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 AGRICULTUEAL. Irrigation. Irrigation is no new matter in British India. It has been practiced from time im- memorable, and the entire country is dot- ted with tanks, many of which are of enor- mous size, that have been constructed for storing water for this purpose, this plan is necessary not, as might be supposed, on account of rain, but because the fall is con- tined to a few months of the year, and usually comes in the form of a deluge. Fur example, the rainfall during a period of four months on the west slope of the Neilgherries ia about 400 incnes, and on the mouiJtains east of Calcutta 600 inches high and even more. In the Carnatic, the region south and west of Madras, there are only about 40 inches altogether. This fal's principally in heavy bursts, often ten or twelve inches in a night, thus giving half a year's supp'y in two showers. la the Madras Presidency alone there are 40,000 tanks for the storage CI water, many of which are magnificent works from ten to twenty-five miles in cir- cumference and from ten to sixty feet deep. One of the reservoirs will contain the enor- mous quantity of 100,000,010 cubic yards of water. Besides these tanks there are many oil irrigating canah leading ctf from the rivers. These are supplied by noble weiri built of immense stones across the streams, by ingenious construction of whicb, by the natives, has shown the British aathorities the best way of doing similar work on a much larger scale across some of the largest rivers m India. For many years the Indian government has been engaged in the im- provement of the ancient irrigating works and in perfecting new systems. In the Tan- jore district alone the returns of the govern- ment from this policy have been enormous, the revenue having increased £350,000 a year upon an expenditure of £400 000. The system has been exttnded to a very consider- able extent in various other parts of India, ard all the belts of land, comprising many millions of asres, which have been reached by this grand system of irrigation now present a marked contrast to the immense tracts of arid waste which met the eye of the traveller a few years ago, compelling even the haters of English rule to acknow- ledge that no such benefit was ever bestow- ed upon India before. An idea of the mag- nitude of an irrigating canal which is need- ed to water a million acres may be found when it is understood that such a waterway must be two hundred yards broad and three yards deep, flowing one-and-a-half miles an nour, and capable of floating large steamers conveying millions of tons per annum. In the gradual and systematic prosecution of this vast work of irrigation Great Britain is conferring enormous benefits upon the peo- ple of India, not only providing against luture years of famine, but rendering the bO fruitful that it will be na marvel in a few years if it should produce a large surplus of wheat and other cereals for foreign nations. â€" Br"'-htreet. Forests and Their Effects Upon Floods. The 2\'orthicestern Lumhermun assails a quite generally accepted theory in the fol- lowing vigorous manner: â€" " We would like to have the individuals who are clamoring for government interfer- ance for the prevention of floods, answer tne following question. If the denudation of forest lands on the upper O lio and tribu- taries was the cause of the tiocd last vear and the disastrous overflow now prevailing, what is the cause of the lise in tne Arkan- sas, St. Francis and Red Rivers of the South, all 01 which are now booming ' 1 d those af- iiicted with the denudation craze know that the rivers mentioned flow mostly t.hrough • lensely wooded districts The writer was lately in the forests of the Yazoo delta, miles from human habitation. At the time it had been raining like a deluge for days, Tne r-i vines ana gullies vere carrjing great volumes of water into the bayons ana rivers. 1 ijd the heavy growth ol timber, the mosses and interlacing roots stop the outflow" Not any worth mentioning. "Water falling on the surface of the earth vnU seek a lower level, whether it is overshadowed by trees or not. Floods occijred hundreds cf years ago, the tame as tbey do now. Men talk as if there never was a flood in the Chio or Mississippi until lb8"2and 18So. One of the biggest rises known to white men in the Ohio was in 1632, when it and its tributaries still flowed through the almost unbroken primeval forest. If the question were thor- oughly looked looked up in its far reaching historical features, it would be discovered that never in the annals of this country was there a more^diotic, baseless conclusion than that now prevailing in the popular mind about the denudation of forest land causing recent floods in the great rivers." Farm Topics, Cabbages makes a valuable food for poultry, as it contain^ a large per cent, of phoaphorio acid. It is all the more valu- able, ttecaase where cabbages are kept in the cellar or used in Winter there is always a supply of green food for the fowls. Look to the Pig-Pex, â€" As a rule less attention is given t» the pig pen than the stable, and the swine which are kept con- stantly in confined qtiarters are much more liable to become diseased when neglected than any otner live-stock. Clean quarters for pigs will well repay their owner. Ax AVKRAGB Cow for dairy purposes, should give twenty pounds of milk per day daring 200 days of every year, eight pounds of cream for every 100 pounds of milk, forty-five pounds of butter for every 100 pounds of cream, and fully ten pounds of cheese from every 100 pounds of milk. Rabbits ob Hares. â€" There are some anatomical differences, especially in the bones of the head, between rabbits and hares. There is a marked difference in their habits. The rabbits live in burrows, while hares never make holes. Wtien pursued, they may sometimes take refuge in a chance hole, but they never dig. A'l our 80-:alled rab- bits are hares. Top-Dre5si*g Orchards. â€" Ctiltivators are becoming more and more satisfied of the value of common manure for bearing orchards. Those which have been regalarly lop-dressed have borne much better the past sc:irje season than neglected crohards. The owner of an orchard of six a'sres, in a region where not one- tenth of a crop waa raised the past season, sold over $300 worth of fruit from it. He has regularly top-dressed it for several years, and two sheep to each tree have picked up the fallen fruit infested with the codling worm.â€" Country Gentleman. CuTTLSGS FOR SPRING.â€" Much difficulty is often experienced by farmers in making cuttings of grape and other wood when planted in cold soil in the Spring. The trouble partly arises from the fact that air u much warm«r than the soil, which starts the bud before root action commences. If cut- tings are placed with their base ends in dry soil m the cellar bottom, the base will cal- lous and be ready to emit roots as soon as planted. Market gardeners make every cut- ting live by furnishing bottom heat which simply means keeping the soil in which the cutting is planted warmer than the bud, which is exposed to air. Grafting- Wax. â€"Last Spiing, after con- siderable trouble, this recipe was obtained for grafting-wax and as it has proved sat- istactory it is «iven for the benefit of other?. Take 1 lb. of resin, i lb. of beeswax, and a little less than i lb. of tallow. Melt to- gether in a small iron kettle, and stir thor- oughly that the ingredients may be well mixed. Pour into a dish of cold water, and when cool, break into three or four pieces, and pull like molasses candy until white and fine-grained. When the whole is properly worked, d.vide into eight pieces, form into rolls six inches long, and wrap in oiled paper. To clean the kettle, rub it while yet hot with a teaspoonful of lard or tallow, and wash out with soap and warm water; repeat this, and rinse, andi t will be as clean as tMiv. â€" O. A. O., in Country Gentleman. Cheap Substitcte for Superphosphate. â€" A farmer who tias under histable of eighteen cows a liquid manure -vat â€" which, he tells the Vermont Watchman " did not cost over ?10" â€" pumped from it last year and discharged directly upon the land i5 loads of 120 gallons each, "at small cost cf time and strength," and judging from the crops he believes it to have done more good than a ton of the best superphosphate. Tne significant result thus reported gives three loads or 360 gallons from each cow, or one gallon a day. It would have taken twenty pounds of sand to absorb or hold in suspen- sion each gallon, or 66 tons to absorb the 55 loads, making the additional labor of draw- ing the sand to the bam and iromthe stable to the field if such an absorbent was used, and the agency of rain would be needed to wash the urine from the sand to the earth and to the roots of plants. SoKGHCM. â€" There is more than one source of profit in the growing of sorghum. While the syrup is the principal object aimed at, tlie leaves afford a very fair todder if fed green to animals the only trouble seems to be that it is a little harsh, and would tend to make the animals' mouths sore if com- pelled to eat it for any length of time con- tinuously. The chief additional value comes from the seeu this is produced in consider- able quantities, ani its value as a food is vaiiously esteemed by different individuals. By some it is considered lully equivalent to tne same quantity of cats othtrj value it equal to corn, and some consider the \alue 01 the aeed sutficient to compensate for all the culture. It is ground and fed in con- nection with meal to hogs, horses, or cattle. A trial of it as a food for the family has been made, and when ground and bolted is said to be superior to buckwheat. The 'ew Forth Bridge. The most interesting structure at present in progress, says Eiiginecriag, is the Forth Bridge, the largest ever undertaken. It will consist of two spans of 1,700 feet, two of 675 feet, fourteen of lOS feet, and six of ")0, with a clear headway for navigation of 150 feet above high water of spring tides. The two large spans are cantilevers, «lch 075 feet, with a central girder 350 feet long, the depth of the cantilevers being 350 feet a*; the piers and 50 feet in the centre. To hold aloft and to maintain the immenr-e weight of steel of which the cantilevers tui girder will he composed, piers will be recjuired of corresponding magnitude. The central pier, cii the island of inchgarvie, will consist oi lour cylindrical masses of concrete and ma- sonry, 4" fees in diameter at the top and 70 feet at tne bottom. They will be founded en rock at a depth belojv high water vary- ing from 24 to 70 feet, and will be carried up to IS leet above high water. The length of the bridge will be more than a mile, and of the viaduct approaches 2,754 feet. The contract has been let for £1,600,000. Consilerable progress has been made with the masonry, about 17,000 cubic feet of granite masonry having been set, and the number of men employed will soon reach soo. As it is intended to manufacture the steel superstructure of the bridge on the spot, very extensive works, lighted by electric lamps, have been constructed at Queens- ferry, and the plant provided includes about fifty steam engines of various classes, and a large number of specially designed hydrau- lic tools, drilling machines and other tools for dealing with the 45,000 tons of steel which will be used in the bridge. The manu- facture of the superstructure of the bridge will soon be commenced. All the important members subject to compression will be of a tubular form, as will have been gathered by those who read the paper on the subject read at Southampton in 1S32, by Mr. Baker. About three miles of steel tubes, ranging from 12 feet to 5 feet in diameter, and 1^ inches to an inch in thickness, will be re- quired. Plant, including gas and other turnaces, have been provided for this pur- pose. The steel plates are heated in gas turnaces, and stamped to a desired curva- ture in a 2,000 ton hydraulic press the edges planned and the plates temporarily clamped together to form a tube about 400 feet in length. Travelling drilling machines will then traverse the tube and drill all the holes required to rivet the plate together, bat this riveting will not be done until the bridge is erecting, plate by plate, across tne Forth. All the machinery reguired to begin the manufacture of the tubes in the new works has been designed by Mr. Arrol, one of the contractors. INTERESTING ITEMS. Tlie Largest BeU in the World-Chinese BmtaUtyâ€" A New Religious Sect â€"Population of Cochin China, etc., etc. The beet root sugar manufacture is being overdope in Germany. In thirty-eight years the number of Eng- lish daily papers has increased from 14 to 179. There are nearly 10,000 directors of com- panies in G reat Britain. In 1S82 the emigrants from England to the Australian colonies were 37,000; in 18S3 71.000. From 1334 to 1831 sumptuary edicts as to dress were issued at Berlin. The last tor- bade woman without rank to wear silk dresses. At the University of Zurich there ma- triculated this winter 459 students; 51 were women, and 38 of these entered the medical classes. The German Admirality now thinks it must alter its coast defences, inasmuch as Krupp's improved monster guns are found to penetrate easily the strongest armor plates. Belgium was the first country on the con- tinent to construct railways. State fetea are now being prepared to celebrate, on the 1st of next May, the fiftieth anniversary of the day when the construction of a Belgium railway was first decreed. The largest bell in the world is now aaid to be at Kioto, Japan. It is twenty-four feet high and sixteen inches thick at the rim. It is sounded by a suspended piece of wood, like a battering ram, which strikes it on the outside, and its booming can be heard for miles. In Sayreville, Pa., there is a horse which hauls thirty-five small cart loads of clay and one o( coal dust every day. He has no driver, is as regular as clook-work, and never fails to go exactly the right number of times. If too big a load is put on the cart, he rears and plunges until part of it has been removed. The excitement at revival meetings goes on. Fenton Williams, a young convert, at a revival in New Haven, Ind,, became so much exciteo at the praying and speaking that he jumped upon his chair, and, draw- gain a pistol from his pocket, held his left hand a'oft and put four bullets through it it before he could be disarmed. He after- ward said he had no idea where he was or what he was doing at the time. Furstenfield, in Germany, boasts of the oldest tree in the country. It is a huge lin- den, believed to be one thousand years old, and growing at the back of the village church, in the midst of the tombs of two centuries. Its trunk is fully fifteen feet in diameter, and its twisted branches stretch out far and wide, seemingly covering the entire enclosure. It is still growing. Sir Joseph Frayer, who has been msiking extensive researches into the nature of snake poison, says in the Lancet â€""The result of my experience is, that, so far, no physiological antidote to snake virus is known, and that when the full effect on the respiratory centres is produced, remedies are of little, if any, avail, albeit when the poison has entered in smaller quantities, treatment may be of service on general principles." The absence of all surgical attendants in the field does not add to the satisfaction of service in the Cainese army. Tiie theory advanced to explain this brutality is not so much a callous indifference to human life as a superstition, akin to that of "the peculiar people," who refuse all medical advice to their children. The man who gets a bad wound .is regarded as one whom the gods mean to die. For a like cause the Chinese are reluctant to rescue the drowning. The number of deaths from anifathet- ics in p]agland in 1SS3 waa but 13. Or these 1 1 died from chloroform, and one each from chloroform and ether mixed and nitro oxide. Dr. Jacobs remarks that the deaths from nitro oxide are now so rare that physi- cians have almost begun to look on it as without danger. Inthecaseof death from it above mentioned, the patient died from syn- cope, as is usual in deaths from chloro- formi Considerable excitement has been aroused in the .Jewish communities of South Russia by the appearance at Kischineff of an ener- getic reformer named Joseph Ribinovich. He declared Christ to be the real Messiah, supporting his theories by numerous cita- tions from the Bible and the Prophets. Rab- inovich is an enthusiastic and eloquent preacher, and is winning numerotis prose- lytes. He is anathematized generally by the Jewish press. The drink statistics of Belgium have a certain amount of interest. The population of the kingdom, now amounting to about 5,500.000, consumes annually alcoholic liquors to the amount of 48,000,000. which is 66 per cent, more than thirty years ago, the number of insane has increased by 104 percent., of suicides 80 per cent., and of condemned criminals by 133 per cent. In 1850 the number of iplaces where alcoholic liquors were retailed was 53,000 it is now 130,000. According to the Britith Medical Journal, the female medical students of St. Peters- burg have been compelled to reside in a large boarding estabushment provided by the authorities, instead of being free, as heretofore, to lived where they pleased. Tney are reqtiired to be home before 9 o'clock every evening, and are charged ten roubles per month for board and lodgings. Princess Shakafhoy is the present resident snperin- tendent. The change was made through fear of Nihilistic plots. The war game (kriegs spiel), which is played on a large board with corresponding figures, has been most industriously played in Germany during the last few months by the officers of the War Academy and the general staff. The commanders give the general idea, and choose from the corps of officeri those who are to lead the opposing armies These officers choose others, and make their dispositions as if in actual war. Prince William, now commander of a bat- talion of the First Guard Regiment at Pots- dam, is an enthusiastic playar in the war game, and never fails to appear on the even- ings appointed. In October last two retpsclable English physicians performed the operation of in- serting a tube into the trachea of a child as the last resort in a case diagnosed as croup. The tube becoming obstructed, the father sucked out the occluding membrane, but the child died two days afterward. The father was attacked by diphtheria from which he recovered, when he brought suits against the doctors, one for manslaupthzr and tbeother for damapes. He was unsnccest- ful in both of these, but was much pleased to know that, in their 'i«fe°f-.*^^"" had incurred an expense of So.OOO. But the profession, headed by Sir William Jen- ner, took the i^atter in hand, and each of the doctors has been lately presented with $500, a silver salver, and a camplimentary address "richly illuminated." Considering the terrible havoc made on the French language in the colonies, the creation of a society for the propagation of the French language there is a measure ur- gently demanded. The peoulanties of speech current in Algeria, on the Senegal, and in the Antilles are set forth in a recent article in the Revw Scientifique, by General Faidherbe, who has long studied the lan- guages of the ratives in the French colonies. In Algeria, for instance, they speak a lan- guage composed of all the African and Asiatic idioms, interspersed with a little flavor of French. In Cochin China, and on the Sen- egal the natives generally keep up theirown language, making only a lame attempt at speaking French when coming in contact with Government officials. Some select few have studied French, and speak it cor- rectly. In ISSO the population of Cochin China,, amounted to about one million and a half. Of these ouly 1,825 were French, 1,366,139 were Annamites, and 58.509 Chinese. A book lately published in Paris by Messrs. Bouinais (twelve years a Government official in Cochin Cnina.) and Paulus gives a very favorable accounts of the Annamites. They are gentle, docile, and sober by habit, al- though the rich have a tendency to indulge in opium and brandy. They are very sen- sible, eminently endowed wiih the imitative faculty, rapidly familiarize themselves with the habits of civilized life, and are greedy of instruction. The French have establish- ed a regular system of communal schools. The authors attribute most of the weak points of the Ajinamites to the brutality with which they have been goyemed. Their chief defects are a lack of perseverance and of gratitude. France has only had this colony for about twenty years. The oldest town in Texas, and, it is be- lievad, in the United States, is Ysleta, sit- uated on the Rio Grand, and near El Paso, the chief town in the county of that name. It has a population of 2,500 souls. The place is one of peculiar interest, alike from its age, its people, its architecture, its ag- riculture, and its general products. It is a well-established histori jal fact that a Span- ish military explorer, named Corando, visit- ed the town in 1540, and found it then a popular and prosperous civilized Indian community. Ysleta is believed to have been a considerable centre of population centuries before the visit of Corando. It is not a little curious, considering the advance of civilization from Europe, tnat the same race of people exist in the town to day that existed 350 years ago, and that they are en- gaged in the same agricultural aid mechani- cal pursuits as their forefathers at that period and for ages preceding. A Rich Pauper. The St. Thomas Times 8ay8:_Ti, afternoon a constable irom BismT a Some Curious Facts About Snakes. Catharine C. Hopley, who has written a great deal about tiiikes and their habits, came to Ameri^ i from England last sum- mer with the iut;n..iju of obtaining, if pos- sible, some new facts cf snake lire. She writes to Land and Water that one object of her ambition was to procure for one of the museums a mother snake with her brood refuged in her throat but, though hitherto unsuccessful, she has reasonable hopes that a refuged family of little ophi- dians will be furnished to more than one of the national museums next summer, enthusi- asts promising that no efforts shall be want- ing to afford ocular proof of this maternal instinct. Tnat it should still be doubted anywhere arouses the ire of many in Ameri- ca, she adds, who have for yeais been offer- ing testimony as eye-witnesses. What is now desired i3 that observations should be extended to Africa, India, and Australia because if the habit of a mother snake re- ceiving her young into her throat for re- fuge snould be confined to this continent only and to England, it is a remarkable feature in ophidian history for the most learned biologists to work out. But, as regards Australia, some few cases are not wanting. A gentleman, who is a great traveller, an ardent sportsman, as- sured the writer that he had himself seen an alarmed black snake (probably Pseudechia porohyriactis) open her mouth and thus re- ceive her young. On shooting her, the young ones escaped from the mouth again. A gentleman who writes in the American Field, under the name of "Snipe," describ- ed "a dark colored snake of about six feet long," opening its mouth and receiving its young. Watching for reed birdsâ€" the "Bob o' Link" of the Eutera States, and the "rice buntin" of the South â€" he was ly- ing flit on the ground with his gun, in the latter part of August, when abont ten feet off ne saw the snake with her mouth wide open, and the young ones hurrying in as if eager to hide themselves. He watched her for some minutes, when liis friend who was shooting with him came near and disturbed the snike, which then began to move off with her hidden snakelings, while a number of little brother and sister snakes, "not yet taken in" followed closely. "Snipe" then took aim and shot off its head, and on open- ing thesnake foimd the young ones all alive, coiled in a ball near the throat while fur- ther down were a bird and a meadow mouse, recently swallowed. He relates the incident in opposition to the hypothesis that snakes, bsing cannibals, might swallow their young for food, and describes this mother as patiently waiting with her mouth open, all action being confined to the eager young ones. Uses of Cats. That cats were ever designed for any use- ful end people have often expressed a doubt. It looks now, however, as if the cat had found its true position. They are beinp used by Paris milliners as ornaments for hats and head-dresses. Small stuffed kittens are the most fashionable trimmings for broad- brimmed hats. Thus far only one cat to a hat has been used, but as the raw material for this sort of trimming, is unlimited the wealth of the wearer can only be r.-present- ed by inareasing the number of ornaments. â€" Detroit Free Press, county, arrived at the E gm dustry with a squalid individiuT Reed. He was wretchedly filthy k " ing consisting of rotten rags wV,i„V his person in tatters. S clothing, in fact, that it coufd^^ij*'"' ed, and he admitted that he had » ' garments incessantly for seven yeaT" out a change. His flesh was aW^! state, the dirt being streaked witk lines he had made in attempting L the itching sensation created by the ' which played hide and seek all or" body. Reed was taken down stiirs'k 2 manager* of the insititution, Mt berger, and the surgeon, Dr. Latton â-  attendants proceeded to strip him,' ' this was undertaken he was asked it i any mon-y, and he replied that ht enough to purchase a pair of boots, that" all. As the work of divesting the nl* his garments progressed, however bj!] silver and gold, walleti filled with coij old stockings and rags also rich in m" were brought to light. Some of thes« ' in his pocket, others sewed up ia j,,! parts ot his clothing, and a large nui: A them were strappea arouad hii b-jdy iJ the treasure had all been placed un table itwas found to consist of a s\il piece, which had been carried so louV- begun to wear, two §10 gold piece8,°i03.| gold pieces, and about SlJO in silver, dollars, i^aarters, and ten and fivf.j pieces. There were three •â- :l bills in ty lection which were so fastened togetherr filth that they had to be melted over a before they could be separated. Maj-i the coin was covered with mould, Tnej of the silver was in ten-aent pieces, being enough of this denomination to fil ordinary dinner-pail. The total value oij hoard was §220. Reed watched thesemJ proceed with their work without uttenil word. Neither did he condescend to en/ how he had come by the money, but the J mise is that he acquired it by beggin;, was thoroughly cleaned and provided «, a change of linen, and this morning! Hunsberger deposited the money found in the beggar in a city bank. The money was deposited with Mr Suffel, manager of the Xorth-Weat ij Society. Two of the §1 bdls found onL were Bank of Commerce issue of hi' $1 bills have not been issued by this tJ for many years, it is probable that tbe] low had carried them ten cr tifceen yean.! row I tbey c""-- j^^i th. uv could not y The Inii)ortaiic« of the Alecliauif Each ensuing day makes more promt the fact that we have come upo.i ' â-  when the mechanic is master, ^^e- crowded professions and il'-filled tri A chance to fill the position of a sub-ai ant clerk in a crowded wholesale hoi:* eagerly grasped at by a hundred appto though the wages received be scarcely' than " a chance to learn the business.' a master workman try to obtain an app tice at three times the salary otfcr^^ clerk, and his applicants will be poor in quantity and quality. A skilled man in any trade need never want tor he is eagerly sought after by a hondre^ ployers he is independent of the codiii of the market the skill aud cannintlC hand and eye are too valuable to loos^i must be paid whether the products are" ly or rapidly consumed. If business c* the master hand is eagerly seized by rival house, which knows and valw product of his skill. He who would c down the obstacles to success in our days must iiave, as well as the wit the orevioe, the strength to deal the w Tills is an age of the steam engine, ani f 3 engineer, not the conductor whou' ter. r«;se to remain on i (Stinhaste^.tojea Curious Statistics. Before the Agricultural Committee c:; Canadian Parliament the other day, statement waa read from Charles H. b formerly a deputy collector of custom-l Fort Gratiot under the Uniied State-' ernment, regarding the method of makit;! immigration returns by him during hir of cffioe of six years. The accuracy c;^ figures supplied by the Washington thorities as showing the immigrati;:| Canadians into the United State- also been quest icned by the hi ion government, and the disc'.js made by Irvine's statements have tracted considerable attention. lie s:i that no attempt is made to count trei ber of immigrants arriving in the L: States that an average or six cars ed for each incoming train, and tr.j:] each car (K) passengers are allowed, ni 300, half cf whom are put down a: grants. In making up his .('larterly repJ he was instructed to estimate the tq arriving each quarter at an iucrea-e: arrivals during the coir-'spoaJiag the preceding year. Oj one occisixi states, his repcrcs were retu ii;i tc 'i-l put more females and children in the red He never saw nor heard of an attempt tJ made to count passengers, and state: ;| the whole system of makinu upthesrC reports was guess vork. TA atteatic: the authorities at Wishingtou will ha to the matter. Cemetery Horrors. The Panama Star and Herald, undfl heading of "How we breed p?8tilenc«, thera are two native cemete res one? rangular in shape, the walls beiuJj"' with tieioes of niches in which '^°^'u thrust and bricked up. Many of tbe "J of the nichns are in a dilapidated cod 1 and the ooffim are visible, and through' 7 an effluvium flows whijh must be a^J doubtedly is death dealing. In f' A openings are formed by the abutoi* J thin interment walls; into tnese are j in a confused mass bodies and '""'^J out the semblance of respect for the the half-decomposed remains wbic" been withdrawn from the niches to^ room for others. Behind this qi*^, are 60 or 70 oofiins, some yet tenaat% Otherd the occupants have been n^ ' thrown, and form a frame work for growing vegetation. In the second* (the Potters field) the sights are'j^ rapnlsive. Hera people are indiscriB" interred, in the maj Drity of instsn" out coffins.