The Use Of Oxen In Horse Power

Practical men of ur acquaintance prefer to use an ox inaiead of a horse in the common stationary liorse-powers, whïöh Work by ineans of an endles bel: of wooden blocks on n incüued plane. It is said to be easier to break an ox than a hcraa to vork steady ; that his weight and naturally moderate ait mlapt liirn to this work. The tvrso id more nervous and ppirited, bkcly consturitly lo vary h:s pace inri mskö a fjieut laal l)urder work of it than is nect'csary. There liii)ld be considerable camión usod in introducin; the ox in thM novul pos:tion and initiatinir liiin into the niysterior, of ''liav eüng all dav in a peck uieasure," and goinfjr, but not ;t;tling along. The thintf to be paiiicatarly guarded atrainst is his attemptinff to jump out The labor is uot severe if oontinued f'or a moderate time ; bilt it is cruel to work horses day ufter diiy in these treadmillf. fë A story is told of two men of the Twentieth Massachusetts, which well illustrates the pluck of our soldiers and their indifferpnce to danger. In the battle of the WildernesH the Twentieth were in the tliick of the fight, and one oolor bearer after another was shot down alniost as fast as the men could be replaeed. But snch was the eagerness to keep the flag aloft that at one time two men Irishmen cauglil hold of the standard at once, as it was about to fa'l, and struggled for it. Just then a shot s'ruck the staff, cuttin it in two, and leaving one man with tlie flag and the othe'r with the broken stick. " Bedad!" said the man with the short end of the staff, " the rebeta have decided for us his time ! " and went to londing and firiug again, as coolly as if uothiog had ïappcued. __ jjsg" Artemus Ward, in his leoture, talking about the war, givea the opinión if a gentleman who resides in the rural district, and wlio possesses, iti the opin ion of many, a niassive raind. " He has watchcd the progress and conduol of the war closely, and he said, after having carefully read the editorial artioles in all the daily papers about it, aud consulted miimt.ely and purtioularly, froin day to da}', the telegraph dispalohes in re gard to it, and more particularly for the New York Ilerald and ils military maps, and in tbose lucid maps studying the vanous bases of operations ana niovemciUs of our armi.'S in" the field, and after organizing a War Club in the neighborhood where he lived, aiid exchanging opinions with the sevcral of his neigb nors in regard to tne war, ana auenaing the various local meetings that wero near, an 1 keepiiig ono eje intently fast eued on Washington, and the othor intently fastened on the "arious State ConventioiiB, held in the different States, as well iis the aotion of different State Li-gislature, and reading oarefully the paptrs publisbci at the capitals of the S ates, and subscribing for the illustruted uewspapers of New York city, and giizing fixedly on the various bloody battlosoen.'s; after doiag 'ill tbis, he said, "he"d be blasted it' he knew wbat he did thiuk about it.' " Another dotaehment of 200 rebel prmoners, quartere'l at Rock Ilund, ïllinnis, havo taken the oalh of ullegiance and eclisted in the TJoited Stotep Navy.