The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-09-09
MOrgans VS. NOrmanS.

breeds. For running races, the thor
Oughbrcd is SO superior that for fifty
years of open competition when hum
drcds OF thousands of dollars could
have been earned by faster horses, no
cold blood sire has ever produced a
running races. But thoroughbreds
are too fiery, fractious, unsound, short
lived, and unfit for long travel, to be
Of use for other purposes. They are
developed on purpose to do their best
within 80 seconds or s minutes, and
are unfittcl for useful pursuits.
For trottiny races, the Messenger is
invaluable and most of the very fastest
trotters are of this stock.
For draft horses there are two
classes: the Clydesdale and the Nor
mans.
The Clydesdale, is Scottish horse
of recent origin combining in great
size and power, with ease and facility
of movement, symmetry, and beauty
of form, docility and health.
The Norman horse is a French horse
of square, solid, muscular build, of
great size and power, and of superior
excellence. He has fine carriage
and all alert, active movement, and is
of the highest docility.
The feet of other English horses are
very doubtful, but these have firm
feet, good limbs, and great endurance.
How to Cultivate Peanuts.
A correspondent of Colman's Ruyal
gives the following regarding the
raising of peanuts:
"Any dry soil will answer. Let the
ground be we'll pulverized, leaving
an even surface. Get fresh nuts
break them out of the she'll and plant,
about the time OF planting beans, two
inches deep, in hills three feet apart,
and the rows five feet apart. In order
to have straight rows, use a line.
Plant two kernels in hill, but if both
come up, transplant one OF them with
out disturbing the other. AS soon as
the plants are up, hoe and keep them
clean When they begin to run and
show blossoms, cover the vines, Bios
SONS and all with about ali inch of
earth, taken from between the rows.
With good cultivation the vines grow
fast; and must he covered, always
leaving the tip of the runner just
peeping out OF the ground. AS soon
as the leaves are touched with frost,
dig the nuts, leaving them clinging to
the vines. Now the nuts must be we'll
dried. This can be done by hanging
up the vines, or stripping them off
and spreading them on Il floor or any
way SO they will not mould. Keep
them from rats or mice. In yield |
have had an average of over q quart to
each plant. There arc two varieties,
one called red and the other white. l
cultivate the white, which stands first
in market"
IlOngstreet as a Country Postmaster.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Not many months ago an English
visitor to the United States happened
to find himself passing through lit
tie town in Georgia, to which he had
left instructions that his letters should
be addressed. The stranger repaired
to the humble Post-O1ice, situated in
O wooden building, through the film.
sy roof of which the vertical sun of
the South beat with almost un-
interrupted intensity, and, mentioning
his name, asked through the narrow
wicket whether any letters awaited
him. In the interior sat grave, ell
w With HAllC
and with a paralyzed or, at any rate
helpless right arm hanging feebly by
his side. His face, air and manner
seemed to betoken that he had known
better times and had been familiar
with the experiences ola stormy life.
AS Gen. Longstreet, for he was the
Postmaster referred to, rose from his
seat and thrust his lett hand into a
pigeon-hole to search for the letters
inquired after by his visitor, it flashed
through the mind of the Englishman
that he had seen photograph OF the
1emarka BILE man i'll whose presence he
found himself. A few sympathetic
questions drew from Gen. Longstrect
the avowal that he hal, nearly twenty
years ago, been a commander of u di-
vision i'll the army of Gen. Robert f..
Lee.