A Louisville, Ky., correspondent says :

"When you Eastern people talk of "soot" do you mean soot from the burning of wood, anthracite coal or bituminous coal? "

[Any one of them. In this part of the world when one wants a little "soot" it is knocked out of an old stove-pipe in which either anthracite or wood has been burned. In bituminous regions the scrapings of the chimney would be " soot." Possibly in some cases one variety would be more desirable than another, and when such is the case, writers should take our correspondent's hint, and specify it. Where no distinction is made - as, for instance, in preparing a wash of sulphur, lime and soot for fruit trees, we should understand that any variety would do___Ed. G. M].