A . . ,,- J - ., , . . . , .,i . i i ' ,, . . . . time came. oo Peter White put on a and selling of the products of his hillside. JOB PRINTING. . Having a general assortment of large, plain and or namental Type, we are prepared to execute every de scription of 'Cards, Circular?, Bill Heads Notes. Blank Receipts, Justice?! Legal and other Hl.inks, Pamphlets. 4c. prin lalwUli neatnees and despatch, on reasonable terms nt tiiis office. iiiet From Balloii's Dollar Montldy Magazine, . xsTHE HUNDRED DOLLAR DILL. Ttv a vsn.v ti r.r.iwnnn MT , 0 . . . r. John comers was a merchant, do- , . .... ' , tt i j . i i - . Jage. lie had two clerks in 1ns employ. oth of them raithtul and ludustnous, but ., ,-jv. . . ' with some difforence tu miuor points of AhflltRllilft I'.lt.t. Wt It, in ..(. . e .. , , , j f - mother, auu in his choice of a profession he bad only been governed by the desire - ,, t J,. . , to yield to his mother and self th surest J ( , . . ,,r . o incuns 01 honest support. Waller Stur- c rr , gis was of the same age, and equally as . . . . , . 4 J , honest, but be paid more attention to out- , c .1 - .i i-i t- ward appearance of things, than did his r , 11 j 1 companion. For instance, it galled him to e obliged to put on his frock and overalls, , , 7 f , . . , 1 u uu ii v. 1 i ur pvi ri jjuluivw.'1, tllj4 ; on; while Peter cared not what he did so doug as bis master required it, and itwa honest: One day, Mr. Somers called the two young men into his coutiting-rootn, and closed the door alcr them. His coun tenance looked troubled, audit was some moments before ha poke. 'Boye,' he said, at length, '"I have been doing a very foolish thing. I have lent my name to those I thought my frieuds, aud they have ruined me. I gave them accommodation notes, and they promised eolemuly thut these notes should not pass from their hands save to such men as I might accept. Of course I took their notes in exchange. They have now fail ed and cleared out, and have left my pa per in the market to the amount of seven thousand dollars. I may arise again, but I tn'ust give up my business. Every thing in the store is attached, and I am left utterly powerless to do busiuess now. I have looked over j'our account-, and I find that I owe you about one hundred dollars each. IS'ow I have ju-t one hun dred dollars in money, aud the small piece of land on the hill side just back of the towu hou.-.e. There arc four acres of this land. I have been offered a huudred dollars for it repeatedly, by those who have laud ajoiniug. I feared this blow, which has come upon me, and I convey ed this laud to my brother; so now he can. convey to whom he pleases. Now I wish you would make 3'our choice. If I could pay you both in money I would butjis t caunot, on of you must take the land. What &ay you! You, Waltar, have becu with me tho longest, and you thall say first.' Walter Sturgis hesitated some momens and then said: 'I'm sure I don't want the land, unless I could sell it right off.' yAh, but that won't do,' returned Mr. Somers. 'If you take the land you must keep it. Were you to sell. it,-uiy credit ors would say nt once you did it for me, that I pocketed the money. Theu I am willing to divide the hun dred dojiars with Pvtcr, for if I had the land I should do uothing with it.' ..4.Oh you need not divide the money, for I; can easily raise the hundred dollars on therlaud. My brother will do that. But I imagined that you would prefer the land, for I knew the toil was good though quite rocky. However, what say you, eterl' Pptnr 'nr f li vide couall v with Wal-' f u, X will latv buv muu itiuiutvi ter each of us take halt the money and lialfthe land.' 1 i 'But what should I want with the land!' j eaid Walter. 'I could not work on it, I ' Ifiliould hardly like to descend from I inrkl,m in rlioin nnri Hplvimr in a ! blue frock and cow-bido boots.' Then it is easily settled.' rejoined Pe ter, 'for I Bhould prefer the land.' - Wltnr was nleased with this, and be fore night he had the hundred-dollar bill ! would become hia wife at some future pe in bis pocket, and Peter had the worran- j riod when he was prepared to take such tna Ann a nf fn,,r nnros nf land unon ! an article to his home. She told him she .1 u -i u-.i. .l i ; tnc nix, ie J3u u lived there. It was only fiye miles from j tho. itv nd of course many city fash- . . Ji : , , 1 Hnsrinies with a man who could onlv'uoro' .out iui muu iu vuiuauie. it is ions were prevalent there. It was under destinies with a man wuo coum omy , . huadred . the influence of this fashion that Waltar . We m the earth for a living. Peter : worth let ni ae say six hundred do - Wtfto 10 diahh "A., were dull ed business was Ob.ssed slack, even though it was ear y spring.- ! that sucU gin was Peter White's first object, after having , wr a wne. : trees row up. and my strawberry beds got the deed of his land, was to hunt S When the first of July came Peter llZ-R? up some kind of work. Had he been a reckoned up his accounts, and he found bQ fco mechanic he might have found some place that Mr. Stevens was owing him just two, fit bo knew notrade except that of .ales- dollars, and all he owed in the world was When Peter went home, he could not hLlrihoZtetmug. A whole week the seventy-fiye dollars for manure. On 're-t tho .temptation to sit down .and cal- Csearched in yaiJ employment, but the thirdly Wj ted 'i t at the end of that time he found an old hotel ten dollars worth 0 f g P"8; hillside vvould afford fift buildi t farmer who wanted a hand though be beans, and radishes; and he d-ys J g P , could not afford to pay much. But Pe- afterwards he carried to the city twenty- fhinkf eelHDff ' Lr finally and witfc .the advice of Mr. eight dollars worth. Toward the end of didn t think ot telling. sS i.de an arrangement of this the month he Jiad sold one hundred and ' Two days afterwards six men came to KM-"He would work for the old far- thirty dollars worth of early potatoes, bok at the land, and after trayding over mer (Mr Stephens) steadily until the beans, peas, etc. Then .be bid early it, and sUck.ng up some stakes, Hiey went ground wa ? open and then he. should corn enough to bring fifteen dollars away. That evening Peter ;went down to hZ LuL tfme to devote upon his more. Ere long his melons were the hotel, and the hrst thing he heard awn land, and in part payment for his ' ripe, a dealer in the city had engaged was blue-frock and cow-hide boots, and went to work' for farmer Stevens. In the meantime Walter Sturgis had he could havo somo help when he wanted been to the city to try to find a situation i it. When the last harvesting came, he in some store, but became back bootless.' gathered in seventy-eight bushels of com, He was surprised when he met Peter j and four hundred bushels of potatoes, be dTivin? an ox team through the village, sides turnips, squashes, pumpkins, etc., At first he could hardly believe his own' eyes. Could it be possible that that was 1 otcr Vutc that blue frock, and those ' coarse boots! On the next day a rela- tion from the city came to see Walter. rnv , n. j j j u j I he two walked out, and during the day The two walked out, and during the day'dred and five dollars, and besides this ha Walter saw Peter coming towards them a i i- i i i i at i i u i.- i. j 31r. Steveus had been getting out during wu - i - ? I iuu niuici ii uui'i saw uuir vuur.'u uu humble hi.-? quondam clerk-mate looked, and he kuew that Peter would hail bim -f .1 1 , . . i .1 . . ? . . 1 by the arm and dodged into a by-lane. 1 . j retcr taw the movement, and he under- 4 j 1 . , ', , , stood it, but he ouly smiled. J3y-and- , .1 n e . , -,, byo, the snow was all gone from the hill- j ' mM .fa j r Bide. 1 he wintry garb was removed from . . , f , ,A iU 1 that spot somo time before it left other , - p, , , . , -u 1 .t. 1 j n n. 1 ! slope of hill, and thus had all the advan- tages of the warm sun all day without a uy ol tho cold northand east winds. The youth found his land very rocky, but none of them were permanent; so his first move was to get off some of these obstruc tions, and as Mr. Steven's land was not yet clear froa snow, he was able to give his young workman considerable assist ance. They took two yokes of oxen and two drags, and went at it, and in just five days every rock was at the foot of tho slope, aud made into a good stone wall. Peter then hauled on his hundred loads of manure, which he had for seventy-five dollars, aud part of it he plowed in, and part he saved for top-dressing. Peter now worked early and late and much of the time; he had help. Mr. Ste vens was surprised at the richness of tho soil, but there was reason for it. At the top of the hill there was a huge ledge, and the rocks which had encumbered the hill side must, at some former period, have come tumbling down from' the ledge; and these rocks, laying there for ages, per haps, and covering nearly half the sur face of the ground, bad served to keep the soil moist and mellow. The first thing Peter planted, was about a quarter of an acre of water-melons. He then got iu some early garden sauce such as po tatoes, sweet corn, peas, beans, radiahes, cucumbers, tomatoes, and so on. And be got his whole piece worked up and plant ed before Steven's farm was free from snow. People stopped on the road and gazed upou the hill side in wonder. Why had that spot never been used before! For forty years it bad been used as a sheep pasture, the rock having forbidden all thoughts of cultivating it. But how admirably it was situated for early till ing; aud how rich the soil must have been, with sheep running over it so long. An adjoining hill shut off the east winds, and the bill itself gave its back to the chill north. Peter had planted an acre of corn, an aero of potatoes, and the rest he had divided among all sorts of pro duce. Then he went to work for Ste vens again, and in a few week he had more than patd for all the labor he had been obliged to hire on his own land. I11 tho meantime, Walter Sturgis had again been looking after employment. His hundred dollars were used up to the last penny, and just then he accepted a place in one of tho stores in the village, at a salary of three hundred dollars a year. He etill wondered how Peter Whito could coutent himself in such busi- noss. I'eter used to bo invited to all the "little parties when he was a clerk, but he wia not iuyted now. Walter Sturgis went to these parties, and he was highly edifi?d by them. Also, when Peter was a cIerkt there were several young and handsome damsels who loved to bask in the sunlight of his smiles, and one of them he fancied he loved. After he had got his hillside planted, be went to see Cordelia Henderson, and he asked if she would think of it and let him know bv afterwards he receiv ei a letter from her, in which she stated ... i.t-i r 1 ' "at sue coum not turn or uniting ner He helped Mr. Stevens in haying, and I about fome other matters enough so that and eighteen bushels of white beans. On thg first day of November, JPeter White sat down and reckoned up the proceeds of bis land, and he found that the piece was yielding him just five bun- had corn, potatoes, beans and vegetables ) m e l- m, . , u i a r ivr o i. he worked for Wr. otevens, at getting out i...v jn' fa .i i iuuiuci, iui mcuiyuvc uuunia uur muum; and when spring came he was ready to go i go at his land again In tho meantime, Walter Sturgis had worked a year at a fashionable calling for three hundred dollars, and at the end of the term be was the absolute owner of just two dollars. 'Say, Peter, you aren't going to work on that land of yours another season, are you !' asked Walter, as the two met in the street one evening. To be sure I am,' was the response. 'But here?s Simonds wants a olerk and I told him I guessed you would be glad to come.' What will he pay ?' 'Three hundred.' Ab, Walter, I can make more than that from my land.' Sturgis opened his eyes in astonish ment. 'You're joking,' said he. 'No, sir. I received five hundred and five dollars in in money last season. Seventy-five of that went for manure; but somo of that manure is now on hand, as I found tho land so rich last year as not to need muoh over half of it. This season I shall have two hundred dollars worth of straw-berries, if nothing happens unusu al.' 'And you don't have to work any win ters to do this !; 'No, four months labor is about all I can lay out to advautage on it.' Walter went to bis store, and during tho rest of the evening he wondered how it was that some folks had such luck. During the second season Peter bad experience for a guide, and be filled up many gaps that he left open the year be fore. His strawberries turned out better than he had anticipated, ann he made a better arrangement for his melons. And then from all that landwhereon he planted his early peas, etc., he obtained a second crop of muoh value. It was but one half hour a drive into the city, and he always nht.ainprl f hf hJnliniih rr?poa fnr lio Krnn..tit i D r - the earliest vegetables in the market. On the first of the next November ho had cleared seven hundred dollars for the 1 season over and above all expenses. ' One morning after all tho crops were 1 in, Peter found a man walking about o- ver the land, and as the young man came up the stranger asked him who owned the hill bide. 'It is mine, sir,' replied Petor. The man looked about and then went away, and on the next day he came again uiith two others. They looked over tho 1 place, and they seemed to be dividing it off into small lots. They remained about ao. hour aud then went away. Peter sus pected this land was wanted for some- thing. That evening he stepped in at the po3t-office, and there ho heard that a 1 railroad wasgoing to be put through tho vil- I lage as soon, as the workmen could be set at it. Oo the next morning Peter went out upon bis land, and as he roached the up per boundary and turned and looked down the truth flashed upon him. His hillside had a gentle easy slope, and the view from any part of it was delightful. A brook ran down through it, from an exhaustles9 spriug up iu tho ledge, and the locality would be cool and agreeable in summer, and warm in winter. At the foot of the hill, to the left, lay a small lake, while the river ran in Bight for sev eral miles. 'Of course,' soliloquised Peter, 'they think this would make beautiful building spots And wouldntit! Uurious that I never thought of it before And then when the railroad comes here, people Vnm ftin nifrtr will Hrnnfr. f h ;J r A crnl I! n na 7: " "-J 'Aha, Pete, you've missed it.' 'How so!' asked Peter. 'Why, how muoh do you get for your hillside!' 'What do you mean V 'Haven't yon sold it!' 'No, sir.' 'Why thero was a man here a week or so ago, and to-day be came and. brought five city merchants with him, and I can , take my oath that each one of them en gaged a building lot of him. One of em spoke to me about what a lovely place it was; and I told him that nobody would have thought of building there till you got the rocks off. But haven't you sold it though ! 'No, not an inch of it.' 117! 1L.1 -11 1 1 t uy, mat, man 10m me ne nan en gaged to pay four hundred dollars for a choice lot of twelve square rods.' 'I hen he will find his lot somewhere else, I gusss, till I sell out.' Some more conversation was held, and then Peter went down. On the following forenoon, the very man who had been the first to come and look at the hillside, call ed to see Peter, introducing himself as Mr. Anderson. 'Let's see I believe you own some two or threo acres of land, up here on the hillside,' he said very carelessly. 'I own four acres there,' repaid Peter, very exactly. 'Ah, yes well; it doesn't make much difference. I didn't notice particularly how much there was. I thodght I should like to build there, and if you will sell the land reasonable, 1 might like to pur chase. It would be enough to afford me quite a garden; though I suppose it would cost me about as much to till such land as the produce would be worth.' 'That would depend upon how you worked it,' said Peter, dryly. 'Oh, yes, I suppose so. But you are willing to sell out, I suppose !' Certainly.' The man's eyes began to brighten. 'How much would you want for it?' he) asked. 'Well, I don't know. What could you afford to pay ?' 'Why, I suppose I could afford to pay a great deal more than it is worth. Rath er than not have it I would pay well, say two hundred dollars, or two hun dred and fifty dollars at the outside.' 'I don't think there is muoh use of our talking, sir.' 'But you paid one hundred, only, if I mistake not.' I had my choice between one hundred dollars and the land, and I choose the lat ter. But as you seem to labor in the dark, I will explain to you. In the first place, there is not another spot of land in this section of the country, that pos sesses tho natural advantages which this one does. I oan have my early peas and vines up and hoed before my neighbors get their ground plowed; so I havo my early sauce in the the market ahead of all others, save a few hot-home plants, which cannot compare with mine for strength and size. Then my soil is very rioh, and yields fifty per cent, more than most oth er land. Now look at this: During the last season I havo realized over eight hundred dollars from this land, and next season I can get more than that, for my strawberry vines are flourishing finely. There are not any two farms in this town that can possibly bo made to realize so muoh money as my hillside, for you see it is the time of my produce not the quanti ty that docs the business. A bushel of my early peas on the 22d day of May, are worth ten times as much as my neigh bor's bushel on the first of July and Au gust. Two hundred dollars will more than pay mo for all my time and trouble in attending to my land; so you see I have this year six hundred dollars interest.' Then you wouldn't soli for less than six hundred, I suppose!' said Mr. Ander son, carefully. Would you sell out a concern that was yielding you a net profit of six huudred dollars a year for that sum, sir I' asked Peter. 'Ahem well ah you put it rather curiously.' Than T'll nnf. if nlainlir Vnn man have the hillside for ten thousand dollars.' Mr. Anderson laughed, but he found that Peter was in earnest, and he com-(hold! our hero was driven out ol ins lair menced to curse and swear. At this, Pe-1 by the keen scent of tho dogs, all safe, a fr cimnlv turnnd nnd lnfk his nnsmnior ! live and well, minus the linen. An.CX- to himself, and he saw nothing more of, the speculator. j furrwlnv nfrrrwnrds. however, three of the merchants came to see our hero, comfortably in one of and when thoy had heard hia simple sto-j0 towns of Iowa. re tlioo irnrn ranAv t.n fin iilnflc hv Mm.' . j J - j j -- j j - They went up to examine the spring, wbioh they found to bo puro as crystal, and as it was then a dry season, they saw tVinfr fl ctinviltr f TOfifnir n mi 11 notrnr Full luub tut; ouuuiy ui naici tuuiu utiui mil, and all the houses which might be built nnn Ptr fend nnnld hn annnli0d with runuing water, even in the very attics ot , , 7 , ' " " the unner ones mother to her husband's father, conse- m, . c L 1, n m'quently grandmother to her own husband. The merchants firs went to the nanL fa a tQ whom she waa t who owned the land above Peter s inclu- JdmQth now aa thc 80n 0f a great ding the ledge and the spring, and be a- J dmollcr must be cilfaer a grandfath greed to sell for two hundred dollars - . .,. . wa,fatherefore . rr . This, to builders, was a great bargain, for tho stone of tho ledge was excellent gran ite. Then thoy called a surveyor aud made a plot of the hillside, whereby fhey found that they could have forty buldiug' lots, wortbr from two hundred" and fifty to four hundred dollars &ach'. Thoy bos Hated not a moment after the plot was made, but paid Peter his ten thousand dollars cheerfully. ; Ere many .-days-! after, this transacti'ou, Peter White reoefvod a very polito note from Cordelia Henderson, asking.. Mm to call aud see her; hut he didu't call. He hunted up Mr. Somers, aud he went into business with him, and this very day So mers & White do business in that town, and Walter Sturgis is their book-keeper. And in all the country there is not a pret tier spot than the old hillside. Tin rail-j-oad depot is near its foot, and it is oc cupied by sumptuous dwelliugs, in which live merchants who do business in the ad jacent city. One thiug Peter missed that ho did not reserve a building spot for himself. But his usual good fortune attended him even here. A wealthy banker bad occa sion to move to another section of the country, and he sold out his house and garden to Peter for just one-half what the building cost him. So Peter took a wife who loved bim when he dug in the earth, and found a home for her and him self upon the old hillside. And now, reader, where do you think the hillside is ? Perhaps you know; for it is a veritable history I have been wri ting, and the place I have told you about is now one of the most select suburban residences in the couutry. Courting- in Iowa. Here is an account of a mournful ad venture by a young man in Iowa, who "straight went a courting since he'd noth inff else to do." It is from the Cedar Valley Times: A certain young man was in the hab- ' it of being out late Sunday nights, and, similar productions on a similar scale in orJer to keep his secret from his young grow from insects. But the pleasure of associates, was always at home bright mystery is so charming that one feels and early on Monday morning. Mouut- bath to dispel it; and the "passion flow ed on his horse in his best fine white er" was so named (Passiflora) from being summer pants, and other fixins inpropor- supposed to represent, in the appendages tion, ho arrived at the residence of his of the flower, the passion of our Saviour, enamorata, where he was kindly received . Dr. Lindley. illustrated one or two spe and his horse properly taken care of, be- oies of sphsoria one a celebrated remedy' ing turned out to pasture for tho night, Iho night passed away, and three 0'- clock was the time for him to depart, so that he might arrive at home before his comrades were stirring. He sallied forth to the pasture to catch his horse, bdthere was a difficulty the grass was high and loaded with dew. To venture in with white pantaloons on would rather take the starch out of them and lead to his detection. It would not do to go in with w his white unmentionables, so he quickly made his resolve. He carefully disrob- ed himself of his valuable "whites," aud placed them in safety on the fence, while he gave chase with unscreened pedals through the wet grass after the horse. Returing to the fence where ho had dis posed his lilly unmentionables Oh! hor rible clictu! what a sight met his eyes'. The field into which his horse had been turned, was uot only a "horse pasture," but a "calf pasture" too, and the naugh ty calves, attracted by the white flag on the fence, bad betaken themselves to it, calf-like had torn it up. What a pickle this wns fnr n. mV.n votinrr mjin in lit in! It was now near daylight and the farmers j a were up and about, our hero far from j home, with no covering for his "traveling apparatus." It would not do , to go to tho house of his lady-love, ncith- ' er could he go back to towu in that plight, Thero was only one resource left bim, and that was to secreet himself in the bushes, until the next night, and then get homo under the cover of darkness. Safely hid, he remained under the pro tection of the bushes for some time, and it may be imagined that his feelings to ward the calf kind were not of the most friendly character, but ere long, bis se clusion was destined to be intruded upon. By and by, the boys, who bad been out to feed the calves, returned with tho re mains of the identical white garment which adorned the lower limbs of their late visitor. They were mangled and torn to shreds! An inquest was imme diately held over them. Some awful fate had befallen the young man. The neigh bors were summoned to search for the mangled corpse, and the posse with all speed set out with dogs and arms. The pasture was thoroughly tecurcd, and then M ' the adjacent thickets, wueu lol and ne- i planation then euaued at the expense of : our hero, but he wm successful iu the end, ! and married the lauy, auu w now living the flourishing lit- Can a 2Ian be his own Grandfather.' The Query answered iu the afiirma- tlVC ' There was a widow and her , . , 1 l flu daughter-in-law a man and bis son. J he dow marriad the son, aud the daughter tUn rlA mnn. Ii y irirlflW P:4 tlinrftlnrf? w w. fc. 1 - J his own grandfather. N. B. 'Jhis was actually the case with a boy af school at Norwich. Nate? and Queries'. "If you wiah to makoa shoe of durable materials," says aj facetious Joe Miller, "you should take tho upper part of tho mouth of a hard drinker, for that never lets in water. 1 " From the" Lancaster Weekly Times. Fungus Flower Growing from aEoy's'I'eg; It appears that a certain child of this place, at two years of age, became afflic ted with tho hip disease, and lingeredfon' aod grew, having attained to the age. of fourteeu years at the period of hi5 death, two weeks siucc. During a period of nine months previous to his death numerous" aoccssess were iormeu, and tne lau was nearly reduced to a skeleton. A daysor two previous to his death, during tho night, a double stem and two flowers grew from the calf of one of his legs, a little 'below the knee joint, the limb being apparently much swollen. The writer states fha ''huudreds of seeds were found in the' room after the boy's death, similar , to those of the "passion flower," and that all "say the flower resembles the" pas?iorf rose."' The attending physician, Dr. Ilawley, deemed it so wonderful as to require oth er witnesses to testify to the fact, and ho accordingly called iuDr.Stovcns, the Hey. Mr. Walker and others. This flower fungus grew in one night' to the height of three and a half inches, and has since been sent to New York, where it is undergoing a thorough inves tigation, and will no doubt be lithographed aud described by those having a better opportunity to enter into tho minutite. As to the seeds like those of the passion flower it is obvious thero must be some mistake since it requires weeks to ma ture tho pulpy fruit iu which the seed, is contained, aud to flower the fruit in ono? night is altogether out of the question, t except in Funci. I must say that to me it appears a mere fundus, and I have soen among the Chinese, much praised in-Du Halde's book : another of larger size, the Sphreria ltobertsii, growing from a laTge' catterpillar of a New Zealand moth called) '"Hepialus Virescens. The stripe grows to the length of six or eight inches, with a dense spike of sporules, and side buds, springing from the head of the caterpillar. Dutrochet has witnessed the growth of a species of fuugi (Pcuicilium) from glob- ules of milk, and evcrr cnttmoloist' vshci" 1 j e r had suffered his insects to remain in a; damp place, has to his sorrow fouud them covered with fungi in a short time, of which I have an ample collection now on hand. , Mr.Grabam attributes the rapid destruc tion caused by fungi amongst living tis sue, not to the mere exhaustion consequent on their nutrition, but to the agency of dead myo'elium acting as a putrefactive ferment. Mods. Robins has published a work in French, proving the effects of fungi' on animal structures, and showing that many cutaneous diseases are attended with the growth of fungi, such as the case Mus'car- di?ie, Porrigo lujUiosa, and others. All admit that few subjects aro moro obscure thau the cause of the production of parasite fungi. The searching power of the mioroscopc has failed to reveal the" minute productive bodies of such fungi. Whether in a gaseous state or an elemen- tary principle, resulting under certain con- ditions in their formation, is a matter of doubt and peculation; nor will it be phil osophically known until greater improve ments are made in optics, that wonderful source which has already revealed whac was equally mysterious to early naviga tors. J. STAUFFEB. Lancaster, July 13'th, 1858 Taking; a Shower Bati : ' Doctor Well, how did your wife man age lier shower bath ! Deacon -obe had real good lu'ck. " Mrs. Moody told her how she managed. She said she had a large oiled-silk cape, with a cap to it, like a fireman's, that come all over her shoulders,' and-- - DoctorShe is a fdol for her pains;- ; that's uot the way. ' , Ueacon ao my wne tnougnt. Doctor Your wife did nothing of the" snrl T Iinnn 1 Deacon Oh, no, doctor, the"used!'an umbrolla. , , Doctor What used an uniDrclla I ' What good did the shower bath flo" her! Deacon She said s'He fe?t' bett'er. ifer clothes wascn't net a mite. She sat un der thc umbrella for half an hour, till ull the water had trickled off, and saidit was' cool and delightful, and just like a;shov cr in the summer. BSrThe war of BuehauajQ iipqn Doug lass is dictated more by peonal aversion than political dislike. Douglai also har bors an old grudge, and the conflfct.be twecu the two is' necessarily of au, acrjp moniom character. The Illinois Senator, however, has the advantage of bciug consistent in Lis polities, whilo the. Pres ident has notoriously changed his grouud, and changed it, too.fqr the selfiish purpose of securing the t-ollid vote of the South in favor of his rcnominntio.n to the. Presi dency. The proof of this statemenffxists in -Muck and white, attested by Buchan an's own sign manual, aifd'Wtllih'Irtie season, no doubt be made5 'jfuljflic--' 'There 's a good lime comhgu-n aita?!iv tlelouEcr."
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