" Indian corn is a kind of corn tree, so that it would be exempt from the sneer of the Tartars who despise the men that live on "the top of a weed.

The practice of giving solid food to a toothless child, is not less absurd, than to expect corn to be ground where there is no apparatus for grinding it.

" Corn, chickens, flour, meal, in fact, every thing edible, became legitimate plunder for the negroes when the rations furnished them were scanty.

Neither has this experiment till now been tried, for Cobbett's corn is a different variety of Indian or American, from that cultivated either in the new or old world.

For what are corn-husks largely used? Sweet corn, if boiled when green, is an excellent vegetable.

The corn in especial was the stand-by and invariable resource of the western settler; it was the crop on which he relied to feed his family, and when hunting or on a war trail the parched grains were carried in his leather wallet to serve often as his only food.

So that corn is, in fact, a powerful fermented stimulus to the beast.

Indian corn is also the best food for horses employed in agriculture in this climate: black cattle, deer, and hogs are very fond of it, and fatten better than on any other grain.

80 Here moss-grown trees expand the smallest leaf, Here half an acre's corn is half a sheaf; Here hills with naked heads the tempest meet, Rocks at their side, and torrents at their feet, Or lazy lakes, unconscious of a flood, Whose dull brown Naiads ever sleep in mud.

Miss Sadie Corn was dean of the Hotel Magnifique's floor clerks.

"I think, wife," answered the man, as he took a handful of the kernels and looked at them, "this corn is a good deal like human nature.

Seed corn is the grain that the farmer, instead of making it into bread for his own table, or selling it to turn it into picture-palace tickets, or beer, or other forms of short-lived comfort, keeps to sow in the earth so that he may reap his harvest next year.

Bread-corn is the most certain standard of the necessaries of life.

Corn and cattle are material objects, in a high degree useful to mankind.

Canned corn was a treat that did not come his way every day, and Bruin meant to make the most of his opportunity.

Souf De corn is sweetly growin', 'Weh down Souf.

Ensconced behind her little desk in a corner, blocked in by mailracks, pantry signals, pneumatic-tube chutes and telephone, with a clear view of the elevators and stairway, Sadie Corn was mistress of the moods, manners and morals of the Magnifique's second floor.

HALT-PAST TWO.It is now ascertained that the Corn they were discussing was Hot Corn at lunch.

Corn was the composition of the Meal which made their bread.

Corn, in the language of Scripture, is an emblem of the resurrection, and St. Paul, in that eloquent discourse which is so familiar to all, as a beautiful argument for the great Christian doctrine of a future life, adduces the seed of grain,

" VIII THE HOOKER-UP-THE-BACK Miss Sadie Corn was not a charmer, but when you handed your room-key to her you found yourself stopping to chat a moment.

The Indian corn is the chief support of the labourers and their horses.

We have ground 8,340 bushels, and would have ground much more if corn had not been a very poor crop here for the past two seasons; besides, we have our farm to attend to, and cannot keep it running all the time that we have wind.

Already the falling corn was whispering of the final feast of colour.

He pointed out that only corn and flour were contraband, that the regulations did not extend to other provisions, and that they secured "to the proprietors, supposing them neutral, a full indemnification for any loss they may possibly sustain."