have seen England and taken the least notice of 
plowing there, but will uot be by those who 
have uot. I do not contend that the time and 
force expended by the English plowman is any 
more remunerative than with us, but when you 
come to the doing of a nice job, such as is ex¬ 
pected at a plowing match, we. cannot come up 
to their ordinary 1 work. However bitter this 
pill may be to some of our “crack” plowmen, 
plowmakcvs and horsemen, they had better take 
it and it will do them a vast deal of good. 
T^aciotts ®ojiics 
ORIGIN AND SEALS OP THE STATES 
TALK ON WORK, HEAT AND HEALTH, 
[Correspondence 0 j Moore'o Rural New-Yorker.] 
MOWING MACHINE TRIAL 
T THE GREAT PARIS EXHIBITION. 
thrown out into the swath and got into the 
working parts of the machiue and bent the 
“ pitman,” which delayed it nearly half an hour, 
lu the mean time one of the other machines had 
withdrawn. The Clipper was working along re¬ 
markably well, hut evidently too much for one 
horse. The Setmour & Morgan, with its enor¬ 
mous swath, was fast reducing the width of its 
section, but doing shocking bad work. At about 
this time, say three-quarters of an hour after the 
start of the machines now spoken of, it com¬ 
menced to rain, and continued to do so through 
the rest of the day’s trial. At the end of an 
hour and a quarter the $eixioub& Morgan ma¬ 
chine appeared to be the only one able to rival 
the Wood machine in point of time, it haviug 
then only one “ bout” to make a finish,—all the 
other machines at this time being off, except the 
Clipper and McCormick. The Clipper soon 
alter withdrew. The Seymour & Morgan, by 
some mischance, got swamped at the last swath, 
leaving the McCormick as the only one of the 
lot to finish its piece, which it did in two hours 
and fifteen minutes. This result plainly left the 
Americans masters of the situation, with Wood 
1st, McCormick -2d, and Perry 3d,—but wheth¬ 
er these positions were to remain so was left tor 
the morrow to decide. 
The morrow came and so did the machines, 
and the meu, and the Jury; and, what was 
worse, so did the rain, which so disarranged 
affairs that it was decided to do no more until 
harvest time in July. This determination can- 
uot be regarded in any other light than unfor¬ 
tunate for all parties, except the friends of the 
Wood machine. The Clipper managers cannot 
NUMBER SEVEN 
Workers in the fields —strong men and 
sturdy boys, toiling beneath a hlazing sun, and 
exposed to rain and chill— let's have a talk 
together about work and health. Not a fu&ty 
talk, like a set of fidgetty nervous fellows, afraid 
to stand up square lest some of the inside works 
give out; but just a word of practical common 
sense. (Common sense, by the way, is rather 
wicommon.) 
There’s a good deal of work to be done in the 
six months ahead that, can’t be got round, or 
pushed aside, unless you like sheriffs and red 
flags. If the old farm is to be kept, and to gain 
in value, thus work ahead mast be met and done 
up. For three months we shall have gome 
awful hot days, with burning sun and sultry air, 
“muggy," as they used to say, 
SEAR OF LOUISIANA. 
Toe French first settled Louisiana iu 1699, 
and for a loDg time the territory now embraced 
iu this State and that embraced in Arkansas and 
the region east of Louisiana was the subject of 
dispute between France, Spain and England, its 
possession passing from oue to the other. At 
last, in 1808, it was bought by our government 
for 313,000,000, a great object being not only to 
gain the territory, but to have entire navigation 
Of the Mississippi. Iu 1812 it was made a State. 
The southern part is a vast, range of swamp, 
bayou, river aud level fields of great fertility, 
and some 10,000 square miles are liable to inun¬ 
dation, although nut half that space Is yearly 
under water. Levees, or broad solid banks 
built up with great labor, prevent overflows, and 
the land near the Mississippi and other streams 
is higher titan at a distance, and wonderfully 
fertile. The central aud northern portion is 
higher and more undulating, and the apple, 
peach, orange, fig, grape and pomegranate grow 
finely. New Orleans is a city of great business, 
aud many of its most wealthy and refined peo¬ 
ple are descendants of the French, aud still 
speak the language and retain the elegant man¬ 
ners, peculiar customs, and religion of France. 
Sugar Is largely produced, and cotton and rice 
yield well. There are 18,220 square miles in the 
State, and Its population, in I860, was 376,206. 
Its seal is the pelican feeding her young, with 
the negro working iu the corn field, on one side, 
and boats and cotton bales on the levee, on the 
other. 
down East,” 
Thunder storms will come up sudden, wetting 
you to the skin, and with raw winds that check 
perspiration sooner than Is healthy; and a damp, 
ehiLl day uow and then, in between these mjrch- 
ers, to say say nothiug of fogs aud dews. But 
this work is to be put through, biow high or low, 
and it’s a good plan to start and go on in such 
fashion as to hold out strong and come through 
sound and bright. 
It may be well to “take an account of stock,” 
as merchants say,— we mean stock of boue and 
muscle, and nerve, and will-power. Every sen¬ 
sible man knows about what he can do, aud uot 
break or weakeu bis powers; settle that, and 
then don' l oner-do. Many a man (and more boys) 
Just wrecks himself needlessly in ten minutes, 
and is never the mau again he was before. \\ hen 
you feel you arc up to your highest mark, stop ; 
COUNT BISMARCK, 
nearly level. Besides, the McCormick machine 
finished its work in the rain, and though it is 
contended by some that that didn’t make any 
dlffereuce, the rain was severe enough to wet a 
man to the skin through overcoat and all, if he 
had no umbrella, as I know to my own extreme 
personal discomfort from experience. 
the perry machine described. 
The recent origin and novel construction of 
the new candidate for public honors, “ The Per¬ 
ry Machine,” entitles it to a brief description. 
It is of the two-wheel, double-driver class, with 
one wheel made very large in the hub—so large, 
in fact, that the supporting piece of the finger- 
bar and the pitman both pass through it, thus 
brlngiug the finger-bar in line with the wheels, 
which is no doubt a very desirable place to have 
it. The machine is in other respects generally 
well designed, having I believe a less number of 
parts than any other first-class machine. It also 
possesses some refinements, such as silent 
SEAL OF ARKANSAS. 
Arkansas was originally a part of Louisiana 
Territory, but was made separate, with its pres¬ 
ent, name in 1819, and admitted as a State of the 
Union in 1886. The Arkansas river, a broad 
stream, navigable some 800 miles for a part of 
the year, flows through its center eastward to¬ 
ward the Mississippi, and other fine streams 
traverse it. The land between the Ozark moun¬ 
tains and the Mississippi is level, somewhat 
liable to iiiuudatious, and very rich along tho 
rivers and bayous. Northwest of these moun¬ 
tains are broad open prairies, with soil rich, near 
some rivers, aud sterile iu higher portions, with 
water rather scarce. Cotton and corn yield well 
and cattle are easily raised. Iron, coal, lead and 
salt are found and will doubtless be sources of 
future wealth 
It has 45,000 square miles, and a 
population, in I860, of 324,335. 
Us seal has, on a central shield, the steam¬ 
boat, the plow aud the bee-hive, cmblamatio of 
industry aud Intercourse with the world, with 
eagles supporting It aud the motto, “ Reignant 
Popull,—let the people reign. 
in the North German Parliament:—“ He usually 
enters the Chamber a short time after the de¬ 
bates have opened, bows shortly to the presi¬ 
dent, aud then Bits down on the ministerial 
bench, where he occupies the first place. His 
neighbors on the right, who are mostly Generali, 
nobles, and high officials, rise when he comes to 
take his seat, but their example is scarcely ever 
followed by the Poles and Catholics, who sit ou 
his left. His speeches are very uncouth in style, 
and his voice is sharp and grating. When ex¬ 
cited he loses the thread of his discourse, and 
not uufrequcntly commits faults of grammar 
and construction, At the same time there is an 
epigrammatic incisiveness in bis short, sharp 
sentences, and a picturesqueness of expression 
in his style, which go far to redeem his oratori¬ 
cal defects j and if the form in which he clothes 
his ideas is somewhat harsh and repelling, there 
can be no doubt as to the value and effect of the 
His speeches are full of deep 
Don't bolt a hearty meal lu hot haste and rush 
out to yonr work, but get a little rested, then 
cat moderately, yet enough, and go to work 
fresh. Dyspepsia and its kindred horrors come 
often from eating full meals with the system 
overtaxed and heated, and no vital power left for 
Keep cool; the more to be done the 
SEAL OF TEXAS. 
The first Europeans in Texas were a company 
under command of La Salle, a famed discov¬ 
erer, who intended to go up the Mississippi, but 
lauded in Matagorda bay, erecting Fort St. Louis. 
La Salle was killed by his own men, and the 
Spanish took the place. The uot exactly known 
limits of Louisiana made Texas a field of dis¬ 
pute between Spain aud France; the first power 
holding, aud the few settlers being mostly 
Spanish. It became a part of Mexico and Amer¬ 
icans settled there until, in 1835, they declared 
their independence, and after a short and bloody 
war, cut away from Mexican rule. In 1845 it 
was admitted into the Union as a State. Its area 
is 237,504 square miles, or uearly six times as 
large as Pennsylvania. The portion near the 
coast is level, and much of it fertile, the middle 
part more rolling aud the northwest section 
elevated table lands reaching up toward the 
central mountains in Colorado, and rising some 
3,000 feet above the sea. There U much rich 
soil in all parts, and it will at some future day, 
sustain a large population, as the climate, save 
on the low coast, is healthy. In I860 its popu¬ 
lation was 421,169. Cotton and grain yield 
digestion, 
more need of self-possession, that you may be 
master of the situation. 
Don’t eat heaps of meat and drink gallons of 
rauk coffee and strong tea with a blind notion 
that you must have hearty food. Your bread or 
beans, pound for pound, has more nutriment 
than your beef, and the water don’t clog up the 
system like this black coffee, or rack the nerves 
like strong tea. 
Meat has more stimulus than bread, and a 
share of this le well, but not in excess. Eat 
meat, vegetables, fruits, &e., aud drink moder¬ 
ately. Keep the system open and all evacuations 
easy and natural, and save fevers and conges¬ 
tions. Take less meat in very hot weather. 
Judge for yourselves, but keep alL firm, and 
trim, and cool, and open, in the Internal depart¬ 
ment, and you’ll be fit for a good, long pull. 
Bathe often, but never when hot or tired. At 
over. 
from the plow without harrow or roller, 0r e k e 
terribly disturbed by the frost without bt„ ? 
rolled down in the spring as it should have been. 
So, in fact, the machines had to mow dirt and 
gravel as well as grass and weeds, and it was 
almost too much for them. The Wood machine 
was the only one of the six that finished its 
piece, which it did iu one hour aud thirty-six 
minutes. All the other machines, except How¬ 
ard’s of England, withdrew voluntarily, aud it 
received a hint from the jury that it might as 
well be withdrawn as the piece was scarcely 
than half done when that of the Wood’s 
Ideas themselves, 
thought, of far-reaching political insight aud of 
statesmanlike views. His wit, too, is very re¬ 
markable, and its slashing effect has been felt by 
many an antagonist to his cost. He is very sen¬ 
sitive to attack, especially since he has been suf¬ 
fering from his present nervons disorder.” 
Although wora by the vast labors of the two 
past years he has yet,—at 5-4 years of age—great 
recuperative powers, and years of active life are 
probably before him. He asks relief from official 
duties, but cannot long be out of public posi¬ 
tion, and meanwhile will exert great influence. 
The greatness of Prussia, as linked with his own 
greatness, is his leading aim; bnt, although not 
despotic or tyrannical in character, he has little 
sympathy with, or faith in, the elevation and 
freedom of the people. 
iit-ULt*, QP -JHE TRIAL—AMERICA AHEAD. 
The result or this trial has proved some things, 
and among t&e rest tbit Napoleon had a very 
large field of ve*y hard mowing; also, that the 
American machine were the only ones equal to 
the task; but it has uot proved that the Wood 
machine is superior \> the McCormick, the 
Ferry, the Clipper, or uny other of our first 
class machines unrepresen^d. However, as the 
prizes are to be awarded on he 1st Of July, aud 
the next trial is not to take -qa.ee until' some 
time during the month of July, th-jury will hare 
to base their opinions on the evident* already at 
hand, and the classification will n<i doubt be as 
I have assigned it above. We Americans have 
night a hand-bath all over, if not too tired, and 
in the morning you are fresh, and it is always 
safe, It helps greatly through the heated season. 
All this, and much more in the same way that 
you will all think of, can be done, and avoided, 
sensibly, quietly, and without fidgeting, and, 
rely on it, will help through all the exposure, 
make work a welcome task, and land most ot 
you, strong iu body and clear in mind, on the 
cool edge of next winter’s snow banks. 
more 
was completed. 
Of the remalniug seven or eight machines, I 
tyalievc but six actually started, aud among 
them was the McCormick Mower (a ma¬ 
chine of only two years standing, and of the 
two-wheel rear-bar style, possessing all the 
good features of machines of that class;) the 
?EHRy Mower of Boston; a one-horse Clipper; 
a 8 etmour, Morgan & Ai.len, arranged as a 
reaper, cutting a five-foot swath; and a counter¬ 
feit Wood Machine from Canada. 
At the completion of the first round the Perry 
machine stood ahead, but unfortunately on turn¬ 
ing across the starting end, which was done in 
the field road, the track-cleaner was swung into 
a rut and broken off. Thus crippled the machine 
•ontinued to work, but evidently at such a disad- 
Aatage that the jury promised the proprietor an | fectly understood and acknowledged by all who 
The First Steamboat Builder.— John Fitch 
built a steamboat which ran five miles an hour, 
on the Delaware, iu 1798, but its mechanism 
gave way; he was poor and thought crazy, and 
died on the Ohio river. He left, a sealed packet 
in a Philadelphia library, to be opened iu fifty 
years, in which he said the steariboat would 
then be on every navigable river of tlie conti¬ 
nent. His prophesy was verified. Fulton knew 
him and his invention, improved it greatly, and 
had the money of the Livingstons to help hhn. 
Weak -loses of wash-board are recommended 
to Ladies wlio complain of dyspepsia. Young 
men troubled in the same way may be cured by a 
strong preparation of wood-saw. Early rising 
and open-air exercise may be used very benefi¬ 
cially in conjunction with the above remedies. 
The coal production of the following coun¬ 
tries in the year 1865, was as follows;—Great 
Britain, 98,150,587 tons ; Austria, 4,161,698 tons; 
Belgium, 11,840,703 tons; Bavaria, 260,600 tons; 
France, 11,061,948 tons; Prussia, 21,197,266 tons; 
Russia, 128,571 tons; Spain, 418,827 tons; United 
States, 22,906,939 tons ; and the Zollverein, 22,- 
350,000 tons. 
Persons good for apologies are commonly 
good for nothing else. 
