To Cure Wormy Trees

Tha fo'lowing rooipo 8 publisnad ia the New York Evening Post: With a larga gimlet or augur bora into the body of the tree, juat below where the liiubs s'.art, in throS plaoes, a groove incliuing downwards. With a small tunnel pour a shüling'a worth of quicksilver into eaoh groove. Pegr it up closely, and watoh the result. Had it been done when tha sap first started on its upward oironit it wou'd have been more effioaoibus - yet, even now, it wili greatly abate the nuisanoe. The plan was first tried for a wormy apple trco by Sarnial Jones, Esq., of Canaan, Cclumbia Co., N. Y., and with eutire success. It is believed that, far frorn daraaging the trees, it will eveo add to the beauty of the foliage. Ia case of tho fruit abova mentioned tha cure was siirprieing, not only tha fruit beooming perfeot aud besutiful, but th very leaf seeraed to grow larger and fr mora dark and glossy. The statements going the rounds of the presR, that Pretiideut Lincoln told somebody that he was of Jewish de pcent, has for its origin simply this :- Mr. Linooln, talkingr with a iíabbi, jooa lurly romarked that ho, Linonln, wa probably of H--bjw stock, as his f:ithor had threo soné, wbo were naaied Abra ham, Isaac, and Jacob. Riohmond papers report tho biioinOM arrivals as somot'ning knraen öuriosity buiiters have gi"en plaoe to eolil men with greenbjoka.