IT IS SOMETIMES A MATTER OF CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE to induce the blundering calfwhose instinct only teaches him to suck, and that he will do at anything and with anythingacquire the knowledge of imbibition, that for the first few days it is often necessary to fill a bottle with milk, and, opening his mouth, pour the contents down his throat.

No blood-vessels pass into these tissues; the cells derive their nourishment by the imbibition of the plasma of the blood exuded into the subjacent tissue.

A curious notion exists in the minds of a few ignorant persons, to the effect that Mr. GREELEY vexes his mellow mind for essays on the temperance question with frequent and numerous imbibitions of "soda straight;" but it is high time that this popular error was exploded.

To manage this little feeding organism, with its wondrous instinct and capacity of imbibition, is the first great question after that of race is settled.

R. Hartig believes that freezing forces out a part of the imbibition water of the cell walls, thereby causing the wood to shrink, and if the interior layers have not yet been cooled, tangential strains arise which finally produce radial clefts.