The Dead Codfish

-A Tribuue porter reviewed Capt. Lawrence in regard to the remarkable school of dead codflsh through which several boats passed somewhat as fbllows: "A week ago Saturday we were sailing off th Georges Banks. About daylight Sun day morning the mate carne down into the cabin and said that the bark was passing through a lot of dead codflsh, and wanted to know if he should get some of them. I went out on deck and saw that the water all around us and for miles back of us was fllled with these flsh. Their gills were red and upon scooping up some of them I f ound that they were hard, showing that they had not been dead very long. From 6 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock in the eveningwe were passing through this school of codflsh, and as we were sailing at the rate of six knots an hour we went through sixty-nine miles of them." "Did you eat them?" inquired the reporter. "No," said Captain Lawrence; "not sixty-nine miles of 'em. We ate a few." "And this is not a 'flsh story'?" "Hardly. ïhree other vessels report the same facts." Sixty-nine miles of dead tish are some - lish," suggested the incredulous reporter. "You're rigüt," said the captain, "andthat's the pointof the story. They weren't all cod; there was a kind of flsh looking like sea-bass, and, also, a lot of red snappers. We also found some broken ships' 'knees. If they had died of this disease they would have drifted off to the southward, for the current knowu as the polar current is now running very strong. I'm going to acquaint Professor Baird with the facts. It's a matter of interest to the Commissioners. An lllinois correspondent writes: It is useless to conceal the faut that north of say 39, the wiuter wheat erop is beiug seriously threatened by the sharp, froaty nights, and cold, raw, dry and bright days of this month. Unfortunately there may be two, if not three, weeks more of it, and in that time immense damage may be done. But the earth is saturated with water, the growth of the plant is strong, and the erop is iu a much better state to withpnd inclement weather thau usual. Not until after the flrat of April can a fair estímate be safely made of the fall grain erop for the north two-thirds of the winter wheat belt. "Do you mean to cali mea liar?" asked one railroad man of auother railtoad man, during a dispute on business. "No, colonel, I don't mean to cali you a liar. On the contrary, I say you are the only man in towH who tells the truth all the time; but I'm offering a reward of twenty-fi ve dollars and a chromo to iny other man who will say he believes me when I say you never lie," was the response. "Well, I'm glad you took it back," said the other party, as they shook. In London an organizatiou Las been f ormed called the Zoologieal Necropolis Company, which seeks to fiud a burial place for pet animáis, as dogs, cats and little birds. Why notV Who would leave his faithful dog to the dishonora of the gutter or the jackall ? Grass properly cut and cured will make as many pounds of beef as it will green.