RELIGION WITHOUT BIGOTRY. ZEAL WITHOUT FAX ATI Rial, LI 33 RTF WITH JUT LICENTIOUSNESS. Vol. XXIV. SUFFOLK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER lO, 1871. No. 4:1. *HE. CHRISTIAN SlTN. 1>e voter to the Interest of REnifttrm and Mo KAMTV, OKNKKAI, line at tho risk of the sender. Tlfft safest wav to send money Is by a Post Office money order, a regis tenMi inter ora dmft on spine business house In Suffolk or Norfolk. SELECTIONS. V faod nml Business. God’s blessing is the condition of all real success in life All planning must take this contingency into the account. To choosing the place of our sojourn and tho business to be pursued, and in embarking upon any enterprise, the dependence is ab solute. There are many ways in which Providence can intervene to break up the schemes wc have (]*jvii^d. It happens con tinually that men are disappointed in their purposes and that, fcouie-lKVw, their ways are turned upside down, Theit expecta tions have been reasonabler>^they have •moved .forward with the certainty ofaceom lpirsi’ng their undertakings, but something turns up to overwhelm them with disap pointment. The mcrch&u.t, in the 1 lingua ire of the old time atheists, says ; “Today or •to-morrQw we will get into such a city and •cootiuue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain.” The thought of an over .ruliog hand does not enter tho mind, while the busy devices of gain are being formed. Thus, with the professional man. the me chanic, the farmer. There art- contiugen> cies of course, that may mar rue well con sidered programme, but God is not distinct ly recognized. IIis connection with practical atluirs, if admitted at all, is of a most indi rect, distant, and complex character. If our affairs arc within the limits of honesty, 'God is not supposed to meddle with us, or to care about what we aim at. Yet if life and health are in his keeping, and if the material universe is under His control, our welware hangs upon 11 is will To change our domicile, to cuter upon bu siness, to make a foitune, to continue here or there, depend upon the divine favor. A single death, a shipwreck, an earthquake's shock, the breath of pestilence, or revulsions in trade defying calculation, may sweep <»way all. Our most certain projects should he taken in hand with this quilifiation al ways clearly felt. This will lead us to con sider other ends than those of gain and am bition. The question, in addition to earth ly profit, will be the fnverablcncss to our spiritual welfare and* to greatest usefulness - The prohabilites of wealth will be balaucod sibmg with tJjo.se of “the true riches” and the openings for a prosperous religious life. The kingdom of God should he first in our’ seeking, so that the study of temporal in terests come* in as a secondary matter. If kvc think of God in the selection of ^ pro fession or business, or in the change of our home, we shall think of Him as approving ouly what is evidently best fur IJis work •and cur own salvation. While we feel >hat The Father of lights is not an indifferent " spectator of our affairs, we should settle upon no business which compromises the 4 Iterests of the soul, or that is likely to call down upon us thy divine displeasure. The Christian will locate himself with a view to religion as well as business, and will seek for a field where ho can not only ' make money, bill also be of most servico to the church. We fear that many who are engaged in trade would be condemn' d if i they were to apply the test. There is whisky mixed up with their commodities, Sabbath hours are encroached upou, and hurtful associatious, and questionable merh •ods involved Put this clause into the •copartnership or into the proposed business, and it is dissolved at once. “If tbo Lord will,” like Ithurial’s sphear, reveals the ■Bfiiunic character of mauy u plausable traus «tuu«»u. The recognition of God in business may cot lead to what the world..rates,as success It *riji, bPW*ver.'inSuce'csoJber expectations in submission to Him who dispenses the fortuuesnf life in wisdom and mercy. The ppi^ymptyou *>f counting upon life as xouie fbiug assured will beyond n doubt not be allowed, and the probabilities of failure will be culmly entertained. Conscious of a con secrated purpose, and .dilligently using tpe means, the result may disappoint, but God’s finger will bo seen in the failure as in the success His will, for purposes of discip line, and for purposes too w.id.e for our present comprefiensiop, bps been to cross ,ouf path and upset our plans, l^ew, even of the good aud upright, live to consum mate their ideals, or, if living, are permit ped to realize their hopes. Success may be 1 rightfully desired, gaiu may be sought I piously, and yet it is best that we should j often be baffled in our efforts. We are pet to speak or think as though the whole mat ter were In our own hands, but rather to plan aod hope iu eutire relance upon liipi who may, in infinito mercy? deny what our industry and sagacity, havo claimed as a right. Men labor and speculate, sow and reap, save and invest, but, tho Lord gives aod alfo takes away. His providenoc does not »Uep while wc are intent upon accumu lation. The sohpmes of men are thwarted, their lives are "cut off as ' ibo tops of the ears of eorn,”, a,nd a broken shaft tells the story of prematura death. God’s will is a condition ever {present, and to plan with reterenoe Ip, it* existence, secures a resig nation anjj) ^iiriety which iwee.te.ns the cup | of a lversify. In ibis conception of all-dis posing Providence failure is a true puceeps. and ,what seems to be a blight is the highest prosperity. Th£ shivered idol has given place to Him who dwell* between the'cher ubim, and the apparently shattered coliimh, so far from being broken, lifts its head withined by the amount produced by no author—that the number of parochial calls made, all requiring tact and sympathy, equals that of a physician in good practice—that the amount of general advising done, touching etihgol^ property, quart-els. questionable action, abd a thousand thing*,equal* ihut of a lawyer with a fair business; ami that the other duties; school visiting, lecturing, writing articles, making brief addresses, serving on committees, and doing "everybody’s work,” would .employ another man still—not to speak of the student function, that which makes our clergymen the best patrons of our book stores, and the most thorough readers of our best books. Few people ever know of these things; fewer still stop to thiuk of them. The hardest part of a clergyman’s life, as it is of editor’s is the necessity of producing without the time to produce. Good j thoughts, whether in the paper, the volume, or sermon, need time to grow up leisurely, to mature in a calm restfulness, ond to be produced when, and only when, they are so f ir ripe they need expression, Once io a while we bear a sermon which we know is the frtlit of leisure ; it must have grown, to be the rounded, balanced thing it is. We feel instinctively thjit sack a paper could not have been thrown off at the rate of two a week, with .a hundred other dis tractions and cares added thereto. But there »re few or no ministers who can give, their people this kind of fare; college professors may; but whether happily «»r unhappily, our clergymen cannot; they must write on the jump; the Sundays whirl in amazing swif - ness, aud weekly grist of thought, sensibili ty and reflection most be ready; tf it wefe hot too delicate and personal a matter, we could write freely regarding the tfemeudous strain pUt Upon editors;'but that is foreign to our present task. We merely waut to indicate from our p-.int of view, what wc thiuk the public should ex pect and demand from the ministers of reli gion; how forbearing men should be to a class of educated gentium ri, who although obliged to wear clothes which do not show the stains of labor, are among the most in tense aud unwearied workers among us lu the general and indiscriminate mixing up of professions and occupations, the clergy man is not spared; he takes his chance with the rest, aud enjoys no immunities, no untuxeu dignities. lie is a man among men ; enjoying peculiar privileges indeed, having the key to our homes, and sometimes to our hearts, but notwitl.stand ing a point higher thao other men. And this >s the fcbest thing, on the whole, in American society, that in whatever pro fession or calling a man is ho passes for just what he i* worth. No matter what he wears—for we take it fur granted that a gentleman will not forger himcelf ami dress like a jockey—no n atter where lu*. lives, no matter whether a tradesman or a “professional ” man, if lie has native dignity truth and nobleness of character they will he found out. If he has not these, btiug a el« rgyman will hot help him ; if he has them, his not being a clergyman will uot hdp him. — Hartford Gourant. The Melody of tUe 23(1 Psalm. There lies back of some of the bible pro misee' such » region of joy and peace, bathed in such glory, filled with such tri umph, that it seems as if some insurmount able barrier must keep us from it, and “Jordan roll between”—that state where we shall love God with all our hearts, and know the love of Christ, and to be one wish him. Yet doubtless the river of death is but a stream passing through the Lord’s dominions—uot the dividing line between us and them, What, then, is the harrier? “O, fools and slow of heart to believe,’’ there is no obstacle through which Christ is not a way. The wall reacheth unto heaven in the face of ail endeavors, because we approach it not by faith, *’ I am the door; Tty toe, if any mail enter in, ho shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture.” Safe forever Irotn fear of famine, quiet forever frour fear of evil, easy will be to them the crossing of that narrow stream from one part of the Lord’s country to another, the Lord himself holding ul’by the right baud. ... ..—— Thououts.—The mind is busy ; it is not sleepiug. It is a mint always coining thought—very debased coin it sometimes turns out. but. also sometimes very pure and beautiful. Some men’s minds gain no thoughts but those of business; ctheis none but U;ose of pleasure; but some meu'stniuds have the power of turning ^ .3 gold by connecting all that is around ttufm ,wiyl,t thoughts of God and bis wonderful lovo. Pvistoi;» and Children. A great am] is said about the duties of the pastor to tite children. What are the children taught about their duties to their pastor ? It is of«cn hard for the raster tb remciit b« r the names of all the little folks in the 3ongregafi<>n. So many bright eyed Ma l rys end Susies and Nellies, so many Johns and f]arry« and Dicks, are apt to get as ; confused in his mind os the colors id a kaleidoscnpd, abd it is not wonderful if W often fails to recognize them away from their homes.- ]5ut every boy and girl knows the pastor by sight, at least, And I ought always to speak to him pleasantly i and respectfully A bright “good morn !ng,, from a child's lips is as welcome as a' I sunbeam. It is very sweet to cue who is trying to feed the lambs, to find that they ! b»ve him, and love to follow where he ! leads. Another duty of the children to the pas- | tor is to listen to him. They sometimes • excuse themselves from this duty by saying, i “Oh 1 Dr; --■ is not preaching to us. Tin* sermon is for father and mother. All we have tb do, fs to still, and preserves a quiet appearance, while under the surface : the thoughts are flying here and there, I | backward and forward, over last week and j on to next, abd not a ftofd of the sermon i i : : do they hear. If they would hut attend, they would find a great deal that they i could understand The great mistake in .‘-peaking to the young is that people try «o hard to speak down to the intellectual level of their audience, rather than to lift the audience up to their level. An average 1 child of ten or twelve, or eVen of younger 1 age, can understand the larger part of an average sermon. Not perhaps the whole of j ['it in its breadth nf scope, but enough to | remember an»l be helped by it Intelligent children at home listen with interest to the ! talks of their elders, on all sorts of subjects. : political, scientific, and religious. It is a | part of their education, and a part that 1 neTer fails to leave its impress. Another duty of the children to their ! pastor is to pray for him. Every day when they pray—not merely sajr their prayers— j they should think of their minister, and a>k : God to bless hiuis Thvre is not the Clris tian worker alive who will'not work better it he lias the ehi]ir«u*s prayers. I&.Jove a duty *? Surely. -i;.• e love is the fuifilUn g • : • he law ! Tlnn ! i-t of all, let the children love their pastor -- 8. 6’. Times. “I Want to be a Minister.” More than y centaury ago there lived in I England and orphan 1 oy with promising talents, who oft n said. “I want to be a minister but having no money to carry the great, desire of bis heart, his youthful ' spirit often bowed to the earth in disappoint ed hope. Once a wealthy lady offered to pay his ; expenses at school if ho would study and become a minister in her church : but ilie ! b«»v loved the church of his fathers, and ! could no* be induced to leave his spir itual mother ; so respectfully declined the lady’s kind offer. 1 Afterward lie visited a learned minister I of hi.fi own church, and asked the goud pastor's advice iu regard t studying for the ministry ; but here he obtained no en ! eouragement at ulj. The friendless boy went to God, and while he was engaged in i fervent prayer the mail-carrier knocked at the door ot his closet, ami handed him a letter from a fiiend of his father, with an off- r to assist him in his studies for the unmst ry. Thus his desire was gratified, and he be came one of the most useful ministers of England. His name was Philip Dodridge. Wo eommend his example to all oar read ers. The Lord tracts many ministers. Oreat numbers who are now boy3 must soon preach the gospel. Let every boy ask this question, whether he should not engage ill this work. We should be-eou cerned about the duty of serving the Lord, and how wo should serve him. If it is a boy’s duty to enter iuto the ministry, he should strive hard to enter it as well as he should strive hard to enter beareu, and he should pray for the Lord’s guiduuce in the one case as well as ha should pray for it in the o'her.—/i'Yi'/ojus li raid If you meau to follow'Christ, reckon to meet temptations eyeu at first, and so in all the way. Uuwisc to pat to sea and expect no, storms, nothing but fair weather. —Leighton. IIavb the courage to drop the most agreeuhlij.ttaqSaiutaucc you have when yen are convinced be lacks principle, A friend should boar a friend’s iufiriuities.” but out bis vices. A spirit of kindness is beautiful in the aged, lovely iu the young, and indispensa ble to the emufort and happtiiess of a fam ily. The uiiu of an honest man’s life is not tho happiness that serves inly himself, hut the vUtup urbioh. is usel The Ruts of JLife. G»t r.iit of them, if you wish to live long, if you wish to avoid the lunatic asylum, if you wi-h to escape suicide or a miser’s d'afb. Mi*o and women must have recre atioD, must have amusement, mu*t hava . diver-b.n It is wholesome for the mind j to break from its daily vocation or employ- j ment every night. The man who goes j from hi? counting house or his workshop at the close of the day, and does not leave j it behind him, but sits at the family table j iij moodiness brooding over past occur- j renees, wishing probabilities*, casting con jectures, laying plans, and when the meal j is over sitSr tbmkinz, tbioktasY kv the j hour, and^goeg to bed to toss and tumble and worry, cannot live long ; the brain or the heart must give way. and he will drop dead in the street, as many a business New Yorker has done within a few years past. In the island of Cuba, the wagon roads : lead ov^r bills made of limestone; the; wheel have run in the same track for gen- j orations, and have so worn info solid stone that the hubs scrape the surface, and there is no getting out of the tut until the i bottom of the bill is reached. So in the lives of many, the mind, un- | der the influence of worldly care, gets to run in a particular track ; iu other cases, tue occupation are of such an insufferable i sameness from one year’s end to* the other, that its workings become mechan ical, and out of these lines they cannot work at all ; hence the ftupiuity of such a large portion of the farming population of all countries,? the peasants of England and Ireland and France, and Germany and Russia as well More farmers’ wives and daughters go crazy, OutH>f one thousand, than of any other class, simply because of the one same routiu* of drudgery—of cooking^ washing, eh ailing, from morning to night, from one year’s cod to another ; even the Sabburh day making but little change, and that change only the result of the extra drudge of Saturday. And our wives, m large towns and cities sweep and dust and arrange, and wash and sew and provide, iu one incess ant round, summer an 1 winter. No wou der they grow thin .and careworn, aod weak and nervous. Get out of the ruts, all of you ; pay a neighborly visit ore Dight iu the week : or for two afternoons let there he a “let up’’ in the way of a drive to the Central Park, a visit to the “visage,” an excursion on the river or in the ears, a pic nic. a celebration, hut best of ail, iu city or country, a horseback ride of an hour or two* “there and back.” What an appe tite it gives : and the weariness, what a delicious sleep follows Get out of the rut, reader, two or three 4 hours a week, and there will he no time lost by it in the long rue, for it gives activity to the moral nature ; it wakes up observa- i tioo ; it exercises comparison ; it gives breadth of view on all subjects ; it makes a woman more womanly ; and in countless cases it would save from the madhouse !— Hull's Journal of Health. Force of tub Scriptures.—I fcu:>w there is that in the Seriptues which has grit to it I know it by this token ; not that wise men have written so much, but that, there is a book which has goue through tempestuous ages,assailed, buffeted cast hither, thither, and yet has returned the confidence of mankiud, because it has that iu it wlfffch masters sjjfrow, takes boll 0/ trouble, gives strength where there is weakness, and supplies an anchor to those who are tempeSt-^bs.'ed. There is that in the Word of God which has led the world through troublous periods, which supports ( the poeraud ignorant, taking hold of the fundamental wants of human nature with ; power which no other thing ever did.— ! Beecher. * What a Man Knows.—What a mao , can write out clearly, correctly and briefly, without ho«»k or reference of any kind, that he undoubtedly knows, whatever else be may be ignorant of. For knowledge 1 that falls short of that—knowledge that is vague, h»syt indistinct- uncertain—I for ouc* profess no respect at all And I be lieve that there never was a time or emui | try where the influences of cartful training ; were °iu that respect more needed. Men j live in haste, write in haste—I was going i to say think in haste, oDly that perhaps i the word thinking is haidiy applicable to I that large number who, for the most part, ! purchase their deily allowance of thought ready made.—Juord Stanley. A Swuoss Tliot'GUT,—Suppose there | was a book, in which the whole life was I recorded, each' page of which contained the events of a day y aud at the beginning was written—‘‘This the life of a rational. mortal accountable enealuro placed in I this world to prepare fbr eternity !” Ob, ' what amount of guilt would the record of each day present!—Dr. PaysoH. Be fruitful iu good works. FARM AND GARDEN. *I*he Cultivation of Wheat Anyone who has paid any attention to the wheat product of the United Sta'cs, comparing the yield per Sere in past years with what it is at present, cannot fail to be struck with the fact that in the best wheat growing regions of tbe older States, the product of grain per acre eteadi’y declined, j but that recently, through" more judicious j cultivation, the average yield, taking into consideration the area under cultivation, j has gradually but slowly increased, altho’t it has not yet reached, except in rare in stances, the acreable product of the origi nal soil. A rjtiarter of a century ago the average predact of wheat in Maryland did not much exceed seven bushels to the acre. Since, the average in good seasons has risen to fifteen bushels, thus more than doubling the crop. A similar decline and a similar improvement is observable in the repot is from all the older States since ft-rti z,sts have been more liberally employed and a better system of cultivation has taken the place of the old slovenly practi ses. But we are farlrom having reached the maximum yield. There are occasional instances of the yield reaching thirty and thirty-five bushels to the acre. But these instances are few as compared with those which indicate returns of > ten, twelve and fourteen bushels. The same results are observable iu tbe Western States. The best wheat-growing regions there are losing thejr former fertility, and the wheat fields from whieh the heaviest supplies are drawn for sale in the Chicago and St. Louis mar kets are those that haVe been newly opened to wheat culture. In short, the great wheat granary of the United Stat- s has been steadily moving further westward and tb» cost of transportation to the eastern markets has increased in proportion to the distances of tbe fields trout which the wheat crops are drawn. When farmers take everything off their land, even to tbe straw, and put little or nothing back upon it, of course by constant cropping the laud will wear out. But the lauds of Englaud and Germany and France have been under til lage for a thousand years—we say nothing of the lands of China—and since science has been brought to bear on the cultivation of the soil, the wheat crop in nuttierous in stances has been brought np to forty-five bushels to the acre, and the average, ex cept in had seasons, has rarely fallen below twenty five. The climate, in Englaud espe cially, i3 moreover, greatly against the far mer, whilst with us it is uneiceptionahly good. It is, therefore, but farr to say that if we pursue their methods and lime and fertilize as liberally as they do, that our crops should be at least equal to theirs. And, now, what have we to do to bring about this result ? In the first place we must pursue a system of cultivation and a system of manuring, which instead of rob bing annually the soil of a part of fits! plant food, should add to it more than lias been carried off in the Crops. We know by the analytical tables that have been so frequent ly given, that the essential constituents of a good wheat soil are potash, Soda, phos phate'of lime, carbonate of litre aud silica. We throw out tho silica, for that is super abundantly found in almost every*s0«l. We. have tbea to look principally fur potash, soda, phosphate of lime aud carbonate of lime. If these are present in good quanti ties, and the soil is not too light, the wheat is bound, to be good in a good season and under thorough preparatory tillage. It these are deficient iu quantity, or if any of them is missing, the crop will be light. Under such circumstances what is to be done? One of two meats is to be resorted to-—first, liming arid moderate manuring until the land will bring good crops of clover. This crop turned under, will, in rotting, give to the soil all the constituents that a crop of wheat requires, for strange to saj, the constituents of the ash of clover aud those ot toe ash ot wheat, tooth stent and grain, run paralh 1 with each other. Hence, as everv good farmer knows, clover turned under is an excellent preparation for •wheat. But this process would take several years to accomplish. The quicker method is to sup ply the saute constituents, either by com posts made on the farm, or by the use of commercial fertilizers. The best mixture of the Utter kind is a combination of solu ble superphosphate of linie, whieh is better known by some as bone dust pot ash and soda—or their equivalent of anleaehed wood ashes—and a smalf percentage of ammonia. From two hundred and'fifty to three hun dred pounds to the acre 'of the above mix ture would uot only restore to the wheat | crop the constituents it lacked, but would 1 leave a residue for the. aest crop.—Mury , , ,, «t j /, ! farmer. Om; of the most effective remedies known t >r " ills u '■■■ s backs or necks is au ap plication of white lead moistened with milk > When-milk IS uot at hand, common white lead paiut vyll answer If applied in tbo earl^Ages of the injury, the our# is cer f . The Christian Sea 1 ADVERTISEMENTS. Advertisements not Inconsistent with the dmrivi-ter of the paper, will be inserted ut the following rates: One square of ten linos first insertion.. For each subsequent Insertion. One square thiee months. . Ohe square six months. One square twelve months. II 00* 50 8 0® .12 *10 .18 00 . Advertisers changing weekly, must make a special agreement. Yearly advertisers will p«y monthly, or quarterly in advance. Transient ad Yertlseinfetits to l>e mirl for on insertion. JOB WO UK. Book and Job 1’rintino of every kind done at our Job Office in the best style and on moder - ate terms.' ' Plaster and its Uses. Plaster in The different t ranches of sciei ce is known by different names. In the art* it is plaster ; in irinearlpgy it. is gpysum ; iu chemistry it is sulphate of lime. Sul phuric acid ha9 an affinity for ammonia, and flrhcn it finds ammonia it breaks crp its partnership with t be li rue and combi Of# ! with the ammonia, forming lulpba'e rf ammonia; and this is non-v. 1 i‘i|o. TI d I lime fi&Js a cortpacirn, when de erted by J the acid ,in carbonic acid, forming carbon* , ate of lime. « -* Hence it will be seen that when the far mer has ammonia in his Foil, put t’n ;c by himself in manure, or in other manner, liable to waste, the planter will hi it there, and in all such cases it can be applied to 'the ground with profit. The odor about • I 'tables and manure heaps is escaping am , taenia, and the farmer can judiciously use i a little piaster iji both places, saving thu I ammonia for his land. Plaster saves to the soil nitrogen, oae of | the chief mineral cler.ents entering iuto the j growth of plants ; ammonia is three parts hydrogen and one part nitrog^iK Ammo* r ia escapes from decaying vegetation wherever it is found/ anJ is suspended, in (the air; and when -after a b-ng dry spell : and considerable quantities of it have as I cended, the first rain brings it to ihe eai'tg r ’_j :r .1_ ^ li >2 iLj * and if there is a little plaster to the eio\ i field, the ammonia neVer rises again. ; The very study iuto the uses of plaster i '•hows that the farmer should be a student a and in some degree a man of science. He * must learn that in dofetqfitfg his soil same- w i thing else than mineral substances may be d j u2'ctled. He may need organic substance* d as well, and to know this is the duty of ifoeaa farmer.—Exchange. v ■ *n*vy $arj\ Too Much Land. We know a farmer w,bo ten years ago^ owned one hundred and fifty acres ofy land; and was doing well; he now owns, five hundred and is worst: off than before. Aud why? Because this largo farm is a' great expense to him ;>he cannot afford to i keep it up iu good conditiou, and it hangs i like a millstoue of care about his ueobx ! His wife and his children, both eons and' * > daughters,are obligtdto work hard to | the great machine ruaniug. Wo presume * his boys declarethey will leave home as soon11 , they are. old enough; anl the girls say sc | they will die before they marry farmers^., Neither sons nor daughters are educated as" I they deserve to be,they can’t be spared from i work on the big farm New we declare such a' 1 farm is a curse to its possessor and his farm- : lily; and an injury to the whole argriculttfWjl.' ? | interest. If that mau wants to save him- 1 ' aud his household, he should sell at least' I oue-half of bis land, improve the remsiouer v to make it more productive, relieve his'c | childreo from bondage, aod try to make bis i home a comfort. He will live longer, lay ! up as good a property, aud will train up I a more intelligent and happier family,—~ 0 I American Agriculturist. How to See Under Wafer. | The Indians of North America do thia' l by cutting a hole in the ioc and then ! covering or hanging a blanket iu such a way as to darken or exclude the direct rays’1 of the sun, when they are able to see and'^ discover Ssh at any reasonable depth —.d Let any one who is. anxious to prove this' S place himselt uuder’ the blanket and ha j will he astonished when he beholds with ; what brilliaucy every thingNn the fluid ! world is lighted up, I once had occasion'• ' to examino the bottom of £ mil! poud, for ! which I constructed a float out of iniffT , j plank sufficient to buoy mo up ; through,1 ? the centre ot' this I cut a hole aod placed »’ j blauket over it, when I was enable eleartye.! to discover objects at the bottom, aud sewr-." j.eral lost tools were discovered and picked up. I am satisfied that where is sufficieot j ly clear this latter plan could he suce'es fully used for searching for dead bodies'' , and lost articles. I would suggest that’’ this experiment be tried on the sea;- fi>r Eg am satisfied that with a craft.like the Great'. Eastern, where an observatory could bei placed at the bottom with sufficient dark-' ness, by the aid of classes we could gate* down ioto tb-a depths of the sea “the same j as wc cau survey the starry heavens at ’ midnight.—C'ur. Scientijlc Aniericun. Sharpening Circular Saws I When circular saws become Hunted,, i the followi ng is the simplest method of | sharpening them correctly. Sit the saw in motion and hold a flat file or rather a cut against the teeth, uutil they arc equal I ly level. Then take a point tool or eveu a II steel peu dipped in ipk. and as the saw re-, I i volves apply it a little below the depth of i the teeth, so to make a circle upon the saw M plate, lirtaove the saw from the spindla ' and pl.ieing two wooden wathers turned for 1 the nurpn.-e;. remount betweeu these, | which should reach 'Jcithitl half , au inch of the teeth,and tile the latter carefully to the . line drawn , or if preferred, lake it wholly ! from the lathe and etui ply screw it up in a 'bench visa (carpenter’s) between two ! hoards of circular or other shape; fora*' | you baye a guide line, you cauuot get the saw out of round. # Circular saws need little setting out of 'he teeth if they are to be used only ou’ hard or perfectly dry staff. They are of-' ten merely hammered to upset or thicken* the teeth before flliug as is ihg,usual mettri? - oil followed on hack saws for metal.' >