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ENDURANCE OF THE THOROUGHBRED. One would think, from appearance, that a big. strong, hardy-looking horse that we find all over the country, and ar • bought ill sack enormous numb, r-iu war time, would -land anything, but the first few weeks of fighting get- lo the bottom of tllim. and they bnak down, drop from exha nation, snecamb to illness, and die like sheep. The thoroughbred will stand the rigors of campaigning in arctic COM or tropical heat, and do more work on half ratio;; bad tee,], sore back-, lame and shoole— feet, and continuous galloping, than any other horse in the WOtM, for as Been as hit yea begin to push the others, up goes 1 1n- signal of distress, and down come the colors. This j- becdaan of the lack of the thoroughbreds blood, courage aud constitution.
