Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-24

10 DurH IL leNcI. III you caH llilu u DHtchSn1ltn
that is mechanic enough to level the foot
without red hotiron. employ him. The burn
ing process dcadens the hoof and tends to
contract it. If you do not believe it. try II
red-hot poker on your nail, and see if it does
not affect the growth.
Chicago widow of boarding house edit
cation, acquired no less than $1,000 ofthe
relief funds by appearing under various
guiscs, and having several different places of
abode She had gathered seven stoves IN
one locality, and in another an immense
NUMBER of blankets. And yet the old fogies
talk about the incapacity of women to do
business, take care OF themselves, and
vote.
a countryman in Savannah observed II
gang of darkies laboring on the street, each
wearing ball and chain. He asked one
why that ball was chained to his leg. 40
keep people from stealing it,, said the dark
ey, cheap of thieves about here
i A bill has been introduced into the Illinois
Legislature forbidding the restriction of mail
privileges to inmates of lunatic asylums.
The discussion of it brings ont numerous
instances of the inhumanity with which lu-
natics have been forbidden to write to their
friends.
The Fort Wayne (Ind.) Sentinel processes
to have unearthed relative ofGen. Grants
to whom the president made II proposal to
represent him in some of Corbin's Wall
street transactions so dishonest that the said
r.,fi,cnI n, hnx.n nnythinr IN l.,x wifi
the matter. 1t is much more likely that the
relative" is angry because Gen. Grant has
not given him something he wanted, and so
he stabs him in the back in this fashion.
Gen. Tilton says of the Dutch Cattle ut the
Maine Military asylum: "Thcse Holsteins
meet the demand for milk and cheese, for
beef and for working cattle. Jerseys are
superior to them for butter; no other breed
, is superior to them in any sense Perhaps |
should say that Devons are superior as oxen,
but then they are inferior in the dairy; and
. let me tell you that the dairy is to redeem
the agriculture of Maine, if anything will.
My two cows are now giving about seventy
pounds of milk II day
When it is desired to make II horses name
, lie on the opposite side from that towards
! which it naturally grows, it should be wet
9 ted and combed several times day. This
t will suffice, il it is not very short and bushy
in such cases. some of the hair may be pull
ed out from the under part, on the side to-
ward which il is desired to make it grow
this will generally cause it to fall easily. II
this does not suffice, the name should be
r plated in eight or ten braids, the end OF
each being loaded with bit of lead.
Am awful warning to scolding wives comes
from Milwaukee. A woman in that city was
, '.jawing" her children, her neighbors, II hired
girl, and everybody in general when her
husband entered and interposed mild
word. She opened her mouth for an angry
reply, but II spasm contracted her cheek
her lower jaw fell, and she could neither
speak nor shut her mouth, but remained il,
that condition; her tongue hung out, and hel
u eyes nearly started out of 1their sockets.
She had dislocated her jaw bone in her VIC.
G lent effort to make IL singing reply to hen
husband. A surgeon was called, who rcduc
u ed the dislocation, bound up her head, ant