The correspondent of a Rural paper lately declared that, "The fact is this: upon a grape-vine growing in this town, and having for its support a hickory tree, was found, some weeks ago, a fruit of this description: The outside husk and general appearance, that of a hickory nut, though not quite so large as the nuts upon the tree, completely filled with a hard, sour, grape pulp, and in the centre, what appeared like several grape seeds, crowded and joined together.* This specimen was examined by several persons likely to be interested in such matters," and so on, and be then asks whether the grape may not be worked on the hickory; we give him the benefit of the next paragraph; he says, " I assert,7' notwithstanding the fact, " no such probability, but suggest the query for the curious." So much for the credit of the editor and his communicant.

* It must have looked very much like sour math and milk, with a few high-bred blackberry seeds in it; this would sell well to the bulls and bears of Wall street if they could get a good stock / - P. D.

Now, we confess ourselves among the " curious" part of mankind, and wonder the controler of the press did not make further inquiries regarding the existence of so rare a fruit, for which Barnum would have exchanged his most celebrated curiosities. In this spirit of curiosity we suggest the following "queries " to be solved by the parties concerned in the promulgation of this peculiarity:

1. Did either of you make further search, for the pleasure and advantage of science? If not, why not?

2. Was the fruit of a green color, or was it deep read.

3. Have you any idea of the hardness of the shell of the hybrid? Could you crack it with your teeth, like a soft shelled almond?

4. Were the seeds and pulp like the haw, or would you suppose a botanist seeing them (or the paragraph), would be tempted to cachinate thus - ha! ha!! haw!!!

5. Wouldn't you think it would be a hickory-nut on one side and a grape on the other; one side hard and one side soft 1 And how thick, think you, would be the skin of the grape side? Could the curculio penetrate it?

6. What description of wine would the fruit make? would it be Tokay, or simply O. K. ?

7. If it is a reasonable question, look you, what kind of a raisin grape would it be? And would not the shell interfere in making a jam?

8. As a good name is important, how would it do to call it the " Rural's Foundling?"

9. If cleft-grafted on the sloe would it make white wine vinegar? and would this make a dressing for gammon? if on the oak would it make galls?

10. In making a border for them in a cool grapery could a mus-cat flavor be imparted by burying kittens at the root? Would not the hickory limbs poke through and break the upper sashes of glass?

11. Is it likely to be much in vogue "for market purposes?" How does it taste with your roasted goose?

12. Would the branches be better than birch for the little boys who don't " promise well?" or could they be turned to advantage to smoke! And finally, can your most bellicose correspondent translate " Hinc illae lachrymae?"

Somebody adds: " As our friend Sairey Gamp would say,' What they ses, they knows, and what they knows, they '11 stick to; and if the expogure has done nothing else, it has taught people things as they didn't know afore. And as Mrs. Harris said, only last Friday as ever was, Sairey, says she, nobody never knows too much of nothing.' " When people get very unruly they require a little American Punching. A. Sport.