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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4008, 2 November 1881, Page 2

A Good Ra.t trap.—Fill, a barrel three parts full with water, and sprinkle a layer of powdered cork on the surface, and over this sift a layer of corn meal. The rat sees nothing but the meal, and having no innate idea which teaches him to beware of the.treacherous foundation, sniffs, leaps and goes gently down through meal and cork to a watery grave. If any of his friends see him disappear from the edge of the barrel they hasten to get their share of the probable plunder. T:*y it. The celebrated cypress tree, that had stood near the city of Sparta, Greece, for over 2,800 years, and was described bj Pausanias 409 years before the coming, of Christ, has been destroyed by a band of strolling gipsies, who camped beneath it and left their fire burning. It was 75ft' high, and 10ft in diameter near the ground. The people of Sparta greatly mourn its Toss. . .

It may not be generally known that a deeotion or infusion of gam leaves is an almost certain cure for blight on apple trees. Several correspondent! to the Australasian certify to it. An American journal remarks: Dean Stanley was a true genius. It took four, meu and a boy to make out his hand writiug.