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AMEBIC AN AGrBICC LTUBIST. 
Comparative Areas. —Illinois would make 
forty such States as Rhode Island, and Minne¬ 
sota sixty. Missouri is larger than all New- 
England. Ohio exceeds either Ireland, Scot¬ 
land, Portugal, and equals Scotland, Belgium and 
Switzerland, together. Missouri is more than 
half as large as Italy, and larger than Denmark, 
Holland, Belgium and Switzerland. Missouri 
and Illinois are larger than England, Scotland, 
Ireland and Wales. 
So says an exchange ; we have not made the 
estimate. If the statements are not correct, we 
shall expect to be corrected by some of the 
boys. 
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A Game at See-Saw. —Foreigners, trying to 
acquire a knowledge of the English language, 
may receive aid from the following “see-saw.” 
“Brudder Pete, did you see him saw de log 
afore you saw him saw it?” 
“De unintellectual stupendity of some nig¬ 
gers is perfectly incredulous: why, ef I seed 
him saw it afore I saw him see it, it’s a conse¬ 
quential ensurance dat he saw he sawed it afore 
he seed it; but he couldn’t help seem’ he sawed 
it, for ef he saw de sawen afore he saw de 
seein’ ob de sawen, consquinchilly he must saw 
it afore he seed it, which is absurdly ridiculas— 
darefore I did seed him see it afore I saw him 
saw it.— quoddy rat demoncl standum. 
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Punctuality. —Few things tend more to alien¬ 
ate friendship than a want of punctuality in our 
engagements. We have known the breach of 
a promise to dine or sup, break up more than 
one intimacy. A disappointment of this kind 
rankles in the mind; it cuts up our pleasure; 
it makes us think our society not worth having; 
it lessens our self-esteem, and destroys our con¬ 
fidence in others; and having leisure on our 
hands (by being thus left alone) and sufficient 
provocation withal, we employ it in ripping up 
the faults of the acquaintance who has played 
us this slippery trick, and in forming resolu¬ 
tions to pick up a quarrel with him the very 
first opportunity we can find.— VecesimusKnox. 
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The Bright Side of Cholera.— Even Cholera 
has its bright side, for it h s taught us to purify 
the water which we drink; to ventilate the 
rooms in which we live; to erect the dwellings 
of eur laboring population with some regard te 
sanitary laws ; to build them rvell, and to drain 
them effectually; to see they are not over¬ 
crowded with human beings, and that they do 
not become unhealthy for want of space in 
which to conduct necessary domestic operations. 
Science may lament the weakness of curative 
medicine; but she rejoices in the knowledge 
that preventive measures do exist, and that the 
investigation of the cholera, so far from having 
been altogether unattended with satisfactory re¬ 
sults, has led us to the knowledge of many 
things before mysterious or unknown.— House¬ 
hold Medicine and Svrgery. 
CROPS IN FRANCE. 
Paris, Thursday, July 13, 1854. 
The rain is incessant, unrelenting. I may 
safely say that I do not remember such a sea¬ 
son. In the last ten weeks there have not been 
seven days without rain. For six weeks it fell 
constantly, but naturally enough. Since then, 
however, the weather has been nominally fair, 
and the rain comes in the form of showers. 
These, however, are frequent—from four to 
eight a day—and are very heavy. The ground 
was soaked, long since, beyond its capacity. A 
fortnight ago it was said on all hands that the 
crops had borne all the moisture that it was 
possible to bear, that heat and sunshine were 
now indispensable, and that any further water 
would be destructive. From that time to this, 
there has been but one day without rain, but 
in the night of that day there was a drenching 
shower. The state of things has now become 
actually critical. 
I have spent a morning iu reading the jour¬ 
nals of the departments in all parts of France, 
and have come to the conclusion that the wheat 
crop has really suffered, and that the yield will 
be an inferior one. Even were the great staple 
unharmed, the resources of the country would 
be diminished, for the reason that in France the 
whole produce of the earth for a year is so 
nicely calculated, that every eatable thing it 
yields is an important item in the total. The 
failure of the chestnut crop is a calamity in the 
chestnut district—which it would not be were 
the wheat crop over abundant, as it it always 
ought to be. Beans are an essential element 
of food, in many quarters, and they come under 
the heading of Cereales, a comprehensive word, 
for which the best translation is “ Breadstuffs.” 
This fact alone shows the importance of the 
bean in estimates of supply. This year the 
bean crop is considerably under the average. 
The same may be said of many other vegeta¬ 
bles, and even of certain sorts of fruits that are 
dried and preserved for "Winter use. Such a 
state of things never ought to exist in any coun¬ 
try. A variety is an excellent thing; beans, 
chestnuts, vegetables, fruits, though in highest 
degree worthy of cultivation, never ought to be 
reckoned in the food tables of the year, nor be 
relied on in case the staples fail. 
France very rarely exports; it is only in sea¬ 
sons when all the favorable circumstances possi¬ 
ble concur, that she has any thing to spare. 
Four years out of seven she has enough— 
barely enough. The slightest misfortune of 
wind or weather is sufficient to damage the 
beans or the vines, and then their is a deficiency 
at once, of food or of drink. Now and then, 
once in seven years, there is a drought, as last 
year, and from time to time a deluge, as at the 
present moment. 
I cannot reject the belief that, this year as 
last, there will be an insufficient harvest; espe¬ 
cially when I see that black cloud rising over 
Mount Valerien in the south, preparing to douse, 
for the fiftieth time, the water-soaked fields At 
any rate we shall soon know the actual state of 
the case. The reaping has not yet begun in 
the north of France, though it is about time. 
The grass is cut in many quarters, but fully a 
third of it never became hay, and a portion of 
that which did, has not been housed or stacked. 
Rain rarely injures grass, but it is death to hay. 
— Gorr. of N. T. Times. 
To the above lugubrious prospect of the 
French Wheat crop, we desire to add, that a 
much larger breadth of land was sown this sea¬ 
son than ever before in France, and if a few 
dry days follow the date of the Times' letter, 
the crop will be very large this season, and an 
overflowing abundance follow. 
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STATE AGRICULTURAL SHOWS IN 1854. 
Name . 
Where held . 
Date . 
Illinois, 
Springfield, 
Sept. 12-15 
Kentucky, 
Lexiogton, 
“ 12-16 
Lower Canada, 
Quebec, 
“ 12-16 
Vermont, 
Brattleborough, 
“ 13-15 
Ohio, 
Newark, 
“ 16-22 
Michigan, 
Detroit, 
“ 26-29 
Pennsylvania, 
Philadelphia, 
“ 27-29 
Missouri, 
Boonville, 
Oct. 2-6 
New-York, 
New-York, 
“ 3-6 
New-IIampshire, 
“ 3-6 
Maryland, 
Baltimore, 
“ 3-6 
Indiana, 
Madison, 
“ 4-7 
Wisconsin, 
Watertown, 
“ 4-7 
Connecticut, 
New-Haven, 
“ 10-18 
North Caronina, Raleigh, 
“ 17-20 
Tennessee, (East,) Knoxville, 
“ 18-19 
Georgia, 
Augusta, 
“ 23-26 
Iowa, 
Fairfield, 
“ 25 
National Cattle 
Show, 
Springfield, Ohio, 
“ 26-27 
New-York County.. Snows. 
Oneida, 
Rome, 
Sept. 19-21 
Rensselaer, 
Lansingburgh, 
U 
19-21 
Delaware, 
Delhi, 
U 
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, 
Chatham-Four-Corners, 
29-30 
Ohio County Shows. 
Guernsey, 
Cambridge, 
Sept. 
6-8 
Pickaway, 
Circleville, 
a 
6-8 
Clinton, 
Wilmington, 
a 
12-13 
Delaware, 
Delaware, 
a 
13-14 
Medina, 
Medina, 
a 
13-14 
Ashtabula, 
Jefferson, 
a 
26-28 
Lucas, 
Toledo, 
a 
26-27 
Sandusky, 
Clyde, 
a 
26-27 
Hardin, 
Kenton, 
a 
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 
Summit, 
Akron, 
a 
23-29 
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 
Ross, 
Chilicoth, 
a 
3-5 
Hamilton, 
Carthage, 
a 
4^6 
Wood, 
Portageville, 
a 
4-5 
Ashland, 
Ashland, 
a 
4-5 
Geaugo, 
Burton, 
a 
4-6 
Henry, 
Napoleon, 
a 
5-6 
Holmes, 
Millersburgh, 
a 
5-6 
Gallia, 
Gallipolis, 
a 
5-6 
Harrison, 
Cadiz, 
a 
5-6 
Trumbull, 
Warren, 
a 
5-6 
Licking, 
Newark, 
a 
11-12 
Preble, 
New-Paris, 
i t 
11-13 
Coshocton, 
Coshocton, 
a 
12-13 
Defiance, 
Defiance, 
a 
12-13 
Carroll, 
Carrollton, 
a 
17-19 
County Shows Miscellaneous. 
Hillsborough, N. IL, Nashua, 
Sept. 
(( 
26-27 
Cumberland, N.J., Bridgeton, 
15 
Rockingham, N. H., Exeter, 
a 
13-14 
Grafton, N. H. 
, Lyme, 
a 
21-22 
Cheshire, N. H., Keene, 
a 
26-27 
Merrimack, N. 
H., Fisherville, 
a 
27-28 
York, Pa., 
a 
20-22 
Fairfield, Ct., 
Stamford, 
a 
26-29 
Monmouth, N. J., Freehold, 
a 
21 
Alleghany, Pa., Pittsburg, Oct. 3-6 
North Aroostook, Me., Presque lie, “ 4-5 
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