Birkett

Still dry and hot. Fruit of all kiDds will be small. The potato erop is a failure. Three-fourths of the oom in this vicinity will be cut simply for the fodder. Your correspondent shot four wild cranes at Portage Lake last Saturday. They are a rare bird in these parta. Thomas Birkett, of this place, Wm. and Alex. McPherson, of Rowell, and Dwight Smith, of Jackson, left last Saturday for an extended trip in the upper península. The threshing machine is abroad in the land and threshers have fixed prices at $3.00 per hundred for grain in bundies acd $5.00 for loose grain. There is a larger quantity of the latter around here, as many were obliged to mow their wheat. He (at dianer) - "May I assist you to the cheese, iliss Vassar ?" Miss Vassar, (ju?) gradi;ated) - "Thanks, uo! I ara very ccmfortable where I am. But you may assist the ehtese to me, if you will!" -