The  Garden  (Eng.)  appears  to  have 
arrived  at  a  siinilar  conclusion  in  regard 
to  wood  pavements  as  some  persons  in  this 
countiy,  for  it  says  : — “One  of  the  most 
ofifensive  nuisances  and  air-poisonings  is 
caused  by  the  laying  down  of  the  wood 
pavement,  now  becoming  cxjmmon  in  Lon¬ 
don.  This  is  all  the  more  to  be  regretted 
because  the  wooden  pavement  is  not  so 
lasting,  or  on  the  whole  so  satisfactory  as 
the  best  asphalte.  For  cities,  so  far  as 
our  present  knowledge  goes,  nothing 
equals  the  asphalte.  Wlicn  kept  free  from 
dust,  &c.,  by  aid  of  the  hose,  it  is  also 
most  conducive  to  the  purity  of  the  air  and 
consequently  of  health.” 
hospitable  hut  of  the  moimtaineer ;  and  , 
at  that  signal  every  one  in  hearing  bends  j 
his  knees,  like  the  inhabitant  of  the  vil-  ' 
lages  below’  at  the  sound  of  the  chapel 
bell,  saying  their  evening  prayer. 
The  dairyman  has  finished  his  day’s 
work — made  the  cheese  from  the  evening 
miltc  and  cleaned  the  vessels  of  the  dairy 
— and  retires  to  the  hayloft,  wraps  him¬ 
self  in  his  blanket,  and  snores  in  harmony 
with  the  pigs  which  tfike  shelter  near  the 
hut  on  the  outside. 
Scarcely  have  the  first  rays  of  the  sun 
illuminated  the  highest  pointe  of  earth’s 
nigged  ci’ust,  the  mountain  lark  sings  its 
morning  hymn,  and  the  dairyman  leaves 
his  nest,  swanning  with  fleas,  attends  to 
liis  cows,  makes  cheese  from  the  morning 
milk,  sends  the  cattle  to  the  pasture,  bruigs 
the  cheese  made  the  day  before  to  the 
cheese-lofte,  cleans  his  dairy  fixtures,  and 
after  a  fnigal  breakfast,  ho  looks  about  to 
see  what  he  can  do  to  keep  his  pasture 
clean  and  safe,  removes  stones,  distributes 
the  dung,  and  builds  walls  or  feiKies  near 
precipices  to  protect  his  cattle  from  dan¬ 
ger.  Su<h  is  the  (Kjcupation  of  the  dairy¬ 
man  of  the  Alps,  whjcii  goes  on  rogulaiiy 
every  <lay,  never  interrupted  by  any  cares 
whabn-er,  except  by  sickness  of  some  of 
his  assistants  or  cattle,  or  from  the  loss  of 
a  cow  by  falling  over  the  side  of  some  dan¬ 
gerous  spot. 
He  remains  a  stranger  to  tlic  doings  and 
undoings  of  the  world  below',  and  he  may 
tliHiik  his  Creator  that  civilization  never 
will  reach  so  high  up,  but  will  ever  leave 
a  place  whore  man  can  be  free  and  live  re¬ 
cent  apiece,  or  two  for  three  cents.  Our 
wise  legislators,  it  seems,  did  try  to  grasp 
this  ajiplo  problem  a  few  years  since  but 
faded,  although  tlicy  aimed  at  it  in  fixing 
the  rates  of  postage  on  circulars,  in  allow¬ 
ing  three  in  one  package  at  the  single  rate 
of  two  cents. 
The  people  were  perfectly  satisfied  with 
the  previous  rates  of  one  cent  each,  but 
the  tinkers  at  Washington  gravely  told  the 
“dear  people”  that  the  rates  were  too 
high  and  must  be  reduced,  and  this  is  the 
way  tlicy  did  it: — Single  rates  were  ad¬ 
vanced  to  tw'o  cents  for  each  circular,  with 
permission  to  stmd  three  for  the  same,  the 
originators  of  this  scheme  not  knowing 
that  a  majority  of  tradesmen  only  publisli 
one  catalogue  or  circular,  therefore  woiild 
have  no  occasion  to  send  three  of  tlie  same 
to  one  address.  Now  the  sidewalk  huck¬ 
ster  could  have  bdd  the  wise  men  of  tlie 
nation  that  the  l.ietter  w-ay  to  have  made  a 
mluctiou  to  large  dealers  w’ould  liave  been 
to  liave  kept  the  rates  of  one  cent  for  a 
single  circular  and  two  cents  for  tlmic. 
Something  like  a  year  since  the  postage 
laws  were  again  tampered  with  and  the 
rates  on  third  class  doubled,  and  wc  are 
bound  to  say  for  no  other  good  reason 
than  that  certain  express  companies  desired 
to  obtain  more  patronage  if  seeds,  plants, 
cuttings,  and  similar  articles  w'Ci’e  excluded 
from  the  mads,  or  the  rates  w’cre  advanced 
to  correspond  with  the  tariff  charged  by 
themselves.  The  result  of  this  change  was 
immense  losses  to  dealers  as  weU  as  their 
“PROCRBSS  AND  IMPROVEMENT 
MOORE’S  RURAL  NEW-YORKER, 
A  NA'I'IONAn  ILLUSTRATED 
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ANDREW  S.  FULLER,  Editor 
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the  well-known  seedsmen  of  this  city,  for 
our  first  “  mess  ”  of  new  potatoes.  The 
variety  Avliich  put  in  its  appearance  so 
much  ahead  of  the  uruiiI  season,  is  oue  of 
the  novelties  being  sent  out  by  Messrs. 
Bliss  under  the  mune  of  “  Alpha,”  which 
we  should  judge  is  likely  to  prove  a  very 
early  and  fine  sort.  The  sjiccimens  we 
received,  although  dug  so  early  and  sent 
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KTJRAL  NOTES  AND  aUERIES 
SATURDAY,  MAY  6,  1876. 
THIED  GLASS  MAIL  MATTEE. 
BDEAL  BBEVITIE8, 
Men  are  elected  to  Congress  for  the 
supposed  purpose  of  enacting  laws  which 
w’ill  be  of  benefit  to  the  masses.  Class 
legislation  is  deprecated  by  all  honest 
men,  and  in  a  Beiitiblio,  “The  greatest 
good  to  the  greatest  number,”  is  oue  of 
the  fundamental  principles,  which  sliould 
never  be  lost  sight  of  in  carrying  out  the 
wishes,  or  needs,  of  a  free  and  independent 
people. 
But  much  as  we  dislike  to  find  fault 
with  our  representatives  in  the  national 
legislature,  the  tJiought  must  occasionally 
find  utterance,  that  a  gi-eat  amount  of  stu¬ 
pidity  is  frequently  exliibited  by  men 
from  whom  we  have  every  reason  to  expect 
a  moderate  sliow  of  eommon  sense  if  not 
Dui’ing  the  past  few  years 
Ouuer  niuuR 
dune  of  cattle  becHiwo  it  ia  likely  to  contain 
wetiS  seeds  in  greater  or  less  abundance. 
Wire  worms  in  gardens  may  be  trapp^  by 
placing  slices  of  potatoes  slightly  covered  in  the 
soil.  These  should  be  visited  every  morning  and 
all  the  worms  collected  imderuealh  gathered  up 
and  killed. 
Ie  any  of  our  renders  have  any  curiosity  about 
Pure  German  Millet  Seed,  it  would  not  be  time 
wasted  to  look  at  the  announcement  of  H. 
JOHN.STON  A  Son,  Lebanon,  Ky„  in  another  col¬ 
umn,  who  will  be  happy  to  furnish  information 
gratis. 
At  a  late  meeting  of  the  California  Academy 
of  lienees,  a  member  called  attention  to  the 
Golden  Chestnut  (Cii^tnnea  chrysophylla),tveeB 
of  which  he  noteiY  in  the  State  as  being  from  100 
to  200  feet  high,  four  to  six  feet  in  diameter, 
and  with  stems  from  50  to  70  feet  high  to  the 
branches. 
They  have  had  a  sliower  of  flies  in  Canada— 
not  house-flies  or  horse-flies,  but  real  dragon¬ 
flies,  such  as  boys  call  devils’  darning-needles, 
and  with  which  they  are  said  to  sew  un  the  ears 
of  bad  children  who  go  near  ponds,  where  they 
are  likely  to  fall  in  and  get  (U’owned.  We  hope 
for  the  'boys’  sake  that  the  Canada  dragon-flies 
will  not  cross  the  SL  Lawrence  until  after  the 
fishing  season  is  over. 
Dr.  Ehodesian  of  Missouil,  at  a  meeting  of 
the  St.  Louis  Academy  of  Sciences,  exhibited  a 
.section  of  the  stem  of  Junipm'us  CuUfomka 
variety,  which,  by  the  rings,  is  Ti7  years  old. 
The  lai-gest  growth  in  ten  years  had  been  about 
four  lines*,  the  smallest  for  the  same  period 
about  oue  and  a  half  linos;  the  average  growth 
for  the  whole  127  years  was  about  one-fith  of  a 
line.  Interesting  as  a  curiosity,  curious  as  a 
plant,  but  not  plantable  for  profit. 
of  wisdom, 
there  has  been  an  almost  continual  tinker¬ 
ing  of  the  postal  laws,  resulting  in  any¬ 
thing  but  satisfactory  regulations  or  finan¬ 
cial  gain  to  the  Post-Olfice  Department. 
In  fact,  nearly  every  change,  instead  of 
being  a  progressive  one,  has  proved  quite 
the  reverse,  and  all  because  those  most 
directly  interested  in  any  proposed  modi¬ 
fication  have  not  been  constilted. 
If  seeds,  cions,  and  plants,  are  to  be 
transported  in  the  mails,  who  would  be 
better  qualified  to  say  how  such  articles 
should  be  packed  or  the  rates  most  Kkely 
to  bo  remunerative  to  the  Government, 
than  seedsmen  and  nurseiymen  ?  But  we 
arc  free  to  say  that  these  gentlemen  have 
never  been  consulted  or  their  advice  asked, 
in  regard  to  a  subject  iu  w'hich  they  are 
pei-sonally  interested  ;  for  the  most  ignor¬ 
ant  novice  in  such  matters  would  not  sug¬ 
gest  the  sending  seeds  through  the  mails 
in  an  open,  unsealed  package,  any  sooner 
than  he  would  undertake  to  cany  water  in 
a  sieve. 
It  is  however  uunecessaiy  at  this  time 
to  review  the  various  bills  introduced  and 
passed  dming  the  last  twenty  years,  regu¬ 
lating  the  caiiying  of  mail  matter,  as  it  is 
well  known  that  nine-tenths  of  them  are 
unbecoming  of  the  financial  abilities  of  a 
J  sidew’alk  huckster  who  sells  apples  at  a 
Post  -  Ofllce  Department  Out¬ 
witted.— A  certain  seed  company  doing 
business  at  Detroit,  Mich.,  becoming  dis- 
satisfied  with  the  high  rates  of  postage  on 
third  class  matter,  adopted  a  little  finan¬ 
ciering  which  should  teach  O'Ur  Post-Oflice 
Department  a  good  lesson.  The  postal 
arrangements  botw’cen  the  Canadas  and 
the  United  States  are  that  eadi  is  to  caiTy 
all  mail  matter  received  from  either  side 
without  extra  charge.  'The  seed  company 
referred  to  above  took  tidvantage  of  this 
state  of  affairs  and  sent  theii’  catalogues 
across  tlie  river  in  bulk,  paying  the  duty, 
then  sent  them  back  to  their  customers  in 
the  United  States,  stamped  at  Canadian 
rates  of  postage,  our  Post-Olfice  Depart¬ 
ment  being  obliged  to  receive  and  distrib¬ 
ute  them  witliout  any  further  advance.  It 
is  said  that  the  company  saved  about 
$2,000  by  the  operation,  and  we  hope  they 
did,  for  our  Government  officials  need 
some  such  practical  lessons  in  finance  to 
sharpen  tlieir  wits. 
DAIEYMEN  OF  THE  ALPS, 
BUSINESS  NOTICES 
Chas.  L.  Fleischman  years  ago,  in 
writiug  of  the  daiiymen  of  the  Alps,  said : 
Wlieu  the  sun  has  f-airly  set,  and  night 
begins  to  spread  its  sable  wings  over  the 
world,  the  dairyman  steps  under  the  door 
of  his  humble  dwelling  and  sings  through 
a  wooden  funnel  a  choral  melody,  yet  a 
prayer  to  his  Maker,  These  melancholy 
sounds  seiwe  also  as  a  guide  to  the  bMated 
herdsmen,  as  an  invitation  to  the  poor  but 
CoNSUiti'HS,  when  purcbaslng  White  Lead,  should 
hear  In  mind  that  much  of  it  sold  as  pure  is  adul¬ 
terated.  Every  package  of  Eckstein,  Hills  &  Co.’s 
“Pliwnix”  brand  Pure  White  Lead  is  irar- 
ranted  free  from  adulteration. 
Coughs  aud  Colds.-Sudden  chuuges  of  cli¬ 
mate  are  sources  of  Pulmamry  and  JSronchtal  affe-c- 
t(ons.  Take  at  once  "Brown's  BroncMal  Troches,"  let 
the  Cold,  Cough  or  Irritation  of  the  Throat  be  ever 
so  slight. 
