When To Cut Clover

-Some ments upon the nutritiva valué of oiover hay, are reported by Wagner, a Germán. Ín a field of red clover three contiguous pareéis of equal size were meaaured off. From. one the oiover was cut May 22, just before the beginning of the blossom; f roña the second, Jnne 13, .in the full blossom ; and from the third, July 1, toward the end of the blossom. The amounte of hayobtained were 85, 114 and 128pounds respectively. The hay was analyzed, and its nutritivo valué thus estimated. It appeared that the amounts of nitrogenous substances were about the same in all, and that the older hay contained also a much larger percentage of crude fibre, and that its ingredients were so much less digestible that its nutritive value was leas than that of the smaller but younger erop. The author recoinmends, therefore, that clover be cut either when in full blossom, or even before the beginning of the blossom. We are not as unhealthy a people as some folks would make us out to be. The Provost Marshal General'a report, jujt published, gives, as the result of the examination of 605,000 men during the war, the statement that the Amerioans stood higher upon the list in point of general freedom from disease, than any Europeans. They were only eicelled by the negroes and Canadians, standing in the order named. The unhealthiest people examined were the Germana and Irish. More people were disqualified from diseases of the digestivo organs than any other. A few daya ago, two bankers who reside in Kingston, were standing on the walk conversing with eaoh other, when a stylish lady passed by. Said one to the other, "Who is that young woman?" " What," said the other, " doirtyou know her ? Why, that's your daughter." The banker took another long look, and then sighed, as he answered, " So it is." One thing in the new deal in the South particularly scarifying to the superior race, is the fact that positions are reversed, and the whites are employed by the blacks, A North Carolina paper, mentions as a " oase of peculiar horror " in Charlotte, that of a white woman, the widow of a Confedérate soldier, employed as a oook in a negro family, and her daughter, a child of ten years of age, acting as soullion. Many of the Southern journals seem to be having a peculiarly hard time now. One of the Alabama papers lately published figures to show how small the aggregate circulation of those best known is, and the Columbus, _Ga., JEnquirer appears with about threé" columns of its advertising space vacant, except with the significant announcement in large type that the space is " to let." Milwaukee Sentinel : The worst feature about this cremation business is that some winter morning, in a fit of philanthropy, your widow's second husband inay empty your ashes on the icy pavement for the benefit of pedestrians. During the municipal year of 1873-4 there was raised by taxation in Grand Rapids $177,940, and from other sources as a revenue, aside from "the fines which go to the library fund, f 17,414 49, making a total of $194,354 49. A man wants $1,000,000 from the Montreal Witness for defamation of character. What a magnificent character his must have been bofore it was injured. The man's name - good heavens'r' We have forgotten it. The editor of the Leavenworth daily Argua remarks in the obituary of his paper : " We went into the business determined to run it or bust. We have busted." The salea of gold for the month of May will be as follows : On the first and second Thursdays $1,000,000 each day, and on the third and fourth Thursdays $1,000,0000 each day, making $5,000,000 ia all.