Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — Watering Horses. [ARTICLE]

Watering Horses.

A work horse watered regularly three times a day can safely be allowed to drink as much as he wishes,-if the water be good and of moderate temperature. If the horse seems very thirsty and disposed to drink rapidly and in large quantitiy, it is well to check him after drinking a little, allowing him to slack his thirst by several separate draughts rather than by one. A horse much heated should not be allowed to drink at will. When it can be done conveniently, the comfort of the horses will be increased by having water in the field and giving them drink once or twice during each half day in hot weather. Several farmers who have tried it epeak highly of the plan of stirring a little oat or com meal in the water designed for work horses. It is better to do this a few hours before the water is to W used. Thus, in the morning, the meal may be stirred in water given the horse at noon. Care should be taken to keep the vessels used from becoming sour. A commotion was observed recently in a farmer’s wagon and a citizen advanced to discover that the farmer and his wife were having a regular old-fash-ioned domestic fight in the bottom of the wagon, while the horses were eating grass over the curb-stones. " “Here—what’s to pay?” shouted the citizen, as he climbed upon the wheel. “Fightin’!” gasped the woman, whose head was half buried in the straw. The farmer made no reply. His head was under the seat, one leg over the wagon-box, and he was clawing the air like a man whose lungs wanted more air.

“I should think you’d wait till you get outside the city to engage in such disgraceful conduct,” continued the citizen. “I know we orter,” replied the woman as she sat up, “but when I found six plugs of tobacco, a new dime novel and a pack of keerds in his bind pocket, and remembered how I had waited six months for a kaliker dress, I riz right up and tackled him on the spot I eouldrvt wait a moment then, mister, but now if you’ll check up that nigh boss I’ll drive along and renew the combat beyond the toll-gate!” , Lord Deas had some strawberries sent into town recently from his estate of Pittendreich. His lordship had fixed his eve upon two particularly large ones in a basket The next time he saw the basket they were gone. He enquired of his butler what had become of them, and the butler thinking he was accused of abstracting the strawberries, replied somewhat sharply to his lordship. A quarrel took place, and the butler got his leave. The butler brought an action against his lordship in the Small Debt Court for wages ana board wages. His lordship sent a message to the SheriffSubstitute to postpone the case till he could get off the bench and appear in person to defend it The Sheriff agreed, and his lordship duly appeared and pled his own case so successfiilly that the Sheriff assoilzied him from the action, and did not even give the butler the benefit of tlie wages he had earned up to the date of the dismissal. It turned out that the favorite strawberries had been appropriated by Lady Deas and her daughter. Dublin Bay.—To the great majority of English tourists the only gate of approach to the city is a water gate; Of Dublin Bay and its beauties so much has , been written and so many loose comparisons hazarded with Naples, Lisoon. Palermo, Bio Janeiro. New York and .Qther seaside we may pass them over as a matter of course. Still it is only bare justice to remark that to steam into Kingstown Harbor, with the morning mm lighting up the ciestaof the Dublin ana Wicklow Mountains, and stretching a silvery haze on sea and land as the mist slowly lifts off. and the shore line is seen dotted with buildings around a sweep of some ten or twelve miles, is to enjoy one of he most striking bits of bay scenery to be had any I

“Give me neither poverty nor riches,” said Agar: and this will ever be the prayer of the wise. Our incomes should belike bur shoes, 1f too small they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they wiib cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth after. all is a relative ‘thing, since he that has little and wants less, is richer than he that has much and wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was to small for Alexander. The marked superority of women over men is on few points more remarkable than in their superior powers of smelling and tasting. A woman will detect, the faintest odor of tobacco when a man, even though a non-smoker, often fails to discover any symptom of it As with smell so with taste. Women are Aarvelously acute and fastidious in the matter of sauces and all flavoring ingredienta