Jane Crap Report

The Michigan erop report for June shows that wheat was injured during the flrst part of May by the dry, hot weather, but that the raios during the latter part of the month helped it, the prospecta being now for 87 per cent. of a erop m the southern counties. The erop is several days more forward than last year. The rainfall is only 68-hundredths of an inch above the normal for May and the total deficiency in precipitation in the twelve months endirjg May 1 is more than eleven inches. Reports have been received of the quantity of wheat marketed at 289 elevators and milis showing the whole number of bushela to have been 393,693. Of this amount 51,337 bushels were marketed in Washtenaw county, nearly 20,000 more bushels than in any other county in the state. The total erop of 1888 was 23,581,504 bushels; reported marketed, 14,144,946 bushele; balance not reported or in the farmers' hands, 1,786,558 bushels. The corn erop has been iDJured by ■worms and frosts, an average of seven per cent. of the area planted failing to grow. Oats and barley are about the game as wheat. Apples promise 82 per cent. of a erop in the southern counties. The number of sheep sheared In 928Jtownships in 1888 was 1,682,260; number of pounds of wool, 10,207,791; average per head, 6 and 6-hundredths pounds. The clip of the state this year will amount to about 11,360000 pounds. The average wages paid for help by the farmers is as follows : southern counties, $16.86 with board and $23.70 without board; central counties, $16.75 with board, and $25.46 without board; northern counties, $18.67 with board, and $28.86 without board. Breakers - " What shall we do with our oíd clothes?" asks a correspondent. Start a newspaper to fill a long feit want - you will need them afterwards. - Epoch. Spare moments are the gold dust of time. Tbis spring has witnessed the heaviest rainfall in April and May that has been recorded since the weather bureau was organized. The New York Sun has figured it out that on the first Sunday in June 119,464 persons went to see twenty-four baseball games in the Union. Bradlaugh, the English Radical, demands that parliament shall cut down the wages of Queen Victoria. He thinks she does not earn it. The poor old lady only gets $2,105,400 a year at present for her own expenses. It would be downright cruelty to diminish her supply of new caps and No. 6 shoes. In 1886 Rhodelsland adopted a prohibitory amendment to its constitution. Now, af ter three years' trial, it has been found to be unsatisfactory, and the question of repealing the amendment ia to be submitted to the people. The vote will be taken on the 20th of this month. The people will then decide, af ter mature deliberation, whether they want prohibition. The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph says plainly that Pennsylvanians should make good all losses to the survivors of the Johnstown nood. "Had the laws of the state properly guarded the interests of the Conemaugh valley the disaster ne ver would have occurred," says The Telegraph. A loóse dirt wall confined a vast weight of water in the artificial reservoir of the Pittsburg Fishing club.