Agriculturists have their jokes as well as literary men. Judge peters, of punning memory, one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society, commenced a reform in butter making, as an example that should render Philadelphia what it is, the best butter market in the world. At his first experiment of making sales in the market house, his butter was seized as being of short weight, and his weights were consequently sent to the examiner, coming home stamped, C. P., for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "Ah!" said the inveterate and veteran wit to his wife, "they've found us out and marked us C P., Cheating Peters /" - -A lady of our acquaintance has lately been much interested by a family of flying squirrels which were born inside a latticed shutter of her boudoir window. At Dr. Ward's we saw a wren's nest in a similar situation in the library window of the good doctor, who, to give no disturbance to his welcome visitor, kept, his shutters closed till the brood was gone. This kind of attention humanises and. delights the lover of nature.-----Of late years many beautiful wall flowers have been raised in Germany, such' as crimson with white stripes.

These have been originated between the wall-flower and the stock, and well deserve attention.-----The great verbena, in England, now is the Favorite, with exceedingly large trusses of flowers, of a rich dark scarlet.-----To destroy mice in a garden, bury pickling jars in the ground, with their mouths even with the surface; pour a little water in them,, and the mice will fall in during the night and be drowned Mr. Snow, of Chicopee, Mass., has devoted himself to a speciality, cultivating verbenas alone. The idea is a good one, and might be successfully followed by others. Rhododendrons should be taken up in this w»y» and every hardy kind demonstrated to he so. The Messrs. Waterer, of England, have done this; they get fifty guineas sometimes for a fine new plant.- They have hybridized the Himalayan and American kinds till the variety is infinite. The Belgian rhododendrons, hardy and fragrant, are a great acquisition among us, but we have failed in introducing some of the beat of our own country. - -r-The dandelion is very prolific of seeds, as many as two hundred ripening on a single plant.

To exterminate them they must be out very low down, for without this treatment numerous new sprouts appear, and getting rid of them becomes yearly more difficult.-----:The manufacture of beet-root sugar continues to prosper in France. There is a company established at Dresles, with a capital of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars, dividing 15 per cent, annually. Last year they grew 1200 acres of beet, from which they made sugar and alcohol, and . with the pulp fed an enormous herd of animals. The State exacts an onerous tax of two hundred dollars the hectare of two and a half acres.-----The waterworks of the new crystal palace, near London, are spoken of on all hands as beautiful in the extreme. The number of jets is nearly 12,000, discharging 120,000 gallons of water per minute; jet succeeds jet, fountains of all kinds sparkle and dash into fantastic forms, and on each hand a vast torrent struggling perpendicularly to the sky, sighing and surging, and panting, like some fierce water god endeavoring to force its way upwards from a subterranean prison, surrounded i by a crowd of attendants clustering round its base, and giving solidity to the space he stood upon.

The height is the greatest ever attained in fountains, ascending to the level of the crown of the nave. - - Sir David Brewster, in his life' of Newton, has discovered that the great philosopher had a taste for gardening, perhaps a new feature in the imaginary picture we form of him. It is folly corroborated by some letters, in which we find him anxiously and critically dilating on the best varieties of apple from which to obtain grafts', and expressing a wise preference for the genuine "red streaks." - Goldfish, as well as others, are attacked by a fungus like the yeast plant, which attaches itself to their scales and finally kills them.

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That quaint old writer, Sir Thomas Browne, in his Urn Burial, says: "Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of bur names, to be studied by antiquaries who we are, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages."-----Potatoes. We saw, on Saturday, says the Newport News, fifty potatoes which'Weighed fifty and a half pounds; they were raised on the farm of J. Prescot, Hall, Esq., on some low, swampy land which has but recently been reclaimed. We saw them weighed, and consequently know that the statement is correct; this exceeds anything that we have heard of lately in the potato line.