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gI)\VIN 3JA.RTIN, Proprietoas Devoted to Home Interests ^nd, CulturQ. TWO DOLLARS A Year in Advanep, . VOLUMJE IX. PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1879. the wonderhjl advance Of SOUTHERN PROSPERITY. The communication recently forward ly Representative Whitt borne, of Tennessee, to Representative Goode, of Virginia, Chairman of the House Com mittee on Education and Labor, on the preposed investigation into the , causes of the late Southern negro exodus, de nies more than a passing notice, inas much as it portrays a march onward to prosperity in the South since the war, which is simply amazing. When the civil conflict ended, as is shown by Mr. Whitthorne’s fjgupen, the losses on farm products alone in the South amounted to the enormous sum of $707,000,000. To this was to be added also losses on bonds and stocks of all descriptions, horses, cattle, mills, man ufacturing establishments, and in fact, ercry species of property owned in our section, which swelled the aggregate loss up into the billions. When this is considered, and when it is remember ed that there are not a billion seconds in thirty years, it will readily be seen vliat a vast sum of me ney—an amount so large that it is Lard for the imagina tion to grasp it—was lost to onr section between 1861 and 1865, inclusive, .in [roperty alone. But this was not all. Besides the loss of all this material wealth, our labor system was completely overturned.— Oar eight millionsjof white population were not only stripped of their means, bat the millions of our blacks found themselves suddenly enfranchised, and deprived of the protecting caro of their masters, to which they had always been accustomed, thrown npou their own re sources, with no means of support ex cept what they might gain by daily manual labor. Notwithstanding these immense ob stacles in the way of our advancement., and the heavy burdens thus placed up on the shoulders of the Southern peo- bio, the growth of prosperity in the Sooth has been so wonderful that it seems well nigh miraculous. Mr. Whitthorno shows that from the close of the war in 1865 to the present time, industry has rapidly re vived amongst us and the value of labor steadily increased. Be says-that “from 18G9 to 1878 there has been an increase of more than three million head of cat tle and swine. During the lust eight years six million more bales of cotton bave been produced than were produc ed jo tjie eight years ending with 1861. In 1871 there were only seven and one- balf millions of actes of cotton cultiva ted, while in 1878 there were more than twelve million. The gross earn ings of the Southern railroads now, in round numbers, §13,000,000 per an num, and there has been a decided in crease in the growth of manufacturing industries. He further quotes statistics to show that while farm laborers in the Northern and Eestern States arc ‘paid »t the rate of §7 per capita of the pop ulation, the compensation of the same class of laborers in the South exceeds ?10 per capita. The Southern States, vith a population of 9,000,000 pay near ly §98,000.000 for labor, while'"the Northern States, with a population of 15,000,000, pay less than §15,000,000.” It should also be borne in mind, in this connection, that for many years after the war, while we were undergo ing that process of robbing and swind ling known as reconstruction, so called, te were beset with a crowd of hungry Political adventurers from the North, *bo flocked down upon ns like wolves on the fold, to oppress, rob, cheat and destroy;. These cormorants, placed in power by the wholesale disfranchise ment of tax-payers and property own ers, and kept thereat the point of the bayonet, began a system of robbery, hand, extortion and swindling which still further largely depleted onr re sources—even the hard-earned savings of the freedm~n being absorbed into tbeir insatiable maws—and by this means our material wealth was further teduced millions of dollars, which were Packed up and carried away in the oarpetdrags of our despoilers when, at hngth, an outraged people drove them headlong from onr midst. The rapidity with which- France re» oovered herself-frotn the effects of her mat unfortunate war with Gecmany, *od the promptitude with which she Paid her enormous war inat minty, is ^neatly alluded to as a wonderful e Hdenco of the reenperative powers of 'hut country. But when the rise and Progress made by the South since onr te civil war are considered they show 0o eonntry in the world to be possessed more inherent vitality apd strength bun our own. No .wonder our malig- "oot enemies, seeing and growing jeal- oog of onr onward march to wealth, .bid fro inspired with the same feel- *“gs of envy, hatred, malice, and a 11 e nucharitableness which prompted e tiivil war, and should again have at- jmpted to retard onr progress, injure r growth, and oaralyae onr energies, ^y endeavoring to in dace our negro la- ton _®rs to leave ns in mass and without fieri* 111 '” at ,lle cr * tica * Period when onr Test Were being prepared for the liar- ever Y day of labor lost was a huiju ?S ^ amage to 9 ur planting popu- the history of our advance i Prosperity .r--3 JVM cited, friends of the South may well take heart, and her enemies may well be dismayed. It shows that earsY3 a sec tion which, despite all onr troubles and woes, has been peculiarly blessed by the hand of Providence. Blighting poverty, a destroyed and upturned la bor system, carpet-bag frauds and rob beries, being subjected for years to op pression, insult,: despotism and heavy taxation without any proper represen tation in the government—all these have not only failed to crash us, bat to the contrary, notwithstanding all, we have steadily and rapidly gone onward, and nothing under Heaven can stay onr further progress. Truly there is. every reason to predict a bright and glorious future for the Sunny South—a future DORY-FISHING. With perhaps an exception in favor of tne capiicions canoe, there is no spe cies of craft which can glide from be neath its uaaccirstomed occupant with more startling ease than a fisherman’s dory. This characteristic, with the fact that it is light, sharp, narrow, and flat-bot tomed, suggests to the average lands man, that a dory is not a safe craft. Yet the question of safety depends largely upon the man having the man agement. If skillfully handled, a dory will ride out a gale in mid ocean with comparative ease, when a ship’s long boat would probably be swamped. The important point under such cir of prosperity which onr enemies, be I cnmstance s is t° keep the lit a craft, as 4.U i! a. •■»! ». . tlift fifiilnrs snv. ‘‘lipnil rm'thp espn”* they ever so malignant, will be pow erless to avert or resist.— Savannah News. How. te. Keep lee in the Sick-Room. For thoke who have an abundant sup ply of ice, this may not be a matter of much moment; but for poor people, who may rarely use it except in sick ness, and to whom the expense is not insignificant, the following hints from an English source may be used: “Cut a piece of flannel . about nine inch square, and secure it by a ligature round the month of an ordinary tumbler, so as to leave a cup-shaped depression of flannel within the tumbler lo about half its depth. Iu the flannel cap so con structed pieces of ice may be preserved many hours; all the longer if a piece of flannel from four to five inches square be used as a loose cover to th,e ice-cup. . Cheap flannel, with comparative open meshes, is preferable, as. the water easily drains through it, and the ice is thus kept quite dry. When good flannel with close texture is employed, a small hole must be made in the bottom of the flan nel cup, otherwise, it holds the water and facilitates the melting of the ice, which is, nevertheless, preserved much longer than in the naked cup or tumbler. In a tumbler containing a flannel cup, made as above descibed, of cheap, open flannel, at lOd. (20 cents) a yard, it took ten hours and ten minutes to dissolve two ounces of ice; whereas, in a naked cup, under the same condition, all the ice was gone in less than three hours.” A few days ago Wombvell’s menage rie visited Teubury, in England.— Among the animals is a very fiue fe male elephant, “Lizzie.” This animal was attacked with a violent fit of colic. A local apothecary with considerable skill as nn animal doctor was called into the menagerie when the life of the an imal was all but despaired of. By his vigorous efforts and skillful treatment the valuable beast was saved. The el ephant, “Lizzie,” did not forget her doctor, for, on the procession coming down Seme street three days later, she immediately recognized the chemist at the door of his shop, and going to him, gracefully laid her trunk in his hand. The chemist visited the exhibition at night, and met with an unexpected re ception from his former patient. ‘ Gent ly seizing tne doctor with her trank, the elephant encircled him with it, to the terror of the audience,(who expect ed to see him crushed to ' death. It was some time beforejjthe animal could be induced to leave the doctor, The Poultry Trade..—Few persons, even in the city, realize the' magnitude of the poultry trade between Knoxville and New Yoik. The business during the past few yeqrs has become an im mense source of revenue to the dealers in this section, and the matter of trans portation forms an important item in the railroad receipts. During the year 1878 three hundred and thirty tons of poultry yteif shipped from Knoxville clone, besides 80,000 pounds were for warded from White Mountain, as well as large qnantities from Lenoirs, Lon don, Cleveland, Sweetwater, Chattanoo ga,- Morristown, Jonesboro, Greenville, Bristol, and other points along the line. An exchange estimates that at the- low price of ten cents a pound, the poultry shipped from this city, alone would have amounted to fully §66,000, and it is fair to estimate the value of this indus try to East Tennessee at §100,000 per annum.—KnoxttiUe Tribune. The Grand Canon of the Arkansas niae tnile in length, being the nar row winding way of the river through granite, the walls rising in many places to the height-of 2,500 feet- This rock bonnd river path was discovered by the Spanish missionaries as early as 1642. From that time itisnot known that any animal life passed through it until $be summer of 1870.. Last week a train of cars on the Atchison, Topeka and San ta Fe Railroad made the passage. Along the paliBade that forms the Northern boundary of the-gorgeand about ten feet above the boiling waters, the engineer has carved a road bed. A little Philadelphia boy startled a friend of the family the other day by re marking that he was “four years old with his clothes onl” SoAirryn timber in lime water has been recommended for preserving it from dry rot and the effects of the since the war, as above re- f weather. the sailors say, “headonlthe sea”; which means that Ithe bow must continually be presented to the on-coming wave. Thus managed, the dory, from its ex treme bouyancy, dances like a cork’ on the summit of terrible wave-crests, which would break overwind fill a heav ier boat.. But if the;heart of the rower "fails, or worse still, if his thole-pin gives away, or his oar breaks, thesis, lie in danger, indeed. The dory, swinging broadside to the sea, is rolled over iu an instant, and becomes the sportj of the waves, while ifes occupant finds himself strag gling in the ocean, The thee methods most in vogue among fishermen for taking cod on the Banks of Newfoundland, are these,— “hand-lining,” “trawling,”, and “dory fishing”, The two former have been often described. . It is sufficient for me that in “hand-lining,” all hands fish from the vessel’s deck, while in “trawl ing.” a line sometimes amileiu length, to which hundreds of baited hooks are attached, is sunk to the propper depth, and visited once or twicejin the twenty- four hours if the weather permits—so that tbe fisli may be] taken off and the hooks rebaited. But in * dory-fishing,” a dory is nl-. luted to each one of the crew, in which, unless the weather be exceptionally bad he must launch out into the deep, there to remain until he catches his boat- full, or is warned by the gathering darkness to return, Though, as to that, it is seldom or never really licrlit for auy length of time on the Banks. Here, indeed, is the birthplace of gloomier, denser, and more generally vmpleasant fogs than can be found anywhere else in the kuowa world. But catching thousands upon thousands of fine cod-fish seems an ample equivalent for not catching even a glimpse of the sun for weeks at a time, and, doubtless, the world looks all the, blighter when one again reaches a region of clear atmosphere and sunny skies. But despite the many unpleasant and dangerous surroundings of such a trip, almost every one returns several pounds heavier, and several degrees healthier. Hard-worked collegians, arid even puny boy-students, often ship from Cape Ann ortGloucester in the spring, with this sole object in view.—St. Nicholas for July. T«E NEW NAPOLEON- IF THE SAHARA IS FLOODED, " WHAT? The only important objection which has thus far been urged against the un dertaking has arisen in the apprehen sions expressed by a few scientists that the evaporation produced by so large and-so shallow a body of water, expos ed to the tropical sun, would be suffi cient to deluge northern Europe with incessant rains, and to rednce s material ly the temperature iu all the countries north of the Alps. It has even been feared that winds freighted with mois ture bn crossing the cold summits of the Alps, would precipitate vast vol umes of water, and produce a degree of cold which would give Denmark and northern Germany a semi-Arctic climate and produce a glacial epoeh farther horth. Is it not probable that all snch apprehensions arise out of a xnisnnder, standing as to the topography of the Sahara and North Africa? The entire region to be flooded is practically shnt in by mountain chains on all sides.— The Atlas Mountains on the north, lift ing their snow-clad peaks'in some in stances 12,000 feet, affords a sufficient bulwark for the protection of Enrope from increased humidity. The enly possible northern outlet for air currents from El Jnf would be across Tnnis in a north-easterly direction over the widest part of the Mediterranean. Currents moving in that direction, if they reach ed Europe at all, would touch the shores of Greece after they had lost mast of their humidity. M. de Les- seps, after a careful examination of the question, is convinced that it would re-= spit in the general improvement of the climate of Europe rather than to its detriment. The advantages of the in creased evaporation tc north Africa can not- be overestimated. The snow-clad cliffs of Abnn, lying to the east of the proposed sea, and the Kong Mountains to the south, would bring down upon The news of the death of the prince imperial was not published in the morn ing papers, and it was late in the after noon before it was generally known. It" made a great sensation, and among the Bonapartists created genuine dismay. The death of Prince Louis Napoleon af ford an opportunity to what used to be the Palais Royal Bonapartists, to start a new pretender. The fresh claimant for im perial power is a youth of seventeen, and were the republic to break down he might be susceptible of being con verted into a good ruler and imposing figurehead. This lad represents a dem ocratic and Csesaristic tradition, and by his mother’s blood and his resemblance to her family ha would he associated with a constitutional one as well. He is the eldest son of Prince Napoleon and of the Princess Clotilde, of Savoy and is called after her father and Great Uncle, who attempted to revive the Carlovin gian empire and make Paris its admin istrative seat. Victor Napolean is the double name he bears. The first of the two names is one of happy augury. In Italy it was emblazoned on the national flag, and accepted as a rallying cry by Cavour, Garibaldi, Ricasoli and Mazzi- Victovia,-in England, has been for EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE OF CRIME IN MASSA CHUSETTS. forty years the incarnation of constitu tional freedom, and venerated at home and abroad as a true-hearted queen and woman, faithful to every public and domestic trust reposed in her. Prince Victor Napoleon has little in his physiognomy to prove his Bonapartean lineage. He is a masculine edition, very much revised and corrected, of the Princess Clotilde, and unmistakably the grandson of H Re Galantuomo. Prince Napoleon gives him and his brother, Louis Victor, an excellent and manly education. The eldest boards with a professor of the institution Ste, Barbe, and follows the classes there. Next year ho will enter the military school at St. Cyr, which will not absord so much of the time which should b.e spent in looking about and gathering a fund of general knowledge as would be the Poly technique. The youngest boy is the imago of the great uncle, but up to fun, an,d myrtbful, which the first emperor was not in his youth- He is at the country branch of the Ste. Barbe school. The two lads spend their ‘lliursday half-holidays with their aunt, the Princess Mathilde and when she is at her rural home at St. Gartiens, they ride there, followed bw a groom, to dine with her. On Sundays they go to their father’s chambers in the avenue Mon taigne. SPIDERS AND ANTS—ISLAND QF SC. THOMAS tion, would in time no doubt redeem thousands desolations of the sam July. ' A large ground spider [Lycosa,) is abundant in the island, inhabiting a hole in the ground about six inches in depth and from, half an inch to an inch in diameter, and with a right angled turn at the bottom to form a resting- place for the spider. Some negro boys dug the spiders out for me. They said that their bite was poisonous, and that they fed ou lizards, leaving their holes at night to search for them. The boys soon grubbed one out with a knife, a great heavy venomous-look ing brute abont three inches across. It bit savagely at my forceps. The holes of tlies;e Spiders were so common that on one tolerably clear patch of about an acre in extent they were dotted over the entire area at about one or two feet dis tant from one another. I noticed the holes at once, and was astonished when the boys told me they-were the spiders’ holes. A species of white ant (Termite) is very, common, which makes large glo bular nests as mnch as two feet in di ameter, and which are perched high up in the fork of a tree. The nests are made of a hard brown comb.' From the bottom of the tree covered gallerier, abont half an inch in width, lead np on the surface of the bark to the nests, looking like long narrow brown streaks upon the trunk of the tree. The gal leries usually follow a somewhat irreg ular course np the trank to the nests, reminding one of the canons deviations which are always to be seen in foot paths ent out by people in walking across fields, in their endeavors to go straight from one poiiat to another. The galleries, or rather tabular ways, for they have bottoms to them, are made of the same tough brown sub stance ns the nests, and are cemented firmly to the barb. Though they are so broad, in order ta allow nr.tfierous ants so pass and repass, they are only high enough for the ants to walk un der. I broke pae of these galleries, and a number of soldier termites came ont and began biting my hands,' hardly, making themselves felt, but as brave as if they had a stiiyr. I had to break a considerable length of the gallery be fore I got to any of the working ter mites, as they had retired from the scene of danger. ; ; k j - A species of peripatus is found in St. Thomas, bat I Sid not succeed in meeting with any. An ogonti, a spe cies of the rodent {Dasyproja) occurs nare miles from the tbaUfcwas commonrin thl™^ ^ ^ his sugar plantation.—ff. 1 . “.Votes hy a Naturalist/’ id The rapid inorease in the number* of crimes of a grave nature is attracting the attention of every one. In this city on Thursday afternoon, as two children under thirteen years of age, Fred. W. DeCain and Owen Monahan, were going to school they had a quarrel, and tile latter fatally .slabbed the former, once in the arm and again in the abdomen, using a, common pocket-knife. The boys had been good friends before the encounter. Monahan was locked np and DeCain sent to the City Hospital. Last Sunday evening a woman threw her infan% ont of a third-story window at the north part of the city, and the child was picked np in a crashed and deplorable condition, but with life still in its body. A few weeks ago a stu dent of medicine in the Boston Univer sity was arrested for destroying his sis ter’s life by giving tier poison. Two weeks ago John N. Buzzell and Carrie Porter, an unmarried mother, came over from Chelsea and tried to dispose of an infant ten or twelve days old. None of the public institutions would take the little one. Buzzell said it must be got rid of some how, so he hired a carriage and drove to the woods in Walden, Miss Porter and her child being with him. On arriving in the woods lie took the infant, put his finger down its throat and strangled it. The inhuman brute then threw, the child’s body into the bushes and drove away. Miss For-, ter, on being arrested, made a full con fession, and said that Buzzell was the father of the baby. Buzzell said lie had been drinking, and on being lock ed np, gave a pretty clear acount of the affair. Then there was Jennie Clarke, who was found in a trunk at Lynn a few months ago. Though after a hun dred failures, she was identified and bnried by her family, nothing has been accomplished in the way of arresting her murderers. A few months earlier a woman was found murdered and float ing in tbe water pear Beacon street. Those who murdered her have not b?en found ont, though the police have spent much time on the case. A great mystery was the dpath of Mrs. Whit man, in the Banker Hill District, who was thought to have been murdered by her daughter Mabel, aided by Dr. Spears. The girl purchased poison, ar senic, at a drag-store, and also a new tea-pot to make tea in for her mother. Her mother died after drinking the tea made for her by Mabel, and a post mortem examination showed considera ble quantities of poison in Mrs. Whit man’s stomach. Nevertheless Mabel was discharged, after a preliminary ex amination. A few months before that occurrence, a child living in the vicini ty of Columbus Avenue, shot and killed another child. And the crime of Piper, who murdered little Mabel Young, at the Warren Avenue church, are still freshly remembered. There seems to be an epidemic of srime all over the country, and Boston appears to have a pretty bad record. THE WYSE XNTEROCEANIC CA. I TOUCHING SOME SHADE TRET S'- NAL. __ Maples are :;apid growers, pretty anefc - AY.- j_ The selection hy a vote of 64 yeas toJ 8 nays of the Wyse route for an h.tero-1 ... . • - .' . - t * The tnlip is a moderate, grower or ceonic canal without locks by the Paris} , • , , , Congsess, does not appear to have given I as ^: and lta lc » 7es ar * entire satisfaction. It was hardly to he j honey to the bees. expected that such would be the case HORSEFLESH- The market for harses continues to steadily improve with the w irm weath er, and the supply is batter than during the last couple of weeks, J. S. Cooper, of Monroe street, reports an increased demand for heavy horses and good dri vers, and reports the following sales since last Saturday: One gray mare, six years old, weight 1,300 ponnds§165; one gray mare, seven years old, weight 1,300 pounds, §160; one bay mare five years cld, weight 1,400 ponnds, §175; one bay horse, five years old, weight 1,500 ponnds, §190; one gray mare four years old, weight 1,400 pounds, 170; one bay horse seven years cld, weight 1,200 ponnds, §125; one gray horse six years old, weight 1,150 pounds, §115; one gray horse sev en years old, weight 1,100 pounds, §100; one bay horse seven years old, 950 ponnds, §100; one bay mare four years old, 1,400 ponnds. §165; one bay horse five years old, weight 1,350 ponnds, §160; one black mare seven years old, weight 1-.800 pounds, §1?)Q; one gray horse seven years old, weight 1,000 ponnds, ; §167; one brown mare six years old, weight 1,150 pounds, §125.; one where there were so many able engineers anxious to put forward their own sur veys for the honor that-the construction of such a’ magnificient water-way would trive. At the back of these ambitions engineers are the parties to whom con cessions of various rights of way across the isthmus have been granted, and vho expec ted to make what is in com mon phrase,, a “good thing” out of the franchise. The connection by mar riage of Commander YYyse with the Bonaparte family, apart from the fact this survey for a ship, canal is tbo only one that dispenses with the use of locks, gave to his project in tbe beginning, in the atmosphere of Paris, an especial prominence. Iu addition to this it is but just to saj that it enters and emer ges on good harbors ou both sides. In this respect the route is certainly supe rior to the next favorite route, that hy the San Juan river and Lake Nicaragua route has no harbors on either side worth mentioning, tbe old harbor of Greytown being no longer capable of floating any vessels except those of the very lightest draft. The New York Herald is dissatisfied with the decision of the Iutevoceanic Ca nal Congress. It now speaks of it ns ‘a snap judgment” and of the Wyse project as one ip which Americans will take ao stock. It is quite probable that onr capitalist will be chary of in vesting in it; but it does not necessari ly follow Ibat the money will not be found abroad wherewith to build it. M. Lesseps fuiind bis countrymen ready to embark their aieaas in the Suez ca nal, l.otwitkstauding the. unfavorable reports concerning it bv English engin eers of the highest reputation, who predicted that it would speedily be. choked up with the snird blown into it from the desert. For any canal which the Iuteroceanic 'Congress should de cide to be practicable and laid do rn by the best route across the i>tliinus M. Lesseps has emphatically declared that the money will be forthcoming, large as the sum of one hundred apd sixty miU lions of dollars appears. If his confi dence is warranted by a knowledge of where the money can be had we see no reason why we should internose objec tions and obstacles riin| ly because it is pot an Auiericau selieme. There cannot be po ship capal made across the isth mus that would not benefit ua far more than any other nation, and if there are men who are ready to build it, we should stand m the way of our onn interest if we discouraged them from doing so. All that we need to do is to secure free dom of transit and the neutrality of the teritory through which it passes.—Sal iimore Sun. WIND WO&KS. All of us have heard of “YViud Works”, but the New Orleans Democrat is taking the matter in hand of reacucing what may he properly called real “Wind Works,” from the ridicule which ig norant mankind has been disposed to heap upon it. The Democrat ybiuks that inasmuch as Citiec are supplied with tight and water tLrongh pipes, there can be no good reason why fresh and wholesome air may not, also be supplied through pipes. It recommends the formation of a §$5,000,000 stuck company, to establish a system of “Wipd Works” which sh?U furnish, daring the heated months, fresh breeezes and cool air to the city. Big steam en gines and mainmonth reseryiors are sug gested as a payt o| the requisites. Tbe air is to be introduced into the reser- viors from an altitude far above mias ma by one set of pipes, and squirted through the streets day snd night, in cooling currents, by another set of pipes, thns keeping everything serene and happy. Of course so original anj charming a picture would not be complete unless it cordd be pmde available for individu als as well as popim unities. So' it is suggested that japes might be arranged so as to distribute these fre.-h breezes soyrel mare nine years old, weight qqo j sweet, pure air, like gas r-n water to ponnds, §65. Fisher & Taylor, at the corner of Fif teenth street and Wabash Avenne, port a demand for heavy draft horses that is not supplied, and also a demand for good geldings of solid color and good si^e, as well as roadsters, saddlers and fine carriage teams. They have made the following sales since Monday: One pair black carriage horses, §600; one scarel paper, §310; one black horse, §120; one bay mar?, §190; one black horse, §100; one brown horse, §125; one black horse, §135; one chestnut mare, §175; one bay mare, §215; ope brown road jraye,' §275; one'; black saddle years old, §2S5; one sorrel Kentucky saddle mare, §236; one Ken- ; one pair yo- private houses, snd thus make the city of New Orleans the pleasantest and healthiest ci:y in the country. But to take the poetry out of the picture, the Democrat has the hardihood to suggest that these wind working engines be put to the practical purposes of m&pc- faptnrigg enterprises besides. Bat really, why not something of the sort' be dope? Running oil from the wells Baltimore in pipes a distance of over a hundred and twenty-five miles, is nn accomplished fact, when, three years * * ago, it was thought ii " The poplars—balsam and some otlir ers—grow rapidly, do not spread muofl and ore often broken m storms: *c The. silver poplar and silver mnpl& are beantxfnlj when high in air a gentle. breeze displays the lower side of thti. leaves. The former requires greatest to keep it iu bounty. The horse chestnut is o r slow increase,; but of beautiful early foliage;it soon de-L velops a large terminal bsril arid wailsE till next spring. The common chestnut is so wpl^ know n to all, especial^ boys; fhtf ltd majestic beauty, when mature, is over-; looked. It is one of onr largest freest and some fine specimens of anCiAAtf times, often mentioned by bist6riin&^ are still mute witnesses of ancient deeds.' The catulpa is $ straggling tree o? small size, lute in leaffcg; of little shade! but fine flowers, eacti of which is a mar-7 vel of beauty. The paulownia, very similar in ap-I pparunce to the catulpa, bears profuse-.' ly in June long flowers of great sweet-7 ness. The linden grows slowly,; yeijjf compact and gives dense shade. The- flowers are inconspicuous, but of a del-; ieate, powerful fragrance. The weeping willow, with its long; drooping, delicate shoots, is one of thfe; first trees to start ia the spring, and) furnishes mor? shade from the trank; than from the foliage. The American elm is a beautiful ijrert, but requires mnch room to. show its* true character. It is better for tlio‘ road than for shade on a lawn, although tliere, a fine old tree is a most; ctiarm-r ing feature. The black walnut is of slow growth,; whea young, attains beauty and some-* times immense size and grandhor with, 1 age. The ash is seldom used as a shade' tree and is probably less known than,' any of the above. Jt has no very striky ing point?. The feather;, teinjei grow tii of tin' larch in the spring, and its beantifn^ cones later, are greatly admired. Many of the evergreen conifera: X-i of artistic value and are piized most im 1 the winter, when their companions havq-' cast of their summer garb --' The ailanthns (tree of heavcn)fron£ China, a graceful, rapid grower, well' know in onr cities, exhales a- sickening odor when in flswer. The white birch is scarcely a tree of shade. Its snowy bark ,-it? dark-greedi foliage and its long, drooping, graceful sprays combined, make it on.e' of the’ most beautiful objects of tjie lawm The foliage of the pnrple and Coppert beeches is much admired, being dis-. tinet from the common color of trees.- The tender shoots taken off in spring,- pist when the leaves are c^payffe^, n net- ironed to preserve the slyipe^hre fine; wall ornaments. Thera are many species of Cftks ity cultivation, some very beautiful; gener ally, however^ they may be considered of slow growth and inferior for shade. Many drooping trees (of the grafted varieties) are highly ornamental, but'oft little othyr valne. Fruit trees, as apples and cherries; have generally a ragged appearance^ and though very good in themselves^ should have no place .on an otherwise: well-keDt lawn. We have thus run quickly through the shade tree? that are most famfliaf\ each of which deserves mnch greater attention.—Rural Lift? P. nusylvania to ! OD .f.“ When to Paint.—One who bds hatf experience, writes that ‘paint applied to the exterior of buildings in autumn or winter will endnre twice as long a^ when applied in early summer or hot weather. In the former it dries slowly and. becomes hard like a glazed surfacs, not easily affected af 1 erwards by tho weather, or w om off by the beating of storms. But ip very hot weather the oil in the paint soaks into the wood at once as if brio a. sponge, leaving the lead aeaily dry, and ready to crambla off. 'Ibis hut difficulty, however, might in a measure be guarded against, though at an increased expense, by Grst going-over the surface with raw oil.— Furthermore, hy painling in cold weather the annoyance of small flies, which invariably collect during the warm season on fresh paint-, is avoided. As an off-set to this, there is a trou ble with slow-drying paint—it is tin dmt, which will always i exposed surfaces, w-11 keep to . face frr *