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For painting Houses, Barns, Itoofs, Fences, Wagons, &e„ IT HAS NO EQCAL. Call and examine samples. J. C. REDICK, 20apr3inJ GENERAL AGENT, BUTLEB, FA. iinUec : ffr^f VOL. XVIII. •'VARIATION OF THE RULE IN SHELLEY'S CASE." At York, Pennsylvania, recently died A gentleman'who, in his lifetime, was tied With bonds matrimonial unto a wife ; (The reason, perhaps, he departed this life.) While living however—though butabrief space Ere departing—he had to place His wife in that rather ]>eculiar condition She ne'er could have entered of her sole voli tion ; Then, feeling himself quite exhausted and ill, He drew up and signed, sealed ant published his will, In which with commendable care, he provided That at his demise his estate be divided 'Twixt his wife, soon to be a young widow for lorn. And the child that he hoped would duly be born ; Said child, if a girl, to take only one-third. But two-third* if a boy ; whence it may be averred The testator a boy to a girl much preferred. Ilis affairs thus arranged and his wife in said fix, This father expectant crossed over the Styx. Now, one would suppose—at least, at first thought— No will could be simpler and plainer; that naught Could, by any contingency, happen, to throw Any doubt :is to how the estate was to go: To the widow, one-third, or two-thirds, or the whole, As the issue might be and the embryo soul Prove a male or a female, or |>erisli at birth ; To the child, if a girl it should happen to be, One-third ; if a boy, then two parts out of three. Was ever a more simple will made on earth ? But (to alter a proverb Francaise), L'lwmme propose, la ft mine di*pose. Nine months, to a day, After shrouding her husband, our widow began To put into bold execution a plan She d conceived with intent to demolish com pletely The will the deceased thought he'd drawn up so neatly. She sent for a priest and confessed all her sins, Then took to her bed and gave birth to—twins; And, as if her dead lord to spite doubly, and vex his Pale ghost, the taid twin* were of OPPOSITE HEXES! And now all the lawyers and judges ami friends Of this troublesome widow are at their wits' ends To determine just how the estate to divide; And they find it a right knotty point to decide; Shall the boy have two-thirds while the other third goes To the girl, and the widow get naught for her throes? Or must we allow the astute widow's claim To two-thirds on the plea that a feminine came. And to one-third beside on the opposite plea That one of the posthumous heirs is a he t Or shall the whole go to the lawyers and court? Or where else must a fitting solution besought? 'Tis a question o'er which it will be easy to quairei. Let us leave it unanswered and draw a brief moral. MORAL. Ye over-affectionate husbands, take care ! Not to leave twins behind you in ventre*i mere. Above all, harbor not the preposterous thought Your Will can your widow's will possibly thwart. —Jt. J. M., in \Va»hin tion down to July 18th, was 1,086, and their character shows the all-em bracing nature of the exhibits, only two entries having been hitherto made of the same kind of articles. Among agricultural exhibits the most promi nent hitherto are: cotton gins, cotton presses, cotton-seed cleaners, fertalizers, I plows, harrows, cultivators, an agri cultural steam engine and various food products. Tbe buildings are being rapidly pushed to completion and Sec retary Kycknian, says they will be ready to receive exhibits by August 15, and that the Exhibition will certainly j open on the date fixed—October 5. | _ Peruna is not an experiment, but a i fixed fact; a single bottle will convince I you. BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10,1881 THE STAR SPANGLED BAN NER. What is our national song? The British have their Rule Britannia, the French their Marseillaise, the Swiss their Rahz des Vaches, and so on through the family of nations nearly every one has its own song which stirs the pulses and fires the blood as no other human words can. But when the question is put to the average American tbe chances are that he will answer indifferently, Yankee Doodle, Hail Columbia, America, or the Star Spangled Banner. Each of these has its own right to the honor. The first two, while posessing merits of their own, belong in spirit rather to the Revolutionary period than to that of to-day. The first is a tune rather than a song, for the words are frivolous, while the second, with its Sound, sonnd, the trump of fame! Let Washington's great name, Ring through the world with loud applause, is rather an invocation of the Father of his Country thau of the patriotic or national spirit. The Rev Dr. Smith's America, laboring under the disadvan tage of beine sung to tbe tune of God save tbe King, the music of the English anthem of to-day, is also destitute of the qualities which appeal to the heart. The Star Spangled Banner, with its impassioned appeal to the emblem of patriotism, must then be considered our national song, represent ing, as it does, the spirit to which Maryland, my Maryland, written by a citizen of the same State as Francis Scott Key, appealed in another way. The Star Spangled Banner was written by Mr. Key, who was a native of Frederick county, Maryland, and like all his verses was written on the moment, to serve the fancy of a passing occasion, and the circumstances of its composition are not only interesting in themselves, but are almost necessary to be known to appreciate the reception which it had upon its first appearance, and which gave it permanent lodgment in our national literature. Like Roguet de I'lsle's Marseillaise Hymn, a war song for all nations, which it must be admitted far excels it in vigor and vi vacity, our national hymn was written in a single night, and tbe "morning gales" swept it through tbe land. In 1814 Mr. Key aud family were residing in Georgetown. The British squadron bad moved up the Potomac River as far as Alexandria, and the at tack of foreign marauders was expect ed at Washington. A member of Ma jor Peters' volunteer company of light artillery, Mr. Key was forced, by bis honor no less than his inclination, to remain in the city and aid in protecting its people's homes; without him Mrs. Key would not quit the place. His relatives in Frederick, appreciating the defenseless position of his family at Georgetown, with their natural pro tector likely to be engaged in tbe ac tive defense of tbe Federal Capital, sent bis brother-in-law, Taney, afterward the Chief Justice, to go aud bring his wife and family to their friends in Frederick. The preparatious for the defense of Washington induced the early departure of the enemy; but while Mr. Taney remained at the Key mansion a messenger came there with an urgent summons for Mr. Key to ob tain (Jovernmeutal permission to go aboard tbe British Admiral's ship and secure the release of one Dr. Beanes, whom a troop of straggling English soldiers had seized in Upper Marlboro and carried a prisoner with them to the fleet upon embarkmect for their depart ure, and the efforts of whose friends for his release had thus far been una vailing. Friendship for Dr. Beanes and a consideration for the community of which he was a most highly-esteem ed member and a leading physician, pressed Mr. Key to promptly under take the mission, and with due authori ty be hastened to Baltimore to take a vessel to communicate with tbe Brit ish fleet in the matter, his family, meanwhile, under escort of Mr. Taney, journeying to Maryland. He did not secure even the promise of his friend's release without delay and difficulty. Although Dr. Beanes had treated the officers of the invading British army with courtesy and hospitality at his elegant mansion, and had tended their wounded at Bladensburg with pro fessional skill and humane tenderness, tbey maintained that he had violated some sort of a parole iu putting him self at tbe bead of a detachment of citi zens to pursue and punish tbe plunder ing troops who were depredating on him and his neighbors. For this he was detained and treated with more or less indignity, and only after consider able effort on tbe part of Mr. Key and the Government Agent for exchange of prisoners, Mr. John S. Skinner, was his release reluctantly consented to. But neither he nor those who had come to secure his release were permitted to leave the fleet until after the impending attack upon Baltimore had been made. Thus was an occasion made which fur nished the inspiration for the Star Spangled Banner. When the fleet reached Patapsco and the troops were and Admiral Cochrane moved up the river to superintend tbe attack on Fort McHenry by water, the American agents and prisoner were placed—under a guard of marines to prevent themjfrom landing—upon their own ship, which was anchored where they could plainly see the flag flying on tbe Fort from their deck. With what patriotic anxiety they watched all night "the rocket's red glare" and the "bombs bursting in the air" may easily !>e imagined. For hours the bombardment continued unceasingly, indicating the stubborn and successful resistance of the attacked party In the early morning, and some time be fore the gray dawn, tbe cessation of firing led the watchers to fear lest there had been some signs of surrender ; and then ensued a period of most painful suspense, during which they counted the watches of the night and waited for the "dawn's early light"' to reveal whether there gallantly* streamed from tbe ramparts the "broad stripes aud bright stars" they had hailed at "the twilight's last gleaming," and which they had exultingly seen "still there," proudly waving against the dark blue sky in the glare of tho rockets and bursting bombs. The light of day and their glasses trained to the service brought joy to their vigil. The move ments of the British revealed the dis comfiture of their troops on land, and with the orders for their re-embarking came permission for the American ves sel to land. It was such scenes as these, and under the thrilling excite ment of tbe very occasion itself, that our national anthem was conceived, and. indeed, mainly written. Those who knew Mr. Key's habit of commit ting his strains to verse upon the spot and of covering the backs of letters which he carried in bis pocket with the improvised lines can well understand that his immortal lyric, merely the narrative and expression of his feelings on this occasion, was begun while he was watching the retreat of the enemy, finished on his way to the shore in the boat, and written out in full exactly as it now stands at his hotel in Baltimore on the very evening after the exciting events which evoked it. Judge Nich olson, the husband of his wife's sister, was the first person to whom tbe au thor read the lines, aud be was so pleased with it that he had handbills of it printed and posted, which were read and received with enthusiastic in terest by the Baltimoreans, rejoicing in the successful defense made for their city. It was set to music by Charles Du rang, a native of Lancaster, Pa., and the first public rendition of it was at Ford's Theatre on September 12, 1814. Its composer's nan'e, by the way is seldom to be found in musical cata logues. Whatever the merits of its composition, it was a matter of little concern to its author. Inclined a3 he was to rythmical expression of bis fancies he had an ignorance of musical composition that would be utterly in conceivable if it were not, by a most remarkable illustration of the law of heredity, made plain in the case of some of his descendants. He could not tell one tune from another. Old Hundred, Yankee Doodle, Hail Colum bia, and the Star Spangled Banner were entirely undistinguishable to tbe ear of Francis Scott Key. Upon tbe occasion of the visit to Tupcaloosa, be fore referred to, he was serenaded, and tbe local band naturally played the music of his famous song To the great astonishment and amusement of the gentlemen about him, he innocent ly remarked that "it was a pretty air." densely ignorant of the tune tbey were playing. A daughter inherited the same lack of musical aptitude, and her daughter, in turn; and now, in the fourth generation, a greatgranddaugb ter of the author of the Star Spangled Banner has vainly tried for years to ac complish enough musical knowledge to know that tuno when it is played. In personal appearance Mr. Key was tall and thin, cleanly shaven, with a head of heavy brown hair, disposed to curl slightly. He had a face of marked beauty, of peculiar oval form, and a notable sweetness of countenance. He had large, dreamy, poetic eyes and a genuinely sympathetic and mobile ex pression. A picture in Independence Hall represents him as a young man. A portrait in possession of his daugh ter, Mrs. Turner, who with some of her decendants is resident in California, has been copied from the statue to adorn the monument which is to be erected to him there, in accordance with the {150,000 bequest for that pur pose of James Lick, the eccentric Cali fornia millionaire. AN OLD SETTLER'S STORY. The boys had been telling a few fish, turtle and suake stories, to which he listened very attentively. When tbey had all finished, old 'mossy' gave a hitch or two and unlimbered. 'Wall, boys, I never have doubted any sort o' huntin' story since mv leetle turkle scrape down on the bottoms.' The boys all looked inquiringly, and he proceeded. 'I was a pokin' round down thar one day last year, when I come crost the dumdest old-lookiii' turkle I ever seen. Why, the moss was an inch thick on his back, and the old cuss couldn't hardly wiggle his tail. I cut a stick to measure the depth of the moss on bis back and accidentally scraped off a hunk of it, when I seen some letters. So I scrajied it all off and thar in big letters wus writ *B. C.' follered by the figures '567.' Well, I stood up kinder faint-like, and tuk my hand off on him to sorter rub my old bead, when he fetched a flop to get away and slid down tbe bank a bit and turned clean over, when, I'll l>e 'dog oned,' if thar wa'n't printed in the big gest kind of capitals on his belly, just ahind his forelegs, 'Adam,' and down a little furder, nigh his right hind leg in tbe same style that they put the name of the town on dog collars) was printed in smaller type, 'Paradise !' MlNtaken for ConMumptlan. Wo have known persons to doctor for years for consumption, all to no effect. Though they had a cough, felt pains in their lungs, were depressed, weak, with many other symptoms tending to that disease, yet there was no structural unsoundness of the lungs. These symptoms were all tbe painful offsprings of a torpid and diseased liver. We could fill a volume with testimonials of thousands so aliected, who wore permanently cured by taking Simmons Liver Regulator. Look well after your huckleberries this season. It is said they are infest ed with poisonous bugs. For all derangements of the Urinary Organs, wear a Day Kidney Pad. Strawberry plants set out during this monUi will yield a fine crop next season. When plants are ordered from a distance it is a good plan to set them at first, when received, close together. Cattle, as well as human beings, are now able to travel in 'parlor cars.' These are so arranged that twenty fat oxen weighing 1,500 pounds apiece, can be carried in one car, with room enough to lie down comfortably. On the journey tbey are fed twice and watered three times a day, which is a vast advance on the old cruel system of transporting cattle. And it is found that the new system is more economi- I cal as well as more bumano. | JUDICIAL INFIRMITIES. In the address of ex-Chief Justice Agnew, of this State, before the Liter ary Societies of Iloanoke College, Vir ginia, at the recent commencement of that institution, he calls attention to certain dangers of Republicau govern ment in the United States. One of these dangers he describes as "judicial infirmity," the chief sources of which he finds in timidity, local usage and prejudice, partisanship in nominations and elections, the influence of great cor porations, and a too refined education al trainiug. Since Judge Agnew was himself on the Bench twenty-seven years—twelve in the lower Courts and fifteen in the Supreme Court—be may .be presumed to know whereof he speaks, and bis observations on this point are worthy of attention. Judge Agnew says: "Of all the virtues in public life cour age—tbe Latiu virtus —is the greatest, because it conserves and crowns all the rest. Want of it in a judge is a great infirmity, destroying independence of thought aud aciion. Boldness must not be mistaken lor true courage. It is sometimes the result of too much self-esteem—or call it vauity—and be comes a source of error, though not so often as timidity. Timid minds are af fected by public opinion, especially when excited by interest, iguorauce or clamor. Legal questions are often greatly misunderstood by the general public, and bence its opinion is no safe guide. Timidity will mistake public sentiment for public interest, and by confounding them fall into error. When the mind is thus affected the Judge has but one remedy—to look directly at the case itself, thrusting aside all thought of the parties and the public. Local usages and prejudices are pow erful impediments to correct views of the law, and frequently give it an un lucky twist. They enter into the very thoughts of judges living within their influence. Hence the peculiarities of large cities will turn the law into new channels furrowed out by local inter ests. This produces narrowness and an inability t8 embrace the entire scope of all tbe consequences of decision up on the interests of the whole State. I have known a city usage to mould a decision directly in tbe teeth of tbe express words of a plain act of assem bly. This is a subject not always un derstood by tbe public. In all Courts of the last resort the tendency is to be governed by general principles—those reasons which are believed to be most conducive to the public welfare. This is proper, for when the law is founded upon sound reason and good sense it comports best with the true public in terest. But it is just here the judge subject to this local influence is misled; he confounds the interest springing out of tbe local usage with the general public interest of the whole State, and thus falls into error. Partisan nominations and elec tions are another source of infirmity Indeed, it is common where lawyers prominent in politics aspire to judicial stations. Their opinions as active par tisans continue to wield a strong influ ence over their judgments. One as a partisan will justify what as a man he cannot tlefend. If a party question comes before him his political friends know where to find him. Nor is this always an imputation on his integrity. His prejudices, and not intentional wrong, mislead him. Nevertheless, the evil consequence is the same. When partisan bias is added to a vigorous in tellect the case is much worse. It in trenches itself behind ingenious reason ing and plausible pretexts, and thus ceives the public. A judge of this kind is a public calamity, and especially so wbeu be secures a long term of office. The influence of great corporations is another cause of judicial infirmity. It is rarely the case that they approach the Bench directly. That would alarm the conscience of the judge. The lever used by them is an alleged public inter est. If a great railroad company would exercise some desired power to tbe in jury of private right, as to take private property, the public necessity is invok ed. The necessity is dilated upon and magnified, while the private interest is contracted to the least degree. In most instances the corporate interest repre sents immense wealth and influential persons on that side, while the other is but a single person and a small inter est. Here this form of judicial weak ness appears. Under the overshadow ing influence of tbe corporation the ju dicial mind exaggerates the public ne cessity uutil it towers like a mountain over the individual right. This wrong is committed also when judges inter pret the law or the Constitution strict ly against the citizens and liberally in favor of the corporations. The true end of government is the protection of tbe fundamental rights of men, of which the right of property is one, sacredly guarded by the Declaration of Rights, and excepted out of the power of gov ernment, uuder special limitations. Hence when a judge without a clear, well-supported and preponderating pub lic necessity strikes down the natural right of property in favor of a corpora tion be does a great wrong, aud fails to serve the true end of government. It is a clear breach of official duty, whose great purpose is the protection of indi vidual fundamental rights. Another evil is one inseperable largely from the requirements of the Bench, and begets aiij infirmity often productive of injustice. No one is fit for the higher judiciary whose mind is not expanded by study and various knowledge. The Judge must deal with all conditions of society, all the employments and affairs of life. As a consequence those who fill higher grades are generally meu whose lives have been sj»ent in study and refine ment. They have rarely felt priva tions and wants of the under class— not the poor or patq>er class, hut those who live by daily labor, accumulate slowly, and possess small and humble homesteads Such Judges, raised in j comfort and refinement, unlike the Great Master,are not touched with a feeling of the infirmities of those be neath tbem, or a sympathy which springs from a participation in their trials and their humble lot. Yot the I homestead of the humble citizen—the ' roof which covers wife and children, or the garden spot which helps to feed them—is to him as dear, as great, as the place of wealth or the castle of pow er, and his right the Constitution guards with strictness. Yet here it is where the influence of education and social rela tions misleads the judicial mind, which, untouched by a fellow-feeling, suffers the humble right to be overshadowed aud lost in the exaggerated impor tance of the supposed public necessity. True greatness of mind would lead to more contemplative views of the rela tions of society, and hold the scales of justice more righteously between right and power; or if the poor man's right must give way to a real prepondera ting necessity, would securetoajustcom pensation by a rightful interpretation of the Constitution and law. What is the remedy for judicial in firmity is a question more easily asked than answered. The natural qualities and educational characteristics of men cannot be readily determined by the public. Reputation is the only com mon means of discovery. The people who desire their Beuches to rise to the most elevated standard of right and justice must see to it, therefor, that rings and politicians do not fill them with tools and mere partisans, and that those they support have the highest reputa tion for integrity, knowledge, candor and honor. FACTS CONCERNING JAY GOULD. The other morning while Mr. Cole, the proprietor of the coming circus and menagerie of that name, was picking his teeth on the steps of the Russ House, a tall sun-burned, bald-headed man, with pine burrs in his clothes and a stick of sassafras in his mouth, ap proached and said: 'Be you the wild animal man, mis ter ?' The proprietor of the 'Double Mam moth Mastodon Aggregation" admitted that such was the fact. 'Then,' proceeded the party from the mountains, "I think I'll get you to make an offer for a large sized healthy Califomy lion I've got." 'Good specimen, eh ?' asked the cir cus man. 'Good? Well I should say so. Meas ures eleven feet from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail. Caught him my self when a cub. Just, four years old to-morrow. 'Hum—good appetite?' 'Appetite ?—Great Scott—appetite ! Well, I should smile—that's just the point—that's just why I'm parting with Jay—l call hiin Jay Gould be cause he takes everything in. If it wasu't for his appetite, and the queer little things it makes him do, I would n't part with Gould for a fortune. 'Savage, eh ?' 'Well, no; I don't know as I could call Jay savage, exactly—sorter nib bish though, may be. Has a kinder habit of gnawing up things, so to speak. In fact the neighbors—l live up at Bladder' J Peak—have gotten to be so fussy and particular of late that I can't so much as unchain J. G. for a little fresh air without their getting grumpy over it ?' 'There's no pleasing some people,' said the hippodromer. 'I should say not. Now, frinstanre, 'bout three months after Jay got to be as big as a boarding bouse sofa, I came home one day from a picnic and found he had eaten up old Aunt Maria, who had been left at home to mind the house—leastwise she was nowhere to be found; and as Jay Gould seemed sorter bulgy like, and kept coughing up hairpins and false teeth for a day or two, we kinder suspicioneu the whole thing. 'Maternal aunt ?' inquired the show man thoughtfully. 'Exactly. My wife took on dread fully at first, and wanted me to shoot Jay right ofT. But I told her that be probably suffered a good deal as it was and that as most likely he'd catch rheumatism and things from tho re mains, we'd better call it square ' 'And did she ?' 'Well, she kinder got reconciled after awhile, especially as Jay seemed fond of playing with the children. One morning soon after that my wife's mother—whole family lived with me, you see—didn't come down to break fast. As all her false hair was hang ing over a chair back, and Gould crawl ed out from under the bed licking his chops, and with his tongue a good deal coated—mother-in-law was always tak ing things for the liver complaint—we saw at onco it was another visitation of Providence, and that the heavy hand of affliction was again upon us.' 'Looked that way, didn't it V 'Well, as you may suppose, tho old lady—that's my wife—pranced around a good deal then, and got down the breech-loader right away. But just then there arrived a gold medal from the S. P. C. A. society, awarded on account of my forbearance in the Aunt Maria business, and so I got her calm ed down after awhile.' 'Pacified her, eh ?' 'Yes, I managed to arrange a re prieve for Jay, somehow. You see I was always awful fond of pets and ten der hearted and all that, you under stand. I argued that the poor animal didn't know that he was doing wrong —merciful man I"B merciful to his beast, etc., etc. That smoothed things over for another month.' 'What happened then ?' 'Well, one day 1 sent Tommy, our youngest boy, down to the store for some sugar, and he took Gould along for company. Now, whether it was because Jay was fond of sugar or not I don't know, but he came home alone, and as soon as we noticed a kind of bulge on his ribs, about as big as Tom my, we concluded that the dread archer had marked another Kkidmore—my name is Kkidmore—for his own. The whole family took on like mad, and Mrs. Kkidmore was about to shore the powder keg under J. (1. and touch it off herself, when I pointed out that it wouldn't do to desecrate our offspring's tomb in that way. So I just had the burial service read over the lion anl tied crape around his neck for thirty days. How does that slrike you?' 'After that you kept that animal chained.' ADVERTISING ItATEH, Oue square, ono insertion, $1 ; each subse quent insertion, 50 cents. Yearly advertisement exceeding one-fourth of a column, (5 per inch Figure work double these rate*; addition* charges where weekly or monthly changes are made. Local advertisements 10 cents per line for fii>t insertion, and 5 cents per line for each additional insertion. Marriages and deaths pub lished free of charge. Obitnvy notices charged as advertisements, and payable when handed in Auditors' Notices, 44 ; Executors' and Adminis trators' Notices. $3 each; Estray, Caution and Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lines, each. From the fact that the CITIZKX is the oldest established and most extensively circulated I£e- SuLlican newspaper in Butler county, (a Reput can county) it must be apparent " to business men that it is tho medium they should use in advertising their business. NO. 37 'Well, no. The fact is I set out to get a chain several times, but one thing and another prevented, until one day last week I actually missed the old lady herself. I looked around for her for a couple of days, when somehow of a sudden I sorter inteutioned where she was. I gave Gould about half a pound of emetic right away, but all we could get out of him was a pair of high heeled shoes and a chest protector. It was too late—too late ! We put the shoes and things in a coffin, aud had Jay led behind the herse to the ceme tery. Wanted to have as much of the corpse present as possible, don't you sec ? We had the animal all decorat ed with flowers and things, as tine as you please. Folks say it was the touchiest thing that ever took place in them parts.' and the bereaved husband sighed heavily. i 'Don't wonder you want to sell tho l*asi,' remarked the menagerie man af ter a pause. 'Well, I sorter do, and I sorter don't said Mr. Skidmore, abstractedly. 'There's so many memories and things clustering around J. G—seems kinder like parting with one's family burying lot, as it were. On the other hand, though, now that the old lady is gone, I sorter feel as if the insect had—well, had outlived his usefulness so to speak. So suppose 1 just have this box hauled around to your show after the perform ance this afternoon, and see if we can't strike a bargain.' 'All right,' said the manager, 'l'm going up Salt Lake way after awhile, and perhaps I can work him off for big money to some of the Mormon elders.' 'There's a mint of coin in him as a family pet,' said the other earnestly. And after striking the circus pro prietor for a season dead-head, the widower shouldered his umbrella and drifted sadly down street. LOCK J A W. The death of Willie Cahill, of Utica, from lockjaw revives these remarks from an exchange: 'Every little while we read of a case of lockjaw terminat ing fatally, arising from a wound in the feet or limbs from rusty nails. Of course every rusty nail wound does not prevent anyone from doing it, that we are surprised at people's care lessness, and the danger they submit themselves to thereby. If a wound caused by a rusty nail, a cut of an axo or other tool, or any incised wound, or even a sprain, is thoroughly exposed to the smoke of burning wool or woolen fabrics, unless the wool is very, very bad, the int lammation is all taken out, the wound heals from the bottom and all danger of titanus is removed. The modus operandi is as follows: In a convenient receptacle of iron or fire proof vessel place a quantity of live coals from a wood fire. On these throw a small handful of wool or woolen rags then hold the wound over the smoke, as close to the buaning mass as tho heat will allow, covering the the wounded portiou with a blanket draped over that and the fire. Con tinue the smoke by adding fresh fire or wool as otten as necessary for from twenty minutes to three-fourths of an hour, according to the severity of the wound, or the amount of inflammation already existing. After smoking, the wound should be dressed in the approved method, leaving the mouth of the wound open for discharge. The treatment will immediately allay pain, remove inflam mation, and put it in a condition for healing by the 'first intention.' It is a positive preventative of titanus, and the best healing agent known. The smoking should lie repeated if the in flammation increases or the pain re turns." General L. F. Ross, of Avon, 111., who has long been a breeder of the beautiful and docile Devon cattle, is now engaged in nn effort to 'breed ofF the horns, which he thinks a useless appendage, and at the same time to preserve the peculiar excellences of the Devon breed. For this purpose lie procured a thorough-bred polled Nor folk bull, which, like the Devon, is red in color, and now has about twenty polled calves from this bull and grade Devon cows. Brood mares, while suckling their foals, may safely be used for moderate work but under such conditions they must IK; generously fed, and care should be exercised to prevent the foals from sucking while the mares are over heated. It will usually be found more convenient to leave the foal in the stable while working the mare; and in such cases she should be permitted to stand until thoroughly cooled off before the fool has access to her. Nowhere are apple and pear trees so free from blight and destructive in sects as in the immediate neighborhood of a large black ant-hill five or six years old. The favorite food of ants would ap|»ear to be the larva> and pupa: of those creatures which spend the whole of their brief existence in devour ing the tender shoots and juvenile of fruit trees. German orchardists regard these energetie little creatures as among their most efficient helpers, and take pains to establish ant-hills in their orchards. The Australian census, of which the approximate results were made known early in May, has surprised and disap pointed the people of Victoria, who find themselves less numerous by more than 100,000 than they had supposed themselves to be. The total population of Victoria is 855,796. Allowing for the natural increase by births, the sta tistics reveal an actual loss of 21,000 during the decade, and it is further more entirely among the male popula tion. This state of affairs revealed by the census has provoked expressions of discontent throughout the colony. A correspondent of The London Qlobe says that the most obvious cause is the faulty system of land legislation, which tempts a poor man to settle on the land though he may have no capital and no experience in farming or graz ing. After a few years of miserable existence his discontent urges him to remove to sorno other colony where the laud laws are still more liberal, in the hope of bettering his condition. It is supposed that New-South Wales has absorbed the larger part of the popula tion which Victoria ought to have re tained.