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   EDITORIAL MISCELLANY.

   New and Splendid Premium I-In at
 dition to the Strawberries offered as prizes i
 the last number, we now offer the CRAIG M
 closcops, described in this number, for ever
 club of 8 dollar subscriptions-each subscril
 er being entitled to the strawberry premium

   The Editor Abroad.-Though seeming
 by this number of the F.%R)m Ei, to be at borne
 it is, nevertheless, true that we are quite re
 mote from Wisconsin, even at the Capital o
 the Nation-not in the capacity of an office
 seeker, however, but rather, and solely, oi
 behalf of the State Agricultural Society, whose
 interests we arc endeavoring to represent it
 the matter of a claim against the breeches
 pocket of Uncle Samuel. A clever old gentle-
 man is Uncle S., but some of his boys some-
 times behave in such a manner as to almost
 belie their parentage. In truth, some of them
 are what a Hoosier would call right down scaly
 fellers, unduly witholding what belongeth to
 others, and again, "gathering where they had
 not strewn." And the Treasury-is it not like
 the " mills of God," which not only "-grind
 slow, but grind exceeding small? "
 Incidentally, since our leave of home, we
 have been visiting the Agricultural Colleges of
 the country, of which a full account will be
 given hereafter in the Educational Department.
 Our journey to this point has been made via
 Milwaukee, Detroit, Suspension Bridge, Lake
 Seneca, Albany, New York, Philadelphia, and
 Baltimore. We shall return through Pennsyl-
 vania and Ohio, in order to take other institu-
 tions in our route.
 In the absence of both of us, (Mrs. H. and
 self,) it Is not impossible that the June No.
will present an undue number of typogeaphie-



scholarship of the FAUMEKa s exceller,: r Irs .,
itor and proof-reader relieves us of ne'trly all
anxiety on that score.
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  Editorial Notes of European Travel.
-tAUTANNE-BA8LE--TnE RHrNB--JUNE, 1862.
-Lausanne, the capital of the Canton of Vaud,
is a handsome old town, very conspicuously
located upon three commanding hills, whence
the view of surrounding mountains. valleys,
and of charming Lake Leman, is extremely
fine. History does not inform us of its origin,
but unmistakeable traces of a Roman road to.
getber with a recently discovered subterranean
passage in the wood of Vaux, full of works of
Roman art, leave no room for doubt that this
place has been the abode of man for many lorg
centuries. Its present population is not far
from 16,000.
The fine old cathedral, which cannot fail to
it tract the attention of the stranger, was built
in the year 1000, and consecrated by Pope
3regory X.  The College-also somewhat fa-
nous-was established in 1587.
In more recent history, Lausanne is noted
'or having been the residence of Gibbon while
Ie wrote his famous history of the Decline of
he Roman Empire, and of Kemble, known so
ong and favorably in the dramatic world.
Many of the buildings, particularly the more
ncient ones, are of a stone known as Molame,
a very compact material capable of a long con-
inued and very remarkable resistance to the
ction of the atmosphere.  It is found in the
hain of hills known as the Jorat, which are
kewise further noted for the beautiful vine-
ards that clothe its southward slopes and yield
delicious wine. Much of the fuel consumed
i the city and country is derived from the
Dal pits that lie between it and the village of
evay.
In the College and other public buildings
re many paintings and relics of ancient art,
at other things beyond are fraught with more
itereut to ae just now, and mo I have said
ood bye to Lausanne, and so dashing tuy
ay to t~ke Rhine.



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