Show g CV A friend has just informed us that fruit and flowers be preserved from d decay a I 1 and fading by immersing them ill in a solution of guta gum arabic in water two or three times time waiting a sufficient time between each bom hi merfi artion ion to allow the gum to dry ary this p process recess covers the surface murfa of the fruit frit with a thin coating ot the gum guin which la is entirely impervious otis to the air air and thus prevents the decad of f the fruit or the with withering erino I 1 of the flower bower our friend hug bas roses thus preserved pres orv which have all the beauty and fra fragrance gruce of freshly plucked ones onea though they have been separated from the parent pat ent stem since june last to ensure success in in experiments of this kind hind it should be horne home in mind that the whole surface roust mast be completely covered for if the air only ens atins enar entrance n ce at a pin hole bole the labor will wi I 1 I 1 fill all be lost in preserving of fruit particular e care i should be taken to cov r the stem end nd all with the gum A good way ia to binl a thread of silk about tha stem and then thena sink ink it slowly in the solution which should not be so strong strong as to leave a particle of the gum dissolved on the gum is i so perfectly transparent that you youcan you can with aliffi ill ity detect it its s pr presence except hy by the touch I 1 I 1 here we have another simple method metho d of it alx n 0 the fleeting beefing beauty of nature and tur sur sounding nn ding even with those objects which do most elevate the mind refine the taste and purify the heart auntry you ou ien gen aleman ace ACC ter r I 1 max INDIAN AFFAIRS 14 1 4 the washington papers sav the sum total 1 I which ohis g astleman aut leman has r for nip ritas is superintendent rit of indian affairs ra in california is some heaving bvm accounted up to this time for the expenditure of not than a fifth of it according accord mg to the understanding around washington it ft is understood tood i that the approaching dinv inv ti i into the condition of hi hiek altaire with wih the government will certainly involve a thorough of the now celebrated beef the paternity of which is credited to freemont and which the accounting said to aliew e li 0 u t B to have been mightily mixed 0 io in it is further understood that lieck beah wat was absent from his duties not ang since without leave indeed according to information oakl to he be in posses ion im nathe of the was in wash agton city and while there was serious question its as to the propriety of ii his ll 11 3 j unexplained his ha failure fa i I 1 u re to ta bakel k e I 1 that opportunity to endeavor to explain them I 1 has probably pr bably been a main ground for his hia recent rece removal says the difference between betwee nn old bachelors and murde roro is ii rather imaginary thin than reil real ra id his opinion the guilt gaila of keeping pepla ort of abe woric is just as gedat a crime as thrusting them out affer they have got lu in sinners will please talie lake notice I 1 tile saints are not guilty of these cahn cr crimes hn 1 |