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lront of the throat. Strangles consists of a suppurative 
1 swelling, or abscess, adjacent to the glands, and often 
occurs in greater part on the inside of the throat, obstruct¬ 
ing breathing and causing suffocation, (whence its name), 
if not successfully treated. Young horses are subject to 
the disease, which is a disorder of the blood productive 
of a poisonous discharge which should be encouraged to 
escape and relieve the system. The more perfect the 
escape the better recovery is made; absorption of the 
pus or poisonous matter of the blood causes dropsy, 
farcy, glanders, or an early death. The treatment should 
be such as to cause a vigorous ripening of the abscess, 
and a copious discharge. Poulticing the parts is recom¬ 
mended, and when the abscess becomes filled with pus, 
and is soft and yielding to the touch it should be opened 
freely and the matter discharged. The opening should 
not be allowed to close until the discharge ceases, when 
it will heal without trouble. It is well to keep a plug of 
lint in the opening to favor a free discharge, and to soak 
the lint in Compound Tincture of Benzoin as a stimulant. 
Goitre, on the other hand, can be safely absorbed, and to 
effect the absorption Iodine is employed, either in the 
form of ointment applied twice daily to the swelling, 
and rubbed in well, or in the form of the tincture, of 
which two or three drops are injected into the tumor by 
a hyperdermic syringe. This treatment needs continu¬ 
ing for some months, as the operation is very slow. 
Nuts and Nubbins. 
For rest, go to the forest. 
The electric light keeps dark. 
Needs looking into—a telescope. 
Expensive wives make pensive husbands. 
One touch of humor makes the whole world grin. 
Toast by our bachelor friend—The day we celibate. 
Temper is so valuable a thing that no one should lose it. 
Folks are very foolish to take a fresh cold. If you must, 
get ’em cured. ' 
“Who was the first man?’’—Ans: “Adam.”—“ Who the 
first woman?”—“M'adam 1” 
If you should ever come within a mile of my house I hope 
you will stop there. 
A man has seen an oyster so large that it “ Took three 
men to swallow it.” 
A brainless baby has been born in Washington. It is re¬ 
ported to have many sympathizing friends in Washington. 
“ But I will not linger upon this point,” as the preacher 
said when he sat down on a carpet tack. 
“I have named my rooster Robinson.”—“ Why.”—“ Be¬ 
cause he crew-so." 
“ What does your dog want here.” said a dry goods’ clerk 
—“ Muzzlin ” was the ready reply of the dog owner. 
A man in Maine is so tall that he never finds out that his 
feet are cold until they get warm again. 
A college student, when asked what stars never set, re¬ 
plied roo stars. 
The way the earth “ laughs with a harvest ”—Hoe ! Hoe'. 
Hoe! 
Skyrockets were recently quoted with au upward ten¬ 
dency. 
An electrical girl has been discovered in Canada; she 
ought to marry a good conductor. 
The young lady who married her father’s coachman says 
she was driven to it. i 
“ If I am stuck up, I am not proud,” as the butterfly said 
when pinned to the side of the show-case. 
A gentleman who had been struck by the youug lady’s 
beauty was determined to follow tire injunction, and “ kiss 
the rod that smote him.” 
And now an Englishman travelling in the Holy Land lias 
discovered Jacob’s well. Glad to hear it. We supposed 
Jacob died a good many years ago. 
Our friends can go on with their tin weddings. We don’t 
dread them half as much since the five cent counters were 
opened. 
It was an Albany schoolboy who, believing in translations 
as free as the genius of our country, translated dux femina 
facti: the fact is woman is a duck. 
A young lady of New Fairfield, Conn., last year made 
three-quarters of a ton of butter and disposed ofit herself.— 
Cincinnati Gazette. Thunder, what an eater.— Boston Post. 
A military man, pitching into an opponent, exclaimed: 
“ Why, his sword was never drawn but once, and that was 
in a raffle.” 
Down in Georgia, says the Louisville Courier-Journal, 
they are in favor of removing the tax on quinine and put¬ 
ting it on dogs. Changing the duty on bark, as it were. 
The gang of burglars who work for seven straight hours 
to hammer a safe to pieces to secure fourteen cents, know 
how a country minister feels next day after a donation visit. 
“ It’s only a spring opening, ma,’ 1 exclaimed the hoy as he 
exhibited his torn trousers after a leap over a picket fence. 
“ Ye are the children of the devil,” was the text of the 
divine in the morning ; in the afternoon it was “ Children, 
obey your parents." 
An Atlanta darkey who tried to send one of liis children 
through the postoflice was arrested for attempt at black¬ 
mailing. 
“George, dear, don’t you think it’s rather extravagant ot 
you to eat butter with that delicious jam ?”—"No, love, 
economical; same piece of bread does for both.” 
Charles Lamb, when spoken to for getting to his office so 
late in the morning, replied, “Yes ; but you see I make it 
up by going away earlier in the evening.” 
A grocer had a pound of sugar returned with this note: 
“ Too much sand for table use, and not enough for building 
purposes.” 
“ I’m kept so busy with this big estate my brother left me,” 
said a sharp Yankee lawyer, “ I declare sometimes I almost 
wish John hadn’t died.” 
Bachelor Sam Scudder, of Wild Cherry Creek is quite 
bald. When the girls see him coming, they say: “ Here 
comes ‘ Bal’sam of Wild Cherry,’ ” and then begin to cough 
It must have been a sweet little creature who said that 
fireflies were made by God to “y’te ze ’ittle froggies to 
bed. ’—If she is IT years old, all the same. 
A gentleman noticing iliat his wife’s bonnets grew smaller 
and smaller, and the hills larger and larger, calmly said: 
“ I suppose that things will go on until the milliner will send 
nothing but the bill.” 
“ We are two to two,” said the card players at one table.— 
“And we are two to two too" responded a player at an ad¬ 
joining table. No wonder a German, present, likened our 
language to a French horn. 
A weather-wise man said: “After three successive frosts 
always look out for rain.”—“But suppose you don't have 
any frosts at all,” said his wife.—“ Well, always look out for 
vain anyhow.” 
“Who’s there?” cried a gentleman disturbed from his rest 
bv some one knocking on the door.—“A friend.” was the re¬ 
ply—“ What do you want?”—“I want to stay here ail 
night.”—” Queer taste; but stay there by all means.” 
An obliging spirit prompted the Jersey farmer who put a 
two-pound whetstone in every turkey lie sent to New lork 
market. He knew the buyers would find the stones indis¬ 
pensable when it came to carving the fowls. 
A dissipated and unmannerly nobleman, presuming upon 
his “ nobility,” once asked Sir Walter Scott, who sat opposite 
to him at a’dinner. what the difference was between Scott 
and sot.—“Just the breadth of the table, Sir.” 
Mrs. Mackay, wife of the Bonanza king, lias over *250,000 
worth of jewelry, and when she gets the toothache she suf¬ 
fers just as much as the woman whose bracelets and dia¬ 
monds came from the ninety-nine cent store. 
Edison has w rn his head nearly bald trying to invent a 
machine that would calculate with some kind of accuracy 
the difference between the weight of a fish when it is first 
taken out of the water and when it gets into the newspapers. 
Fresh, (anxious about ills rank), to Professor of Mathe¬ 
matics—” What will he my rank for the term ? ” Professor— 
“ That is not easily determined; it is less than any assignable 
quantity.” 
A young man, the other day, got married against the 
wishes of his parents, and, requesting a friend (o break it to 
them, said: “ Tell them I am dead, old fellow, and gently 
work them up to the climax.” 
“ How is it, miss, you gave your age to the census-taker 
as only twenty-five, when you were born the same year I 
was, and I am thirty-nine ?”—“ Ah, you have lived much 
faster than I, sir.” 
There is an old lady, 107, in Boston, who never uses spec¬ 
tacles, and whose sight is as good as ever it was. LP- S. The 
Poston Post, which records this remarkable lact, adds that 
tiie old lady was born blind.] 
Ladies beyond the thirties choose wide ribbons for deco¬ 
rating costumes.— Albany Argus. See here ; have you got a 
grudge against some man who has a lot of wide ribbon for 
sale.— Boston Post. 
A London newspaper relates that when a Frenchman, who 
fell overboard from the steamer which took the Cobden 
Club back from Greenwich, was rescued and returned to 
tlie deck, the first thing he courteously said was that he 
hoped lie had not kept the steamer waiting. 
A minister, who was speaking quite loud, saw a woman 
leaving the church with a crying babe, and thereupon ex¬ 
claimed: "Your baby don't disturb me, madam.”—“That 
isn’t it, sir,” she replied ; “ you disturb the baby.” Of course 
every effect must have a cause. 
A wag brought a horse driven bv a young man to a stop in 
the street by the word “ Whoa,” and said to the driver: 
“ That’s a fine horse j'ou have there.”—“ Y'es,” answered the 
oung man, “ but lie has one fault. He was formerly owned 
y a butcher, aud always stops when he hears a calf bleat.” 
Old Salt: “Too old to manage a boat, am I? I can still 
row and steer and set sails and seull—” Doctor: “ Oil, an 
automaton could do all that. I believe man is but an auto¬ 
maton, after all.”—Old Salt: “ Could a tommy-ton take the 
roomey-tiz ? ” 
A lisping hoy was out in the hack yard pounding on a tin 
pan. The lather came in tired and sullen, and being dis¬ 
turbed by the noise, cried out: “What is turned loose in 
the back yard; a wild animal?” The little fellow replied : 
YTetli, tliir, it's a pan thir.” 
When Benjamin Franklin was an editor lie was in the 
habit of writing to the young ladies who sent in poetry, say¬ 
ing in honeyed language that owing to the crowded state ot 
his columns, etc., hut lie would endeavor to circulate their 
productions iu manuscript. And then lie tied the poems to 
the tail ot' his kite for “ hobs.” 
Brown to Jones—“Y'ou missed it by leaving us at the 
lunch t'other afternoon. Champagne was excellent, and 
got better after you left. Jones—” Fact is. I had to get back 
to the store to look after the boys, and, just as I expected, 
when I got there I found everything topsey-turvey.” 
Brown—”' My experience, exactly. When I got home I found 
my wife and hired girl standing on their heads, and the 
house spinning around like a top.” 
At the steamboat explosion at Lake Minnetonka, a man 
who put out to the wreck ill a boat si cceeded ill rescuing a 
lady, who at once piteouslv implored him to try and save 
her dog. This he refused to do, and a moment later she 
pointed to a gentleman, who, half in the water and half out, 
was clinging, beside the engineer, to a large piece of tlie 
wreck that was floating in the vicinity, and requested her 
rescuer to save him, too, as lie was her husband. He was 
fished out, but the dog was not recovered. 
A sad event has occurred in the family of asteroids. Hilda 
is lost. One of the nearly two hundred members of the 
planetary sisterhood revolving between Mars and Jupiter 
can no longer be found in her accustomed celestial haunts. 
It is not known whether Hilda lias eloped with her father s 
coachman, or lias run away aud joined a travelling Pinafore 
troupe. We have predicted time and again that if Hilda's 
parents didn't keep a close eye upon her she would give 
them trouble. Being a revolver, it is not strange that she 
has “ gone off.’ - 
Why 6o West? 
When good land, unequalled healthy climate, every luxury 
of Land and Sea, and the advantages of refined Society, 
first-class Schools, Churches, Railroads, Telegraphs, and 
Daily Mails, are within 12 hours of Boston and less from the 
other Great Market Cities of the Atlantic Coast. Can be 
had at prices that warrant success, and on accommodating 
terms. 
The Great Garden Farm Lands of the Atlantic Coast, with 
Soil unsurpassed, Pure Soft Water, Mild Winters, Favor¬ 
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Flowers, and the YVaters abounding with tlie most delicious 
Fish, Oysters, Clams, and Terrapin. Special advantages 
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