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Ahsitbiixawo rw6uia Iccrdarr;dosN:-Those
who advooste thoe policy of'" Americanizing
our institutione," observes the Pall Mall
G~azotte, '"will do well to study'the composi
tion of the congrees of the United Statoo."
It appears from the Congreossional Dirootory
of the last congress that of throo hundrod
and seventeen nonators and roprosontatives
only about oighty-eouven were gradluates of
a colloge; but this number, as tlhe Nation
points out, is not to be tnlcour as absolutely
correct, for the biographical noticos of the
directory in a few instanceso oay nothing
about oducation, and in others are lsuepici
ousoly ambiguous. Of the reoal colleges in the
United States theoro are altogother about
fifty real graduateoo in the two housno of con
gross, who represent the educated material
in that body. The truth is, adds the Nation,
that the presont political eyctom in the United
States does not bring into the public servieoo
the truly colf-oducatod and aolf-oultured mlen
of the country, but moroly those whoso soelf
making rioses no hilghor than the very low
levels of monoy and party mtahinery. Col
logo diplomas of thermsenoolvos moan very little,
oepooially of collogoes in chronic want of
students, and on a porpetual brinlk of star
vation; but their abconce is significant of
thelt absence of tihe oducated and cultivated
intelligonce of the people. In all countries
there are intolligont and educated classes,
and experience shows that when they are'o
brought into the businoes of logislation they
work not only with intolligonce but also with
zeal. Tihe United States are deoprived of the
cervieous of thoso clauses. The modern con
grossman in a third or fourth rate man, un
educated beyond the knowledge of making
money, ignorant of tho wants of the counttry,
soeptical, nu all uneducated men are, of the
intolligoeuco of otheoro, anld wvithl no definite
objoct in view beyond puslning the intorosto
of his party. 1inding nothing at Wasthing
ton which he is really fitted to do, Ito naddlo
idleness to hisi otlher political virtueson, and
booomens an obstruttive in the way of tihe
few who are really trying to accomplish
lsomething. The logionation of cougrlos is
proeciseoly clhat might be unticipatod fromn
nononublagoe of euoh mon; illiterato and
slovenly ill form, defeootive in subestntoll, antd
nover attompting to be more than a platlt
for thle mIlont proesing of existing evils. The
constrittivo ability which comnprohlndso
nyltom in ias wautinng in congroess an in a cob
bler, whoao skill never riseon abovo thle cftrt
of puttlinig a paltchl on n broken bnot. Con
greu is, in fact, wh.at r o own House of
Uonmotun is faot bItominog.
MnueorUAlt SlT!sENOTIt (0)? fNIcOIe.--M.
Feliz hlstoau, a yountg Bolgialn nturaliot,
and a ison of the cololbratoed phlysician, hIas
latoly tried nomo very delicato eoltsrimonts
to moasuro trle munoulanr ftrongthl of innots,
asn otheors hIave doneo with stIttn nltd the hlorsn,
the ntronltgthl of the last two i ostimatoiled by
the aid of a machlinio osllod t dynsnlonteator,
lwhoro the tontion of a npring is counter
,balasnced by an,? oeffll'ort oexorciseod for a very
short linto. A man, it is foundt, lhas a ower
of traction equal to fivosixthts of his weightb;
but tills in very emiall itn oCtlpariose with thle
stroengtllt of inooots, many of \which which ani
draw forty timoues that amount. s heo way in
which M. Platoeau has measured thosoo powers
is ingenious. HIo h?ronesd the inauoo by a
horizontal thread, which wase passed over a
light moveable pulley; to this was attached
a balance loaded with a few grains of seand.
To prevent the insect turning aside Ihe made
it walk between two barsof glass on a board
covered with muslin, so as to affird a rough
surface. Exciting it forward, he gradually
poured fresh sand into the balance until it
refused to advance further. The sand and
the insect were then weighed, and the ex.
periment Wasrrepeated threetimnes, in order
to arrive at a correot conclusion as to the
greatest effort that each could mko. The
tables which give the results of these trials
seem clearly to demonstyate thlat in the name
group of inedcte the lightest aild swm?llst
possess 'the greatest strength, or that tile
relative force is in inverse ratio to the weight.
This law applies also to the experiments in
flying and pubhlng, as well as to drawing.
This law, asseuredly very curious and interest
ing in the economy of nature, has hbeen con.
firmed bytryinga dozenindividuale of various
specles, in order to obtain results more
approiaching to the truth. These have been
fully successful in 'confirming.previous ex
perience-for example, the drone is four
times the weightof the bee, yet it can only
drag a weight fliteen times greater, than its
own; while the bee easily draws twenty
three or twenty-four times its own bulk. Ic
fying it can raise a weight very little inferior
to its own; while the drone can only trans.
portin this manner half its own weight. Tha
law in'question appears also to apply int
only to tIhe species whicl belong to.the same
encomological subdivision, hut in a certain
measure to the entire class of inseots., It is
true that if the species examined are
arranged by ,the increasing order of their
weight, the corresponding relations which
express their relative force are not always
exactly progressive. There are exceptions,
whichmay be explained by the difference of
etructure. . The law holds good if they are
divided into three groups, comprising,
respectively, the lightest insects, those of a
middle size, and the heaviest. In thlis way
the relative force is represented for the first
group by twenty-six, for the seond nine
teen, for the last by nine. This relatea only
to the power of traction; if that in flying be
taken into consideration, the lightest can far
surpass the heaviest; the first being eqlal
to one and one-third; the last is but one
half. The strongest inseots appear to be
those so familiar to the naturalist, bhichl
lives on lillies and roses, ouch as the rionesres
and triohies. Thoer little beings can draw
weight about forty times superior to its own,
and one, an athleoto of the tribe, drew eixty
seven times its own weight. A small beetle
of the tribe anomalo has exeooutred the same
feat. Another moro romarlrkable fat is
related of a horn-beeootle, which hold hbetween
its mandibles, alternately raising and lower
ing its head and breast, a rod of thirty con
timotros long, weighing four hundred gram
meas; its own weight was but two grammes.
At the side of this inseoot, what are tie acro
bats who can carry a table between their
teeth? Such examples show to what an
extent insects are superior to the larger
animals in the strength of their musclee.
Dry and nervous, they can, in proportion to
themselvoes, move mountains. In addition
to this, they are ingenious; when an obstacle
does. not yield to them, they Irknow how to
turn it aside. One day, in a garden, a small
wasp was trying to raiseo a caterpillar, whioh
it had just killed. The caterpillar was at
least five or six times heavier than its
conqueror, whilch could not gaiu its end. Six
times suoesosivoly, weary of the war, and
despairing of euocoom, it abandoned its pray,
and sadly plaoed itseoolf at some distance. At
last a bright idea rnavod it from its em
barraussmont ; it returned, pieced itself aoross
the catorpillar, as if on horehobaek, withl its
two middlo foot it ombraced the body of its
vicotim, raised it against its breast, and
managod to walkon the fore feeoot which were
at liberty; thus it scoon croeood the walklt of
six foot wido, and laid its prey against a
wall.-Ohamnboro ' Journal.
TcshE AcvERcAoGn WA.osrERwoarr.--There is
over something dread and unourtlly about
the avorageo washorwoman. The diabolical
glee with which hle wroeniohnes off huttone
uand waslhes your garments into rags, the
lcrutour with which nlho rooivce yoer remon
stranoou, and the covero andhoartleo a anrri
mosity and regularity witlh which sho do
mands pay for her corvioe, all connspire to
makeo her an objeoot of tolrified resopeet. It
is so seldom that hlo is conquered by a do
linquue t debtor tlhat we Ihiston to note tihe
oase of the fortunsto Groisi of T'oledo. Mr.
Groig's washorwoinan, in spito of a remorse.
loss mind and ropeated iaplliostionr, failed
to soouro thie sium, 19 dolllaro 62 cents,
wheroin he was inrdlobtod to her. With a
persietent energy whlitih would hIrav struiOk
horror to moot nioi's outln sbh aslmmoned
him before a magistrateo to nllhowr oaue why
hIre should not pay. Tiho ironhaearted Greig
appeared, pIlaoidly aokrorvlodgod the correct
noen of tie bill, and trirsnphastlry prosonted
as ran offotil; one of hiiu own: To damnage
done to hisi foolings ir oimperpllilg her
daughter to brolakl off her ongosearrout with
hiim, 10 dollars 62 coats. Tihs ciprieod
wasllorworumn courld not deny this,, and the
caseo was immodiately doeided in favour of
Mr. Groig. That a dooiniorn could, by any
spoeibislity, ie givon aigainslt a waohorwrrnaa
will oai t a h:lomlu of hope into thire Isurtu of
many hIolplonoo singlo goutloimon; but to
marry that funotiornavy'a draughltr in' order
to got their garmoant ronovatrd without
smouey aund without pr'isn, is aiu eoonomical
idea whiolt will probably ouoir to btrt few.
An oll eomponitor who wnorked upon
Panlsh many years sgo tolls us that of all
thie able contributors to that witty poriorldioal,
tire msnnoorilpta of Doufglaso Jlrrold and
Gilbort a'Bookott wore tire snot pnossiar.
Jorrold'n was written in almont mlicronnoopio
charators writh a fine gold poen, and ioi close
t.tai; one of tle aidoes of teo amaill foh~oslecp
ootavo paper lie ir'ed wouhll nnorly fill a uold
brovier uolumn of :ilsnoih. Mr. a'looltott'o
was altogeothlor the recvoro, leoin(g written
very wido apart iand onil post-outavo Pllehr.
It hard a veory ourioir appuearancu, for he.ho
gan up in the loft-lhand cornrr ilso widoned
out his linoluies till he fisirnhod the pago, in a
diunroud lnshapo, dowin it tihe oplposite cornor.
yWhoa writtnm thus,, one of hie pagen would
inco aboult six lines of typo. Mr. Dicoline
wroto I very sunroadablo,. hluld, amd hie
imannuuriplt was fell of alteratiols, dleltions,
and intisrliminationu. --- D)blinI Uivorsity
Maigatzino.
ulllumO Ohllio couplot are mraisinlg a good
thing oult of the liquor law. Th?ue huisantid
Iuys whhilekoy, ihlloot at his wifo~, wellops tioe
childreon, ond thie sloon-Ioeper oinoo ddwa
with oano hundred dollar ratlher thusg atnau
a pro??01ition.
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