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out and carefully rejected, the leafy part al
The best extract Dr. Neligan has found to he prepare

being use,

by submitting the expressed juice, obtained as above,
spontaneous evaporation ; but even that, lie sa
loses all traces of coneine. Hemlock, in m

appears to Dr. Neligan to act by allaying nervous
bility, and diminishing muscular pain ; the frequen

force of the heart's action are alsO din;inished, but it do

lot produce the least tendency to drowsiness

Whin given for some time, or in rapidly increased dose
it causes a disagreeable sensation of dryness in the tbroa
with a feeling of constriction, and difficulty of swallowirn

amounting to actual pain, requiring the medicine to b
suspended for a few days, or else given in diminishe,
doses.—Medical Times.

LOCUSTS AT SEVERINOWKA.—It is almost impossib
to hope for credence from those who had not been op

witnesses of the sight which the garden presented. Th
whole of the surface was Covered, ankle-deep, with thes
insects, clambering pell-mell over each other, but all pro

ceeding in the same direction. They did not allow Lis to
tread upon them ; but, on our approach, rose on wing
with a whizzing noise, and, flying forwards over the beads
of the main body, settled down again in the vanguard
over the body of their army. This is the manner in which
they alight from the wing : the first rank pitches upon the
ground, and the others do not follow the train, but pre-
cede it, alighting one before the other ; that the rear-
guard in flight is the vanguard when they are upon the
field. The sight of them upon the trees was most curious.
The branches were bent to the ground by the incumbent
weight; and the Italian poplars resembled weeping wil-
lows, from their lighter branches being reserved by the
weight of the locusts. Several trees were already com-
pletely bared ; for the insect destroys much more than it
consumes. It gnaws the stem of the leaf, and not the
body ; so that the leaf drops upon the ground almost en-
tire, its stalk only having been eaten. When the insects

are browsing upon the trees, they are not so easily scares
away by the appearance of man as when merely settlec
upon the ground ; they hold fast to their food, and thf
boughs must be shaken before they will leave their hold.
This was, indeed, a curious and amusing experiment ; fog
it was something like magic to see a tree throw its brand
lip into the air, as soon as the locusts were shaken oft
Their instrunaents of destruction must be very torgh ; fat
many is the'stalk of a large sun-flower which I have seer
knawed through by these insects. They seem, indeed, tc
be particularly fond of the stalk of this flower; and, at
several are employed upon it at the same time, it soot
breaks where the part is weakened by their gnawing; am
it is curious to see the insects rise suddenly in the air whet
put to flight by this unexpected accident.—Life of a Tra.
veiling Physician.
VALUE OF CAMELS.—Some idea of the value cf tlt

" forty camels' burthen of every good thing at Damascus,
sent by Ben-haded as a present to Elisha (2 Kings viii. 9:
may be conceived from the mention of the burthen with:
which the Calmuck's of the present day load them. " Or
occasion," says our Russian, " I have known a camel tc
carry forty poods, or I,ooolls. weight upon his back. Hit
services indeed are indispensable when the Calmucks art
compelled, from want of forage for their flocks, to MOVE
from one spot to another. The striking of their tents be.
gins with the prince's kibitka. lie causes a spear to by
held up in front of his tent, as a signal of departure. Thc
whole camp is instantly on the move ; every thing is dons
in order ; and, in the space of little more than an hour,
the collected tribe is seen standing in a long line, with all
their stock and chattels, ready to start. The caravan is
opened by a horseman, bearing the prince's spear ; imme-
diately behind him rides the prince himself, followed by
his family and all that belongs to him of earthly posses-
sions ; then come the clergy, with the appurtenances of
their order ; and last of all the commonalty, with their
herds and flocks, &c. The camel, on ,uch a voyage as
this, is, in every sense of the word, " the ship of the de-
sert." Ail the baggage, household-gear, and property of
the tribe are stowed upon his back ; nay, their home it-
self, the kibitka or yurtu, a tenement of p'eces of wicker,
which, when unloaded and set up, forms a circular room
varying from sixteen to twenty-five feet in circutnfei
it has an opening on one side, serving for a door,
dome-shaped top of wicker, fastened to the lower
the kabitka by poles and staves. When the march draw
to an end, six maidens, richly attired in their national
!osturne, ride forward on their barbs, leading four loaded
it is their province to pitch the first tents on the
ground selected for the new encampment. I could not but
admire the celerity and adroitness with which the maidens
formed themselves into two parties, and set up the two
tents as rail! ing points for the tribe. In less than thirty
minutes the camels were stripped of their ponderous and

anti a
)art of

multifarious burthens, the two kabitkas were erected, and

every item of the chattels and utensils unladen and set in
their proper places. This done, the maidens remounted,
and, making a fre,h start on a trip of discovery for fuel,
availed themselves of the opportunity to give us a display

of their skill and proficiency—in horsemanship
darted forward like an arrow shot from a bow, while the
maidens kept their seats, quietly, and apparently without
an effort; and now and then would let their be

The b.arbs

on the ground, for the purpose of picking them up again
when at full speed. Seeing, then, that such is and ever
has been the value of the gamal" to the people of the
east, we can no longer be at a loss to account for the care-
ful mention which scripture makes of Laban's solicitude
for their comfort, who, efter he had prepared "room for
the camels," ungirded them, gave them straw, and set
" provender" before them (Gen. xxiv. 32). They must
have also constituted a valuable portion of David's sub-
stance, as we know they did of Job's-6,000 (Job. xlii.
12), a special officer, in the person of Obil, the Ishmaelite,
having been placed in charge of them (1 Chron. xxvii. 30.)
So precious, indeed, is th!s meek-tempered, useful crea-
ture to its possessors, that even at this day, as in the days
of Gideon, ornaments were thrown about his neck (Judges
viii. 21, 20.) Church of England Magazine.
PORTRAIT CANDIDLY SKETCHED.—I was then a
great big boy—my father was a gentleman, and I was tole-
rated as the son of one—but 1 was, in fact, a heavy un-
formed, lubberly boy. I used to feel so to myself as if
I was a huge unlicked bear's cub—a heap of chaotic mat-
ter—hardly informed or animated by a soul—still all in

and every thing around it. The image I
. imagination, was that of a lump of
, we image that Clarke presented to me, was
that of a glittering, dewsprung, flower-cradled fairy—a
sparkling., tiny, transparent, precious gem; a light, flit-
ting, azure butterfly—like the petal of a flower on the
wing. The beautiful child seemed too etherial a being, to
be looked upon as a child. She was to me, as the essence
of beauty—as a vision—an airy d

amaze at itself

presented to my own