Wisconsin And Iowa

These State? are about the sume size and age. In 1860 WUoonsin wan superior in populntion a hundred thoii9and. But witnin thn ncxt decade it lost its superiority and came out well-nigb 1.30,000 interior. The secret ofthis revolution is that Iowa runs down two degrees further south than Wisoonun, tbat is, into tl grand agrictdlvral belt into whioh American population is irrosistibly gravitating. Thère i no other obvious reason why migration should set frora Wisoonsin bo Iowa, rathor trom Iowa to Wiseonsin. But the rourse and amount of that migration are remarkable. In 1870 the Wisconsinians living in Iowa wero 21,309, whilo the Iowans living in Wiseonsin were less than onc tenth as niany, namely, _,4'23. This Wiseonsin exodus to Iowa has inainly grown up since 1800, when the nativos of Wisoonsin living in Iowa were only 5,121- less by more than 19,000 than the number ten years afterwards But Iowa is now full. No more public land there. None that is desirable has been for yearr. Xebraska is a riem Iowa. Identical in location, or running half a degree further south ; of similar soil and rolling prairie, equally healthy, with access to markets both mining and military, westward, and above all with more railroads at tho start than Iowa could build in twenty j'oarg, Nebraska is bom with a gold spoon in its mouth. No where are more homesteaders and }reemptors But many who start for gevernment farms conclude to buy of the Burlington and Missouri Kiver Kailroad Co , linding its lands near the irontrack prireel lower than school lands - on long credit, low interest, accessiblo by free passes, the first pay-day of any part of principal put off four years, etc, etc. Prof. J. 1. BUTUSB. There ia in Paris an agocl woniau wlio lias for the last fity years supported nerself by an industry of which, we believe, she enjoys a complete monopoly. She supplies the Garden of Acclimatization in Paris with food for the pbeasants, which food consists entirely of swrt'i Bggs. These she collects ia the woods iroutid Paris, and recoives about 12f. for the quantity she bringrs back from each of her foraging expedition3. These genarally last three or four days, during which she sleeps on the field of action, in order to watch the insects at dawn, and to find her way to their treasures. She is almost devoured by the ants, an inconvenience of which sho takes no notico, but at the ond of her harvest time, which lasts from the inouth of June to tho end of September, her whole body is in a truly pitiable condition. Her services are, of course, highly valued, for as there is at present no competition in this line of industry, it would be difficult to jmiply her place. John Ploughman once snirt : " I uever knew a good horso whioh had uot some odd habit or other, and I never yot saw a minister worth his salt, who had not sorae crochet or oddity. Now, theee are the bits of cheese that eavilors smell out and nibble at ; this man is too ülow, and another too fast ; the first is too ttowery, and the second is too dull. Der me, ii all God's oreaturea were judgod in this way, we sliould wring the dove's neck for being too taine, shoot the robina Uu eating spiders, kill the oiows for swiuging their tails, and the hens i'oi not giving us milk. Wfaen a man wants to beat a dog he can soon find a stick, and at this rate any looi may have soraethiDg" to say against the best minister in England. Not long ago, in the Court of Appeals, a certain lawyer, of Celtio extraction, while arguing with earnestness his case, stated a point and then proceeded - " And if it plaze the coort, if I am wrong in this, 1 have another point that is aqually conclusive.'"