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Evening Star, Issue 3676, 3 December 1874, Page 3

Mr C. F. Cresswell writes to the Hobart Town papers upon the importance of the seed : collecting industry in Tasmania. He shows that for the last sixteen or twenty years a large number of poor settlers have made a living by gathering the seeds of tho blue gum, the wattle, and other native fopest trees. The gatherers receive from 16s to 25a per lb. for the cleaned seed, and are said to have made a comfortable living by so doing. In 1866 Mr Cresswell executed an order for 500 lbs of blue gum seed for one Mew Zealand firm, apd during that year he exported Tasmanian forest tree seeds to the extent of L 1,400, and while lie wrote he had Colonial, European, and American orders for a ton of blue gum and wattle seeds. This gives some idea of the extent to which the trade in blue gum-trm seed has been developed.

A medical correspondent of an English journal says that the cases of rheumatism and SjU't can be cured by the free use of asparagus, the active principle of the plant having “the effect of neutralizing the lithic acid in the system, which is the cause of all inflamatory i heumatic ailments. Hail the millennium of physic when rheumatics shall be cured by asparagus, headaches by celery, and catarrhs by quail and toast!

Jt)sh on Editors.—The following is Josh Billings definition of an editor An editor is a male being whose business is to navigate a nuzepaper. He writes editorials, grinds out poetry, inserts deaths and weddings, sorts out manuskripts, keeps a waste basket, blows up the devil,” steals matter, fites other people’s battles, sells his paper for a dollar and a-half a year, takes white beans and apple-sass for pay when he can get it, raises a large family, works nineteen hours out uv every twenty-four knows no Sunday, gets dammed by everybody, and once in a while gets whipt by some body, lives poor and dies middle-aged and often broken-hearted, leaves no money, iz rewarded bul with a short (but free obituary, puff in the nuzepapers. Exchanges please copy.