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MALCOLM I BROWNING,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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fred. FERSN ErT
BEXTMST.
Will be in Orangeburg every Thursday.
Friday and Saturday.
OflSee in rear of BULL, SCOVILL & PIKE,
feb 20 tf
DR. E W. KENNERLY,
OttAIGEBIIRG,
XTAVISO REMOVED TO THIS BLACK,
J I Bespeelfully offers his Professional
Services to the Cltixens and Vicinity.
Offiee en Russell Street, opposite Bull,
Seovill & Pike's.
mar 13 2m
DR. J. R. TOOMER,
ORANGKBURG, S> C.
RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE ClTD
5REN4 of Orangeburg and Vicinity thnt he
has resumed the Practice of Medicine, and
?an be found at his Residence on Russell
fltreet. jnn 1 r.?ly
D. AV. HOBINSON.
* ABU ION Am,!? TAILOR,
I have the pleasure to announce to rny mi
rnerous Customers and the Public generally,
*hat having removed to a Central Position,
handy and convenient to all, 1 am now pre
pared Cat. Pit and make Up a GENTLE
MAN'S WARDIIOBR with Neatness and
Despatch. Terms liberal and Work War
ranted. Thankful for the Patronage of the
past, I reepeelftilly, solicit its continuance.
Next door to Messrs. Bull, Soovill A Pike, I
pan be 'ound at all times.
Jan?? ly i>. w. robinson.
CRACKERS AN? VAKEN.?
By the BOX and at RETAIL, a choice
assortment of CKACKKhS nnd CAKES,
SNAPPETS. JUMBLES. CREAM, SODA,
Ae., Ae.? MOLAS8E8 CAKES furnished at
lew rates by the Barrel or Box. Call nnd
?ee Samples.
JOHN A. HAMILTON,
eat 0? ?m Court House Store.
Josh ??Ung? and the I^ektrir C?m
mitty.
It is p.i ven to the world that once on a
time tho following letter was sent to Josh
Billings, dated from Salt Point :
J. Billings, Esq.:?I am instructed
by our association to iuquiro of you, and
solicit a reply, if you could rood a dis
course before our lyceuui this winter,
and if so, at what time, on what subject,
and upon what terms.
Most respectiully yours,
KZKA SMITH,
Cor. Sec.
To which Josh give the following re
ply, dating from Pokipsy :
Smith, mi Dear :?This day, at 10
o'clock A. M., I cum in contact with
your letter, nod was real glad tew hear
from yu. How do you like being Cor.
Sek. OY it Ey-Asaoti' ? It is a light,
pretty bizziue&s, and don't requiro much
capital.
Let mc ask yon if you are nny rela
shttn of Jake Smith, the hatter. If you
arc forfait it, for Jake is a common euse
The Smiths are a good futnily, and
prevail more pcrmiskus thnn nny kind ov
folks that I know ov, but it would be
unnatural in the highest, if there want
some, wharc they was so thick, that was
wus8 than the rest.
Did you ever rend history Ezra ? If
you didn't yu will bo surprised tew hoar
that Johu Smith married Pokcrhontas
the duttghter of Powhattan, the inj mi
boss.
The way this happened was so ; Smith
was about getting slowed, when Poker
hotitas went in mid full flat on him. Old
Pnwhattan give it up. and Pokerhontus
h id Smith, und Smith settled down and
went into the injun hir.iinc.ss, in a small
way. on his own hook.
This is the grist ot the story.
Tis one ov the most uficctingest trans
actions on file.
You ought to read history Ezra ; i:
will leant you informasliuti. and gtve-yn
a ktmlledgc ov cdncashun.
I forgot tew state that Johu Smith
lived somewhere in peusylvauy, at the
time his truiisakshuns with Pokcrhontas
took place, and if he ain't dead probably
I lives thare now. There is one lust rate
' thing about history ; it is alwus true ; if
it ain't true, it ain't history. Bo If you
lurn it oust, yew ucver have tew unhar
ness.
John Smith, who had the trausakshun
with Pokcrhontas, had an immense in
voice of b?>ys, thare is 13 ov that name
in our town this morning, besides several
who have either died or gone to Dcucver
City.
Did it ever strike, Ezra, that death
was one uv of the must remarkable thins
that could happen tew n man ?
A man may be ritch, and kuo history
just like slupj^d^s for breakfast, and be
handsuniable to lift a ton without think
ing but death beats awl these just as easy
as lot in crackers.
Death secuis to be as far as a man eati
git; when a nmu acquires that thorough
ly, his ambishun secuis to be satisfied.
One man can bo richer, and lilt more
than another, but he kant bo any mure
deader.
1 am glad there is one thing in this
world that is enuff for man.
^peaking uv man, Ezra, dew yoil kon
tier hin a suckcess yet, or has lie got
tew try ng:;:n ?
History bus a go< d deal tew say about
man, that don't nllude to his success.
A dew, Er.ra.
Y'onrs, full ov oats,
JOSH HILLINGS.
P. S.?I'll do it for seven dollars and
thirtccti cents. J. H.
P. S.; P. S.?Time Jany the oust.
J. B.
P. S.; P. S.j P.?Subject, The Fleeti
noss uv Things. J. 11.
Complaints having been tuado that
certain postoffice employes upon the rail
roads were doing a uice biudness for them
selves lit the expense of regular dealers,
who are required to pay faro when trans
porting produce to murk et, tho Posttnus
ter-Cctierul ordered the following to be
incorporated in the instructions: "Traffic
in merchandise, while on duty, for tho
personal profit of a railway post-office
clerk, route agent, or mail route messen
ger, even though the regular tariff rates
of the railroad company arc paid thereon,
is nbsoluterly prohibited. Post-office
railway clerks, roytc sgeiits, and mail,
routo messengers, must confine them*
solves whilo on the train strictly to tho
duties imposed on them by tho Depart
ment."
A VVuKD TO 1'ARKNTH.?Do ?peak
kiuuly iu your little osea ! Their hearts
are brimful of hive tor you. Put your
self on tin equality with them; join in
their little sports ami pastimes. Do not
feeP-thnt you compromise your dignity by
such acta. It will cause them to open
their hearts to you, and you will uncon
sciously*, g.<in their lovo und confidence,
by which, with proper training, you may
save them a world of trials, and perhaps
from a career of crime. To my mind*
there can be iiu more heart sickening
sight that) to see a child, large or small
shun the presence of its parents.
When you see this the case, rest us
surcd there is something wrong. Parents,
for Heaven's sake ! do not lie -tern and
overbearing toward your children ; recol
lect you were a child once ; let them feel
in their hearts that you ure their bust
earthly friends, ever ready to sympathize
with thetn in their sorrows or their joys.
If they commit an error sometimes,
apeak to them gently of it, not before
strangers, or you will destroy all the
good effect it might have had by pursu
ing u contrary course.
Dead and dirct?do not drive. Say
what you have to say gently and kindly,
not with anger on your brow, and in
tones that would lead one to suppose
they were culprits, and you a stern judge
in.'toad of a loving, tender parent, as
you should be.
Anger is a blight. God or,ly knows
bow much has withered under its influ
ence. It has broken bonds of* friend
ship, and severed family ties.
Do you try to make home attractive?
If uot, you commit a great error. Lot
it be, to your children, the "dearest spot
on earth;" the great world will beckon
them uwny from the home nest soon
enough ; care and pain will write their
hearts' sorrows on their faces, line their
foreheads, dim their eyes, und blot out
their dimples.
Let us, therefore, do all wu can to
make tb ir childhood and youth happy
and joyous; and'when they-gntrat Vs&M
it, to mingle with the cold unfeeling
world, it will be to them a green spot
ever iu memory, to which their minds
ean revert with pleasure.
Let nie say again, speak gently to your
children ; it will cost you nothing, hut
will make their hearts glad. Kncnuragc
them to bring their associates home with
them ; you ean then see if they are pro
per ones, ami 'point out traits to be
shunned or imitated. Cultivate a kindly
disposition to all; especially to little
children. It will pay.
- ???> - * - ^s?
The editor of the Buffalo Express is a
devoted nnd uffectiouate son. Ho re
marks upon bis visit to the paternal
tomb of Adam are as follows :
The tomb of Adam ! How touching
it was, here iu the laud of strangers, far
away from home and friends, and all who
eared for me, thus to discover the tomb
of a blood relation. True a distant 000,
but still a relation. The unerring in
stinct of nature thrilled its recognition
The fountain of my filial affection was
stirred to its profoundest depths, and I
gave wny to tumultuous emotion. 1
leaned upon a pillar ami burst into te ns.
I deem it no shame to have wept over
the grave of my poor dead relative. Let
him who would sneer nt my emotion
close this volume here, for he will fiml
little to his taste in my journeying
through the Holy Land Noble old man.
he did not live to sec me?he did not
live to see bis c.iild. And I, I?I?
alas, 1 did not live to sco bint. Weighed
down by sorrow nnd disappointment, be
died before I was born. Hut let us try to
bear it with fortitude. Let us trust tbnt
1 be is better off where be is.
Di tch Cubic for Drunkenness.?
Tho following cure for drunkenness is
practiced in Holland : The patient is
shut up in u room, nml debarred all com
munication, except with his physician.
As ofteu ns he pleases, spirits?branJy,
whiskey, giu, &c.?are given him, but
mixed with two-thirds water ; till other
drinks, HUuh as beer, coffee, wine, &c,
are ini.v d with one third brandy. The
various viands, too, that are given him?
bread, meats, eke.?are nil prepared with
brandy; consequently the patient is in u
state of continual intoxication. This
lasts about five days ; at the end of that
time he usks with cutrouty for some nour
ishment, without his request being com
plied with, and not until his organs ab
solutely abhor alcohol. The cure is
complete, mid from that dny forth the
very smell of spirits produces the offoct
of an emetic
How a Giant PuuiLfor Tuains
Himself for a Fiout]?SftCoole is
now in training for Iiis light with Allen.
The St. Louis Republican Bays of his
method of training: .
He sleops on a good mattress, with
plenty of warm covering-rises promptly
at five o'clock in the morning, rain or
shine, mi.1 immediately .proceeds to a
shed room in the rear of tho lot, about
?ten by twelve, where hrT exercises with
the dumb bells, a suspended sand bag
weigh in a ubout Tour hundred pounds,
cannon ball-, mid two heavy bugs attach
ed to cords running overja. pulley. This
exercise is continued for about half an
hour, and is done to develop the muscle
of the arm, the flesh on which now feels
like buckskin stretched over marble. Af
ter this he wraps himsclfi, up us warm as
possible and muflles up his face so ns to
be hat illy dicrerniblc \'df the purpose of
producing profuse pt-rspumtiou and, starts
out for his four mile walk?two in and
two out. Returning, ho uudcrgoes a
salt-water bath and a? pretty severe
scrubbingand rubbing p'coccss; sufficient
ly rough, indeed, to take the skin off al
most any other man but him. After the
bath he dresses warmly again uud rests
awhile, und then breakfasts moderately
on beef or mutton, with trim tilings?the
meat, of course, always'tfare. His diet
is substantial, and varies but little from
that of a laboring man although proba
bly lie does not cat as much. After
breakfast comes n rcstjof an hour or so,
until one o'clock, when he dons his walk
ing shoes, each weighing ubout five
pou.ids. and, accnmpaiasd by one or both
of his trainers, and win muffled up, he
starts out on a wnik of from thirteen to
sixteen mi los.'and as n walk ist, he is a
decided success. A day or bo ago, when
the Natural 1 ridgJ road, and indeed all
the roads about flje suburbs of the city,
were in a muddy, slippcny condition, h
walkeTI fourteen miles in one hour and
fifty mi .utes, loaded doWai as he waswith
thi Jig*i j??tydvS*flfcfr>-tfc ?uui luiikheHeh
so little fatigued that he could have re
peated in the same time. His powers of
endurance are astonishing. On his' re
turn from the walk he enjoys a short
rest, then eats supper, ai.d a short time
after supper comes another walk of two
or three miles. He ur\er ventures out
after the dampness of evening sets in,
and is iu fied promptly at eight o'clock.
These are his everyday exercises, rain or
shine.-'
A Wonderful Prize Ksrav.? Prize
essays are so common that they excite
little interest nnw-a-days. Particularly
is this true of medical prize essays; but
one his recently been written which
deserves mention at least. It seems that
some time ago, the Massachusetts Medi
cal Society offered a prize of fifty dollars
for the best dissertation on ventilating
sick rooms at the least expense, with the
least difficulty, and at the moment needed
Whereupon somebody writes as follows:
??/'?// down the upper window sn-hund
leave tin fireplace '>j<*h.'' This is all
there is of it. We query whether there
has ever been a medical essay ? ritten
which was tu -re pointed and practicable,
[f this piper does not win the fifty dollars,
we propose to laise that sum from private
sources, and pay it over to the author.
Sometime.* it decs ;i grcul deal of good
to tell people, ill plain English, what
thoj already know <o thoroughly thai
they hardly know it at all.?-Heraid of
! Hmhh.
Hen Persuader?The Springfield
Republican, in speaking of a new inven
tion for a hen's nest, whereby tho cg;_s
drop through a trup-door, and so deceive
the hen that she keeps on laying, is re
sponsible for the following :
"Hlobbs met with a loss, however, with
one of the persuaders. Blobba hud a
lively young Shanghai pullet of boundless
ambition. Blobba bought a persuader
and his lone shanghai used it. She went
upon the nest in the morning. Hlobbs
saw her go,and his heart bounded within
him. Alas ! he never saw her collie off
again. At night he visited the per und
er. In the upper compartment was a
linudful of feathers, a few toe nails und
n bill, in thu lower compartment wore
three dozen and eleven eggs ! Hlobbs
saw it all! Her delicate Constitution
hud been unequal to the effort ; she had
lain herself away.
A man in Nowburyport, Mass., has
been nominated for Representative by
one political organization and for Senator
by another.
A Hoy's Composition.?Ma is my
i mother. I am nur eon. Ma's saois is
Mra.-Shrimp and Mr. Shrimp ia her hus
band. Pa iB my father. My name is
John George Washington Shrimp.-?
Thereforo pa's name is Shrimp; so is
ma's.
My ma has a ma. She is my grand*
ma. She is mother-in-law to pa. My
pa says mother-in-laws ought to be ve
toed. I like my graudma better than pa
'does' She brings me ten cent stamps
and bolivars. She don't briug auy to
pa. May bo that's why he don't like
her.
Aunt Jcrusha is my aunt. When pa
was a little boy she was his sister. I
like little sisters. Dickey Mopps has a
little Hater. Her name is Kose. I take
her out riding on my sled. Aunt Jc
rushu don't like her. She calls her "that
Mopps girl." I thiuk aunt Jorusha
ought to be ashamed of herself.
Aunt Jcrusha is a very pious woman.
She never wants us to talk loud on Sun
day, and sftys wc ouirht to have cold din
ners. She hears me say the catechism,
and knows it all v. itbout the book. She
Susan June is spoiling that boy; Susan
Jane is my ma ; t mit boy is me. She
says she hopes baby will curly show a
change of heart. If a change of heart
would make baby atop crying, I wish so
too. Aunt Jerusha livus with us. Some
times I think ma would rather ha\< her
live with somebody else. I usked aunt
Jerusha once why she didn't marry
somebody und sot up for herself. She
said many a man had wuuted to marry
her, but while poor Susan Jauc was in
such a state ot health she couldn't thiuk
of leaving! Resides, she said, what
would become of your papa ?
Aunt Jerusha sometimes bus a state of
? health too. On Washing day she hus a
I headache, aud does her head upiu browu
paper aud vinegar ; and 1 have to make
toast at the kitcbeu fire; aud i make
! some for tnyaelf too.
?^\.uut Jerusha^ays that nobody knows
^uat"*hc hu* done*^or that boy. That
buy's mo again. I told pa what she said
11c said that was just so, nobody did
know. Ma said that Auot Jerusha
means well, nnd that she's pn'a dear sis
ter 1 don't see why that's any reason she
should always scold when I eat cabbage
! with a knife.
Individual Ministry.?Mr. Wil
I Hum Reynolds, of Illinois, said: I taught
1
I a class once without results. It troub
led me sorely. 1 told my troubles to n
minister of Christ, who was staying with
me.
"You lack faith," said he, ' have you
ever taken your scholars obe by ono, aud
asked them why they are not Christians?"
"Nu, 1 never have."
"Well, there is your difficulty. You
j have lacked faith in the virtue of such
; direct labor with them. Take your class
now, and ask each one ol them personally,
: - What keeps you, my dear?, from the
Lord Jesus Christ?, Let us go apart
aud pray lor your scholars."
We went to an upper room, nnd prayed
that God would givo nie, as the teacher,
eaoli one ol my scholars on the very next
day. The next day us the Sabbath.
I resolved that I would honor God by
believing His promises. There was no
unusual religious interest in the school.
As I longed and prayed for my class my
faith increased. I pleaded, *(.) Lord,
j for thy name'a sake, for Jesus' sake, give
me all of my scholars for theo on the
morrow."
1 went to my class the next day with
feelings I never had before. 1 taught
the lesson. I applied it.
??Anne, when do you expect to be a
Christian?"
?1 don't know, Mr. Reynolds."
"Don't you feel that you ought to be
one now ?"
"Yes. sir."
? Anne, will you not surrender your
heart to Jesus ?"
She burst into tears. I faithfully
spoke to the next, until my five were in
tears, and one of them said to me,
??Won't you please meet us in a prayer
meeting at our bouse, Mr Reynolds."
"With pleasure."
I went there; wc knelt in prnyer. and
overy one them, there upon their Knees,
gavo themselves away to Jesus; and
there they nro earnest ChiistiuiiB to day
?three of them in my Sabbath school,
leading others to the same Saviour. I
took anoth r eines, and pursued the same
course. All but ono wero converted to
Christ?Report of the Third National
(American) Sunday School timt'enrion.
How to Know the Trutr*?At a
recent inquiry meeting, Rays a writer in
tho American Messenger, I catno to a
young law atudeut of strong mind, and
asked him, "Where are you on this great
matter of salvation V
"I don't know. I am all afloat. I
I don't know an T believe in the Bible
or in Qod, or anythiug else."
"Are you happy in that, condition ?"
"No, I am not." He was an orphan,
aud among strangers*
"Well, there is a very simple and easy
way to settle those doubts. Jesus says,
'If n man will do his will, he shall know
of the doctrine, whether it be ot God, or
whether I speak of myself.' Isu't it
worth trying/9"
"Yes," sabl he, 'it is." And bo did
try it. At our next meeting he rose and
said: "My friends, I am in the dark,
but I have determined to give my heart
and life to the service of Qod. Will
you pray for me?"
For two or three days he Continued
steadfast, though still in the dark, and
then light dawned upon his soul. Now
he knows the doctrine of God, and that
there is a blessed reality in religion.
Suppoht Yot'r Home Paper.?We
know of nothing that is more dishearten
ing to the publisher of a country news
paper, than to be told as he often is: 'I
take the Herald (or some other huge
weekly) and it costs me but two dollars
a year, and contains a deal trorc reading
I matter than yours/ Docs thnt mnu
consider thut its receipts for one week
arc double the yearly receipts of a country
paper ? Does ho consider also thut if
that paper were published a thousand
years it would not beuefit him as much
as his home paper docs in one? That
is the thing. Sec which will build up
yout own section; 6ee which will be the
greater benefit to your owu district. It
is the county paper that directs the
attention of people to your farms, and
publishes to the World Jta advantages,
invites capital and advauccs interest iu
its own aud adjoining counties. Besides,
it is true that the huge weekly made up
of the ponderous articles of the daily,
contains more valuable matter than the
county paper. It is not always filled
up with lengthy editorials on some sub
ject foreign to your interests and your
taste, with loug-witided, gusty novels,
(the very bane of tho reading public,)
and extended accounts of this and that;
while your county paper if conducted
properly, will give you everything of
importance in the most concise manner,
and you have your time left to spend in
something more profitable than wading
through a whole ease of type.
Let no one fail *o take his county paper
first, and if he shuuld want a daily let
that be a second consideration.
How to Stop C he win u Tobacco.?
In a recently-published pimphlct, tho
Reverend Mr. Trask gives the following
advice to tobacco chewers:
1. Muke the most of yout Will. Drop
tobacco, and reselvc never to use it again,
iu any form.
2. Go to an apothecary and buy ten
cents worth of Gentian root coarsely
ground.
3. Take as much of it after each meal,
or oftcner, as amounts to a common quid
of "fine cut" or "cavondish."
4. Chew it well and swallow all the
saliva.
5. Continue this a few weeks, and you
will come off conqueror; then thank God
and thank us.
Agricultural Items.
A man may fleece his sheep, but not
his land. The farmer's game is "give
and take."
It is estimated that the plauge has
killed two hundred and ten thousand cat
tle in England
The I'nited States produced twenty
five millions worth of cheese, and n hun
dred millions of butter last year.
A correspondent of tho Farmer's Club
warns people against fending tho rhu
barb plant to hogs; ho lost sevoi al by
doing it.*
All plants grew stronger and ripen
better when tho nir circulates freely
around them, and tho sun is not prevent
ed from au immediate influence.
A correspondent of tho Ohio Farmer,
writing from Lorian Co., Ohio, says
three young men sheared 692 sheep,
yielding 3,228 pound* of wool, iu Ihir
teon days.
The California wheat now afloat ?
worth four million dollars,
?- ?--.? " 1 '?*
A western writer says if as much u *
tout ion Was paid tu improving corn as Is
given to grapes, a hundred million bu*h?
ols might bo added to to the annual croj. ,
It is easy to equal any fancy breed '
cow with a native as a milker, but If the
daughter if the native is as good a oov,
it is an accident, not so in thoroughbred
stock.
A writer in the Country Gentleman
recommends fastening cows'' tailg to thu
barn joist where milking is done, by
means of a cord and hooks made of wire.
Many Eugllsh farmers feed no hay to
their work horses, but keep them in high
working order with straw, roots and
shorts. The equivalent of 12 tons if
hay czv: be produced on one acre th foots
A writer in the American Stock Jour
nal Bavs thut costivonesa and its accom
panyiug evils are the mam cause of sows
destroying their young/and that greeu
and other proper food is the preventive
and cure.
Good implements are indeed indispen
sable to success, and be wbo has provided
them will not only have, greater pleasure
in bis labors, but the proflia which at
tend the judicious application of botb
?uue and labor.
An experienced Iowa wool-grower
gives $1.50 as the probable average cost
of keeping a Bheep a year, in that State.
Gas-tar, miuglcd with whitewash np
plied to the interior of a hen-bouse, at
the rate of ono gill to a pailfull, it is
said will disperse the lice.
I It pays to make a cow comfortable in .
as many respects as possible. Every
hour she sutlers from any cause, the
milk accouut sutlers correspondingly. j
Forty thousand beef cattle, bound
north, have crossed thq Brazos river, ut'
Waco, Texas, the present season; four
thousand crossed iu two successive daye.
Farmers in Minnesota are paying
twenty-four per cent, interest tor money
to bold their wheat, not wishing to take
eighty or eighty-five cents a bushel forI"
it.
An old stable keeper in England rays
he has never hud a bad foot on his horses
since he commenced the practice of bed-'
ding on a thick layer of sawdust; Flue"
sawdust be finds the best, oak the wors .
The farmer who stints bis fields, is ai
unwise and improvident as he who starve*
his working cuttle in both eases be is
diminishing the ability of a faithf ul ser
vant to be useful to him.
The Ohio Farmer estimates the com
crop in Northern Ohio will not be more
than one-third an average, with half n
crop of fpddcr, and that the whole State
will not yield more than half a crop.
It is uu excellent plan to keep a lump
of common chalk in the feeding tiough
constantly, after the calves are a month
old; this will correct tho acidity of the
stomach and have a tendency to keep
tbciu iu a healthy Btate.
A farmer residing in DeWitt, Clinton
county, raised 212 bushels of wheat en
six and one half acres of ground in lSo*i>
be raised 2UU bushels, or an average id'
311 bushels to the aero for each year
A company has been formed In Jfew/
York to bring fresh meat to that market
from Texas. The entire hold of thi
vessel is lined with non-conducting foil;
aud by chemical means a cold below the
freezing point will bo kept up.
Milton Mcrrifield, of Providence,
caught fifty-two rats in one nig'nt, by
exchanging a barrol of oats tL I l.at>
been often visited by rata for on?' .
water, covering the surface with vhaf .
The "varmints" unsuspectingly *.itchei
iu, and met a watery grave. T'aia ism
old but excellent trap where these an!
ma .a are plenty.
A correspondent of tho "Dixie Farmer
gives a report of tho &r'.x 0j tne
raised on his dairy fam.\ this year. Tne
bull used Was a two year old Aldcrney.
The cows were fcf different graded.
Twenty-eight coir* produced: 13 ma*/*
and 13 female ca',ves; 12 heifers brougl.t
niue malts and thrco female cafcv.os.
At the mf oting of the- Social- Science
Association^ in Albany, Now. York, fhr
following statement wua made: in. New
York alr.ne, $32,000,000 worth oC uu .iI.
annually is consumed, bc*ide*8^O0f>,(io;i
pounds of butter, valued' at $33,060,000?
72,000,000 poujids of cheese, valued at
$14,000,000?a total of 1X9,000,000.
An Arab* proverb concerning tho hon*,
was: "The fijrsb soven years for my young
brother, the next seve? for myself, ami
tho Dost lb* my enemy." So far as tb^,
re<XMuinen6V light usago during the
youth of a horso it is worthy of acecj.
tao.ee, but the period of full, strength, and;
activity is made too short, if the horrc, ^
weJl catV? fer^