"How wonderful," says Hugh Miller," has the coarse of creation been! How strange a procession! Never yet an Egyptian obelisk or Assyrian frieze - each charged with symbol and mystery - have our Layards or Rawlinsons seen aught so extraordinary as that long procession of being, which, starting out of the blank depths of the bygone eternity, is still defiling across the stage, and of which we ourselves form some of the passing figures. Who shall declare the profound meanings with which these geologic hieroglyphics are charged, or indicate the ultimate goal at which the long procession is destined to arrive?"

Blodget says: as we have no answer yet why are the extreme variations of heat, moisture, and other sensible conditions, irregular and impossible to foretell as they are, and what are the causes of them, it is too early to characterize the opinions which charged these to gods, or causes in the earth etc. as wholly unsound. The wonder age lingers yet, and it may refresh our view of its absurdity to refer to the time when the phenomena were localized, making the solution easier, if it were only correct. Pliny says that, "In many houses there be hollow places devised and made by man's hand, for receipt of wind, which, being enclosed with shade and darkness, gather their blasts." And he gravely asserts that " there be certain caves and holes in the earth which breed wind continually without end, into which if you cast any matter of light weight, there ariseth presently a stormy tempest, whereby we may see how all winds have one cause or another!" At this day generalization alone can seize the true expression of detailed observations, however accurate, and this generalization must be derived from masses and summaries by rigid deduction and comparison.

Though the dog-days are thought peculiarly liable to the introduction of hydrophobia, and people are very solicitous about having dogs muzzled in the hot weather, statistical returns show that madness occurs among dogs nearly as often in the spring, and even winter, as in summer. It is further found that August and January, the hottest and coldest months, are those which furnish the fewest cases.

The Orange Crop of Los Angeles - says a California paper, is coming into market. The crop amounts to about 170,000, and is sold on the ground at $12 per thousand. The cultivation of the orange is destined to become an important source of wealth to the State, or at least it will occupy many persons, and hold an important place in our trade. The trees commence bearing when eight years old, and will produce a crop worth $25 per tree, or $1,000 to an acre containing forty trees. This estimate is a low one, both for the price and the quantity of fruit; for a good tree often yields several thousand oranges in a year. The cultivation in earnest has just commenced; this year's crop may be said to be the first which has ever come to our market from Los Angeles. The fruit is large and good.