The grasshopper seems likely to destroy the entire crop of the Mormons. The time comes to the best of us when "the grasshopper is a burden;" but we apprehend that when no grain is to be had, repudiation will commence in earnest, and a dozen wives, in addition to the grasshopper, will be found a burden too heavy to bear. When there is nothing for the mill-hopper, the ladies will have to skip haren-scareum. Eve was declared to be taken from the side of Adam, but only one Eve; too many in a famine will create a stitch, which modern Adamites will be glad to drop. If they had a Punch in Utah, he would first express his astonishment that women would voluntarily make Judy's of themselves.

The Onion, according to Johnston's Chemistry of Common Life, contains from twenty-fife to thirty per cent of gluten, ranking in this respect with the nutritious Pea and the grain of the East. It is not merely as a relish, therefore, that the wayfaring Spaniard eats his Onion with his humble crust of bread, as he sits by the refreshing spring. It is because experience has long proved that it helps to sustain his strength also, and adds (beyond what its bulk would suggest) to the amount of nourishment which his simple meal supplies.

Somebody advices, in a note to us, that the blossoms of the Ailanthus be clipped off every year before they begin to give their nauseous odor. If the gentleman would just trim a couple of dozen by way of pastime, perhaps he would change his mind as to the labor, to say nothing of very decided if not satisfactory effect of such cutting upon the trees. The place to cut is at the roots, Mr. Clinton-place; cat off the dog's tail about an inch back of the ears, if you would be sure to prevent him from running mad. - N. Y. Paper.