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them. When he wanted Wilhelmina, it was Heien|

he askea yor «nd when he wanted to play with Con-

radine the youngest, he called out the window for Leo- poldine, the oldest of all, a maiden of forty years of age. Whatcould the barondo? He had recourse to all sorts memonieal arts which ended by filling his brain with confusion.

_ Tired of the struggle, he gave up trying to remember the names of hischildren, but it was not any more easy or him to recail their faces—in passing the village square, he would caress and embrace a youne girl be- longing te some neighbor, under the idea that she was me of his own; or else surprising one of his own in bis orchard, he would pull her ears most vigorously, con- vinced that he was dealing with a little rogue from the village who had come to steal his apples. What pain to the heart ofa father as tehder’as Baron Forbach” |

‘Yes, and to the ears of his family! For there is no reason to suppose that this cartilage belonging to the young ladies was any less tender than the father’s heart,

‘True, let us drink on that and I will resume. A proof that the Forbach damsals had tender ears is that they detested their father, the more s0.as they were badly dressed. The baron although worth a hundred thousand crowns, could not buy forty dresses in a sea- son, from the fashionable merchants; this inspired him with an original idea. He converted one wing of his castle into a shop, where were spun and woven stuffs for the use of his children, hoping that 'thus their clothing would cost him less. But during this scheme he was subjected to many hoaxes. A manufacturer from the next city wrote to propose to him to advertise for mate- rials for which he had need each year, under a system ofsealed proposals submitted to adjunction. Another, who had tke army clothing contract, wished to sell him, at 2 reduction, fifty soldier’s cloaks which the govern- ment had refused.

The baron did not reply, but put in operation his own manufactory. ‘This was a first success, but mark what followed! When adress was beyond farther service, it was given te some poor person in the villiage, so that atthe end of the year nothing but the uniform was any- where to be seen, and the baron instead of forty daugh- tes appeared to have a hundred.’

‘The deuce! But it must have been somewhat bur- densome to feed all this flock.’

‘Don’t speak ‘of it, but let us take another glass. It wis not exactly the wine that cost so much in the house, for they drank nothing but water. As to the rest he beught a flock of sheep every month and led them to pisture himself, so as tosave the expense ofa shepherd. He had wished to assume the patriarch,and he was now completely one, froma baron he had become a shep- lerd. At tke end of each month not a sheep nor a Jamb remained, ‘“If they had but time to multiply,’” he wed to s?7y. .

The pastor of the place, I mean the Lutheran minis- ter, a worthy man too, consoled the barn sometimes—

-“ Courage,” said he to him, “heaven has blessed your seven marriages, and it must cost something to

receive the benedictions of heaven. ”

‘May the devil bless you!” responded the baron, “[see myself reduced to beggary, I have taken the scripture literally, that is my fate—I have been blessed until | am cursed.’ ” de ee

‘* But Monsieur,’ ” the ladies would say, looking at him with much curiosity, ‘“ what an astonishing man you ar, who would have’ believed you, judging from your appearance, capable of becoming, so often, the father ofa family.”

The Baron, turning his back upon them, murmured, “Forty girls! Ifthey were forty boys, I would have <ho recourse of making them shipboys.’’’ :

In the meantime the daughters grew mortally tired ofthe old castle. Every evening the baron passed them in review in the courtyard, before closing the gates; bet as the village children sometimes assisted at the ceremony, and a number of strangers wearing the uni- form slipped in, he usually had from forty to forty five. One evening he counted only thirty nine. °‘ Some one has stolen a daughter,”’ cried he. ‘Let us proceed in order.”’? He commenced the roll, Leopoldine did not answer, two months before she had eloped witu an herb rerchant, whose red coat had captivated her.

The Baron, indignant at such a misalliance, went in pursuit of the merchant, but without being able to dis- cover him. On his return, two others had disappeared. Again he began@ search, but without any better suc-

cess. When he came back five more were gone.

Then the Baron in despair inserted in the Paper 82 lvertisement that he had but thirty-two daughters le rag with, and considering their inclination for

to Fun away rime should be lost by any one who wish- a eee y ‘the opportunity. At this, all Germany ofet: ‘esl with indignation. It was scandaliszed, and aay so. The thirty-two who remained, brought pas ‘against him to determine his incapacity to have charge ogee nls sneer dil me uf tunate father exist. Nothing was wanting except that he should become thentnrr ld have been too much.

i fos ‘ ole : tie of Champagne that T may Give me, if you pease, fthis worthy man.’ strengthen myself against the woes 0 law-suit 7”

‘Hore are two. But did he gain the la r i

N Sir: Heaven tired of blessing him, decided up

The Baron was defeated, and not con-

on cursing him. ble lawyer, in

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passing for a madman, and caused himself to be shut|since it is obvious that the essential elements of the up imanmasylum at the expense of the State. This was|soi] must vary with varieties of composition of the rocks, certainly one way of obtaining a pensien from govern-| from the disintegeration of which they originated. | ment; he lived in the highest of lappiness, ten'years| Wheat, clover, turnips, for example, each require longer, enjoying the privilege of having no children,|certain elements from the soil ; they will not flourish and who yielded his. last sigh in the arms of a maniac|where the sppropriate elements are absent, Seience who believed himself the Apollo Belvidere ; on one side|teaches us what elements are essential to every species of him a man who imagined himself triple, and on tle jof plants by an analysis of their ashes. — If, therefore, other, one who, taking himself for a burning house, was/a soil is found Wanting in anv ofthose elements, we dis- constantly crying Fire! After his fortunate seatence,| cover at once the cause of its barrenness, and its remo- the officers seized his mansion and, his manufactory.|val may now be readily accomplished.

His daughters were scattered throughout the universe.’; The empiric attributes all his success to the mechani-

‘And the conclusion of all this,’ said I. | cal operaticns: of agriculture: he experiences and recog- _ ‘How! you do not perveive the conclusion? Why,|nises their value, without inquiring what-are the causes it is as plain as your nose— of their utility, their mode of action: and yet this scien- Firstly. Never seek to play the patriarch, nor to take; tifie knowledge is of the highest impertance for regula- literally the history of Priam and his fifty children, con-|ting the application of power and the expenditure of sidering that it is doubtful whether Troy or Priam ever, capital—for insuring its economical expenditure and existed. the.prevention .of waste. Can it be imagined that the Secondly. Never say to the bridal party, ‘may you be inere passing of the ploughshare or the harrow through happy and have plenty of children.’ ithe soi!—the mere contact of the iron—can impart fer-

Thirdly. Belong to, your ownage above all, and me- tility miraculously ? Nobody, perhaps, serionsly enter- ditate seriously the words of the dying baron—‘ Would tains such an opinion. Nevertheless, the modus oper- to Heaven,’ said he, ‘that some witch had blighted me andi of these mechanical operations is by no means ge- on my wedding night.’ Unfortunately the words were nerally understood. The fact is, quite certain, that addressed to the one who believed himself a house on careful ploughing exerts the most favourable influence; fire, and who responded by crying out—‘ A fire engine, the surface is thus. mechanically divided, changed, in- in the name of heaven bring an engine.’ : |creased and renovated ; but the ploughing is only auxi-

Thus speaking, my neighbor seized hold of a fresh liary to the end sought. bottle of Champagne, which was the reason why I) 1m the effects of time, in what in agriculture are tec!i- raised no objections to his conclusions? At midnielit, nically called jfallaws—the repose of the fields—awe at the close of a marriage feast, all ‘conclusions ‘are /recognise by science certain. cliemical actions, which tipsy.—.4lbany Atlas. fare continually exercised by the elements of the atmos- mek eR RO emi! Dore upon; the whole surface of our globe. By the ANQQVA The jaction ofits oxygen and its carbonic acid, aided by AS RIBOUPUR jwater, rain, changes of temperature, &c., certain ele- SoS et ge |MENtary. Constituents of rocks, or of their ruins, whic!

GREATEST AMOUNT OF PRODUCE form the soil capable of cultivation, are rendered solubie 2 Loa i in water, and. consequently become separable from ail PROM A GIVEN SURFACE. their insoluble parts.

Having occupied several letters with the attempt to| These chemical actions, poetically denominated “the unravel, by means of chemistry, some of the most curi- tooth of time,” destroy all the works of man, and gra- ous functions of the animal body, and, as I hope, ade dually reduce the hardest rocks to the condition of dust. clear the distinctions between the two kinds of consti- By their influence the necessary elements of the soil tuent elements in food, and the purposes they severally become fitted for assimilation by plants; and it is pre- subserve in sustaining life, let me now direct attention |cisely the end which is obtained by the mechanical to a scarcely Jess interesting and equally important sub-|operations of farming. They accelerate the decom- ject—the means of obtaining from a given stffice of) position of the soil, in order to provide a new generation the earth, the largest amount of produce adapted to the/of plants with the. necessary elements ina condition food of man and animals. -{favourable to their assimilation. It is obvious that the

Agriculture is both a science and-an art. “The know-|rapidity of the decomposition of a solid body must in- ledge of all the conditions of the life of vegetables, fhe}crease with the extension of a given time to the exter- origin of their elements, and the sources of theif nourish- nal chemical agent, the more rapid will be its action. rment, forms its scientific basis. | ‘The chemist, in order to prepare a mineral for anal-

From this knowledge we derive certain rules for the ysis, to decompose it, or to increase the solubility of its exercises of the art, the principles upon which the me-| elements, proceeds in the same way as the farmer deals chanical operations of farming depend, the uséfulness! with his fields—hespares no Jabor in order to reduce or necessity of these for preparing the soil’ to’ support|it to the finest powder; he separates the impalpable the growth of plants, and for removing every obnoxious| from the coarser parts by washing, and repeats his me- influence. No experience, drawn from the exercise of chanical bruising and trituration, being assured his the art, can be opposed to true sciertific principles, be-} whole process will fail if he is inattentive to this essen- cause the latter should include all the results of practi-|tial and preliminary part of it. cal operations, and are in\.-ome instinces solely derived; The influence which the increase of surface exercises therefrom. Theory must correspond with experierice, jupoti the disintegration of rocks, and upon the chemi- because it is nothing more than the reduction of'a series/cal action of air and moisture, is strikingly illustrated of phenomena to their last cause. ‘ -}upon a large scale in the operation pursued in the gold

A field in which we cultivate the same plant for se-;mines‘of Yaquil, in Chili. These are described ina veral successive years, becomes barren, for that plant! very interesting manner by Darwin. The rock contain- in a period varying with the nature of the soil: in one!ing the gold ore is pounded by mills into the finest pow- field it will be in three, in’ another in seven, in a third] der ; this is subjected'to washing, which separates the in twenty, ina fourth ina hundred years. One field lighter particles fromthe metallic: the gold sinks to bears wheat, and no peas; avother beans and turnips, |the bottoni, while a stream of'water carries away the but no tobacco: a third gives a plentiful crop of turnips! lighter earthy parts into ponds, where it subsides to the ‘but will not bear clover. What is the reason ‘that’a! bottom as mud.. When this deposit lias gradually filled field loses its fertility for one plant, the same which’at!up the pond, this mud is taken out and piled in heaps, first flousished there? What is the reason one kind of and left exposed to the action of the atmosphere and plant succeeds in a field where another fails ? 'moisture, ‘The washing completely removes all the so-

‘These questions belong to science. {luble part of the distintegrated rock : the insoluble part, What means are necessary to preserve to a field its; moreover, cannot undergo any further change while it fertility for one and the same plant ?—what to rehder|is covered with water, so excluded from the influence one field fertile for two, for three, for all plants ? of the atmosphere at the boti@n of the pond. But being

These last questions are put by art, but they cannot be 2t once to the airand moisture, a powerful chemical answered by art. iaction takes place inthe whole mass, which becomes

Ifa farmer, without the guidance of just scientific | indicated by.an effloresence of salts covering the whole principles, is trying experiments to render a field fertile surface of the heaps in considerable anpniiy. After for a plant which it otherwise will not bear, his prospect being exposed for two or three, years, the mud is again of success is very small, Thousands of farmers try subjected to the same process of washing, and 4 consi- such experiments in various directions, the result of derable quantity of gold is obtained, this having been which is a mass of practical experience forming a me- separated by the chemical process of decomposition im thod of cultivation which accomplishes the desired end, the mass.. The exposure and washing of the same mud for certain places ; but the same method frequently does is repeated six or seven times, and at every washing it not succeed—it indeed ceases to be applicable to a se- furnishes a new quantity of gold, although iis amount cond or third place in thé immediate neithborhood. diminishes every time. ! .

How large a capital, and how much power, are wasted’ Precisely similar is the chemical action which takes in these experiments. Very different, and far more se-| place in soil of onr fields ; and we accelerate and cure, is the path indicated by science; it exposes us fal ceed it bythe mechanical operation of agriculture. no danger of failing, but on the contrary, it furnishes) By these W@ sever and extend the surface, and endea- nus with every guarantee of success. If the cause of| vour to /every atom of the soil accessible to the failure—of barrenness in the soil for one or two plants|action of the carbonic acid and oxygen of the at- —has been discovered, means to remedy it may readily mosphere.—We thus produce a stock of soluble mineral be found. substances, which serve as nourishment to a new gene- The most exact observations prove that the method |ration of plants, and which are indispensable to their of cultivation must vary with the geognostical condition growth and prosperity. —Liebeg’s Familiar Letiers on ofthe subsoil. In baslet, greywacke, porphyry, sand-| Chemistry.

stone, limestone, &c., are certain elements indispensable s to the growth of plants, and the presence of which ren-|_ A NICE AND WHOLESOME SWEETMEAT FOR Faminx ders them fertile. This fully explains the difference in| Use.—Pare or not, as you choose, a quantity of sweet

the necessary methods of culture for different places; apples to fill an earthen or stone jar; add a litle sugar

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