Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer. Union. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA-

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —The farrier, may alow but he is shoer. < _j —The man who advertises means business. —“lrony” of the iaw—Sentencing a blacksmith for “forgery.” —Patience is something that every other person should possess. —lt does not take half as long to make a wound as to heal one. —ls not a detective in the Uflited States Coinage Bureau a mini's spy. —The Turks said the Russians were a very repulsive set, and they ought to know. —To get his feet wet and be bitten by mosquitos, it is not necessary for a man to go fishing. —A physician should never look grave in presence of his patients. It is cruelly suggestive. —The most treacherous memory in the world belongs to the young man with a new watch. —We have heard of a very precise minister who always called salvation Sarqhvation.— Steubenville Herald. ‘ —When a man believes that the world cannot get along without him, it is time for nim to die.— N. O. Picayune. —A mule was killed out West the other day by a stroke of lightning. He kicked against it, but the lightning was too quick for him. —A clock is about the only thing that can run on “ tick,” and give satisfaction to itself and every one else.— Salem ( Mass ,) Sunbeam. —There is one doctor to every six hundred people in the United States. “Into the jaws of death rode the six hundred.”— Boston Com. Bulletin. —A man may not be able to keep his balance on a tight rope, but if he keeps it in the bank “it’s greatly to his credit”— Hackensack (N. J.) Republican. —The Bank of France has in its office an invisible camera, which is used to take the portraits of suspicious persons while they are engaged in conversation with the oashier. —lt is asserted by a Georgia paper that a young lady in Wilkes County, that State, born blind, oan distinguish colors by the touch. Cases of the same sort have been known before. —A young man went into a restaurant the other day, and, remarking that “Time is money,” he added that, as he had a half-hour to spare, if the proprietor was willing, he’d take it out io pie. —That was not inapt advice given by a Deacon at Gil City to a young minister, who asked if he thought oneshould preach more than half an hour. “Well, that depends on whether after half-an-hour’s boring he strike’s ile.” —The Watertown Dispatch says that an editorial room is not properly furnished without agood dictionary. That article of furniture does come in handy to hurl at exchange tramps, literary agent and poets of the springtime.— N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. —A young man, who had had some verses anent spring rejected by the editor of the Stockton Bugle, called at the office of that paper on Thursday last, and killed the editor. This is not absolutely true, but it is a little variation upon the orthodox lie, which would end the other way. — San Francisco Wasp. —A lady with more money than learning called at a jewelry shop recently and asked to see their solitaire diamond rings. A tray of singlestone rings was shown to her. She looked them over carefully, and at last selected one, “ That is a very pretty stone,” she said, “and if you will assure me that it is a solitaire I will take it.” —When a man tells you with a knowing wink that he has something to say in your private ear, you may be sure that it is a bit of unworthy gossip which will do neither of you any good. Refuse to listen to him, and put your objection on high moral and patriotic ground. You can say that it is a breach of the lgw of Moses and of the law of the State to go privateering. N. Y. Herald. —ln a tavern in Calcutta there is a notice hung on the walls, “ Guests are requested not to beat the waiters and servants.” This recalls the supplication in a London inn, “Dp not kiss the servants on the stairs; it makes them drop the dishes,” and the solemn admonition printed and stuck on the doors of the only “hotel” in Blue Dog Gulch, Arizona, “ Gentlemen are earnestly requested to remove their boots before retiring. —An ''absent-minded doctor was called to see a two-vear-old child who had had convulsions. He sat in a reverie for a while, and then, announcing that the patient suffered from nervous prostration'—the fashionable disease of the day—wrote a long prescription, with the following directions: “ Avoid care and occupation of every kind. Leave off tea and coffee; seek diversion at the theater and in travel; smoke moderately.”— Frank Leslie's Ladies' Journal. * —lt has been discovered by one of those scientific geniuses, who are always finding out things that no one wants to know of, that every adult man has fourteen hundred square feet of lungs; or, rather, the muepus membrane lining the air-cells of the lungs, if spread upon a smooth, plain surface, would cover an extent of fourteen hundred square feet Or, a man might cut up his membrane into strips, about the size of driving-reins, and walk against his lungs in a foot-matoh, twenty-four laps of lung to the mile.— N. 0. Picayune. Life changes its aspect as we grow old. In our young days we are compelled to give the closest attention to the rule of three. As we advance in years, however, things simplify themselves in « very mysterious way, and if we are married we generally find that the rule of one is about all we can submit to.— Exchange. Ratiocination: Doctor—Did you take that bottle of medicine to old Mrs. Gambidge’sP—because it was very import -’ ' Surgery Boy- “ Oh, yessir. And T m pretty sure she took, it, sir!” Doctor (after a pause)—"What do you mean by that, sirP” Surgery Boy—“ Well, 1 see the shutters up at the ’ouse as I passed this mornin', sir!” Punch. .... yfggf-yjiapfessTonjrafe TasTingriw tEe" schoolmaster said when he introduced himself to tire new school by flogging nil bauds.— Boston Transcript.

(JULY AH INSECT. Only an insect; yet I know It f«lt thrnuolisnl'a golden (low, Auil thn (wort morning uuuio it glad With all the little heart it had. It law the nhadowH move: It knew The gnu* blades glittered, wet with dew; And uayly o'er the ground it went; It had it* fullnc.a of content. Borne dainty monel then it spied. < And for the treaimre turned: aside; Then, laden with it* little spoil, Hack to itn neat began to toiL An inneot formed of larger frame. Called man. along the pathway came, A ruthless (hot aaide he thrust. And ground the beetle in the dust. Perchnnce no living being mimed The life that there ceased to exist; Pcrohanoo the pamive creature knew No wrong, nor telt the deed undue; Yet ita amall share of life was given By the same Hand that orders Heaven; ’ I’waa lor no othof power to any, Or should it go, or should it stay. —llmry Terrell, in AT. Y. Keening Poet. TWO FISHERS. One morning, when spring was in her teens— A morn to a poet's wishing. All tinted in dolioate pinks and greens— Mias Bessie and 1 went fishing. I in my rough and easy clothes. With my l'aoe at the sun tan’B mercy; Bhc with her hat tipped down tri her nose, And her nose tipped—vice versa. I with my rod, my reel and my hooks. And a hamper for lunching recesses; She with the bait of her comely looks. And the Heine of her golden tresses. So we sat us down on the sunny dike. Where the white pond-lilies teeter; And 1 went to fishing like quaint olddko. And she like Simon Peter. All the noon I lay in the light of,her eyes. And dreamily watched and waited; But the fish were cunning, and would-not rise. And the baiter alone was baited. And when the time for departure came. My bag hung fiat as a flounder; But Bessie had neatly botiked her game— A hundred-and-fifty-pounder. —Harper's Weekly.

IN A LEATHER BAG.

“I will'not wait another day,” said Miss Norfolk-Stanley—a stout, middleaged lady, with a rubicund countenance, a juvenile straw hat perched on the bridge of her nose, and many onyx beads wound about her throat. “Bow-wow,” responded her little dog Bijou. Nephew Dick, presumptive heir of the lady, had failed to meet her at Turin, as agreed, and she had been forced to wait twenty-four hours, without result. She was deeply incensed, as became a British spinster with a neat property in Derbyshire, and funds in Turkish and Indian loans. The bag was produced by the maid. It was a large bag of black leather. Bijou eyed it apprehensively, yet with resignation. The tiny terrier, with eyes like shining beads, an inquisitive nose and black body, with a patch of soft velvet brown on breast and paws, jumped into the outside pocket of this traveling mansion, and submitted to having the strap carefully adjusted over his prison in suob a manner as allowed a breathing space. Bijou was smuggled on board trains; the maid was not trusted with the bag in her third-class seat, and it was a point of economy with his mistress not to pay for a dog’s ticket in her own first-class carriage. Miss Norfolk-Stanley took the bag herself, thus exciting the interest of keen-eyed birds of prey hovering about in scent of jewel cases and bags carried by the English lady traveler. At frontiers the pet was popped under his mistress’ mantle, while the maid took the bag to the Custom-House officer for iuspeetion; then the inmate was successfully restored. Bijou remained as silent as a mouse in the pocket for hours, and resisted the most tempting inducements to bark at startling noises. He knew full well that when the enemy had deserted the field his mistress would take him-out of the dismal captivity. Bijou’s fur stood on end, at the approach of a guard, by instinct. Miss Norfolk-Stanley and her maid appeared on the platform of the Turin depot at nine o’clock in the morning. Nephew Dick would find the birds flown when he saw fit to grace the Piedmontese capital with his presence. Bijou was invisible to the most penetrating eye, curled up in the bag. “Give me a ladies’ carriage, and alone if possible,” said Miss NorfolkStanley to a smiling official, with a persuasive exchange of francs from palm to palm. The smiling official bowed, and soon the lady was installed in a vacant carriage. “You shall come out, pet, if we are loft alone,!’ she whispered, unfastening the strap over tho pocket of tho bag as it rested on her knee. Bijou thrust out his little black head, reoonnoiterd the premises, and discreetly withdrew from sight again. The Turin depot is one of the most amusing fields of observation in Europe. Miss Norfolk-Stanlev gazed out on the hurrying throng with that selfish complacency peouliar to the traveler who has already secured a good seat in a Continental railway carriage. She held an old-fashioned theory that, deprived of the escort of Nephew Dick, a ladies’ carriage was the safest place for herself. That she was alone in this opinion was speedily revealed by the fact of every other woman in the crowd bestowing her person in the conveyances adjacent, rather than submit to the awful possibility of a troop-of children for hburs. Bijou’s mistress was an old traveler; Experience had made her timid and suspicious. She read all the robberies in English and foreign newspapers, and looked dubiously at mankind of the tourist species. Who were these men? Why did they observe borP A ladies’ carriage for her, if you please, and not one where each man in the corner may prove an assassin and a thief if a favorable opportunity offers. She had learnea the words “Help!” and “Thieves! 1 ” in six languages, for emergencies. Two ladies paused at the door of the carriage. The smiling official, in remembrance of Miss Norfolk-Stanley’s bribe, resisted their efforts to enter, and led them elsewhore. They were both women of medium height, in long water-proof cloaks, their heads enveloped in blue veils, which concealed their faces. Miss Norfolk-Stanley saw a long, yellow hand, with thin fingers peouliarly talon-like, stretched forth to turn tho handle of be? carriage door. The hand belonged to the first woman, and she experienced a strange sense of relief when it was again withdrawn, and the owner passed on. Why? Because Bijou could caper about at liberty if she retained the carriage alone. She assured herself this was the sole reason for dreading the yellow hand, and the shiver which crept over her at sight of it. This danger surmounted, there remained one more to be overcome be-* fore Bijou and his mistress could breathe freely: The surly guard jumped on .ibturtup, demanding tickets.. The surly guard gave and no quartan . Hu expression of" coufitenance was saturnine, his gray mustache curled upward in a truly*savage wan-

ner, and his cap was r pressed down over a deeply-wrinkled forehead. He, was always in a hurry, and his life was rendered' burdensome hy the questions of nervous travelers. He eyed Miss Norfolk-Stanley sharply—aole occupant'or the ladies’ carriage, sitting with a leather bag carefully held upright on her knee. “ You have no dog?” demahded the surly guard, peering abont on the floor, suspiciously. “ Certainly not,” said Miss NorfolkStanley, blushing at the fib which she uttered in alarm for her pet. Then the surly guard banged tho door, departed, and the train actually started at last. Bijou skipped put of his prison, executed a wild but barkless dance over the seats, stood on his hindlegs with great apparent enjoyment, ate a biscuit, and was refreshed with water from the oup of his own tiny traveling flask. The train wended its way toward the Alps—-one by one snow peaks detached themselves from the mountain rampart dividing France and Italy, and stood out boldly against the blue sky; the atmosphere grew keen. Down in the valleys weather-beaten little hamlets were huddled together in a cluster ofsteep roofs; the river foamed in silvery ripples; the peasants worked in the blooming fields. Within the railway carriage Miss Norfolk-Stanley indulged in her own meditations, and Bijou capered about at pleasure. The lady made her plans, with slightly-com-pressed lips. She would go to Paris, and thence direct to London. Nephew Dick might well look to himself! The train paused. Hi, Bijou! Miss Norfolk-Stanley had scarcely time to restore her pet to the bag pocket when the opposite door flew open, and the surly guard thrust in his head. Her heart fajled her. If the surly guard had seen Bijou, he had the right to carry the dog off in triumph to the baggage van, and impose on herself the ignominy of ’ a fine. Instead, he explained that two ladies must be admitted, as the cigar smoke of their carriage made them ill. Again that long, yellow hand groped upward for the door hahdle, and the two women in cloaks invaded Miss Ncrfolk-Stanley’s territory. She resigned herself, with a sigh, to the inevitable. After all, these ladies were only a trifle peculiar and foreign-looking, mere harmless fellowcreatures, and Bijou had already enjoyed two hours of freedom. Miss Norfolk-Stanley’s first impulse was to throw herself on their mercy to the extent of releasing her dog. In travel she had never yet met another woman who did not assist in smuggling Bijou with the delight in contraband warfare of any kind peculiar to the sex. A second glance at those veiled andmuffied, figures deterred her. The strangers, with a murmured apology in French for the intrusion, sank into their places at the other exremity of the carriage and remained as silent as statues. They carried no bags or parcels of any kind. The yellow hand produced a smelling-bottle of cut steel, and a pungent odor diffused itself gradually, as the windows were closed to exclude the smoke. Now the tunnels were gained which form the threshold of Mont Cenis on the Italian side, and which are immeasurably more black and oppressive. A rush of steam, a shriek of the locomotive, and the train was engulfed in tlie first of the three long tunnels. The gas burned in a tiny star in the roof of the carriage. Horrible darkness and dense smoke, like an opaque wall against the window-sash! Bijou’s mistress unfastened her collar, and sought her fan. At the other end of the carriage the yellow hand was deftly opening the owner’s cloak, while a pair of glittering eyes were turned on the unconscious Miss Norfolk-Stanley from the folds of the veil. The smelling bottle of cut steel had vanished. A rush of steam, a shriek of the locomotive, and the train plunged into the second tunnel. Behold the companion of the traveler vvith yellow hands quietly unfastening her cloak and producing ller smelling-bottle, this one a slender vial of colorless glass, which she retained between her fingers instead of using. A rush of steam, a shriek of the locomotive, and the train passed into the third tunnel. Silence reigned in the ladies’ carriage. After this there was a pause, and Miss Norfolk-Stanley opened her window to inhale the pure mountain air, while each link of the train was tested before the trial of the great tunnel. Then Mont Cenis opened that great mouth and received the human freight, the feeble atoms of an hour, into its rooky heart. Thirty minutes! Miss Norfolk-Stanley opened her watch. Much may happen in thirty minutes. She had turned to the window, which had been again closed, when her head was seized, a nervous hand was pressed over her mouth, she was foroea to inhale chloroform, and a heavy cloak enveloped her, effectually stifling the faint cry, scarcely more than a sigh, which escaped her. Tne victim speedily lost consciousness, and the leather bag rolled from her lap to the floor. BijoU fell on his head. Astonished at such treatment, he crept out of his pocket—of which the strap had not been refastened when the surly guard brought the other occupants of the carriage so unexpectedly —and hid beneath the fdlds of his mistress’ dress. Mark the wisdom of this little dog, and explain it by any law, short of reason, actual presence of mind, if yon can. He was afraid, and concealed himself, trembling in everv limb. He knew something dreadful had happened. The two women, divested of their cloaks, stood over Miss Norfolk-Stan-ley. Much can be done in thirty minutes of outer darkness, lost in the heart of Mont Cenis. “Do not kill her. Discovery would be awkward,” whispered the elder, a keen, yellow face appearing out of the veil which had previously concealed it. Her accomplice removed the bottle from the nostrils of Miss Norfolk-Stan-ley, and lifted the cloak from her face. The latter did not move. Then the yellow claws took the watch and chain, rings, probed every pocket, nimbly sifted the contents of the rack above for valuables, and raised the leather bag, Bijou’s house, in hopes of its containing a jewel boy. “ Now open the other The cairiage must not smell of chloroform when we reaoh Modane. I will give her another dose before throwing away the bottle.” "It was such a rare chance! Only if we should be detected at the frontier!” murmured the younger woman. “ Attend, Iha Chore; I have planned all.” £«|Mjted the elder, with an evil smile. “ Sne will recover, bo stupid whefr w# arrive at the French CustomHouse, and wait for her maid. Roll together the cloaks and veils in this canvas cover; our" dresses ’and ' hats have not been seen on the train. When we descend, I join Adolphe, and lean on his arm; you go with the boys, and

speak German. We no longer know k eaoh other. You take the Geneva rojkte, and I journey to Macon. There is plenty of time. Here, put back her purse, containing a little silver.” Daylight at last! Bijou thrust out bis nose from the edge of his mistress’ robe. The light reassured him. Such . a volley of sharp, piercing barks became audible in the ladies’ carriage as could only emanate from the throat of an irate terrier. The two women were confused. At first they supposed the dog was barking in an adjacent carriage. How could a living creature of any sort be oonoealed in their own, when every article of Miss NorfolkStanley’s had been searohed? Bijou barked with frantic zeal, and sprang toward the open window, redoubling his clamor. Then the older woman saw him, darted forward, and seized him. The terrible yellow hand closed abont Bijou’s neck; she lifted and prepared to fling him out of the window. Biiou’s silky little body landed on the ledge of the sash just as the surly guard appeared, who was walking along the outer railing or platform, in response to that shrill volley of barks. What! a dog in the ladies’ carriage, after all? Aha! one must see about it! The surly guard caught Bijou in his hands; eads appeared at neighboring windows. The poor little beast whimpered, licked the guard’s face in a propitiatory manner, and looked at him with the most agonized canine intelligence. A dog in the ladies’ carriage! Moreover, flung out the window by a vengeful hand! One glance from his point of vantage on the step revealed the truth to the surly guard. Miss NorfolkStanley reposed in her corner in rigid insensibility, the cloak still about her; bags and cases were scattered on the floor; a faint scent of chloroform lingered. A very well-arranged plan, hinging on the train’s not pausing again until Modane was reached, when all traces of disorder would have been removed but for frustration by a vigilant little dog, so tiny as to be stowed away in the pocket of a leather bag. A group of those highly ornamental gensa’armes in cocked hats and brilliant uniforms who pose so gracefully at French and Italian railway stations were given employment in arresting the thieves. Miss Norfolk-Stanley came to a condition of confused consciousness, and was removed to a hotel under guidance of her frightened maid. Tho surly guard actually kept Bijou in his arms, and caressed the little dog instead of demanding his ticket Next evening Nephew Dick appeared at Modane in response to the maid’s telegram sent back to Turin. He had been delayed by reason of a robbery, in which he had lost both watch and pocket-book, on a night journey between Rome and Florence. He was disposed to suspect two gentlemen who had staid in the same hotel at Rome. In the years 1877 and 1878 a band of thieves waged war on the Continet, their connection extending from Stockholm to Naples: They appeared as ladies and gentlemen at leading hotels, and pursued everywhere the higher branches of the profession. Doubtless Miss Norfolk-Stanley and Nephew Dick were both their victims. The latter was speedily re-instated in his aunt’s favor by his ability displayed during the trial and conviction of the miserable women? Bijou has gone into honorable retirement in the country. His prejudices are respected. If he sees a railway and a moving train, he howls and runs away, in remembranceof the awful day when a cruel yellow hand seized and hurled him from’ the window as the ladies' carriage emerged from the Mont Cenis Tunnel.— Harper's Weekly.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A very singular item comes from Maine. A lady of Madrid, that State, was in a house which was struck by lightning. A valuable gold watch which she wore stopped at the time, and, although jewelers have repeated* ly examined it and pronounced it perfect in every particular, it cannot be made to move. It is so charged with elctricity that watchmakers say no part of it can ever be made to do duty if taken out and put into another set of works. —John Sanders was shot the other morning by a man named W. C. Edwards, while At work in his field in Union County, a few miles from Gaff-, ney City, S. C. Edwards passed the field the day before with an umbrella, and became enraged at Sanders for jeering him about using an umbrella to protect himself from the heat of the sun, and Edwards came back with his rifle and fired at Sanders, the ball entering his back and lodging in his bowels. He died the same evening. —Mr. Z. Bass, of Irwin County, caught recently a catfish, a squirrel and an alligator all upon the same hook at the same time. The fish probably caught the squirrel while swimming across the lake, and afterward caught and swallowed an alligator about a foot in length, and then found and swallowed the bait upon a set hook. {When a catfish starts out on a foraging expedition he will take in anything from a wheelbarrow to a saddle-blanket. Hawkimville (Go,) J Despatch. —John G. McCabe was drowned in Philadelphia several months ago. He wore an oilskin coat and high topboots. A man’s body similarly attired was subsequently found floating off Woodbury, and Mrs. McCabe, identifying it as that of her husband, had it brought to Philadelphia and buried. The other day another body in an oilskin coat and high top-boots was taken out of the water at Wilmington, and Mrs. McCabe, believing it to be her husband, has buried it by the side of the first one. —A curious case that has just come to light at North bridge, Mass., of the death of two persons and the expected death of two others, all in one family, from the effects of cider-drinking, will reinforce the arguments of those who condemn the practice. As Uearly as can be made out, the father, aged sixty, mother, fifty-six, and two sons, thirtyfive and thirty-one, have drunk since last fall between forty and fifty barrels of oider. The mother was taken with fits six weeks ago yesterday and died ‘the next Thursday. The youngest son was taken with fits three weeks ago and died on Thursday, and last Thursday the oldest son was taken with fits /like the others, and Friday night his physicians gave him up. The father is also in a very bad condition, “sees snakes” nearly every night, and frequently gets up in' the-night and runs about the house crying ** Fire” at the top of his voice, doubtless suffering from delirium tremens. All parties suffered greatly. No cause but the cider-drinking can be found.—»Spr*«yLovk knots should lie tied with a single beau .-tliarlford Journal,

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Ashes or saltpeter if applied in time will -hold £Bo onion maggot in check. —Dissolve glue in whisky, and you have it “ prepared” and ready to bottle and use. —Exterminate totally the first crop_ of potato bugs, and there will be no second crop. —To clean ivory ornaments rub them well with fresh butter, i. e., without salt, and place them thus in full sunshine. —When your hens havo the run in sumner they will find considerable lime; but it is just as well to have it near the hen house. —Ah Eastern farmer has used the following bone compost for twenty years with the best results, and states it is made as follows: Take one ton of dried bono (the finer the better), onefourth of an ox-cart load of good friable soil, free from sods and stones, and no matter how wet. Place a layer of soil and a layer of bone of about equal thickness upon each other (soil at the bottom) on a floor under oover, leaving a bushel or two of soil to cover; the heap. In forty-eight hours it will be too not to hold your hand in. T*et it remain to cool, which will begin in a week or ten* 1 days. Then shovel over the heap, thoroughly mixing bone and ’ soil. In a day or two it vv ill heat again. , Let it remain until it cools, then tnrow it over in the same manner as before. Throw over every ten days until all the moisture in the heap is exhausted and does not ferment. It is then ready for use. —The following bits of agricultural wisdom are taken from the lowa State Register: Do not plow or hoe beans when they are wet. In building, give free ventilation through the foundation walls. To raise corn—“ Plow deep, harrow well, plant early, then harrow till the corn is big enough to cultivate.” Chinch bugs have been observed this spring in some sections in considerable numbers. If the season should be dry they may prove injurious, at least to corn. Sweet cream should never be mixed with sour cream just before churning, as sweet cream is much longer in coming, and hence likely to lose itself in the buttermilk. Horses should be watered in the morning before they are*fed. A full drink of water immediately after being fed is a sure way of producing indigestion, if not inflammation. The earliest matured steer is the most profitable for the feeder, butcher and consumer, and the development and most rapid growtn of young cattle should be encouraged.

Watering Horses.

Although few persons pay proper attention to this department of stable management, yet a little reflection will prove of how much importance it is that the horse should be supplied with such water as is most palatable to him. Horses have a great aversion to what is termed hard water, and have been known to turn away from the filthy stuff found in the troughs of some of our stables. The water of wells and pumps is usually hard and possesses a degree of coldness not at all congenial to the animal. Pure water will never hurt a horse if given to him at proper times and in small quantities. The Enfliah grooms generally water from- a ucket three times daily. Water if fiven in this manner scarcely, if ever, pes barm; but let a horse be driven hard and then allow him to go to the trough and imbibe water ad libitum more than he actually needs, the same may prove injurious, and result in some disease known as “founder.” The latter clause is in accordance with the popular theories of the day, which are always open to argument. Hence we shall now examine into the merits of the case. We don’t believe one-half of the multitude of stories that are told about water “foundering horses;” in a great majority of cases the blame rests on the driver who, as a general rule, will be found to ,be rather fast. He has either over-driven or overworked the poor brute, or else has suffered him, when heated, to cool off Without the necessary care and attention, which should always be observed when animals are fatigued or perspiring freely. Hard usage, willful ncgl ict and wanton cruelty are more likely to produce disease than the “universal beverage,” so acceptable to the palate of a weary or thirsty horse. How often do we see a “ let” horse come into the stable all exhausted and “used up,” scarcely able to advance one limb before another. Examine into the facts and we shall find that the powers of the subject have, perhaps, been overtaxed. He has been driven too far, or at too rapid a rate for the present state of his constitution to enaure, and, perhaps, he has not had sufficient nourishment to repair the waste incidental to the living mechanism, under the states of rapid and protracted labor. "Hb not this enough to account for the used up condition? Is it not more rational to suppose that abuse of the respiratory organs and those of locomotion operates far more unfavorably on the horse than water? It is. But the driver must, if there be any blame rightly belonging to him, try to shift the same from nis shoulders, and therefore he avails himself of a popular error, “he drank too much water." Yet the individual has no means of ascertaining the precise quantity needed. We might say the same as regards horses used for any purpose, whose labors are very fatiguing. They come from their work, and, as soon as unharnessed, go to the water trough and imbibe from ono to three buckets without any bad effect. Some horses need more water than others; the kind of work, the temperature of the atmosphere, and the nature of the food, whether it be t cel or dry, all tend to diversify an animal’s want. The domesticated horse requires a bountiful supply of good water. His body is cqm posed of seventy-five per cent, of water, and he can no more exist without it than he can without food. Consider for a moment the condition of the. people of this city during the present sultry season: thirst almost amounts to a disease; to allay this they are continually imbibing water, rendered cold, hot, sour, sweet, or alkaline, justj as fancy dictates, qr as fashion prevails. Cold ices and other fixings are called into requisition to smother the fire of thirst that rages within. Everybody partakes freely, the young and the aged, the exhausted and the vigorous, the laborer exhausted by a hard day’s work, and the rich man of no work; each and all are doing their best to see the. .bottom of the pitoher, and to ; pitch their'" into' the watery element. Yet, after fill, Jiow few persons of any

bad effeota from this course! Inquire into the history of some of the acute maladies that are supposed to arise from water-drinking, and it will be found that many of the sufferers have a peculiarity of constitution which renders them amenable to the laws of ftrimogenlal disease, whioh although atont, under ordinary circumstances, can, by disturbing the life forces, through neglect, cruelty and overwork, be developed at almost any time of life. At this stage our argument, as regards what water “wifi not do,” ends. We have at the commencement admitted that under certain circumstances, if a horse be permitted to imbibe too muchdt may injure him, but this is rather a faulty assumption, because no one can ever determine the precise quantity suitable to meet the wants of all animals, and therefore the assumption falls to the ground. We shall bring this article to a termination by offering a few practical observations on watering horses. Horses should, in warm weather, be watered often, say two or throe quarts every three or four hours, provided they be at work. Should the norse be in a cool stable enjoying a sort of lazy life, he will require less. “ Strange* water, as it is termed, is not good for horses, yet where given in small quantities at a time seldom, if ever, does harm. Stagnant and fithy water is always more or less injurious, and should never be offered to so noble an animal as a horse. On the road a horse may be watered often, provided ho bave but a small quantity at a time; if he obtains more it occupies space in the abdominal cavity, and in rapid motion interferes with the physiological action of important organs. Watering immediately after a full meal is a practice highly censurable, for, at such times, water retards'digestion, and the food; instead of being digested, is apt to undergo a process of fermentation, and thus endanger the life of the animal. — Farmer's Review.

The New English Round Hats.

Two styles of round hats imported from London have found favor with young ladies. The first is the English turban, with a broad square low crown and.rolled close brim. This is liked in the fashionable rough straws, but is also shown in chip, it is trimmed with a gay soft scarf, very full, and closely wound around the crown. A bow or knot is on one side, and wings of birds are stuck in the scarf; sometimes there are as many as six small wings. The brim has a band of bias velvet—not wide enough to conceal all the straw—set plainly around it, with perhaps a bow on the right side. These hats are worn quite far back, and frame the face like a halo! They are sometimes called the bonnet turban. The other English round hat has a straight wide brim and half-high square crown, trimmed with the nodding cluster of ostrich Uds known as the Prince of Wales feathers. When wire is pat in the edge of this wide brim it is rolled slightly up all around if the wearer likes; a plain, smooth velvet facing is on the brim. The trimming is a scarf of plaid foulard in bandana colors, or else satin either plain, polka-dotted or striped. The feathers are at the back, or else quite far back on the side, nodding forward on the crown.— Harper's Bazar. The Rev. John { Browu, of Haddington, was in the habit of proposing, on festive occasions, a certain young lady as his toast. Having abandoned the practice, he was asked for a reason. “Because,” said he, “I have toasted her for sixteen years without being able to make her brown, and so I’ve resolved to toast her ho longer.”— English Paper. ' That the Phonograph can “ bottle up” the voice and pass it down to future ages is indeed a wonder, but is not the restoration of a lost voice more wonderful! And jet Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery speedily restores a lost voice, cures hoarseness, sore throat, bronchitis and consumption. Man} ministers who had abandoned the pulpit by reason of sore throat and general debility have, by the use of the Discovery, been restored to perfect health and strength. Sold by druggists. People residing in paludal districts, or removing to suet, localities, can place reliance in the efficacy of Dr. F. Wllhoft’s AutlPericdic or Fever and Ague Tonic, to prevent or rather counteract all malarial discus- s. It never fails to cure Chills and Fever, Dumb Chills and Enlarged Spleen, and is guaranteed to contain no dangerous drug. The composition of thir. medicine is given with each bottle, and can be had from all Druggie's. The Ladies always choose Gilbert’s Patent Gloss Starch for laces, muslins, i ncus, etc., knowing its well-known purity aud lustre. Tbe finest fabric can be dressed with it without fear of injuring the texture. Mo other can compare with It. Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

(jOSHFER^ b|v _ STOMACH BITTER s There seems to be no country under the tun where Dyspepsia Is so prevalent as In tbe Bill ted 'States. Here the disease has become domesticated, and Is to lie found In almost every household; and consequently such a household rem -dy as the Hitters Is of Inestimable value to the American p-ople. As an Invigorating, regulating and restorative preparation, suited to all climates and contingencies. It stands aim - among modern medicines. For sale by all Drugglsta aad respectable Dealer* generally. palxt yocrlohes fill GIiTTA-PERCHI Beutj of Fisi’k nd lanfilitj. Please ask ANYONE WHO HAS USE i - oi ITA PERCHA PAINT what they think, ot it At.l. say tt I* the cheapest, Best aad #>nl.v Paint to uee. Send for Color-Card, ude-s or other Information. Addymq fmAdf^PAINTCO^ BASE BALL SUPPLIES. I (GA-d »*y *ll ProfcefloiiMl CWtoYwr*’; 13.00. £|«itilii<*« onici*l /-jyaiwwWß 1.. AKH H I lI.'O. I’r-.i-lv.'d, jaSslS iv.ya .imaifitr rv»..i*si.cOto qum*. f.'l 10 “t-nlB. MpuliUhk’n Journal f*t IllyJv / IT/jV Amrrlrng N|torl'.. cv-HUiHiuC in Mtodfflr .tilicltf .and inh-R t*« I**** Ai. iH-n, u«n* r«ni»n*i ijwquei; 91r~W FU’iinß an V utt mn-Fo* r Sjo with ffiKtof VwKC/T o! the ntWfftij, no. »imil<-.J nto O. iPALOINC y 488 08.. ftUMwM Tpi-dt ,r>iaiM;t>. nt ,T* riBSWI) ÜBJII a ABB • Pen and Ink Works asm?Rfti ito flftl ******** a* cho. v loSsußiau-s a» • I ll'lal-. -I e.il.il Ink. Pen', IHu-t-Uona, A.-;, try in. 1 .1 I■> u ' »: I'Ol.l. tlf. lllvrtrat-ildn I,culitfs lor 'Uuip. Fv A. hUiIINU, Dupellen, Ji. J,

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