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MISCELLANEA. 
aroma it reminds you — is not superior. A member of the 
jury begs to carry home a slice. Many repeat the experi- 
ment. Gourmands are not aware of the excellence of this 
joint — I recommend it to their attention. It is perfect in 
every respect. Ye little susceptibilities of my stomach, how 
very ridiculous you were ! Unanimously and enthusiastically, 
the jury proclaimed that the fillet of the old horse ought to 
take rank with the most recherche and luxurious meats. 
M. H. Bouley was conquered and converted, and boldly 
avowed the fact. August truth compels me to state that 
some excellent roast partridges, which followed the horse, 
were not absolutely disdained by the jury, any more than the 
delicate entremets that succeeded them, or than the insinua- 
ting temptations and fruits of the dessert ; which proves evi- 
dently that horseflesh does not stick by the way during its 
passage through the intricate and narrow defiles of the 
digestive channel — and that is an element of some import- 
ance in the question. For my part, remembering a true and 
clever aphorism uttered by a man who is well informed in 
the hygiene of the stomach — our fellow-labourer, M. Veron — 
I waited four-and-twenty hours before writing these lines, in 
order to be able to declare that I am inditing withoutt he 
slightest digestive remorse. — Dickens’s e Household Words’ 
ADVANTAGE OF RAILWAYS. 
ee As exemplifying the saving of waste, in the transportation 
of fat stock to the London market, by the introduction of 
railways, Mr. Hudson (of Castleacre, Norfolk) mentioned to 
us a fact which may be interesting. Formerly, when several 
days were occupied in driving to London, a sheep was found 
on the average to have lost 7 lbs. weight, and 3 lbs. inside fat, 
and a bullock 28 lbs. These weights are ascertained by a 
series of trials, average animals being killed and weighed on 
the farm, and compared with the weights of similar animals 
when slaughtered in London. This difference of weight was 
w^aste, entirely lost to everybody. On the quantity of stock 
annually sent out by Mr. Hudson, this loss was equivalent 
in value to upwards of £600 a year ; nearly the w hole amount 
of w T hich now finds its way to the market, as the stock are 
put into the trucks in the morning and reach London in the 
afternoon, without fatigue. When it is considered over how 
great a quantity of stock throughout the country a similar 
saving has been effected, there can be no doubt that the 
increased weight so saved has had a perceptible influence in 
increasing the general supply of the market.’ 5 — Ccrird’s English 
Agriculture . 
