uzzle dogs, because one in ten
thousand goes mad, and yet more people are killed by cattle horns than
by dogs. What the country needs is more mooley cows.

Now that I am on the subject, it may be asked what is the best paying
breed for the dairy. My opinion is divided between the south down and
the cochin china. Some like one the best and some the other, but as for
me, give me liberty or give me death.

There are many reforms that should be inaugurated in the manufacture
of cheese. Why should cheese be made round? I am inclined to the belief
that the making of cheese round is a superstition. Who had not rather
buy a good square piece of cheese, than a wedge-shape chunk, all rind
at one end, and as thin as a Congressman's excuse for voting back pay
at the other? Make your cheese square and the consumer will rise up and
call you another.

Another reform that might be inaugurated would be to veneer the cheese
with building paper or clapboards, instead of the time-honored piece of
towel. I never saw cheese cut that I didn't think that the cloth around
it had seen service as a bandage on some other patient. But I may have
been wrong. Another thing that does not seem to be right, is to see so
many holes in cheese. It seems to me that solid cheese, one made by
one of the old masters, with no holes in it--I do not accuse you of
cheating, but don't you feel a little ashamed when you see a cheese cut,
and the holes are the biggest part of it? The little cells may be handy
for the skipper, but the consumer feels the fraud in his innermost soul.

Among the improvements made in the manufacture of cheese I must not
forget that of late years the cheese does not resemble the grindstone
as much as it did years ago. The time has been when, if the farmer could
not find his grindstone, all he had to do was to mortise a hole in
the middle of a cheese, and turn it and grind his scythe. Before the
invention of nitro-glycerine, it was a good day's work to hew off cheese
enough for a meal. Time has worked wonders in cheese.

COLORED CONCERT TROUPES.

Sometimes it seems as though the colored people ought to have a guardian
appointed over them. Now, you take a colored concert troupe, and though
they may have splendid voices, they do not know enough to take advantage
of their opportunities. People go to hear them because they are colored
people, and they want to hear old-fashioned negro melodies, and yet
these mokes will tackle Italian