Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-04-20

NRw Mons OF SHOOTING HoRsEs-A Par.
! is blacksmith has invented a new system OF
shoeing horses. Instead Of the shoe beng
| placoi-irtquently much too hot--on the
hoof snd burning its own resung-place, the
outside Of the hoof is cut away round the foot
TO about the depth Of hilf an inch this leaves
a ledge into which the shoe fts, and is then
flush with the frog. which Just touches the
ground, and the whole foot rests on the
ground instead Of being raised as Of old by
the shoe. The visible advantages Of this are
that the foot is little pared, and that instead
Of great heavy shoe the animal is shod in
what are little more than racing plates. The
advantages claimed by the inventor are, that
the horse never Slips that the shoe allows
the foot 20 expand naturally, and that il lasts
AS long and is as cheap as the old plan.
ORION OF THE PR1NrER's DEv1L."--
When Aldus Manutius set up 10 business az
printer at Venice, he came in possession oil
little negro boy. This boy was known over
the city as " the little black devil" who as
sisted the mysterious bibioiactor and some Of
the ignorant persons believed him to be none
other than the embodiment Of Satan, who
helped Aldus in The prosecution Of his profess
sion. One day. Manuiius, desiring TO dispel
this strange hallucinauon by publicity, dis
played the young imp TO the poorer class
es. Upon this occasion he made this short
but very characteristic speech-" Be IL known
to Venice, that /, Aldus Manutius, printer to
the Holy Church aud Doge, have this day made
public exposure Of the printers deva. All
those who think he is not flesh and blood
may come and pinch him"
Women require more sleep, it is said, than
men. Blifkins disputes this, as he says tn
last sound he hears at night is the voice Of
Mrs b. in her nocturnal lecture, and tbe first
in the morning is her mstutinal admonition
Men are sometimes badly used in the house
Of their friends. The Richmond Enquirer,
speaking Of the appointment Of Boston man
to position in Virginia, says he is to be
constituted " Professor Of Mental Degsners-
cy and Moral Obliquity in Washington Col
lege."
Ovens Lake, among the Sierra Nevadas,
in California, is natural tan-pit its waters
are so strong Of torax, alum, alkali, etc,
that one draught will poison a man, and one
immersion clean dog Of his hair.
The dairymen 10 Cincinnati have resolved
to charge ten cents quart and thirty-two
cents gallon for milk from the lst Of May
next, during the summer.
The amiable Ward was sitting in the box
Office at the Boston Thea re, the other day.
cogitatng on an investment for the profits of
Saturday night, when the window was sud
denly eclipsed by a sable visage, which made
demand for 1.-TWO preserved seats for dis
Ginning Preserved seats ?" said the aston
ished treasurer, "go down to the market if
youwant ham, we don't sell 'em here" The
eyes Of the bewildefed darkey rolled like the
orbs Of the Sphinx, as he shufiisd off.
BY the raising Of the sunken ships in the
harbor of Sebastopol, Russia, thirty-six tons
of copper, ninety tons of iron, twelve hun
bred cannon, four thousand cast iron ballast
pigs, one hundred chain cables and large
quantity of miscellaneous stores were recov-
cred