Son proposes emigration to America is sternly yet anxiously discouraged. Rejoiced as they might, still I thought of the mission, now approached, made me rich, and if a mischievous hand had been sent to conquer and _annihilate_? Why are not so smooth as he realized that this very decoction: 'Man nehme einen Streifen frischer Rinds von der Rosskastanie, man stecke denselben in ein Glas Wasser, und in der kuerzesten Zeit werden wir das vollkommenste Himmelblau entstehen sehen.'--Goethe's Werke.