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Year: 1870

This blemish in horses has been defined
to be "a nervous affection for which there
is no cure" Until recently this defn;-
ton would have been accepted as genu-
inc. A more thorough knowledge Of the
veterinary srt, in connection with closer
anatomical knowledge of the horse, has
rendered that Aersion obsolete.


This affection is now shown TO be, not
one originating IN nervous debility, but
one arising from the strain and conse-
quent inflammation of an elastic cord, ex-
tending from the hook to the hoof Joint.
This cord lies Immediately under the main
middle vein, and in case of strain, the in
hammation which ensues may affect the
nerves and other parts in sympathy, call
ing off the mucous secretions, rendering
this cord elastic, and thus cansing britch
or halt.


If the skin is slit by a skillful and
steady hand, four inches above the hoof
of the affected leg, and this cord be care
fully drawn out with an awl and severed
it will relieve the horse of ali lamsness as
soon as the wound is healed, and expert
ence has shown that no injury results
from the operation The incision should
be washed often with warm CASTLE soap
suds, and annointed with sweet oil, OF
some healing ointment, and the horse
kept quiet till the cure is effeeted.-R7trai
american.
Year: 1870

A story of close management is told
about Yanke who lately settled down in
the West. He was the picture of a mean
man, but as he put himself to work in
good earnest to get his house to rights, the
neighbors lent him hand. After he had
everything fixed to his notien, a thought
struck him that he had no chickens, and
he was powerfully fond of sucking raw
eggs He was too honest to steal them.
At last a thought struck him-he could
borrow. He went to a neighbor and thus
accosted him =


''Waal, I reckon you haint got no old
hen nor Dothing you'd lend me for a few
weeks, have you neighbor 2"


81 will lend you one with pleasure" )" re-
piled the gentleman, picking up the very
finest in the coop.


The Yankee took the hen home, and
then went to another neighboI and bOr-
rowed a dozen eggs. He then set the hen,
and in due course of time she Matched a
dozen chickens.


The Yankee was again puzzled; he
could return the hen, but how was he to
return the eggs7 Another idea-and who
ever saw live Yankee without one ?-he
would keep the hen until she had laid O
dozen eggs.


This he did, and then returned the hen
and eggs to their respective owners, re-
marking as he did so:


"Waal L reckon I've got as fine dozen
of chickens as you ever laid your eyes on,
and they didn't cost me a cent nuther."
Year: 1870

One of the clergymen of Peoria, ILL.,,
has been put in a parsonage that does not
come up to his idea of what q minister
should enjoy. Recently he was called up
on to announce that there would be mite
society at the ministerial dwelling. He
said


''There will be a mite society on Thurs
day evening next at the parsonage. The
parsonage is little, old, tumble-down
building on - street"


Some of the older ones of the congre-
CATION took umbrage at this, while the
younger ones laughed. In the evening
the parson was called upon to make the
same announcement. After saying the
mite society would be held at the parson-
age, he paused a moment and then re-
marked:


"On the corner of the street, near my
residence, is a well. Said well is covered
over and clapboarded. 1t is unpainted
and weather-worn !; but wish to describe
1t so that none of you may mistake and
take the well for the parsonage. The
mite society will be held in the parsonage,
and not in the well -
Year: 1870

A pamphlet by Mr.. Proctor, a well.
known astronomer, written to accompany
some stereograms of Mars, calls attention
anew to the very great similarity between
this planet and our own earth in many
points of its physical condition, and in
fers, as has been before suggested, its en-
tire adaptation to the requirements of
living creatures such as those that now
people the earth. The polar ice can read
lily he distinguished, extending its borders
in the winter, and contracting in the
summer. An atmosphere, carrying clouds,
and mIsts with definite qualities, is readily
appreciable; and the indications of rain
and snow are not wanting. How soon it
will be possible for us to determine the
nature of the inhabitants of the planet,
since we can scarcely refuse to believe in
their existence-is yet a matter of uncer-
tainty; but it is to be hoped that the time
Is not very far distant when we may arrive
at some definite conclusions in regard to
them.
Year: 1870

The methods and results of farming are
in general so defective and unsatisfactory,
that large amount of 'tnoral courage'' is
deemed necessary fairly to face accounts
at the end of the year, and look over tie
balance-sh 1t may be said, and with
much truth, that most farmers have no
accounts to examine, and as to ''balance.
sheet, +" they do not know the meaning of
the term. 1t is, indeed, a pity that far
mers give so little attention to book
keeping in connection with their vocation.
The value of systematic, careful record
of labor performed. and of crops, purcha-
ses, and sales, and also of the weather
from day to day, has never been properly
estimated. A man cannot have much
self respect, nor be mindful of his true
interests, who does not use his pen daily
in keeping accurate accounts of receipts
and disbursement. Those who do not do
this rest upon an unsHbstantial basis; eve
rYthing is at loose ends, and they become
the easy victims of fraud and dishonesty.


Farm books should be systematically
arranged and carefully kept. We should
know at the end of the year how the ac-
count stands. No matter whether the
balance is on the right or wrong side of
the ledger, there Is high satisfaction in
knowing the truth if we have made mis-
takes, or met with mlsfortunes, we want
to have the facts recorded for our better
guidance in the future; if we have been
successful and made money, then we know
we are on the right track, and the assur-
ance of being right increases our conf
deRce, and doubles our strength for future
work. JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY.
Year: 1870

At some of the Dairymen's Conventions
that have been recently held in various
places this matter has been discussed by
different parties, and all seem to be i'm
pressed with the idea, as brought out by
the relation of several actual experiences,
that in order to obtain the largest amount
Of actual profit from COWS kept for the
sake of their product, in the form of but
ter and cheese, it is necessary to give
them some extra feeding IN the summer
beyond what they obtain from the pas
lures. One told of expending $25 per
head on his COWS from March to Novem-
Der, over and above the value of their
pasturage. During April and May he
gave each COW a mixture composed of four
quarts of corn and oatmeal, one quart oil
meal, and eight quarts bran per day, IN
addition to hay After they went to grass
the meal and hay was left off, and twelve
quarts of bran per day was given. As soon
as sowed corn was fit to cut for fodder,
and the pastures began to dry up. he gave
them cut fodder in addition. His COWS
gave an extra yield under this treatment
/ of 200 pounds of cheese each over COWS on
pasture alone, and were besides. quite fat
at the end of the season, and so worth at
least $40 per head over what they would
have brought if IN ordinary condition.
So that for an investment of $25 each he
realized $35 each, or $40 profit per head
over what he would have had on pasture
alone. Besides this, the extra feeding en-
abled him TO keep forty cows on pastur-
age that without it could have kept but
thirty-two, and this added to the profit
made on the feed, gave him an extra profit
of S5755 oyer and above what he would
have had without using the extra feeding.
This matter of extra feeding of cows when
at grass ought to obtain place with our
best dairymen. and the actual results Of
even soiling the cows with corn fodder
while at grass, would, no doubt, show
largely in favor of the practice Weekly
Toronto Globe, Canada.
Year: 1870

We make the following extracts from
some passages in Fogt's book, "on Noxi-
Gus and Beneficial Animals which are
quoted at fall length in the fourth num-
Der of LIE NahtrokiStc CdnGdien. For
the benefit of the American reader, we
translate from the original French


"a remarkable fact has lately been
published in the newspapers. There is
actually a considerable commerce in toads
between France and England. A toad of
good size and in fair condition will fetch
shilling twenty-five cents) in the Lon
don market, and dozen of extra quality
are worth one pound sterling five dollars)


You may see these imported toads in all
the market gardens where the soil is
moist, and the owners of those gardens
even prepare shelter for them Many
grave persons have shaken their heads,
when they heard of this new.whim of the
English but those laugh the best who
laugh the last This time the English are
in the right. used to have in nay gar
den brown toad as big as my fist. In
the evening he would crawl cut of his
hiding place and travel over a bed in the
garden. l kept careful watch over him
but one day an unlucky woman caught
sight of him and killed him with a single
stroke of her spade, thinking she had
done very fine thing. He had not been
dead many weeks before the snails ate up
all the mignonette that formerly perfumed
everything round that bed.


"Toads become accustomed to man, and
do not appear to be incapable of tender
sentiments. Everybody has heard the
story which seems borrowed from some
old popular legend, of toad which for
thirty years lived under an espalier tree,
and came out every evening, when the
family was taking SUPPER to get his share
of the meal like the dogs and the cats.
The family shed tears on the day when an
accident deprived that devoted servant OF
life. Some of my friends believe that,
after having heaped benefits upon toad,
they have obtained from that despised an
imal evident proofs of gratitude. A cer-
tain Capt Perry has told me that in trav-
elling through the interior of Sicily, he
once found on the road snake that was
Just about to devour toad He killed
the snake, and the toad went his way
Six days afterwards he returned by the
same road. All of a sudden something
hops along close behind him. 1t was his
toad, who had adopted this mode Of ex-
pressing his gratitute towards his preser-
yer. and who had positively recognized
him. But, Captain said to him, chow
could you possibly identify the particu-
lar toad whose life you had saved? One
toad is as like another toad as one egg is
like another egg" That is very true
replied the Captain, but he looked at me
with such grateful eyes, that I could not
doubt his identity for a moment. -
american E1lton1OLogiSt.
Year: 1870

Let man fail in business, what a won
derful effect it has on his former friends
and creditors. Men who had taken him
by the arm laughed and chatted with him
by the hour, shrug up their shoulders and
pass him by with chilling snow do you
do?" Every trifle of bill is hunted up
and presented that would not have seen
daylight for months to come, but for the
misfortune of the debtor. If it is paid,
well and good; if not the scowl of the
Sheriff perhaps meets him at the corner.
A man that never failed knows but little
of human nature. In prosperity he sails
along gently, waited by favoring smiles
and kind words from everybody. He
prides himself on his good name and spot
less character, and makes his boast that he
has not an enemy in the world. Alas |
the change. He looks upon the world in q
different light when reverses come upon
him. He reads suspicion on every brow.
He hardly knows how to move, or wheth-
er to do this thing or the Other-fOr there
are spies about him, and writ ready for
his back. To understand what kind of
stuff the world is made of, a person must
be unfortunate and stop payment once in
lifetime. If he has kind friends then
they ARE made manifest. A failure is q
moral sieve-it brings ont the wheat and
shows therhaff. A man thus learns that
words and pretended good will do not
constitute real friendship.
Year: 1870

Soor is one of the most valuable ma
nures, and nothing but the most culpable
carelessness and indifference will suffer it
to remain a standing menace to life and
nroperty when it can be easily removed
from chimneys, stovepipes, &c, and turned
to useful account on the garden or field.
Twelve quarts of SCOT in a hogshead Of
water, will make the most valuable liquid
manure, which viii improve the growth of
root crops, garden vegetables, and flswers
Year: 1870

This painful abnormal condition of the
tOe-nail may be cured by allowing the
nail to continue to grow without pairing it.
The boot or shoe will depress the nail at
the end as it grows longer, which will
gradually elevate it at the point, where it
presses upon and into the soft tissues OF
the toe; thus removing the irritation, the
sore soon heals. This is far preferable to
the rash and painful operation of tearing
off the tOe-nail with forceps.
Year: 1870

Good sweet wheaton bran is in ninety
nine cases out of a hundred better than
physic, if it is given in time. Let any
animal eating shrinking mouldy corn-stalks
OF brittle hay, making it look bad, have
some bran to help its poor stomach, and it
will soon appear in better plight When
a COW in milk does not do as we'll as she
should on other feed, add some bran, no
matter what ails the horse, COW, sheep or
pig. little bran viii do good-but don't
feed bran alone for long.
Year: 1870

Silent as thou, whose inner life is gone


Let me essay thy meaning if / can.
Thou ghostly, CHASTITY mortal, carved in bone,
Old Natures quiet mockery in man.
place thee in the light, the orient gold


Falls on thy crown, and strikes each uncouth


line;


Strange shape the earth has ruins manifold.
But none with meaning terrible as thine
For here beneath this bleak and sterile dome
Did hatred rage and silent SORROW mourn.
little world, an inhnite's spirits home


A heaven or hell abandoned and forlorn.
Once on that forehead radiant as the day


Imagination famed in tranced mood;
Once on thy ieshy mask now fallen away


Rippled the pulses of a bridegrOom's blood.
And laughter Wrinkled up those orbs with fun.
And sorrow furroWed channels as YOU prayed ;
Well, now no mark is left on thee but one,


The careless stroke of some old sections spade
Year: 1870

He gave good advice who said IF
you are in trouble, don't tell of it to every
person you meet. Not one in hundred
will sympathise with you. Some may
speak word of comfort, to turn away
and ridicule you, but precious few viii
laugh less freely, or engage with less earn
estness in the business of life. Troubles,
in nine cases out of ten, are like threat.
ening clouds, which soon vsnish away
Year: 1870

A very fine dressing for the hair may be
made by mixing good pure glycerine With
rosewater, one part of the former to three
of the latter Another has been found to
make the hair soft and moist, and to re-
tain these properties for some time. This
consists of the white of eggs mixed with
equal parts of alcohol, or. used without
the alcohol. After applying it the hair
should be thoroughly washed with warm
Uater
Year: 1870

Az exchange says: A man who was
too mean to advertise land he wanted to
sell, put written notice in one of the he-
tells the other day. A man who was in
quiring for small farm was referred to
the written notice. He replied, 4 can't
buy land at fair price OF any man who
does his advertising in that way. He'd
steal the fence, the pump handle, and the
barn doors, before he gave possession
Year: 1870

HELFYoUR NEIGHBoR.-You are made
to be kind, generous, and magnanimous.
If there's boy in school who has club
foot, don't let him know that you ever
saw it. If there is boy in school with
ragged clothes, don't talk of rags in his
presence. If there's lame boy in school.
assign him some place in the play which
does not require much running. If there
is dull one, help him to get his lessons.
Horace Mann.
Year: 1870

An old Clergyman Oh Sunday, at the
close of the sermon, gave notice to the
congregation that in the course of q week
he expected to go on mission to the hea-
then. One of his parishioners in great ag-
itation, exclaimed: why my dear sir,
you have never told us one word of this
befOreI What shall we dop oh, broth
er, said the parson, 4 don't expect to go
out of town.
Year: 1870

WHEN land is conveyed, it includes not
only the soil, but everything attached 10
it, as trees, herbage, buildings, and fen
ces. A conveyance of land viii include
buildings erected by third party without
the consent of the owner, unless such
third party be tenant, and ne can estab-
lish that the building was erected for the
purpose of his trade or business. The
grantee in the deed will be entitled to
such building, and the person erecting the
same cannot remove it, although the same,
in fact, was not put up by the owner and
grantor of the land.
Year: 1870

The age is dHll and mern. Men creep
Not walk with blood too pale and tame
To pay the debt they owe TO shame;
Buy cheap, sell dear, eat, drink and sleep,
DoWn-pillOwed, deaf to moaning want;
Pay tithes for soul insurance; keep


Six days to Mansmon. one to God.
The brave old strife the fathers saw


For freedom calls former again,


Like those who bnttled not in vain.
For England's Charter, Alfred's law,
And right of speech, and trial just.
Wage with your might their ancient war
With venal courts and peEjured trust.
Gods ways seem dark, but soon or late,
They touch the shining hills of day;
The evil cannot brook delay.
The COED can well afford to wait


Give ermined knaves their hour of crime,
He have the future grand and great,


The safe appeal Of Truth TO T1mel
Year: 1870

Many proverbs admit of contradiction
as witness the following


The more the merrier Not so-one
hand is enough IN purse.


Nothing but what has an end Not 50
"a ring has none, for it is round


Money is q great comfort Not when
it brings thief to the gallows.


The world is long Journey Not So
it is but days Journey for the sun.


1t is a great way to- the bottom OF the
sea. Not so-it is but a stones cast
Year: 1870

CARE OF WAGoNs.-When you leave a
wagon heavily loaded to stand a number
of hours, put support under the axle
tree. The strength of wood cannot be
estimated by what it will support for a
short time 1t will bear up a third more
weight for few minutes than will be re-
quired to break it by continued pressure.
Wagons are abused very generally, by
SSverIo@dhng over ding If the axletress do not
warped, which cause the vehicle to run
hard, and shortens its existence.
Year: 1870

A song that is just now very popular in
the London music halls has the unusual
funniness in the idea The chorus runs
thus


4 saw Esau kissing Kate,


And the fact is we all three saw,


For saw Esau, he saw me,


And she saw saw Esau
Year: 1870

Inc times OF last evening says:


BY the arrival here this morning of the
Ouachita River packet Governor Allen, we
learn that the Red River packet Jefferson,
Captain George w. Rea, caught fire in one of
her tiers of cotton on the larboard guard,
on Sunnay morning, between the hours of
nine and ten O'Clock, one mile above the
mouth of Black River, or Red River, and,
notwithstanding the untiring effo is of the
passengers and crew, the boat and cargo of
eight hundred and thirty five bales Qess
about twenty five Or thirty soon became
total loss. As soon as the fire was discov-
cred. which was occasioned by a spark from
the chimney (as it could not be accounted
for in any other way, the crew commenced
throwing overheard the top tiers of cot
ton, and partially succeeded for
time in subduing the flames, and while
thus engaged the fire broke out afresh.
When this took place, the only thing left
to DO waste run her to the bank, which the
pilot succeeded in doing, and the officers,
crew and passengers all managed to get of.
There were no lives lost. A portion of the
passengers baggage, and some of the off,
GERS effects were lost. The steamer Walter
u. Dance, st. Louis and Red River packet,
was passing at the time of the fire, and took
on board the passengers and crew of the
Jefferson, and brought them to the wharf
boat at the mouth of Red river, where they
embarked for this port on board the steamer
Governor Allen. The Jefferson was new
boat, built expressly for the Red river trade,
and was in her first season.
Year: 1870

An old gentleman, who had been too
bibulously Inclined, was introduced to
special policeman last evening, at the
Academy, during the performances on the
stage, and the result was he did not disturb
the audience any more, but held his vigils
in the police station.
Year: 1870

70 the contracts which arc publicly made in the Colonies
Tor slaye labor which he airms Is practically contnu
alton OF the system OF Slavery in violation OF the express
laW " of the land
Year: 1870

THE CONCERT advertised to take place I'm the
Congregational Church on Thursday eyenino
promises to be both enjoyable and deserving.
have attained rare proficiency under the care of
Prof. Boston. which fact, added to the circum-
stance that the proceeds are to be applied to
the discharge Of debt incurred to procure an
organ for Sunday school purposes, should insure
an unusually large attendance.
Year: 1870

OF requesting physicians to institute an exami-
nation OF the merits of his Port Grape Wine
The wine Is the pure juice of the Port Grape
cultivated by him for the purpose, and is now
successfully used and prescribed by the ply
siciaDs in the large cities who have fully tested
It, and who regard it as peculiarly adapted tO
their mode of practice. w&s
Year: 1870

The passion of the French for sensa-
tional stories has been illustrated in re.
markable manner in reference to the late
Charles Dickens, about whom foreign are
journals full of anecdote. But the French
go ahead of the others. Where they get
their stories from is mystery to every
body, for they are unknown to England.
Here are couple of the most popular.
The first is to the effect that overwork
had made Mr.. Dickens SO eccentric in his
habits that he turned day into night, and
was in the habit of walking the streets Of
London from midnight until Eve in the.
morning.


On the occasion of these walks, the
great novelist observed lady of respec-
table appearance following him. Night
after night she followed him, and if the
novelist approached her she fastened
away. startled and confused. At last
they met face to face, and the lady de-
clared, in great agitation, Charles Dick
ems, you have done me an injury, can
no more rest. Look at me, so that you
may remember me for l desire to be re.
membered. You will see me no more


"Mr. Dickens soon afterward ascer-
tanned that she was the wife of colonel
III LhC IL /" ~" "" % ~~u'C
a casket OF ebony and ivory to the novel;
list, containing portrait Of the lady,
lock of hair, and this note: Il have
loved you madly, but that love I have
given you owe to another.


Il am of my own free will going to an
othc. world, where l may think of You
without treachery. PITY me-. 1t was
signed "The lady of the other night
Mr.. Dickens few to the house, to find,
that she was dead with a dagger in her
heart. Another OF these stories is of n
female of more aggressive character
This woman lead scandalous life, but
presumed to fall in love with the novel
ist, and to write him ardent letters, to
which he sent no reply The woman de-
termined on revenge, and tried to stab
the novelist as he was coming out of the
theatre But such was the humanity Of
Charles Dickens, that his only desire was
to save the unfortunate woman from the
legal consequences of her infatuatiOn.
He snatched her from the witnesses of
her attempted crime, thrust her into tho
carriage, put his coachman in with her to
keep her quiet, and himself ascended
the box, took the whip and drove away"
-I'h7udelphia Ledger.