Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-11-10

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AN IEFIDEL ON THE PLEURo PsruxoNIA
.--Erancis w Bird of Walpole. writing 40
the Worcester Spy. in ridicule Of tbe pre.
tensions and statements, Of the medical end
, cattle commissioners as to the plerropneu-
"''Who would be willing TO a Init one Of
these Belmont cattle into Lis herd /? - asks
DR.. Martin, triumphautly. would and
Iihc'e repeat the offerI mode to the doc.
tor last May win take as many of the
Belmont cattle or any other cattle. dis
eased, exposed, or suspected as can he &C
commodated 10 my barn. If that win not
hold all that are offered, will built anoth.
er barn, for the purpose. They shall stand
side by side with my COWS, and II Eve per
cent, that is, one in twenty of the exposed
or suspected. or of my own cows exhibit
wellde6ned symptoms Of ofcoRtagious pIeuro-
pneumonia, or if one in fifty die Of that
disease, within the next. eight or twelve
months, then viii pay one thousand dol
lars towards providing a Harvard college
professorship or a lectnreship, for the dis
semination Of Information upon diseases OF
cattle if not this proportion is sick or die,
then DIR. Martin, or any believers in the
eontAgiOusness Of this disease, shall nav the
same sum for the sarie purpose The only
condition annex is, that he or they shall
attend the first course of lectures"
MAPLE SUGAR.-At one Of the fairs re-
Gently attended, we saw among the domes.
tic productions some very Gne maple sugar.
both caked and granular while near it stood
pleasant old man of IS years, apparently
in charge. Cohesive attraction naturally
drew US to the sugar, and the snear. easily
led to a short chat with Walter Graves of
Leverett, the man above referred to. ond
the chat unconsciously drew ont the follow
ing information: 225 maple trees on bis
farm yield 1000 lbs of sugar annually. The
same sugar orchard yields double the sugar
that it did twenty years ago. Trees may be
tapped so as to destroy them In one year,
or they may be made to last 100 wears.
One spout to a tree is in the long run better
than six A tree less than about foot in
diameter is not large enough to tap. The
proper depth to bore is abORtan inch and
a hall, but never in an old hole, or always
At the same height Trees tapped late in
the season run most freely, and so do those
tapped in alternate years, and also those
standing near springs and brooks. Trees
in open fields yield the most sugar. Maple
sugar needs renelting in the summer to
make it nice, and maple syrup needs occa-
sional scalding la warm weather. Sugar
exposed to the tight retains its color better
than that ia the dark. Granulated sugar
is made by stirring the sugar when it be-
gius to grain. Careful attention is requis-
lite to successful sugar-makiug There are
trees on Mr.. Graves's homestead, in good
condition, that have been tapped annually
for three fourths of century, d gisg yl
In our impatience to get, we are often
got. & i-H
Theory may be very well, bat young doc
tors and lawyers prefer practicesesisa sga5
%. When havemargied peole passed through
the alphabet Of, love W hen they reach the
ba be. - s..ef .t5 ~. ..--',.. ..,-. +.
Why will Stephen A. Douglas after cleo
ton have royal title =? -,-f' y. 6.-.,,-s
BECAUSE. he will be the Prince Of Wails.
Our wants expand with our means Of
- ItnS IVuSinl out seluOln CphtEacL Wall
those means,
Many poor woman thinks she can dC
nothing without husband; and when sh,
gets one, finds she eau do nothing with him
''Do you pretend to intimate, sir, that
my butter is old 2" mot old enough to
have lost its hair, dear madam"
A contemporary puhs Ross, the soapman,
and soap, concluding as follows: ''rhe
manufacturer ofthe best soap ever dsed for
cleaning a dirty mans face We have tried
Iit-therefora we know lH9a Hl1 .a.18iv
The Charleston Mecury exclaims the
Lord deliver the Democratic party, 1t i:
to be hoped that the parturitiOn will pro
duce something unlike the present head OF
the family, as infantacide might be demand;
ed as public necessity. nsibsi a79is o ruw
Never find fault with girls, very young
girls in particular, if they aria decided
romps but be thankful they have che
health and spirits necessary for romping
Better be . romp than bave narrow chest
and flushed cheek ~ rg.3ssI fsiaE
ai peA- The famous slave yacht Wanderer Is
at Havana, Cuba. and is reported to be &c;
ting out for another adventure 10 the coast
of Africa. There have been at least 80, ,00(
Africans landed 10 Cuba this year and it il
said that there isscarcely a town on tn
island wheFethere is not q joint stock african
trading company. a7sel aa5 slr'eois
There's sweet touch of nature in tn
following :-aI'm sorry, Mr.. Wilson, to Sc
this splendid Held Of potatoes so serionsl
diseased" said sytnpathizing spectator
la0h, well, IT'S a great pity replied u
farmer, bdt there's comfort 4 Jaa
Thompson's not bit better g,.alli p
Quiip says that new desires, ike ne,
| hails, can be ersdicated without difficult
or danger; but old desires, like rdstY spikes
CART be pulled out without great labor
, and some damage to the plank in which the
were inserted. horalZ0ut with your nail
before they rust ia. ' .iiaia '-' R'ie -.
What is a snob Z A spo5, madam, say.
QuiIp) is usually a person OF the feminine
gender, and may be known by several char'
acteristics. She spoIite to her superlors
: arrogant with those Of bRer station; +; lawns
3 on the rich, snubs the poor, and pretendl
1 not to know her own mother, when shl
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