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and as he breeds them he will find some of the young that 
have colored heads and tails, but no colored flights. What 
is he to think of these? Why, call them Moore Heads, or 
Moore Caps, and enter them for premiums in those classes, 
‘as other men do. The name for such in Germany is the 
Bearded Pigeon, but they have been called in this country 
German Nuns. He will also have some of the young that 
will have the colored head only, the rest of the body being 
white; these are called in Germany the Death’s Head. 
Then, again, some of the young will have well-marked tails 
and wings; but the color of the head, instead of forming a 
bib on the neck, will stop at a line even with the eye, so 
that the top of the head is the part colored; and such birds 
were called by the ancient fanciers Helmets, and by the 
moderns Snells, more especially if the flights should also be 
white; therefore, to be a good Snell is to be an indifferent 
Nun—that is, a Nun that has lost all the black except that 
of the tail and the little on the top of the head, is called a 
Snell or Helmet in these days. 
These Snells have their admirers, and they have been bred 
as a separate variety for many years. They are of all colors, 
and are both plain-headed and capped. An enthusiastic 
fancier imported a pair of Helmets, at considerable cost, in 
the days when such importations were rare. Upon asking 
him how he liked his Helmets, the answer came, ‘‘They are 
nothing but d d yellow-headed Snells.””, So much for a 
name. 
‘When carefully bred the Snell is a pretty toy for young 
fanciers to trifle over, but I do not think it is worth perpetu- 
ating asa variety. For the benefit of those who may like 
it, I subjoin the following points: 

1. Coloring, white with black tail and scalp, the black of 
the scalp covering the head above a line drawn from the 
corners of the beak through the centre of the eyes. 
2. Hyes, pearl. 
3. Feet, clean and red. 
_ 4, Colors, black, blue, red, and yellow. 
The plain-headed are preferable, as presenting most dis- 
tinctive marks from the Nuns. The upper half of the beak 
partakes of the color next it on the head, and is darker than 
the lower half. 
When the Nun or Snell ran nearly out—that is, had no 
black except the tail and a spot on the head at the insertion 
of the beak—the bird was called a Spot, which name at last 
came to designate a bird that had lost all black color except 
the spot on its head, so that now when we hear a Spot spoken 
of we can imagine to ourselves a washed-out Nun, perfectly 
white, except the spot on the head at the base of the beak, 
which gives to the bird its name according to the color, as 
Yellow Spot, Red Spot, &e. There is also a White Spot 
~ connected with Priests in an analogous manner. - Now, some 
philosopher may say this mode of reasoning is all wrong ; 
that the Spot was the original of the Helmets and Nuns; that 
a descendent of the Spot becoming impure by the addition 
of more color to the head and tail, becomes a Helmet, and 
with still more color in the head, wings, and tail, becomes a 
Nun. Well, suppose the reasoning from this end of the 
problem to be true, it but proves the interdependence of 
these strains of pigeons which are dignified with the names 
of varieties. : 
Dr. W. P. Moraan. 
_ Baxrrmore, Mp. 

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yes? A Scranton paper, in giving an account of a shoot- 
ing affray, says the wounded man is expected to recover, as 
the pistol ball lodged in his dinner pail. 
Bas“ Do you think,” asked Mrs. Pepper, ‘‘ that a little 
temper is a bad thing in a woman?’’ ‘Certainly not,’’ 
responded her gallant husband, ‘‘it is a good thing, and she 
ought never to lose it.”’ 
ges G. T. Hollingsworth, Utica, New York, killed a 
Light Brahma hen November 7th, that weighed when 
dressed, 113 pounds. She was one of a trio purchased in 
Canada. 
p@ An old farmer in New Hampshire recently killed a 
pig, and being asked how much it weighed, replied that it 
did not weigh as much as he expected, and he did not expect 
it would. ‘ 
n@s It is stated that three ounces of carbolic acid put into 
twelve quarts of lime water or white-wash, and brushed over 
the inside ofthe hen-house, there will soon be an end of in- 
sect life within those doors. Try it. 
10,000 worn-out horses and mules are annually 
consumed for food in the city of Paris. In the year 1861 
less than 1000 supplied the horse-meat market. The appetite 
for this dainty food seems to grow by what it feeds on. 
pe The English Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals has offered premiums to the amount of £400 for 
improvements in the means of conveying cattle, and in- 
ducing railway companies to adopt them. 
pa@s~ The Danbury News says a horse ran away on Lib- 
erty street, on Saturday afternoon, and a man on the side- 
walk, with a wonderful presence of mind, threw his hat at 
the animal, screamed fire, and immediately jumped over a 
fence and disappeared in a cellar-way. 
pas It isn’t always best to call things by their right 
names. A young gentleman called a coach-dog a Dalmatian 
hound, and was informed by his fiance that if he could not 
refrain from profanity in her presence they must henceforth 
be strangers. 
pes~ A Bennington whose domestic nature is 
equal to her natural simplicity, was invited by an advent 
exhorter to join his sect, get her white robe ready, and pre- 
pare to ascend. ‘I can’t,’ the maiden replied, “ father and 
mother are going, and somebody must stay and see to the 
cattle.” 
pas An Iowa girl of nineteen summers has, with her 
own hands, during the past season, raised 1000 bushels of 
corn, 500 heads of cabbage, 100 bushels of onions, and cal- 
culates on netting $500. Some impecunious and lazy eastern 
youth, who has only been able to raise a feeble moustache 
during his life, will probably ‘go west,” and marry, this 
amazing heroine. 
pa@s> The annual meeting of the breeders of short-horn 
cattle, was held in Cincinnati last week, and various 
questions concerning breeding were discussed. In a discus- 
sion as to whether white, roan, or red cattle were best in the 
quality of their flesh, most of the breeders favored white and 
roan. Mr. Christie, of Canada, asserted that, judging from 
observations during thirty years’ experience, the yellow-reds 
Dense reds, he said, were not 
girl, 
were emphatically the best. 
of the original stock. 
