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MISCELLANEOUS NATTER.

friends Of General I~leasanton were
afflicted with rheumatism in the fore
arms, from their elbow joints to their
fingcr-ends, 50 YER at times that
they were unable to hold pens. They
obtained q piece Of blue glass, and set
It up loosely in one Of their windows.
For three days they barred their arms
and held them in the associated blue
and sunlightfo for thirty minutes. Each
day brought them relief, and at the
end Of three days the rheumatism had
disappeared. \ little child that had
from its birth scarcely any use of its
legs was taken to play daily in 3 room
where blue glass formed a portion of
one of the windows. In a very short
time it obtained the use of its legs,
and learned to walk and run without
difficulty. The correspondent gives O
page from his W experience: IA
lady .of my family. about six weeks
ago, had q violent hemorrhage of the
lungs. and for ten pays raised more or
less blood daily. She was very much
weakened by the loss of blood, and
considerably frightened withal. 1 OBJ
tanned some blue glass and placed it
in the window where she was in the
habit of sitting, the blue glass con-
tanned one.half of the lower sash Of
the window. The lady sat daily in
the associated lights, allowing the
blue rays Especially to fall upon the
nerves Of the back of the neck for
about an hour q day. The second day
the suns rays being unusually strong,
she got too much blue glass, and at
night felt peculiar sensations in the
back of the neck, among the nerves,
and ali unpleasant fullness in the
head. These sensations wore off the
next day, and since then she has not
remained so long a time under the
blue glass. But from the first she be-
gan to grow stronger; her face soon
gained its natural fullness, and in a
week she was to all appearances as
we'll as ever. Of course she was not
cured of the trouble in her lungs in SO
short a time, but the soreness in her
chest has passed away, and she begins
to feel we'll again." Another lady
who had lost her hair, sat under the
glass and regained it.
COOP PLow1NG.-Plowing is an art.
A really good plowman is a rarity as
much as a really good landscape pain
ter, and yet blowing is n OF the
main items of valuable labor upon n
farm. One who knows says: II have
seen one man, when blowing, lean
forward with hand upon the pillow
handles, and laboring at one time to
keep the pillow from going too shallow,
and at another to keep 1t from going
too deep; make a furrow Of irregular
depth and width here a balk, and
there ridge. I have seen another
man take the same team, arrange the
gearing, and pillow with n hand on
the pillow handles, turning q furrow
clean, Of even width and depth. I'm
fortunately too few plowmen under
stand the principle of draught, and
hence many a good pillow is condemned
as bad.
1t is this want of knowledge how to
use a pillow that keeps back progress
and reduces the value of u crop on
many a farm. l speak knowingly
having had practice, more or less, be-
tween plow handles for over fifty
years, commencing when eleven
years of age. I studied the art of
blowing practically and being engag-
ed in supplying farmers with ploWs a
part of the time mentioned there was
q necessity Of knowledge of the form
of the pillow and the principles Of
draught. In exhibiting and compe-
ting at state and county fairs, it be-
came necessary to find a piowman
who understood the whole matter. 1t
took weeks to find such a plow-
nan ; but | did find him, and every
time he was put in competition he
won."
MASTERING Vicious HoRsEs.-Yes-
terday afternoon an exhibition was
given at the orn of Ninth and
Howard streets of a new and very
simple method Of tanning vicious hor-
SEES, which is claimed to be superior to
any in use. The first trial was with a
kicking or bucking mare which, her
owner says, has allowed no rider on
her back for five years. She became
tame and gentle in as many minutes,
and allowed herself to be ridden about
without a sign Of her former wildness.
The means by which this result was
accomplished consists of a piece Of
light rope, which is passed around the
trOntjaw of the mare, just a bove the
upper teeth, crossed in her mouth,
and then secured back Of her neck.
1t is claimed that no horse will kick
or jump when thus secured, and that
a bucking horse after receiving this
treatment a few times will abandon
his vicious ways forever. a very sim
pie method was also shown by which
a kicking horse ran be shod. It con-
sists in connecting the animals head
and tail by means of a rope fastened
to the tail and then to be bit, and
drawn tightly enough to incline the
horse head to II side. 1t is claimed
that it is absolutely impossible for the
horse to kick on the side of the rope.
At the trial yesterday a horse which
for years had to be bound on the
ground to be shod, suffered the black
smith to operate upon him without
attempting to kick while secured in
the manner dcscribed.-Sun EraniSco
Chronicle.
NAIL IN A HORSES FooT.-A
neighbor Of mine recently informed
that he had lost a most valuable
horse by casualty by no means un-
common. 4 knowledge of a simple
remedy would have prevented this
loss. The horse trod upon q nail
which entered his foot. Lameness
followed, the nail was extracted, but
lockjaw supervened, resulting in
death. An unfailing remedy in such
cases is muriatic acid. II, when a
nail is withdrawn from a horses foot,
the foot should be held up and some
muriatic acid be poured in the wound