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 h aElCULTURAL. Shade |Trees. -noe of bhade treea should, be overlooked by ther« Id a, vacant ot Nature can be III-' '"Sclmatanoes W^^\r aud wtere it '»•â- "' these ii't« '""',^iun It should bo done. Njiv Irtfl »."'^to prepare lor pring p aniiog, jibe!"' |(j be acconpcibheu i-ne mo Id '*:' *j°o3t 13 out 01 the ground, and be- "" buds of the Sr)riDg_t_retfs to be trans- riVgmtoB s«-ell. They can be used ih^ acneiit aroun'l fa'm may be planted near yards, „ or cattle yards, thus affording ^^' V or s^bade for domestic animaU iu â- "â- ^"'^^ tt-iathtr. Ju pastures, trees can for tne like ,fte:i the nelna are to leUiain per ally purpose, The cost is so bl« ,,â-  jp gja 3. -i^ne c-osi is so unim- â- '"' ji^jt theie is nn excuse for its omia- " yjy fa-mer. The prettiest country â- -the one that ia almost hidden from ,v foliage. Value of .Willi to Young Animals. Mfeaa a, ca^f a'l soon as it can crick ,.,; ejt riats, i) to wean it eailier than "j„ttnde(!, und eailier thai it is pro- â- ' towtaQiC. Tie sime rule applies "eiife-cf lig:. A'-undonjs of milk at ;.'.jai.d far:owir:g lime can cn1y be se- ";• antic pitiog the diain and keeping .-â- sacf the dam i p to a reaacnably high "J^'i during the winter, and feeding j;l9 dur Dg the tijw. The parent ani- r.jtjtarts in with a full flow, because ffjit^ina condition to make this posai- jic, without undue trcubie, have the j;,ii;up to the inaximuni, but if she j a a low condition, with mi udder -ciy riled, she â- will not be likely to Giiiii.i^h standard of inilk production L.-!- any lorticn of the season. my The Bee of the Future. imsa apiary^ sir!" said a shiny being t: called upDu nie the other day. "ii irjt: "An apiarist ia, I believe, the mere irect terni, sir, and I am soliciting orders new hives ' How that man did He had got hold of some scheme â€" am seriously informed it is actually asible oneâ€" for increasing the normal â- ,-i!\ the common domestic bee (Apin tQ- â-  ,;-!Hi((/'/) somehow knocking two cellsin- ;ae, and producing a sort of a double- ted bee, "and adding enormously to â- itock of honey, sir." It appears that ;in absolutely increase the eize of our indetinitely, and that the men of the :e will have hives as roomy as an omni- :. Appalling prospect 1 Think of a bee sigas a la" bounuing into your green- Bie, bellowing hoarsely while he ravishes orchards, or flopping into the nursery basin, glaring with its huge eyes at errilied baby. Edith Jtfvangelme â€" for .-iaAoni have gone to abetter world â€" :nld drip down inane, a lump of hysttri- jespair, We shall have to suppress ee things by act of Parliament at last, anwhile, my shiny friend does not lack r orders, ana if he has his will he will eeaijy improve off the face of the earth e.ittle buay bee whom we used to sing of, because we sang of, to love. Farmers' Homes. F.'ink D, Curtis, in his address before the rw York State Agricultural Society, said 'tral good things in regard to farmers' lea, but none mere to the point than the .cwiDg, in regard to the location and sur- liiLga of the dwelling â€" "A house on a with no trees a'ound it, looks cheerless ;:nhomelike. Have grounds around the ':JBg, Tear away the fences, they cost ~ey, and are useless. I mean fences shut- ^the house up as if there was danger of "aningaway. Let there not be less than icre ot dooryard ten will be better. it a rich lawn of this and cut the grass. a be no waste, but it will be a thing of *ity and a thing of beauty is a joy lor- There need not be any loss to be ixinl; nature and beauty are synonymous; 'â- : taste acd economy can therefore be handmaids to each other. Set your 't trees in this inclosure, and dig around tiwith a spade each year, and tc p dress •fnole, and the trees will grow finely, and f grass will grow luxuriantly, and the =ie will grow beautiful, the children will w contented, the fathers and mothers ss 'ygrow old will J. row happy, the neigh • "^ill grow to emulate and excel, the •^sbip will grew attractive, and the young â- =ind the young women will grow up to 'bat there is no place after all, like â- Â»e, Sweet Home.'" Hoff Cheese Can be Made in India. â- 6 close connection and interaction of ;:M8, stateacraft, and science in the 'S-n world is illustrated in an interesting J-tta recent number of the "Proceed- 1" the Royal .Society of London." The •â- sti C'ovtrnment, desiring to introduce *â-  making as an Indiin iadnstry was met -M difficulty that the religious beliefs of "^S« portion of the population of India â- â- ^'^m bljjolute veto en the use by J« cheese, in the manufacture of which 1.^1 '^^ained from the stotrach of dn ^^ bad been employed. The leaves of titles of I'lDguicula are used by the â- 'Wcoagua-ie reindeer-milk; and the 'â„¢ment ciijuLted in ladia a request ^- â- orm»tion as to any I idian plant which " tr ' M° '° ^^""' similai- property. '^n-Uajor Aitchison called attention to :_"a roagu'ans, a Himalayan and N In ' P'""' the seeds of which is Z '.°,=oagulate milk. A quantity of W^'l "^^^ sent from Kew to Mr, ' 'â- t -56, of Cambridge, for examina- L6 -jj^^" ^hle to extract from it a fer- 5?i4° "^^ the rfnaet ferment of '• 'C muooua membrane of animals, â- â- ^ of preservation in solution aa ^|.i| article in a similar way. The iiS in the .seeds in cmsiderable "^d 13 read-.ly and cheaply tx- om them. Koots for the Dairy. ~;e writer visited a large dairy mch ety riJ^""J giy'Dg hundreds of "pouads '*8nullf j' '^°® ration fed wasc'ovcr â- bflof 800.°' ^^^^' ^° about a half "ed ij, »}=",. "^ets per day. The point ';-lydueJ P^'""=ular herd of cows, ""'glitv n^ ^*|'ing time, give each mora "PonndB of milk per week. The M whtn fed â- we think, ST: dairyman could nob txnlan tK« u this he knew tVafV-i/ '^l »*« fact, bat month, instead ff six orie^r* »ilk ten ^quiry Do not the juicet o^rlT^ren* "lage, for that matter-poesosV^ f n!^" waSi ""°'^^' '"'" ^^ chemisV" The discrepancy between what should be the proportionate value of green gras, and the same grass ia the form of hayrSn but rawe the inquiry why the superior i^ul Does this explain why the owner of the daS m question was so successful in extend S as'ratTl? ' J'^V^-^-R vake of the beet! bvwh.h/ the chemist, i. small, estimated li^^ ,."'"' " '" " "'i ^^^ fraction found would not account for the increase in production unless the wat.r reporteT be given a food value when combined with the acias, alkalis, etc of the stomach of the cow. I his IS an interesting point, and one •n which we wish every dairyman would in. teres t himself. M no will be the first to raise an acre or two of sugar beets next s.ason, and try their feeding value, as com pared with dry foods ?â€"Pe, mer. ennsylvania Far- Queer Conyeyances. Same birds are known to fly long dis- tances carrying their young on their bncks. bmall birds take passage across the Medi- terranean Sea on the backs of larger and stronger ones. They could not fly so far Iheir strength would give out, and they would drop in the water. Along the north- ern shore of the sea, in autumn, the little birds assemble to..wait the coming of the cranes from the ajbth, as people wait for the tram at a railway station. With the farst cold blast the cranes arrive, flock after «^fj â-  "^^^ ^y ^°^ °^^" *h^ cultivated held?. They utter a peculiar ciy aa of warn- ing or calling, It answers the same purpose as the ringiag of the bell when the train is about to start. The small birds understand it they get exoited. They hasten aboard, sciambiiQg for places. The first to come get the best seats. If the passengers are too many some will have to flit back again to the hedges until the next train. How they chat- ter their good-byes â€" those who go and those who stay. They have no tickets, but all the same they ;ire conveyed safely. Doubt- less the great birds like this warm cover- ing fi r their backs. In this way the small birds pay their fare. And it is these last who must be out in the wet if its storms. The little passengers are of diflferent species, like Americans, Irish, Germans, and Chi- nese, travelling together in steamships. Their journey takes them through the air, high aoove the waters. They are close companions on the way. By-and-by they reach the beautiful south country. There they build nests and sing â€" as they buiM here and sing for us in our happy summer time. Surely it is plain that Uod cares for the sparrows. -*-♦•♦-•- Hunting Fisli with Dogs. Ciptain Mayne Reid in his last story, "The Land of Fire," now appearing in 6'2. Nicholas, gives in the March installment the following interesting description of a 'pe- culiar Fuegian manner of fishing "By this, the four canoes have arrived at the entrance to the inlet, and are forming in line across it at t qual distances from one another, as if to bar ihe way against anything that may at tempt to pass outward. Just such is their design the fish being what they purpose enfilading. "Soon the fish-hunters, having completed their 'cordin' and dropped the dogs over- board, come on up the cove, the women ply- ing the paddles, the men with javelins up- raised, ready for darting. The little foxy dogs swim abreast of and between the can- oes, driving the fish before them, â€" as sheep dogs drive sheep, â€" one or juiother diving under at intervals, to intercejt such as at- tempt to escape outward. For in the trans- lucent water they can see the fish far ahead, and, 1 rained to the work, they keep guard against a break from these through the encloting line. Soon the fish are forced up to the inner end of the coves, where it is shoaiest; and then the workof slaughter com- mences. The dusky fishermen, standing in the canoes and bending over, now to this side, now that, plunge down their spears and fizgigs, rarely failing to bring up a fish of one sort or another the struggling vic- tim shaken ofif into the bottom of the canoe, there gets its death-blow from the boy?. " For nearly an hour the curious aquatic chase is carried on not in silence, but amid a chorus of deafening noises, â€" the shouts of the savages and the barking and yelping of their dogs mingling with the shrieking of the sea-birds overhead. An i thrice ia the cove 'drawn' by the canoes, which are taken backl]to its mouth, the line reformed, and the process repeated till a good supply of the fish best worth catching has been se- cured. Suspicions. Groundless suspicion is not only a cause of torment to the saspicious person, but it often proves a positive injury to the person suspected. Many a man, originally inno- cent, has been driven, through the pressure of unworthy suspicion, to become that which he was once falsly thought to be. There is hardly a single action which is not susceptible of more than one interpretation; and those who would do justice to their fel- low-men should not only remember that fact, but also the wise old Roman law, that, in a doubtful matter, the kindlier interpre- tation ia not less j ast than safe. And those who profess to follow Christ will have the additional incitement to careful watching of this possible means of influencing others for evil, that one of the cffdncea for whicn the sorest punishment ia reserved in Christ s kingdom, is th. giving occasion for any of his little ones to stumble. Take the kind- lier interpretation, act on no auapicion which is not supported by grave reasona, if you would avoid putting a rock of i^rhaps fatal oflense in the pathway of a brather. A teacher aaked a bright little girl what country was oppoeite to us on the gkbe. ° I don't know, sir," waa there^ y. WtU. now," pursued the teacher, " if I were to b°re a hole through the earth, «md you were to go in at this A where would you oome out »" " Oat ot the hole, sir," replied the pnpil, with an air of trianJth. STUFFED MONAECHS. BiaiouloM C«lMtlon IB Comer or WflMailiMtter Abbey. "^â„¢^ "'"'.*' "*»« weirdest relioi of pomp and vanity" in connection with the SnerTw"P"'" "^*'" "««"'« corner in yreatmiMfer A^bey_in an eyrie rnPnx^^^^T^r'"'" '^^' "f venerable oak. ftfT P'^t*' ^-' Ward" we find the aervanta of the church on aU holidaya to show the ton,bi and the ffi ies of our aov" S'nlr*^'°^"r^ "â- "' ' toll of two cents per person;' and a brave sight it must have been to look on Henry Vil. and his f^ir Queen, Henry V., and the noble Prince S,?""^!- Jf^u*^*""' ^^^^^ 8°». and James and ll,lizibeth and Aone, all in the chapel. Gone m wax, clad in iheir own garmentsVas they lived. And these Old World roval phantoms are there still, visible to the in- quiring and practical eye of the adventurous exL.,o_erof the nineteenth century! Not all, ala« for wax, silks and velvets are perishable substances, and Father Time has scant respect even for regal periwigs aud fajth.ngales. It is said to have chronicled that there exists, hidden away under the antique abbey roof, a certain vast cupboard, as close locked as Fatima's blue chamber, whose sncunt and worm- worn door conceals T?"**"l^ Golgotha, to wit, the straw- stiiffsd body of Edward III, clad in mouldy rags, his Whilom beauteous Queen with a battered plate, and illustrious Eli.'.ibeth of \ork with naught save a rufi"to cover her, and a half a hundred gruesome things be- side. Such of these figures as still remain more or less erect (eleven in all) are rickety, and need a friendly prop and yet they are wondrouly fresh, considering their tale of years and all the London fogs that have en- wrapped them. Charles II.â€" what we can see of him through a glasa plentifully scrawled with the names of visitorsâ€" looks debonnaire enough, if wan, for one w^ho waa nothing if not merry. In George Ill.'s time (1754) the figures of Willism HI., Mary, and Anne are described in a local chronicle as the gems of the col- lection, "greatly admired by every eye that beholds them " and they are worthy of ad- miration still. Anne is conspicuous for gaudy attire and a redundancy of paste jewels, the meretricious effect being reliev- ed by the magnificence of a pair of lace sleeves, into the fabric of which the royal prma of England have been introduced. William loots as saturnine as might be ex- pected and turns away in seeming pettish- ness from the wife he loved so well nor can his displeasure be in any way quite jus- tified, for Mary, if the least steady and dig- nitied of the distinguished company, has propped herself with becoming caution in the angle of her dress, and seems in no pres- ent danger of falling on her face. Not so Lord Chatham,the "Great Commoner," who ia in a shamefully tottering aud imbecile condition, with periwig awry and ankles bent, and, though one may recall to memory the fact that he was a martyr to the gout, yet it is a pleasant relief to find that this figure is a spurious. one, having been manu- factured on the premises in 1779, the popu- larity ot the distinguished statesman ren- dtriug it possible to raiae the exhibition fee by his mimic presence from three to six pence, to the benefit of ^hs minor canons and lay vicars. Tae Guide Book of 1783 observes "The eagerness of connojaveura and artiats to view thia figure, whicjh hath been introduced at conaiderable expet)s^,and the satisfiction it affords, justly viltpe it among the firat of the kind ever 8eei^$ this or any other country." Well, it ^wat be admitted that the earl of Chathai^makes but a poor show now â€" no fioer a ^e than that of great Queen Bess, close ilt hand, whose plastic lepresentative is mentioned by Dryden as having perished ia his time. The present bgure stood in King Henry VII.'s Chapel so late as 1783, aod is proba- bly the one which was specially faahioned by order of the chapter to commemorate the bi- centenary of the Collegiate Church in 1760. At any rate the present Queen Beas ia a fraud of the deepest dye, tit only to fright babes withal. The phantom of Nel- son â€" who, cheek by jowl, stands poised up- on one toe â€" ia chiefly remarkable foi an accurate portrayal of his diminutiveCpize, and for the breeches and vest of .yjfhite cloth, which are hia own. So, it n^y be presumed, is hia hat, for it was borrowed and used by MacHae, R. A., when at work on his fresco in the Parl.ment House hard by. The original and identical co»t worn by the hero at Trafalgar is, aa all the world knowa, one of the most sacred relics of Greenwich Hospital but this hat and these breeches, to say nothing of sundry gold medals aod other decorationa, may also be looked upon without auapicion, and treated with respect accordingly. â€" London Tele- graph. A SIxteentli Century Breakfa^ Mr. W. S. Caine, M. P., has been hjjlding forth to the inhabitants of Peckham bii ths advantagea of a " free" breakfast-table. It is te be feared that in this degenel^ age we shall Lever think of that aoluticii«{ the queation which commended ilsalf W^ our ancestcri and even to the spiSrean Brillat Sivarin. " I breakfasted," h^ aaya somewhere, "as one should â€" that is, npt at all" In Holinshed, whose chronicle a^^r- ed iu 1577, one reads " Heretofore there been much more time spent in eating and drinking than commonly ia in these daya for whereas of old we had breakfast in the forenoon, beveragea or nuntiona after dinner, and thereto rear sappeia gemrally, when it was time to go to rfst .now these odd repasts, thanked be Gjd, are very well left, and each one in manner (except here and there sime yong hungry atomach that cannot fast till dinner time) cintenteth hin-sslf with dinner and supper only." .a.nd yet one scarcely knowa whethir the nine- teenth century man would be moat depressed at having to go without hia breakfast or at being called upon to fact the kind of morn- ing repast which waa ia fashion iu the ear- lier part of the aixteenth century, as one gather frjm the houaehold book of the Percy family. The following is a pretty substantial breakfast for two peraona in Lent and seem to indicate a healthy appetite m "my lord and lady" of Northumberland: A loaf of bread in trenchera, two mancheta, one quart cf beer, one quart cf wine, two piectsof aalt fish, six bacconn'd hearinga four white herringa, and a dish of sprats. â€" London Paper. Two Connecticut lovers has juat made np afttr a quarrel which took place 58 years ago. Some people cannot hold malice. 1LAEIK6 THE DUMB SPEAK. Hot by a â- inole. bat by Fatteace. Is. saamuy. and Pnettoe. A hmndred years ago mcs*; persoca if aaked how the dumb could bs made to speak would no doubt have answered without hesitation " By a miracle 1 ' Yet nearly a quarter of a century earlier, in 1763. a Gjr- man, Samuel Heimcke. had slarttd a school in I.*ip8ic for teaching deaf muted to taik. Tnfs achool ia still in fcxisteoce, and other sjboo^s bas^d on Heinick's method, which, of course, haa been greatly improvetl, have been founded in diffLr^nt cDuntries. st thai at the present time the teschin;?of thedumb to speak forms an important brarch of edu- ci'ion. Few perions who have not paid special attention to the sibjtc: have any idea of this. Oa the west side of L3xington avenue, ex- tending from sixty-seventh to sixty-eight street. New York, stands a five-story br ck building with a quaint little cupola over its eenlrdl division. It 's called the irs^itution for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mates. Within its walls nearly 150 little tongues, upon which nature has imposed tho burden of silence, are daily taught the intricacies and usefulness cf speech, Asa rule children are dumb solely because they ' are deaf, and therefore unable to hear and imitate the vocal sounds uttered by thoe around them. It is very rare that the vocal organs of a deaf mute are defective. On the other hand, children under 7 years who have learned to speak perfectly almost alivays become mute if they lose their he.i,r- ing, as they frequently do by such causes as measles, scarlet fever, tnd cerehro-spinal meningitiis. Children born deaf are tec ini- caliy termed congenital deaf mutts, and those that become s j in early childhood are called semi-mutes. Strange as it may appear, it is generally easier to teach the former than the latter to talk. Since the child cannot hear, his oth^r senses must be enlis'ied as sibstitutts for hearing and the method of teachmg him to speak must, therefore, consist in making him see and feel the words spoken to him. How this is done cm best be seen in the primary class, made up as a rule of children from 6 to 9 years old. At present it onaists of about a dozen little boys and girls -ind is taught with much skill, patienc3, and good humor by Miss Keeler. These little* ones who entered the institution perfectly dumb in September last are all able now to utter simple words and sentences distinctly while one or two c.n speak almost fluently. But another tbiug that surprises the visitor quite as much as their speakirg is the youngest of these children cj,n wriue readily and legibly as well as spell correctly any word he can utter. The diflSculty of teaching the dumb child to speak is in reality, not so great as it may seem to the reader. Nearly all deaf mutes cin utter inarticulate sounds resembling somewhat " An," " Oj." The fiist s5ep is to teaeh them to ut^^er those simple vowel sounds correctly as well as o, ou, o, i, and the eas.er of the consonants, as p. b, t, f, and c, " To teach the vowel sounds," says Mr. D;ivid G cenberger, the principal of the in- stitution, "it is generally saffi.:ieat to let the pupil place his hand on the teacher's chest, where he can feel the vibration, and to let him watch the shape of the teacher's mouth, for, in order to distinguish between their varieties the deaf mute depends ei tirely on watching the relative positions of the lipa aud the tongue. Tneae organs are the two principal agents in vowel modification." The detaila of instruction are, of course, numerous, and, aa a full examination of them would be tedious in a sketch of this kind, the following characteristic examples are selected to give a general idea cf the procasj) In the formation of ah, the most opcnoffdl vowel sounds, the mouth and throat are opened wide and the tongue lies in its natural, almost horizontal, position, while in farming long e, the closest lingual or palatal aouad, the mouth ia much less opened, and the t ongue is raised convexly within the dome of the palate, pressing against its sides and leaving only the sxial- Itst pcsiible passage, through which a vowel Bound can be uttered. ' Ah is consequently the easieat and o the most difficult vowel sound to teach. In teaching the pupil, be "ides having h's attention directed to the tea^her'a mouth, which is opened as wide as it c ui be consistently with the production of the sound, ia alao made to place one hand on the teaaher'a aud the other on his own threat, ao aa to feel and imitate the peculiar vibration. The vibration of e can also be felt under the angle of the jaw and upon the crown of the heal. Another method of teaching e is to make the pupil feel that while in sounding o the larynx is depressed, in aounding e it ia raised. Modulation of the voice is taught from the very outset. When the pupil's voice ia too high and sbr.U, prtsanre on the front of the larynx diminishes the tension of the vocal chords, and thereby lowers the pitch. Simultaueous pressure on both sides of the larynx increases the tension ot the vocal ehorda and elevatea the pitch. The naaal tone is corrected by dirjcting tae pupil's attention, through holding the back of hia hand alternately to his own and the teachers mouth and nose, to the fact that in the proper utterance of the s lund the braath etcipes through the mouth, aud not through the nose. If this does not saccaed, toe teacher cloats the pupil's nostrds by prass- ing them between the thumb and forefinger, and thus forces the brjath through the mouth. The simplest sonsonaut aounda, aud conse- quently the mcst readdy taught, are r, t, and k. The pupil is made awar cf the differences in the utteranea of them by having the back of his head held close to the teacher's mouth, and then he ia encouraged to exsrcise his own vocal tr^aas until he is able to emit his braath ia the same manner. He is assis'.ed iu the production of the s jund by having the fore part of his tongue pre.is ed downward and a little backw^rl with a paper folder. As soon as a pupil has succ3del in utter- ing a sound correctly, the letter or com- bination of letters, representing it is written on the black board and he is en- couraged to repeat the SDUud, and write the letter himaelf so aa to clindi the indentfi- cation. As soon as he is able to utter simple vowel and consonant sounds he is taught to e jmbiae them into easy words, as " toe" "tea," ••out." "eye," "c)W," whijh are immediately written upoa the blackbord. At the same time the meaning of sach words is explained to the pnpil by means of pic- tnies and objects. Thus he is simultaneously J taught to utter ar icalate saun s. to real ' them from the lips of hia uacher, to aa- ociate words with their aignidoation, and to write the letteia and worda aa he le roa them, the most difflculs aouada for a deaf mute to learn are the h asing aonnd of a. ch, and j. but theaa are Ecqnirad like the rest by DHticnce and praotca. The pupils in moat caaea ahow a remarka- ble iipiAtes to learn, and they expreaa a peculiar dolight when they first find out the rt a object ot the funny paffa, blows, and hiifea, wtich they learu to prodace, and they labor cheerfully to overcome the d.ffi- cnltioa necessarily attending their attempCa at articulation. Th-. dtvelep nent of spetci foanda occupies, according to tte capicitiea of indi- vidu.xl pipils, from three to lour or, at the utmost, hve montha. Taey are kept in the primary claaa generally for one year, then lEstrioted in the English lan^taje, and final y carried througn higher branches of atuf^y The more advanced papila, as a rule, enunciate clearly, though iney are ap' to fall into a kind of li^p But when their at- tantii n is called to iu they q lickly remedy the defect. It is noS an uncommon thing to see ons of these adv.iuced pupils talking with hia hand on his chest. Being asked why he holds hia hand there, he replies that it as-jists him iu moduli tiag his voica. Progress on the Panama Canal. There a're many who yet doubt whether Da Lisseps and his associates will eventu- ally succeed in piercing thi Isthmia of Pan- ama with a praotica' canal. Tue w-rk has now been fairly sommeaced, and soma S^IO,- 000.000 has thus fur bean expended, aoc in- cluding the money pi,i for tha Panama Railroad, but it is plainly apparent that the magnitude of the uuder^aking has been grea'.ly underestimated, as it is a'so that the canal cannot be completed by the year 1888, the t ni3 announced by M. ae Losseys for ita opening. Liiut. Raymond P. R)gerj, of the U. S, Nivy, has lately passed over the line of the canal, where every facility was afforded him of m king a thorough inspiction, and his re- port brings our iDf.niUiiKn coijC raing the work up to date. The number ol mtn em- ployed ia all bections is prohably at Itaat 15,- 000 liroughs chiefly from Jdintica and Car- thagtera, and the amount of excavation has gradually increased until 700 000 cubic me- ters per month have be^n reached. It was hoped that the month of February would produ:e 1 009,000 cubic meters, aid that later the amount of 25,(j00,000 meters would be removed each minth. Tie la'Tiy season begins in May and continues till D.'Ctmber, and it is estimated that the rains will reduce the eicacnination of the dry season by about one-fifth, so that it is r t unlikely that from the Ist of May next an annual exoavation of 25,000,000 cubic meters may be counted up- on. It is not impossible, with the requisite mone/, that the sections of the cari.il, ex- clusive of those of Oaispo, Empire, Culebra, and Paraise, may be ready tor service by the year 1888, but ic does not seem possible that these most formidable sections, with their cuts of great depth aud wiHth, can be made rea ly, nor that the ports at th extremities can be completed for some yaaid later. Con- sider the section o: CiieOra, with its great excavation ot more than 25.000,000 of cubic meters, and suppose that the large amount of 300,000 cubic meters be removed each month from it at this rite it would take seven ycara to complete the section. There is au immenae ameuat of maohinery and m iterial now on hand or cantracted for, and ic is probable that there remains suflB- cient funds frcm the amount already sub- scribed to meet promptly the current ex- pen es for two years to come. After that, witi the enterprise well begun and with a fair proportion ot the whole excavation al- ready removed, it would seem plausible that the prestige of M. de L isseps' nam';, and the confidence which the investors ot Fi-ance hav J in his ability to carry through success- fully this grea'i work, would procure the further necessary subscriptions. Whether the estimated saonâ€" 600,OJO,OOOf. â€" yill prove sutficient time alone can decide; but as oae third of tiii amount has already been expended, it would seen insufficient to complete ths m«t formid..ble undertak- ing The climate has thus fcr not proved so fatal iu mosi of the sections as might have been £n:;icipated. Of coarie, exposure to the sun, heat, and fatigue have produced fevers and have occasioned mortality but, aa a rule, the employee of the company teem in fair health, and the Europeans have suf- fered more than tha laborers, natives of the tropics. Bat, while most of the sections have not been very sickly, the neighbor aood of Panama has proved an exception to the general rule. Hare, during tue past six months have appeared, in larger numbeia than usual, pernicious fevera, and there have been several cases of yellow fever which have proved fatal. â€" Scientific American. â€" â-  '-^^- For Want of Honey. It is now generally admitted by the Ger- man military authorities that financial con- siderations alone prevent the immediate adoption of a magazine, or repeating rifls, aa the general armamsat of the infantry of their army. Not only would the direct ex- pense of providing the new weapona be very gresat, but the cartridges now uaed with the Mauser, of which immense supplies are atored in the German fortrea^es and arse- nals, would be rendered useless, as, owing to certain weak points in their manufacture, they could not be safely fired from a maga- z'ne rifle. How enormous must ba the amount of ammunition which would have to be replaced may be deduced from the fact that, according to lately publiahed returns the war establishment of the German army comprised on the 1st of Janiary last, in- cluding all rjnks and arms of the aervice, no fewer than 2,075.563 cficera ana men, while the total number of trained men avail- able in the empire will ahortly not tall far abort of 3,090 000. Of the actually organ- ized forces 1,521,405 are infantry soldiers; so that, even leaving out of account alto- gether the ammunition which would be re- quired fcr maga^e caibinea carrier by troopers, junaers, engineers, 3., it is evi- dent that the cost of substituting new cart- ridges suitable lor a magazine weapon tor the present stores of breech-loading ammu- nition would be ver; great. That the general introduction of a magazine riflewill be sooner or later inevitable is no longer denied, but the change of armament will be deferred bv Gerinany to aa distant a date aa possible, unleaa aome one or other of the great Euro- pean armies, by adopting the new arm, obliges Germany to follow her example. j"-^ I It ' r li lin I- f •â- Â»l Ml Miiii