tut? Concerninff Cyclone. "Every one should know what i-y-clone is. but the general idea of the subject are rather vague. Take a small butter-pot. and set it down on your largest map of the world at about L'O degrees North Latitude, any where- in the Atlantic between two continents, say east ot the West Indie. Then, with a piece of whalebone twice a3 long as from the butter-pot to the North Pole, bent into a parabola, with one end at the Pole, the other at the butter-pot, mark out thus the cyclone. The apex of the bent whalebone will be somewhere in the Western United States. Imagine our butter-pot to be revolving in it own centre u the direction of the hands of u watch, at the rate of u hundred miles an hour. Its northwestern edge will be the dan gerous storm-rim, blowing a hurri cane, lashing the seas, and precipita ting the rain ; the other edges will be breezy, but not so stormy, as they con tain less moist nlr. The centre will be the low barometer and calm area, because here the air has lens weight, ami is flowing upward. Now move your butter-pot slowly along the par abola, still supposing it to be turning. !' the time you reach the centre of the United States,exchauge the pot for a saucer, with the same supposed conditions-, only by this time, if wintry, a snow-storm will take the place of the vain. Keep it moving circularly, and northwards also along the parabola, and about Hudson's Bay change to a breakfast-plate, and in Greenland to a dinner-plate, and about the .SOth de gree North, before the storm reaches the size of a buggy-wheel, it breaks tip. Thus yon ; the space over which the storms travel enlarges as it passes North, the winds blow around its rim, and the calm centre mores with it. Mariners now carry what is called a horn-caul, a transparent piece of flat cow-'-horn. with a circle on it, inside which arc several smaller circles, with arrows pointing as a watch's hand? travel. Whenever the barometer chanires, and clouds scud by, this horn card Is placed on the chartat the ship's position. Knowing the wind's direc tion and the weight of the air, the horn-cards tells whereabouts in the cyclone the ship is, and from this is reasoned how to sail to avoid the cy clone; or, if unavoidable, how toman age hi it. Not many decades ago, ships wore driven thousands of miles from their course by not having mas ters possessed of this knowledge. Now adays, meteorological information is as ucccssary to the navigator a his sextaut. In South Latitudes storms pass in the same way toward the South Pole, by way of a western bend, only the circular motion is reversed, and th southwestern is the stormy edge t AtGLllinghara, near Chatham, fin eland, a singular ball was recently Iield. The party was made up ot fifty nine ladies and gentlemen whose unit ed ages amounted to 4.259 years. A gentleman born Ln 1790 opened the dance with a lady only four years his junior, and it is said that their waltz ing was as brisk as that of any young couple, of tweuty. ' The Berlin Volkszeitung announces that the Prussian Government has de nied one B. von Konigberg the per mission, to erect, on his own property or elsewhere, an oven for the crema stipn of corpse jrxt u j (JOLUMI3i:S, M-:i5KASKA. MAY '20, s.s(). Anecdote of Cromwell. ' An English iuerehaut-hip was cap tured during a period of profound i peace with b ranee, by a vessel of that j nation and carried 'into St. Malo, 1 where she was condemned, and sold for the benetit of the captors, upon some frivolous and groundless pre- tence. The master of the merclinm- man, who happened to be au honest , Quaker, immediately on his return to J England, presented a petition, com plaining ot tins grievance, and pray ing for redress, to the Protector in council. On hearing the case, Crom well informed the council that he would take the affair into his own i i hands, and ordered the master to at- i icnu iuiu tut: 111:2.1 lltorillll!'. AIHTl A...f l. T.-. .1.. ,..- strict examination into the particulars of the case, finding the master to be a plain, honest man. who had been em tue totiowmg morning. On the next morning he gave the master a letter to Cardinal Mazariu, with directions not to wait longor than three days for an answer. This answer, he informed him. was to be nothing less than the full value of what he might have made of his ship and cargo; desiring him to tell the cardinal that if it was not paid in three days, he had strict orders from him to return home. The honest Quaker appears to have followed the injunction of the Protector to the vciy letter, and meeting with the usual shuttling evasions, common among di- Slomatists, took his leave on the third ay, and returned without accom plishing the object of his mission. "Well, frietid," demanded the Protec tor, on seeing him, "have you obtained your money:"' Being answered in the negative, he told thc Quaker to leave hisaddre.es with his secretary, promis ing to let him hear from him shortly. Without involving himself in the de lays, trickeries and evasions of diplo matic negotiations without the emp ty parade of protccols and conferences, which too often waste time without leading to satisfactory resulte with out even dqigning to repeat his de mand or explain the ground of his proceeding, this distinguished states man issued order to seize every French ship which his cruisers fell in with and bring them into port. In pursuance of these orders several captures were'inade, and their cargoes ordered by the Protector to be imme diately sold. Out of the produce of these Kales he paid the Quaker the lull value ot his ship and cargo ; and send ing for the French ambassador, then ' resident iu Loudon, he acquainted him with the uteps he had taken, and the reason of his doing so, inforiniu? him at the same time that there was a bal ance out of the sales, which should be paid to him if he pleased, for the pur pose of returning it to the French owners. This promptness had the de . sired effect, Reynolds' Mi3cellauy. In the last edition of DickenVi works is a little farce entitled "The Strang Gentleman," produced Ht the 1st. James's Theatre, London, in 183G, which undoubtedly contains the on?, 'V l inal sketch of Sam Weller under the ' name of Tom Sparks. Otherwise no ' duller dramatic production was ever ' penned, except Charles Lamb's "Mr. t H.," wiiich ttUf ht run la couplas w itn 11. barked in no illegal traffic, he asked I ized, or otherwise. No, there is posi hira if he would be the bearer ot a let- , tively nothil for auv of thc u,at A flo"8- lhe "ia,V as,,t.II he i either individually, Hcverellv, jointly desired him to prepare for the jo.m.ey llowr aild foreVer, one and'iusepara without delay, and wait on him asam ' ,i " ' JOURNAL, Any Letters for the Watwea? Mo Kicrj ;n, v.; .ctlger. A lauterii-j.iwcd st the post-otiicc yelled out : young man stopped Just Saturday, uud "Anything for the Wattses?" Geont Poteet, our polite postmas ter, replied, "No, there is not." "Auy thing for Jhuu Watts?" "Nothing." "Anything for Ace Watts?" "No." "Anything for Bill Watts?" "No, sir." "Anything for Tom Watt??" 'o. nothing." "Anything ful- p0ol Joe' Wfttt3?" "No; nor for Dk-k Watts, nut-Jim ' ---.. ! . W .IV Will I W.itic ,.,.,. .-. U..f. - 1. . P1. v,,it ,t,i ;,.;.,., ,.,.i .'....: , ,,; ,.;,.;ij,i ...?..,.: ,.;i:.,i 1. ...,.' " n - - v iint.it iu.i.tf vii? rrancnueu or aistninclmcd. natural The boy looked at the postmaster in astonishment, and .tid : j it, judiciously, is sure to make it pay. "Please look if there is anything for I . While but few persons fceem to real John Thomas Watts?" I ize it, manure from grain-fed animals Good Advice to Readers. If vou measure the value of stitdv DV tlie msicrli t vou get into subjects, not by the power of saying you have read many books, you will soon ner- I ceive that no time is so badly saved as that which is saved in scH'w' through a book in a hurry. 1 or if to the time you have given you had added a little more, the subject would have been fixed on your mind, and the whole time profitably employed: whereas, upon your present arrangement, be cause you would not give a little more you have lost all. Beside., this is overlooked by rapid and superficial readers that tho best wav of reading books with rapidity is to acquire ih.it habit of severe attention to whit they contain that perpetually conliir.? the mind to the single object it has in view. When you have read enough to have acquired" the habit of reud'ng without suffering your mind to wan der, and when you can bring to bear 1 upon your subject a great sl.nre of I previous knowledge, you may then read with rapidity ; before tuat, as ! you have taken the wrong road, the j faster you proceed the more you will be sure to err. Sidney Smith. , 1 - .. . , , ... ... Lincoln s pow-r ot lUustratio.i, his humor, was inexhaustible. He had i story or an illu-trutiou lur every ! thing. I remember, a an in-uime. when Stephen, of Georgia, came 011 the 'Jeff Davis peace commission to City 1 Point, "sMfenhens did not weteh more than eigluy pound--, and he wore an overcoat that ui.sde him look like a man of two hundred pounds. As Lincoln and I cam; ni, iepheus took oil' his ;ont. Lincoln said, a iter he wio hti. - .i- 1: ..,.t ,i;ii..n ..... , tice that coat Aleck StcuheusVoro?" ! I said ves. -bid vou ewr .,"' skuI , Lincoln, "9Uih a sumli ear ot corn in so big a sliuciv?' Grant. mm uV" ' ' The Port Jervis Gazette ooiuHi- "tents the hlmira r rte Press 011 ining "tbe be3t wrapping-paper of mmy ot ouv exchanges." it, is pleasant to be alil to conscientiously praise a. con- wmuorarv. - The salary allowed the governor of 1 Michigan is $1,000 a year. Tlie Hanaro Pile. Nothing adds more to the riches of the farmer tlian the manure pile,' say the F.u-m and Fireside ; for without manure the crops can grow butfeeblf. and the fortuity of the farm 13 not in creased. It should be the object every farmer to increase, in everypo sible manner, the bulk of his manors pile, and thereby increase the fertility of the farm, and'cousequently, taedot lflrs in his pockets. Some of our best farmers, every feiL, buy up a lot of stock for fattening, enough animals, iu fact, to eat up ail the grain and coarse feed they produce on the iarm, and thus market their grain in the form of meat, from time to lime, until late spring. Usually, considerably more is realued in this way than soiling the grain, and whea merely the sum is obtained for the fit cattle, only enough to pay for the food, and Aire, there is still a fair profit for the fanner, iu thc shape of lots of rich manure, and just on the farm where it is needed. Manure is the basis of good J-innmg, and he who uses the most of 1 is worth fully twice as much as that from animals sparingly led on it; It la richer iu ilioelomeutsof plant growtlu Newly every farm has 3ome woodland attached, and iu that woodland an nually goes to waste much that.caa and should be utilized as fert Wiring matter. We refer to leaves, which so few farmers make auv use of. The off ' days and parts ot days when there U ot much else to do in the whiter, can be profitably employed in gathering dp the leaves ami hauling them to tho barn vard, wnere they eau be used aa bedding tor the hordes, cows, plgs.&&, as well aa spread thickly iu the bara yard o nb-orb the liquid portions of I the nmnure, which would other j wise be wasted by evaporation and J drainage. This work gives profitable employment for both bongos and men, ' at a time when the regular farm work 1 is at a stand still on account of aewft I ly cold or inclement weather. I if there be muck or marl on the piucc, this .-should be dug out in tha winter, especially the muck, so toe frost can disintegrate it, and thus pat it in better condition for plant food. Tbjc muck is useful, when it has beeo separated well by frost, as au absorb ent, and is used mixed with the ma nure, or is spread in the bam yard", oc it can be spread atone over clayey lands, which it lightous, or over any 50l .niv.h deticlont in regetaWa matter, which many of our oldouUi crn farms are. 1 , Court Plaster. 1 Soak isinglass iu a little warm w ' ter, iys the Scientific American, tor seventy-four hour-; then evaporate J nearly all the water by gentle heat; ' dissolve the residue in a little dilsta 1 1 -1 . .1 -....-.: l.A I l .1 .. 1. i tuconoi. anu strum iiio wuuic uixouk u nieec of oneu linen. The strained. '"it1" should be a stiff Jelly when cold. Aow stretch a pieco ot silk or sarseoeC on a wooden frame, and fir It tigiit with tucus or jack thread. Melt the jelly, and apply it to tlie silk thinly and evenly with a badger hair brushy A .second coating must be applied when tho fir-t has dried. When both hie dry, apply over the whole surface two or thiee coatings of balsam of Pe ru. Plaster thus mad is vry pliable, aud nevir bteaki.