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Year: 1872

CLEAN AND DRY STABLEs.-A horse
will endure severe cold weather without
much Inconvenience, so long as he is
furnished with a dry stable. But require
him to stand on wet, foul floor, and
his health will soon begin to fail. Horses
often suffer from cold feet and legs. A
great many stables have damp and wet
floors. Few men who handle horses give
proper attention to the feet and legs.
Especially is this the case on farms.
Much time is spent of a morning in rub
bing, brushing and smoothing the hair
ON the sides and hips, but at no time are
the feet examined and properly cared
for. Now be it known that the feet of a
horse require more care than the body.
They need ten times as much, for in one
respect they are almost the entire horse.
All the grooming that can be done won't
avail anything if the horse is forced to
stand where his feet will be filthy. In
this case the feet will become disOrdered
and then the legs will get badly out of
fix and with bad feet and bad legs there
is not much else of the horse fit for any
thing. Stable prisons generally are very
severe on the feet and legs of horses, and
unless these buildings can afford dry
room, where horse can walk round, lie
down, or roll over, they are not half SC
healthy or comfortable to the horse as
the pasture, and should be avoided by
all good hOstlers in the cOuntry.-[V Yer
mont Farmer and Recorder.
Year: 1872

At recent meeting of the Royal So
clety paper on " Further experiments
on the effects of alcohol and exercise on
the elimination of nitrogen, and on pulse
and temperature of the body" was pre-
sCntCd by DR.. Z. A. Parks. ItcOntained
a detailed description of experiments
made on a SOldier-a ScOtchman-whO
had been brought up on oat meal and
milk, and who at one time had been in
the habit of taking more than a fair
amount OF whisky. AS soldier, how
ever, he bears the character of a steady
man in the enjoyment of perfect health.


His experience as to the effect of alcO-
hOl is noteworthy. He commenced the
exercise and brandy period of theexperi-
mcnt with belief that the brandy would
enable him to perform the work more
easily, but ended with the opposite con-
victiOn. The brand was taken in four
ounce doses at ten A. NJ, two P. NJ, and
six p. NJ, in an equal quantity of water,
and the work was chiefly done in two
hOursimmediately succeeding each dose,
and from six to eight A. NJ. The two
hours work from ten A. NJ, to twelve NJ,
Immediately after the first four fluid
ounces of brandy was drank, he thought
was done equally well with and without
the brandy. The man affirmed that he
could tell no difference, except that, to
use his own words, "the brandy seemed
to give him kind of spirit which made
him think he could do a great deal of
work; but when he came to do it he
was less capable than he thought" After
the second four ounces of brandy he felt
hot and thirsty; but on the first two days
he thought he worked as well as on eva
ter days" On the third day, however,
he had palpitatiOn of the heart, and was
surprised to find he was obliged to stop
from time to time, because, to use his
own words, "Of his breathing not being
so good"


The third four fluid ounces of brandy,
at 6 p. NJ, produced on all three DAYS
narcotic effects; Immediately after ta-
king it he became heavy, felt the great
est indispOsitiOn to exert himself, and
could hardly refrain from throwing down
his spade and givingup work. HewOrked
with no vigOr, and so the second even
ing thought his muscular power deci-
dedly lesSened. On the third evening.
as it was raining, he could not dig, but
| took walking and running exercise under
cover. On attempting to run he had
palpitatiOn and got out of breath and
was obliged to stop, so that he stated on
the next day, if he had his accOutre-
ments on and had been ordered tC
double he could not have obeyed the
order" After coming in from work or
each evening he fell into a heavy sleel
from which he was aroused with diff,
Guilty. This lasted three or four hours
after which he was restless and sleep.
less.


The mans own Judgment was, at the
end of the trial, that he would prefer tt
work, without the brandy; and wher
asked his reasons, he mentioned "tht
increased thirst, the heaviness in the
evening, and the flutter at the heart"
Year: 1872

The Amherst (Va.) Enterprise tells
the following strange story: On the land
of Thomas Hughes is fine spring of
cold water, which continually throws
out peach stones in a perfect state of
preservation. Bushels of stones have
been cleared away, and still they come.
We have no doubt that many years
ago, before the memory of our people,
there was a distiIlery at this spring, and
that it now bursts through the mass of
stones below the surface and throws
them ont We knew first rate large
peach orchard in this county which
grew in the following singular manner
Mr.. Stennett cleared the land, put in
tobacco, and the third year in nWheat, and
an orchard of peaches came up on the
land and are now growing and bearing.
It was ascertained that some forty OF
more years ago the land was cultivated,
and an orchard on the place, and it had
grown up, and when cleared by Mr.
stennett the land was in second growth
timber.
Year: 1872

To PREVENT IRON FROM RUsTING.-
Kerosene applied with q cloth to stoves
viii keep them from rusting during the
summer. Tt is, also, an excellent mate
rial to apply to iron utensils used about
a farm.
Year: 1872

Eli Perkins tells how the ladies walk
at Saratoga. He saws: How does
the ''swell'' young lady walk.


Well, they've got two walks this
year-the shoddy-patrician and the
plebeian walk


The plebeian walk or the prone
made natural, - only INDUCED in by
short and stout young ladies' Her
plump arm hangs naturally by her
waist, but her hands are elevated
As she walks down the dining room
aisle, she pats the palm of her left
hand with her fan. The body is stiff
and her neck and shoulders sway TO
the right and left IS she steps Her
face has a refreshing sauciness about
it. She wears short sleeves and low
neck, and shows her arms plump and
beautiful.


The shoddy patrician walk is a
great study. This is only affected by
tall or slim young ladies who have
bony neeks and "sbaddy- arms.


This is the way she sails down the
dining room aisle:


Body bent forward, shoulders shrug-
ged up, head and neck screwed sauci-
" up and whirled around so that her
ewes would naturally rest on the dis
tant left corner Of the room The
chin is thrown out This corkscrew
Of the neck and head is very pea
cocky To get her ewes down she
must droop her eyelashes. Her face
is not perpendicular, but oblique and
sidewise; her bony arms arm deco
rated with velvet ribbons, and her el-
bows pressed hard against her waist
to make her arms look large; her left
hand bangles in the air in front, and
her right hand carries an immense
umbrella cane; around her waist is
the new-fangled leather harness to
which are buekled leather straps and
chains, to which dangle a leather fan,
hook, silver smelling bottle,
knife. and twelve pounds Of other
gew-gaws, for which Tiffany ought to
be indicted for inyenting. Thus har
messed and checked up with $50 news
papers as pannier ballast, our belle
Of 1879 sails down the room
Year: 1872

There is something touching II the
attachment that everybody has for his
own eountenance. Is not that one Of
the tenderest things in Dickens
Charley's Kidding the lOOhng-glass
from poor dishgured little Dame Dur
den. / am certain that a sudden
change, though for the better, IN the
face Of the plainest person 4 know
would make him homesick.


1 confess TO a subtle satisfaction in
my last photograph, which am very
wei aware is not shared By any Of
the friends 20 whom / have presented
copies. They talk about the position
being forced or natural ; OF the eye
brow not being brushed; or the hair
being too formal; or the picture fatter-
ing me a little; or not fattering ne
at all; or its being too light; or too
dark; or too festive or too solemn;
or abo1t its being capital likeness
or an abominable one-aceOrding 10
variance in prints, moods, and notions
But what interests ne in it-they
have no souls for wonder if | an
as inappreciative in the matter Of 9th
er peoples photographs | declare l
shall look through the next photo
graph album with new eyes


As unsatisfactory as they are n the
main, photographs show man 70
himself in some respects better than
the looking-glass does For in the
looking-glass you are always net by
that frightening point-blank stare
On the other hand, you can gaze upon
your own photograph just as compos-
edly as upon that Of the King OF
Siam


There Is no social custom
more widely observed than that al
ready alluded TO, Of looking sidewise
at ones self in mirrors. Scarcely one
adult passenger in a hundred fails in
the observance while passing through
the ladies, cabin Of the J-y C--y
fsrrv-boats and ninety-eight out Of
ninety-nine do iton 4 sly. The strange
part Of il Is that. while everybody
knows precisely what his file leader
is about. everybody imsgines that be
himself has never been caught IN the
act. 1t IS one Of the delusions 70
which humanity Is subject--Why
cannot we be frank about it! Sup
pose we try to be frank about it to
morrow w.-ScribRer's Monthly
Year: 1872

Quite snubbed was the tourist az
one of the Mountain houses, who, i'm
patiently asked a passing attendant
to Send we a waiter" was informed
that The gentleman who waited On
that table would be there shortly"
Year: 1872

TuE HISTORY OF NATIONAL REMEDY Here is
the history OF the most celebrated tonic of the age
in nutshell. In 1861 II announced that a Ger
tain combination Of vegetable ingredients, with a
pure difiusive stimulant, working wonders in
the cure of chronic dyspepsia, nervous debility,
liver complaint, periodical ievers, rheumatism and
constitutional weakness. The unpreteRding name
given to the specific was PLANTATION BfrTERs. The
statement attracted the attention of nvaids every
where. The new remedy received fair trial, aud
the results more than confirmed all that had been
said in its praise Thenceforward 1t was a grand
success. The business columns Of the press spread
the glorious news far and wide, and the martyrs TO
indigestion, biiiousness, physical prostraton, and
premature decay, as If by common consent, sought
relief from the new vegetable restorative They
found what they sought. From that time TO the
present the increase IN the demand for Plantation
this aye
Year: 1872

RECOVERED HIS SENsEs.-Aweek ago
last Thursday about midnight, the police
took up q man on the streets who was act
ing very wildly. He was taken to jail, and
IL was discovered that he was hopelessly
insane. He was kept in Jail until Saturday,
when he fell into deep sleep, lasting for
several hours, and when he awoke, was per
fectly conscious and asked where he was
He said that his name was George Locker,
that he lived in Indisnofs had gotten on
the train st Marshalltown, bat knew nothing
further about il. He said he had had one
fearful fit before this one, and had gotten
over it all right. Being satisfied that he
was in his right mind again, the sheriff
discharged him from jail, and he left for
Rock Island, where he has friends living.
he is . gentlemaply, quiet man when in his
right senses. .-DapeRport Democrat.
Year: 1872

from lands end to lands end, that all may
read, and reading, believe, that for the
countless millions who are on the road 30
an uutimely grave with bilious COMPLAINTS,
there is but Que truly great and reliable
remedy, and that is
Year: 1872

The following rules forperforming
currency calculation will be found to
be very handy to have:


Gold being quoted at certain per
cent, to find the relative value of
currency. Rule-Divide 10000 by
the gold quotations.


When currency is selling at GER
tain per cent, to find the relative
value of gold. Kule-Divide 10000
by the selling price Of currency.


The selling price Of currency being
given. to find the currency equlva-
lent Of certain sum of gold. Rule
Divide the amount of gold with
two cypers annexed for cents by
the value of one dollar in currency.


Gold being quoted at a certain per
cent, to find the equivalent of GER
tain sum in currency. Rule-Divlde
the sum of currency with two cyphers
annexed for the cents, by the quo
tation in gold.
Year: 1872

At the time of the murder of Jim
Fisk, Mrs. Stokes was on the Atlantic,
on her way to Join her husband, and
of course did not hear of the sad oc-
currence until her arrival i'll New
York.
Year: 1872

The hat was passed round in a cer>
tain church for the purpose of taking
up collection. After it had made
the circuit of the house it was handed
to the minister, who had exchanged
pulpits" with the regular preacher,
and he found not cent in it. He
inverted the hat over thepulpitscushion
and shook it, that its emptiness might
be known, then looking toward the
ceiling. he exclaimed with great fervor,
81 thank God that | got back my hat
from this congregation p
Year: 1872

An East Indian cobra fell in love
with a native woman, and twined
itself around her neck for two days,
qnanifesting every mark of admiration,
and suffering no one TO approach them.
A juggler finally charmed the serpent
away.
Year: 1872

A beautiful and rather roguish
young lady, on being asked how she
would like to be in command of ship,
archly replied that she did not know
how she might succeed with so large a
vessel, but that she could at any time
command n smack.
Year: 1872

The Greenbush Gazette is responsible for
the following: A prominent citizen Of this
village went home few nights since at a
late hour and gently tapped on the door.
'Who is it3 inquired his better half To
which very proper inquiry he heartless
man replied by asking, "Who do you ex-
Sect at this hour of the night"
Year: 1872

From the New lOfK nome journal.


/ think it must be jolly thing to be
young widow" | heard this remark
the other day in a group of laughing
girls. think | remember saying such
thing myself in my girlish times. Do
you know, girls, what it is to be a
widow? 1t is to be ten times more open
to comment and criticism than any
demoiselle could possibly be. 1t is to
have men gaze as you pass, first at your
black dress and then at your widow s
cap, until your sensitive nerves culver
under the infiction. 1t is to have one
ill-naturned person say, l wonder how
long she will wait before she marries
again2' and another answer, Until she
gets good chance, | suppose" 1t is
now and then to meet the glance of real
sympathy generally from the poorest
and humblest woman that you meet, and
feel your eyes fill at the token, so rare
that it is, alas unlocked for. 1t is to
have your dear fashionable friends con-
sole you after the following fashion:
"Oh, well, it is dreadful loss. We
knew you d feel it, dear" And, in the
next breath, You will be sure to marry
again, and your widows cap is very be-
coming to you"


But il is more than this to be a widow.
1t is to miss the strong arm you have
leaned upon, the true faith that you
knew could never fail you, though all the
world might forsake you. 1t is to miss
the dear voice that uttered your name
with tenderness that none other could
give it. 1t is to hear no more the we'll
known footsteps that you flew so gladly
once to meet To see no more the face
that to your adoring eyes seemed as the
angels of God To feel no more the
twining arms that folded you so low
ingly; the dear eyes that, looking into
your own, said plainly, whatever it might
seem to others, yours was the fairest
face earth held for him. Ii is to fight
with a mighty sorrow as a man fights
with the waves that overwhelm him, and
to hold it at arm length for awhile only
to have-in the hours of loneliness and
weakness-the torrent roll over you,
whiie--poor storm.driyen doye-you see
no haven.
Year: 1872

A man brought friend to Troy
doctor, the other day, to have a wsund
in his head dressed. The operation so
affected the escort that he tainted and
fell on the curbstone, infieting a similar
confusion on his own skull, and the two
walked away holding one another up.
Year: 1872

The Board Of Directors, in commencing this
Second Scheme to the public, promise that il
shall be carried out in as good faith as the an
nexed certificates prove the former to have
been. The high character and standing of the
Managers selected will also be an additional
guarantee that perfect justice and fairness
will control this Distribution.
Year: 1872

YOUNG CULPRITs.--Wh shall be
done with the juvenile criminals of the city,
is question which should at once claim
the attention of our authorities and benev-
olent citizens. Between four and five hun
dred offenders, fifteen years old and under,
are annually arrested by our police force,
and taken before Justice White for
examination, and, as we ourselves
know, that worthy official is quite
often puzzled to know how to make
a fitting disposition of those youthful
violators of law and order. TO send them
to Jail to come in contact with the hardest
criminals who occupy that institution, is
revolving to the humane feelings of all. To
release them, unwhipped of justice, is per-
haps in many cases only to send them on
in their career of crime, soon to become
unreclaimable experts. There should, it
seems to us, be some place of corrective
and reformatory character, where juvenile
offenders can be held and subjected to such
discipline and treatment as will meet the
ends of justice, and, if possible, turn them
from their evil ways.
Year: 1872

There can be no valid excuse for the in
disposition shown by majority of the
members of the Legislature to devote rea-
sonable portion of their time to full ses-
sions. We are pretty familiar with State
Legislatures, and think we know how much
the excuses given as to committee work,
&C., are worth.


Before work has been matured in COM
mittee, one meeting day may be quite ex-
cusable. But at this juncture; two ses-
sions of three to four hours each, would
not be everlasting the members, and are
needed for the proper expediting of the
public business. ......


We don't propose to make a fight for
the reduction of pay to members. We
think the present per diem none too much
for faithful representative, but we want a
''fair days work for a fair days wages"
and we want the public business done
deliberately and in "open court" Mr..
Smiths resolution for night sessions was
lost by majority of five. We trust that
he will call it up again, and put the names
of the men on record who think that three
hours is a legal days work in Virginia.


The open session is also the best place to
educate the Legislator to that knowledge of
his duties, which constitutes large share
of the work, of each meeting Of these
bodies. 1t is there that they both imbibe
the spirit of the work, they are sent to per-
form, and learn how to do it. Let the
working members give their lazy comrades
no peace, till they come up to time promptly.
Year: 1872

HALT Our exchanges are valuable to
us, and while we are disposed to be accom-
modating to our friends, we must hereafter
decline to loan them to parties who are able
to subscribe to newspapers themselves. 1t
is unjust to the publishers, who live by
patronage to their papers, and frequently
poor enough at that; therefore we sha
have to decline these favors, unless extend
ed to parties who are known to be too pocl
to subscribe for paper.
Year: 1872

BY way of Havana we have news from
Mexico dated in the capital of the neighboring
Republic on the 18th of the present month.
The statement does not present any very
marked or new feature Of importance, and
its contents are, taken as a whole, encouraging
to the cause of peace and industrial progress
President Lerdo de Teiada will be solemnly in
augurated in Office on the 1st of December
The near approach of the day of his formal un-
dertaking of administrative authority renders
his party friends-the men who expect place
exceedingly anxious concerning the formation
of his Cabinet and the material which will
be used in its construction Hence we find
that there is warm canvass, with some poit-
ieal cavil as to his supposed policy and Of the
agencies by which he may or should attempt
its elaboration. But all this is normal, if not
natural, on the eve of Presidential inaugura-
tons. The Mexican Republic is peaceful in
ternally The territorial border fringe line
remains disturbed at certain points by Indians,
demonstrations which are, now and then,
rendered of more importance then they really
deserve by the efforts Of native heroes, who
are anxious to be employed for stamping
ont duty against the Indians. General Por-
firio Diaz was on his way to the capital. The
railroad contracts men, and material progress
lists generally, remain exceedingly anxious con-
cerning contracts and work, and are, of course
slightly so with regard to the matter of profit
Juarez's memory is to be permanently honored
by the people. A movement is also on foot to
provide for the members Of his family-a hope
full sign for the nation itself, for country
will scarcely perish SO long as it remains
grateful and cherishes gratitude for eminent
service as cardinal principle in its everyday
line Of duty.
Year: 1872

We are not particularly ambitious to fill the
position of wolf crier in ordinary to the
American people; but there are times, as
Samson will testify, when to be caught nap
ping is to be deprived of life or liberty, or
both. Though straws show which way the
wind blows it is neither necessary nor wise to
mark their progress when the wind comes
from an uncertain quarter but when polit-
ical weathercocks surprise US off our equilib-
rum by changing one point only, yet point
ing due "third term," it behooves us to give
the people warning, and to bid them Judge
from what has gone before of what may hap
pen in the not distant future. 'I disapprove
of reelection to Office" said General Grant
when first candidate for the Presidency.
General Grant tastes the sweets of great
power and straightway allows himself
to be nominated for that which
three years before he publicly condemned,
Tine works wonders. + three years produce
one great revolution, what may not four
accomplish II hope to see General Grant
remain President until every Southerner now
living over forty years Of age shall be put for
ever under ground" exclaimed Mr.. Wendell
Phillips during the recent campaign, to which
he lent so vigorous support. The allotted
age of man is three score years and ten
Though all Southerners cannot attain il.
some must, SO that if Mr.. Phillips prayer be
answered General Grant will occupy the White
House for the next thirty-fve years. This
aspiration, remember precedes reelection,
and now what follows? Thrift, thrift.
Horatio." Three weeks Of renewed power
and the second marriage feast doth boldly
furnish forth third betrothal sLet
US begin and work for third term"
whisper few. ''Why should not Gen.
eral Grant be again made President ?"
and rumor bears the query from club to club
until it comes to us defantly rather than beg
ging for reply. The art of punctuation is
well known to those skilled in feeling the
public pulse, and who can say that the interro-
cation may not be transformed into a dash,
the dash into period-that possibility may
not become probability and probability change
to fact9 And after all why should it not
What good reason is there why Grant should
not be elected again and again if the people SO
desireG Why not President for life, for that
matter? If the people wish it-tho majority
of the peoplo--the people should have their
way. This Is country where the majority
should rule, and where it will rule and the
majority has just as much right to choose the
same person again and again aul forever.
Let the croakers ponder this,