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Ijawsiiiit uboiit a. Coiiuna. 
Shortly after the commencement of the war of the 
Rebellion, some gentlemen in New York chartered a 
vessel for carrying freight. In the article of agreement 
this sentence occurred. “ The said vessel is to carry 
2100 tons or more provided she does not draw over 15 
feet of water.” Upon loading the ship it was found that 
when 1800 tons had been received, she drew 15 feet of 
water, and the captain,-under instructions from the own¬ 
er, refused to take in any more. Upon this, the com¬ 
pany who had chartered her, refused to pay the price 
agreed upon, and a iawsuit for $14,000 followed, which is 
now in progress. If a comma had been placed after the 
word tons in the contract, the meaning would have been 
perfectly clear, showing that 2100 tons were to be car¬ 
ried in any case, and more if the draft of the vessel would 
permit it with safety. As it now stands, the meaning is at 
least doubtful, and as both parties read it to suit their 
own interests, it will cost them many dollars and much 
trouble to have the matter settled by the lawyers. 
Ssiddeik Cure of Cltolera. 
Recently in Brooklyn, an Irish laborer found one of 
his fellow workmen lying insensible near his work, and 
at once concluded that he had bean suddenly attacked 
with cholera, which was then quite prevalent in the neigh- 
borhood. Two physicians were at once called, and from, 
the man’s condition they believed him to be in “collapse,” : 
the state of the disease in which the patient sinks in utter 
prostration. They at once applied the most energetic 
treatment, removing the man’s clothing, and nearly cov¬ 
ering him with mustard plasters. Very soon he began to 
revive, and then to the astonishment of the bystanders 
he started away on a run, screaming lustily, and franti¬ 
cally tearing off the burning piasters. It turned out 
aftervvard that the supposed cholera patient had returned 
from a hard spree, from the effects of which he was lying 
dead drunk. The intolerable smarting roused him, and 
for a few days cured him of his dangerous disorder. 
A Comical Pictare, 
Our artist sometimes amuses himself by drawing 
comical sketches. He says this one is intended to repre-; 
sent a lot of donkies, and it will afford some amusement 
to compare the different figures and decide which is the 
greatest donkey. 
Some of my Jllistalces. 
When I was a little boy, I felt sure men must be happy 
because they could do as they pleased. Many an hour- 
have I amused myself by thinking what good things I 
could have when I grew up. I would buy a watch and 
a gun, and keep a horse, and eat .us much candy as I 
pleased : these seemed to me some of the greatest things 
to be hoped for. I can ride, or hunt, or look at my watch, 
or eat candy now whenever I choose, but the pleasure I 
expected is not in them, I have no ionger a boy’s active 
limbs, quick eyes, and keen tastes, to enjoy them with. 
Tlilit was a mistake of the imagination ; I w'ish all my 
boyish errors might have been as harmless. As I could 
riot grow to be a man at once, I tried to do what older 
persons did. I thought it looked manly to smoke a cigar; 
.and I well remember how I strutted, and carried my head 
on one side, and put on airs .us I watched the smoke curl¬ 
ing above my head. I am often reminded of it by see¬ 
ing bb'ys making the same mistake now-a-days.—But oh ! 
how sick it made me ; I paid dearly enough for my pleas¬ 
ure, and for a long time concluded to try some other way 
to be manly. Perhaps one of my greatest mistakes was 
fn thinking how much I knew. I could not believe that 
father and mother knew best; so I often took my own 
.^‘gainst their advice, and in many ways have had to suf¬ 
fer for it. Then I made a sad mistake at school, when 
I regarded learning as a task to be performed for the 
plea'Sure of the teacher, instead of seeing that it was my 
bpportunily to lay up stores w hich would be of the great¬ 
est service through life. I was forced by faithful friends 
to secure somelhingof this treasure, but how rich I might 
have been in mind, could I have seen things as they now 
appear. Then I let some habits become fastened upon 
me which it took years to shake off, and I have been near¬ 
ly half my life trying to mend the mistakes of the other- 
half. I should not have spoken of these things, were it 
not that I see boys every day making the same mistakes, 
and preparing for the same regrets. Perhaps some of 
them among the readers of the Agriculturist will be 
helped to think by these thoughts of an oid man, and thus 
avoid some of the mistakes of Uncle Ben. 
Oddr^ ami Sluds. 
The little snarling, cooing “babes,” 
That bi-eak our nightly rest, 
Shortld be packed off to “Baby’’-lon, 
To “Lap land” or to “Brest.’’ 
From “Spif’-head “Cooks” go o’er to “Greece,” 
And while the “Miser” waits 
Ilis passage to the “Guinea’’ coast, 
“Spendthrift’s” are in the “Straits.” 
“Spinsters” should to the “Needles” go, 
“Wine-bibbers” to “Burgundy 
“Gourmands” should lunch at “Sandwich” Isles, 
“Wags” at the Bay of “Fun”-dy. 
“Bachelors” flee to the “United States,” 
“Maids” to the “Isle of Man 
Let “Gardeners” go to “Botany” Bay, 
And “Shoeblacks” to “Japan.” 
Thus emigr-ate, and misplaced men 
Will then no longer vex us; 
And all who ain’t provided for 
llad better- go to “Texas.” 
A Coat of Arms.—A New Yorker, rich by inheri¬ 
tance, acceded to his wife’s desire for a “coat of arms ” 
to be put upon the panels of their car riage, and drew a 
small mound in which was stuck a manure fork, with 
chanticleer- upon it, rampant. “ Why, what is tlris ?” 
asked his wife in amazement. “ This,” said the inrrn of 
money, “ is our family coat-of-arms. My grandfather- 
made his money car ting manure ; this mound and fork 
represent his occupation ; the cock perched upon the top 
of the for-k r-epresents myself, who have dorte nothing but 
flap my wings and cr'ow on that dungirill ever since.” 
The carriage still has plain panels. 
Asiswcs’.s to a.U4l H*uzzles. 
The following are answers to the Puzzles, etc., in the 
September- number, page 329. Puzzle Picture. —This 
contains a bear, a dog, and a squirr el, the forms of which 
can be made out by attentively observing the shape of 
the trees and shrubbery near the beehives_No. 225. 
Word Puzzle. — Devil: His occupation is cnrf,- his char¬ 
acter, vile ; his offspring, lie ; his fir st victim, Eve ; how 
he obtained this victim, Led; the sentence pronounced 
upon the victim and himself, die _No. 226. Illustrated 
Rebus. —“Many a slip between cup and lip.”_No. 227. 
Word Puzzle. — L, ell, L _No. 223. Conundrum. —When 
there is one beat (beet) in a measure. 
The following have sent in correct answer s to puzzles. 
We have only room to give the names, without the num¬ 
bers answered. C. A. Parsons, D. McKune, E. F. Walt, 
John D. Brown, H. Martin Kellog, Willie B. Ruggles, 
John G. Esler, J. C. Stanley, R. L. Wells, Mr s. J. W. 
Scott, Hattie A. Goffee, J. Weatherbee, Libbie Limes, 
Emily S. Ilanaway, Mrs. James Tyler, S. C. D., Geo. H. 
Palmer, Char-ley Ray, John Jones, J. C. McDonough, 
L. H. F., and A. D. L., Bell S. War-d, Carrie Spangle, 
JIary A. Spangle, Wm. B. Phelps, G. & W. Fotrlk, Bind¬ 
ley Shaw, Nellie Coe, Allie McMillan, E. Kalb, Jennie 
Smith, B. K. Northrop, Henry F. Reyirolds, Rufus G. 
Fuller, Isaac T. McLain, Lyde Harrison, Wm. P. New- 
lon, I.,M. Patton, Elizabeth E. Pattoir, Alice Milligan, 
Elrna M. Taber, Annie 11. Charlton, Henry -C. Hoover, 
A. G. G., A. L. H., W. H. Benedict, Dianthe Roads, R. 
W. Fair, W. R. Ballinline, M. A. C., Fanny E. Alien, 
Mary E. Elliott, Judson Crandell, H. P. Hagerman, 
Geo. A. Shepard, James W. Thompson, Eugenia Frank, 
W. V. Kritsinger, Cornelius Hoagland, Jr., E. A. Milner, 
M. Brownell, Adelle C. Dally, Marietta Weeks, Ellery 
W. Greeire, John W. Cutter, Sarah E. Tlrornas, Kate 
How'er and Brother, Emily Reynolds, H. S. Loper, Mag¬ 
gie A. Burtis, Minard R. Bice, James E. Esirleman, 
Robert Robertson, Ransom G. W. Denison, Sarah A 
Southwick, James C. Brantigan, Phunny Phello. 
Wiew l^uzzles to toe Ams-riYcreel. 
No. 229. Mathematical Problem .—A farmer took to 
mar'ket the pr-odrrets of Iris farm, consisting of corn w hich 
he sold for 50 cents a brrshel; wheat for $1.75 a buslrel ; 
oats for 45 cents a brrshel; and potatoes for 95 cents a 
bushel, from the sales of w-hich, after deductirrg all ex¬ 
expenses he r ealized a net profit of $2,896.92, or 78 per¬ 
cent. The number of bushels of corn he raised per acre 
was equal to orre-third of the oats and potatoes, and half 
the wheat; and tire number of bushels of potatoes per 
acr-e was equal to twice the quantity of oats and wheat, 
and 31 bushels over ; and the whole number of bushels 
of all kinds was 4,554. Now, the number of acres of 
oats was equal to twice the number of bushels of oats 
per acre less 14 ; and fotrr times as many as acres of cor n, 
and twice as many as acres of potatoes, while the acres 
of corn wer e in pr-opor-tion to the acr-es of wheat as 5 to 
6. How many bushels did he raise of eacli kind, and 
how many acres of eacli did he have in cirltivation ? 
No. 230. Illustrated Rebus .—A very obviorrs trrrth. 
No. 231. Mathematical Problem for Reginners .—If a 
man sells his watch for fifty dollars, brrys it back for 
forty dollars, then sells it for forty-five, how much does 
he make in the transaction ? It looks as if he made fif¬ 
teen dollars, but he didn’t. 
No. 232. Illustrated Rebus.—Whtil wc try to do". 
The Largest Room in the World. —The “room 
for improvement.” What will you do with your share ? 
