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Docking Lambs.

The usual manner of docking young
lambs is very unfarmerlike and rude
way of performing such a common
surgical operation. We allude to the
practice of stretching out the tail
while the lamb is standing on his feet,
and cutting it off with one stroke of
the knife, and throwing salt on the
wound. The objections to this prac-
tice are:
By stretching out the tail, it is fire.
quently cut so short that the hind
end of the sheep will appear as if the
tail had been cut off and the stump
drove up; and as soon as the tail is
severed, the skin and flesh recoil, leav-
ing the bone to extend beyond the
skin, thus making it far more difficult
to heal. There should be left a suffi-
eient length of a sleeps tail to pro-
tect the small portion of the body that
is not covered with wool.
Our mode ofdocking lambs, which we
feel to be superior to any other we have
ever seen practiced, is to saw off log
one foot in diameter and two feet long.
and place the lamb on its rump on
one end of the log, one person holding
the hind legs back close to its body
while he holds the lamb. Now, with
a sharp two-inch chisel, cut off the tail
at one blow by using a mallet, or one
hand for driver instead of mallet.
Fthe chisel is sharp, the operation
will be neatly done, and the skin and
flesh will not recoil, leaving the end of
the bone bare.
As the wounds will sometimes bleed
profusely, scar the end of the stump
of the tail with red-hot iron. This
will not hurt lamb half so much as
it will be injured by excessive bleed
ing. Soaring will stop the blood at
once; and the wounds will heal much
sooner than if not scared. A small
fire can be made of a few chips near
the sheep-pen, and the bar of iron kept
in the fire when it is not in use.
A piece of tin or sheet iron should
be held between the la NIB an d
the hot iron, so that other parts of its
body may not be burned when the
animal struggles. Much care should
be exercised in using the hot iron, not
to burn the end of the tail but little.
An instantaneous touch of the hot iron
will cauterize the blood vessels sui:
ticiently to stop the bleeding. After
this apply little gas-tar to the eau
terized part, to repel flies, which
would otherwise deposit their eggs in
the wounds.-Independent.
MILKING STooLs.-Farmcrs are
bothered. often in milking their cows
in the stable, or during wet weather.
by the pail getting in the mud and ma
nure. This may be remedied by
making stool in the following man
nOr: u v-
Take . board 10 inches wide, and
10 inches long. Put two pegs six or
eight inches long in one end and one
in the other, for legs. Sit on the end
having one leg and place the pail be-
FORE you on the other end.
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CUSTOMERS
THE
G. r E A II
LUNG
REMEDY.

20 While most diseases are not Obscure in their
development, and short in their duration that of
the lungs is insidious, deceitfu and often uncertain
In IT'S real nature TILL has reached an advanced and
hopeless stage.
70 Yet, with this popularity in its nature, where
1t Is seasonably and properly attended to, its pro-
gress may be eectualy arrested in the great major
general observation and experience.
10 To arrest the existing irritation of the air.
passages and the lungs, speedily and eectually the
seat and cause Of cough is important step gained
toward relief and cure in the first stages Of the dis
ease.
70 But while the remedy confers this benefit, it
must possess another principle equally indispensable
70 complete the cure 1t must at the same time
exert and impart nourishing, healing and strength
ening influence throughout the whole system.
70 Lung disease poisons the circulation, weakens
the fluids Of the entire organism, and rapidly under
mines the constitution. 1t thus requires restora-
i've OF extraordinary efficacy to reach and relieve the
advanced stages of consumnfion
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A G. RICUL T u r A L.

II is our desire to make this department both
interesting and useful; and for this purpose we
invite communications and discussion upon all
Agricultural and Horticultural subjects.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-07-06
MAST-A'S
INDIAN PULMONIC BALSAM

possesses this rare combination Prepared entirely
vegetable substances, with their basamic medic
mai propertes it can be taken at any time and nm
oer al circumstances with perfect safety
~ While IL promptly and eiectually arrests irri.
VI sne sir,passages and the lungs, and rapidly
by promoting free discharge OF their accumulated
mucus, and at the same time imparts strength and
vgor to the whole system. " An0
Sold by all Druggists and Apothecsries throuvbont
the New England States.
JoSLYN 4 SONS, General Agents, Barton.
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A young man named Prescott Will
liams, committed suicide by hanging,
in Oxford, on Saturday, June Odd,
He had been compelled to marry a
girl to save cost, and soon after the
ceremony was performed, he went and
hung himself from the limb of an ap-
pie tree in rear of the house. He
had been a fearless soldier, and his
age was about thirty.
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BOILED PEAS FOR Mich Cows AND

BOILED PEAS FOR Mich Cows AND
HoGs.-"Boiled peas" says CORES
pondent of the Richmond Va Farm
er, "as food for mich cows, and for
fattening hogs, is far superior to corn
meal or anything else | have ever seen
tried. My honest opinion is that two
bushels of peas are superior to, or
worth more to fatten hogs, or to in
crease the milk of cows, than three
bushels of corn applied to the same
purpose. In experimenting, have
found that hogs not only fatten doubly
as fast, but the improvement of their
general condition was in like proper
ton" With respect to cows he says,
"the effect was, in ten days, to double
the yield of milk. Ny plan in using
them was to soak them in water
twelve hours or through the night, be-
fore boiling them. By this process,
their bulk was doubled, and conse-
quently they required less boiling
Besides this advantage, | found the
soaked pea an excellent substitute for
green food, having not only the effect
on stock produced by turnips, carrots
and beets in improving their appetite
general appearance and milking prop
critics, but imparts none of the bad
taste to the milk, which is often de-
rived from the use of the green crops
above referred to. 1t was, moreover,
found to exhibit fattening qualities al
most equal to those of the boiled pea. "
He concludes by saying: 81 regard
the soaked pea for food in winter as
decidedly superior to all root crops" "
and recommends that h s brother
farmers should lose no time in test
ing it's value in their own practice"
BUCKwHEAT-It is excellent food
for hogs and fowls, grows on our soil,
produces well, and is of easy tillage
and harvest. We can hardly see why
it is not cultivated more by our farm
ers. 1t certainly is a profitable crop
and is sown after all other crops are
in, at time when there is little else
to do, when the boys are preparing
, for haying. as it were, "betwixt hay
, and grass"
, We would see more Of it sown. II
J the West it is great crop and should
t be here, for it is sure one. We pre-
G fer that kind Of this grain known as
b India Wheat, as being much more
/ hardy and more prolific. AS a greer
o manure it is invaluable, and we hope
f. to see any amount of it sown the com
, ing spring for manure. Two crops 0
+ it can be plowed in a season and TIT
o ground thus MANFRED will be product
# i've beyond expectation. Try the ex
Z. pertinent; it succeeds well in othel
, countries and will here.
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Their assortment of Furniture and other house
furnishing Goods is much larger than any in
the county They keep the best there is
in market, and they feel confident of
satisfying the demands of the
most fastidious. Please to
drop in and see them.
They will not be I'M
dersold. Mel
Their will be
beaten
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01

tions TO the Worcester Antiquarian pro-
ceedincs. and the Atlantic Monthly,
shows chat the word California" was
the name of celebrated Queen of the
Amazons, whose strong minded pranks
are set forth in an old Spanish romance
of the Crusading epoch, and a work
much read in the time of Cortez, the
term most likely being Greek and not
Latin. This was all very plausible
mayhap, very neutrality-suspicious. as
many modern Greek 1 -oper names are
of kindred sound and construction; but
they always begin with the letter X,
which ia more proper to commence the
spelling with at this day, @ and 8 being
two letters susceptible of more torture
than the resonant Il. But 1t seems that
still more plausible reason was gwen
as long age as 1926, by no less person
than the old missionary, Felipe Arroyo,
Of San Juan, whose pathological writ
ings have often been mentioned In
the Evening Bulletin. During Captain
Beechey's voyage to California in 1926
who died an English Admiral ia 1860
he mentions a discussion on this sub
iect, In which Arroyo asserted that We
negas and his copiers were all mistaken,
as IL was, no doubt, corruption of the
term COIofon, used in many parts of
Spain for what we English call rosin,
or after the resin of the pine trees. This
idea of old Arroyo has much to recon-
mend it, for the reason that the resin
bearing trees were seen by the expedi-
tions of CorteZ In the southern parts
of the Peninsula, who would naturally
exclaim "Colofon," which in its sim
ilarity to Californo, Ia Catalonian word
for hot oven) would become changed to
California.
So much for the old PADRES theory,
But at the present time it is rather Gu
rious that the word Californe or Kali
| fornea, is a term for the rOsin used by
lfiddlers and tinsmiths in Bavaria and
other parts of south GermaDyEa term
probably derived from the mixed Palat-
ic races, inhabiting the Adriatic vicini-
ties where Teributhinous trees abound.
Probably the 'Queep of California" of
the romancist, derived her title from
governing a tribe In the 'Piney Woods
of the LeYantine countries, where gold
was a common produce according to
ancient writer's. This view of the mat
ter it would seem, ought to invest in
uuiries In this direction with a new and
curious interest. There can be little
doubt, that, unlike the term Arizona,
the word California is of entirely Med
iterranean origin, and not as has some
times been assumed, of Indian deriva-
ton; whereas there can be small mar
gin to deny that Arizona is a cOmbina-
ton from the Pima language of North
Sonora.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01
MISCELLANY.
Personal Traits and PeGGIIariiIes Of
PerciVaL
Wards Life CT Percival

Wards Life CT Percival.
Professor Ticknor tells me that, while
a guest at his house at Boston at this
time his ways were peculiar. Sitting
at the table opposite Mrs. TicknOr, be
would converse with her husband and
sometimes with her with the greatest
fiuency, but with his eyes dOwncast up
on his plate, always avoiding the glance
of Mrs. TicknOr's eye; and this was his
habit always among females. The same
shrinking from women was also seen IN
the drawing room. Aud at the homes
of his two Boston friends he was prob
ably more at home than anywhere else.
l have been told that this dropping of
the eve while he apparently saw every
thing) was observable as he walked the
street wrapped in his camlet cloak, "the
observed of all observers. While on
his Geological Survey of Connecticut,
ne was often obliged TO pick up a meal
! or a lodging where lac could; and his
dress was not always suchsas indicated
his character and position.
Throughout life he never polished
his shoes, and his pants and hat gem
orally showed that they had been
used the full term of service. Clad in
such habit, he presented himself one
evening at the door of a young ladies'
seminary, asking, as he was some dis
tance from the village, for a supper aud
nights lodging. The lady principal
met him ut the door, and was not IL
ciined to grant his request. He urged
1t, however, as he was tired and hun
CRY; and she finally yielded, following
him into the kitchen, ard remaining
while he ate his supper. Observing
him more mInutely, she thought he
looked more intelligent than common
beggars, and engaged in conversation
with him, when she found that he was
apparently well-educated man; and
as the conversation went on, from one
surprise to another, she found that he
could talk upon a variety of Subjects
The conversation at length turned up
on poetry; and the lady, after speaking
of other poets, mentioned Percival,
and went on to express her enthusiastic
admiration of his poetry, to the some
what startled yet quiet listener; when
checking herself, she asked, 'DO you
know Ptrcival? Have you read his
poetry" To which the stranger re-
piled, in his gentle, hsping tone, Il
amir. Percival, and L sometimes
write poetry" 1t is needless to say that
he was generously entertained that
night, aud that the resources of his
hostess were exhausted to do him honor.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01

We count the broken Tyres that rest
Where the sweet wailing singers sfumOeF'
But DER their silent sisters breast,
The wild flowers who will stoop TO NUMBER
A few may touch the magic string,
And noisy fame is proud TO win them
Alas for those who never sing,
But die with all their music IN tAem
Nav. grieve not for the dead alone,i
Whose song has told their hearts sad story,
Weep for the Voiceless who have known,
The cross without the crown OF glory
Not where Leucsdian breeZes sweep
Ger SapphO's memOry-haunted pillow;
But where the glisteniBg night-dews weep
Der nameless sorrows church-yaTd pillow.
o hearts that break and give no sign,
Save whitening lip and fading tTesses,
Till death pOaTs out his cordial wine,
Slow dropped from misery s crushing
If singing breath or echOing cord lpressesi
To every hidden pang were given,
What endless melodies were poured
AS sad IS earth, as sweet as heaven!
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01
An AGeelIenaie wife and a Durifui
Husband
A London correspondent of the \

A London correspondent of the n.
Y. World gives the following:
1t is not often that I have any scan
dial for you, but here IS bit about a
certain Mrs. N, whom you may see
daily driving through the streets at a
furious pace, with her meek-eyed hus-
band at her side, his face bearing the
impress of fear IN every feature, He
would remind You of Mr.. Some
bOdy's picture of despair, if the ludi-
crOus were not blended quite so strong
" with alright. Mrs. N, however, is
a stunner-a little bit nanny, but a
magnificent creature. and drives her
ph@tOn well, though she does hold the
reins little too tightly, perhaps. I'm.
agine, then, If you can, her Indignation
when she heard for the first time that
Mr.. n. had accepted an invitation to
sup at Browns a jolly fellow of his
bachelor days.
"Only ourselves, you know, and Jones
and R0binsOns," had said Brown, and
Mr.. y - accepted, not without mis-
givings however, for he knew what he
would have to encounter when he COM
municated his rash promise to Mrs. n.
-. As fate would have it, his wife
looked aWfully splendid and fierce that
night, Between love and fear, his tom
que refused to speak the words. He
would wait till next mOrning-there was
no hurry. In word, he did not tell
her at all, and it was by the merest
chance, of course, that she heard of it.
''And so, sir, hear that you were
going to supper with that horrible man,
Mr.. Brown, tC-molrow?"
Il certainly am invited, my dear"
''And what do you propose doing,
Mr.. N-?"
"To accept the invitation, of course, -
my dear.
Then, of course, you expect me to
accompany your"
TO bachelors supper party, my
dear? Impossible"
''Then you don't go, that is all, my
dear"
And Mrs N closed her mouth
and spOkenO more that evening. Mr..
N resolved he would be master this
time, and in silence made his plans
The day came. No more had been
said on either side-nOthing relative to
the subject was said now. Yet am
reluctantly compelled to record tile fact
that Mr.. Brown and his friends were
disappointed of their friend n IS
company that night.
THAT she wouldn't let hir
come" said one.
1 only saw him this morning, said
Brown, and he promised to be here.
What lark, if we called on him.
Let rs say all.
Aud they did so.
i laundering knock, n IS street
door was opened to Brown, Jones, and
Robinson, and they were shown into
the dining room where Mr.. and Mrs.
N sat immovable in their chairs
fast asleep.
They had administered a strong Opiate
to each other, unawares. The wife to
keep the husband at home-the husband
to qUiefen the wife.
a divorce is pending.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01

A New mystery.-The people of New
York are favored with the exhibition of
a new mystery-the astonishing spec
tacle of a living human head. resting
upon a small cushion, and floating in
mid air, under a strong light-so that
it can be inspected from every side,
and laughing, talking, recognizing
persons in tie house, and in all ways
conducting itself after the manner of
the quick and not the dead. The head
floats in the air, at least four feet dis
tant from the floor, ceiling and walls.
No illusion is attempted. No mirrors,
as in the case of the Sphynx, are to be
detected. The head is actually there
and without any obvious body. The
cushion upon which it rests is very
small, far too small to afford room for
the concealment of a human body in a
crouching attitude. This is the most
mysterious of mysteries.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01
A Fish story.
FROM the Erie pal Dispatch.

FrOm the Erie lPa.) Dispatch.
About the strangest thing we ever
heard of occurred here on Friday, Nov.
9. Mr.. Schoelhurtz, well known Ger
man citizen, who lives in a small frame
house near the depot, went fishing to
the lighthouse deck with a couple of
friends. Their luck did not seem to be
very good, as but one black bass and a
few perch were all that had been cap
tured, and tie interest in the sport
naturally began 10 flag. While MIR.
Schoelhurtz was examining his watch, a
very fine gold one, to which black
ribbon and seal were attached, his line
being left carelessly in the water, a
sudden heavy jerk that near " took the
fish-pole frem his hand, so startled him
that in trying to grasp it with the 9TH
er hand, In his excitement he somehow
let go of his watch, which struck his
knee and bounded eff into the water,
his line Though a very strong one)
parted at the same instant with a sud-
den snap. Regrets, though natural
ly INDUCED In to some extent, were
useless, so the party continued fishing
a couple of hours after the accident, and
then rowed homewards with a heavy
string of fish, MIR. Schoelhurzt's ILL
luck having followed him so persistent
" that he had actually caught nothing.
When nearly back to the starting point
they were overtaken by fishing boat,
and being ashamed of exhibiting their
''catch" to their friends, as unldcky
fishermen always are, they concluded
to buy few fish to add to those honest
ly caught, agreeing not to tell tales on
each other as TO the manner in which
they were obtained-Mr. Schoelhurzt
purchasing an eight FOUNDER black bass
and three small ones. As he was car
rying the fish home he thought he saw
something sticking IN its gills, which
on closer inspection proved to be fish
hook that very much resembled the one
he had lost in the afternoon, and it was
with kind of savage Joy that he antici-
pated the pleasure of eating the prime
cause of his ill-luck; but strangest OF
all, upon cutting the fish open he found
his watch, which had not even stopped
ticking.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01
Derivation Of the WOrd 'sGAIliOrnia. -

Correspondence San Francisco Bulletin.l
An immense amount of bosh and nom
sense has been written from the time of
Venaoas to the present on the etYmOlOgy
of the term California Until within
the last four or five years the Latin de
rivation intimated by Venegas and
Clavijero, from Calida and fOy7'dr, sig
nIfying heat and furnace, from the ex-
cessive temperature of the extremities
of the peninsula, or from the hot air
baths of the Indians, was generally ac-
cepted. But Mr.. Hale, in his contribu-
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01
ONLY WHOLESALE.

m III. RICE a. FRIEDMAN, Importers
e. and deale In YANKEE NOTIONS, Hosiery
Ladies and Gents furnishing and great variety OF
other goods at Ne0 York JobbdHg Prices. Bargains
from Mem York Wholesale Auctions.
No. 3z9 s. 33I East Water St.,-Corner
Huron, Milwaukee. Wis.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01

The annual ceremony of GROWING
the king of PUMPKINS took place in the
Central market at Paris last month. The
vegetable which gained the honor this
year weighed 258 pounds and measured
ten feet four inches in circumference.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01
A Capital Story.-A capital story i

Capital Story.-A capital story is
told of a young fellow who on one
Sunday strolled into a village church,
and during the service was electrified
and gratified by the sparkling of pair
of eyes which were riveted upon his
face. After the service, he saw the
possessor of the shining orbs leave the
church alone, and embOldened by her
chances, he ventured to follow her, his
heart aching with rapture. He saw her
look behind, and fancied she evinced
some emotion at recognizing him. He
then guickened his pace, and she actu-
ally slackened hers, as if TO let him
come up with her-but we will permit
the young gentleman to tell the rest in
his own way.
s'Noble young creaturel" thought i,
s'her artless and warm heart is superior
to the bond of custom"
| had reached within a stones throw
of her. She suddenly halted, and
turned her face toward me. My heart
swelled to bursting. / reached the
spot where she stood, she began to
speak, and 1 took off my hat as if doing
reverence to an angel
"Are yOu peddler?"
"NO, my dear girl, that is not my
occupation" 1880
"Well, 1 don't know, continued she,
not very bashfully, and cycling me
very sternly, 81 thought when / saw
you in the meeting house, that you
looked like peddler who passed off q
pewter half dollar on me three weeks
ago, and so determined to keep an eye
on You. Brother John has got home
now, and says if he catches the fellow
he'll wiring his neck for him; and
amt sure but you're the good for-noth-
| ING rascal after ALI"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01
Female Complaints.

Whether in the young old, married or single,
at the dawn of womanhood the turn of life these
tonic medicines display deciced an influence that
marked improvement is soon perceptible in the
health Ofthe patient. Being purely vegetable pre-
paratiOn, they safe and reliable remedy for all
classes OF females in every condition Of health and
station of life
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01
Piles and FfstuIa,

Every form aud feature of these prevalent and
stubborn disorders erGdicated locally and entire
~ by the use of this emolient; warm fomentationi
should precede its application. lts healing qualities
will be found 10 be thorough and invsriable.
Both the Ointment and Pills should be used IN the fol
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01

Bunions. burns, chapped hands, chilblains, fisiu-
Ia govt. lumbago, mercuria eruptions, piles rheu-
matlsm. ringworn, salt rheum, scalds skin diseas-
es, sWeiled glands, sore legs, sore breasts, sore
heads sore throats sores of ali kinds spIains stiff
joints, letter. ulcers, veneIeal Sores wounds Of all
kinds.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01

for such the farmer would find plenty
of greedy buyers, willing to pay the
highest price. = Moore'S Rural NelO