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Why is a thief called a “jail-bird ?” Because 
he has been a “ robbin.” 
Meanness. —Deacon Overreach was so mean 
that he always carried a hen in his gig box 
when he traveled, to pick up the oats his horse 
wasted in the manger, and lay an egg for his 
breakfast in the morning. 
Banty Williams, the grocer, was so mean that 
he would catch the flies in his store and brush 
their feet, to prevent their carrying olf and 
wasting the sugar. 
Think again ; A Story about the Queen.— 
It is related that, during the first few days of 
the reign of Queen Victoria, then a girl between 
nineteen and twenty years old, some sentences 
of a Court-Martial were presented for her signa¬ 
ture. One was death for desertion; a soldier 
was condemned to be shot, and his death-w r ar- 
rant was presented to the Queen for her signa¬ 
ture. She read it, paused, looked up to the of¬ 
ficer who laid it before her, and said, “ Have 
you nothing to say in behalf of this man?” 
“ Nothing, he has deserted three times,” said the 
officer. “ Think again my lord,” was the reply. 
“And,” said the gallant veteran, as he related 
the circumstances to his friends, (for it was 
none other than the Duke of Wellington,) “see¬ 
ing her Majesty so earnest about it, I said, he is 
certainly a bad soldier; but there was some¬ 
body who spoke as to his good character, and 
he may be a good man for aught I know to the 
contrary.” “ Oh, thank you a thousand times!” 
exclaimed the youthful Queen; and hastily 
writing “pardoned” in large letters, on the 
fatal page, she sent it across the table, with a 
hand trembling with eagerness and beautiful 
emotion. 
Anecdote of Two Parrots. —A curious old 
story is told in Captain Brown’s book without 
any clue to its date; its ludicrous tendency 
being the temptation to copy it here: 
A tradesman, who had a shop in the Old Bai- 
ley, opposite the prison, kept two parrots, a 
green and gray. The green parrot was taught 
to speak when there was a knock at the street 
door; the gray whenever the bell rang; but 
they only knew two short phrases of English. 
The house in which they lived had an old-fash¬ 
ioned projecting front, so that the first floor 
could not be seen from the pavement on the 
same side of the way; and, on one occasion, 
they were left outside the window by them¬ 
selves, when some one knocked at the street 
door. 
“ Who’s there?” said the green parrot. 
“The man with the leather,” was the reply ; 
to which the bird answered— 
“ Oh! oh ?” 
The door not being opened, the stranger 
knocked a second time. 
Whose there ?” said green poll. 
“Who’s there?” exclaimed the man; “why 
don’t you come down?” 
“ Oh! oh !” repeated the parrot. 
This so enraged the stranger, that he rung 
the bell furiously. 
“ Go to the gate,” said a new voice, which 
belonged to the gray parrot. 
“To the gate?” said the man, who saw no 
such entrance, and who thought the servants 
bantering him. “ What gate ?” he asked, step¬ 
ping back to view the premises. 
“ New-gate!” responded the gray, just as the 
angry applicant discovered who had been an¬ 
swering his summons. 
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STATE AGRICULTURAL SHOWS IN 1854. 
Name. 
Where held. 
Date. 
Illinois, 
Kentucky, 
Lower Canada, 
Vermont, 
Ohio, 
Michigan, 
Pennsylvania, 
Springfield, 
Lexington, 
Quebec, 
Brattleborough, 
Newark, 
Detroit, 
Philadelphia, 
Sept. 12-15 
“ 12-16 
“ 12-16 
“ 13-15 
“ 16-22 
“ 26-29 
“ 27-29 
Missouri, 
Boonville, 
Oct. 2-6 
New-York, 
New-York, 
44 
3-6 
New-Hampshire, 
(( 
3-6 
Maryland, 
Baltimore, 
u 
3-6 
Indiana, 
Madison, 
u 
4-7 
Wisconsin, 
Watertown, 
<< 
4-7 
Connecticut, 
New-Haven, 
u 
10-13 
North Caronina, Raleigh, 
u 
17-20 
Tennessee, (East,) Knoxville, 
u 
18-19 
Georgia, 
Augusta, 
u 
23-26 
Iowa, 
Fairfield, 
U 
25 
National Cattle 
Show, 
Springfield, Ohio, 
a 
25-27 
New-York County^Shows. 
Oneida, 
Rome, 
Sept. 19-21 
Rensselaer, 
Lansingburgh, 
a 
19-21 
Delaware, 
Delhi, 
a 
20-21 
Franklin, 
Malone, 
a 
20-21 
Jefferson, 
Watertown, 
a 
21-22 
Washington, 
No. White Creek, 
a 
21-22 
Dutchess, 
Washington Hollow, “ 
24-27 
Albany, 
Albany, 
a 
26-28 
Putnam, 
Carmel, 
a 
26-27 
Columbia, 
C hatham-Four-Corners, 
29-30 
Ohio County Shows. 
Guernsey, 
Cambridge, 
Sept. 
6-8 
Pickaway, 
Circleville, 
44 
6-8 
Clinton, 
Wilmington, 
a 
12-13 
Medina, 
Medina, 
u 
13-14 
Ashtabula, 
Jefferson, 
a 
26-28 
Lucas, 
Toledo, 
a 
26-27 
Sandusky, 
Clyde, 
a 
26-27 
Hardin, 
Kenton, 
44 
27-28 
Lorain, 
Elyria, 
a 
27-28 
Richland, 
Mansfield, 
a 
27-28 
Miami, 
Troy, 
a 
27-29 
Geauga, (Free,) Claridon, 
a 
27-29 
Mahoning, 
Canfield, 
a 
28-29 
Belmont, 
St. Clairsville, 
Oct. 
3-5 
Logan, 
Bellefontain, 
a 
3-5 
Clarke, 
Springfield, 
a 
3-5 
Clermont, 
Bantam, 
a 
3-6 
Columbiana, 
New-Lisbon, 
a 
3-5 
Morgan, 
McConnellsville, 
a 
£3-4: 
Wood, 
Portageville, 
a 
4-5 
Ashland, 
Ashland, 
u 
4-5 
Geaugo, 
Burton, 
a 
4-6 
Henry, 
Napoleon, 
(4 
5-6 
Holmes, 
Millersburgh, 
a 
5-6 
Gallia, 
Gallipolis, 
a 
5-6 
Harrison, 
Cadiz, 
a 
5-6 
Trumbull, 
Warren, 
44 
5-6 
Licking, 
Newark, 
44 
11-12 
Preble, 
New-Paris, 
44 
11-18 
Coshocton, 
Coshocton, 
44 
12-13 
Defiance, 
Defiance, 
44 
12-13 
Carroll, 
Carrollton, 
44 
17-19 
County Shows Miscellaneous. 
Cumberland, N.J., Bridgeton, 
44 
15 
Hillsborough, N. H., Nassau, 
Sept. 
26-27 
York, Pa., 
44 
20-22 
Fairfield, Ct., 
Stamford, 
44 
26-29 
Monmouth, N. J., Freehold, 
44 
21 
Alleghany, Pa., Pittsburg, 
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Oct. 
3-6 
SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS. 
Bound Volumes. —We have a few sets (26 
numbers) of volume eleventh, bound and un¬ 
bound. The price, at the office, of the unbound 
volumes is $1.00. The bound volumes are neatly 
put up in cloth covers, gilt backs, at $1.50. 
We can also furnish the covers separately, 
gilt and all ready for putting in the paper, for 
twenty-five cents each. With the covers thus 
prepared, any bookbinder can complete the 
binding for twenty-five cents. Volumes sent to 
the office will be bound complete for fifty cents. 
We are having printed a new edition of the 
first ten annual volumes of the monthly Agri¬ 
culturist, which can be supplied for $1.25 per 
volume or $10 for the set of ten volumes. 
We find that by using such good paper, our 
volume of 832 pages will be quite large to bind, 
and especially large for those who wish to stitch 
their paper together with an index, without be¬ 
ing at the expense of binding. To obviate this, 
we have concluded to be at the expense and 
trouble of making out an extra index with No. 
26, so as to form a complete volume of the first 
26 numbers. The index for the next 26 num¬ 
bers will be given at the end of the year, or with 
No. 52. This arrangement will make it conve¬ 
nient for all, as the 52 numbers can be stitched 
or bound in two volumes with an index for each, 
or in one volume with the double index at the 
close. 
We hope all will preserve their numbers, for 
there are many single articles each of which will 
be worth the price of the volume, for future ref¬ 
erence. When the paper arrives from the post- 
office, a good plan is to see that it is properly 
folded, and then pin or sew it through the mid¬ 
dle and cut open the leaves. It is very easy to 
stitch 26 numbers together. To do this, arrange 
them in regular order, and with an awl punch 
several holes about one-fourth of an inch from 
the back, and through these run a strong thread 
two or three times with a darning-needle, and 
the work is done. We have scores of volumes 
of papers, pamphlets, and addresses, thus pre¬ 
pared, which serve all the purposes of a bound 
volume, and occupy less room in storing and 
carrying. We would, however, prefer to see 
volumes of agricultural papers neatly bound and 
laid upon the book-shelves or tables of farmers. 
They are much better and more appropriate or¬ 
naments, than gilded volumes of trashy maga¬ 
zines or novels. 
ONE WORD MORE.—We thank our friends 
for the liberal aid they have afforded us in ex¬ 
tending the circulation of the Agriculturist. 
Our list has increased beyond our expectation, 
and we are daily encouraged to labor with the 
utmost diligence, to make our paper worthy of 
the confidence and admiration of our largely in¬ 
creasing list of readers. Our reliance for the 
continuance and increase of our list is upon 
those who are already readers. As stated above, 
we now divide the year so as to give either one 
or two complete volumes of the 52 numbers. 
Number 27 begins the second volume, or half 
of the year. 
Back Numbers. —We have taken the precau¬ 
tion to print each week a large number of extra 
copies, so that we can still supply new subscri¬ 
bers with full sets from the beginning of this 
volume, (March 15.) Any copies accidentally 
lost by a subscriber, will be freely supplied. 
Specimen copies sent to any person, whose ad¬ 
dress is furnished post-paid. 
To Correspondents. —We have several com¬ 
munications on hand which we will look over 
as soon as we have time, and some of them will 
be published. It is no trifling labor to prepare 
for the printer many communications which we 
receive. Some are written so closely that there 
is not room to put in corrections, without re¬ 
writing the whole. We cheerfully prepare ar¬ 
ticles, unless there is manifest want of care on 
the part-of the writer. If he does as well as he 
can, we make all needful changes and correc¬ 
tions. 
As most writers doubtless wish to improve 
their own style, we suggest to them to keep an 
exact copy of their communications, and then 
•ompare this copy with the printed sheet. They 
may often learn something in this way. 
We are not anxious to receive original poetry. 
We have little space for rhyme, and we have 
good selections enough to last us a year at least. 
Good poetry, however, will not be rejected ; but 
we advise all who attempt to write in verse to 
remember, that good rhyme does not constitute 
good poetry; on the contrary, some of the best 
poetry we have ever seen does not “ rhyme ” at 
all, while some of the best rhyme contains not a 
single poetic sentiment. 
-- 
From the Mark Lane Express, Monday, July 3. 
REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE. 
With respect to the actual state of the grow¬ 
ing corn, it is difficult as yet to obtain accurate 
