Scientific men tell us that in nature results continue long after the causes which brought them about cease to exist. Edward Munger, in speaking of the time when he was a boy, says it was the custom of school children as you pass a school-house to make a bow, but in these latter days, as you pass a school-house, you must keep your eye peeled, or you will get a brickbat at the side of your head. He still bows his head, but the devotional feeling is wholly replaced by others as wide as the poles asunder.

The Tallest Nurseryman in the United States is said to be Daniel Conger, of Walcott, N. Y., who stands 6 feet 6 inches. We remember that when, in a critical moment during the civil war, he was asked as an influential public speaker and a leading public man in his community, o go and make a speech to favor enlistments; he went, and from the platform simply said, " I am going to enlist as a private soldier; who will go with me?" No wonder the company was immediately filled, when they had such a bulwark as this to shelter them, and still less wonder when, during the war, he hobbled into our office, from a neighboring hospital, with a bullet through him. Men of this size should have two pensions, as surely their chances of being struck were doubled.