Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), April 5, 1845, vol. 1, no. 14, p. ??

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EXAMINATION of a Reply to Hints on the Reorganization of the Navy. Wiley & Putnam.

The lieutenants of the navy receive some home thrusts in this well-written pamphlet, in which the author stoutly and rightly reasserts the claims of surgeons, as well as of all other officers, to a definite rank in the service. We find the following amusing account of the uses to which a jackass and a precedent may be put.

“For many years, and probably even now, it was common in Chili to entrust the making of butter to a jackass trotting round a circle, with the cream contained in dried skins tied to his back; and when awn,. Americans introduced a churn to the notice of the people, they admitted it was quite ingenious, but inasmuch as it was not the custom of the country to use such a machine, as there was no precedent there for its use, they preferred the assistance of the jackass and the old-fashioned way of making butter.”