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
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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.
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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.
