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A Good Horse.
“ I can’t explain what a real good horse
is,” said one of the best natured dealers
in the street. “ They are as different as
men; in buying a horse you must look
first to his head aud eyes for signs of
intelligence, temper, courage, and hon
esty. Unless a horse has brains you
can’t teach Him anything any more than
you can teach a half-witted child. See
that tall bay there, a fine-looking animal,
-bout fifteen hands high. You can’t
teach that horse anything. Why ? Well,
I’ll show you a difference in heads, but
have a care of his heels. Look at the
beast’s head—that rounding nose, that
tapering forehead, that broad, full place
below the eyes. You can’t trust him.
Kick? Well, I guess so! Put him in a
ten acre lot, where he has plenty of wing,
and he’ll kick the horn off the moon. ”
The world’s treatment of man and
beast has the tendency to enlarge and
intensify bad qualities, if they predomin
ate. This good-natured phrenologist
could not refrain from slapping in the
face the horse wht se character had been
so cruelly delineated, while he had but
the gentlest treatn ent f >r a slick-limbed
sorrel that pricked her ears forward and
looked intelligent enough to understand
all that was being said.
“That’s an awful good mare,” he
added. “ She’s as true as the sun. You
can see breadth aud fullness between the
ears and eyes. You can’t hire that mare
to act mean or hurt anybody. The eye
should be full, and hazel is a good color.
I like a small, thin ear, and want a horse
to throw his ears well forward. Look
out for the brute that wants to listen to
all the conversation going on behind
him. The horse that turns back his ears
till they almost meet at the points, take
my word for it, is sure to do something
wrong. See that straight, elegant face.
A horse with a dishing face is cowardly,
and a cowardly brute is always vicious.
Then I like a square muzzle, with largo
nostrils to let plenty of air to the lungs.
For the underside of a head a good horse
should be well cut under the jowl, with
jaw-bones broad and wide apart under
the throttle.
“So much for the head,” lie* contin
ued. “ The next thing to consider is the
build of the animal. Never buy a long
legged stilty horse. Let him have a
short, straight back and a straight rump
and you’ve got a gentleman’s horse. The
withers should be high and the shoul
ders well set back and broad, but don’t
get them too deep in the chest. The fore
legs should be short. Give me a pretty,
straight hind-leg, with the hock low
down, short pastern joints, and a round
mulish foot. There are all kinds of
horses, but the animal that has these
points is almost sure to be slightly grace
ful, good-natured and serviceable. As
to color, tastes differ. Bays, browns and
chesnuts are the best. Roans are very
fashionable at present. A great many
grays and sorrels are brought here for
shipment to Mexico and Cuba. They do
well in a hot climate, under a tropical
sun, for the same reason that you find
light-colored olotliing most serviceable
in summer. That circus herse behind
Jou is what many people call a calico
orse; now, I call him a genuine piebald.
It’s a freak of nature and may happen
anywhere. ” — Scribner's Monthly.
Household Perils.
Under this head the Boston Journal of
Chemistry names several dangerous sub
stances which find their way into house
holds. There are two or three volatile
liquids used in families which are par
ticularly dangerous, and must be em
ployed, if at all, with special care. Ben
zine, ether and strong ammonia consti
tute this class of agents. The two first
named liquids are employed in cleans
ing gloves and other wearing apparel, and
in removing oil stains from carpets, cur
tains, &c. The liquids are highly vola
tile, and Hash into vapor as soon as the
cork of the vial containing them is re
moved. Their vapors are very combust
ible and will inflame at long distances
from ignited candles or gas flames, and
consequently they should never be used
in the evening, when the house is lighted.
Explosions of a very dangerous nature
will occur if the vapor of these liquids is
permitted to escape into the room in con
siderable quantity. In view of the great
hazard of handling these liquids cautious
housekeepers will not allow them to be
brought into their dwellings, and this
course is commendable. As regards am
monia, or water of ammonia, it is a very
powerful agent, especially the stronget
kinds sold by druggists. An accidenr
in its use lias recently come under our
notice in which a young lady lost her life
from taking a few drops through mis
take. Breathing the gas under certain
circumstances causes serious harm to
the lungs and membranes of the mouth
and nose. It is an agent much used at
the present time for cleansing purposes,
and it is unobjectionable if proper care
is used in its employment. The vials
holding it should be kept apart from
others containing medicines, Ac., and
rubber stoppers to the vials should be
used. Oxalic acid is considerably em
ployed in families for cleaning brass and
copper utensils. This substance is highly
poisonous, and must be kept and used
with great caution. In crystalline struc
ture it closely resembles sulphate of
magnesia or Epsom salts, and, there
fore, frequent mistakes are made and
lives lost. Every agent which goes into
families among inexperienced persons
should be kept in a safe place, labeled
properly and used with care.
Lemuel McGee, on his way to work in
Vicksburg, said to his companions :
“ I’m dry, and I ain’t got a cent, but
I'm going to have some whisky if I die
for it.” He led them into Samuel Haw
thorne’s saloon, where they had the
drinks, and McGee announced that he
couldn’t pay. Then he did “ die for
it.” Hawthorne killed him at once with
a pistol.
A Woman’s Dress.
Bob Burdette, in the course of an
article iu the Burlington Hawkey6 on
the rights and wrongs of women, says:
Our wife wants a dress. After two or
three or half a dozen stores have been
ransacked for goods, the dressmaker is
sought out. The matter of measure
ment is tedious, and then the matter of
fitting is one of numerous and repeated
trials. Finally the dress is fiuished and
sent home. Then it is sent back to l>e
taken in here and let out there, and at
last, after the customer has been fitted
more times for that one dress than her
husband has been measured for three or
four years, the dress comes home for the
last time and is pronounced by the
wearer, her friends, and the dressmaker
as a beautiful and perfect fit, and is fin
ished.
Beautiful it certainly is, far more beau
tiful than anything her husband ever
wears. Colors aud material, style, blend
ing shades and contrasting bits of color,
are all in the perfection of good taste.
No man can improve upon that. But it
isn't finished. When it is completed
far as the skill of the dressmaker can fin
ish it, and it is put on, it lias to be
pinned. Somewhere; sometimes in two
or three, often in half a dozen places.
It always requires a pin. Leave out the
pin and the dress is all awry somewhere.
On all this broad continent there is not
one American woman who can dress so
as to make any kind of an appearance in
good society without pins.
Now, suppose our tailor should send
our suit home, and when we had put on
the coat we had to pin it at the back ?
Or suppose there w r as no suspender but
tons aft, and we had to use pins there ?
Suppose he made our shirts so w e would
have to piu on the collar, —how long
would such a shirt or such a suit of
clothes stay in the house ? Who would
be responsible for the language used by
the man who had to pin his coat ? No
tailor would dare to so tempt the wrath
of an independent man. But woman—
alas, she patiently pins on the dress that
she paid someone S3O or S4O to make,
and doesn’t think anything about it. We
will not pursue this painful subject.
Let the women of America take it up,
and think about it, and learn, in the
noble independence ’of womanhood, to
make their clothes before they put
them on.
Carolina’s Sweet Sixteen.
A curious petition was that addressed
in 1733 to the Governor of South Caro
lina by sixteen maidens of Charleston. It
ran thus :
* ‘The humble petition of all the maids
whose names are underwritten. Where
as, we, the humble petitioners, are at
present in a very melancholy disposition
of mind, considering how all the bache
lors are blindly captivated by widows, and
our own youthful charms are thereby
neglected; in consequence of this, our
request is that Your Excellency will for
the future order that no widow presume
to marry any young man till the maids
are provided for; or else to pay each of
them a fine for satisfaction for invading
our liberties and likewise a fine to be lev
ied on all such bachelors as shall be mar
ried to widows. The great disadvantage
it is to us maids is that the widows, by
their forward carriage, do snap up the
young men, and have the vanity to think
their merit beyond ours, which is a great
imposition on us, who ought to have the
preference. This is humbly recom
mended to Your Excellency’s considera
tion, and hope you will permit no further
insults. And we poor maids in duty
bound will ever pray. ”
The forlorn sixteen would have very
much approved the edict of the Portu
guese King, which forbade widow's more
than fifty years old from remarrying, qu
the ground that experience taught that
w’idows of that age commonly wedded
young men of no property, who dissi
pated the fortunes such marriages
brought them, to the prejudice of chii
dren and other relatives.
Rather Mixed.
Johnson—“ What is the matter with
you, Ned ; you look melancholy? ”
Ned—“ Yes; the fact of the matter is
I have got mixed up so in my family af
fairs that I don’t know who I am. ’’
Johnson—“ Rather a strange remark.
Explain yourself.”
Ned—“l will. You see, I married a
young widow who lived with her step
daughter ; my father shortly after mar
ried the step-daughter. My wife was,
therefore, the mother-in-law and daugh
ter-in-law of my father. lam the step
father of my mother-in-law, and my
wife’s step-daughter is my step-mother.
Well, my step-mother—that is to say,
my father’s wife, and my wife’s daugh
ter—had a son. He is my step-brother,
of course; but, being the son of my
wife’s step-daughter, my wife is, of
course, his grandmother, and I am his
grandfather as well as his step-brother.
My wife also had a boy. My step
mother is consequently the step-sister of
of my boy, and also his grandmother,
because he is the child of her step-son,
and my father is the brother-in-law
my son", who is the son of my step
mother. lam my mother’s brother-in
law, my wife is aunt of her own son, my
son is the grandson of my father, and I
am my own grandfather.”
Brothel Ij Love In the Far West.
Out in California two men stood up to
fight with drawn pistols, when one of
them suddenly exclaimed:
“ Be still as death, Bill; there is a tar
antula crawling up ycur shoulder. Don’t
move and I’ll shoot him off.”
“Take good aim and shoot quick, Jim,
for God’s sake!”
The sharp report of Jim’s pistol rang
out on the air, and that tarantula was
knocked into kingdom done for, while
Bill dropped his pistol and rushed into
Jim’s arms, and again they were friends,
while “terantuler juice” flowed freely
at the bar. and by three o’clock the next
morning Bill had killed Jim, and waj
riding away rapidly across the plains.
FARM NOTES.
The average yield of corn, says H
New York Times, is less than half of flu
possible yield. When one thinks how
little the second half of UK* bushels ol
sorn per acre costs, the profit of growing
such a crop becomes apparent And it
is easy to produce such a yield. One
wants the right kind of corn, the right
fertilizers and manner of applying these,
aud a little extra work iu cultivation.
The cost of the land and of planting and
tending the crop is the same for twenty
bushels as for one hundred bushels on
ui acre.
How to Choose a Goon Cow.—The
srumply horn is a good indication; a full
sye another. Her head should 1> small
and short. Avoid the Roman nose; this
indicates thin milk, aud but little of it.
See that she is dished in the face, sunk
between the eyes. Notice that she is
what stock men call a good handler—
kiu soft and looks like the skin of a
dog Deep from loin to the udder, and
very slim tail. A cow with these marks
never fails to be a good milker. There
is more difference in cows than is usually
supposed, and but few really good cows
are offered in our markets If a farmer
has a “No 1 article,” he wou’t sell her
unless obliged to do so.
Condiments for Poultry. —A moder
ate quantity of cayenno pepper, mustard
ar ginger can, with great benefit, be
added to the food of fowls to increase
their vigor, and to stimulate egg produc
tion. This diet, although apparently
artificial, is really natural; for w ild birds
}f the gallinncean family has access to
very many highly-spiced berries and
buds articles that give the “game
flavor” to their flesh. Although there is
more or less of an aromatic principle in
wheat, Indian corn, and other grains con
sumed by the domestic fowl, yet the
quantity is not sufficient to supply the
place of the stronger species, a taste for
which is inherited by the fowl. —Live
Stock Journal.
Oxen.— A yoke of oxen is always profit
able on the farm. It matters not how
many horse teams there are, oxen are
the best for certain kinds of work A
good ox should have a long, lean face,
and bright, hazel eyes, which show a
capability to receive instruction and a
disposition to obey it. Large nostrils
denote the capability of the ox to work
on a hot day. Very large horns at the
base denote laziness. Full breast,
straight back, wide ribs—by which is
meant the ribs that round out nearly as
wide as the hip bones—and wide gam
brils, are evidences of strength. Straight
knees, broad toes, pointing straight for
ward, show an ox that can travel on a hard
road, or pavement. They should be well
matched, especially in disposition and
ipeed.— Minneapolis Tribune.
A Great Orchard. —The Farmer's
Review publishes a detailed account of
the orchard of A. R. Whitney, of Illinois,
who has 155 acres in apple trees. He
jet the first 100 trees in 1843, and now
has 16,000 in bearing. He began with
144 sorts, though only 30 are left, his ob
ject being to test them. For summer
and autumn, he chose lied Astrachan,
Maiden’s Blush, Snow and Bailey’s
Sweet, and for winter and spring,
Domine, Jonathan, Willow Twig, Ben
Davis and Winesap. His largest crop, in
1876, was 26,000 bushels, one-half of
which was shipped to market, and the
other half made into cider. He does not
jount on a full, or heavy crop oftnertlian
once in four years. For the codling
moth he turns sheep into the orchard, by
which these insects are nearly cleared
out. The long-wool sheep are best, as
Dotswolds, Leicesters, South-Downs;
Merinos eat the bark. The soil of the
orchard is rich enough without manure.
Mr. W. advises for an orchard that it
dope to the north, cultivation witj> corn
for a few years, then seeding to clover,
to be plowed under every three or four
years.
Cotton-Seed Meal. —This ought all
to be consumed in our own country, in
jtead of exporting so great a proportion
if it, as it is not only a highly nourish
ing but a health-keeping food. The oil
ji it lubricates the bowels of the animals
tnd keeps them in good condition, while
he other elements of which it is com
posed assist in building up the muscles
■apidly. But it should be fed sparingly,
ind mixed with either bran, middlings,
jats or other meal. From a pint to two
quarts per day is a fair ration, with other
food, according to the size of the animal,
ilthough at the South, we are informed,
hey feed it still more abundantly.
There they usually feed the seed whole,
is ginned from the cotton, and after
Doiling, they let their animals eat as
much as they please, with impunity,
almost entirely fattening their swine with
it, finishing off with corn two weeks or
so before slaughtering.— Rural New
Yorker.
Points in a Pro. — Head and Ears:
The head wide in front, cars erect, and
pointed forward, chops rounded and well
filled up to the brisket. Crest and
Shoulders : Crest wide and rising to the
houlders; shoulder-blades well sloped
backwards. Ribs and Loins: Ribs well
sprung; loins wide and slightly arched.
Hindquarters: Hindquarters not to slope
nor narrow, towards the tail. Haros:
Hams rounded outward, well let down
and full towards the twist. Chest: Chest
wide, with elbows well out. Fore-ribs
ind Flank: Fore-ribs wide underneath;
flank well let down, straight and well
filled the stifle. Legs and Feet: Legs
straight and small in bone; feet small
and compact. Hair and Color : Hair
plentiful (especially in this climate),
bright and vigorous; color to denote
purity of breed. Tail: Tail entire, thick
at root and tapering. Size: According
to head.
Oiling Machinery.— A great difficulty
with all tyros in the use of machinery is
the wasting of oil by its too profuse use.
It often happens that a bearing will heat
when supplied with too much oil, that
will run cool when supplied with the
proper quantity. The reason is that
when the lubricator is partly worn it be
comes, as Mr. Smith says, sticky; it re
sists removal, it remains tenaciously l*e
tween the shaft and its bearings; whereas,
too much of it, usually thin and limpid,
serves to “wash the l>earing” and let the
parts into closer contact. In the work
ing of mowing machines this point is ex
emplified. In grass land, where flying
dust is at the minimum, the machine
should bo kept oiled just sufficiently so
that the shaft will show an oily film as
seen through the oil holes, and the light
est appearance of fresh oil at the ends of
the boxes; any more is an injury. While
in uso for mowing grain, where dust is
usually considered very destructive, all
parts should be kept oiled so freely ns to
keep the bearings always well washed—
that is, oil continually working out—then
the grit can not work iu.— Ex.
HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.
Large holes in a loaf of bread arc
proof of a careless cook. The kneading
lias been slighted.
Young stock need not bo housed until
real cold weather sets in, but they should
have a warm shed to lie in at night, aud
be kept in first-rate condition through
this month with turnips, fed tops and all.
To Prf.nent Rusting of Tin. —Rub
fresh lard over the dish, and then put it
in a hot oven and heat it thoroughly.
Thus treated any tiuwaro may be used
in water constantly, and remain bright
and free from rust indefinitely.
Burning Brush and Rubbish.
Where this has been cut along the fences
on the road, or between fields, late in the
summer and is now dry, burn it, and
spread the ashes on grass land. It only
harbors vermin, mice, rabbits, and in
sects.
How Mold can bf. Prevented on
Pickles. —Cut horse-radish roots in
thin slices, lengthwise, and lay half a
dozen or so of these pieces on the top of
each crock of pickles, allowing them to
remain until all the pickles are used.
Grated horse-radish will not do as it soon
loses its strength and then ferments.
Pigc —lt is much better to kill early
than late. As soon as cold weather coinos
on, pigs will gain very little, if any, and
often lose during cold storms. There
fore crowd them if not fat enough to kill.
Feed occasionally pulverized charcoal, to
keep their digestive functions in tone;
keep them clean and warm, and coax
them to eat every ounce possible.
Poultry need to be treated much in
the same way. That is, fattened and
killed early, if intended for market.
Though prices usually go up steadily
after the Ist of January, yet the addi
tional cost of fattening in December, or
of holding poultry after it is fat, is but
rarely paid for by the higher price.
Warm quarters are essential to winter
laving.
Batter TUDDTNG. —tuko one smaii
laker’s loaf, cut off the crust, and pour
>ver the rest one quart of boiling milk.
When cold beat it to a pulp, then stir in
lour well beaton eggs, a small teacup of
lour, and half yeast cake dissolved.
This should bake iu twenty minutes if
:ho oven is right. Serve with a very
iweet aud highly flavored sauce when it
i hot.
Hard Yeast. —Stir into a pint of
ively yeast enough flour to make a thick
natter, and a teaspoonful of Balt. Let it
use once, then roll out thin, cut into
,akes with a cake cutter, and dry in the
diade in clear, windy weather. When
perfectly dry put in a bag, and hang in a
cool, dry place. They will keep good
six months. One of these cakes dissolved
in a little milk or water is enough for
four quarts of flour.
Hheep bear more exposure than any
other of our domestic animals (ftot even
sxcepting horses, not worked) that is,
exposure to the weather, but not with
out shelter from storms. The ewes
ought to bo in lamb by this time, and
must be kept doing well. Half a pint of
corn a day each will go far towards keep
ing them in good condition. Weed out
all those which show signs of weakness,
have poor teeth, Ac., and fatten them if
you can.
Pickled Cabbaoe. —Take the red cab
bage, remove outer leaves, and shred;
sprinkle thoroughly with fine salt; let it
remain with salt for two days, removing
the water; make a pickle with vinegar,
with four ounces of ground ginger, four
ounces of pepper, one ounce of cloves,
and boil it; put the cabbage in jars,
packing closely; when the vinegar with
spices is on the boil fill up the jars; will
be good to eat in a week.
Cows which aro giving milk must
have an increase of feed. Mangels, or
sugar beets, are best. Cut them in
slices, and sprinkle them with bran, and
feed half a bushel more or less at a time,
after the cows have filled themselves
with hay or corn, fodder or grass. Soft
turnips may be fed to some cows at milk
ing-time, and not flavor the milk. Keep
up the flow of milk, if possible, espec
ially with young cows, by feeding meal,
bran, and roots.
Deviled Meats. —The following will
make a nice breakfast dish for persons
who are not dyspeptic:—Take two table
spoonfuls of black pepper and quarter of
a spoonful of cayenne. Take some thick
slices of meat, beef or mutton, or some
legs of chickens or other poultry. Cut
the meat several ways, but not through,
and put the pepper in the interstices.
Broil on a clear fire. Sauce—Two table
spoonfuls roast meat gravy, two port
wine, half lemon juice, naif respectively
of anchovy sauce, Harvey sauce, Wor
cester sauce and Reading sauce and a
little shred lemon peel and some of the
stuffing of duck or goose (it the “devil”
is made of either; otherwise have a little
chopped onion boiled tender in gravy
and put into the sauce, which is to
be made hot on the first, i
Bad as a thing is, it may be worse. A
bulbous nose is not a pretty feature, but
it is not improved by being broken,
though it may be made less prominent.
USEFUL HINTS.
To Restore Velvets. —Hold over a
basin of boiling water, back down. It
takes a long time, but the nap will rise.
To Clean Black Cahhimere. —Wash
in hot suds with a little borax in the
water, rinso in very blue water, and iron
while damp on the wrong side.
To Rcmove Scorch from Linen.—
Peel and slico two ouions, extract the
juice by pounding and squeezing ; cut
up half an ounce of fine white soap and
add to the juice ; two ounces of fuller's
earth and half a pint of vinegar; boil
all together; when cool, spread over the
scorched linen and lot dry on; then
wash and boil out the linen, aud the
spots will disappear.
To Restore Faded Upholstery.—
The following directions were recently
given to a correspondent of the Loudon
Furniture Gazette : Beat the dust out
of them thoroughly, and afterward brush
them ; then apply to them a strong lath
er of castile soap by means of a hard
brush ; wash the lather off with clear
water, and afterword wash them with
alum water. When dry the colors will
be restored to their original freshness.
When the colors have faded beyond re
covery they may be touched w ith a j>en
cil dipped in water colors of a suitable
shade, mixed with gum water.
Lemonade. —Few persons understand
properly the art of making lemonade.
The lemon should first bo rolled between
the hands until it is quite soft, the skin
removed with a sharp knife, and every
pip extracted, the lemon being held over
a tumbler that no juice may be lost in
the operation. The pulp should thou
be divided into small pieces, and the su
gar thoroughly mixed with it. Last of
all, the requisite amouut of water should
be added. Orangeade may be made in
the same way as lemonade, using less
sugar. They both should be iced. Im
perial drink is made by adding a small
teaspoonful of cream of tartar dissolved
in boiling water to eucli pint of lemon
ade.
Petroleum for Rustic Work. —“Wo
see on every hand,” says an exchange,
“handsome rustic work failing to decay
and becoming distorted by age. It is
commonly made of a kind of wood which
does not last long. Soak it thoroughly
with erudo petroleum when new, aud it
will remain unchanged indefinitely. A
rustic summer-house on a shaded part of
our grounds would have been unusually
exposed to dampness and decay had not
this been prevented a dozen years ago
by jietroleum. The peculiar brown color
imparted by a mixture of the heavy oil
remains unchanged ; and a lattice-work
of pine lath a fourth of an inch thick,
fully exposed to dampness and weather,
is as sound aud unworn as ever. The
oil is now so cheap that there is no ex
cuse for omitting its application, and
it may be rapidly and easily brushed
over the surface, and sunk into the pores
with a whitewash brush. Apply it
heavily.”
Punctuality*
It is astonishing how many people
there are who neglect punctuality, and
thousands have failed in life from this
cause alone; it is not only a serious vice
in itself, but it is the fruitful pnront of
many other vices, so that he wdio becomes
the victim of it gets involved in toils from
which it is almost impossible to escape.
It makes the merchant wasteful of time;
it saps the business reputation of the
lawyer, and it injures the prospect of the
mechanic, who might otherwise riso to
fortune; in a word there is not a profes
sion, nor a station in life, which is not
liable to the canker of the destructive
habit.
It is a fact not always remembered,
that Napoleon’s great victories were won
by infusing into bin Bubordinates tho
necessity of punctuality to the minute.
It was liia plan to manoeuvre over largo
spaces of country so as to render the
enemy uncertain whero he was about to
strike a blow, and then suddenly to con
centrate his forces and fall with irresisti
ble power on some weak point of the
extended lines of the foe. r I he execution
of this system demanded that each divis
ion of the army should arrive at the speci
fied time punctually; for, if any part
failed to come up, the battle was lost. It
was by imitating this plan that the allies
finally succeeded in overthrowing the
emperor. The whole Waterloo campaign
turned on these tactics. At Mt. Bt. Jean,
Blucher was punctual, while Grouchy
was not; and the result was that Napol*
| eon fell and Wellington triumphed.
Lion and Dog.
Lions, when confined in cages, do not
i object to the presence of rats. These
are often seen gnawing the bones oft
, which the lions have dined. In illness
the case is different, for the ungrateful
rats begin to nibble the toes of the lord
of the forest before his death, and con
siderably to his discomfort. “To save
our lioness from this annoyance,” said a
London showman, “we placed in her
cage a fine little rat tan-terrier, who was
at first received with a surly growl, but
when the tirstrat appeared and the lioness
saw the little terrior toss him in the air,
catching linn with professional skill across
the loins with a snap as he came down,
she began to understand what the terrior
was for; she coaxed him to her side,
folded her paw around him, and each
night the little terrier slept at the breast
; of the lioness, enfolded by her paws,
and watching that his natural enemies
did not disturb the natural rest of his
I mistress. The rata had a bad time during
those six weeks/'
Cato, the censor, learned the Greek
language when he was eighty-four years
of age. We shall follow the example of
Mr. Cato, and not learn the Greek
language until we arrive at the age of
eighty-four. By that time we shall prob
ably discover what good it would do us
to acquire a knowledge of that language,
I —Norristown Herald.