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Tales of Toads-

Geo. NJ Mead states his experience
with toads in the Ohio FzrHer. Tn
less their skin Is broken they are per-
fectly harmless. They viii eat any
bug but the potato bug In Pitts
ield, Mass, l had an uncle, one Of the
finest gardeners IN the town. and he.
to the no little amusement Of friends.
Used to pick up these venOmous toads
in his hands, whenever be could find
nice fat ones, carry them home and
pat them in his garden 10 catch the
bugs and WORMS. He said 10 me one
day: They VIII become quite tame
If you pet them a little | thought
that 4 little singular but concluded to
trr it. When | went home / found
one IN the she'd close to the kitchen
and commenced. At first | caught a
bug or hy and stood a. far of a.
could and dropped it down in front of
nv pet. | did not have long 10 wait
FOR the bug had hardly dropped till ii
disappeared Each day / went to see
and feed him. and went up closer. un-
I'll he got 20 tame tha; be would at
any time take q bug OF fy out Of nv
fingers / then began to handle him,
and If ! CHANGED 10 move him from
his nice little corner be would 20 back
there and seem TO wait for me 10 come
and see him
Or Harris said twenty years ago
that he supposed the odor OF the
squash bug fcorcHs Tristjsl would
protect it from the toad: and to test
the matter be offered one 10 a grave
booking Bufo unde- o cabbage. He
seized 1t eagerly, bst spit it out in
stantiy, reared up on his hind legs
and put his front feet on the top Of
his head for an instant. a. If in pain.
and then disappeared across the gar
den in 2 sieries Of the greatest leaps
toad ever made Perhaps the bug
bit the bitter. Not satisfied with this,
Dr. II. hunted up another toad. which
lived under the piazza, aud always
summed himself in one place in the
grass, and offered him a sgaath bug.
which be took and swallowed. wink
ing IN q very satisfied manner
Twenty other fine bugs followed the
first, in a few moments, with no Diff
Guilty or hesitation IN the taking or
the swallowing, though from the wrig-
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Hereditary Influences

II i distinctly asserted By Prosper
Lucas. and agreed % BY others, that
predisposition 10 anv form Of disease.
or any malformatioR. may become an
inheritance Thus disease Of the
heart j. hereditary; F; 50 are tubereies
in the lungs - also are diseases Of
the brain. Of the liver. and Of the KID
nev 50 are diseases Of the eve and
Of the ear. General maladies are
equally iHheritable, a. g0ut and mad
ness. Longevity on the one hand. and
premature death on the other. 20 bv
descent II we consider a class Of
peculiaritieS. more TecOndite IN their
origin than these, We shall Stil find
the law Of inheritance 70 hold good
\ morbid susceptibility 10 contagious
disease, or 10 the poisonous effects Of
opium. OF Of eal0mel, and an aversion
10 the taste Of meat. are al found 70
be inherited SOis craving for drink.
OF for gambling. strong sexual passion
Prochvity 10 pauperism, 70 crimes
Of violence. and 70 crimes OF fraud.
There are certain marked types Of
character Justly associated with mark
ed types Of feature and Of tempera-
ment We hold. automatically, that
the latter are inherited (the case be
ing too notorious and too consistent
with the analogy Afforded BY brute
animate % render argument neeessa-
w. and we therefore infer the same
OF the former. For instance. the face
Of the eombatant i square, coarse,
and heavily jawed. II differs from
that Of the aSeetie, the volup-
tuary. the dreamer, and the charlatan.
Still more strongly marked than
these are the typical features and
characters Of different races Of men
The MOngolians, Jews, Negroes.
Gypsies and American Indians Sc
verally propagate their kinds and
each kind differing n character and
a. Wei IS II color and shape
form q class Of instances worthy Of
close investigation, IN which pecul-
iarities Of character are invariably
transmitted from the parents 70 the
GaiteH.
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sion. and bis fervid eyes sparkling
with indignation, were dxed on ne
John. said be. -you don't know
what you are doing You are SER
ing the devil. b0y, Do ron know
thar am an Inaianz If J should
become again the same contemplate
wretch your father remembers ne -
have been. John. never again while
you I've tempt a man TO break good
resolution
Socrates never uttered a more val
uabEe preeept Demosthenes could
not have given il with more solemn
elOduence. / was thunderstruek
Nv parents were deeply adeeted
They I9oked ~ Iae and then turned
their gaze upon the venerable chief
tain with awe AID respect They a.
terward frequently reminded ne q
the scene, and charged ne never %
forget it.
He lies buried in the royal burial
place Of TIE tribe near the beautiful
falls Of the Yantie, IN Norwich, On
lands now owned By lay friend, Cal
vin Goddard, Esq / visited the Old
chief lately, and above his moulder-
ing remains repeated 70 myself the IN
estimable lesson.
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SOMERSET. A.aWEDNESDAY, JULY 24 1872

Of distinction. Eliza Is plain, but
profound and Ella a slender echo Of
what the name initiates. When the
average man seeks for wife, desPisiBg
romance and discsrding the ideal, be
should sue TO Esther, who wiz per-
form all she promises, becoming the
most conscientious Of hOusekeepers,
the most devoted slave Of the nursery.
4 thorough seatterbrain is Fanny,
whom trouble spares and sdversity
does not touch. Helen Is prec0cious
at sixteen, eoquette TIL fve-and-
twenty, and an ambitious and match
making mamma, while she absents
herself from heaven 10 discharge her
duty to society. Isabella should be
tall and dienifed and clever, laGgh-
ing az what she most sincerely be
lieves and w0Unding with Parthian
arrows her weIl-euarded heart. Julia
has tendency 10 be II love with her
self, undisturhed By rivals She sees
IN her mirror the beauties others fail
to discover, and her nuch-proelaimed
righteousness * but 4 phase Of her
coaeeit Jane i likely to suffer from
lack Of appreciation, for she wears
her jewels out Of sight, and is con-
tent 10 be misunderstood when IN
derstanding demands any betrayal Of
herself In sentimental wees Leonora
Is ever bound / most happy when
most distressed Louise has 4 spice
Of atfeetation, but i engaging at
first and enchanting al last 10 those
she admits TO the sanctuary Of her
sympathy. The image Of Medeline
i shown in the strictest convention
atty She Is q well-bred aGtomaton
dresses admirably. talks faalilesslv.
acts bec0mingiy Is, IN aw0rd, a re-
fection Of ber surroundings, because
she has not sufficient force 10 vary
from her pattern.
Maud effects Teunys0n and tears.
muslin Of the whitest and mystery Of
the blaekest sort. Sheis q distillation
Of simper. silEneSs, and sentimental
ISM Miriam, Penelope, CordeIia.
and Rachel, need 70 be stately, calm.
and Observation-Disclosures bv MANY.
esteemed bv all, and beloved bv one. {
Phebe and Philiis are not urbane IN
mind or manners They are promi-
Reni figures in a landscape filed with
farms and faFEn-hOuSes. and commend
themselves warmly to the swain ere
dGlous enough 10 believe that God the
first garden made. and the first eitv
Cain The heart Of gaIlantry does
not thrCb at mention Of Susannah.
who rises 10 the faEcv with milk and
water eyes unshapely mouth, and an
Hitting grown but s. beats..wildlv
TO the sweet syIlables Of EioIa's name,
and awaits with eager expectancy the +
regal preSenee ofZenobia, too lofty to
be lightly loved
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Weights and AGES

Somebody who has been "stutving
our weights reports that upon an
average. BOYS at birth weigh a little
more, and girls little less, than SIX
pounds and a half For the first two
years the two sexes continue nearly
equal in weight, but beyond that time
males acquire 1 decided preponder-
anee Thus young men Of twenty aver
aeg northumberland forty-three pounds
each, Willie The Young women Of
twenty average one hundred and
twenty pounds Men reach their
heaviest bulk a. about thirtv-fve.
when they average about one hundred
and sixtv-two pounds; but women
slowly increase IN weight until fifty,
when their average i one hundred
and forty-nine pOunds-Taking men
and women together. their weight at
full growth averages about twenty
times as heavy as they were on the
first dsv Of their existence. Men
range from one hundred and eighty.
to two hundred pounds, women from
lightweight 10 two hundred and
seven pounds. The actual weight Of
human nature, taking the average Of
ages and cOnditions-nobles. clergy.
tinker, tailors, maidens, boys, girls.
and babies. al included-is very
nearly one hundred pounds These
figures are given as avoirdgpois
weight; but the advocates Of the So
periority Of women might make a
nice point Of Introducing the rule that
women be weighed by Troy weight
like other jewels and men avoir-
dupois. The figures VII then stand /;
young men Of twenty, one hupdred
and forty-three pounds; Young wo-
men oftwenty, one hundred and sixty
pounds.
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Horace white ON Horace Greeley.

As Horace White Of the Chicago
Tribune, X now one Of the principal
supporters of NJ. Greeley for yresi-
dent II nav be Interesting % recall
NJ Whites opinion q MS friend, a.
published IN 1856.
Horace Greeley Is not nov, and
never has been, 4 man who ought %
be trusted with an Official position re-
curing practical wisdom, ordinary
statesmanship. OF frm, consistent ae-
ton. For twenty-five years be has
been q marpl0t in council, en- unrell-
able commander IN action, misaD-
thr0pe II victory. and ri0tous dis
organizer in defeat He has Away
been fan2tieaI IN bis demands for the
EXTREMIST measures. and when the
party has reached the ere Of triumph,
be invariably thrusts himself forward
o. a negotia50r CT terms 0f surrender
70 the enemy His course during the
war was but = repetition OF MS course
il politics. n IS60, lie was al open
defender Of secession; he changed 70
a vigorous champion of the war, and
thereafter was foreTer reekIessly max
ing proposals for peace and a. reck-
Iess.v Withdrawing tbem-making
war in spite Of Mars, and negotiating
II spite Of Minerva
F0r twenty wears lie has been An
u1c0mpromising advocate for 2 square
fight with the pro-slaverv party, and
when that kiad Of 2 fight vas forced
upon the Republicans, II 1850. be was
here IN Chicago. voting not for Lin
coin, nor for Chase. but for old EG-
ward Ba-es. Of Missouri, one Of The
fossils Of the slave party. he was
then the associate and e0-laborer u
that other Imprseticable and Unrelia-
BE squ4d-the Blair family. The
country e. this time wants no Inspir-
ed harleduins IN the national councils
SUI les- does Il want men with state
manship 50 microscopic that they can
see nothing n public business but the
miIea-e and per diem Of their fellow
members. If Mr.. GreeleF : not sa1-
izhed with his position a. a journal
isr-a position vShieh ought % be
equal II point Of influence, power ard
dignity t0-that Of SIX average Sena-
t0r-and Il the Republicans Of New
York want 70 DO something fer him.
Iet them make him State Prison II
spector, or even Governor: anything
that VIII not make the outside q The
So re-u.nn.ihIa fa- b. fnIlies-
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what - sure Co FoIfsw.

Democratic Liberalites grow elo-
quent over the results which win fol.
low the defeat of President Grant
The South VIII embrace the North,
and peace and goodwill reign every
where. By what means this peace
and goodwill are % b. brought
about in the South NAV be judged By
the means employed in the past
The Presidential election Of 1858 II
the State ofL0uisiana affords a CLEAN
Of Eight on this subject. The Demo
erats wanted 70 carry the election.
As they could not 0utv0te the Re
pubIicans they determinedto XII them
Of. How wei thev succeeded may
be learned from therep0rt Of the c0H-
mittee appointed - Investigate the
affair We quote:
The testimony shows that over
two thousand persons were killed,
wounded and otherwise injured in
that State, within a few weeks prior
70 the Presidential election that half
the State was Overrun BIZ violence ;
that midnight raids, secret murders,
and open riots kept the people in con
slant terror until the Republicans
surrendered all claims, and then the
was carried BY the DemOc-
raey.7
II saws Of the riot a. tie Parish Of
ST Landry:
Here occurred one Of the blo0diest
riots on record, IN which the Kuklux
killed and wounded over two hun
dred Republicans il two DAYS. i
1ile Of twenty-five bodies Of the We
tins were found half buried IN the
woods. The Kuklux captured the
marked them with badges Of
red flannel, enrolled them II clubs,
marched them to the polls, and made
them vote the Democratic ticket "
This Is not fiction, but words q
truth from al impartial report This
Is the peace and goodwill which
would follow the defeat Of President
Grant; these are the Liberal rights
which would be allowed the l0val
citizen The insIigators and the &c
tors Of these terrible crimes are IN "a
y0r ofH0race Greeiev- This one fact
should open the ewes Of the people 10
he full meaning Of this desperate
Of anything . beat
Grant Defeat Grant and the loyal
people Of the South are once more a.
the mercy OF the rebel bloodhounds.
who only need his defeat 10 finish
heir work Of blood Defeat Grant.
md universal gloom VIII settle over
tie South, and obscure forever the
sunshine Of liberty which l. Just BE-
ginning TO light up is once desolale
selds. Defeat Grant. and civilization
: retarded AZ least a century
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Cling and contortions Il appeared heir
corners did not set well within. The
stock Of bugs being then exhausted
a colony Of smooth black larvR was
found On q white birch, each about
three quarters Of an inch long, and
over one hundred Of these were fed 20
the waiting toad Touching one Of
these with a straw, II would coil
around It. and then when shaken be-
fore him he would seize and swallow
it, at first eagerly, but with diminish
ed zest as the number increased. IN
I'll il became necessary 10 rub the
worm against his lips for some time
before he could decide about IL He
would then take it and 1T with his
lips ajar for short time, gathering
strength and resolution, and then
swallow ii BY a desperate effort
There is no telling what the number
or the result would have been a. the
rang as the I0Ist disap-
Deared. and by the close Of the meal
he had retired TO his hole. nor did he
appear for four DAYS in his summing
place. 1t Is 10 be hoped that he slept
wei. but there might have been night
mares
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THEKE is 4 deal Of pith II +he fol-
lowing remarks made By Wendell
Phillips az a meeting held on sunday
evening. n Boston. IN fay0- Il es5ab-
fishing 3 Mercantile and Industrial
Institute in Boston In the course
Of his remarks Mr.. Philips s4id-
Il do not belieEe the State Wi
ever do it duty until II 6ts the man
70 get lis bread think the State
i bound 70 give % the child Of every
man in the community, poor and
rich. the opportunity Of a good edu-
cation and % learR 4 trade, and In
the last years Of his apprenticeship
be should get his living out Of it
We have hitherto elevated the brain
until we starved the veTv feet The
school system Of today does not con
template the fact Of a maa-s having
= stomach and needing 10 be able %
get something 70 Put into IL The
education Of to-day l. monster; II
is almost bad a. that Of the lower
classes IN England, who know only
how 10 use 4 spade or watch a SPIN
de
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The Hearth and Home talks thus to
boys:
Pair play in play Is the foundation
for fair PLAY in hfe. To play unfairly
Is to steal By therules Of the game,
you have certain rights and your op-
poueRt has rights. These rights. Ike
all rights, are Of the nature Of proper
". Ifyou take the slightest advan-
taee 10 which you are not entitled,
you are TO that extent-well, MET Is
q hard word to be. But | VIII let
you or any other conscientious boy say
what one Is who takes that which
does not belong 70 him, and thus in
fringes on the rights Of another.
The boy who plays fairly i sure to
make an honorable man. | should
not Ike TO say that the boy who plays
unfairly VIII grow to be arogue. But
/ viii say that the boy who takes IN
fair advantage in 4 game shows weak
moral nature and cannot b. depended
on IN q pinch"
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wha, There is In n Name.

An exchange furnishes the follow
in9 disqaisition, whether original or
stolen, il does not say-probably the
latter:
The significance of names is a.
variable as the clouds, depending on
conditions too delicate to be defined
Sullnames have what might be termed
a quality of average association which
translates them 10 the mind in not
materially different hues and forms.
Nobody considers Jerusha fascinating
or Mabel repulsiye Sibyi suggests
s0ftness and kindness. ana Angelina
mawkish sentiment Blood and
breeding seem 10 lie in Edith. and in
elegance and rustieify in Priscilla.
Mary. whom bards have made tgnefui
in manv tongues. has host such SAVIOR
as she might have had from excess Of
handling We think Of her now in
conneetion with almost ANYTHING else
than grace and loveliness- Kate is
interesting. though she CONVEYS a
certain impression Of wildness ap-
preaching nisiaenhoed. Pauline il
laekadisical. pretentious, and shallow,
Ruth Is simple, genuine, Wianisa. full
of modesty and merit. and sterling to
the core. Ada and Ida show gentle
ness without strength, and deiicacr
rather than discernnent. Alice is
what circumstances NAV make her
pretty and spoiled, needing trial for
development. adversity for elevation
Amy Is child always. even after
maternity and maturity, aud nothing
can render her otherwise. Stiffness.
seifconseioasness. and anguIarity
emanste from Ar2bella and Augusta
should be consequential and inflated
without desert A certain dollhouse
air might surround Blanche and
Bertha, and they should be kept there
if ii be desirable to preserve their
freshness and their fragrance.
Clara, not TO belle herself. should
be pure, afectionate and free, carry
ing with her the form and daintincss
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FER the HERALD
eHArEATx EN EsPAGNE.


Tar out Il the East
The greg Light ofthe noruing
.CryEt Up Ike = wave As the nizht nea away
AMI feeble and faint
Shane the star In the heavens.
Whieh heralis the birth and the coming 4 day.
BelOr, il the quiet
And beautiful valley,
The mist Ike a blllowy sea coming O.
Rolled hither and thither
Ike waves Of the ocean
AZ tiboG<h Il wersfxiad f5r TIE coming q dawn
And soen Ger the hills
of the Orient rising
The sul in has sF,leRior l1sket irth on the socn'
And forest and meadow
Smiled lqy AZ his o8Eling
Renectsnz the half q his glory and sheen
But the sane sea Of mist
As II rising - welcome
The souree e the light and the king ofths aAy.
Gathered Up Is white fol1s
Like an army with banners
Ana Gradually ami silently vanished away
Nov al the Lag day
Liking tJvara the blae meadows of heAven-iA
SKY
see TIE white cl0als
Like the tents q the Anzels
Rall up tkeir bright folds ami pass silently by.
qlcszra, N faney,
The Ai-y enezmpmenE-
Oh beautiful beings called spirits ofsiE,
Whose music ne'sr catches
The ea-s AZ p.er mortals
Fsr theirs Is the life Of ha-i veari@sne care
But here meath the cool
Shady rrces Of the farrst-
Al TocIl with music Ehsrs hrigh: waters play.
The sIErif Is free
From the ion and the ssrruw
That burdens with lai-lr the lans summer day
The snake frvm ny fragrant
Cigar ezriing UPWARD
Seems E-oplsi with forras tha; ny fancy cstceiEes
Is The nynphs and the iairies
Of sweet ancient s-orT
" ere wa % fn,shlr tfse wc.o.ts ana the leaves
dream u the tine
When the strife aBt elslfnsion
That racks the whole World With such torture
shah cease.
Ant nought shal - bea-i
IN the hymn ef the ages
save onlv the heavenly music q peace.
- Ch4sesEx en- EsTag1e.
CA8teauI eB EspA-ne,
" hs; ianeifsl forms does the treane-..oehola--
They're h2thed L the fresh.
K30v.ng light ef the mo-ning
F iiE.zee- Ike the evening with erialson ami gid
They rise. Ike The ARK
n the bright, dswy no-ninx
Jr s.hk as the evening star Il The west
And anry, Ike birds
Ou the E-ng. ever s0ariug
Has vishsns ct Happiness. qaiet ans. rest
- taxing 70 note
Of the sEift flying I1smenfs
people Elth beings the castles q air
AMI dream oi the golden
Al1 glorious failure.
In viriG1s q beaury. t=ylBd compare
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Watering Horse. in Hot weather.

There ! q warm controversy CON-
ing up in regard to tie watering Of
horses IN warm weather. Atpresent
this controversy i s. Z cloud 10 lar
ger than q mans hand: but we are
sadly mistaken If it DO not come 10
be one Of the most stirring questions
Of the dav; one in the face of which
even Drilling Uersus Killing Corn, =
Deep Flowing. or any other Illus
trious subject Of the past, VIII pale
Several writers have Of late sur-
gested that in watering horses while
thev are warm in summer Is 4 verv
bad thing; others say that more suf-
fer and are injured for the want Of
water in summer than from too much
Of il The great centre Of attack in
this new line Of thought Is not Joseph
Harris, although he i but one Of sew
eral who has taken in hand the refor-
nation Of horse manners and customs
in reference 10 drink
The theory Of horsemen IN general
is that it i an evil 10 perspire freely
in warm weather, and that If little
water be given, they can perspire but
little The more water We give them
the more they sweat On the other
hand the laborine man in the open
fields tells Us he Is never 50 eomfor-
table at work as when he i perspir-
ing freely, and be takes bis glass Of
good spring water a. often a. be
pleases. The argument from this i
that what Is good for the man i good
for the beast Perhaps 80.
We suppose the truth lies midway
between these opposing forces. At
any rate the discussion viii DO no
harm TO the poor dumb beasts inter-
ested ORr Own experience has been
adverse to excessive watering. Even
in the harvest field We think m0der-
alton i advisable.-Germanf0srn Tel
e4yr1fH
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II the Iri5EHs would publish feW
0f these interesting facts Il might d
the people a favor. But - II has
ceased 70 be Al organ, and parted
with is monkey, we can hardly eL-
pect the repetition Of old times.
The same proportion Of roguerv
holds good with al the..thieves that
have been ferresed out during Gen
Grants term More than three-foUrths
Of the whole number were appointed
bv Andy johnson. How very "hber-
al i would be 70 have our Demo
cratic friends tel the whole ruth, and
allow their constituents 70 know Who
Il was that appointed "a thieves