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liters OlabLe. 
Cattle Show and Fair of Burlington Coun¬ 
ty Agricultural Society, New Jersey. —We 
received the New-Jersey Mirror, containing full par¬ 
ticulars of the Annual Show of this flourishing socie¬ 
ty. We think it must have been a spirited affair and 
highly gratifying to all present. We observe that 
Mr. A. Maillard, of Bordentown, took seven first 
premiums for different kinds of things shown there ; 
but with his characteristic liberality, he declined 
them all, and generously handed them over to the 
society to be offered again next year. Success we 
say to the farmers of New Jersey, and we hope 
another year to be present at some of their agricultu¬ 
ral meetings. 
Premium Daguerreotypes. —On a recent visit 
to Brady’s Gallery, 205 Broadway, we were favora¬ 
bly impressed at the inspection of several Daguerreo¬ 
types, in miniature, of a number of our friends, which 
excelled in truthfulness, beauty, and finish, anything 
of the kind we have yet seen. Mr. Brady, who has 
taken the first premium at the fairs of the American 
Institute, for three or four years in succession, 
has brought this comparatively new art to a perfec¬ 
tion, no where else surpassed, if equalled, which just¬ 
ly entitles him to the encomium thus bestowed. 
Being himself an artist of a high order, independent 
of his knowledge of optics, as connected with this 
particular branch of his profession, he is enabled to 
impart to his likenesses, both color and expression 
almost equal to life itself. By the way—Why is not 
this art practised more than it is, in taking portraits 
of favorite domestic animals, trees, buildings, paint¬ 
ings, &c., in which the cost, in many instances, will 
not exceed one tenth part as much as when sketched 
or painted the usual way 1 We hope our agricultural 
friends will take a hint at this suggestion. Mr. R. S. 
Griswold, of Connecticut, had his fine Ayrshire stock 
beautifully Daguerreotyped last year and made sales 
of them, at a distance, from the portraits, much to the 
satisfaction of all concerned. 
School Architecture ; or Contributions to the 
Improvement of School Houses in the United States. 
By Henry Barnard, Commissioner of Public Schools in 
Rhode Island. Second Edition. Illustrated by Nu¬ 
merous Engravings. New York : A. S. Barnes & Co. 
Cincinnati : H. W. Derby, pp. 384, 8vo.' Price, $2. 
This excellent work has been compiled with much 
care, is handsomely illustrated, and appears to be well 
adapted to the use of school committees, teachers, 
and district-school libraries. For a specimen of the 
work, see our next number. 
Agricultural Botany; An Enumeration and 
Description of Useful Plants and Weeds, which Mei'it 
the Notice, or Require the Attention of American Ag¬ 
riculturists. By William Darlington, M.D. Phila¬ 
delphia: J. W. Moore; New York: Mark H. New¬ 
man, pp. 270. Price, $1. For a favorable notice of 
this work, see p. 340, of the present volume. 
Hovey’s Fruits of America. —No. 6, of this 
beautiful work has been received, and contains accu¬ 
rate portraits, printed in colors, of the Early York 
Peach; Le Cure Pear; Rostiezer Pear ; and Flemish 
Beauty Pear. This is the only periodical in America 
that is devoted wholly to fruits, and justly deserves, 
as it receives, a liberal support. Price, $1 per number, 
published every alternate month. C. M. Saxton, 
Agent, 205 Broadway, N. Y. 
The American Quarterly Register and 
Magazine. —This sterling periodical, we are hearti¬ 
ly glad to see, has reached its second number, and is 
replete with a variety of historical, statistical, and 
other interesting matter useful to be known. The 
article on the “ Tenure of Land,” in particular, 
should be read and understood by every farmer in 
the country. The work is edited by Judge Stryker, 
late of New York, and is published quarterly by E. C. 
& J. Biddle, Philadelphia. Price, $5 per annum. 
For further particulars, see p. 260 of the present 
volume. C. M. Saxton, Agent, 205 Broadway, N. Y. 
Large Cheeses. —Three immense cheeses, weigh¬ 
ing 1,900, 1,570 and 1,500 lbs. each, were brought 
from Ashtabula this morning by the steamer Cleve¬ 
land. The cheeses were made in Ashtabula county 
by Messrs. Austin 8f Stone, and give evidence of the 
great state of perfection to which the dairies on the 
Western Reserve have been brought. They are boxed 
up with great care and are on their way to the Ameri¬ 
can Institute for exhibition .—Buffalo Paper. 
Mammoth Corn.— We have received an ear of 
corn, which was raised on the farm of Mr. Thomas 
Inden, about two miles from the town of Cape Girar¬ 
deau. It is most extraordinary for its length, which 
is sixteen inches, and contains sixteen rows, and an 
average of seventy grains to the row, making 1,120 
grains to the cob.— St. Louis Pep. 
Wellerism.—“ I -wish to introduce a bill for the 
desttuction of worms,” as the woodpecker said in a 
late stump speech. 
A Plain Truth Plainly Spoken.-—A writer of 
the present day says there never was a time since the 
completion of the pyramids, when such a clamor was 
abroad, as now, for the right to work ; and there 
never was a generation, since the invention of easy 
chairs and gloves, that tried so hard to shirk it. Peo¬ 
ple want to have their hands employed ’tis true, but 
in climbing, not in labor. Their endeavor is not to 
get their living out of the ground, but out of one an¬ 
other, like ants and spiders .—Exchange Paper. 
Confusion of Names in the China Goose.— 
There is a venerable joke about a Spanish Don who 
knocked at a cottage door to ask a night’s lodging. 
“ Who’s there 1 What do you want I” said the in¬ 
mates. “ Don Juan Jose Pedro Antonio Alonzo 
Carlos Geronimo, &<c., &c., &c., wants to sleep here 
to-night.” “ Get along with you,” was the reply; 
“ How should we find room here for so many fellows!” 
The China goose is in the same position as the Span¬ 
ish Don. It has names enough to fill a menagerie 
China Goose, Knob Goose, Hong-Kong Goose, Asiatic 
Goose, Swan Goose, Chinese Swan (Cygnus sinensis , 
Cuvier), Guinea Goose, Spanish Goose, Polish 
Goose, Anas and Anser cygnoides, Muscovy Goose, 
African Goose, and probably more besides. ' 
Another Sagacious Sheep. —In the 29th number 
of the Mail, was an article concerning a sagacious 
sheep, which put me in mind of one I owned four or 
five years ago. It was a Southdown buck The dif¬ 
ference between the two sheep was, that while the 
one alluded to in the Mail would go and call up his 
master to take care of mischievous cattle,—mine 
would go and take care of them himself. I have 
known him, when my cattle have broken into my 
neighbor’s field, to drive them all out, and stand by 
the gap in the fence and keep them out. He wmuld 
leave the sheep and feed with the cattle during the 
summer. He was a peacemaker, for he would not 
allow any fighting among the cattle. He mastered 
all my cattle, and if my neighbors’ came to my 
barn, he would drive them home. My small boys 
would sometimes get on his back to ride, when he 
would contrive all ways to rub them off—running 
close to the post of the shed, the fence, or corner of 
the barn. He would not be pushed, crowded, nor in¬ 
sulted, in any way, and though a friend of peace, I 
have known him to fight many a duel. But the poor 
fellow came to the block, at last, and was beheaded. 
—Eastern Mail. 
