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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-08-03

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MILK AND
MEAT.-Suppose we take thrifty steer,
thirty months old, weighing 1000 pounds,
and place him in an excellent pasture, and
4 fresh mich cow, also weighing 1000
pounds and place her in the same pasture.
They are both kept there through the sea
son; the steer gaining live weight $50
pounds, the cow yielding III milk 1000
pounds. The $50 pounds OF live weight
ON the steer is composed of at least sixty
per cent. of water and forty per cent. of
solid matter, or $40 pounds Of solid sub
stance gained by the steer; while milk is
composed of eighty-seven per cent. of solid
substance, contained in the milk produced
by the cow from her food, to forty pounds
produced 10y the steer. y good cow will
make POO pounds of butter in season,
and the skim milk, fed TO thrifty pigs, will
grow 200 pounds of dressed pork; or the
same skim milk FED To a calf, will put
on at least 200 pounds of live weight. y
good steer fed in an ordinary way, will
dress 500 to 1000 pounds at four years.
having grown on the average, 200 to go
pounds of meat each year, whereas the
COW has made 200 pounds of butter, and
the refuse of her milk has produced nearly
as much meat in pork or growth of the
steer for a year. OR another mode of
illustrating il, If we compare milk with
the average composition of lean beef and
fat beef, we find the beef To contain forty
six per cent. of dry substance, including
the mineral matter or ash, and milk to con-
tain thirteen per cent. Thus three and
one half pounds of milk are equal TO one
pound Of meat; and only estimate a COW to
give 1000 pounds OF milk in a year, this
would make the cows produce in milk
equal in food value, to loco pounds OF
meat, and this 200 pounds Of meat would
require 4 steer under ordinary feeding. four
years to produce, so that the cow produces
as much return for her food in one year as
the steer does in -four.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-08-03
BUBBLES.

The end of man-iis feet
A lighthouse-A slim audience.
"A Celebrated Case The printers
The bill of the house-The dollar bill.
-Colors that won't ruu-red, white and
blue.
"A visible means of support-the hang
mans moose.
You cannot set the river on fire with 4
rowing match.
Men who always do right-newspaper
correspondents.
The phonograph is an invention that
speaks for itself.
A slow match--Marriage after ten
years engagement.
Doesn't the baker encourage idlencss
when he makes penny loaf?
Some of the papers say that % trade is
looking up" Flat on its back, eh?
If you want to draw a man out, take
sketch of him while he is walking or driv-
ing.
Over at the Exhibition they are laying
up something for rainy day-not an UNI
brclla, but Paris haul
- Bcdad, an ay its nothing ye want"
said Pat, lyon foincd it in the bottle
where the whisky was
An air-tight trunk is the latest novelty.
The key hole is hung on strap fastened
to the handle.
A tack points heavenward when it
means the most mischief. 1t has many
human imitators.
She that hath a new bonnet is more
consumed with a desire to go to meeting
than seven piOus women.
Uneasy lies " the mouth that wears
an aching tooth. \ Louisiana witness
doesn't wear an aching tooth, apparently.
They do say that Earl Beaconsfield
will marry Queen Vic Would jew be-
lieve it," Disraeli too funny to write
about.
Last week tornado in Iowa blew
away horses and cattle i'll 4 mass, and it
wasn't an equine-oxtial gale by two months
at least.
II presume you won't charge any
thing for just remembering me, said a
one-egged sailor TO a wooden leg manu-.
facturer.
-" \ schooner of bear for five cents " is
translated by French paper 50 As to read,
" In America you can get boat full Of
bear for five cents.
What is the difference between a ten
ant and the son of a widow? The tenant
has to pay rents; the son of widow has
has not two parents.
In these days it is consolng to reflect
that the fellows up around the North Pole
have all they can do to keep their ears and
finger tips from freezing.
OF Secretary Thompson it is humor-
ousy said that he prepared himself for his
cruise along shore by sleeping in ham.
mock and having the time of day struck
on his dinner bell.
A visitor who wants his boots BACKED
said To his host on retiring: I'm put my
boots outside the door Of my room, To
which the host nalvely replied: " All :ight
nobody II touch EN-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-08-03
t;LEANINGS.

Whenever you send a paper To a young
lady, cut 4 small item out almost anyw here.
This insures the sale of another paper
She has got to see what her friend cut ont.
Thus is the printers business increased.
There is giil in Santa Barbara with
such biz mouth that the other day when
she smiled AT a fellow on the street 4 kind
hearted little boy exclaimed with great
caInestness: - Look out, Miss, your lid :
coming Off,
is down sold 10y weight, and, if So.
where is the best place to have il weighcd?'
Lcnox. We have heard somewhere that
they Weigh down upon the Suwanec
river" bnt what the custom is ia other
ATTITUDES we cant say.
Two book agents arrived in town one
day last week, and each one bet that he
could take more orders than the other by
evening. Ii was ascertainci that the one
that won the bet wore the more terribly
lacerated coat tails at 6 T.. VI.
The argumeutum ad-" sam, You are
not honest. Why do you put all the good
peaches on the top of the measure, and
the little ones below - Same reason
sab, dat makes dc front of your house all
marble and dc back gate chiefly slop bari
sah."
college Professor TO Junior who has
been taking advantage of his absent mind
edness:l Young man, ! find looking
over the records, that this makes the fifth
time in two years that you have been
granted leave of absence to attend your
grandmothcr's funeral.
An American tourist was visiting
Naples, and saw VesuviuS during an erup-
ton. Have you anything like that in
the New World - was the ques:i ion OF an
Italian spectator. No" replied iona
than, but | guess we have a mill. dam
that would put it out in five minutes.
A child was called as Il witness in a
Charlestown court. The opposing lawyer
asked her if she knew where liars went
when they died, and objected to her testi-
mOuy because she answered, no. Well
that question has not been settled by any
body satisfactorily, said the Judge.
A Detroit boy stood an umbrella, with
a cord tied to it, in public doorway
Eleven persons thought that the umbrella
was theirs, and carried it with them the
length of the string. They then suddenly
dropped il and went on without once look
ing back or stopping to pick it up again.
1t seems to be mistake in attributing
to French priest the following hiberui-
aid Islander: In announcing 4 procession
to occur on the following day the priest
said: - If it rains i'll the morning the pro-
ccssion will take place in the morning
An eG,tor is described as man who
is liable T., errors in grammar, toothache.
typographical errors and lapses of memory.
and has several thousand people watching
10 catch him tripping-a man of sorrow
and acquainted with grief, poorly clad,
poorly estimated, yet envied by some of the
great man he has made
AT the Congress: Bismark-" Eli, vot
you say, Gortshy? You toni dink ash
der Palkans wash der natural boundary Of
Pulcaria, anyhow. LCalls his bull dog
Here, Schneider. stem staboy. Oh, you
change your mind bout dat, ell Dot ish
all right. Here Iawcup, dock Schneider
aut in dor entity ant tie him loose. P'raps
We want him again pooiy soon"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-08-03

- An exchange insists that no man
likes To hold girl baby in his arms until
she is /. years old.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28
A Feat of HOrsemanship,

Englishmen and Americans ride we'll
as long as they ride O trained saddle
horse and meet with no accident. But
a South American or an Indian will ride
a wild horse, and encounter an accident
with skill which seldom permits them
to be worsted. An English engineer,
while engaged in deer-hunt in South
ern Brazil, saw feat of horsemanship,
which, though involuntary, shows how
mind and limbs can be trained to meet
all emergency.
A slave had been ordered to the top
of some rising ground to look for cattle.
He was going at a sharp gallop when
his mule suddenly put a fore-foot in a
hole, and went down as if shot through
the heart. An English or American
rider would have instinctively gripped
the saddle with both legs, and attempted
to stick to it. Not SO this Brazilian.
He threw back his body, opened his
legs, alighted on the ground and started
on run. In few strides he stopped
himself, and returning, caught his mule
just as it got upon its legs again. Re,
mounting he rode off, as if nothing had
happened.
"That's trick, " remarked Brazilian
to the engineer, "you English could
never do with your monkey style Of
riding"
The English rider keeps his seat by
the "grip" of the muscles of his thighs
the Brazilian retains his by " balancing
himself. His stirrup only admits the
insertion of his big toe, so that he can
not be entangled with it in case of ar
accident
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28
A Pair Of Travelling Birds.

A most interesting ornithological in
cident is recorded in the London Times.
Last year water wagtail built her nest on
the framework underneath third-class
carriage on the London and Southwest
ern Railway, running between Cosham
and Havant four times daily-about
forty miles in all-and the male bird
was regularly observed by the station
master waiting with manifest interest
and anxiety the return of his family
from their periodical tours. This year
what is believed to be the same bird has
returned, and built her nest in precisely
the same position, under third-class
carriage, and with her family OF four
little ones, takes the same daily return
journeys from Cosham to Havant. The
same interest and anxiety have been
evinced by the male bird. During the
absence of his family, he promenades
the turn-table, or rests impatiently on
the wires of the telegraph, but no soon
er are the carriages shunted into the
usual siding than he enters the nest.
Birds, it is known, do enertain remark
able attachment for particular places,
and this fact may in some degree help
to explain Che water wagtail's singular
fondness for thirdsolass carriages,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28
Fashion Notes.

Jet trimmings are again the style.
Hair jewelry is again to be the style in
Paris.
Fans bearing Biblical quotations are
novelty.
Guipure sacques will be worn with
black silks.
More white and black is worn this
summer than ever.
Ladies' kid gloves have heavy stitch
ing on the outside.
Chenille bourette grenadine is some
thing new and stylish.
Children's dresses are being made
longer by an inch or two.
The Iceland floss is much used for
crocheting shawls and sacques.
The most fashionable scarf-pins are
onyx and gold "spoon oars" crossed.
The present style of dressing makes
it necessary to adopt princesse lingerie.
Princesse dresses are shirred in the
front and trimmed with passementeries.
Handsome velvet picture frames have
vine of flowers embroidered upon
them.
Carrick capes are seen on batiste and
organdy dresses, and even on morning
wrappers.
Beads are used on bonnets in the
greatest profusion, and are often COM
bined with flowers.
= A wrap with mantilla fronts and ex-
tended back, with rever trimming on
the side forms, is very dressy.
Sun-shades and parasols are no longer
in the colors of the suits, but are en-
broidered with silk in the shades of the
dresses.
Square low-necks will be replaced by
the oval low-neck, called the "Agnes
Sorel, and many fchus of all kinds will
be worn.
Ladies continue to wear at their waists
punches of natural flowers with the
stalks like very small serpents enriched
with jewels, and brooches with their
first names formed of stones or worked
in metal. Watches depending from
chatelaines of all metals and in all
styles, and chains around the waist for
the fans, continue in vogue.
Almost all suits at present are gray.
Waists are made in habit shape to indi-
cate a distinction between the cuirasse
Jeanne dare and the position waist.
These habits are made in all ways !;
there are square habits and swallow
tailed, and rounded coats. Many are
embroidered with golden and silver silk
and colored beads, almost exactly like
an officers uniform.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28
On Bathing.

Halls Journal of Health don't believe
in too much water, for it says on the
subject of bathing: Once week is often
enough for man to wash himself all
over, and whether in summer or winter
that ought to be done with soap, warm
water and hogs hair brush, in a room
showing at least seventy degrees Fahren-
heit. Baths should be taken early in
the morning, for it is then that the sys-
tenn possesses the power of reaction in
the highest degree. Any kind of bath
is dangerous soon after meal, or soon
after fatiguing exercise. No man or
woman should take bath at the close of
the day, unless by the advice of family
physician. The best mode of keeping
the surface of the body clean, besides
the once week washing already men,
toned, is as follows: AS soon as you
get out of bed in the morning, wash
your face, hands, neck and breast; into
the same basin of water put both feet at
once for about minute, rubbing them
briskly all the time; then with the
towel, which has been dampened by
wiping the face, feet, etc, wipe the
whole body well, fast and hard, with
mouth shut and chest projecting. Let
the whole thing be done in less than
five minutes. At night, when you go to
bed, and whenever you find yourself
wakeful or restless, spend from two to
five minutes in rubbing your whole body
with your hand, so far as you can reach
in every direction. This has tendency
to preserve that softness and mobility OF
skin which is essential to health, and
which too frequent washings will always
destroy,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28
Bees Changing their Habits.

Some curious facts from the world OF
Nature crop up occasionally, which are
we'll worthy of consideration. For in
stance, it has been proved that the bee
may, under certain circumstances, turn
out to be anything but the pattern Of
industry it is proverbially supposed to
furnish. Australian colonists have from
time to time taken out swarms of bees
to their adopted land, in hopes of de-
irving practical benefit from the profu-
sion of flowers with which the whole
country abounds. For some little time
the newly-imported bees maintained
their reputation for industry, storing up
their food in the comfortable hives pro.
vided for them, and supplying the colo
nists with far superior honey to that col.
lected by the indigenous honey -produc.
ers, the ''mellipones. Presently,
however, the hives were discovered un.
stocked at the end of the autumn, not.
withstanding the long summers of the
northern parts of Australia, and it was
found that the bees entirely neglected
to lay by stock of food, as was theil
wont. Though the bees increased and
the hives were always regularly tenant
ed, no honey was brought home. II
soon became evident that, finding the
perennial summer of the tropical parts
of Australia afforded them abudance oi
food, without the Intervention of long
winters, the bees forsook their old hab,
its, gave themselves up to life of hap.
py Incidence, and no longer took the
trouble to convey their superabundant
supplies to the hives prepared for them.
In short, there being no winters to pro
vide for, the bees gave up the practice
! Of storing honey.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28
Words of Wisdom.
- "i.~ noVOA l0pp "lv--- tI.ssu
when he is alone.

- iSN I1CNCA lSIoD L1ASSAA
when he is alone.
Charity loses its benign influence
when heralded by ostentation.
Flowers are the stars of earth-stars
are the flowers of heaven.
Danger should be feared when dis
tant and braved when present.
1t is better to plant virtue to be imi-
tated, than vice to be Stunned.
You have gently ventured, but all
must do so who would greatly win.
The first and last thing which is re-
quired of genius is the love of truth.
Take care not to go to the brink Of
vice, lest you fall down the precipice.
Mankind worship success, but think
too little of the means by which it is at
tanned.
A man shows his character by what he
laughs at, and his culture by the way he
does it.
A proverb of the time, after poor
Richard-He who goes collecting, re-
turns rejecting.
Occasions of trouble and adversely do
not make man frail, but they show
what he is.
Generosity does not consist in giving
but in making sacrifices that you may
be able to give.
Books are men of higher nature, and
the only men who speak aloud for fu-
ture times to hear.
Call to mind the heavier sufferings OF
others, so may you better bear your
own small troubles.
Every man has some secret. which,
were it revealed, would tend to make
him hated or despised.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28
Cairo DOnkeyS,

Travellers in Egypt see many curious
things, and are generally amused by
each new sight and sound. An Ameri-
can traveller says: The donkey boys of
Cairo are bright little fellows. From
constant intercourse with travellers they
soon catch few words of various Ian
guages. If your donkey boy finds you
are an American, he is sure to call his
donkey by some pet name which he
thinks will please you. He says: He
yer good little donkey; he nice little
donkey; he name Yankee Doodle" An
other says: "He fine little donkey-he
name Andrew Jackson" You can ride
an hour for ten or twelve cents. Most
of the carrying is done on the backs of
donkeys and camels. Results are not
accomplished with great rapidity, there
fore. 1 have seen them excavating for
railroad, and carrying away the dirt
on donkeys, about half bushel at a
load-carried in panniers or baskets
which are balanced on either side of the
little animal. Some who were not SO
fortunate as to own donkey-men and
women-were carrying dirt in small bas-
kets on their heads. A curious sight it
would be in this country, where a man
with wheelbarrow would remove more
dirt in an hour than a donkey would
carry in half day Heavy merchan-
disc, such as boxes, barrels and bags, is
transported on camels-long lumber is
loaded crosswise like the letter Y, as
draymen load it. A few carriages are in
use, principally by Europeans, of whom
quite number reside there, engaged
principally in trade.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28
Cornell Boat Song.

Balanced we sit in our six-oared she'll,
Tolls of the brain, for an hour, FAREWELL
Ours is no bark the storm to brave,
She hides no buffet of foaming wave
But when our lake is a mirror true
OF its hills so groen and its skies so blue,
Or when the breeze that mirror breaks
And outward tosses its silver fakes
Oh, then, to the beat of her ashen wings,
Like a bird o'er,th air-clear deep she springs.
Oars pulled and feathered and dipped in time
Make measure sweet as poets rhyme,
Make music sweet as our sweet bells chime.
In open sky, on lake and land,
Live spirits Of health for brain, heart, hand,
And the waving oar hath wand-like spell
To win them hither whereer they dwell;
Now for squirt your sinews brace,
Just think of the laurel that crowns the race,
For when our brows with the bay are twined
Gay fetes are plenty and fair maids kind.
Pull hard with one muscle, one heart, one will,
For pure accord is perfect skill.
Oars pulled and feathered and dipped in time
Make measure sweet poets rhyme,
Make music sweet as our sweet bells chime.
Francis O'Conner, in Ithaca Democrat.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28
"I'm glad to say that our child is

"Im glad to say that our child is
generous little body. The other day
her grandfather gave her cent to buy
herself some candy. AS she was going
out, she discovered a little beggar-boy
on the front steps. She. stopped, and
looked first at him then at her cent; then
looked down on the ground apparently
lost in thought Finally, with the sweet
est smile on her beautiful face, she
stepped up to the forlorn child, and,
laying her hand on his shoulder, said in
gentle tone: Here, little boy, take
this cent, md go and buy yourself a suit
of clothes and seme dinner! "--Iade-
pendent,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28

DIR. Shaw relates that sin the Levant,
mirrors form a part of female dress; for
that the Moorish women, in Barbary,
are so fond of their ornaments, and par
ticularly of their looking -glasses, which
they hang upon their breasts, that they
will not lay them aside, even when,
after the drudgery of the day, they are
obliged to go two or three miles with a
pitcher or goats skin to fetch water
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28

Miss Annie B. Irish, a Nebraska girl,
is assistant private secretary to Secretary
Schurz, and reads and answers all his
German, French and Spanish CORES
pondence.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28

According to the director of the mint,
the annual production of gold in the
United States is $45, 100, 900, and of sill
yer $38, $50, 900.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28
TIMELY TOPICS,

Farmers wives are in great need of
domestic help in Colorado.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28

Since the year 1866 Great Britain has
bought from the United States 81, $780,
OLA, 768 more than she has sold.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28

The Japanese, after having furnished
our gardens with some of our best trea-
sures. are now stocking their own
grounds with some of the popular
American flowers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28

Blackburn, England, contains the
largest cotton mills in the country. The
"Throstle Nest is owned by Mr.. Turn
er, M. P. The "Physic," O colossal
concern, is so called from its founder
having been a physician. Other mills
are the "Cat Hole" the "Butter Tub, I"
the "Smut," the "Twelve Apostles"
the "Glory," and the "Hallelujah."
The "Twelve Apostles" refers to a
weaving shed, of which the original pro-
moters, eighteen years ago, were total
abstainers. The owner of the "Lather
Box was once barber, who shaved at
one halfpenny each, but now owns
seven large mills, chiefly spinning mills,
and is the fortunate possessor of the ex-
tensive estates that formerly belonged to
Lord De Tabley, in the valley of the
Ribble. The "Sand Hole is the next
mill to the "Lather Box, and owes its
origin to the excavation of as much red
sand as realized the money to build the
mill.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28

A curious phenomenon has, says a
French scientific journal, been observed
at Vernon, in France. Five or six years
ago lightning struck a garden planted
with gooseberry bushes and cherry trees,
making deep hole, the orifce of which
was not above yard in diameter. Sub
sequently, everything died round about.
The death circle enlarged year by year,
until it is now about eight yards in di-
ameter, and has just reached cherry
tree planted twelve years ago, which has
died like the rest. The gooseberry
bushes which were replanted on the spot
died in two years. The cause of the
evil was evidently the lightning, but it
is difficult to explain why its morbid ac-
tion continues, and sterility gains ground.
The lightning possibly generated in the
soil chemical compounds injurious to
vegetation, or burned the humus.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-06-28

Queen Victoria's new saloon railway
car is one of the most beautiful of its
kind ever built, as may well be imag-
ined from the fact that it's construction
and fittings cost over 100000.