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Air. Carr’s “ Imperial Windsor,”) winner of 
the first cow prize; and, says our authority, 
“ there is a peculiar appropriateness in this 
juxtaposition, as the latter was the reserve 
for the female cup.” 
The three sheep portrayed so admirably 
are Oxford Downs, (eight hundred pounds,) 
which took what is generally called the 
Cross-Bred Sheep Cup. This handsome trio 
are the property of Mr. Alfred Rogers of 
Burnham, Bedford, and were hred from the 
stock of Mr. Charles Hammond of Bidden- 
ham, whose blood was also found at the 
show in Mr. Thomas James’ silver medal 
Oxford Down wether, (two hundred and 
eighty-two pounds,) and, combined with 
Leicester, in Mr. George IIine’s first prize 
cross-bred pen, (seven hundred and forty- 
three pounds.) 
The “cup ox” of the year, at the show 
above alluded to, was a Hereford, fed by Mr. 
W. Heath of Norwich, and bred by the late 
Mr. Ellesmere of Berrington. Ile was four 
years and three months old, and had previ¬ 
ously (at Birmingham) won every prize for 
which he was eligible. This is the fourth 
time Air. Heath has taken the cup or gold 
■got by I medal at the Smithfield Club. 
THE LAW OF INHERITANCE 
bad are transmitted from sire to son — if the 
law of inheritance is absolute and invariable — 
it greatly concerns us to know and to heed 
it. If it shall be found that this law, not 
confined to the animal, extends also to the 
vegetable kingdom, its importance is greatly 
augmented. Tin: observed difference be¬ 
tween parents and progeny has induced 
some unbelief, and more inattention to the 
great law of inheritance. But it is to he re¬ 
membered that the likeness is not altogether 
between father and son; any given progeny 
is the joint product of all progenitors. Y/e 
represent not merely our fathers arjj our 
mothers, but an innumerable and, an incon¬ 
gruous ancestry running hack to tho f ] ood 
While we have two pare- jlts we i lfLve f our 
grand parents, (however, economical, we get 
along with no less,- eight great grand pa¬ 
rents, and so doub'fing the number each gen¬ 
eration back, ti.ii we begin to converge into 
the one original family, Select, any one in 
this long line of ancestors. In; has done some¬ 
thing to fashion and to form us; red-haired 
or black, healthy or diseased, comely or de¬ 
formed, two thousand years dead, he has made 
us, in part, what we are to-day. The defects 
and disease, symmetry and health of parents 
rreher attb (firaticr 
are an inheritance for their children to the 
latest generation. Posterity have rights, though 
not here to insist upon them. It. should ho 
claimed in their behalf that all who assume 
the responsibilities! of parents should he free 
fiom serious disease,and should so live as to 
develop and constantly maintain the highest 
constitutional vigor. 
^ af1 .er some forms of government even 
ts hereditary! With us it runs a good 
BY HUGH T. BROOKS. 
Somewhere in the ample realms of news- 
paperdom I found the following: 
“ The winner of the. Derby of 1868, Blue Gown, 
is ownned ami was bred by Sir Joseph Hawley, 
who has twice before won this famous stake. 
There are about two hundred racing stables in 
Great Britain, for nearly all of which a colt Is 
entered every year for the Derby. When the 
strife is so greet, the fact of carrying- oil three 
Derby prizes shows plainly the excellent blood 
and management of Sir Joseph Hawley's stable. 
Gown is by Beadsman , who won the Derby in 
1838. The darn of Blue Gown was Bas Bleu, 
(Bleti Stocking) who has produced several win¬ 
ners of important stakes.” 
It matters little to American Christians 
who among all the fast, men and all the fast 
horses “wins the Derby;” but when it is 
announced that the winner of 1868 was sired 
by the winner of 18o8, and that his dam lias 
also “ produced several winners of import¬ 
ant stakes,” the ubiquitous Yankee should 
put himself vigorously to guessing out the 
important principle therein illustrated. 
“ Like produces like,” is a somewhat mys¬ 
tical statement of an acknov, lodged but 
an unappreciated fact. If qualities good or 
ENGLISH PRIZE ANIMALS 
