Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 31 December 1868 — Page 4

4arm and mrtlriä

Corn Smnt and Dead Cattle TnE news CMBSa to us from various parts of the c untry, that cattle are dying in laree numbers since thev have been turn- t mto the liekl3 from which the corn has been gathered, and it is generally believed thai the cause of their death is to be attributed to their eating smut. As i very firmer b aware, this smut is liable to make ill appearance on various parts of the stalk, h aves, and especially on the II of eon, in the form of a dark, spongy erowth, somr-times of a bluishblack or purple color. This substance iuBTOaaea very rapidlv in size, and some times forms masses five or sK inches in diameter. Th ' growth of this variety of tUBgOl n tfic eon is usually e.ttribntcd to iroaoda and bfttnef on the eon plant, Inflicted Inrinj the process of cultivation. The swe I aitrograisad sap oozes out, and r c iv. I ose r r m-re spotei which are f! ekiiog in the air, or, in the opinion of i mae, tp ataiieotrar? derelopei ihb para sitic vegttation. This specie of growth seems to by m rc frequeiv sons when tb rp are extremes ( 1 cid, and of moisture and dryness the opinion of many istelligeBt ' it is much morn common than U IBgUl sea and ad in rrru rs, cmerly. It is aflirmrd bv some that the application of salt to the hnd will insure the crop gehet the appearfcce of this species of disease. Cattle will rarely, if ever, touch a stalk or k af of corn in which this substance haa appeared ; but when a quantity of it i- mrruua led by Luks and is mixed with the jtrongs of e-trs partially covered with eorn. they will eat it readily for the fake of the nntrriu matter that it encloses or ii mingled with it. As this smut is impervious t water, it will remain dry in the stomach of the animal, and in nocond loa to be raised by rumination. Some think h it it imply causes an inflammation of the mueous membrane of the first tOBBBCb, a other indigestible substances would : while others believe that it engenden the production of other fungi which retail in tho decomposition of the blood an) of th ! animal tissue. Kecenil a iiease has broken out in 5;t .ry county, Iowa, among the cattle that have been turned among thi corn-stalks. At least a hundred have died : sever! larmtrs having lott as many as ten, and M new was very al)undant in the fields in which the animals were feeding, it i generally thought that it was the occasion of tlieinala ly. Profesaof Townshend. of the I v.va Agricultural College, and Doctor Oecagne, of Ames, made ä post mortem ex imiuatin of four of these cattle, and gave aa opinion adverse to that which was generally held in the community. Whether these gentlemen were right or wrong la their opinion, it is certain that tili tbe i ffect ot smut on the animal svstern has been determined with a degree f ! rtaintr, bl experiment and scientific in Teatigation, farmers cannot be too careful ahowJ turning their slock into corn fields where saiut is known to exist Pains should be taken dftriwg the cultivation ot the crop to rem ve all these excresences as tOOB at they appear, so that the spores which they produce shall not be carried ah nrt the del I. .At the husking season it will be comparatively easy to cut off every . talk, leaf or ear ou which the smut b m made its appearance, and either bury Item a eOQsidenhle distance in the ground, or what is better, apply the torch to them ; for it would not be advisable to carry them through the field in order to burv Iheea. Prairie Fan?ier. Cabbages and Foul Air. Most of U3 have noticed that many cab hagca whrk h appear hard and every way I nnd, hare, when eaten as cold slaw, an off--j ire tiAte. This arises not from any imper'ection in the cabbage head, caused hp rot or otherwise, but by the absorption of noxious gases after it has ceased to crow. Doubtless much of the speedy I t wth of the cabbage is due to the sub stances that are taken up by the leaves and n verted by them into vegetable tissue. Now this absorption of foul air by the leave- of the eabbage goes on after the p.anf is taken from the ground where it haa grows and even after the head has d levered from the stalk ; but as the plant haa no longer the opportunity to tike up moisture by means of its roots, and is withal deprived of sunlight, the ga es which in the growing plant were converted into a nutritious article of food, are now only mtchanicallv held by the leaves and are ready to give off an un pkaaant odee and taste as soon as they are prepared for food Great care should then be taken to store cabbages where the air is comparatively pure, if we would have them sweet and fresh as when they are first brouu-ht in from the garden. We have often seen cabbages stored by farmers in places where bad gases of every kind abound, and where there is no opportunity for ventilation. The cabbage, true to its nature, takes these up and Tives them off at a time and in a manner which camel them lo be most offensive. Town and city grocers not unfrequently place a pOe of cabbages between boxes of oap, hega of tobacco, or in the immediate vicinity of kerosene oil. or smoked fi-sh. No wonder that cabbages thus stored do not have the sweetness of clover bios .oms ; the marvel is that any of them are fU go eat at all. But cabbage? acquire a bad flavor and BReli in another way. Most people have !i-e t j ad tha boiled cabbage is less digestible and much more liable to " broil" on -'mach than that which is eaten raw. Tnis is occasioned doubtless by the vegetaMe being boiled in the same kettle with corned beef or other substances which give off v.. Utile and soluble particles which are readily taken up by the leaves of the cabbage danhag the processor boil ing. Tins may be prevented by boiling in a vessel by itself, when, if it lacks the agreeable flavor which is sometimes im"ted t iL by the beef, it will be free from the BaplemaasJ taste and odor which it much oftener acquire Prairie Farmer. The Farmer's Workshop. Ho anaawnABUI firmer will dispute the importance of having a work-hop upon his premieea, and especially those who hare boja to bring up. Boys will b -v, and if opportunity is not given for a full employment of their time, either with work "r sport at home, they will Mfk diver-ion abroad, wh ,h will not usually result profitably. A farmer gives his experience and opinion u; on the mat ter in the subjoined sensible Klk : How many farmers do we find that have not the ingenuity to repair a rake, r Ota r Email farm implement. Were they brought up n a farm ? Yes. Well, then, whv is it' Some may say they are ofthat unfortunate class of mortals that are not giite.l with their share ot ingenuity. This is a threat mistake. If you will take the trouble to inquire of them what they sp nt their time at when young, they will tell you farming. Was their father a farmer ? Ye, the best in the neighborhood, they may say. Well wbat'did he employ himself and boys at i liny days ? "O nothing; when it rained too hard to work, we generally spent om time at. the village, la the scores and tavern. You know that boys want rpgt hometimeg." Very trae, bat is there no other enjoyment f.r 0079 than at the tavern and stores with a H 1 tl e father had a workshop, dected lot of tools, would not fi have had Some lob for a rainv those b uay, suea aa a little cart, aleib, wagon, or

boat to make or repair? There are very few boys who do not have such things to make. Thus by having a small workshop, boys soon acquire a taste to handle tools, and tinker up many little playthings of their own. When older, the knowledge gained will be of great service to them in making and repairing implements on the farm. But there are habits which they acquire in spending their leisure time al the village, which is the ruin of many a promising boy, for where do we find a village now, in which there is not one or two tavercs, where the temptation appears to be strong, judging from the numbers we generally find in them getting spirituous liquors to drink ? When will farmers learn to ma':e their homes attractive for their boys and themselves ? A few good books, one or more good agricultural papers, and last, but not bast, a workshop. Ohio Farmer.

USEFUL RECIPES, ETC. Pocltry to fatten rapidly must be, like hogs, restricted to a limited space. Freedom and fat are incompatible. Buttermilk Bread. One quart of but termilk, a small teaspoonful of salt, one of saiaratus, a lump of butter as large as a walnut, and floor cnoutrh to make a stiff" batter. Bake in buttered tins, in a quick oven. QUICK Waffles. Mix flour and cold milk together to make a thick batter. To a quart of the flour put six beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of melted butter, and a teaspoonful of salt. Some cooks add a quarter of a p uind of suirar, and half a nutmeg. Bake them immediately. To keep plants in the winter is always difficult, but to those who have a love for the plants, it is not difficult incase of very cold nightf , to have them so fixed on a stand, that the stand can be easily moved, plants and all, oack Irom the window, and so arranged that the whole can be covered with some material that would protect then perfectly safe from frost. A correspondent of the C&untrjf Gentleman. writine on " variety ot tood tor animals," says that hay, meal and oil enke, given daily for months, is all the variety many of his fattest beasts have had. When a few good Swedes are added, the variety is great ; but to give oil cake for a wet k, and then for a change, give none, would bp verv great folly iu the fattening ot any animal. CooaiUfl a TOUGH Turkey. A lady tells the Wettern Rural how to cook an antiquated turkey: After dressing and stuffing the turkey, put in a boiler water to cover the bottom, and a basin to put the turkey on. Lay it on the back, not letting the water reach it. Cover the boiler, and steam two hours. Boast one hour. Boil liver, gizzard and heart in this water ; then chop fine and put it in the gravy. Pour the water from the boiler into the rmst pn to baste the turkey with. Potato Poultice. Perhaps it is not generally known how much pleasanter and more agreeable, as well as moreeflica cious, is a poultice made of potatoes than one made of bread. It keeps heat lone-er, can be reheated several times, and does not wet the clothing. Peel, boil and mash the potatoes ; enclose in a muslin bag, and apply to the affected part. To boil them in hop water has a very soothing effect, and enhances their virtue. A poultice made of boiled beans is by some thought to be better than potatoes, but both are worthy of a trial. Exchange. AnU! Di mplinos. As this is the season lor apple dumplings, allow me the liberty of ayinj that they can be made so that everj- one, even of delicate digestive powers can eat them with impunity. Of course I am saying nothing but what every good housekeeper must know aire ady, when I recommend that the dough. if it may be so called, should be made of about one part flour to six parts of potatoes, boflea and mashed thoroughly, and every lump removed. It makes a good piste, and the dumplings can be enjoyed y every one without the fear of after unpleasant results. HamtAH, fa G't rntintoxen Tgiaph. Galls on Horses. Owing to defects in collars and saddles, or a lack of seasonable attention in wet weather, the backs, breasts and shoulders of horses become badly galled. It is cruel to work them, in this condition, but in many cases it can hardly be avoided, esneciallv on the ca nal. In such cases the wounds should i lie thoroughly spunged daily with strong s ap suds followed by a solution of saltpetre and spirits of turpentine. Put onequarter of a pound of the former and a oint of the latter into a bottle and shake them well together and apply to the wounds with a feather two or three times each day, or oftener if circumstances will permit, till the healing process commences, when the application may be discontinued. Si ckanffi Browsing Stock. Tnoan who reside in regions where timber is plentiful and of little or no commercial value, can carry cattle and sheep through the winter by supplying them with browse daily. The trees suitable for this purpose are sugar maple, beach, basswood, and birch. Cattle and sheep will leave the best of hay to feed on the buds and tender twigs of these trees, and we have known them to come out in the spring in tine condition on this food, with an occasional feed of corn in the car. Where iand is being cleared up, this aid is readily supplied, as the chopping is usually done in the winter season, but w here this is not the eaae, let trees be felled daily and the limbs chopped down, so that the stock can reach the twigs readily, and they will get along finely. The safest way is to fell the trees before the stock is let out of their enclosure, lest being on hand when the trees fall, they should be injured or kided in the operation. Rural Aem Yorhi r. Ladies Should Read Newspapers. It is a great mistake in female education to keep a young lady's time and attention devoted to only fashionable literature of the day. If you would qualify her for conversation, you must give her something to talk about give her education with the actual world, with the outer world, and its transpiring events. Urge her to read newspapers, and become familiar with the present character and improvement of our race. History is of some importance; but the past world is dead we have nothingto do with it. (Our thoughts and our concerns should be for the present world; to know what it is and improve the condition of it. Let her have an intelligent opinion, and be able to sustain intelligent conversation concerning the mental, moral and religious improvements of our time. Let the gilded annuals and poems on the center table be kept part of the time covered with weekly anu uauy journals I J ! 1 1 "-. . . - . . Let the whole family men, women and children read news papers Exchange. Care or Calves In Winter. A raw days since we called on a friend who had Just brought his stock to the barn yard in consequence of a storm. There were cows, oxen, calves, fheep and colts, but the last two were soon given separate quarters, and as was supposed, the qnietode of the family assured. Hut thi9 was not the case. The ox had a grudge against t.ie can, and would lofn one up whenever an opportunity olh r I. 1 ing to the protection of the mother was j no improvement, as she, too, showed horns ! instead of arftWion nml i.rnt..ntlin irmn. oonort'inir.v oi!-reO i !- ing by her acts all relationship with hvr

abused progeny. It was evident from this tiiat calves in autumn and winter need a

separate range, where they can be carcü for and be safe iromtne assauus oi grown up stock. This txtra care will be amply repaid by the more rapid development re sulting from it. The separation is a human one. and should not be neglected ry any stock grower who aims to make his buaiT I TtT T f ness a paying one. uurat ieic j orn . Horace CJreelej's Barn. The philospher of the New York Tribune is a farmer as well as an editor. His ideas about barns and sheltering stock ! may be gathered from the following description of his barn from his own pen : My barn is a fair success. I placed it on I the shelf of my hill, nearest to the upper (east) side of mv place, because a birnyard is a manufacturer of fertilizers fr. m materials of lesser weight, and it is e sier to draw these down hill than up. I built ; its walls wholly of stones gat h red or blasted from the adjacent slope, to th extent of four or live thousand tors and laid in a box with a thin mort r of (little) lima and (much- wand, filling all the interticca and binding the whole In solid mass, till my walls are nearly one solid J rock, while the roof is of Vermont slate. I drive into three stories a basement for manures, a stable for animals and a story above this for hay, while the grain is Ditched into the loft or " scaffold above, from whose floor the roof rises steep to a height of sixteen or eighteen feet. There should have been more windows for light and air ; but my b rn is convenient, impervious to frost, and I am confident that cattle are wintered in it at a fourth less cost than when they shiver in board shanties, with cracks between the boards that will admit your hands. No part of our rural economy n more wasteful than the habitual exposure of cur animals to peltine, chilling storms, and to intense cold Building with concrete is still a novelty, and was far more so ten years ago, when I built my barn. I could now build better and cheaper, but I am glad that I need not. I calculate that this barn will be abidingly useful long after I shall have been utterly forgotton; and that, had I chosen to have my name lettered on its front, it would have remained there to honor me as a builder loner after it had ceawd to have rfby other significance. .More Intel Ilg-ent than Honest. A no and a dog on board a ship on the voyage from India to London were very good friends ; they ate out of the same plate, walked about the decks together, and would lie down side by side under the bulwarks in the un. The only thine they quarrelled about was their lodging. Toby, the dog had a very nice kennel ; i th ) pig had nothing of the sort, Now i piggy did not see why Toby should be bet- j fa r housed of a night than he. So every night there was a struggle to see who shottld get into the kennel first. If the dog got in he showed his teeth, and the Other had to look for other lodgings; if! the pijr &ined posession, the nog could ! not turn him out, but waited f r revenge next time One evening it was very boisterous, the sea was running high, and it was raining very hard. The pig was slipping and tumbling about the decks; at length it j was so unpleasant that he thought the J best thing he could do was to go and se- I cure his berth f r the night, though it j wanted a good time to dusk. But when 1 he came to the kennel, there was Toby safe ly housed ; he had bad the same idea as to the state of the weather as the pig. "Un-.ph! umph !" grunted piggy, as he looked up to the black sky ; but Toby did not offer to move. At last the pig seemed to give it up, and took a turn as if to see When he might find a warm corner for the night. Presently he went to that part 1 of the vessel where the tin plate was lying that they ate their victuals off. He took the plate in his mouth, and carried it to j the part of the deck where the dog could 1 see it, but some dfstance from the kennel ; then, turning his tail toward tne dog, he J began to make a noise as if ne was eating out of the plate. " What j " thinks Toby, " has piegv got Ome po', itoea there ? and he pricked up up his ears and looked hard toward the plate. "Champ! champ!" coes the pie, and down goes his mouth to the plate again, Toby can stand this no longer victuals ! and he not there ! Out he ran, and thrust ing the pig on one side, pushed his cold nose into the empty plate. The pig turned tail in a twinkling, and before Toby knew whether there was any meat in the plate or not, he was snug in the kennel, lauching at Toby's simplicity.Children's Pic ture Book. Heaves in Horses. In the " Modern Horse Doctor," by Dadd, the direct causes of heaves, or brokenwind, are imputed to over-exertion and indigestion. If the general health of the animal can be improved, a mitigation of the particular ailment will result, and, possibly, in some cases, a cure. The first I nt to be obtained la a restoration of the digestive functions, and for this purpose aromatic tonics are given, professionally denominated "tincture of aromatic sulphuric acid," one drachm, in a pint of water, night and morning. At the same time the horse is subjected to a course of alterative medicines, compounded of powdered ginger, gentian, sulphur, salt, cream of tartar, charcoal, licorice, elecampaine, caraway seeds and balm of Gilead buds, chopped fine equal parts of each. Mix with the food one ounce of this compound every night. While under the influence of this preparation severe exercise or hard and protracted labor should be avoided ! but this does not necessarily imply total inaction. As improvement in condition manifests itself, the aromatic tincture may be given more sparingly and soon be omitted entirely, and the alterative medicines be diminished half, restricting i, to half an ounce, night and morning. Water from a bucket regularly three times each day, and if a gormandizer of fxd, muzzle the animal, except at regular feeding times. A flight infusion of garlic Into the food, chopped fine, daily, is reputed to produce paying results. An entire cure ot a fully pronounced case of heaves is not readily accomplished by any mode of treatment, if, indeed, such a case be cureable at all. Sweeping Carpet. Sweeping carpets too often wears them out rapidly. It is obvious to any one that a brisk, daily brushing over the whole surface must wear away and carry off more wooly particles than the occasional stepping of feet during the day without the rubbing and scraping given by the broom. To allow aand and crit to accumulate on the surface, aud to become id j ground into the fibers by the pressure of sole-leather is, however, worse than sweep ing, i ney snnuld, therefore, be always kept clet n. Men who object to large carpet bills ßhould provide themselves with slippers, and not come in with muddy boots. It is a matter of economy with them to pay $2 or $3 in the purchase of 6lippers, rather than a hundred or two for ingrain and brussels. This perhaps would be a stonger consideration with some, and exert a more controlling influence, than frequent sharp reproofs from the mistress 01 me inierier. There are ditrercnt ways of sweeping carpets. The most objectionable is performed as billows- The operator first nlaeea the broom perpendicularly upon the floor; then with a quick, thrusting moUotj (ha !..wer part Is pushed forwarai-.n 1

thrown upwards, earring the dust with

it in large clouds, until the room is filled with it. The brush of the broom, by frequent use, thus becomes bent, somewhat in the form of a hook, at. the same time it gradually broken off" and worn 0 it. The dust which fills the air settles upon chairs, tables, bureaus, writing desks, cases of books, picture-frames, clocks, maps, looking-glasses, etc. The process thus consists virtually in merely elevating a stratum of dust from the carpet and placing it on all t lese different articles oj fiuniture. After s me minutes the duMer passes around and the stratum is removed to its original position, on the floor, thus making a sort of perpetual motion- resembling the great circulation of moisture from the earth to clouds, and from clouds in rain back to earth again. A much br tter way of performing the work is to place the broom upon the c irpet in an inclined position, with the handle inclining forwards; drawing it quickly over the surface in this position, and scarcely raising it from the floor, will prevent the rising of but very little dust. In order to do the work effectually, however, the motion should not be (TOD. by long strokes, but by a quick succession of short ones. It would be worth fifty dollars to any housekeeper who does not understand the business, to see these two modes distinctly performed. By the former or thrusting mode, the coars r dirt, or that which does not rise in the air, is shot ahead several feet, and spread over a large surface. By the latter or drawing mode, it is kept more compactly together, something like the winrowi of hay in a meadow. The broom, instead of being bent around like a hook is kept straight and smooth, and lasts much longer. In libraries, cabinets, etc., where dust might badly injure or wholly spoil the specimens and books, it is better to procure a patent carpet-sweeper, merelv using a broom or brush to clean out the corners and sides. Rcgit-r of Rurid Affair. Bo rend the Weak Cattle. Some farmers are not as careful as their ! true interests require them to be in separating weak stock from the strong and aggressive when the season of storms and feeding comes round. In most herds embracing any considerable number, will be . found some animals diminutive in size and : timid in proportion to their physical weakness, which the more vigofotu attack whenever a modest effort is made to share i In the food supplied. They are hooked here and chased there by the strong, and should enlist the care and sympathy of J their owner. It w Al pay well to provide a separate inclosure for such animals till I sufficiently developed to hold their own, at feeding ;inie, or, till they are rendered j fit to be disposed of in eome ot'ier .way to advantage. If left to shirk for themselves , they will be likely to go under before j spring, or should they winter through they j will be in a condition so exhausted as to j render them next to valueless for that i season. Exchan?e. FACTS AM) FIGURES. CaxXda has 30,100 militiamen. New Yoke contains 100,000 Spaniards. Theue has not been an execution in Maine since 188& A noRSE in Coventry, Vt., recently died at the ripe age of thirty RoTnscnii.n commenced his will, an enormous parchment volume, iu 1848. On a recent Sunday 2,218 children attended the Bethel Sunday School, in Cincinnati. Mramor, Conn., has only four policemen. The chief gets $1,000 a vear, and the others $92& Twice as many people pay income tax in Massachusetts as in all the rest of New England. Four Vermont clergymen recently killed six deer in a four days' hunt in the Adirondacks Some clocks recently imported into New York contained $:J00,000 worth of shawls concealed inside. The other evening Bishop Keeler told a Boston audience that he traveled two years in Europe on $30. Harvard College was named after John Harvard, who. in UVAH. lf. to t.hp j College 570 and a library of over 300 books. The other day, f ur young Philadelphians were imprisoned for beating a father for Hogging his son, their companion. General McClellan holds positions at present which give him from fifteen to eighteen thousand dollars a year income. A Mr. Brown, an old peddler of apples on St. Louis ferry boats, has had o0,000 lett him by a deceased relative in Ireland. The tower in the Circular church in Charleston, S. C, has been haunted by ghosts for three years past. They proved to be owl 8. Velocji'eoes are so common in Paris, in the evrr ing, that the police compel the riders to ahMx lamps to them to prevent accidents. A druggist in Worcester has received from Sacramento an order for medicine from a numbered prescription of several years ago. The Mississippi river was navigable to St. Paul, this year, two hundred and fifty eight days, the longest period known in one year. The New Jersey Insane Asylum at Trenton, has 51S inmates. One sixth are paying patients, and five-sixths are supported by taxation. Ai'sthia pays its diplomatic agents at Parh $45,000; at London, $12.000 ; St, Petersburg, $83,000 ; Koine, $28,000 ; and so gradually down to Washington, $6,500. Philadelphia's largest Protestant Sunday School is the Fifth Baptist, the Bethany Mission alone excepted. It was organized in 1811$, and numbers 1,900 scholars. A few nights ago a Kansas City somnambulist, walked abroad in his nightshirt, until, stepping into a snow drift, the sudden cold awoke him. One of Josh Billings' maxims: " Rise earlv ; work hard an late ; live on what you kan't sell ; give nothing away; and if you don't die rich and go tothedevil, you may sue me for damages." The Mormons, in twenty years, have built up 86 towns, 100 churches, and 120 school-houses. During that period the emigration from Europe has been oO.OOO, and from the old States, 24,000. The Awerioin Agriculturist gives the following summary of the things necessary in fattening pork economically : A good breed ; good housing ; early fattening ; a variety of food ; regular feeding three times a day. Eleven young thieves were Furprised and captured by the police in their den no larger than a good sized hog pen, aad little better on Keene street. Milwaukee, a few nights since. They were recounting their exploits when captured. From the Lutheran Almanac, for 18G9, recently issued, we learn that this denomination now has 1,800 ninibters, 8,183 houRes of worship, 51 synods, and nearly 400,000 communicants There are 24 re ligious periodicals. 11 English, 10 German, 2 Swedish, and 1 Norwegian : 1.1 theoI ).Lifi....l -i 1 f 11 O -. . 1. .... 1 R'i.ni nciuiHTi! II-!", it riuiii-B, o gnii'iiio for females, 13 academies, 12 orphan houses, hetJdei other eleemosynary and b mevolent institutions. In the Lutheran Church the Qoapel is preached In English, German, Swedish, Norwegian. Bohemian, and In several HclavUh Uajopts

The Care of Babies.

The only valuable work we ever saw on infancy was written by a man, Andrew Combe of Scotland, a close observer, a s und thinker, and a learned physiologist. We shall never forget how ternpest-tosaed we were when we first found ourselves the happy possessor of a male child without the slightest knowledge of what to do for his comfort and protection. An ignorant nurse fidgeted round the room day and night, sang melancholy ditties, :ind rocked vehemently, while the child cried continually with a loud voice, and we wept, prayed and phikwophta 1 by turns. Reasoning on general principles, we at last came to the conclusion that inasmuch as the child was strong and vigorous, there must, be some mistake on the part of the nurse that he was not quiet and comfortable, we fortified ourselves in that opinion by a fathful reading of what Mr. (Jomhe had to say on babies in general. The result of this consideration of his opinions was a prompt revolution in the whole nursery department, and a transfer of pain from the baby to the nurse, who stood humbled and chagrined as she saw her time-honored system summarily set aside the pins, paiegoric, catnip and cradle driven out while pure air, sunlight, common-sense walked in. Oh ! what f-ighs, what groans, what doubtful shakings of the head, what suppressed laughter and whisperings in the hall, we heard during the first few daya after the inauguration of that dynasty of health, happiness and rest to that new-born soul. When the three hours' cry began that day, which ancient dames assured us was a custom that had been faithfully kept by all the sons of Adam from time immemorial, we ordered the little sufferer to be promptly stripped to the skin and put in a warm bath. That brought instant relief, after which he wat dressed in a few light garments hung ou the ihooldera, with no swaddling bands, no pressure on the lungs or bowels, and laid down to sleep. He was fed (according to Combe) every two hours by day, and but once during the night. After that wc had peace, though eternal vigilance on our part was its price. The custom of pinning babies up as tight as a drum is bot u cruel anil absurd. e asked the antiquarian who tortured our hrst-born in that way why she did it "The bones of young babies are so soft, and their flesh so tender," said she, 14 that they arc in constant danirer of dissolutioi unless tightly pinioned together." We " thed her fears by pointing to the fact that colts and calves, puppies and kittens, all lived and tl mrished without bandages, and for the race we s iid we would make the experiment on one of the human family. If babiei are regularly fed, bathed and comfortably dressed, aiu m a pure at mos phero. they will be quiet and healthy. .7'.. ,. ( btanton. She Treetud. BT Josh BILUNOa, Tkeeti ds are the onlv tuds ov aul the tud family who kau klime a tree. How they do it iz an unfathomable mys tery almost equal to the milk in the koker nut. Philosophers aul agree that the milk is put into the koker nut, and then the hole If neatly plugged up, but who the fellow il who dur. it, the philosophers are hont-t enough, for a wonder, to admit they kant tell I am glad there is ore man living who i smart enufl tew beat the philosophers, for they are alwus a sticking their olfaktory into everything, and then make themselvts sick for a week, giving reasons for things they don't understand. I am afraid it will go hard with the Philosophen in the day ov judgment. When a treetud is on a tree, they conform tew the customs ov the trees, looking and ackting just like the tree. This shows good breeding, if nothing more. Treetuds are good stiddy singers, but they hav rather more musik than melody ; their voices have been cultivated tew mutch ; cultivashun spiles melody for me ; I simply reapekt art, but I worship and weep with natur. About all that kan be said of these insekts iz, that they are harmless parasites, whose chief ambishun la tew klime a tree, and be mistaken for a part ov it. Here naturally ends the treetud. Advice lo the Married. ZcHOKKK, in one of Iiis tales, gives the following excellent advice. In the P.rst solitary hour after the ceremony, take the bridegroom and demand a solemn vow of Lim and give him a vow in return. Promise each other, facretlly, never, not even in jet, to wrangle with each other never to bandy words or to indulge in the least ill humor. Never I say. never ! Wrangling in jest, and putting on an air of ill-humor niearly to tease, becomes earnest by practice. Mark that ! Next, promise aach other sincerely and solemnly, never to keep a secret from each other, under whatever pretext, and whatever eXCUM it might be. You must continually, and every moment, see clearly into each other's bosom. Even when one of you has committed a fault, wait not an instant, but confess it. And a.s you keep nothing from each other, so, on the contrary, preserve the privacies of your house, marriage state, and heart, from father, mother, sister, brother, aunt, and all the world. Yen two, wi h Qod'a help, build vour own quiet world. K?ery third or fourth one you draw into it with you will form a party and itand between you two. That should never be. Promise this to each other, Remember the vow nt uch temptation. You will find your account in it. Y'our souls will grow, as it were, to each other, and at las', will become as one. Ah, if many a pair had, on their marriage day, known this teeret, how iminy n marringe were happier than, alas, UJ lire ! HnfTdlo. PRRRHN who have never seen the v:ist herds of buffalo moving l-mi have but little conception ot the almost irresistible power ofanen a living mass, and the difficulty of turning of breaking the herd when once it is in motion ou a certain course. The countless thousands press forward, overwhelming any but the strongest barrier. Wagons have been overturned in this way, and teamsters have saved themselves and the stock only by flight. An army officer who with a strong force crossed the Plains by the Smoky Hill route in 186.'' was forced to "corral" his train of wagont and order his men to fire volleys into a herd which threatened to march over his train. This is, however, infrequent. A party may be on the Plains, or even on the BtufiÜO Range, for years, and never see it; still such inMances have occurred. I have frequently been amused at the calculations made by wise old hunters whom one finds on the Range. They settle within a million or so the exact number of buffalo that are yet wandering about. One old fellow is convinced that there is something like seventeen millions, and that this is the eaact number required to keep up the present stock. The buffalo is certainly decreasing since 1S58. They have been pressed more than a hundred miles west in Kansas and Nebraska. They no longer range up to the PI ttte la t'' lt. at numbers tli .t formerly visited that stream ; and the IiwMhps are ever bringing forward the fact, in their pow wows with commissioner.--, that soon the buffalo will bo gone, and tha red brother must keep peace with the white nr. ' .'nt bfa " snottf.! bnffp.ln " I ndl n ror

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