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How TO Treat n Horse.

Some English grooms at Saratoga are
teaching the Yankees" now to take
care of horse.
To-day asked one Of these grooms,
who has spent twenty years in the
stable of royalty, what he had to say
about our American way of taking care
of horses.
"Why, sir" said he, "you don't take
good care of your horses you think
you do. but you don't"
"Why ?" ! asked.
Because when horse comes in all
vet with preparation, you let him stand
in the stable and dry with all the dirt
on. In England, we take the horse as
he comes in from a drive and sprinkle
blood.warm water all over him, from hi
head to his feet. Then we scrape him
down and BLANKET him, rubbing his
face and legs dry. Thus, in an hour he
is clean AM dry, and ready to take a
good feed, while, in your way, he will
stand and swelter for hours, and finally
dry, sticky and dirty. Our horses never
founderand never take cold. We never
use a curry-comb. You scratch your
horses too hard. The only care neces.
sary is to have the water not very cold,
then battle them quick and blanket
them instantly, while you are rubbing
| their legs. -NeU York Commercial Ad
/ ,srtiyer
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A DrolI Story from Wales.

A full measure of human sympathy is
due to people who have to contend
with such nomenclature as has been be-
slowed upon Cefn-y-bedd, Granddaughter
Pytingwtijn, Digswylfo, Llsndefailogfach,
Maenmorwynion, Cwmbu, Digswylfa
Bettws, Llyynngffwwdvaur, Martchacwn,
Blsn Gwrach, Llanvaircaerinion, Liam.
vairarybryn, and Llechcynvarwyddvach,
and it can be well understood that diff.
culties may occasionally arise with re-
spect to THEN correct spelling. But no
circumstances can excuse the manner
which Nathaniel Rosser, of Pontrew-y
nydd, has recently adopted for settling
a controversy Of this character. 1t APP
pears from the evidence given at the
Pontypool Police Court, whittier Mr..
Rosser was summoned to answer a charg
OF assault, that a question had arisen
between himself and one Mr.. Morgan
Evans, "who keeps Coed.y-David Farm
near Trevetra Church, as to the ortho-
graphy of the above mentioned LYNN
ggtfwwdvaur.' Mr.. Morgan Evans was
for rendering the fourteenth letter d."
Mr.. Rosser, like Sam Weliec's parent,
was for spelling it with we." Ulti.
mately Mr.. Rosser, finding it impossible
to bring Mr.. Morgan Evans to his way
OF thinking, went out, procured some
hot lime from an adjoining building,
and returning to the Coed-y- David
Farm, rubbed the lime in Mr.. Morgan
Evans eyes. Whether in the event of
Mr.. Morgon Evans being able TO see
again, he will spell the word "Llyynn-
ggfiwwddaur" or "Llyvnnggffww dvsur,p
remains to be seen. But at the present
moment he is blind, and Mr.. Nathaniel
Rosser is in Jail under remand awaiting
the issue Of the remedies which have
been applied.-PaH Nal Gazette.
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O'COnOr's Last Letter.

If correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer is t. be believed, Mr.. O'Conor
addressed the following foYcible and
lucid epistle to the late Fas Mems Con.
vention at Putin Bay:
"When our forefathers inaugurated
inimitable independence, and initiated
aboriginal America into The mysterious
multiplication of individual inherent
political perspicacity, they overlooked
the important point in political econ
omy that adiposity and oleaginousaess
were necessary TO the proper preserva-
ton of the sacred fabric of our latitudi.
nal Liberties; hence our multifarious
and complicated woes. Amt it? When
least we anticipate such an unfortunate
assault upon our prosperity possible,
the vast aggregation of attenuaied
licenses may form a damnable combi.
nation for the perpetuation of cadave-
rocity upon the accomplishing and un.
suspecting inhabitants of this portion
Of the Almighty's footstool. | am pre-
pared without hesitation, ambiguity, or
pTevarication, to asseverate that under
any and all circumstances | will do all
| can TO further the cause, but | cannot
accept your nomination to the Presi-
dsncy. withdraw.
Yours, polysyllably and coherently.
CHARLES O'CoNORn
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Domestic R,cipeS.

SILVER SoAP.-A good article may be
made as follows: Hard soap, OF. tur-
pentine, ] on. water, 1 %. Boil until
perfectly dissolved, and add 3 OF. liquor
OF ammonia.
CusrARD WITHOUT EGGS. Boil quart
of milk, except a teacupful in which 10
put four tablespoonfuls of -four. When
1t boils put in very little salt and stir
the -four just rs for starch. Add two
tablespoonfuls of sugar and such spice
as you like.
To MAKE HARP WATER SoFT.-Take
one ounce of fresh lime and stir it we'll
in bucket of water then stir all thor.
oughly in barrel OF water, and as soon
rs il settles, the water will be soft
and fit for use, as ii will drive impur.
ties 10 the bottom. River water, when
muddy, is better TO drink by this process.
Tc REMOVE FREcKLEs.-One of the
best lotions we know of is the following:
Mix two tablespoonluls Of grated horse.
radish in teacupful OF sour milk, and
apply frequently with linen rag.
To REMovE TAN.--Mix magnesia in
soft water to the consistency of paste,
which should be spread on the face and
allowed TO remain minute or two.
Then wash oil with CASTLE soap.suds,
and rinse with clean soft water.
How TO PuT Down CUCUMBER PIcELEs
Take two quarts Of molasses TO one Of
water, or in that proportion. Put in
the cucumbers, fresh from the vines,
adding more molasses and water as YOU
ill in. Set them in a warm place, and
in a few weeks they viii be sufficiently
sour TO suit any palate. Spices can le
added after they become sour.
To CLEAN KID GIovES-Haye ready a
little milk in one saucer, some brown
soap IN another, and a clean cloth or
towel folded three or four times. Then
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A Horrible Death.

A worknlanGn a sash, door and blind
factory, IN Chicago, met his death in a
most shocking manner last week. The
unfortunate man was caught by belt
revolving at the rate of 200 times in a
minute, and after being whirled about
the wheel numberless times, was finally
completely dismembered, the lower por-
ton of the body having been thrown
some distance to one side of the cellar.
while the head and upper part of the
trunk were hurled against the wall on the
other side. Beneath the pulley large
hole had been torn out of the earth by
the body as it was whlrled swiftly
around, before it was separated. The
hand and right arm were torn out of the
socket at the shoulder joint, and were
still wound up in the fatal belt. Frag,
ments of cloth, g, shreds of flesh and
clots of blood covered the walls and hung
from the jostsand parts of the machinery.
His shoes lay little distance from the
pulley, where they had been thrown by
the swiftness Of the motion which tore
them from his feet, while pieces of his
hat and other articles of clothing were
scattered in other directions. The frag.
ments of the body were gathered up
carefully by his fellow workmen and
carried to the County Hospital, where
the coroner held an inquest upon them.
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Dressing MpttOndn Texas.

A Texas correspont theof the Mobile
Register tells how he .,a,, ses sheep for
mutton Hang the Mp by the heels
and cut his throat thoroughly-rind-
pipe, swallow, jugular vein and all. He
will die very quick. So soon as life is
extinct, or motion ceases, remove the
entr.il. with ashsrl knife, opening COM
pletely from tail to tongue. This job |
generally get through with in just about
half minute. | am satisfied that the
peculiar flavor of badly handled mutton,
said to come from the wool, is due to
the entrails lying too long in the animal.
/ pay no particular attention TO the
wool other thsn is demanded by neat
ness. On the plan above named | FIRE.
quently kill mutton four miles from
home, tie them to my saddle, take them
home and even allow them to remain over
night, without skihning, and no woolish
flavor results. Ny mutton is proverbial
for It's deiicacy anC sweetness, and now
you have exactly low ! manage it,"
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Editorial Amenities.

The California editor who alleged
that = certain obnoxious individual
was he schooI.ma' am" and the
Wisconsin journalist who called his op-
ponent " scabby perpendicular" will
be forced to admit that Halsted, of the
Cincinnati Commercial, exceeds them in
the force, if not in the elegance, of his
yituperation. Not content with calling
the Enquirer man snake, Shiny.
yenomous reptile, and divers other dis
agreeable creatures known to natural
history, he puts the thing in the plural,
and brands him as a whole nest of
viDars
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Tanning Buckskins.

A correspondent sends to the Ameri-
can AgrieuLturist the following directions
for tanning buckskin with brains, as
practiced by the North American In
dams: The skins are soaked in water,
and tke hair is removed from them
with an old knife, then placed along
with the brains of the deer or calf in
an earthen pot The contents are then
heated to about 950, or blood heat,
which converts the moistened brains to
a kind of lather, and makes the skins
clean and pliable. They are then
urung out, and stretched in every di-
rection, by means Of thongs, over a
frame composed of upright stake. and
cross. pieces and while drying they are
constantly rubbed with a smooth stone
or hard piece of wood, so as to expel
the water and fat. The skins are then
smoked. For this purpose fire is
lighted in the bottem OF email pit,
and rotten wood thrown in as fuel.
Sticks are erected in a pyramidal form
around the pit, and the skins hurg
thereon one above the other, their posi-.
ton beiog occasionally changed. The
smoking is kept up for an hour or more.
They are then rubbed with chalk or
powdered gypsum, and scrsped and
beaten.
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0uinine.

This article OF drug now commands
three dollars per ounce, and is one Of
the most useful in the entire list of
manufactured drugs Recently there
has ueen an effort on the part OF prom
inent medical and scientific men to in.
duoe Congress to set apart a suitable
portion OF the public domain for the
purpose of cultiyating and growing the
chinchona tree, from which the useful
and almost indispensable article OF
quinine is produced This tree Is ma.
tive of South America, anu found to
grow only on the Andes, above what is
termed the cloud line OF those high and
majestic peaks, and usually in greater
quantity and better quality north of the
the equatorial line; hence for its cult.
walton in the United States the Sierra
Nevada range Of mountains in Califor-
MIA have beer selected by the parties
who urge the triAl of its cultivation in
this country as being the mountains
most closely resembling in soil and eli.
mate the Andes. There can be no
doubt of success Of the cultivation If
the chinchona tree is properly under
taken and attended to, as the results
of similar experiments by the English
Government IN the ilimalayas OF lndia
fully attest.
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What is a BnNhrl,

-. II. j." Frankfort, Ohio, says that
the rule given in the Agicuihpist OF
April, 1872 for measuring corn in the
crib has been pronounced incorrect by
our readers in hat neighborhood, and
he asks why we take ,, $50 inches for a
bushei when ., $50 inches make bushel
all over the commercial world. Our
rule is correct We take $3.50 inches
for the simple reason that c0r1-elrS are
sold and measured 10y the heaped bushel,
which is 1850 cubic inches. Two thou.
sand one hundred and fifty is a struck
bushel, by which ,helled grain is meas.
ured, and generally two bushels of corn
ears, of 1850 inches each, make one
bushel Of grain OF >, $50 inches. Corn,
measured IN he er,j, of course is under.
stood TO be ears OF corn.-Amcricla Agri.
futfsyiu
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A Young Man Who Meant Wen.

young and energetic gentleman of
this city, noted for the promptness
with which he always acts in cases of
emergency, took the train on the Hart
ford, Providence and FIshkill road, for
Waterbury, where he had business 10
transact. When the train reached Plain
vile, a number of passengers alighted
as usual. In the seat opposite our gen
tleman friend were lady and her boy,
little fellow or years of age. As
the cars stopped, the lady peered out
of the window, rose hastily, seized the
boy by hand and walked hurriedly with
him to the rear of the car. The two had
scarcely passed out of sight before our
energetic young friend noticed that the
boys hat, q tin whistle, whip and other
toys, were lying on the seat which had
just been vacated. The train started,
and hastily concluding that the lady in
her hurry to get off at the station had
unwittingly left them, our friend ?, shed
across the aisle, and gathering up the
hst and toys slung them out OF the
window. A change came over the spirit
of his dreams as the lady, moment or
two later, came up the aisle, leading her
boy by the hand. She didn't stop at
Plsinville. The laugh that was heard
in that car when the lady returned made
our young friend sick. He apologized
to the lady, explained how he came to
throw the things out Of the window, and
went back 70 his sea- a frame of mind
anythlng'but hsppg Ag'kartford Post.
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Scientific and Practical.

THE Agassiz expedition having com.
pleted its labors, has disbanded at San
Francisco, after nine months cruise in
the Hassler.
An intelligent resident of Manila,
the capital of the Philippine Islands,
expresses the opinion that there is
probably at least one earthquake every
day at some spot in that archipelago.
THIS is Prof. Huxley's definition of
education: "EduMtion is the instruc-
ton of the intellect in the laws OF ma
ture, under which name | include not
merely things and their forces, but also
men and their doings and the fasten.
ing of affections and OF the will into an
earnest and loving desire to move in
harmony with those laws.n
PERHAPS the strangest domestic pet
ever heard Of was recently exhibited at
the meeting of the British Association
by Sir John Lubbock. 1t was tame
wasp, which had been in his possession
for about three months. 1t now ate
sugar from his hand and allowed him
to stroke it. The wasp had every APP
pearance of health and happiness and
although it enjoyed an 'outing" occa-
sionally, it readily returned to its bot
tie, which it seemed to regard as a
home.
Mr.. A. w. BENNETT adduces numer-
Gus instances of mimicry in the whole
habit and mode Of growth of plants,
which, he thinks, may generally be &C.
cour ted for by similarity of external
conditions. The mimicry in the de-
velopment of particular parts or organs
he finds it more difficult TO explain.
The protective resemblance" through
the operation of natural selection, which
has been urged for the animal kingdom,
does not seem to be applicable.
PRoF. GRAY told the Scientific Asso.
citation, at Dubuque, that the big trees
OF California are the rear guard of re-
treating host that once occupied a large
part OF the earth's surface. He said re-
search has found the fos il Sequoio
gigantea throughout the miocene forma-
lions of Northern Europe, and in those
of Iceland, Spitzbergen, Greenland,
Alaska and the Rocky Mountains. Ali
VI tGN0C iOocAi ttSAiAlSLlS are dlHlOSI eX-
actly the same as the Big Treesn of
to-day.
A GERMAN has made experiments to
ascertain the amount of loss that coal
undergoes when exposed to the wealth
er. 1t will, perhaps, surprise many
readers to hear that the loss is consid-
cradle. Anthracite and camel coal, az
might be anticipated from their com
pactness, suffer least but ordinary BIZ
luminous coal loses nearly one-third in
weight, as nearly one-halfin gas-making
quality. From this it will be under.
stood that coal should be kept dry and
under cover; and that to expose it to
rain or damp is to lessen its quantity
and weaken its quality. Here, too, we
have an explanation of the inferiority
Of the great heap of small coal which
incumber the ground in the mining
districts.
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A Boy of Seven Murders a Girl of Five
Years.

On last Sunday afternoon the people
OF Lexington, Scott county, were horri.
fed at the announcement that a little
son of Mr.. Hugh Lotus, of that place.
only seven years old, had shot a daueh.
ter of Jerry Chandler, at the tender age
OF five years. They were together in a
room at Lotus house. Young Lo(tus
said he would kill the little girl. when
she ran away, but subsequently return.
ed, when the young fend deliberately
took up q shot gun and fred, filing the
poor little girls stomach with slues.
She survived until last Monday. when
she died at about daylight. The above
is substantially what the little Girl
stated after the terrible tragedy. A res.
ident OF Lexington states that il was
not many days previous TO this that he
saw young Lotus in stable irving 10
get the little girl to put her arm uhder
the blade of the cutting machine. in
order that he might cut ii of. This
certainly is the most shocking case of
naturally dep.aved and blood.thirsty
taste We ever recorded, and one thai
seems 70 amount 20 a monomania =
Ne'o Albany (Lad.) Ledger.
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Personal.
PAULINE LUCIA is 81.

PAULINE LUccA is 81.
CLARA Louise KELLOGG is 80.
Tue Sultan does not smoke.
STURGEON parts his hair in the mid.
die.
ANNA DIcKINsos has two new lectures
ready.
king AMADEUS of Spain is teeto.
taller.
Bonner will soon retire from the
Ledger.
GRANT and Vesuvius continue to
smoke.
OLE BULL will soon return to this
country.
GEORGE II. PENDLEroN has returned
from Europe.
STANLEY is going to look up the Lost
Tribe Of Israel.
MRs ABRAHAM LINCOLN is sojourning
at Madison, Wis.
Miss LAURA KEENE will reappear on
the stage tins season.
RLASroN DUNCAN, in addition to the
govt, has bold Roman nose.
BIZ. SEwARD's book of travel around
the world will shortly be issued.
TIM WHITE Horse" is the Chicago
Times heading for a steamboat disaster.
r. f. LEES room at the Lexington
University is to be left forever un.
touched
A STATUE of Gen. Reynolds is to be
eTscted on the battle field VI Gettys-
bRg, where he was killed.
PULLMAN, Of sleeping.car note, lives
like Roman OF he Auguslan age, at
his villa on the st. Lawrence.
SHE was colored and died in Western
Virginia this time, name Judy Will
lams, age lis years. She never saw
Gen. Washington.
THE death Is announced, in his S3d
year, of Capt. w. d. Evans, well known
among chess-playels as the inventor OF
the Evans Gambit.'
The six children Of me late Philip
Winebiddle, a wealthy Pittsburgh mil.
lioaaire, get the neat little bequest OF
nearly 100000 apiece.
BRADFORD NJ. c. DuRFEE, the wealth
lest citizen OF Fall River, Mass. and
one Of Yale Colleges most generous
benefactors, died last week, at the age
OF -.
Miss FANNIE Carson, of Iowa, played
Maud Muller one day recently to some
purpose. Instead Of fooling around
with a rheumatic old judge, she raked
up forty tons Of hay.
GUSTAV DoRE writes that he would
like to visit the United States, but not
until five hundred years from nov. He
is OF opinion that in such busy, rest
less, dash ahead life as ours at present
is, there would be bit LITTLE meat for
gloomy minds.
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Observation-Disclosures

A spirited Brighton Eng, newspaper
conceived the happy idea Of publishing
verbatim reports Of the speeches Of the
sapdnS attending the British Association.
The enterprise met with a sad discour.
agement, however, and the project has
been abandoned. 0ne Of the Immediate
causes of the deplorable breakdown was
an interesting discussion in some sec
ton of the association about mononi.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and matamon.
Observation-Disclosures
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"WoMEN,T exclaimed an enthusiastic
advocate Of the rights of the sex to
commissions in the navy, "have al.
ways occupied positions Of responsible.
ity in the navy. Yes, from the earliest
times, for wasn't Lots wife an old
saltY'
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An honest old farmer up in Indiana
had hattered himself that the member
of Congress from his district knew him.
In fact he had shaken hands with him
at numerous political meetings, and in.
quired ailectionately after his family.
The other day the farmer received a
document with his Congressman's frank
on i. The farmer was delighted. The
Congressman still remembered him,
evidently. lie carried the document
about for some time without opening il,
and triumphantly exhibited the NJ. C.'s
sign manual to his neighbors. Gnaw-
ing envy on the party Of the neighbors,
who hadn't received theirs vet. Final.
ly he opened it in the presence of his
FAMILY and friends, and 10 it was the
NJ. C.'s speech printed in Dutch The
honest old former Is disguised at this
evidence of how well his Congressman
knows him.
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Old Ben Wade on the Great American
Desert.

A characteristic incident is related of
Ben Wade, Of Ohio, when he was sent
out 10y President Grant as one of the
Commissioners, in 1869, to inspect the
Pacific road. He was disguised at the
sight Of the alkaline formation, and
aespaired at its redemption, and when
a resident bystander reminded him that
Il would be fine place 10 live Ia If it
only had plenty Of water and good sooi.
ETY.. ! don't doubt it, was the bluff
old.mqn'sretort, and tophet would be a
good place TO live in, too, If it had the
same advantages. Letter from col. u.
W. Foraey.
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Extraordinary.

A Rome correspondent tells a most
extraordinary story. The Bishop of
Ischia lately died at Terre del Greco.
As they we're about burying the body,
il was discovered that the dend prelate
was working miracles; the lame being
made to walk and the dumb to speak.
They carried the corpse back to the
church, where the excitement became
so great that eventually every shred OF
clothing was pillaged from the body by
the relic-seekers, and an alarm OF fire
had TO be resorted 10 70 restore order.
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WHAT isyour name ~ asked a zen.
sus oihcer. John Jorcoran.n "Your
age z " Twenty.one." "What nativi.
Tyr Well, that's what bothers me
! 4 tell you, and may be you can make
It out. Ny father was Irish. NV mother,
was English and was born on a Dutch
irlgate, under the French tag, in Turk.
ish waters. Now how is it?p
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HOLLAND has ten thousand wind.
mills.