Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-03-26

to be married. When the ceremony takes
Ipace you shall be present, and if you do
not pronounce her the lovelfest and most
accomplished Of her sex, then will unhe-
sitatingly admit that there is no romance in
the phrase "spoon fashion,
A BULL FROG CoNcERT.-The following
description of a concert of Bull Frogs is
from the "Adventures of Yankee Doodle,'
in late number of the Knickerbocker:
There is something wrong, guess, in the
construction of organs, else such bellows
would not be needful 10 breed wind for
those stupendous cavities, when compare
lively small bull frog can puff out his two
cheeks, and make the surrounding scenery
re-bellow with a louder music. When a
number Of these bull frogs-say ten of me-
dunn capacity-make concerted move
ment, the awful solitudes of Lazy lane be-
come vocilerous as the hill sides of pas
toral region. Marsh answers back TO marsh;
and when a moments silence gives token
that the chant is done, fresh croaker re-
news the noise, resting his bloated cheeks
on lily "Ke-blong, ke-blong, ke-blong!
Bloonk! bloonk! BE-LooNK Moo! moo
moo! moo Urrgh! urrgh! urrgh! Onder-
donk! onderdonk! {sotto voce) Splash! No
you-don't! no-you-don't! no-you-don't!
Augh! augh augh! Loo! loo loo loo!
. Hong-kong! Hong-kong Hong kong! Al!
al! al! al! all al! Bmoon!-oom! DOM! O!
: O! O! Cologne! cologne cologne! Luck!
luck luck luck! A la distance, Coop
i LUcKn' Then the little fellows take it up
in earnest from places which are covered
} over with little moisture. awe! we! we!
r P'wee! p'-wee! p'-wee! Charley Tucker!
Pretty boy pretty boy Go-a-fshing-on-
Sunday! Charley Tucker' Big ones again:
'Bow-wop! bow-wop! bow-wop! Boong -m!'
SEAsoNABLE ADVICE TO BREEDERS
The following advice to breeders is taken
from valuable work upon the Horse re-
: Gently published in England:
Stock should not be allowed TO generate
too early in life, before their powers are
fully confirmed, nor to continue after their
stamina has become impaired by premature
or mature age and decrepitude A colt of
two years may sometimes possibly get pro-
missing and useful stock; but if flly breed
before she is three years old, the produce is
frequently diminutive in proportions, and
deficient in energy of constitution, speed,
or bottom. AS general rule, brood mares
ought not to be allowed to commence be-
, tore the attainment Of their fifth year. More
valuable horses for general uses, and more
good racers for turf purposes, have been
thrown by mares advanced in life, than by
those of immature age. Brood mares re-
tain the functions of reproduction to late
period. Mr.. Pratt's Squint mare produced
" seventeen foals, the last being Purity, which
was not foaled until the mother had acquir-
: ed the age of twenty-four. Purity proved
fully equal to any of her former stock. The
Tartar mare bred at the age of twenty-eight
years the celebrated horse Mercury, and the
next year produced Volunteer, and at thir-
ty-six she threw the dam of Mr.. Hutchin-
sons Oberon. Atalanta also bred Rosalind
at an advanced age. In the same manner,
some of the most extraordinary stock of
: former days were the product of stations
advanced in life Eclipse, Snap, Young
:, Marsh, Bottoms Startling, Blank, Partner,
and Match'em, may be instanced as exam
= pies. In breeding race horses it is highly
5 essential that the muscular system of the
stallion should not be allowed to lapse into
a state of weakness from want of exercise,
for exercise contributes to his health and
muscular energy, and if he be deficient in
either at the time of population, the foal
: may be reasonably expected to suffer con-
!. stiutionally in similar degree. For like
reason it is obviously destructive TO the sta
nina of the foal that the constitution of Ell
Their of its parents should have suffered from
: insufficlency of food or other debiitating
causes; fact marking the influence that
the vigorousness of the DAMS constitution
has on that of her offspring, is seen in the
: superiority of the produce, when the mare
: is allowed to breed every alternate year in
stead of every year. No animal can be
! we'll formed that has been at all stinted in
the supply Of nourishment necessary to its
fullest growth and natural demand, from the
f, earliest period of its fetal existance to COM
plete formation of all its parts. On this
: account, Mr.. Cline, in a short essay on the
form of animals, reprobates the practice Of
connecting a diminutive mare with large
sized horse. He considered it not alone
, dangerous to the mother at the time of par
) turition, but calculated to diminish the de-
velopment of the foal, from the insu4iciencv
of aliment afforded to it during its intra-
uterine existence, and subsequently by the
inadequate supply of milk.