The Dog And The Gardener

-It is a city gentlemaD, who waiteth for his bus, as to liis spouse he burriedly addresseth hiicself thus: "For yon rough-ooated Terrier rough coated? - more than that- a shocking, shaggy, uncouth, uukempt animuted mat! - Now, prithee, charge our gardener, who cometh once a week, to wash and comb and brush the sc.tmp, and make him slick and sleel, a8 it cometh gentlemanly doggit3 to appear, and give him asulatium of a half a pinti of beer." A month elapsed; man, wife and dog togecher sit at meat. Thus quoth the city gentleman : - "Dog, eagerly you eat of al! that we partake of, but I scruple not to think your ïeriiership would draw the line it alcoholic drink." Derisively, he sets a glass of beer upon the door. Eftsoons the terrier laps it np, and licks his lips for more. Astonished is the gentleman at such abnormal thirst. The mystery the lady thu3 expoundeth: "Yes, at ürst our gardener with difficulty forced it dowu his throat, but novv the dog would gladly drink enough to floataboat." At a mental g!ance he took the situation in, "Why, gracious!" crifd the gentleman, with a most expansive grin, "l must have mixed my pronouns up! I thought it would be clear the gardenor, and not the dogr, should have the glass of beer!" The lime process for blasting coal has been successfully tested in many English mines. The lime is made up into large cartndges, and the drilled holes are charged with these cartridges in much the same way as they would be with gunpowder; then the lime is wet, and it breaks down the coal by force of expansión. The process, however, is more costly than gunpowaer blasting, and henee is not likely to supersede it, except in those collieries where the danger or explosions is recognized as brinjr exceptionally great. In a memoir on the origin of cultivated plants, by Mons. Candolle, it is stated that out of 140,000 kno wn species of plants about 300 are used by man,