Pennsylvania State Fair. — The premium list for this fair, to be held at Harrisburg 

 the fall, offers cash premiums amounting to $5,059, ranging from $100 down to $1. There are 

 also embraced in the list thirty-one silver cups and goblets, eighty-three silver medals, and a 

 number of bronze medals. 



Col. Wilder has been making another excellent speech at the celebration at Dorches- 

 ter. There can be no possible objection to this, but it would be very agreeable to his 

 friends, if he. would put pen to paper more frequently also on the subject he is so 

 capable of enlightning us upon — Horticulture. 



Lightning. — M. Baudin, of the French Academy of Sciences, mentions some dozen instan- 

 ces in which the figures of trees, flowers, leaves, and other objects have been imprinted on 

 the human body by lightning strokes. The phenomenon seems to bear some resemblance to 

 photography. 



TiiEES at the Side of Railways. — The Austrian government requests the directors of 

 the I'ailways in the Empire to plant young trees, of a description indicated, at convenient 

 distances along the lines, intending them eventually to replace the posts upon which telegraphic 

 wires are at present affixed. If this plan should be adopted in the United States, a graceful 

 tree would take the place and perform the service of the unsightly poles which are to be seen 

 along our railways and public roads. 



The Rhode Island Horticultural Society has published in a very handsome form, 

 its charter, constitution and by-laws, and seems to be altogether in a prosperous way. 



A Yankee Boy. — A few days since three boys in Norfolk, Ct., discovered a swarm of bees 

 settled upon a low bush. One of them immediately disrobed, and taking his shirt, tied up 

 the neck and arms, and then slipped it over the swarm, and in this manner succeeded in 

 securing and hiving it. 



The American Institute. — The Directors of the American Institute announce that their 

 twenty-seventh annual exhibition will be held at the Crystal Palace, opening on the 3d of 

 October. Should this affair result favorably, it may result in the purchase of the palace for 

 the use of the association ; but the place is in such bad odor that the experiment of the Insti- 

 tute is one of doubtful results. 



Short Horns. — AVe have not received the catalogue of " Short Horned Cattle" from 

 Elizabethtown N. J. alluded to in a note from R. T. Haines, the father of the 

 proprietors /. D. H. Toronto. The paper alluded to has not yet reached us, much to 

 oiir regret. 



Professor Agassiz, proposes to publish the most important results of his scientific 

 labors in twelve volumes with plates, by subscription. The price will bo ten dollars 

 each volume. Large subscriptions have been made in Boston and New Bedford. 

 Little & Brown of Boston are to be the publishers. We wish the undertaking every 

 success. 



The Wholesale Catalogue of Ellwanger and Barry for the present autumn is on our 

 table, and contains the usual and extensive variety of that enterprising firm. Their fruit 

 trees are justly celebrated. 



CoRN.^A correspondent asks if we believe the story of a stalk of corn having 

 grown ten and a half inches in twenty-four hours. Yes ; in the Winchester Re- 

 publican. 



