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The Nativity.
By ALFRED Il. DoMMETT.

at was the calm and silent night
Seven hundred years and fifty-three
Had Rome been growing up tonight,
Ana now was queen OF land and sea.
No sound was heard of clashing wars;
Peace brooded DER the hushed domain;
Apollo, Pallas, JOve, and Mars
Held undsturbed their ancient reiga
In the solemn midnight
Centuries ago.
"Twas In the calm and silent night!
The senator of naughty Rome
Impatient urged his chariot's flight,
From lonely reve rolling home.
Triumphal arches cleaning, swell
His breast with thoughts of boundless sway;
What rocked the Roman what befell
A paltry province far away
In the solemn midnight
Centuries ago?
@Within that province far away
Went plodding home a weary boor;
A streak of light before him lay,
Fallen through half shut stable-door,
Across his path. He passed; for naught
Told him what was going on within.
How keen the starsi his only thought;
The air how calm and cole, and thinl
In the solemn midnight
Centuries ago.
40 strange indiferencel Low and high
Drowsed DER common joys and. cares;
The earth was still, but knew not why;
The world was listening unawares.
How calm moment may precede
One that shall thrill the world foreveri
To that still moment none would heed:
Mans doom was linked, no more to sever,
In the solemn midnight
Centuries ago.
at Is the calm and solemn night
A thousand bells ring out and throw
Their joyous peals abroad, and smite
The darkness, charmed and holy nowl
The night. that erst no name had worn,
To it happy name is given;
For in that stable lay, newborn,
The peaceful Prince of earth and heaven,
In the solemn midnight
Centuries ago.
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POETRY.
IFOr the Press.l
Christmas.

o Prince Of Peace! sheathed was the Roman sword,
And shut once more the gates of Wars dread fame.
What time the shepherds watched their feecy train
On Judah's hills, that echoed back the word
To you is born Saviour, Christ, the Lord,
While shone around DER starlit vale and height
A glory that sure was not born of night
Men of good will shall freely own thy sway;
For, though sharper sword On earth be sent,
To pierce stout hearts and make the proud relent,
Faiths conflict of truths King prepares the way,
And, bark the angelic choir on service bent,
Resumes its theme: list mortals, what they say
Glory to Godl His light is mans new dayl
1877 EO,C
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The Moqui Indians, dwelling upon the
table lands Of the higher Colorado, deposit
the seeds of Indian corn twelve or fourteen
inches below the surface. Thus sown the
plant thrives, while if treated according to
the plan usual in the United States and Eu-
rope it might never appear above the ground
The reasons of this practice are that the
country is without rain and almost without
dew; in summer The sandy soil is continu-
ously parched by the sun, at temperature
often exceeding 1909 in the shade. 1t is only
at the depth OF foot or more that the seed
finds the moisture furnished by the melting
snnws
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Fowls drink water freely, but they
know just how much they need, and when
they have access to the fluid, clean, sweet
and fresh, they imbibe no more than is good
for them. 1t is, therefore, unnecessary to
mix your double too thin, and sloppy, at the
morning feeding. Have the meal well scald-
ed, and feed the mixture to the stock stiff
amp dry, comparatively. This feed should,
generally, be composed of corn and rye meal,
vegetables one-third each A little
pepper occasionally in this dough, and al
ways salt, will improve the mess.
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Substance rich in albumeu and mucilage
are denominated albuminoids, and furnish
nitrogen. The hydrocarbons are contained
in plants rich in starch, sugar and gum. The
first are called flesh formers, and the latter
fat. formers. Young animals require more of
the first, mature ones more of the latter.
The principal flesh formers, are wheat, Glow
er, beans, oats, linseed-cake, oil-cake, etc.
The fat formers, are corn, starch or oil.
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Il that their annual meeting for the choice of
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between the muscles and tendons, and maxi
ing the former feel fabby to the touch; with
large head, narrow chest, and small lung
capacity, palesmucous membrane and weak
pulse; with a considerably developed abdo-
men, large limbs, thick skin, covered with
long coarse hair. large Emphatic glands, with
little nervous excitability and slow movement,
are evidently of the Emphatic temperament.
Now, here are three we'll defined classes that
may be met with every day, and nearly every
horse can be referred to one or the other;
but very many horses evidently combine two
of the temperaments, though one may be
somewhat more apparent than the other.
Most thoroughbred horses are of the saguine
nervous temperament, but the tendency of
too many modern breeders is, unfortunately
to bring out propondelance of the nervous.
With common horses we very often see the
anguine-lymphatic, and, occasionally, the
nervous-lymphatic temperaments.
The sanguine temperament is the type of
strength, endurance and perseverance; the
nervous, of intelligence, willingness and en-
ergy; the Emphatic, of dulness, slowness
and weakness. A proper balance of the san
guine and nervous temperamentS is seen in
the best specimens of the Arab and English
thoroughbreds, and their descendants; and
these animals are alike remarkable for the
perfection of their forms, their intelligence,
and the length of time duriug which they
can sustain excessive muscular exertion.
Bnt, as have already, said, here those who
are not contented with this, who seem to
think the only object in breeding and train
ing horses is to produce an animal in which
speed is carried to the greatest extent, and
endurance left correspondingly in the back
ground. The result of this is well known;
the animals produced have the nervous de-
velopment carried to excess, while the mus
cles are elongated and reduced in thickness
and the chest capacity decreased; we find,
therefore, great energy and willingness, but,
at the same time, excessive irritability and
fear, which is not hard to transform into
viciousness, and a locomotive apparatus
which, though it is able TO move the body
with great sWiftness for a certain distance, is
unable, from the want of volume in muscles
and theincapacity of the organs of circulation
and respiration, to continue this speed for
any considerable time. And there is the
further drawback, in over-developing the ner-
vous temperament, that the energy and will
lingness thus obtained are out of all proper
ton to the muscles, teEdcns, ligaments, &C.,
which must bear the strain; consequently,
when such animals are put to full test of
their powers, their usefulness is often over,
as they never recover form the sprains, con-
cussions and breakdowns produced on the
occasion. 1t may be proper to add, however,
that many breeders are resolutey resisting
this practice, the evil effects of which have
been pointed out again and again; and it is
to be hoped that they will pay still more at
tention TO it, aud thus greatly increase the
agreeableness and usefulness of the animals
produced.
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HOW TO CONTROL THE TEMPERAMENT

From what has just been said, it is appar-
ent that to produce the best horses we must
not only choose properly endowed ancestors,
but, also proper locality. The soil must be
we'll drained naturally or artifcially, the at
mosphere must be dry, and the food concen-
trated, Where either of these conditions is
wanting, the greatest care is necessary to pre-
vent deterioration, One of the greatest faults
of the common horse of our country, is a
tendency to the Emphatic temperament, and
this, as a rule, not because the atmosphere is
damp or the soil wet, but because our colts
are not sufficiently fed. Many of those which
have excellent pastures in summer are con-
demned to coarse, halfspoiled hay, and other
innutritious food in winter. The result is
only too apparent-though the animals may
reach fair size, and have nice fine outlines,
thanks to abundant cellular tissue and fat,
they are wanting in energy and endurance,
have little intelligence, and are too slow
movers. 1t takes oats to make good horse,
and this must be given regularly, winter and
summer If needed, and the result will satisfy
the most skeptical.
In the production of valuable horses, there
is one other resource which assists the breed
er in wonderful degree, but which so far
has been little used. l allude to the cold
water DOUGH water at the ordinary tempera-
ture of wells and springs 1900 to 600), applied
W tu0 WuOlc ouEldCc vi Luc UUuy WlluiCOlSlu-
cradle force, by means of hydrant, or COM
mon force pump, or that very handy little i'm
plement, the Whitman fountain pump, for
from five to ten minutes at time. The
stream should first be directed to the feet
and limbs, then the head and neck, and
finally to the body; the animal is then thor
oughly rubbed and dried, and either covered
or exercised to bring out the reaction. This
when practiced once or twice day, increases
the development of the circulatory system in
very great degree, and the result is soon
apparent in the hardness of the muscles, the
suppleness of the skin, the force of the pulse,
the color of the visable mucous membrane, in
the energy and spirits of the animal. There
is no other means by which the ner8ons ex-
citibiity can SO certainly be kept within
bounds: nothing that so stimulates the ca
pillary Development; nothing that proves
such powerful assistant to the production of
that proper balance of temperaments which
is an essential part of perfect horse.-D. E.
Salmon L, a. NJ
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DISTRICT OF MAINE.
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n Is called to the new arrangement Of freight
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I'd, 1877.
Freight for Lewiston, Auburn, Bangor,
and Belfast received at freight house before $50
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for early delivery at destination next morning
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March 31st 1871 anodfg
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

In the English colony of New South
Wales, there are about 25,000,000 sheep.
The cost of shearing is estimated at $500 per
100 head. This would amount to an annual
outlay of $1,250,0OO, alone, for shearing.
Australia produces about IL per cent. of the
worlds wool her sheep aggregating 90, 900, 900
now third among the great divisions of the
globe for the production of wool.
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Il Casco National Bank of Portland for the choice
Of Directors and the transaction of other bust
may legally before them will be held at
their Banking House on TUESDAY, the 9Th day of
January, 1878, at 10 o'clock A. M.
VIM. A. WINSHIP, Cashier.
Portland Dec z. 1877, deSdtd
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TUESDAY, the 9Th day of January next, at three
o'clock p M, to choose five Directors for the ensu-
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legally come before them.
EDWARD GOULD, Cashier
December Sth, 1877, de1Od1m
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Canal National Rank.

NNHE annual meeting of the Stockholders of "The
Il Canal National Bank of Portland" for the cleo
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other business that may legally come before them,
will be held at their banking house Tuesday, the
eighth day of January, 1875 at II O'Clock A. M.
B. G. SOMERBY, Cashier.
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Il meet at the office of said Company in Portland
on Monday, January Z, 1878, at O'Clock P. M. for
the purpose of choosing Directors for the ensuing
year and for the transaction OF any other business
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