THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



  WHY A Doo WAGGLES Hts TAIL.-Lord Dun-
dreary tells his friends the solution of this
difficult riddle: " Because the dog is stronger
than the tail; if he wasn't the tail would
waggle the dog."

  SW No man, "living, should say an evil
word against the doctors.

  $&'Neither mind nor body can long en-
dure incessant toil. Relaxation is therefore
a Christian duty.  No man has a right to
destroy himself by labor, any more than by
poison. The bow that is always bent loses its
elasticity; the mind that is never relaxed
either will wear ont the body or become in-
sane.

  863Curran was once asked by one of his
brother judges, ' Do you see anything ridicu-
lous in this wig"' " Nothing but the head,"
was his reply.

  SW The man who made an impression on
the heart of a coquette has taken out a patent
for stone-cutting.

  Ie At a printers festival the following
toast was given: "The Editor and the Law-
yer-the devil is satisfied with the copy of the
former, but requires the original of the latter."

  1  A wag says of a woman-to her virtue
we give love; to her beauty, admiration; to
her hoops the whole pavement.

         M1 I S C E L L A N E O U S.

            0'm EUI OF OTAT1L

    Sail on, 0 Nation strong and great I
    Humanity with *11 its fears,
    With all the hopes of future yeare.



Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what master laid thy keel.
What wo'kmen wrought thy ribs of steel.
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope.
What anvile rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope
In spire of rock and tempest'& roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail en, nor far to breast the sea.
Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, oar tears.
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,
Are all with thee,-are all with thee:-Longfellowa.

       THE GRAISHOPPER.

 Happy insect, what can be
 In happine's compared to thee!
 Fed with nourishment divine.
 The dewy morning's gentle wine!
 Nature waits upon thee still.
 And thy verdant cup doth fill.
 Thou d.t drink, aud danc-, nd sing:
 Happier than the happieat king!
 .A11 the ield. which thou dout see.
 All the plant. b-lrnr tothee;
 All that fummer bours produce,
 Fertile made with early Juice,
 Man for thee does sow and p ow;
 Farmer he, and landlord thou I
             _P-~r tAC fj-. v f A .  .



               Bound Reams.

  Daniel Archer, Esq., of Springfield, Wis,
gives the following substantial reasons why
tobacco should be eschewed.  We commend
them to all who indulge in the "vile weed:"
  1. God made man with a clean mouth, from
which the inference is that he meant he should
keep it clean.

  2. Science and experience concur in teach-
ing us that tobacco is positively injurious to
the bodily health, if it is not, indeed, corrupt-
ive of a pure taste and good morals; the
which being true, we cannot indulge in its
use without sin, without becoming suicides in
fact.

  3. By using tobacco we disregard the posi-
tive injunction, " Whatsoever ye eat or drink
or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of
God." No man will have the hardihood to say
that he believes he may glorify God by a
criminal indulgence in what he knows to be
at war with his health of body and purity of
soul. "To him that knoweth to do good and
doeth it not, to him it is sin."

  4. It is a miserable, filthy habit, offensive
to all persons of really pure and uncorrupted
taste, and every man is bound to pay a decent
respect to his neighbor's comfort.



  A ROTHsCHILD ON THE REBEL LOAN.-Dr. Me
Clintock writes from Paris as follows:-"A
gentleman was transacting some business
with the Frankfort head of the house of Roths-
child. After the business was finished the
conversation turned toward American affairs.
"How is it," asked the stranger, "that the
Confederate loan is not quoted in Frankfort ?"
" Because we do not believe in the loan, and
because we do not believe in the cause."
"But the loan was negotiated here by the
house of Erlanger."  "Yes," replied Roths-
child, "but you do not find it held here, to
any extent, except by that house. No Jewish
house of any character or wealth has touched
that loan, nor will they touch it' "  This
shows that Jews are wiser than Christians,
in lucre.


  TBaE PATtIOTSte.-" I wage war because it
is a duty and because I desire the preserva-
tion of the Government and Union." We are
fighting battles not of hate or vengeance, but
unon the nrincinles of honor. for a eanous not



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