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LOUIS NAPOLEON’S LOVE OF HORSE FLESH. 
The Emperor’s splendid stud of horses ex¬ 
cited the admiration of the Prince’s suite, 
and is not unworthy of notice in connection 
with the Emperor’s well-direted efforts to 
improve the breed of horses in France. The 
cavalry horses of the French army are most¬ 
ly bred in Normandy, except the horses of 
the light cavalry, which come from Tarbes, 
near the Pyrenees, and which have a mix¬ 
ture of Arab blood. With many excellent 
qualities of endurance, the horses of the 
French cavalry are capable of great improve¬ 
ment in point of blood and bone, and Napo¬ 
leon’s attention is unceasingly directed to 
this object. Large purchases of English 
horses are frequently made by his agents, 
and, seeing the prices Avhich are given for 
good steeds, and the rivalry which exists 
between the buyers of the French and Ger¬ 
man Governments to secure the best animals, 
some astonishment is expressed that English 
farmers do not more generally avail them¬ 
selves of the facilities they possess for rear¬ 
ing first-rate horses for so certain and so 
good a market. Besides the haras of the 
Emperor, he has a stud and breeding estab¬ 
lishment at St. Cloud, at which colts of ex¬ 
traordinary value are reared from a mixture 
of English and Arab blood. 
The Imperial stables at Boulogne, which 
are in close proximity to the Hotel Brighton, 
the Emperor’s residence, are an extempore 
construction of wood, erected in fifteen days, 
but extremely convenient and well arranged, 
and covering nearly half an acre of ground. 
They contain thirty-six English saddle- 
horses for the .use of the Emperor, his suite, 
and visitors ; thirty-six carriage horses for 
the Emperor’s caleches, char-a-bancs, and 
other vehicles, and thirty post-horses. The 
Emperor’s chargers, reserved for his exclu¬ 
sive use at reviews and in the field, are six 
in number. They are all English, as are, 
indeed, the greater part of the carriage- 
horses, and as their former names are re¬ 
tained, and every stall has the horse’s name 
painted over the animal’s head, the English 
visitor might forget that he was in a foreign 
country, and imagine that he was walking 
through the stables of some English noble¬ 
man. The Emperor’s favorite steed is a 
dark chestnut horse, called Philips, after Mr. 
Philips, of Knightsbridge, of whom the Em¬ 
peror purchased him. He is a noble and 
spirited animal, and is usually ridden by the 
Emperor when he reviews the ti’oops, where 
he distinguishes himself by his beautiful 
action and by his habit of bowing and pranc¬ 
ing when he approaches the colors of a 
regiment. (What an invaluable circus horse 
he would be !) As the Emperor at the same 
moment raises his hat, the horse and the 
rider appear to salute the colors together, to 
the great delight of the troops. Both the 
Emperor’s stud and establishment at St. 
Cloud, and that at Bologne, are under the 
superintendance of the premier piqueur of 
his Majesty, Mr. Gamble, whose thorough 
knowledge of the points and treatment of the 
animals under his care is well known to the 
English sporting world. The general con¬ 
trol of the stud is confided by the Emperor to 
Colonel Fleury, Premier Ecuyer to His Ma¬ 
jesty. In the saddle-room are seen two gor- 
geous saddles and bridles, presented to the 
Emperor by the Sultan, the saddle-cloths of 
which are most richly embroidered with 
gold, all the mountings being of solid gold, 
and the bit of silver gilt. One of these sad¬ 
dles, &c., was used by the Emperor when 
riding out with the Prince Consort, Its 
value is estimated at 250,000 francs. An¬ 
other splendid saddle, with crimson velvet 
seai, was presented from Abd-el-Ivader, with 
three Arab horses. The Imperial carriages 
and liveries are of dark green; the former 
are all manufactured in Paris. Few things 
grieved Louis Napoleon more than to be 
obliged, when President, to breakup his stud 
and dispose of his horses; but now that ex¬ 
alted position supplies him with the requisite 
sources, he loses no occasion of obtaining 
the best English horses that money can pro¬ 
cure. [English Paper. 
INTERESTING TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS. 
A new and important method in the manu¬ 
facture of bricks has just been patented at 
Washington, which is destined to effect an 
important reduction in the cost of erecting 
buildings in which this material is used, and 
now-a-davs there is no building where brick 
does not form a component part. By this 
new method, introduced by Baron de Palm, 
to whom the patent has been granted, houses 
can be built of sound, solid brick walls, at a 
price, we are informed, not exceeding that 
of an ordinary frail wooden tenement. This 
fact, then, considered in relation to the ex¬ 
traordinary high rates now paid, and occa¬ 
sioned in a great measure by the prices of 
building materials, is a consideration of no 
ordinary magnitude. When the kilns or 
furnaces are put in operation for the manu¬ 
facture of bricks under this process, it will 
doubtless attract the attention of practical 
men, and effect a great change in the cost of 
buildings of every description. 
The peculiarity in the making of bricks 
under this patent consists in the construction 
of the kiln. The arrangement is novel, con¬ 
sisting of partitions and sub-divisions in the 
kiln, where the baking is carried on, and by 
a series of registers the heat is conveyed 
from one compartment to another without 
any waste. There is little or no loss of un¬ 
baked, over-burnt, or vitrified bricks, and 
a surprising saving of fuel. The cost of 
fuel and of the waste of material and labor 
under the old system more than doubles, or 
probably more than quadruples, the cost of 
bricks when pronounced ready for market in 
the old kiln. The fuel question now en¬ 
grosses largely public attention, and vast 
quantities of pine, hickory, and other woods 
now consumed in the burning of bricks, will, 
under this patented mode, be economized to 
the extent of two-thirds of the present con¬ 
sumption. It therefore is a subject of inter¬ 
est and importance both as to public and 
private economy. 
Beside the making of bricks, the kilns can 
be used for the baking and hardening of all 
kinds of pottery; that will cheapen in a large 
degree manufactures of that description. 
The patentee, we are told, has secured his 
patent rights in England, France, Belgium, 
Holland and Germany, besides the United 
States. Several eminent architects in Lon¬ 
don and Paris have testified to the importance 
and value of the patent, and several well 
known brick makers at Washington have 
given highly favorable certificates of the use¬ 
fulness of the new kiln. Among those who 
have examined the patent with the view to 
test its scientific results, is Professor Chas. 
T. Jackson, of Boston, who says: “Iain 
of opinion that this new kiln is a valuable 
improvement, adapted to the thorough and 
efficient baking'of bricks and pottery. I am 
also of opinion that the kiln is admirably 
adapted for the baking of ornamental brick 
work, hollow bricks, and drain pipes, such 
as can not be baked in ordinary open kilns.” 
[Maine Farmer. 
What Railroads Do. —A Georgia contem¬ 
porary who has just paid a visit to Alabama, 
reports “ four hundred houses now in course 
of erection,” many of them of a fine city like 
style. Ten years ago Atlanta was in the 
woods ; it now contains a population not far 
from ten thousand. The assessment of 
city property just completed, shows the 
amount of real estate, taxable in the city, 
to be $1,800,000. This is an increase of 
$737,558 over the amount of real estate re¬ 
turned for 1853. The whole amount of tax¬ 
able property, real and personal, for the 
present year amounts to $2,800,000, being 
an increase of $775,000 over last year. Of 
the real estate in the city, that which is not, 
taxable, being made up principally of church 
property and railroad lots and buildings, 
amounts to $115,000. 
Vermont —A Model State. —Firstly, there 
is not a public, legalized tippling house 
in the State. Instead .of licensing men to 
sell poison to their lellow men the sale of 
rum is made by law what it always is in fact, 
a crime. 
Secondly, there are neither cities nor sol¬ 
diers, nor a fort in the State, though the citi¬ 
zens when called upon are the best soldiers 
in the world. Who has not heard of “ Molly 
Starks ” men of the Revolution; or the 
“ Green Mountain boys ” of later date ! 
There is not a theater, circus, opera-house, 
museum, or any other show shop in the 
State,- and who ever heard of a Vermont 
mob! Without “fighting rum,” how could 
they have mobs ! There is no record of a 
Vermont murder these ten years, and her 
penitentiary is a small one. 
There are no slaves in the State, nor any, 
except a few dough faces, who fellowship 
with slave owners. There are railroads, but 
no Wall streets or State streets, and no great 
railroad defaulters. 
There are no seaports, no arrivals of im¬ 
migrants, except a few scattering from Cana¬ 
da, and hence no monstrous corruptions at 
the ballot box. 
There are no Banks that do not pay what 
they promise, and no millions spent at the 
State Treasury to support an army of idle 
loafers. 
There is in Vermont a nation of hardy- 
mountaineers; athletic men and handsome 
women ; a great community of honest, in¬ 
dustrious farmers, cultivating a fruitful soil, 
and enjoying the rewards of peaceful indus¬ 
try. [N. Y. Tribune. 
English and Georgian Women. —Cross¬ 
ing a substantial Russian bridge of wood, 
stretched over a mixture of half swamp and 
half stream, we reached a little Georgian 
village, where we were evidently looked 
upon as wonderful specimens of natural his¬ 
tory by the inhabitants. The houses are 
composed of wattle-work or wood, and con¬ 
sists of three or four rooms on the ground 
floor, the principal room being lined with so¬ 
fas, upon which (when seen by us unawares) 
the lesidents were reclining. I never saw 
so many women to a household as in this 
place—about half-a-dozen to each—and 
generally exceedingly pleasing and pretty in 
appearance, and graceful in their walk. At 
first sight cf us they generally adhered to the 
Turkish custom, and, covering up their faces 
ran away to an inner room, or closed the 
door while we passed by ; but soon curiosity- 
prevailed, their doors opened a little, and 
then whole figures came'gradually to view, 
until at length they came out in a body and 
unveiled, and boldly criticized the appear¬ 
ance of the “ Ingleez they were attired in 
colored or pure white drapery, drawn in at 
the w r aist, and setting off their figures and 
fair complexions to advantage. The men 
wear a calpac and robe supplied with cart¬ 
ridges, like the Circassians, and are gen¬ 
erally fine, intelligent-looking fellows. 
To get rid of Bed Bugs. —Wash the bed¬ 
stead and rope with hard brawn soap, and put 
some soap in the holes with the rope, and the 
varmints will not like such quarters. 
