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MISCELLANEA. 
The doctors for the defendant having so perfectly disagreed, 
the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff'for the amount claimed. 
Will not this strange report (copied from the Times ) induce 
some one concerned to tell us a little of the truth of the matter, 
and wipe away some of the disgrace from himself and his pro¬ 
fession ?—-Edit. 
jWiateUawau 
American Anecdote or Fast Driving, 
u I once took an Englishman with me in a gig up Allibama 
country, and he says—‘ What’s this great churchyard we are 
passing through?’ And, ‘Stranger,’ says I, * I calculate it’s 
nothing but the mile-stones we are passing so quick .’”—Jacob 
Faithful . 
The Effect of the Dam’s Habits on the Unborn 
Offspring. 
The effects which the parent’s habits have on their unborn off¬ 
spring are very extraordinary. In breaking in a mare, which was 
afterwards found to be in foal, it was necessary to lunge her 
frequently in a circle. When the foal was born, and was strong 
enough to do so, it began to move round and round incessantly, 
and continued this practice for a considerable length of time,— 
Jesse's Gleanings in Natural History . 
The Extraordinary Effect of Climate on the 
Colour of the Hair of Horses. 
In the West Indies black cattle are the most plentiful of any, 
and animals of this colour are the only kind that are fit for 
Jamaica work. The white-coloured cattle are terribly tormented 
by the insects, and they are weak and sluggish in proportion to 
the quantity of white hair they possess. “ But with respect to 
horses,” says Monk Lewis, “ I am told that such a thing as a 
black horse is not to be found in the island : those which may 
be imported black soon change their colour into a bay; and 
colts are said to have been dropped perfectly black, which after¬ 
wards grew lighter and lighter till they arrived as being perfectly 
white.”— Journal of a West India Planter. 
