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papers. It indeed, hardly to be expected that | quivered a moment over her head, then, as if instinct drought. It is certain, however, that pa 
artial incon 
the wonder aa osna perras have lately been | with demoniac intelligence, fastened u upon her in sudden enience by arable farmers fon th the 
-made one regard to carnivorou s plants would be | coils round and round her neck and arms; then, while | deficiency of water re § by draining. A tenant 
thrown upon newspaper writers ; but one was | her awful screams and yet more awful laughter rose | who occupied a large arable farm prior to the era of 
not prepared “ee = remarkable dev elopment of these | Wilder, to be instantly strangled down again into a thorough draining had a water-power on it for thresh- 
which has i 
E ee SY ere 
been lately published. Some gurgling moan, the tendrils, one after another, like ing his crop ù and duri ` : 
OSR: g P 9.. uring his first lease l 
< of S “readers may be inclined to cons zæ that the | E Epa pews energy ane fornan iag supply Stre. Bit pirar a ae ge | 
stowed upon the subject migh tter | TOS themselves, and wrapt her about in fold th hl ac o aS fe 
space Di Atk ie oe Ngee ve after fold, ever tightening, with the cruel and thoroughly drain eae epee ving 
Sey iality Shieh Shak <a agree TNT k set ae tenacity of anacondas fastening upon their prey. the impression t that — antity o r would 
s 3 S t was the barbarity of the Laocoon without its beauty, | still run off from the land, we that it pe do so 
attractive, and as a specimen of ‘German, or, it may | this strange, horrible murder. And now the great leaves | more rapidly, he had a large reservoir co! 
be, American fiction, it has its interest. It will be rose slowly and stiffly, like the arms of a derrick, erected and the drains all so arranged that all the water on 
observed wae he § Sept dE tree”—for it is canary a in s p me md Ewe one another, and | the farm should be gathered wey it. Having com- 
- nothing less—has rec generic name, and that | Sosed about the and hampered victim with the leted the drainage of the land, h 
$ — of the oe pe apres mination” and | Silent force of an hydraulic press and the ruthless pur- e result Ee a lanl his os Avec aa fey pan 
dissection of ‘fone of the ‘ees ” ete prós | POT of a thumbscrew. A moment more, and while I | of water from the soil hapira h an ext Eye 
` wih ec de, wks eee ho ‘dodbt oced could see the bases of mee great levers pressing more 9 AC AA OPE ASD 
Ber ei ation of our i. ae ios diii th tightly toward ea r, from their interstices there “a prk x oprane poi tr ny =] i - a corn 
trickled down the ale athens of the viscid, honey-like reshed by steam rom this ar other instances 
coming W we ie the account as we find it | guid, mingled horribly with the blood and oozing viscera | the fact seems to be established that the more tho- 
- the Bristol Times and Mirror ior Smätiay; of the victim. = sight of this the savage hordes around comely Es r < aoe of ground is raised the less 
ugust I me, yelling madly, bounded forward, crowded to the tree, e arg rom it, aa tert e surplus 
ge Maaria Tase or Maonoascan,— | aeee oenen Svehla iad Bn maf al water which made it necessary to et the drains has 
The following description of this singular tree, found i in | frantic. Then ensued a grotesque and indescribabl a 
nd Of Madagascar: is copied from the Wew York antic. í ı grotesque and, oiy While the flow of water into streams and wells has 
the Island o agascar, pied tro hideous orgie, from which, even while it rul 
ri i i tar ny P aile its convulsive | been decreased by drai the ha t suffered 
World. It was originally published in ris last Graefe . a inage, mgs ve no me 
; > : madness was turning rapidly into delirium and insensi 
and Waither's Magazine, of Carlsruhe, together with | pility, Henrick dragged me hurriedly away into the e rapt g been i for it is that the 
= notes upon it by Dr. Omelius Fredlowski, to whom the | recesses of the forest, hiding me from the dangerous of grain and grass as ts a Turnipe gk 
letter of Carl Leche, the discoverer, from which the fol- | brutes and the brutes from me. May I nev ah min deeper into the soil after it has been drained, 
opp s é ay I never see such a 
= lowing is extracted, was addressed :—‘ The Mkodos are | sight again. ‘The indescribable rapidity and energy of obviously we of lah and thus they draw 
race, going entirely naked, having only | its movements may be inferred from the fact that I saw | sustenance from a larger portion n of the soil. It has 
an activ l believed 
t vestiges of tribal relations, and no religion bey: a t ize, cap estroy an active little g y 
that of the awful reverence which they pay to t re lemur which, dropping by accident upon it w. watch- | the temperature of soil» and it seems to be certain 
e ell entirely in caves hollowed out of thi g grinning at me, i n endeavou PN that it n ‘on of the air l 
limestone rocks in their hills, and are one of the smallest | from the fatal toils. With H s assistance an ceil tant. Te rature over ext 
eos edie ee exceeding 56 inches in heigh onsent of some of the head men of the Mkodos (who, | formerly marsh wey aS Delia ve 
At the bottom of a valley (I had arometer, bu owever, did not dare to stay to witness the act of sac ahd t 2°. That ngs bas of 
_ Should think it not over feet above the level of the | lege), I cut down one of the minor trees, and Been t a ù a : weit A PUREE 
_ sea), and near its eastern extremity, we came to a deep | jt carefully. Seid, however, is waiting for Į | at certain seasons has not been increas y draining 
tarn-like lake, about a mile in diameter, t the agit must defer to my next the details of this most interesting appears to be illustrated by a curious fact. When a 
oily waters of which overflowed into a tortuous reedy | examination. Karl Leche.’". [Where, oh where, is Mr. slight fall of snow has taken place either in autumn or 
canal that went unwillingly into the recesses of fe black | Hullett? Eps.] spring, and which soon melted away, we have seen it 
- forest, jungle below, Palm above. A path, diverging coor along the lines of drains after it isappeared 
3 A southern side, struck boldly for the heart of the SPOR SS RO POT TM m the rest of the field. The truth seems to be that 
' forbidding and seemingly impenetrable forest. Henrick 
Raine eerie geese"; | THOROUGH DRAINING, AND | agrat des more water gn of by cuore fom 
F e a e E eae an RESULTS. om ap cued ows a agua under crop does not dis- 
S children. Suddenly all the natives began to aige “aa i ata la i ad 
"Tepe! Tepe!” a rick, stoppi short, said ning 
ae pr The sluggish; canal-like M79 md hehe. wound field tae wat ag p yty a yE of rain the drains from 
slowly by, and in its bend w e most the fallow will be all flowing, but those from the field 
rof trees. I have called it the Crin u crop yielding not a drop. 7., R Ashire. 
when its leaves are in action it bears a striking resem- 
blance to that well-known fossil the Crinoid lilystone, or 
Cuthbert s bedi DA was DOM, 
at rest, however, a y any water is drained off from the plots 
Tf Rodeo eat ene 
| ~scarcel) 
with farmyard dung, while abundance flows from the 
plots treated pitis with other manures. EDs.] ; 
Gone Correspondence 
The Snow Apple. T herewith „e u speci- 
ha! t 
o e ; 
bap iig, i 
Sut of 2000 Stalk, I inch > c at 
the point, a pright in a deep, even, slightly 
russeted cavity. Eye placed in a medium-sized corru- 
wy white, crisp, juicy, and 
re exu i r ; tain, | nicel ulated. This beautiful Apple was procured 
and possessed of violent ar any part i it, the rainfall has been | py me from Scotland in 1864, under the name of 
fic properties. From underneath saoiel by the extension of draining opera- | Belle An nglaise, but it has not fruited here until this 
ak) of the undermost plate a series of | tions, The laws which r egulate the formation of year. Where it first originated I have not been able 
i t out in every direc- | cloud and the fall n rain are not materially affected | to trace, but Iam much i to think that is 
es 7 or 8 feet lon by the limited oe 
hes any ak parega g area ol i gi 
upper and under cu j on EA wind, over which 
Penred themselves | SOil ean, have no infec 
i ous Season like 1872 should be k coarae pos 
ward. Thin | have not esca from rainy seaso sg baie suite the tue above: 
they were an succession of dry ai ; and the fact eat inca as "eT phe an so think that it is the ié Suie Apple, 
as the present have occurred long ago o should and that the aus de Neige of our ns is, or 
as a reason for believing that dry seasons come want any | should be simply called Fameus ax SaO being 
time, of a deep shining vermilion sali and tinged with 
But comes thorough drain nage does not either in- | the same inside; So a circle of crimson dots 
crease or decrease rainfall it does diminish the | the core. Diel has a Schnée Caleville, é.¢., Snow 
flow of vie from the soil, but only within oa — Apple, which he ‘Aasaribes as golden yellow. Neither 
he Fameuse can be the Pomme de Nei 
Swain Gi 
