Cleansing Wool

The Jonesville (Mioh.) Independent givps the followïng weights of floeces of wool before and after olaanaiug, as shown at a recent exhibitioo in that vioinity : One fteece tfeighina: 10 Iba. before cleansiüg, gave 4 Iba 5 j ounces of cleatised wool; another weighing lölbs. gave 6 Ibs. 1 onnees, and still anotber woighing 1-i Ibs. 8 ouuces gave 5 lbs. 10J ounces í cleansed vrool. By theso figures it wiil be Peen that the percentage of loes was about from 60 to 70 per cent. L. ï). Green, Esq., of the Woolco Faotory, says he had never beforo bser. able to obtain 5 pnunds of cleantsed wool frrtm a single fleeee, and the faet that fino wool loses nearly three-fourths of its weight in cioansing will be received with much surprise by ttie uuinitia ted. , , The Esr.niï of the Latí? Pjuïïu'dent. - The Boston' Transcript is authoried to say that the state of President Lincoln, with thoaddition of the contribu tions inado in Miissaehusetts, Khode lland and New York, will amount to one hundred thon.'and do-1'lars, aöd' that thu at-tivo labora of those ob-tainrng subecriptiona to the Lincoln fuiid havo uow ocascd. j