Where The Woodbine Twineth

Hon. S. Cox tells of the origin of tbtt inyeterious but Bomewhatfamousexpreseion. " Wbat the dcvi], Jim," he 9Ïeii ona (luy of Fisk, "did jou mean by the place whera the woodbine twinth V' "Well, I'Jl teil ycu, Colonel. You see I wan before that loarned Bnd digniñed body, the comicittee on Banking and Currency, od when Garüeld asked me where the money got by Cor burn went to, I would not make avulgnr reply nd ay up a spout, but obacrvirig, while peddling through New Engknd, that every spout of house or oottage had woodbine twiuing about it, I said natwTiilíy euough where tho woodbine twtneth. That ia all. It leems that Soagre;onal ohceee-Tvaxos did not underttand my delicay oor delicate allub'iod. A preparatiou of rare nutritive qualitias is oompounded alter the following formula of a Frcnch physician : towder of coeo, ten parta ; eoílee, ñro purts mgar five parts ; tra two parts. Ad ouuco and a quarter a day, it is declared, will sustain a man ia good health felr moy months. The oompouition inay be inlused in water ; or tho coffee ■nd tugar inay be eaton eeparatoly, dry. Tho nutritive propertiua at' tea, coffee, coeoa and male havo boen under . tigatLon for thirty years past, wilh a fair prospect of a verdict u their favor ; but the general impreesion has been that they were mero gtitnulauts. It will be My to provisión a city agamït a siego M the uow die