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As Good
Circumstances alter cases : Small
boy at dinner table—'"What! all that
for grandpa 2’! Mamma—'‘No darling,
it’s for vou.” Small boy—*0h, what
a little bit.”
“Johnnie,” said mamma to her
little son, “didn’t I tell you net to eat
that candy until after dinner ?”’ John-
nie who lisps: “I ain’t eating the
eandy, I'm only thucking the
Juithe.”
“I say, Jenkins, ean you tell a
young, tender chicken from an old,
tough one?’ “Of course I oan.”
“Well, how?’ “By the teeth.”
“Chickens have no teeth.” ‘'No, but
1 have,”
“Hpeaking of cod, would you say
the price has gee up or has risen ?”’
inquired a school-boy of a fishmonger,
*Well,” replied the scale scraper,
“speaking of ced, I should say it had
roes,”
When a young lady asked to look
at a parasol the clerk said : “Will you
please give the shade you want?’ “I
expect the parasol to give the shade I
want,” said the young lacy.
Somebody estimated that every man
who lives to be sixty years old has
spent seven months buttoning his
shirt collar. Thirty years more ought
to be added for hunting up the collar
button.
“Did you see the moon over your
right shoulder, my dear ?" said she to
him as they roamed down the walk,
“N-n-no, not exactly ; but I just saw
the old man over my left shoulder,
and I'll bid you good-night.”
An oil producer was requested to
give a judgment note for a debt he
owed, but firmly refused, saying:
No, sir, I will never sign a judgment
note, I did it once, and I came very
near having to pay it.”
Why does a duck go into the water?
For divers reasons. Why does it come
out? For sundry reasons, Why does
it go back ? Te liquidate a bill. Why
does it come out again? To make a
run on the bank,
A Missouri man got caught in a
small whirlwind the other day, which
raised him just a little way from the
ground and shook him until all his
buttons fell off. When the thing
stopped he muttered: ‘‘Reckon I'll
have to send for another pound of
quinine.”
At the bank: Clerk—"What do
you wish, sir?” Rufflan—'“Why, I
just dropped In to tell you that I am
the man that knocked down and rob-
bed your cashier.” Clerk—"Well,
sir, I'm very sorry ; but you’ll have to
indentify yourself, sir.”
Words of Wise Men.
A babe ip a house is a well spring of
pleasure.— Tupper.
Whatever is worth doing at all is
worth doing well.— Disraeli.
Nothing great was ever achieved
without enthusiasm, — Emerson.
Who can all sense of others’ 111s escap-,
Is tut a brute, at best, in human shape,
- JUVENAL.
You may depend upon it that he is
#8 good man whose intimate (riends are
all good.— Lavaler,
We should look at the lives of all as
at a mirror, and take from others an
example for ourselves.— Terence.
It is only necessary to grow old to
become more indulgent, I see no fault
committed that I have not committed
f.—@Goethe.
e should do by our cunning as we
do by our courage—always have it
ready to defend ourselves, never to
offend others, — Greville.
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both 11seif and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry,
~SHAKBSPEARRE.
Life, believe, 1s not & dream
Bo dark as sages say;
Oft a little mor.aing rain
Fortells a pleasant day.
~CHARLOTTE BRONTE,
A man should never be ashamed to
own he has been in the wrong, which
is but saving in other words, that
he is wiser to-day than he was yester-
any .
ere are many men who appear to
be struggling against poverty, and yet
are happy; but yet more, who, al
though abounding in wealth, are mis-
erable. — Tacifus.
Choose for your friend him that is
wise and good, and secret and just, in-
genuous and honest, and iu those
things which have a Istitude, use your
own liberty.—Jeremy Taylor.
Men of great parts are often unfor-
tunate in the management of public
business, because they are apt to go
out of the common road by the quick-
ness of the imagination.—Swift,
Though a soldier, in time of peace, is
like a chimney in summer, yet what
wise man would pluck down his chim-
ney because his almanac tells him 'tis
the middie of June,— Tom Brown,
Equality is ene of the most consurmg-
mate scoundrels that eyer crept from
the brain of a political juggler—a fel
low who thrusts his hand into the
pocket of industry and enterprising
talent, and squanders their hard-
earned profits on profligate idleness
indolent stupidity. Langstaff.
nl tok mind A eg vind
taining a certain quantity of happl-
ness, which no lustitutions can in-
crease, no circumstances alter, and
entirely independent of fortune. Let
any man compare his present fortune
with the past, and he will, probably,
find himself, apon the whole, neither
better nor worse than formerly .—Gold-
mith,
Agricultural,
Farm Talks.
The veteran journalist, Ben, Perley
Poore, writes thus pleasantly under
the head of “Farm Talks’ in the
American Cultivator :
Reading this morning the report of
some eulogistie speeches made at a
cattle show, it occurred t >» me that the
people of New England do not appre-
eiate the many obligations to the farin-
ers, the pomologists, and the gardeners
for the additions they have made to
the comforts of social life,
Thoree hundred years ago the inhabi-
tants of this region subsisted ty hunt
ing and fishing, Their meats were
the flesh of the moose, the deer, the
woodchuck, snd the squirrel. Fish,
including salmon, was then more
abundant than it now 1s, as dams had
not barred our streams, or the waste
of factories poisoned their waters,
T: ere was no fruit, unless it may
have been a very tart crab-apple.
Nute o different kinds were abun-
dant. .ndian corn, which was about
the only agricultural product, was not
indigenous, but had been brought
from the South, and with difficul'y
coaxed to ripen in a Northern lati.
tude. The aborigines plucked the
earliest ears with the husks aud
braided several of them together for
the next year’s crop. The soll was
scraped t« gether with the shoulder.
blades of a moose, forming a hill in
which the ¢orn was planted on an
elwive or some other small fish as a
fertilizer.
Cattle, which were known to the
Indians, now ex st here in every va-
riefy, and the est of all varieties.
We have the ‘Short-horn Durhame,
which combine the qualities of abun-
dant milk, of easy fattening, of early
maturity, and of doeility in the yoke;
we have the Devonr, an ancient race,
brought by the first settlers of the
New England coast, and fitted by
their milking qualities for the dairy,
by their delicate flesh for the slaugh-
ter-house, and by their quickness for
farmwork ; we have the Aryshires,
copious givers of milk, strongly in-
clined to butter, with forms fitted for
the butcher; we have the Alderneys
and the Jerseys, charming pets for
fancy farmers, with their rich milk,
itself a cream ; and then we have the
Dutch or Holstein cattle, the Here
fords, the Galloways, and half.a-dozen
other fancy breeds, while some of the
good qualities of every breed have
gradually impregnated the old-fash-
ioned native stock. The excellence of
our cattle is due to the farmers. By
judicious crossing animals are created
who convert into milk or beef what-
ever we may give them who give an
abundance of milk if milk is wanted,
an abundance of fat if beet is desired,
and who, coming esrlicr into the
dairy -or the market, save a whole
year's expense of feeding,
When we come to hogs we wonder
how the Indians ever existed without
them, although cur Hebrew friends
do not use any portion or product of
the *"“unclean” animal. They also
have been greatly improved by care
ful breeding, and Col. Lincoln, of
Worcester, has rendered them immor-
tal by his reports on them at cattle
shows. He has established the fact
that pigs are a happy people. City
folks may talk disparagingly about
living like a pig. To live like a pig is
to live like u gentleman,
Althougn it is not permitted by the
laws of nature that a pig should laugh
or even smile, he enjoys the next
blessing of humanity—the disposition
to grow fat. How easily he goes
through the world! He has no fancy
stocks to buy, no bank-notes to pay,
ne indignation meetings to hold, He
has no occasion to take the benefit of
the bankrupt act, or to have his estate
confiscated to defray the expenses of
the settlement. Free from all the
troubles that disturb the busy world,
he is as unconcerned among the
changes of the earthly :{lairs as was
the citizen who was awakened in the
earliest light of morning by being told
day was breaking, * Well,” said he,
as he turned again to his repose, ** let
day break-he owes me nothing.”
Then there are the sheep In all their
varieties, which would be an import
ant element in the agricultural wealth
of New England if farmers could be
protected against the miserable curs
which infest the country, and which
in many sections render it impossible
to raise a flock of sheep. Its to be
hoped that the day will come when the
farmer who pays large taxes, and who
has a right to have his property protect-
ed by the laws, can visit the pasture in
which he has a flock of sheep without
finding some of them Killed and others
mangled by the worthless hounds of
some city fellow who imagines himself
3
destitute of succulent food, Under
such conditions any brood of sheep
will become smaller, finer, and, if on
large ranges, more leggy. The wool
also varies with both soil and climate,
becoming lighter in weight on poorer
solls and coarser in fiber on rich soils
and in warmer climates, Of ccurse,
types as influenced by soll are subject
to variations under difference in care
and amount of food, as for instance, a
light soll furnishing rizh 100d, though
small in quantity might, if lightly
stocked, grow as large stock as rich
soll fully stocked ; but this would not
be the natural tendency under ordi-
nary circumstances,
The Transhumautes, or traveling
Merino flocks of Spain, were slim,
long-legged sheep, considering their
size, which was due, no doubt, to the
scant herbage and the long distance
they were accustomed to travel be-
tween thelr summer and winter pas.
turage. Broughtto the United States
and placed on small ranges, with bet-
ter feed and care, they increased in
size and decreased in length of leg.
The same sheep on the rich, enltivated
soils of France, and with high feeding
became very large, more than double
their former size, in a period of sixty
years, Belection had something to do
with this result, but without the rich
food it could never have been accom.
plished.
The various mutton breeds of Eng.
Iand show the ¢ffact of soils in estab.
lishing types. The Beuthdown in its
early history was bred without par-
ticular care in selection, and affords a
good instance of what soil will do in
establishing a type. They are describ
ed as having inhabited the hilly por-
tions of Eagland from the most
ancient periods of known history of
that country. In the southern part of
the country there is a range of low
hills underiald with chalk which de
scend gradually on the south to the
seacoast, and on the north merge into
rich, cultivated lands. These low hills
or “downs " have a dry soil, and are
covered with a rich, sweet, dense her-
bage. Witheut special care this soil
produced such sheep as these, from a
description given of them before Ell-
man took hold of them. *' Long and
thin in the neck, narrow in the fore
quarters, high in the shoulders, low
behind, sharp on the back and with
flat ribe, their only points being a
good leg.” Their mutton, however,
chiefly from the excellent character of
the pasture, was o! the best flavor and
highly valued.
The black-fa ed Booteh sheep, an
old breed in Bootland, are another
instance of the ¢ffect of soil and also
climate In the production of a type.
They inhabit the hil's where Norval's
* father fed his flock,” where wolves
and foxes frequent, They have a life
of continual exposure upon bleak and
storm-beaten mountains, cold rains
and mists, with deep snows in winter:
covered in drifts they are many times
compelled to subsist on heather, dug
from under the snow,
This location and fare produces “a
horned breed, the horns cf the rams
being massive and spirally curved,
the muzzle is thick, the eye bright
and wild, the body square and som:
pact. They are strong, muscular and
active, although net a heavy sheep in
net weight of mutton.
On the contrary the low, rich soils
have produced the heavy Lincoln and
the improved Cotswold and the Lei
cester, All classes of stock show this
adaptation to soll and climate, but
none so plainly as sheep,
The lesson to be learned from this 1s
that sheep should be selected with ref
erence to the soll on which they are to
be reared and fed, Of course under
artificial methods they can be made
to do well in localities where they
would not do so in a natural state, As
a rule the forage on light, dry or hilly
soils, being dryer and the grass thin
ner and perhaps sweeter, is adapted (o
growing fine wool or light mutton of
the best quality, while the heavy soils
furnish grass and forage succulent and
abundant, well suited for the produc
tion of large carcass with early ma
turity.
The idea advanced by a New York
dairyman that breeds should be made
adapted to locality is a good one, in so
far as it implies that the selection of a
breed should be made with reference
to its adaptability to the soll. Of course
the demands of the nearest and most
profitable market must be first taken
into account, but, other things being
equal, the best success will follow the
selection of a class of sheep adapted to
the soll and climate where they are to
be reared, — Detroit Post,
Buying a Parson's Horse.
Major Gale Faxon bought a horse
from the pastor of an Austin church,
and shortly afterward the following
A Mother's Touch.
In one of the flerce engagements
near Mechanicsville a young Lieu-
tenant of a Rhode Island battery had
his right foot so shattered by a fra
grant of a shell that, on reaching
Washington after one of those horrible
smbulance rides and a journey of a
week's duration, he was obliged to
undergo amputation of the leg, He
telegraphed home, hundreds of miles
away, that all was going well, and
with a soldier's fortitude composed
himself to bear his sufferings alone.
Unknown to him, however, his
mother, who had read the report of
his wound, was hastening to see him,
Bhe reached Washington at midnight,
and the nurses would have kept her
from seeing her son until morning.
One sat by his side, fanning him as he
slept, her hand on his feebls, fluctua.
ting pulse, But what woman’s heart
could resist thep leading of a mother
then? In the darkness she was finally
allowed to glide in and take a place at
his side. Bhe touched his pulse as the
nurse had dene. Not a word had been
spoken, but the sleeping boy opened
his eyes and said: “That feels like
ny mother’s hand, Who is this be-
side me? It is my mother! Turn up
the gas and let me see my mother.”
The two dear faces met in one long,
Joyful, sobbing embrace, The gallant
fellow, just 21, had his leg amputated
on the last day of his three years ser-
vice, underwent operation after opers-
tion, and at last, when death drew
nigh, resigned himself in peace, say-
ing: “I have faced death too often tw
fear it now."
A
The Experience of a Man who
was Nigh Unto Deatn.
There is a general understanding
that freezing to death Is an agreeable
mode of quitting the world, and many
persons who have come near to mak-
ing their exit in that manner confirm
the common belief, James Hum-
phrey, a Canadian who nearly fr z¢ to
death In a recent storm while driving
homeward from Wallacetown to
Aldborough, has given the following
description of his experience to the St,
Thomas Times: “When he felt no
longer able to hold the reins with any
grip he determined to seek shelter in
the first house until well warmed.
His tongue became stiff, then his
: me, sharp chills ran through his
back, and finally it seemed as though
his whole body waa being congealed,
causing an almost total cessation of
the heat's action.
extreme suffericg and despoudency
speedily gave place to a feeling of
and causing an
was ncw to be feared. The sleigh,
instead of crawling along sta spail’s
pace appeared to glide through the
air with great swiftness, and the
horses fairly flew like pigeons. A
sense of exultation filled the farmer's
ireast as he urged the horses to a
grealer speed, and the woods on each
side were passing so quickly that they
became indistinguishable black lines.
Then the sleigh bells sounded fainter
until the chimes disappeared in the
distance, the farmer fell gradually into
a delicious slumber, which came near
being the sleep that knows no waking,
and he knew no more until brought
to life under a vigorous treatment.
ct
Religious Books Among the
People,
a
“If.” sald the Iste Daniel Webster
to a friend, “religious books are not
widely circulated among the masses
of this country, and the people do net
become religious, I do not know what
is to become of us as a nation.” and
the thought is one to cause solemn re-
lection on the part of every patriot
and Christian. If truth be not dif
fused, error will be; if God and his
word are not known and received, the
devil and his agency will gain the
ascendency ; if the evangelical volume
does not reach every hamlet, the pages
of a corrupt and licentious literature
will ; it the power of the gospel is not
felt through the length and breadth
of the land, anarchy and misrule, deg-
radation and misery, corruption sand
drunkenness, will reign without miti-
gation or end. Religious papers are
as valuable as religious books, Br
change.
A Young Speculator,
A bright-eyed and neatly dressed
Ind, with Jewish features, was ar-
raigned before Justice Bmith, in the
I i iE
The Stock Sanitarium,
Giving Medicines to Animals.
Prof. D. D, Biade, presents some
valuable rules for administering med-
eines to animals In the November
American Agrioullurist,
In giving & drench to a horse, a
horn should be used in preference to
the bottle, for fear of breakage.
Btanding at the right shoulder, raise
thehead with the left hand nnder the
Jaw, and with the right hand pass
the lip of the horn into the side of the
mouth, and empty its contents, the
head being kept up until théy are
swallowed. 1fthe animal fs violent,
place a twitch upon the nose to be
held by an assistant; or if he refuses
to open the mouth, the tengue may
be gently held to one side, the horn
introduced, quickly emptied, and the
tongue liberated at once. Under all
circumstances, the greatest gentleness
must be exercised. Nothing can be
gained by impatience or harsh treat
ment,
For the ox or cow, liquid medicine
is preferable, given from the bottle
rather than the horn. The bottle is
more manageable, and one is less
tempted to use it to pry open the
Jaws, and perhaps thus lacerate the
tongue also. Elevate the head only
enough to prevent the liquid running
from the mouth, The bottle should
not’ be pushed back far into the
throat. The tongue should be left
free. The following is & very nest
aud eflicacious method : If standing,
place the left side of the animal
against a wall, and standing .on the
right side seize hold of the upper
Jaw by. passing the left arm over the
bead, and bending the latter far
round to the right, slightly elevating
it. With the right hand pour the
contents of the bottle ints the mouth
at its angle, using the least possible
force,
——
Look After Tour Stock.
It is time that some provision be
made for the comfort of farm stock.
Where house room is not possible,
good shelter can be made easily and
cheaply by building rail pens, -and
covering them with straw, ¢ornstalke,
or even leaves from the woods, which
can be held in place by brush, The
latter Is, however, a mostshiftless WAY,
but betier than wo protection.
A farmer that will allow tock to
hunt shelter from the cold winds and
storms of! winter in the corner eof
crib or out house of any kind, willbe
degrod, More than twice the amount
of food will be consumed by a brute
which is thus exposed, and even then
their condition will be wi rse Inn the
spring than those that have had
warai through thie winter, and only
hiali-fed,
Biraw cap be stacked on a frame of
wood iosuch a way as to give proteo-
tion to a large numberof cattle, sheep
or horses underpeath, and the saying 4
of fodder will pay the dost, fof when
straw Is not protected in some way,
half of itis tramped in the mud and
lost, Straw racks are best if made
subslan tial, snd if ho, will answer the
purpose for which they are built for
years. —Soulth end West.
A Young Man's Peril,
They were in to see a lawyer yester-
day—Mary Ann and her mother,
Mary Ann was a little embarrassed,
but the old woman was calm. When
they spoke about & breach of promise
case, the lawyer asked :
SW uat evidence have you got'™’
{ “Miry Adn, produce the letters,”
coMimatfided the mother, and the girl
took the cover oft a willow basket and
remarked that she thought 927 letters
would de to begin on. The ofh@ 651
would be produced as soon as |
was fairly beforetheUbtirt. | .
“Aud outsidé of these letters?
queried the lawyer, :
“Mary Ann, produce your diary,”
said the mother. “Now tum to the
heading ‘of ‘Bromulaek,” and tell how
midny * thmes “this ‘marriage business
was talked over.” -
“The footing is 214 times," answered
“Now tothe heading of ‘Darl.
ling,’ and give us the number of times
he has ap ‘term to you.”
0254" chills? * + IT mami yt
for you are wood in arithuetios Now
“tiirh to" the’ heading of “Woodbine
Ooftagemana tell uy how rsny tines
“ive hist talked of such a home for you
‘miter 1 n ser wid gijey we
« “The footing is times.”
[Very well. This lawyer wants to
be sure that we've gota case, How
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“There's our case,” sald the mother,
ns she deposited basket and diary on
the lawyer's table, ‘'Look over the
documents, and If you wantanything
further I can bring in a dc zen neigh-
bors to swear to facts, We sue for
$10,000 damages, and we don’t settle
for less than an eighty-acre farm,
with buildings in good repair. Ne'll
call again next week. Good day, sir.”
A Ail i
A Wise Request,
T he widow, who died in 1880, of a
suigeon named Bradshawe, left $5000
to the English College of Surgeons, as
much to the College of Physicians, to
provide for an annual lecture to bear
his name. The first was given last
month by that great surgeon and
most cultivated man, Sir James Paget
on “Bome Rare and New Diseases.’
It abounds with research and interest.
He said that of course many diseases
that seem new-—Bright's disease, for
instance—~have merely been overlosk-
ed, but however much of what seems
to be new we may justly aseribe to
previous oversight, there yet seems to
be evidence enough that new diseases
are in progress of evolution. Of a
peculiar joint disease discoverasd by
M. Charcot, Bir James said: “I be-
lieve there is not an old specimen (of
bones so diseased) in our museums,
there is not one in the Musee Dupuy-
tren, I cannot find a notice or illustra
tion of one, and yet thix disease is
now so far from being rare that Dr,
Buzzard has had nine cases under his
eye at one time.” After giving sever-
sl other interesting illustrations, Sir
James ssid in all these facts there is
enough not indeed to prove, but to
justi’y, the belief that we have here
examples of diseases which have ap~
peared In this country for the first
time within the century, and have
&ince become sufficiently frequent and
acquired sufficlently constant and
distinctive character to be described
iu geners! terms and ealled by new
names. His hypothesis is that such
diseases are among the instances of
the results of morbid conditions,
changing and combining in trans
mission from pareuts to offspring.
Bir James laid very great stress on
the value of museums, in which
changes of structure may be preserved
for study and comparison. We ought
0 have in our museums specimens in
which we might study ali the grada-
tions of change of structure from types
fo. type, all the changes due to min-
gling of forme, all varieties of diseases,
all hybrid forms. We need to be
able to stadv all these thines as the
naturalist or comparative anatomist
needs his specimens.”
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Monsieur, Mr. and Mrs.
Those whoke knowledge of French is
limited to the word “mionsieur,” and
they are legion, may, after reading
the following remarks on tnat word
in a French paper, at least congratue
Iate themselves that they pronounce it
rightly. Others, .agsin, to whom
“depuis” “Neuilly” and such words
offer insuperable obstacles, will be
surprised to learn that the pronaneis-
tion of “monsietir” is a sort of Parisian
shibboleth It wus not till the fifteen bh
century that “monslear” ‘was evolved
from. mewn senierem. At this time
the ending was fully pronounced with
ita vw, 8s In “sleur” nowadays; but
when the word ceased to be exclusive
Iv applied to the Bobility about the
end of the seventeenth century. the
frequency of the appellation caused
the slipshod Pronunciation that is so
interesting» fact to philologists, and
the r was dropped. The first syllable
which was pronounced “moun” in
the sixteenth century, and which has
perhaps survived in the nautical word
used by Jack Tar, of Dibdin, *‘moun-
seer,” beesme modified to mo, though
there is a learned dispute ss to
whether this is nota part of the lan-
gue doll. Then, “mo-sieu” became
“mesien,” which Is generally pro-
Bounced as “m’sien’’ in 1882, or if ove
country will trace for us the vicissi-
tudes of the word “mistress” in its
ar dation to Mrs, or of master to
ra &
Etiquette in China.
A most ridiculous charge was lately
browght against. a eunich named Sun
Ying-jul by oné of the Censors st Pe-
kine, The nan was stoused of having
actully had the impudence to call at
the Censor s Private house one after
sy
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wo Bw pu
upd an officer possessed of the right
to address the Throne was
less shan an outrage, and the man was
band.d over to the Oomptroller of the
er