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filled with the green grasses and with green oat fodder. After eighty-six days’ enclosure the tun was opened and the rass fodder found to be juicy and sound in 'bre, though it had a. strong, sour taste and smell. The grass in the small barrels was found to be similar. The green oat fodder preserved in the tun was, however, “sound, sweet, and as palable as that from the permanent silo." The permanent silo, the walls of which had been made smooth, was filled with ‘38 tons of green oat fodder, packed. and covered with boards and earth. After .80 days, .or on Dec. illst, it was opened, and the snail- age was found to be, to quote Prof. Brown, “one body of sweet, well-colored oat-stalks, leaves, and heads.’ Generally the material “has a brown but not dark tinge, very slightly spoiled by fermentation or other form of decay, and when taken out actually smells sweet and tastes slightly salty,” but acquires a smell and taste on exposure. In addition to the successful issue of these ex- periments with the silo, Mr. Brown secured by carefully conducted thcrmometer tests the daily variations and degrees of heat pre‘ vailing in various parts of the silo during the fermentation in progress. The average of the whole mass after the first week was 68 ° , and of the central parts 87 ° . That this heat continued for three months did not destroy the fodder will no doubt be in- teresting to those who know how heat and moisture combined very quickly ruin grasses and grains on the 0pm field- AGRICULTURAL Preserve Sign Forest. There are opportunities rncugh, if we avail ourselves of them. All over the coun- try, on many farms, there are still portions of the original forest. Great trees, under which Pontiac sat and warned his followers to check the advance of the white man as Hotspur might have checked that of his after tyrantâ€" When his blood was ocr " Upon the naked beac at Havenspug, Patches of forest which were forest when King Charles hid in the oak top, "While for beneath the Roundhead rode Anp bummed a surly hymn," . That interminable expanse of splendid woodland, that world sufiicirnt storehouse of timber,â€"that ere while home of the springing deer, the greedy wolf, the stolid bearâ€"is now no more. But here and there are the remainsâ€"one farmer has ten, another twentyâ€"if he be rich he may sometimes have two hundred acresâ€"of the snaient trees. Can we not preserve some of these portions? The axe is unceasingly weilded, and, if no check be given, in a few years settled Ontario will be destitute of forest. One farmer says, "I will cut down mine 5' I can buy fuel ;" another says, "‘ 1 also ; and yet, a little while and all Will be gt no A few words may be said, but this short article cannot, at length, lay before you the reasons why it would be so valuable to pre- serve, throughout Ontario, on every farm, ten or fifteen acres, at least, of sturdy hard- wood aud of towering pins. You say, “Grass is getting in, the trees seem dying â€"those oaks are dead at the top ; look at that maple, you can fee] under its rottru rootâ€"even those young treesâ€"something seems killing them. Let me out the rubbish down, and make a good pastureâ€"I can mow it now and then, and when the roots rot out I can plough it and get- good wheat, and 00d ass afterwards.” ng». Or grou may say, “the trees are all blow- ing,down,lI cannot keep them;the patch may lie till I am ready; it will give firewood, but when I have some time I shall clean it up and make a field of it. I would have kept itâ€"I would have liked a patch of wood left on the farm, but the plaguy thing would blow down.” But it need not have become the prey of the grassesâ€"it need not have blown down. Throughout the land there are yet many‘i-e- mains of strong and vigorous forest. Sur- round them. I pray youâ€"each of you what he can afford, ten or twenty acres, while yet the land is forrst ground, moist, rich and freshâ€"with a sturdy fence. Keep cattle utterly thereoutâ€"it will not be a. year till you shall see the result. All over the earth will rise the lusty sapling, all round the edges trees will grow, themselves immov- able by the tempest. themselves also the strong shelter of the inner wood. Thegrass will be kept from covering the ground by the shade of the saplings, by the heavy an- nual coat of:falling haves, and by the forest shade above them all. The object of keep- ing grass away is this. Trees receive their nourishment by a number of little mouths projecting from their roots to near the sur- face of the ground. A thick grass coats pre- vents this action. Secondly, where grass is, tree seeds cannot take root; but if you fence the forest ground, it will not be long till beach and maple, oak and elm will rise high, young and vigorous among the older trees, ready to replace them when you need their timber or their room, your forest, in- stead of a place of desolation, half grasses wild and innutritious, half dying wcod, will be a mass of sturdy living healthy vegeta- tion, beneficial to you yourself .in many ways, to the country round about in many more. keep a portion of the forest bright and living on your farms. There at the heat of noon-day you can rest there, when for afew hours you can retire from the too absorbing pursuit of material advancement, you can repose without disturbance and contemplate without effort. Let the forest air breathe around youâ€"it is not to be had in the house, it is not to be found in the field. There the great trees, stately of trunk and magnificent of branch, each humbly performing his pur- pose. sent hither by his creator to do his alloted share, passing in due time into in- visible forms, not one atom of them being lost, but re-appearing in fulness of youth and of beauty in other ways, shall teach you that you also have a. future change which if not now apparent, but which shall surely be. Let the little creature of the forestâ€" the woodcuck bright of plumage, the rabbit, timorously glancing from the covert-pass by you Without fear, their lives are in your hand, spare them, your life is in the hand of Another. Spare some of the forestâ€"pro- tect it, it will not be ungratefulâ€"that belongs to the reptile alone, the nobler na‘ tures, forest and field, tree and herbageâ€"- all dumb and all insensible though they ap- pear to beâ€"yet have their gratitude, and many a. means of showing it to the protect- ing hand. Do you reduce your farm to a desert of clayâ€"spare some forest landâ€"let the great trunks stand by the pastures edge; let the vast branches chant their murmurs in the summer evening air; yout wife shall sit in their shade-a beautiful picture, her dark eyes glowing beneath her clustering hair ; your children, bright and rosy play around. As they grow up they shall say “ Others destroyed utterly the forest and dried up the fertility ofthe land which God had given them, our father did not so, those nodding oaks, that changeful surface of sum- mer tinted foliage preserve his memory.” Composition of Manure. The value of manure depends not only up- on the character of the feed allowed, but also upon the condition of the animal, the breed and the age. The principal substances of value in manure are nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, the former substance being the most costly. In the artificial fertilizers, nitrogen exists in the shape of sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda, or as Peruvian guano, while ground dried blood, leather and other substances containing it are some- times used. Potash is usually supplied in the form of the sulphate (kainit) or muristo, its quality depending upon the grade of the salt used for the purpose, while the phos- phoric acid (usually combined with lime) is derived from bones and sometimes from guano deposits and marine formations. The Carolina phosphate beds have been largely instrumental in cheaprning this article, while that from bones is usually associated with proportions of nitrogen. Barnyard manure and artificial fertilizsrs differ (nly in form. The active ingredients of barnyard manure are the same as those in fertilizers, excepting that the manure con- tains small proportions of magnesia, soda, and a few other substances not always pres‘ ent in fertilizers, though easily added to them if necessary. Manure contains, how ever, a large quantity of carbcn, which is considered by some avaluable fertilizer, but others contend that as plants appropriate carbon from the atmosphere through the agency of the leaves, such matter only adds to the bulk of the manure without improv- ing the quality. Whrn food is fed to ani- mals it undergoes a chemical process in the body, which extracts the nutritive portions for sustenance, according to the digestive capacity of the animal, the residuum being voided as being no longer useful in that respect. The amount of available fertilizing ma- terial in the manure thus voided, depends uprn the character of the food, and its rel~ ative proportions of nitrogen, which is always costly. As growing animals require not only food for warmth, but for growth also, the manure from such is less in value than from animals that are matured. And as more food is required to assist the body aganst ccld winter than for any other pur- pose, the warmth of the quarters is a factor in the matter also, especially if it be correct that carbon is beneficial as a manure to the ioots of plants. Assuming that animals are well fed an average quality of food, thui, for every 1,000 lbs. of manure from horses more than 700 pounds ccniists of water, while the re- mainder is estimated at about twelve pounds of phosphoric acid, twenty-eight pounds of potash znl five pounds of ammonia. The manure from the cow contains nearly 860 pounds of water in every 1000, the amount of phosphoric acid in the remainder being about five pounds, potash ten pounds and nitrogen three pounds, the manure from the horse be ng deuble the value of that from the cow in all the substances except nitro- gen, and even in nitroge n the horse manure is nearly twice as rich. Of the different kinds of manure, that from fowls and the human species is the richest in nitrogui, but this in- cludes the urine, the solid portions being very deficient in that respect. Manure from the sheep is the richest in phosphoric acid. Urine is always rich in ammonia, (nitrogen,) with proportions of potash and small quan- tities of phosphoric acid. Considering this fact, too much importance or chat be given the saving of liquids, that from the human species being valued at half a cent per pound. The value of the solid portions of manure from a horse for one year is said to be about 3510, while the value of the liquids from the same source for the same period is nearly the same. Considering the high value of the liquids, which are always immediately available a. plant food when apll ed 10 the £011, the ma.- nure must be protected from drenching rains and melting snows, for as part of the inert matter of the manure is changed by chemical actiin in the heap during the pro- cess of decomposmtn into soluble matter. it is always lost unless protectedâ€"Philadel- phia Record. â€"â€"*M->¢o’â€"â€"â€" The Naval Forces. The total force in the naval service uficat in the year 1822 was 43 475 officers and men, of whom 23,220, or 53 4 per cent. were between the ages at 25 and 35 ; 4,675, or 10- 75 per cent., Were between the ages of 35 and 45 ; and 840, or 1 93 per cent., were above 45 years of age. The total number of cases of disease and injury entered on the sick list was 49,929. The total number of beaths was 413, of which number 2290 were due to disease, and 144 to injury. ENSILAGE. Report of Prof. Brown on the Conduct of Experimental Silos at the Agri- cultural College. I’rof. Brown’s recent experiments, at the Ontario Experimental Farm, in preserving various green fodders by means of portable or permanent silos, are amongst the must in- teresting, valuable, and carefully-conducted that have came under our notice, and will be studied with interest by shippers and breeders of cattle. 1n portable silos three experiments were made with ordinary air. tight barrels, two of which had square boxes titted inside so as to secure more uni- form packing than is possible in a simple barrel. These barrels were packed with green, succulent pasture fodder. A large tun was used for the fourth experiment, and cwr~m London Truth gives currency to the rumor that Lord Lorne will be called up to the House of Lords by one of his father’s minor titles shortly after the meeting of l’ailiu- ment. The object of the Court politics ap- pears fo be his tarly appointment either as Viceroy of India or as LurdALicutcnan; of Ireland. FORTY YEA RS AGO. The Story of the Doctor of National Re- pute who turned out to be u Mull-Robber. The Nutt murder trial recalls to mind the one other sensational case sent down from peculiar and remarkable history and trial of Dr. The case was peculiar on account of the standing and neputarion < f the prisoner, and, like this one, umarkable by reason of the brilliant galaxy of legal talent The death of Judge \Vilson Md Endless, June 30, 1882, removed the last one of those who took psit in acarc which attracted the attention of the whole country forty years ago, and has no parallel in the criminal jurisprudence of Fayette county for trial hereâ€"the John F. llradec. engaged in the trial of the case. the state. During York. could bring rive at their destination of three due in New York on the 16th. Following lino eastward the officers directed by at or near Uniontown. office. stage driver, anyhow.” wrought his conviction. driver, Corman, was his accuser. against the young no avail. of the “dâ€"d ordinary stage-driver.” the his release. rest the people of his county til their generation had passed away. D:. Braden came to Uniontown when scarcely out of his teens ; yet he proclaimed himself a physician with a Paris education, and his conduct and language bore out his statement. He was but very shortly estab- lished until his skill was acknowledged: and although he had not reached his 25th year, he soon became famous in all the regions where popular intelligence then traVelled. His home was besieged by day and by night by the sick and afflicted, who came to him in all the regions lying between Portland, Me., and New Orleans. the stage passengers arriving at Uniontown then were invalids seeking the aid of this healer. He is best described in the speech of Judge McCandless, upon his behalf, when he said his house was the lazarettc of the country. The sick and afflicted from the re mote corners of the union were there at the pool of Bethesda, waiting for the moving of the waters. For years after his death it was recalled how out of the multitude of apply- ing patients be singled those most needing his aid, and when no choice could be made he selected that one who had travelled far- thest to seek his aid. It was developed at the trialâ€"to show that he was not in such need of money as would lead to the crime charged against himâ€"that he averaged from 100 to 1100 patients per day, and that his in- come could not have been less than $250 per day if he saw fit to collect it. The trial came on before J udgo Baldwin and Judge Irwin, of the United States courts, at the May term of 1841. In at- tendance were partisans of both sides. The good women sent down their husbands to testify upon his behalf, and every physician of the county was on hand to press his con- viction. The counsel were such as have not since nor before been employed in any cause in Western Pennsylvania. Each one of them was a man whose forensic powers and legs. acumen are traditions to the present day For the government appeared Cornelius Garragh, the then United States district at- torney, A. \V. Loomis, Simuel \V. Back, J. W. Howell, and Moses Hampton. For his defense were John M. Austin. Richard Biddle. Walter Forward, “'ilson McCand- less, Samuel Austin. and W. P. \Yells. It is pertinent here to state that at many rus- tic firesides has been told the story that the late Judge Hampton took a retainer upon both sides of the case. Such is not the case. Judge Hampton was the counsel for a man named Strayer, and the conviction of Bradee was the acquittal of Strayer, but the rustics of those days did not understand his rela- tions to the case, and their descendants have perpetuated in asmall measure their ignorance. Immediately after the arrest a search was made of Bradeo's premises. and in his haymow was found a package of $10,- 000 in the scrip and wildcat money of that day. In his house were a great many news- papers, amung them The Masonic Register, and in his water closet the remains of the mail bags were disclosed. Upon the trial the.e things were all accounted for in some way, and it was even developed upon the testimony of Gen. Gideon John, an cx-sher- ill of Fayette county, and Hon. John A. Sungistcr, who had been a state senator, that Bradce could neither read her write. 117 was eizsrntial to prove this, because of the papers found upon his promises. But both WMHOjSCBlUBt caste in the community for giving such testimony. It did not seem possible that the physician who possessed such skill in the art curative should he want- ing in the ruduncnts of lenning. The doc- the summer of 1840 the attention of the whole country, even in the midst of the exciting Harrison campaign, was drawn to a series of mail robberies committed on the through route between St Louis and New So cunningly were they perpetrated that the best detrciive force the government to its aid were for months un- able to fix even the state in which it occurred. The first clew gained was the failure to ar- pouches for- warded from \Vheeling on Dec. 13, 1810, and the subse- quent events fixed the point of the robberies ’Ihey next selected \Villiam Corman, a driver from Washington to Uniontown, as one of the robbers. By skilful manipulation he was induced to make a clean breast of the affair, and implicated as his confederate and principal in the crime Dr. John I“. ’nradee, a physician of acknow- ledged skill, whose practice was immense. Dr. Bradee was arrested on a cold night in Janurry, 1840, by the sheriff of Fa) ette county, and taken to the commissioner’s While there hemde who had in- formed upon him ; receiving no reply, he muttered something about " Corâ€"Corwinâ€" German,” and added, “he is a dâ€"â€"d ordinary These few words All the efforts of counsel, all the explanatory evidence, all the jail interviews were powerless alongside of the admission of the doctor that the stage- It was proven that German was unworthy of belief. Witnesses were produced who had heaid Curman say he would penitentiary Bradee. Others who had seen Corman with large sums of money, and even one who had been offered a princely sum to aid in a conspiracy Frenchman, but it was of The few words he had spoken in the court house of Fayette county stamped him as the confederate, if not the employs, His bail was fixed at the enormous sum of $120,- 000. and his friends, not yet recovered from panic of 1837, were not able to command Immediately following his ar- divided in al- most cqual portions in favor of his guilt and innocence, and these relations they bore un- A larger portion of tor produced witnesses from Wcst Virginia, or the old state of Virginia, as it was then, and Uhio, who accounted for his monetary These could not overthrow the evidence of a St Louis book keeper who found in his pusâ€"ession as bills he had forwarded by the mail which had left \Vhecling Dec. 13, 1840. transacti identified money 018. records of the trial figures one J uhn Cispon, who was best known as the Yankee clock There was nothing faVnrable to peddler. the defense which he did not know, and, him. charged 1846. spelling five ate. letters books. French. lng boys’ lived. month. fact. them to t them. ment. Highland Century. and sentence. six children. of his death. up the island. he could get. It mattered them. of years later. three syllables. He may shoes. had been stolen. we never compelled however unlikely his stories were, no deftly put queries of keen attorneys could entrap not what testimr ny could be adduced in his favor, there stood the testimony of William Corman that he had handed him mails from the foot of the stage, and had thrown thim to the roadside at points agreed upon, and the stammering mention of Corman‘s name in the dingy office at Uniontown was a case which neither rhetoric nor subomcd Witnesses could over- throw. Nearly every lawyer on both sides addressed the jury, and Jus'ice Baldwin Of the speeches the most part have been preserved, and they would put to shame much of the talk to juries in these days. The jury in the case only deliberated two hours, when they returned a. verdict of guilty upon three counts of the indictment. Dr. Bradee was sentenced to ten years' scli- tary confinement in the Western tiary. There are many people to this day who believe that he went west and became prosperous and wealthy, but the records of the institution to which he was consigned show that he died there at the age of 35, in When he reached the it was found that he was wholly illiterate, as is shown in the following narrative. The the name changed between Uniontown and the penitentiary from Bra.- dee to Braddee. ()fiicer Caskey, of the Western peniten- tiary, who has been for over fifty years in the institution, and who had special charge of Braddee, has distinct remembrance of him. “He was brought to the penitentiary," said he. “in June of 1841, and died nearly His term was only ten years. The doctor was a, young man, only 29 years of age, six feet one inch tall. and very fine looking. He was a Frenchman and had a Very fine appearance. I had him under my care, and he and I together planted those large lombardy trees in front of the penitentiary. given of him on the books of the office he is marked educated, but I found from my in- tercourse with him that he was very illiter- He learned his letters with me, and before he died was able to spell nicely in ‘ He was a famous practiti uer, however, and stories of his wonderful cures spread after his conviction He told me that the way he worked it was to hire a smart clerk in his drug store to do the writin In the description gs and keep the have been learned in He was a. married man and had His health was good during his confinement until his wife married his former clerk; that sickened him and he died in six months. going on in the reception-room at the time Before his death he made a confession. implicating several prominsnt people of Uniontown in his guilt, but no at- tention was paid to it. “ I buried him just outside of th~ walkâ€" now insideâ€"and so marked the grave that I could tell if his body was never disturbed. him to work, but he did some little at mak- Ee was skilinl in medicine though, and was much trusted where be One prisoner sent in from Union town became sick, and the disease refused to yield to the prison doctor's treatment. begged to have Dr. Braddee prescribe for him, and we allowed it. There was a party It He He was well in one There are stories of his escape from \Vhen he arrived York it contained only 25,000 inhabitants. In 1809, when he began to have money invest, the city had begun to double in population. and hail advanced nelrly a mile Astor foresaw the future growth, and bought all the land, and lots just beyond, on the verge of the city, that One little anecdote will show the wisdom of this prOceeding. lot in the vicinity of Wall street, in 1810, for $8,000, which was supposed to be some- what under its value. the papers were signed, seemed to chuckle over his bargain. the institution, but I saw him die andI buried him.”â€"Pit£sburqh Leader. ‘Wâ€"___ 110w Astor Became Rich. Agate writer, speaking of the late John Jacob Astor, thus speaks of the mode by which he acquired his great wealth : “ It was neither furs nor teas that $20. 000, 000. gave him his in New to He sold a The purchaser, after ' thy, Mr. Astor, said he, ' this lot will be worth $12,000.I truo,’ said Mr. Astor, 'but now you shall see what I will do with this money. eight thousand dollars I Will buy eighty lots above Cinal street. is worth $12,000 my eighty lots will be worth $80,000 'â€"-which proved to be the In the course of time the island was dotted all over with Astor lands, to such an extent that the whole income from his es- tate for fifty yrurs could be invested in new houses, without buying any more land.” By the time ‘ Very “’ith your lot «Moa-M The Editor’s Trousers. he closet. chieftau An editor in Chicago recently ordered a pair of trousers from the tailor. them on they proved to be several inches too long. It being late on Siturday night, the tailor’s shop was closed, and the editor took the trousers to his wife and asked her to cut them off and hem them over. good lady, whose dinner had, perhaps, dis- agreed with her, brusquely refused. same result followed an application to the wife’s sister and the eldest daughter. But before bedtime the wife, relenting, took the pants and, cutting off six inches from the legs, hcnimcl them up nicely and restored On trying The The Hill on hour later her bad daughter, taken with compunction for the untiiial conduct, took the trousers and, cut- ting otl‘ six inches, hemmed and rcplicep Finally, the sisterrin-liw felt the pangs of conscience, and she too performed an additiinal surgical operation on the gar- VVhen the editor breakfast on Sunday the family thought a. appeared at arrived. â€"- The [n the peniten- penitentiary FUNNYGBAMSJV A London tourist met a young wo' ingtc the kirk, and, as was 1100111108 was carrying her boots in her 11 d and trudging alo: g barefoot. “My gi ," said he, “is it customary for all thof p: ople in these parts to go barefoot?” "Putty they do,” said should. “and partly they mind their own buSians.” During a disturbance in the gallery of a theltre the excited crowd were on the point of "throwing over” one of the principil offenders in the parquette beneath, round- less of consequerces. Observing the .ng-ava. gent trudency, an Irishman of utilitarian views arose in his sell: and reared (ml: "Sb: Don’t washte him 1 Kill a fiddler wid him.” A gentleman who observed Johnnie care- fully taking the census of a c0nipouy assem- bled in the parlor awaiting a call to supper inquired : “What is the matter Johnnie?” “Why,” returned the urchin, with a troubl- ed air, “here’s nine of us, counting me, and mamma has gone and cut the two pies into quarters, and that only makes eight pieces.” A friend of mine, who dabbles considera- bly in stocks, walked into awell-kno wn bank- ing-house the other day and created consid- erable excitement by remarking : "1 got a pretty good thing when I bought that last VVIntcr. It was 34 thcr, and to-day it stands at 95.’ “Well, I should say so,” er- claimed the senior partner. “But what stock was it 1’" “It was a. thermometer,” cooly replied my friend. 80' 1, she Machine Guns in War. The announcement that an American 0&- cer has received permission to inspeot the British machine guns at Woolwxch has called attention to their advantages and dis- advantages in war. A writer in the Pall Mall Gazette thus criticises the employment of machine guns on the field of battle: “If the range is correct and the mark remains steady great execution will be done, but the slightest error will throw every bullet out, except at short range. 'l‘hus the French found that their attempts with the mitrail- louse, even at such short distance as 1,200 yards, were perfectly futile, and that their new weapon had not the slightest chance agamst the field artillery of that time. Since then the German field artillery has mere than doubled its efliciency. Against their_ sharpnel, thrown with the present veloc1ties, the mitrailleuse would have less chance than ever. The reply of the Ger- man army to the question, “What is the place of the machine gun in the field of bat- tle f” has been, “It has no place, and what- ever additional men and horses can be given should be devoted to increasing the field at- tillery.” Accordingly, machine guns have not been largely increased in proportion to the other arms. Exactly the same course has been pursued by the French and by every other great continental power. None have adopted machine guns for the field ; all have increased and developed their field ar- tillery. When we remember that France, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Russia, have all lately passed through the furnace of war, and had most of their crochety dross burned out of them, their unanimous opinion ought surely to outweigh the theoretical ideas of a. few partisans who still cling to the notion of finding the machine gun a Weapon worthy the cost of the men and horses required for its use They admit that it cannot face field artillery at artillery ranges, that its prcjectiles have no power whatever against walls, or buildings, or earthworks, but they believe that, when two hostile bodies of in- fantry are closing the machine guns can be brought from cover, where they have re- mained until then, and will exercise a great influence over the result of the combat. No doubt they would in such a case, provided the infantry fight happened to be where they could go. Earthquake Phenomena. The causes of earthquakes have long been the subject of many conjectures. The nu- merous investigations of later years have contributed much to define their characters; and several data recently acquired tend fur- ther to make their mechanism clear. It is known that the shocks are by no méans dis- tributed at haphazard over the surface of the globe. The countries where the strata have preserved their original horizmtal posi- tion, like the north of France, a part of Bel- gium, and the most of Russia, are priVileged with tranquility. Virlent commotions are manifest :d, particularly in regions that have suffered considerable mechanical accidents, and have acquired their last relief at a re- cent epoch, like the region of the Alps, Italy, and Sicily. The tracts that are simultaneously dis- turbed by the same shock most frequently comprise acres of from 5 to 15 degrees, or from 300 to 1,500 kilometers. They rarely include a. much more considerable fraction of the globe ; although the celebrated catastro- phe at Lisbon on the [st of November, 1755, extended over some 17 cr 18 degrees into Africa and the two Americas, or over a sur- face equal to about four times that of Europe. The detailed examination of many earth- quakes has enabled us to determine the cen- tre of the shocks as well as the contours of the disturbed areas. From the manner in which the latter surfaces agree with the lines of preexisting dislocations, several of the most distinguished geologists, including Mr. Dana, M. Suess, and Albert Helm, have con- sidered the shocks in question as connected. with the formation of chains of mountains, of which they may be a kind of continuation. In fact the crust of the earth everywhere shows the enormous efi'acts exrrcised by tho latteral pressures that have been in operation at all epochs. The strata, bent over and over again many times through thousands of metres of thickness, as well as the great fractures that traverse them, are the elo- quent witnesses of these mechanical actions. Notwithstanding the apparent tranquility now reigning on the surface of the globe, equilibrium does not exist in the earth, and commotions have not been arrested in its depths. The proof of this is found, not only in earthquakes, but also in the slow move~ 'nents of the soil, of elevation and depreasion â€"a kind of warping, which has continued to manifest itself within historical times in all parts of tho globe.â€"â€"Popular Sole/1c»: .llont/ih/ fn‘ February, â€"â€"‘ There is no truth at all in the report that the prince of Wu'es has i‘cently pur- phased a large tract of liud near Kind.” lity.