EQUESTRIAN RACE BY AMERICAN LADIES.

Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 98, 15 February 1866, Page 6

EQUESTRIAN RACE BY AMERICAN LADIES.

At the. agricultural fair of the State of Wisconsin, in the United States, tin interesting- feature was an equestrian race by ladies. The riding seems to have been hardly up to the standard of Rotton Row. We read that—' Miss Lottie Tabor's saddle turned with h*r, and she was thrown down and so severely hurt that she left the grounds. Margaret Davis was also thrown off, but resumed her seat and came gallop~ ing up in time. The ladies then erhibited their abilities singly. Miss Case tried the Davis feat of riding a bare-back horse, but slid quietly to the ground before she had gone fifty "y ards « Miss F» rlon & rode very gracefully, carrying her handsome figure erect and steady as a practised dragoon. Belle Shattuck, really the belle among the competitors, next rode out, and distinguished herself by hergracetul ease and self-possession. Little Hattie Furlong was loudly applauded. The Davis girls did everything that anybody else did, and that without the aid of saddles. They also came in for a round of applause.' In awarding the prizes, equestrianship seems to have been entirely left out of consideration. The judicial mind was warped by sympathy, arid those ladies had the highest awards who suffered the severest mishaps. ' Lottie Tabor, whose saddle turned with her, got the first prize of a silver tea set. Miss Case, who fell off, took the second prize, a set of silver tablespoons ; to Miss Furlong, the third, a set of silver teaspoons; Miss Campbell, the fourth, a silver cardcase j and an extra prize, a present from the committee, was given to little Hattie Furlong.' General Sherman was present at this scene, and made a speech, praising the soldiers of Wisconsin. What he said of the horsewomen of that region is not reported.

Lord Cockburn, the proprietor of Bonaly, was sitting on the hillside with a shepherd, and observing- the sheep reposing in the coldest situation, lie remarked to him, ' John, if I were a sheep, I would lie on the other side of the hill.' ' Ah, my lord," said the shepherd, 'but if yo had been, a sheep, ye wud -kae had. mair sense.'

Female Middle-Class Education in Germany. — A. French traveller in Germany says, « The culinary art forms part of the education of women in German}*. The well-to-do tradesman, like the mechanic, takes a pride in seeing his aanghters good housekeepers. To effect this object, the girl on leaving school, which she does when about fourteen years of age, goes through the ceremony of confirmation, and is then placed by her parents with a country clergyman, or in a large family, where she remains one or two years, tilling what may [ almost be termed the post of servant, and doing the work of one. This is looked upon as an apprenticeship to domestic economy. She differs from a servant, however, in this, that she receives no wages j on the contrary, her parents often pay for the care taken of her, as well as for her clothing. This is the first step in her education of housekeeper. She next passes, on the same conditions, into the kitchen of a rich private family, or in that ot some hotel of good repute* Here she has the control of the expenditure, and ot the servants employed in it, and assists personally in the cooking 1 , but is always addressed as Fraulein, or Miss, and is treated by the family with deference and consideration. Many daughters of rich families receive the same training, with this difference, however, that tuny receive it in a princely mansion or a royal residence. There is a reigning queen in Germany at the present moment who was trained in this way. Consequently, the women are perfect models of order and economy. The richest lady, as well as the poorest woman, is well acquainted with the market-price of provisions ; ancfit gives one real satisfaction to see her bustling abont Irora one part of the house to another; now peeping into the nursery to see how the children are going on, then looking into the kitchen to see that the cook is doing her duty, and that everything is perfectly clean, and generally giving an eye to everything and everybody, and keeping all "well up to their work.. In short, she is the very soul ot the house. Woman's Wit. — ' Do lee me have your^ carte de visite,' said a dashing belle to & gentleman who had been annoying her with his attentions. Ofcourse the gentleman was delighted, thinking he had innde an impression on the lady's heart, and in a short time the picture was sent. She gave it to the servant, with the question,. 1 Would you know the original if he should call V The servant replied in the affirmative. ' Well, when he come 3 tell him I am engaged.' Devastation of War. — General Banks has written a letter in reference to the reconstruction of Louisiana, in which he o-ives a fearful picture of the desolation produced by the war upon that State. He says : ' No State has suffered greater losses in population than Louisiana. From forty-two to forty-five thousand able-bodied men have enlisted in the rebel army, theremnant of which is in other States. As many negroes accompanied the army, or fled with their owners to surrounding' States or to Europe. Death in every form has been busy with ber people. Of 331,726 slaves in 1860, nearly one quarter have died or left the State. The mortality of the black population in the commencement ot the struggle, until furnished with employment and homes, was frightful. It is doubtful if any people in any age ever sustained such losses from such causes. Including enlistments, deaths, exile and removal to other Southern States, to the North and to Europe, the reduction of the white population is nearly equal to the loss among the blacks. Ot 708,000 whites and blacks in 1860, there are now not more than 451,000 within the State, twothirds of whom are within the lines of our army. Almost the entire negro population, not only of Northern Louisiana, but of the surrounding States, and numerous white families, have taken refuge here. The population of Nev Orleans, from this very came, is larger now than ever before, while many other parishes have been nearly depopulated.' I>r. James Fullerton, a native ot the counry of Da-ry, who. many years ago, emigrated to New South Wales, has presented to the trustees of Magee College in that town, the sum of £2000 for the establishment of competitive scholarships for the sons of Presbyterian ministers. Stubbs said to. one of his debtors, 'ten t it about time you paid me that little bill' ?; * My dear sir,' was the consoling, reply, * it-s-not a questioa of time, it's aquation of money .