New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-07-02

Il is profitable than pAedt corn The seeds are
more oeaginous than those Of the hsx plant and
bine the quses for table Of the best olive oil for
burning Of the best sperm without it smoke and for
painting i, Is said by psinters who have used n be
superior 10 linseed and II IL more rspt in drying
equally easy in spreading and without forming much
denser coat Prepared and eaten artchokes, the
young cups Of this plant very esculeut and pleasing
10 the palate the stalks excellent substitute for
hemp fax and for bee pastursge u is equal 20 any
plaut yielding from is luscious and numerou. nects
ries, abundance VI tue best and most pala,abls
honey. writer Ia one Of our agricultural exchanges
Gays that on suitable soil with proper cultivation. il
VIII yield on average, from eighty n one hundred
bushels of seed TO the From I'VE To quarts
OF oil are calculated per bushel II this Is not
estimating its productivrness and 10 be- rsi-ed
chespy as wheat or Indian corn ordinarily considered
The most expensive crops cultivated the Sunhover must
be very profitable prouction. We have. heretofore
cultivated II small scale usually In vacant spots BY
the fences and In places where the cultivation Of other
vegetables was ineligible, and 30 Tar our experience
goes 1t corroboraies the above assertions. We md
that the green leaves very excellent fodder for
especially when the feed Ia pastures low
n seasons OF scarcity and drouth We generally com.
mence puckng them Ia July taking the lower leaves
hrst and feeding them out At night or II the scarcity
OF feed is great ia the morning before turning them
from their yards. We have sometimes given them
corntOppines and the leaves OF the sunower a, the
time aud have found that the latter invariably
preferred. The seed Of the SuuAower Is a most de-
sirsbe food for poultry It's highly oesginous nsure
wholly super'eding the necessity OF animal food
An -EolSaH Chav-A Mr. Horst, OF New-Or
leans has invented description of chair for which
he has procured patent under the Of the hOian
chair. All that the incumbent of such glorious inven
ton has do il 10 cit down and rock himself when by
the simplest machinery IN the world, the toes perform
the part of pair OF belOws and matter how sultry
the mOsphere the sitter Is surrounded by the coolest
air ins ginable.
The Distribution af Carb0nic Arid On Rooms
from the burning Of Charcoal 1t is commonly supposed
that the carbopic acid resulting from burning charcoal
in brszier remaias heavy stratum OF vapOr upon
the floor Of apartment II does upon the door OF the
GrOo del Cane" and thst danger IL 10 be sppre
hended In entering the apartment II person stand up
right but this notion is seriously erroneous, as the
chemist prove. In fact carbonc acid is formed
during the combustion Of charcoal, Il IL materially
Hgf0 than air. because It is Of exceedingly high
temperature. in other words rarehed by the heat
and accordingly, Gays the London Builder II ascends
In virtue of this thermal eyy, snd blends uniformly
with the sir Of the apartment while another curious
action Is simultaneously ensuing viz the charcoal, In
order 70 burn and 10 continue burning. must have
oxygen--t takes this from the dir 10 form carbOnic
acid, but leaves the nitrogen, which Is equally mephc
that in the OF very short time, II egress
be permitted for these substances nimica to life the
entire volume of the air becomes thoroughly yitiaed
and person entering the apartment would be sufo
Gated.
Researches being made, and Scientific Works
about 10 be published M MIDDESDoRr aided by learned
friends is actively engaged with the account Of bis i'm
pOrtant Expedition and Explorations m SIBERIA ana the
Academy of Sciences has been charged 10 advise to
the and style of publicstionM. hEYsERLING is
occupied With the Fossils collected the late Siberian
expedition under Middendort. On Russian GeOl0gy.
NJ. HELMERsEN has ready for publication extended
account of the Geological Observations which he has
made in his different journeys through the Departments
of LivOuia Estonia, PskOy, ST. Peersburgh, Novg0rod
Tyer, Moscow. Toula kalouga and Ore and in the
Summer of l545, he made tour into Sweden and Nor
way in order TO compare his results with the facts there
presented and give greater completeness 10 hs descrp
ton of the psleozoic aud other deposits OF Northern
Europe Paris letters state thtt Rev Mr.. COLMAN
prosecuting his Observations with great activity both
In Great Britain and the Continent At recent sit.
ting ia Paris OF the Committee OF Deputies on the Colo
niz alton of Algeria the Chairman, NJ de TOcqueyile
spoke OF him having given valuable intormstion
colonization in America and paid him some deservedly
high compliments Mr.. BANCROFT, our Minister 10
England had just lett Paris for London. at the last ac'
countsto return in few months in order 10 complete
the researches he has commenced 10 the Archives there
Hon Mr. INGERsoLL has gone 10 Brussels from Paris
supposed with some scientific aim.