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Several members of the Partisan Bio,
logical society have recently been en-
gagged in a series Of experiments which
seem to prove that everything endowed
with life, whether animal, plant or fer
mcnt, is susceptible of being brought
under the influence of anesthetics; in
other words, may be sent to sleep. 1t
has been proved that the influence of
ancsthetic5 extends TO all the animal It's
sues, and last of all to the central ner-
YOU system. Hence, it was argued,
plants having tissues, must must also be
subject to the influence of ether, etc.
Experiments have proved this to be the
case. termination is arrested by aDes-
thetics. The water cress, for example,
terminates within thirty hours. Ether
arrests termination in this plant, but
does not destroy That faculty. 1t merely
sends the plant to sleep, for termination
recommences as soon as the use of ether
is suspended. The capability of being
sent to sleep is not confined to plants, it
extends to ferments. Thus the ferment
of beer, when submitted for twenty-four
hours to the influence of ether, becomes
perfectly dormant, but RECEIVERS activity
as soon as aresthetic action is suspended.
-B0St0R Chemical journal.
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Agricultural Bureau.

General lie Due, commissioner of
agriculture, proposes 20 establish a sys-
TEN of inquiry in various sections of the
country, with a view to the propagation
of plants adapted to certain localities, but
hitherto not cultivated in those sections.
He also proposes to adopt measures to
stimulate as far as practicable, through
the agency of the department, cultivation
of those agricultural products for which
we are now largely indebted to foreign
countries. The reports thus far received
by the commissioner show that the
climate and soil of the Pacific coast are
admirably adapted to the cultivation of
teas. He also finds that sugar, though
now cultivated in the south only, might
be produced elsewhere by proper manage
ment. A liberal series of experiments in
production is proposed through the CO.
operation of a~griculturists, for the pur-
pose of producing articles which are of
commercial value, and are now largely
imported. He wants information as to
the character of the crops, the possibili-
ties of the soil and climate, and any data
of interest, and suggestions as TO the
peculiar wants of each locality.-Tarf,
Field and Farm.
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The following, concerning the use OF
hedgeSi Tor fences, we receive from a farmer
of experience and extensive reading:
Sooner or later the farmers in the United
States must adopt hedges for fences, as
the cost of all the fences in this country
is estimated by good authorities to be
about 1900, 000, 900, or S45 a head for
each inhabitant, old or young, and it
costs 500, 00o, 600 annually to keep them
in repair. Recently Major Brisbrane, OF
the United States army, compiled sta
tistics in regard to the annual destruction
of timber IN the nation, from which 1t
appears that the consumption requires
about 5000, coo acres every year. lie
puts the requirements for fencing pur-
poses at about one-half of this vast
amount, which we think is too high but
il is nevertheless immense, and, notwith-
standing the gradual increase of tree
planting for future use, it is certain that
a radical change in our fence system is
absolutely necessary, or two generations
hence the country will be practically
without fences. The kind of hedges
most grown are the buckthorn and bar
berry for the north, the Usage orange for
the south. In regard to the barberry,
the Wsllingtord Circular says: ave
have a barberry hedge on our grounds
twenty-five rods long and nine years old,
from the seed. Two rows of plants were
set, the rows one foot apart, and the
plants n foot apart in the rows, and set
alternately to break joints. This hedge
has been clipped a little, two or three
times. TO keen IL even. and is now six or
seven feet high, with a firm, compact
base, perfectly i%mpervious to the smaller
animals, and stout enough to turn ordi-
nary farm stock, except for a short dis
tance at one end where the soil is quite
thin" A pound of barberry, or buck
thorn seed, costing 81, will produce
plants enough for one hundred rods OF
fence.=Erom the Hartford Times.
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co>soLAr,oN-aoNE n.ronE.

There's n beautiful face In the Silent nirt0
Which follows ma ever aud near,
with smiling eyes and amber hrtr,
with vouchers lips, yet with breath Of prayer,
That / feel but cLnnot hear.
The dlmp.ed hands and ringlets Of gold
Lie down in a marble sleep,
1 stretch my arms for the clasp OF old,
Bat the empty air ia strangely cod,
And my vigil alone | keep.
There's a sinlcss brow with a radiant crown,
And a cross LAID down In the dust
There's a smile where not a shadow comes now
And tears no more FROM those dear eyes flow,
so sweet in their innocent trust.
All, we'll and sunimer is coming again,
singing her same old song
But, oil, IL sounds like n sob OF pain,
As il aoats In the sunshine and the rain,
0'er hearts OF the worlds great throng.
There'sa beautiful region above the skies,
AndtI long to reach its shore.
For | know | shall find my treasure there,
The laughing eyes and ambe- HAIR
Ol the loved one gone before.
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whatever, except a little hay during n
severe snowstorm, and n small quantity
OF salt now and again. AS soon as they
become fat they are shipped TO Chicago
IN lots,and by the first OF November they
VIII be all away and the fields vacant
ior another nine hundred, which will
have to pass through exactly the same
simple ordeal. When bought in, these
steers now on the farm were lean and
weighed on the average about 1000
pounds; now they weigh about
ZOO pounds, and It is expected that
by the time they are shipped, they
will average l,450 or 800 pounds. They
are the best of their kind have IS yet
seen, but then their kind is not good.
They are big-boned and lacking ~inquality,
and, like all these common cattle, they
travel so much and are kept lean for the
first two years of their existence, that
they show a good deal of gristly meat,
The buying price was three and one-fourth
cents per pound, and it is hoped that the
selling price may be fifteen and one half
cents per pound live weight.
A steer will require four acres of grass
to feed HIM for a year; the value of that
land may be noted at fifty dollars per
acre the interest at ten per cent (the
ordinary rate of interest in America)will
be twenty dollars for the four acres;
the interest on the money lying in the
steer for the year, three dollars and the
cost of salt and labor-there are only
four hired men at Grove Park farm
about one dollar; and thus the cost of
keeping a steer for a year would be about
twenty-fourdollars. Hitherto the Messrs.
Brown have been averaging about thirty
dollars a head for the years keep, and
this year they expect thirty-seven dollars.
their system is unique and simple, and,
as will be seen, very profitable.
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Suddenly he cooked IL and leyeled it,
stepped between the freigbters and their
arms, and ordered them TO throw up
their hands, saying they would take
what money there was in the outfit. AT
this young Meyers shot the robber,
striking him in the face and breast. The
robber wheeled and fired at him but
missed. The robber dropped the gun
and run, firing at the party with his re-
volver. One of the freighters shot at
him with a rife, the ball striking him in
the arm. lie fell and soon after died.
The other two road agents fed, and have
not yet been captured. The party,
under the deputy sheriff from here, are
in pursuit. The body Of the dead robber
was brought here last night, and identi-
fed as that of a man known as Texas
Frank. 1t is believed that this was the
party who robbed the Sydney coach a
few nights ago. None of Myers party
were hurt.
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FARM NOTES.
Who are the Farmers Friends

Who but geology, chemistry, the
quarry of the air, the water Of the brood,
the lightning of the cloud, the plough of
the frost? Before he was born into the
field, the sun of ages soaked it with light
and heat, mellUwed his land, decomposed
the rocks, covered it with vegetable film,
then with toy ests, and accumulated cubic
acres of spPagpum, whose decay makes
the pet of his meadows. The rocks
crack like glass by inequality of contrac-
ton in neat and cold, and flakes fall
air .ost continually into the soil. The
II &c can draw on the whole air, the whole
,artil, on the rolling main. The plant,
the tree is all suction pipe, imbibing from
the ground by its roots, from the air by
its twigs with all its might. Take up a
sspadeful or Il buck-load of loan who can
guess what it holds? But n gardener
knows chat it is full of peaches, full of
oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by
way of keys to unlock and combine its
values, lets it lie In the sun and rain,
and by-and-by II mas lifted into the air
its full weight in golden fruit.-EmerS0n.
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REsORn.

Nearly thirty years have elapsed since
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters was first brought
to the notice of the American public. To-day
it is the most popular remedy on this CONT.
nent for dyspepsia, liver complaint, constipa'
ton, debility, nervousness, urinary and utter
inc, complaints, govt, rheumatism, intermit-
tent and remittent fevers, and is widely used
in South and Central America, Mexico, the
West Indies and Australia, as a preventive
and remedy for malarious disorders, and for
many other maladies to the relief of which it
is adapted. The record of its victories is
written in the testimonials of thousands
whom it has cured, to many of which the
widest publicity has been given; it has won
the emphatic sanction of leading members OF
the medical profession, and it has repeatedly
been made the subject of encomiums by the
home and foreign press. Comment on the
above facts is unnecessary. We leave the
public to draw its own conclusions.
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The following is a part OF q letter
written by the special correspondent OF
the Edinburg Scotchman to that paper
describing the management of the farm
and stock of the Messrs. Brown Broth
ers, of Berlin, ILL.,:
Grove Park Farm extends 5000 acres,
each OF the three brothers. holding sepa-
rate titles for 1000 acres, and all the
three running the farm jointly. Almost
all the farm has been cultivated, but
now it is under grass, having been sown
out-part of it thirty years age-with
timothy, blue grass and clover. Inc
timothy and clover grow well the first
two or three years, but after that the
blue grass gets the upper hand OF both,
and finally drives them out altogether.
White clover is indigenous to the soil,
which is a rich loan impregnated with
lime and is coming up very thickly.
Blue grass and white clover make the
very best of pasture, and just now the
cattle on this farm are standing to the
knees among grass. The farm is divided
into eight or nine fields, and fenced with
Usage orange, which with numerous
spreading trees here and there all over
the property, afford the cattle cool, shady
retreats from the scorching sun. For
seven years the Messrs. Brown handled
Texan steers, but now-and for two years
back-they buy only common American
steers. Their system, which is reduced
to a simplicity and regularity truly adj
mirable, may best be illustrated by tracing
the history of the herd of steers now OF
the farm. These number nine hundred
are rising three and four years old, vert
bought in November last, mostly il
Chicago, Kansas City and St. Loui'
markets, and are the best class of com
mon steers raised in Missouri and Wiscon
sin. When brought nome, they wen
graded into three lots, and put int
separate fields.
No Indian corn is grown on the farm
and these cattle have no hand-feedinI
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A Little Western Incident.

While Henry Myers freighting outfit,
with six men, was camped IL miles south
of Custer, ID. T., they were visited by
three men who cooked their dinners at
the camp fire, and made themselves so
agreeable that all OF the freighters except
the son of Meyers gathered about them.
Young Meyers was suspicious and went
TO one of the wagons, where he got his
shotgun and remained away from the
party during the conversation around
The campfire. One of the strangers adj
mired a shotgun belonging to the
frejghters and took it to examine it.
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RELIGIOUS.
The Far AVA Lam.


Nae aDe's vac worn aud weary,
Nae ane gangs dark aud dTcnry
T. the far ava land,
Nae irlen' frae frlen' Is PARTED,
Me ehokin' tear is STARTED
Nae ans is broken-hairted,
l. the lar ava Ian.
Nae BARNS greet their deid mither,
Like lammies 4 could weather,
Il the far ava lam,
Nae guide wife there will sicken,
Nae strang man down be stricken,
Nae sky In murk will thicken
l. the far ava Ian.
The heights Me crowned in simmer,
The burns 80 glad in glimmer
L the far ava Lam.
As birds win till their nestle,
As to its dam ilk heastie.
Wen win till Cru c's own breastie
L the far ava Ian.
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Low spirits, distaste for company, irri-
liability Of temper and love of retirement
exist with many persons from some lesion of
abe liver they are advised to use HoME
STOMACH BITTERs, as it acts on the whole
animal economy. Prepared by the Home
Bitters Co., st, Louis Mo.
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THE principal attraction at the recent
Germantown, Ky, fair was a woman who
has a beard ten inches long and as fine as
silk. She once tried to shave, but not
being able to hold still long enough gave
up in despair.
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You'll scratch a poor mans nose as
long as you live, if you don't forsake the old
.monopolists. Five Ton Wagon Scales $50
each. On trial, freight prepaid, by Jones, of
Binghamton, Binghamton, n. Y.
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WEhavea argersa sale for Hatch's Cough
Syrup than for any other medicine of the
kind. We have for sale all the old standard
remedies. None are in such demand.
FLINT q DAYTON, Friendship, n. Y.
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STuTTERING.-This singular affection
is treated by an ingenious invention, called
Bates Patent Appliances. Simpson Il Co..
Box 5076, New York, send description of
same to all inquirers.
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HONEST vs.. FRAUDULENT WEIGHT

The purchaser is entitled to fuH weiJht al
ways in buying any commodity. DooLEY's
YEAST PowDER is strictly full weight, beside
which it is absolutely pure.
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fyou feel dull, drowsy, debIItsted, havefrequent
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tongue coated, YOU are suffering from torpid liver
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Her 0,cH Words.

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SICK HEAD4CHE!

This distressing affection occurs most frequently.
The disturbance of che stomach. arising from the
imperfcctly digested contents, causes a severe pain
in The head. accompanied with disaRreeaele nausea,
and this constitutes what L. populaTlY known ~
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Nothing is SO UNPLEASANT, nothing so common a.
bad breath and in nearly every case IL comes iron
the stomach, and can be M easily corrected u yot
will take Siminons' Liver Regulator. Do not negleel
so sure a remedy for this repulsiye disorder. ltwll
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The New York herald., 1877-11-17

Of its water shed. Tho fact that no river OF
any great size flowed into the White Milo from tho
westward north OF the lakes and that tho levels OF
the Victoria and Albert Niyapxss with relation to that
OF tho river Luolaba discovered by Livingstone wost
OF TanEanyika, made II impossible that tho river
could be feeder OF either settled tho question
as the upper wators OF the Es concerned. But
Livingstone up his DEATH believed that the Luaaba
was tho Mic. and oven stunlcy-although believing
in tho Congo theory-was still prepared to find Living
stones opinion sustained whom no Lett Nynngwo to
follow the rivers course
TASGASYiKA AND THE LUALABA
Before referring further to tho identity OF tho
Lualaba and the Congo It is necessary to point out
important fact relating to Its feeders and to estab,
lish the relation toward II bornc by Lako -angan-
yika In the accompanying map which is a correct
reproduction Of that which Stanley has prepared 10
illustrate hts great journey from Nyangwe to En-
bona the West Coast, a connecting river Is
shown between Lake Tanganyika and tho Lualaba
This river is named tho Luindi or LusuQa
RIVER and was FIRST discovered by Cameron when
he made partial exploration OF tho lake Believing
thnt such vast body OF water as Tanganyixa
must. like the Victoria and Albert Niyapz,s havs
outlet to some river, he searched along
its western shores until he discovered tho Lukuga
penetrating westward Without making a very care.
fui exploration Of this crock Cameron jumped 10 tho
conclusion that was the long sought for outlet from
thc lake ana set u down as such hts map Stanley
coming later and being OF a more practical turn OF
mind, made q complete circumnavixation OF Tapgan.
yika and also found the Lukuga River
STANLEY SURVEYS THE LrkrGA
RESOLVING on the settlement OF tho lake drainage
question he made an actual survey OF tho Lukura.
sounded Its depth. measured the velocity and noted
the direction OF Its current and took into account nil
the surroundings OF the river so called by Cameron
The result was, he described in his letters
published In tho HgRALD, that tho Lukura was
not permanent outlet OF Tanganyika, but only such
when the iako waters attained abnormal level. The
slight current In the Lukuga no found to set toward
tho lake, not from u, and the flow originated In n
marshy district, ovcrrrown with popyrus and other
aquatic vegetation, and which formed tho tomporarv
reservoir OF the waters drained from the odiaccn,
hills.
AN INTERMITTENT DRAINAGE
Pursuing hts exploration further west bc fourd
that ancr tho limit Of the papyrus swamp
was reached In that direction q small strcam.
corresponding with tho LuKuga aud called thu
Luindi, drainod tho marsh toward tho IuaIsba
Hence, although the Lukuga or Luindi arc marked
on Stanley's map as forming river draining Tan
ganyka into the Luaaba, its drainage action is inter-
mittont only and when the lake waters attain such
level as TO carry tncm the intervening swnmpv
summit OF tho divide.
srEcULArIoSs.
To account for the presence OF this curious mpcd,
Lukuga-Lundi River ono might suppose that orig.
The New York herald., 1877-11-17

that tho Fronch expedition the 0Rovc will de-
terminc this important problem. Tho society will re-
member that several yoars since, article read at
ono OF It's meetings advanced the opinion that Lake
existed In tho interior, littc north OF the Equator
from which, perhaps. the Congo and ogovo received
their supplies In park THIS opinion was based on
the reports OF natives from the Interior OF Gaboon
who testified TO having visited tho western shores
and seen ves,eIs With sails upon its waters
Mr. Stanlsys explorations, VIII probably show that
what these natives calod q lako was tho Congo, or
perhaps, widening In is, as tho African nvers gen.
orally wden out into broad laaoons lakes at certain
points So their Information not very Incorrect
but as tho truth could DO expected from un-
educated and barbarous people, wo feel much inter.
osted In these recent additions TO previous very
imperfect knowledge OF tho unexplorcd regions OF
Ethiopia aud confidently anticipate a speedy unve,.
ING OF all those hidden mysterious lands Commerce
science and Christianity arc knocking at the doors Of
dark Ethiopia and they win certainly be forced by this
triple power. III
Tho providence OF God Is procaIming lot thero bo
light and the light will shine dispensing tho dark.
ness, which has, In all she past like great cloud en-
velopcd this vast region. Christian missionaries at
various points between tho Nigor and tho Congo have
long been gradually feeling thoir way ntcriorward
and preparing 10 carry Christian civilization Into tho
heart OF Africa, as soon the way prepared.
rhcy arc now Keeping paco with and svsiirng them.
solves OF all these exploring enterprises to accom-
psh their ph,lanthropc and benevolent designs
"onward and upward into tho INTERIOR Is tho watch.
word OF all those missions In a icw wccKs expect
TO visit tho Ogovc. whcro our American mission have
a station. and with eyos and ears open will gathor
and report TO your society Whatever facts may como
under my observation. TIL then permit mo To re.
main, very truly yours, In behalf OF Africa,
ALBERT BUSHNELL.