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CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 18-57.
I WISH HE'D MAKE UP IJIS MIND.
I wish he would make up his mind. Ma,
.For 1 don't care much longer to wait,
I'm sure I have hinted quite strongly
That I thought of changing my state ;
For a sweetheart be is really so backward,
I can't bring him out though I try ;
I own that he is very good tempered ;
But then he is so dreadfully shy.
When I speak about love and a cottage,
He gives me a glance of surprise :
And if J but hint about marriage,
lie blushes quite up to his eyes !
I can't make him jealous I've tried it
And 'tis no use by being unkind,
For that's not the way, 1 am certain,
To get him to make up his mind.
I've sung him love sonnets by dozens,
I've worked him both slippers and hose,
And wo walked out by moonlight together,
Yet he never attempts to propose !
You must really ask bis intention,
Or some other beau I must find ;
For, indeed I won't tarry much longer,
For one who can't make up his mind.
LOVE IN A STEEL-TIIAP.
"Love laughs at locksmiths," we ar told
but rat traps arc not subjects of laughter,
even to the blind god himself, as I shall show
you in the sequel of this brief story.
"But you will go to-night ?"
"Yes I will."
"And if I have old Bob behind the barn, at
twelve, you'll be wailing inside,and we'll drive
to New York and get married right straight
off the reel V
"Yes. When all the folks aro in bed and
asleep I'll steal out of the wash-house do jr,
go to the barn, get in and disguise myself.
When you come, put in your finger, 1 1 it the
latch, open the barn door, and I'll drop into
your arms like a ripe apple. Oh ! I do so
love to run away ! Won't it bo delightful V
The speakers were Joe Clavcrs and Mary
Miller. I need not mention that they were
lovers. Mary'j father was a prosperous f.ir::.er
of Connecticut, and Mary herself one of the
wildest, rncst light-headed, romantic, inno
cent, and affectionate creatures ever made af
ter the "almost divine" model ot mother Eve.
Joe was a generous, impulsive youth, whoso
parents had once seen flattering days, but had
of late been unfortunate, and fallen into com
parative poverty.
Farmer Miller, as he grew rich, grew am
bitious. Mary was his only child. He look
ed to her settlement in the world as a means of
Lis own social advancement, and had alieady
selected in his mind's eye, a suitable match
for her. Of course Joe's attentions, there
fore, did not meet with his appoval ; and while
he was unwilling to b thought sordid enough
to reject Joe openly lor his lack of means, he
Lad suggested to that young adventurer the
ITOprietv of absenting himself altogether from
Mary's attractive presence. This done, he !
had assured 3Iary of his resolution to dispose
of her hand according to bis own notions of
feminine happiness
I need not say that these facts, operating
i-pon the mind of a thoughtless, loving, ec
centric, and spirited child, like Mary, hud a
peculiar effect. That very moment she deter
mined to marry Joe Clavers. He was evident
ly persecuted ! Persecution only made him
the dearer to her. She liked him before, but
now she loved him. In fact, the more she
thought of it, the more she was convinced
that he was an angel, and that perfect idolatry
on her part would only bo an act of noble de
votion.
If Farmer Miller had been a sensible man,
and at all disposed to study human nature, he
would have adopted perhaps a very different
course towards his wayward daughter. lie
would have introduced his proposed son-in-law,
and forbidden her at the same time, to
The
indulge in the slightest regard for him
Brobability is that she would have fallen des-
-
perateiy in love wun mm ur '
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but Farmer Miller had a way of his own, in
all things, and he was satisfied that, should
Mary feel disposed to play him a trick, he was
nnite able to manage a Roland for her Oliver.
The very next morning after he had, in this
manner, "opened his mind" as he called it,
to Lis daughter, he luckily happened to see
Joe Claver3 make his furtive entranco into
the kitchen where Mary was busily at work,
but not singing as usual, for she was brooding
over the parental cruelty
Farmer Miller did not permit many minutes
to elapse before he had placed .h.msclf in the
wash-house, which adjoined the kitchen, so
that he might hear all that passed between the
discomfited lovers. He did hear the dialogue
with which I have commenced this hisiorielte.
He possessed himself of the plan of the con
templated elopement, and he was satisfied.
"She is going to run away, is she ?" he said
to himself. "I'll teach him a lesson' I warrant
one; and as for the little gipsy, I'll settle Ar
business very speedily."
After tea that evening, Mary retired to her
little room, her heart beating with anxiety for
the approach of midnight. Her surprise may
be imagined when, half an hour afterwards,
KAfiw ft nrisoncr! She tried
the
pug 1UUIJU U OV l'-
r k irt-ir Tf would not move
uauuic vi i aa iwva
What was to be done ? Could it have been
fastened on her by accident ? She called for
her father, and he came.
"What's the matter, Mary ?" was his excla
mation, without, however, opening the cham
ber door.
"My dooria fait, and I cannot get out V
"Very well dear," was his rej-Iy ; "go
bed, like a good girl, and I'll open it4in the
morning. "
She knew it was not of the slightest use to
remonstrate. He must by some means, have
discovered her design. She conld do nothing
but weep and bite ber lips with vexation.
The next thing the farmer did was to visit
the barn. As usual, it had a large wagon
door, in which was cut for common use a
smaller entrance. The latter was only secur-
ed by the ordinary latch inside, which was I
lifted in the customary way, by thrusting a fin-
ger in through a small hole made in the door,
beneath the latch, for the purpose.
Farmer Miller remained in the barn long
cnouah toarramrc matters to suit his mivate
purpose, and then coming out through the sta
ble that adjoined, or rathert lay, partly be
neath it, he walked quietly home, laughing to
himself. He first listened at his daughter's
door, and finding all quiet, retired to his own
room and went to sleep.
Just about midnight, a horse and wagon
drew silently up, on the road, behind Farmer
Miller's barn. Joe Claver got stealthily out
of the vehicle, jumped the fence, and crept
cautiously around the door of the building in
question. How happy he felt! In another
moment, Mary would be his own ! In the mor
ning she would be his own darling little
wife. Farmer Miller would storm, of course :
but the farmer loved his daughter dearly, and
was proud of her. He would, therefore, re
lent, forgive, and bless them ! Full of these
delightful anticipations, Joe thrust his finger
in the hole of the barndoor to reach the latch,
but . Ah ! how he yelled with pain. A
steel-trap, adroitly placed in the inside, so as
to catch any obtruding article, had snapped,
and his bleeding finger was held fast with its
iron teeth.
It was a cold night, aud Joe's feelings may
be conjectured as he stood there, shivering
and shaking, hour after hour, unable to move
from the spot,held a prisoner by the savage in
strument, his lacerated finger occasioning him
exquisite agony, and his heart fairly sinking
into his boots with the conviction that day
break would only expose him to the farmer's
indignation and the village ridicule.
Just at dawn, Farmer Miller, chuckling
over the success of his ruse, went down to the
barn. There still stood Joe, and not far of!
the horse and wagon. I need not say how Joe
implored pardon, and promised everything
that could be desired to purchase it and sr
lence. Farmer Miller and ho finally closed a
bargain. Joo was released. 2ay, more, Far-
mer Miller gave him one hundred dollars, aad
Joe was in New York, before noon, en route
for Iowa.
As for Mary this incident occurred two
years ago, and L nave just Kisscu ner nirsi
baby. She pleased her lather, and seems to
have pleased herself, in consequence, quite
as much.
TOISOXS AM) TIIEIIl ANTIDOTES.
Accidental poisoning although not very fre
quent, occurs sufficiently often to cause it to
be i matter of importance that each individual
should know the antidote or counteracting in-
fluence to be applied when any case comes un-
der notice. There is often no time to send for
a medical man, and many human lives have
been lost while waiting for the doctor.
Oxalic acid, or salt of lemons, is often mis-
taken for Epsom salts, and causes death in a
short time ; a safe antidote for this and all oth-
er acids is magnesia made into a paste with
water, or a solution of common soap. In the
case of prussic acid, however, laurel water, or
chloride of lime, and bi-chloride of iron are
rfT.Ttn.il remedies. Tartar emetic is another
i Doison often taken designedly or in mistake,
,arge quantuics of warm water should be
: :,., cAiniilniT nnrl nnwdered Fe-
given to induce vomiting,
L
ruvian bark.
For arsenic, the bydrated oxyd of iron is
the only cure, in a dose thirty times greater
than that of the poison, while for poisoning by
lead in any form, sulphate of magnesia, pot-
ash and soda are good, and phosphate of soda
is a safe antidote. Mercury or corrosive sub-
limate is counteracted by the white ot eggs or
milk, and for sulphate of zinc or white vitriol,
cream, butter and chalk will act as preven-
tives. For poisoning by copper, the white of
1 I -v a n.f .nti Will Cltmrl
ge , , e hvdrotren and
it, J .
carbonic acid, free exposure to the air ana a
leech or two applied on the head have proved
successful.
Vnr nil nnr noi!ons. such a3 funtri. poison-
LmLnnm. strvchnine. nux
nnH votahles eenerallv. it is always
safe to administer an emetic
The old principle of English law, that "no
man shall be twice put in jeopardy for the
same offence," has been abandoned in several
of the English criminal courts lately. The
judges hold that a criminal should bo liable to
nunlshment whenever there is proof of bis
m ...:tKiit ritrnrd to the number of times
i
gUl.l. lll'U". -O
he may have been acquitted of the same crime
lor lack of evidence.
. . . .",JiV.ti. TWon Travel-
A"tougnun " iv j
our distinguished chemists,
ICr auuuv vn w-
. . -i in liis experiments him
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who was so uw -
i. .i;.hi't observe that his own nose was uuru
ing in tbe candle, till a coinpaaioa
tuA him
j cf r ?
EXTRACTS FEOII Kit. DOUGLAS' SPEECH.
DELIVERED IS TUB U. S. SESATK, DEC. 9.
Having thus shown that the Convention at
Lecompton had no power, no authority, to
form and establish a government, but had pow
er to draft a petition, and that petition, if it
embodied the will of the people of Kansas,
ought to be taken as such an exposition of
their will, yet, if it did not embody their will,
ought to be rejected having shown these lacts,
let me proceed and inquire what was the on-
derstanding of the people of Kansas, when the
delegates were elected ? I understand, from
the history of the transaction, that the people
who voted for delegates to the Lecompton
convention, and those who refused to vote
both partres understood the Territorial Act
to mean that they were to be elected only to
frame a constitution, and submit it to the peo
ple for their ratification or rejection. I say
that both parties in that Territory, at the time
of the election of delegates, so understood the
object of the convention. Those who voted
for delegates did so with the understanding
that they had no power to mako a government,
but only to frame one for submission ; and
those who staid away did so with the same un
derstanding. Here Mr. Douglas shows from the instruc
tion of the President and numberless promi
ses and solemn pledges by Democrats, that the
people of Kansas were assured that they should
have a full and fair vote on the whole Const
tution. After demonstrating this clearly and
satisfactorily, ho goes on and says :
Now let us stop to inquire bow4they redeem
ed the pledge to submit the constitution to the
people. They first go on and make a consti
tution. Then they make a schedule, in which
they provide that the constitution, on the 21st
of December the present month shall be
submitted to all the bona fido inhabitants of
the Territory on that day, for their free accep
tance or rejection, in the following manner, to
wit: thus acknowledging that they were
bound to submit it to the will of the people,
conceding that they had no right to put it into
operation without submitting it to the people,
providing in the instrument that it should take
effect from and after the ratification, and not
before ; showing that the constitution derives
its vitality, in their estimation, not from the
authority of the convention, but from the vote
of the people to which it was to be submitted
for their free acceptance or rejection. How
is it to be submitted ? It shall be submitted
in this form : "Constitution with slavery or
constitution with no slavery." Jill men must
vote for the constitution, whether they like it or
not, in order to be permitted to vote for or a
gainst slavery. Thus a constitution made by
a convention that had authority to assemble
and petition for a redress of grievances, but
not to establish a rorernment a constitution
made under a pledge of honor that it should
be submitted to the people before it took ef
fect ; a constitution which provides, on its face,
that it shall have no validity except what it de
rives from such submission is submitted to
the people at an election where all men are at
jij,crty to COme forward freely without hin-
,iranc0 and vote for it, but no man is perniit-
ted to record a vote against it.
That would bo as fair an election as some of
I tne enemies of Napoleon attributed to him
when he was elected First Consul. He is said
to iiaVe called out his troops and had them re
viewed by his officers with a speech, patriotic
an(j fajr jn na professions, in which he said to
them : "Now, my soldiers, you are going to
the 0lection,and vote freely just as you please.
jf vou vote for Napoleon, all is well ; vote a-
gajnSt him, and you are to be instantly shot.
That was a fair election. fLauehter.) This
election is to be equally fair. All men in fa-
vor of the constitHtion may vote for it-all
I : : - oil TVhir nnt
i mull aKaiuau ti aitati uvb f au an. " j " i
let them vote against it ? I presume you have
asked many a man this question. I have asked
a very l.'rge number of the gentlemen who
framej the constitution, quite a number of del-
egates, and a still larger number of persons
wuo are their friends, and I have received the
satne answer from every one of them. I never
recejved any other answer, ana 1 presume we
never shall get any other answer. What is
that 1 They say if they allowed a negative
votc the constitution would have been voted
1 ..1. l.v f v niAPitf and hnna
t. nnt he allowed to vote at all.
I
jr- president, that may be true. It is no
part 0f nly purpose to deny the proposition
that that constitution would have been voted
Anwn if siiliniiftp,! to the neoDlc. I believe it
u vntd down bv a rnaiority of
t m ;nfned hv mo.n well dos-
4l.orP Tlomnr rats that it WOUld DC VOted
"
down by ten to one ; some say by twenty to one.
But is it a good reason why you should de
clare it in force, without being submitted to
the people merely because it would have been
voted down bv five to one if you had suDnm-
whoi a, that, fact Drove ? Does it
not show undeniably that an overwhelming ma-
. 1
jority of the people ot Kansas are ---J
- to that constitution ? Will you force
jt on tbem against their will simply because
thev would have voted it down if you had con
-
suited them 1 If you will, are you going .o
i i: it nn rneni under iuc ihka njt icatiiik
iuim t - . -
tl-f.m perfect' free to form and regulate their
domestic institutions ia tneir own way i as
- . T
that the Tscdo in whiuh I am caded upon to
carry out the principle of selfrgyrernment and
popular sovereignty in the Territories to
force a constitution on the people against their
will, in opposition to their protest, with a
knowledge of the fact, and then to assign, as
a reason for my tyranny, that they would be so
obstinate and so perverse as to vote down the
constitution if I had given them an opportuni.
ty to be consulted about it ?
Sir, I deny your right or mine to inqnire of
these people what their objections to that con
stitution aro. They have a right to judge for
themselves whether they like or dislike it. It
is no answer to tell me that the constitution is
a good one and unobjectionable. It is not sat
isfactory to me to have the President say in
his message that that constitution is an admi
rable one, like all the constitutions of the new
States that have been recently formed. Wheth
er good or bad, whether obnoxious or not, is
none of my business and none of yours. It is
their business and not ours. .... The
President tells us in his message that the
whole party pledged our faith and our honor
that the slavery question should be submitted
to the people, without any restriction or qual
ification whatever. Does this schedule submit
it without qualification ? It qualifies it by say
ing, "You may voto on slavery if you vote for
the constitution, but you shall not do so with
out doing that." That is a very important
qualification ; a qualification that controls a
man's vote and his action and his conscience
if he is an honest man ; a qualification cofes
sedly in violation of our platform.
1 ARMING VERSUS MERCHASDISlXQ. it IS a
peculiar part of the programme common to
high pressure times, says a cotcmporary, when
speculation riots and drives reason and pru
dence into obscurity, that men forsake the
plow, anvil and work-bench, and resort to the
selling of silks and laces, toys and tobacco,
rat-traps, grindstones, and ribbons, for a liv
ing ; it is useless for a man of prudence and
experience to urge that bankruptcy is general
ly the fate of all such as forsake the farm and
resort to the counter for a living. Inexperien
ced in their business, their failure is a mere
problem in process of solution ; the first reac
tion ia commerce aud currency will sweep
them overboard, and they will go down. A
successful farmer, possessing a family, has no
more right to forsake his well-secured farm
boat for a leaky, shaky, cob-web, lace-lined
boat, than he has to intemperance or gambling.
Stick to your farms ; your lands will never de
sert you, nor cease to supply your wants, un
less you first desert them.
Polar Bears. Whalemen have opportuni
ties to become acquainted with the habits of
these singular animals that others do not. Cap
tain Walker, of the South America, relates a
fact which is worth repeating. He found two
polar i,earS) a female with ber cub, swimming
in the Artie Ocean, forty miles from land.
And Capt. Murdock, of the Nassau, states that
he shot one fifty miles from land. During
these long passages across seas and bays, which
must take several days, they live on their own
hair, or grease attached to it, as the hair is
found in rolls in their stomachs when killed.
Capt. Walker took a barrel of bear's oil from
the cub which he killed.
Tue Last of the Randolph Family. St.
George Randolph, a nephew of the celebrated
John Randolph of Roanoke, who died in Char
lotte county, Va., on the 4th instant, was the
last in the line of the Randolph family. He
was born deaf and dumb, but was highly edu
cated in France. On returning home to Yir
ginia, in 1814, he heard of the hopeless illness
of his brother, at Harvard College, and imme
diately became deranged. From that time to
the day of his death he is said never to have
I Known a lUCId interval
jn a certain hotel in Newburg there is a bar
ten jer w no js m the habit of taking his toddy
prctty freely, but always makes it a point never
to drink in the presence of his employer. A
few .Aya ag0, while be was in the act of draw
jn h;s tod" preparatory to taking a drink,
the employer came into the room rather un
Cxrectedly. Finding himself caught in the
ac uc set the tumbler and its contents on the
counter, and casting his eyes around with a
surprised look, exclaimed : "Where in thun.
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Connecticut deacon was attaching a very fee
ble pair of oxen to a very large and heavy
load of wood. A neighbor asked him how he
expected to get so large a load to market with
so poor a team. The good deacon replied that
" "
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vine jrroviucucc. ins neignoor astteu mm
whether it would not be as well to dispense en
tirely with the oxen and let Divine Providence
draw the whole load.
It is stated that a worthy minister in Indi
ana, who had become somewhat mixed up in
. , ra0ti ann,,not n i,:.
1 "f J "'
congregation, at the opening of Divine service
that his text would be found in "St. Paul's E
pistle to Minnesota, section four, range three
west "
When Sheridan was asked what kind of wine
he liked best, ho replied "other people s
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some persons wlio have a sizni!
auci-j ai
rcliah tor newspapers.
A ITAKP SERMON.
My Belov-ed Bret hi ing I am an nr.larn!
hard shell preacher, of whom you've no doubt
hcern before, and I now appear here to expound
the Scriptures and pint out the narrow way
which leads from a vain world to the streets
of the Jerusalem, and my text, which I shall
choose for the occasion, is in the leds of the
Bible somewhere between the 2d Chronicles
and the last chapter of Timothy Titus, and
when you find it you will find it in these words :
"And they shall gnaw a file and flee unto
the mountains of Hepsidam, whar the lion
roareth and the wang-doodle mourneth for its
first born."
Now, my brethring, as I have before told
you, I am an oneddicatcdman, and know noth
ing about grammer talk and collidgc highfalu-
tin: but I'm a plain unlarnt preacher of the
Gospil what's been fore-ordained, and called
to expound Scriptcrs to a dyin world, an pro
par a preverse genaration for the day of rath ;
for "they shall gnaw a file and flee unto the
mountains of Hepsidam, whar the lion roareth
and the whang-doodle mourneth for its first
born."
My beluv-cd brethiing, the text says "they
shall gnaw a file." It don't say they may, but
they shall. And now there's niore'n one kind
of file. There's the handsaw file, rat-tail file
and double file and profile ; but the kind of file
spoken of here isn't one of them kind neither;
because its a figger of speech, my brethring,
and it means going it alone, getting ukered;
for "they shall gnaw upon a file and flee unto
the mountains of Hepsidam, whar the lion
roareth and the whang-doodle mourneth for
its first born."
And now there be some hero with fine close
on their backs, brass rings on their fingers and
lard on thar har, what goes it while they're
young; and thar be brothers here what, as
long as their constitutions and lorty cent
whisky last, goes it blind ; and thar be sisters
here what, when they get sixteen years old cut
their tiller ropes and goes it with a rush ; but
I say my dear brethring, take care you don't
find when Gabriel blows his last trump, that
you've all went it alone and got ukered ; for
"they shall gnaw a file and flee unto the moun
tains of Hepsidam, where the lion roareth and
the whang-doodle mourneth for its first born.
And, my brethren, there's more dams be
sides Hepsidam, Amsterdam, mill dam, and
don't-care-a-d-m the last of which, my dear
brethring, is the worst of all, and reminds me
of a circumstance I once knew in the state of
Illenoy. Thar was a man what built a mill on
the east fork of Agur creek, and it ground a
site of grain, but the man what built it was a
miserable sinner, and never guv nothing to
the church ; and my brethring, one night thar
come a dreadful storm of rain and wind, and
thefoudationsof the great deep was broken p,
and the waters rushed down and swept that
man's mill dam into kingdom come, and lo and
behold, in the morning when he got up, he
found he was not worth a d-m. .Now, my
young brethiing, when the storms of tempta
tion overtake ye, take care you don't fall from
grace and become liko the man's mill not
worth a d-m, "for they shall gnaw a hie and
flee unto the mountains, of Hepsidam, whar
the lion roareth and the wang-doodle mourn
eth for its first born."
"Whar the lion roareth and the wang-doodle
mourneth for its first born." This part of the
text, my brethren is another figger of speech,
and isn't to be taken as it says. It don't
mean the bowling wilderness, whar John the
hard shell Baptist was fed on locusts and wild
asses, but it means, my brethring, the city of
New Orleans, the mother of harlots and of
hard lots whar corn is worth six bits a bushel
one day and nary red the next; whar niggers
are as thick as black bugs In spoiled bacon
ham, and gamblers, thieves and pickpockets
go skitting about the street like weasels in a
barn yard whar they have cream colored hor
ses, gilded carriages, marme saioons wiwi
brandy and sugar in 'em whar honest men
are scarcer than hen's teeth ; and a strange
woman once tuk in your beloved preacher and
bamboozled him out of two hundred and twen
ty-seven dollars in the twinkling of a sheep
tail ; but she can't do it again. Hallelujah !
for "they shall gnaw a flic and flee unto the
mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth
and the wang-doodle mourneth for its first
born."
My brethring, I am captain of that flat boat
you sec tied up thar, and I've got aboard of
her flour, bacon and oats, and potatoes and ap
ples, and as good Monongehaly whisky as you
ever drank ; and I'm mighty apt to git a big
price for it all. But what, oh my brethring,
would it all be worth if I hadn't rilidginf
Thar's nothinz like rilidgin.mv brethring. It's
better nor silver and gold jimcracks, and yon
can no more get to Heaven without it than a
jav bird can fly without a tail.
Thank the Lord, I'm an uneddicated man,
my brethring, but I've searched the scripters
from Dan to Burshebee, and found old Zion
risrht side up. and hard shell rilidgin is the
best of rilidgins. And its not like them wbat
expects to git into Heaven by hollerin hell fire ;
nor liko the Univcrsalists what gits upon the
broad gage and goes the whole hog ; nor the
brethring what takes each other by the seats of
the trowsers and tries to lift their selves into
Heaven, nor the Catliolicks what buys thru
tickets from their prcests but it may be liken
ed, my bretunnsrAinto a man waat bsd to cros
a river, and when he got thar the ferry boat had
gone, and he just rolled up his breeches and
waded over hallelujah for "they shall gnaw
file and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam,
har the lion roareth and the wang-doodle
mourneth for its first born-" , .
Pass the hat brother Flint, and let CTcry
hard shell shell out. Amen.
II I'll AL ECO.NOMl'.
Measirino Corh is the Crib. Arrange
the corn in the pen or crib, so that it will bo
of equal depth throughout ; then ascertain the
length, breadth and depth of the pile, in feet;
multiply these dimensions together, and their
product by4. Then cut off' one-figure from
the right of the last product, and the remain
der will be so many bushels of shelled corn,
and the figures cut off" will show how many
tenths of a bushel more. For example in a
crib of corn in the car, measuring ten feet
long, eight feet high, and seven feet wide,
there will be 232 bushels shelled corn. Thus,
10 S x 7 x 4 23i3. Rural Farmer.
Horse Stables. Most stables are construc
ted in direct violation ot every law of nature.
They are made to slope from the hay-rtck,
back to the heels of the horse, when a horse's
natural position is with the fore-feet the low
est. The hay-rack is so high, the horse is
compelled to reach up to get the hay. nis
natural position, while feeding, is with his
head down to the ground. The stalls are so
high that be cannot see his companions, while
he is naturallv gregarious and loves company.
In the stables he stands on the floor ; natural
ly, on the earth. In his natural wilds he is a
racing animal ; in the stable he is so confined
he cannot lie down, and can scarcely turn him
self. It is not wonderful, then, that nearly ev
ery horse is unsound. Standing with the fore
feet the highest, throws the weight and strain
on the flexor-tendoms. and destroys the back.
Turning the nose unnaturally npward strains
the tendons of the neck while he is eating ;
and is otten, unquestionably the cause of poll
evil. High and seperate stalls destroy bis
natural social qualities, and makes him sour
and morose ; aud a bard plank floor, on which
he is doomed to stand for twenty and twenty
four hours at a time, will produce ring bone.
Another defect in many stables ia, that they
are too tight, with a mow of hay over them.
The ammonia arising from the urine has no
chance to escape ; the horse is continually
breathing it, it penetrates the hay, and he is
continually eating it. now often do we enter
a stable in hot weather, when the ammonial
air is so repugnant that wecan scarcely breath
it ; and yet the horse is compelled to stand in
it, and breathe it, and eat hi J food which, is
completely saturated with it. Can we wonder
that the horses is subject to unusual and acute
and fatal disease 1 It is more to be wondered
that he lives at al! under such circumstances.
Hay should never ba placed over a stable, so
as to receive the ammonial gas; but stables
should be ventilated above, so as to let tho
as and foul air escape. Another error ia
the construction of stables is the openings
for throwing out manure and ventilation. In
most stables, the openings are too low and
allow the current of air to blow on the horse.
The effect is the same as a enrrent of air on a
human being, producing cold, fever, cough
and consumption. Nor is this all; this cur
rent of air, which is all the good air the horso
has, comes in from the manure Leap, and is
but adding more poisonous gas to that already
existing. It is wrong morally, as well as eco
nomically wrong, thus to treat the horse, one
of the best and noblest of the brute creation.
Hot Bread. Dr. Hunting, who has watch
ed the process of digestion through the hole
in Alexis St. Martin's stomach, says that bet
bread never digests! It tumbles about tho
stomach until it begins to ferment.and is even
tually passed out, undigested, as an unwel
come tenant. Think of this, ye Lot biscuit
eaters ! Hot bread is a first-rate dyspepsia
producer.
The Beard. What would be said of Lira
who would shave off his eyebrows, pull out his
eyelashes, or shave bis head all over 1 Such
a practice would be pronounced nnconth, un
reasonable, unhealthy, and necessarily wrong:
yet if the hair of the head pertains to the laws
of life and health, who dare say the beard Las
a less office to fulfill ? Elect ic Medical Journal.
Tde letters from England by fhe Baltic to
agents of foreign houses in our cities,,instruct
them not to pack any bacon for the English
market at over three and a half dollcrt for
hogs, as the markets there are glutted with
home cured meats, the demand very small and
prices still declining.
As impertinent editor in Alabama wants to
know when we "intend to pay the debt of na
ture ?" We are inclined to think that when
nature gets her dues from bim it will be by an
execution. Lou. Journal. ' '--
A good old Quaker lady, after listening to
the extravagant yarns of a store keeper, as
long as her patience wonld allow, said to him
"Friend, what a pity it is a sin to lie, when
it seems so necessary to the business." - ' "
At a late Democart meeting an orator moun
ted a brandy cast and opened bis speech by.
exclaiming "I stand upon the platform of ny
party!"
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