The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-05 00:00:00

ANECDOTES.

When Mrs.- WOFFINGTON first acted Sir Henry
'Wild*, at Drury-lane Theatre;-coming off the stage into the
Green-room ; I: " believe," said she,that one-half of the
house take me to be a man ;" to which Quin replied, " But the
other half, I belieVe.,..ktiow to the contrary."
LEWIS the Fourteenth of France, rallying the
Duke of VERox.A upOn his extraordinary fatness, in presence
of the Duke of Ai:AD:nil', who was not less bulky.; " You
grow out of all compass," said the Kin' g-. " certainly you use
no exercise."—" YOur Majesty will pardon me," rcplieil th!e
Duke-" seldom it'day passes but I walk two or three firms.
round my cousin Au MOST."
When OLIVER_ .CROMWELL first coined his
money, an old cavalier looking upon one of the new pieces,
read this inscription on one side, " God with us ;" on the other,
" The Commonwealth of England." " I see," said he, " God
and .the Commonwealth are 'on different sides."

A nobleman telling the husband of a lady re-
markably beautiful, that he could never look at his wife with-
out breaking the •tenth-commandment. " Your lordship," re-
plied the gentleman,• " is welcome to break the tenth command-
ment as often as you please, provided you do not break the
seventh." •

As a press gang, during a former war, were
patrolling round Smithfield,•they laid hold- of .a man tolerably
well dressed ; who pleaded, that being a gentleman, he was not
liable to be impressed : " Haul him along," cries one of the
tars ; " he is the very man we want ; we press a damned min,
ber of blackguards, and. are cursedly at a loss for a gentleman to
teach them good manners."
A youth standing by whilst his father was at
play, observing'him to lose a deal of money, burst into tears.
His father asked him the reason .why he wept ? Oh, Sir; "• I
have heard, that Alexander the Great wept when he heard his
father Philip had conquered a great many towns, cities, and
countries, fearing he would leave him nothing to win ; but 1
weep the contrary way, fearing you will-leave me nothing
to lose."

An apothecary, who used to value himself on
his skill in the nature of drugs, asserted, in a company of phy-
sicians, that all bitter things were hot. "-No," said a gentle-
man present,." There is one of a very different quality, I am
sure; and that is a bitter cold day."
JEUX D'ESPRIT ON Louis XIV.—It is known
that Louis *XIV. died of the painful disease the fistula. One
of the satirical wits of the day composed the following couplet:
" Louis le Grand, his splendid victories past,
Is wounded in the NETllEhlanils at last."
After the King's death, the same writer thus eulogized him :
" git sans E RAILLES,
eftoit a VERSAILLES."
Thus Anglicized—
" What little change by death on men is made,
Here the great Louis UOWE ILESS is hid,
The same who plity'd the lofty Tyrant's part
At proud Versailles, and. 'Aviv wiTuou'r A HEART,"

AGRICULTURE, E. 4&

INFORMATION TO FARMERS.

One boll of Talavera wheat, purchased froni
L. IfourrouN, ESq. Of
,Johnston, sown Upon
one acre two roods and two and a half falls, after
early potatoes; 'upon the- 16th 6th :September. 1820,
and reaped on the 6th Aug: 18215 thrashed on
the 23d and 24th cart:, produced 21 bolls 83
lbs.. of cleaned wheat; weight 6/1 per. firlot, or
256 lbS. per boll, and '485 stones of straw:—
This wheat makes the finest flotir, and does not
require the richest of land: As in times like the
present, every effort. must -be. .made by the in-
dustrious farmer, and every enccititageMent given
,by the landlord, the exertions of °both should
be combined in the mode of farming: .would
recommend a mode of cropping, which the above
Gentfeman
_introduced to this part.of the country
Ave years ago,- and which, for the last three
.yearSi I hive , uniformly' followed, is—Sowing
wheat upon Old Lea. Last year,. my crop of
wheat from Lei averaged 9.1 bolls per acre. In
May last, when thrashed, it weighed. 66f .per
firlot, or 266 per boll: It was sold to a re-
spectable grain dealer in Paisley at 82s. which, I
presume, was above the ordinary price had it
not been from its stiPeriot weight. My Lea
wheat was cut about ten days agoi and). frorn'the
number of threaves, should produce from .10 to 11
bolls per acre: This- mode of cropping secures
from the grub-worm, which has greatly annoyed
the farmers for some years- back ; it forwards his
Sprhig labour, whiCh must be of . great conse-
quence hi this ,part of the *country ; and I also
find it more free4rom Balds, than after potatoes.
My mode of cropping is oats after wheaf; sown
down with -r3e gra s and clover; but I. would
recommend, hi more fel Ce soils. well prep fired,
wheat from old lea, beans, then oats with grass
seeds. I sow in the middle Of September; but,
in some parts of Renfrewshirej the farmer may
take the whole benefit of his grass, and not sow
till the middle or end of October. Be so' good
as give this a place in your paper at your eonve-
nience, and oblige,.

Your humble servant,
ParbusN 27th August, 1921.
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•;„• We hope the ileiglibouriiig farmers will tti&l themselves
of this opportunity of procuring a part of this seed.—EDlToiu
—(tiLAstK. COURIER.)

CORN EXCHANGE, SEPT. 5.--Notwithstanding
the favourable change in the weather for getting in tha harves•,
the Prices are full as high as on Monday in every sort of Grain ;
but a thin supply, and the trade not very brisk.