The Richmond palladium., 1865-03-31
Prospective Demand for Corn.

An exchange says THE farmers of this country
should put in all the corn that they possibly the
in Bufalo.by parties who the discovery of making
sugar, the coming year aud which win draw large
increas the demand and price OF that staple. Add
to this. the discovery of making paper from corn
husks and leaves and that all of these articles that
be raised will find ready sale railroad depot
and it to the crops will be looked TO
with more favor in the future, than 10 the past.
THE Wheat CRoP.-C Contrary 10 the anticpations
Of many the wheat crop presents fine appearance.
The President Of the n. T. State Ag Society, Hon. T.
c. PErERs OF Genesee, who called upon US to-day
March ~ on his way east, says the wheat looks
better than it has AT the for many years
The indications certainly very favorable but it is
yet early to make positive assertions the crop
Is liable injury BY heavng. The freezings and taw-
ings of tine next three weeks may possibly affect il
seriously through the ground has settled rapidly,
and j. free from frost that little damage is likely 10
result. The prospect is that shall have little frost
and early spring. in which the wheat will escape
land seeded wheat lat fall in this cerealgrowing
region. than in any prrvlous season for q decade
more of years 1t may be proper 10 add that the
wheat drained lands seeded in much better
condition than that the unrained, and presents
far the finest apr-earance.-4S,o- Yorker Haraa 25.
NEw AsssIHETics.-Dr. Gcnees has addressed q
note 70 the French Academy, giving an account of
some interesting experiments IN trying agents
for diminishing sensbiltv. He has ascertained sha,
purified kerosaine. obtained from common petro-
leum, when vaporzed by means Of heat, viii be found
a most valuable anxsthetic. But he especially COM
rnends. safer than cloroform. Bronnhydric ether
which is not only less inhamn,abie s,1an ordinary
ethers, but possesses most agreeable odor.
WEAK vTsoS THE AGKD.-In the case Of ar.d
persons whose sight Is becoming enfeebled, and re-
auires the AID of glasses great advantage Is
derived, supposing nervous lesion 20 exist, from
painting every evening the eye-lds and brow with
audinum, and allowing this 20 remain all night So
says Prof. Nascar, Of Naples
COAL UNDER rHE SEA.-Cozi has been gathered up
on the beach Phippshnrg Me-, for many years. and
Professor Brackets Of Bowdon College, thinks that
coal mine extends along the coast from Rhode Is
"a ID to Nova Scotia but that the bed Of the too
far out at be worked. The blocks Of
q upon the beach from time 10 time.
LoUp CRov.-At the last meeting of The PoIy-
.echnic Association, discussion the effects OF
to,s.graphr on the sound of bella, Mr.. Never of
Switzerland stated that he had heard . cock CROW At
w4sser, across Lake Genera distAncs Of nine
miles,
II Is sad that tie fr ct we'll IN the Pennsylvania OF;
region as sunk in 1s5s On the 18th day of August
IN that year tie fst vein Of oil struck depth
of sixfy-niDe feet four inches from the surface.
There are 235,24s school ehildrrn in Maine.
= Philadesphia and Pitssbsrg have Pesroieun pa-
"A New B<ifori man has just drawn &4a,ese in .
lottery. ss4-s ~