Soo      THE WISCONSIN FARMER.
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SCIENCE, ART, STATISTICS.I Thisrojal personage was something of a phi-
                       __________________   osopher.  Hie was exceedingly
curious to know

    Source of the Wile at lost Discovered,  what became of' the old suns,
why the moon

  Just now, no subject of scientific interest is made faces at the earth,
and whether England
receivinlg more attention tkan. the recent dis- could blow up all Africa.
with gunpowder.
covery of the source of the Nile-for centuries  "1Leaving Karagwe, Capt.
Speke and his
attempted by the most daring and intrepid ex  companion entered the more
northern kingdom
plorers, but hitherto unaccomplished, owing to of Uganda, which is situated
on the most fer-
the fatality of the climate and the ferocity of t~le shares of the Lake,
and which is described
the savage tribes through whose wild and al- as the most interesting and
intelligent of all
most impenetrable countries the course of that the tribes of equatorial Africa.
 Their king
wonderful river must be traced.           resides in a, palace consisting
of several hun-

  Captains Speke and Grant, of tEngland, are dred conical tents spresad'over
th-e spur of a
the heroes who. have accomplished the th, hill.  At first the tented monarch
refused tc
and just now they are being lionized by all receive Capt. Speke, bidding
him, in the trut
the scientific associations, people, and govern, grandeur of Eastern despotism,
sit on thi
ments of the old world, It is not known that ground and await his royal leisure.
The gal.
any very important practical results will follow  lant Captain replied with
proper spirit, an(
from this discovery, but so long as it still re- immediately pushed his way
into the augus
mained, at the noon of this sublime century, 'Presence of majesty. His attendants
followet
a reproach to the enlightened nations of the trembling; but be terrified
king and court in
world that any portion of the globe should be to instant suboussion by merely
opening ani
and continue a terrra incognita, it is but natural shutting his umbrella,
which, they took to b
and eminently proper that intelligent men ev- some dreadful instrument of
magic.

erywhere should rejoice at the great consum-  "1Capt. Speke very justly
accuses the Ugam
mation.                                       die of some- Ivery lireghilar'"
customs. Thui

   The lectures of Captain Speke, recently de- when a king dies, all his
sons are burned, ez
 livered in London before the Royal Institution, cept his successor, and
two others who as
 abound in interesting descriptions of the kept in case of accident until
the coronatiol
 countries and tribes through which his daring after which one is pensioned
off and the othf
 explorations led him, and when published in banished to the neighboring
kingdom of Ung4
 book form, as they undoubtedly will be ere ro. Another custom is not so
bad, and shov
 long, they cannot fail of a universal reading that all the negro races are
not subject to tl
 in all languages.                            common reproach of inattention
to vleanlines

    It appears from the reports made that the untidiness being a capital
crime, unless t)
  grand and hitherto mysterious Nile has its offender possess wealth enough
to pay an eno
  source in a lake lying about ten degrees from  mona fine. Even ingratitude
and omission
  the equator.  The explorers named this lake return thanks for a benefit
conferred are pu
             Victoria Nyanza.                ~~~ishable offences.No one is
allowed to stai

    From the ladeedeteasrcofCpin in the royal presence; and to look upon
o:

  Speke's account of his explorations of the Eur- of his majesty's four thousand
wives is a ca]
  rounding country, we extract the following:  tal crime.  The king is always
attended I
     " On the southwestern shore of Lake Nyanzi women crowned with dead
lizards, which a
  he found the kingdom of Karagwe.  Captain regarded as a sure talisman against
the effei
  Speke Was very hospitably entertained by the of magic and the evil eye.
Capt. Speke fou
  king, passing several days with him in the it necessary to wrap up his
presents in chii
  pleasant amusement of yachting and the chase. before presenting them tolthe
king, as nothi



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