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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1015, 19 January 1869, Page 2

The Disease in the Vines. — We are glad to hear (observes the Maitland Merawy) that the prompt sulphur measures now being taken are successfully battling with the vine disease. The simple plan now adopted in the small collections of vines is to dust the sulphur powder in and over each vine with a flour dredger, a pepper castor, or any similar perforated instrument, and to shake the vines well at the same time, so as to be. sure that all parts get a fair share. In the vineyards, the better plan is to use the sulphur bellows, which forcibly blows the sulphur powder throughout each vine. At one of the Lochinvar vineyards, they use a fumigation plan. A pair of bellows are fitted up with a small stove inside, and the sulphur being on fire, the nozzle of the bellows is placed under each vine, and a blast or two sends the sulphur vapour right up and through the whole vine. At Mr. Tourle's vineyard, Waratah, a sulphur liquor is used ; sulphur and lime being boiled, the cooled liquor is driven through each vine with a syringe. In each case the essential thing is to make sure that every portion of the vine, stem, branch, leaf, .jerry, and tendril, shall have a visitation or coating of sulphur. This kills any fungous parasite, oidium or any other, that is feeding on the vine ; while the vine itself remains unhurt. So far as we can judge, we should think the Lochinvar plan, fumigation, the most certain to miss no part whatever of the vine. The Temps tells the following story : — "In a well-known Parisian saloon the conversation turned the other day on the question of peace or war. Some one remarked that the Emperor's language is very pacific, and that there is nothing to justify the supposition that it does not express his real thoughts. Upon this a certain dignitary who played an important part in the Italian war rejoined, "My dear sir, on the clay before war was declared against Austria I was at the house of the Princess Stefunie of Baden, the aunt of the Emperor Napoleon. The lady read to me a letter sho had ! received the day before from her Imperial nephew, in which he assured her that he sincerely desired peace, and that there would be no war. I instantly telegraphed to my banker to purchase some Austrian stock for me. The French army entered Italy two days after.' " •

Crowding Him.— " Where is your house ?" asked a traveller in the depths of one of the old " solemn wildernesses" of the West. "House! I ain't got no house."—" Well, where do you live ?"— "I live in the woods, sleep on the Government purchase, eat raw bear and wild turkey, and drink out of the Mississippi. And, he added, "it is getting too thick with you folks about here. You're the second man I have seen this last month, and I hear that there's a whole family come in about fifty miles down the river. I'm going to put out in the woods again. Judge Jeeebies, of notorious memory, pointing with his cane to a man who was about to be tried, said, " There is a great rogue at the end of my cane." The man to whom he pointed, looking at him, said, " At which end, my lord ?" Turning the Tables.— "What brought you to prison, my colored friend ?" "Two constables, sah." "Yes; but I mean had intemperance anything to do with it ?" " l^es, sah ; dey was bofe of 'em drunk." Complaints that old maids would liko to be troubled with— Chaps on their lips. Gardeners and others interested in the cultivation of tho cabbage, will be interested in the following paragraph from the Bruce Herald :— lt has long been a desideratum to find a substitute for cabbage, since the attacks of the aphis have made it difficult of growth. We have noticed in the garden of Mr. H. White. Milton, a bed of young plants of Chinese cabbage (Brassica Chinensis), a variety not liable to the blight. They seem worthy of cultivation , ancl ifc is said that by picking out the central buds, a long succession of tender sprouts is obtainable.