Show hebald correspondence paris july letters received from Ch eschell in africa have announced that the ancient seed of flour floii grain and corn which was used during tile time of the kings of ancient E egypt the pharaohs Phara PAar dohs have been sown in tile the garden of a farmer and produced several oars ears which offered a new species entirely unknown to modern agriculture it appears that these grainy graing of corn which have been tai taken wn out of a coffin from the p pyramids offer the appearance of a large ear car in the centre around which atre are six or seven smaller barg ears like the brandies 0 a tree the length of the ear is is tenor ten or fifteen centimetres centi metres the lewa leaves are breaded bread ed atul arul larger as well as more rough than those of the ordinary nary corti corn each ear contains from seventy to ili ninety net grain g ail q no doubt this new corn will soon be adopted dop d all over europe for it produces three times the number of grains paile of the other kind of corn ei ery grain is alz ilz ly as big as two of the others herald correspondence july 2nd and the select committee of the senate to whom was referred for revision the fetui returns ns of the c census IT as prepared pie pared under the direction of the superintending super intending clr clerk mr Kenne kennedy Alk has reported that the great mass of statistics which have been compiled wid and gathered at an enormous cost to the country are arc from the negligence or want of tile the capacity apa city with which they have been beem procured wholly unreliable and they therefore recommend that hat more than four fifths of the statistics thus prepared be thrown away as a mass of useless s or erton erroneous e ous in matter atter I 1 what next ED |