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Mauy 'Christmas presents were
purchased Saturday and were Had
away to await the auspicious mo-
ment when they should be pres-
seted. The young folks are preparing
for a lively time during the Christ-
mas holidays.
The kitchen of Mr. Geo. Ewing
residing near Whitman burned
about daylight last Friday morning
and his residence near by made a
narrow escape.
Wednesday last about 1 o'clock at
Weibuschs gin on Birch creek in
Burleson county a boiler exploded
breaking both legs of John Kepper
from the effect& of which he died at
1 o'clock that night. No one else
was hurt the balance of the force
being at dinner.
Mb. B-Dgo Lehman editor of the
LaGrange Deutsches Zeitung is in
the city in the interest of bis paper.
The proprietor of the Banner knew
Mr. Lohmann in Houston some eigh-
teen years ago and wishes him every
succuess in his business because he is
a good man a trained journalist
and worthy of success.
The old year is rapidly drawing
to a close and old accounts should
be squared so that all could start
out with a clean ledger January 1
1892. Send what you owe the Ban-
ner. Many of Ihe subscribers of the
paper have been getting it for years
and have neglected to pay up should
not start on another year without
squaring themselves with it.
Mr. Joseph Fiscnx has just re-
turned from Brownwood and
brought with him a collection of the
products of Brown county consist-
ing of corn oats wheat millet cot-
ton being in all thirteen varieties of
cereals six different kind of grasses
several different kinds of fruit and a
lot of the finest thin shelled pecans
that grow in Texas. The collection
made about as creditable showing as
most anv county could make.
Hon. B. Q. Mills writing to a
friend in this city under date of the
11th inst. in answer to a telegram
deploring his defeat says that as
far as Tie is personalty concerned
the defeat does not amount to any-
thing. That it was an idea of
which he was a champion and that
the money power and monopolists
combined to dbfeat that idea and
that unless the party was up and
doing to unhorse the enemy there
was no telling what effect it might
have upon the Democratic party.
He said nothing about being sick.
COLLEGE EXERCISES.
The Fall session of Blinn Memorial
College ended Friday evening and
the public examination will be com-
menced Monday morning and con-
tinued until Thursday evening.
The College has enjoyed a pros-
perous session this Fall the attend-
ance having been in the neighbor-
hood of 75 students. and the exami-
nation promises to be a creditable
one.
Distinguished Visitors.
H. S. Downing general claim
agent of the Santa Fe was in the
city Tuesday for the purpose of set-
tling claims of parties in the wreck
north of here Monday.
W. A. Truly traveling passenger
agent and Traveling Auditor Cox
F. N. Taylor trainmaster and as-
sistant master mechanic Farrell of
the Santa Fe were here Wednesday.
W. C. Watson general passenger
agent of the Southern Pacific was
Tiere Wednesday night.
The Velasco Visitors.
Bev. 0. Samuels C. Minkwitz Sr.
H. Gardner and Chas. Parks all re-
turned from Velasco Friday night
and from one of the party it is learned
that the public sale of lots was a
success. About 8400000 worth of
lots were 6old and every one of the
Brenbam party became purchasers.
Dr. McGreggor and Col. Stone of
Austin county was with the Bren-
ham crowd and also made some pur-
chases and together with Messrs.
Threadgill and Bettison who went on
the Galveston excursion tendered the
visitors.
They say the city has a marvelous
growth for a few months old city
and express utmost confidence of its
future.
Ain't ISuIlt That Way.
At the Episcopal church
bazar
there is a post-office where a letters
for very near everybody is held for
postage and some of them are
unique as well as amusing as the
following which was taken out by a
K. of P. will show the signature
which waB that of a well known fe-
male society here being omitted :
To the Eight Honorable Lord
Chancellor of the K. of P. :
"We object to the way you as
Grand Master run the Lodge. We
ladies would like to join but are net
sufficiently skilled in equestrian art
to ride the animal commonly termed (
the billy goat. For lack of space
we will state our other objections j
later. We would like to give you a I
few hints on conducting a thing of 1
this kind." j
STATE"NKW8.
The work on the artesian well
at Lufkin goes bravely on.
District court for Polk county
is in session at Livingston.
A phrenologist at Devers was
rotten egged Wednesday night.
A section house on the Breniond
road near Corrigan was burned a
few days ago.
At Liberty four citizens were
arrested for depredating upon stock
not their own.
Arrangements are about per-
fected for the establisment of anoth
er morning daily at Ft. Worth.
A gambler named Igo wae fined
S37 by the district court of Tom
Green county last week for killing a
man.
The E. Bauman millinery estab-
lishment at Fort Worth about the
biggest thing of the kind in the
State has failed.
The San Angelo Enterprise
mentions an instance where the pe-
cans from one tree in Tom Green
county sold for $58.
Dock Brotherton a wife mur-
derer was sentenced to hang on Fri-
day March IS 1S92 by Judge
Miller at Wichita Falls.
Seven full car loads of pecans
have been shipped from San An-
gelo this season selling at 7 cents
per pound netting S15000.
A young man from the Terri-
tory was jailed at Gatesville Wed
nesday charged with passing coun-
terhet money and blu m spurious
money was found on his person.
The committee appointed by
the last erand jury to examine the
official records of Clay countv has
besrun its work at Henrietta. It
will take several days to complete it.
Jose F. Gonzalas Mexican con
sul at Bio Grande City has been
succeeded by Jose Zayes Guarneros
from the City of Mexico and who
has arrived and taken charge of the
consulate in that city.
G. G. Gidding's hardware store at
Alvarado. was burglarized of about
$40 worth of goods including two
revolvers bowio knife pocket knives
etc. The cash drawer was broken
open but the safe was not molested.
At Weatherford J. G. Whitlaw
on a charge of theft of a yearling
was sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary. He is one of the
wealthiest and best known citizens
of the county from which he is sen-
tenced. It is reported from Savoy Fan-
nin county by reliable parties that
parties suspected of complicity in
the Cash-Wiley shooting scrape were
given twenty-four hours in which to
leave -the community and they ac-
cordingly left.
A man named Ferguson kid-
napped a 16-year old girl Miss Bea
trice Holloway at Luella Wednes-
day and ran away with her. A
cousin of the young lady ran off
with her lover to the Territory a
few days ago and was married.
A man GO years of acre was con
victed at Kountze a few months ago
and sentenced to the penitentiary
for two years for branding a little
motherless calf which he thought
his own. A long petition was for-
warded immediately to Governor
Hogg signed by the judge district
attorney ana jury sut tne man is
still serving his term.
Governor Hogg has been notifi-
ed by Secretary Blaine that the re-
quest of the governor made in Sep
tember for a conference with the
authorities of Mexico concerning the
establishment of a quarantine by
Texas against the Mexican ports of
Vera Cruz Tuxpan and Tnmpico has
oeen accepted by the Mexican au-
thorities who asked the governor to
name the time and place of the con-
ference. A party claiming to be discharged
from a traveling show car by the
proprietor writes to the comptroller
that the exhibit car is filled with
wax animals monkeys snakes birds
mermaids sea serpents etc. has been
and is now travelling and giving ex-
hibitions in Texas without paying the
local license or any other taxes. He
avoids payment excepting occasion-
ally when he meets a firm collector
by representing his exhibit as a
benevolent educational institution
exempted by the law. The letter to
the comptroller ends with these sig-
nificant words : "When rogues fall
out honest men get their dues."
Since the amicable settlement
of the Atlantic and Pacific with
their strikers the striking telegraph-
ers at El Paso feel more confident of
success than ever. They see that
the Western Union reinstates its
strikers. Those men sacrificed their
positions in defense of the honor of
the Southern Pacific men and these
railroad operators will lose this
honor if the Western union TTninn i
men are not provided for. C. M. i
Clark an operator from Pomona. '
Cal. arrived there Thursday to work
in the local Southern Pacific office
but on learning the situation from
the men refused. I
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
A PROMISING PROBUCT.
The manufacture of a new disin-
fectant and deodorant called Sauri-
don has been commenced at Mary-
hill Eng. It is a resilual product
oan uncommon kind of blackstone
shale which is composed of animal
and vegetable remains is remarkably
light yet yields a large proportion
of a heavy volatile oil. The
oil is extracted by dis
tillation and the residual product is
reduced to grains of different sizes
varying from a fine powder to the
size of a pea. The powder is claimed
to have an instantaneous effect upon
obnoxious matter while being also
tasteless and colorless and
harmless to all animal life. In the
granulated form the substance acts
powerfully for filtering and sweeten-
ing water. The oil mixed with
other substances is used as a man-
ure which combines the qualities of
a fertilizer and a powerful insecti-
cide. PLASTER FOR FLOORS ETC.
In a new method of hardening
plaster of Paris communicated to
the French Academy of Sciences the
plaster is mixed with one sixth of its
weight of fine freshly slaked lime
and used with as little water as pos-
sible. When thoroughly dry it is
treated with a solution of either zinc
sulphate or iron sulphate. With the
first the color remains white while
the second by gradual oxidation
yields the color of iron rust.
A French physician M. Fargeot.
claims to have discovered a means
of obtaining an imprint of any hand
that has touched a piece of paper or
of a foot that has trodden the floor.
By chemical means he makes visible
slight traces of perspiration or
sebaceous deposit.
It is estimated that the lumber
cut of Montana for the past twelve
months has been 150000000 feet.
Eecent experiments are said to
have been successful in the making
of burial caskets from wood pulp.
Some observations made by Ar-
thaud have convinced him that con-
sumption is contagious and that the
incubation period is about two
months. Consumptives in ill-ventilated
shops or in close railway cars
expose their fellow laborers or trav-
elers to the risk of infection.
ITJSMICAL.
The position of the critic is easily
filled.
Race horses
wear snow shoes at
Garfield Park.
The cats paw occasionally hooks
something good.
Pork Packers like a library with
plenty of buyhography.
Of the twelve laigest cities in the
world three are in Japan.
The crank is always trying to wind
up somebody else's affairs.
The highest altitude ever reached
by a balloon is seven miles.
The newest thing in ehirography
is the most indecipherable.
There are about 10000 bee colo-
nies in Ventura county Cal.
New York has 300 clubs 50000
elubmen and $10000000 invested in
clubs.
German physicians report several
cures of whooping cough by inocu-
lation. The amount of gold in the world j
would tit m a loom twenty-four feet
each way.
A Birmingham (Eng.) man called
White collected 540000 pennies
during his lifetime.
For cankered throat sore mouth
etc. use borax and honev: drink
sage or slippery elm tea.
It takes about three seconds for a
message to go from one end of the
Atlantic cable to the other.
Large roller process flouring
mills have just been finished at
South Biver Kowan county N. C.
A branch of the Keely Institute
for the cure of hhabitual drunkards
has been opened at Greenboro
X. C.
When
thousand
Borne went clown one
eight hundred neoole
owned and controlled all the known
world.
The emperor of Germany while
entertaining much more freely than
his grandfather did. has a keen eye
to economy.
The Norton iron company at Ash-
land Ky. will arrange its furnaces
for the manufacture of steel by the
Bessemer process.
Thirty per cent of all women in
the United States are working for
a living an increase of 9 per cent
over the year 1S90.
A correspondent writes to say
that he has such a cold in his head
that he can t wash his face without
-
"Dick Skinner says marriage is a
failure." "A failure! I thought he
married a fortune?" "Yes but the
girl that went with it has suspended
payment.
Serving and -Cooking rood.
"Cookery." says Yu3n Mei "is like
matrimony. Two things served together
thould match. Clear should go with
clear thick with thick hard with hard
ina sott witn sott. i nave Known peo
pie mix grated lobster with birds' nest
and mint with chicken or pork!"
This he observes is an arrangement
in which one does all the monopolizing
and the other all the yielding.
Foods of a heavy flavor should be
served separately. Such are crab or lob
ster samlie (a delicious kind of white
salmon) beef and mntton. These we are
told should be eaten alone without any
adjunct.
The fire should be carefully attended
to. For frying or baking a "military"
fire will be required. For stewing or
boiling a "civil" fire. Such is one of the
quaint idioms of the Chinese language.
--Temple Bar.
Swordfish.
Up to within a decade or less sword
nsh were not considered edible but now
fe- salt water fish command a higher
price. The swordfish steaks are delicious
and bring from fifteen to twenty-five
cents a pound in the retail markets.
Swordfish are found in eastern waters
from Block inland to the Canadian line.
Hundreds of men devote the summer
months to capturing them and fish for
other species tin.- remainder of the yar.
New York Telegram.
Price nf Hairpins.
Haii'i'ins vary in price from a few
pennies a gross to $500 apiece. Perhaps
the hairpin is the most useful all-around
article cf feminine wear. It serves not
only the purpose for which it was de-
signed but also as glove bnttoner. shoe
buttoner cuff fastener and even breast-
pin. New York Recorder.
Ilaron Tlirscli's Wealth.
One of the best of authorities on
wealth looks upon Baron Hirsch as in
the first rank of the world's millionaires
in fact not far from the very top. He is
convinced that Baron Hirsch is the
owner of at least $75000000. Blakel)
Hall in New York Truth.
Stone Forests.
Stone forests are found in varioui
parts of the world. In many cases thy
are hardened by some peculiarity of the
atmosphere and are found standing
just as they were when clothed itli
creen foliage thousands of years a&o.
The Little Coloradoriver.in Arizona has
long been famous as a locality for such
finds: at one place more than 1.500
cord of solid stone tree trunks sec-
tions limb- and logs were foua.l by the
governmet surveyors. Most of them
weie silicified: many 7 to 10 feet in di-
ameter and from 20 to SO feet in height.
GeologMs say that the petrified trees
of the Little Colorado were once cov-
ered with marl over 1000 feet in depth.
Some of the trees have been changed
to jasper and have assumed various
hues: others resemble apal and when
broken open the core is often found
lined with crystals of the most beauti-
ful tints. St. Louis Republic.
Effect of Electrical Light on Fish.
A correspondent states that fishing all
along by Totland bay. Isle of Wight
was very poor and that since the set
ting np of the search light for the forts
it had become worse. He also heard
that there used to be a very good place
for fish near the lighthouse at St. Cath-
erine's point but that the electric light
had driven them all away and now it
vas quite useless putting out nets in a
spot where a few years since a decent
haul was looked on as a certainty. Hs
solicits opinions on this matter from
those who are more versed in sea fish
Bud their ways than he is himself.
Electrical Review
Tool: a Hint at I.ai.
It was the time of night; when bored
bslles yawn and beaux linger. Hints
innumerable had been sown on barren
sroui.d OiMrpie Deadgone would stay.
Finally Miss Nosnooze eicused herself
for a few moments. A minute later the
rook in full regalia entered the parlor
and. walking up to Georgie Deadgone
nsked:
"What would you like to have for
breakfast sirf
And then Georgie Deadgone noticing
that Miss Nosnooze had gone went.
New York Herald.
A Rural Experience.
"What kind of seeds ought I to plant
bicle Si to get a good squash crop?'
"Squash o' course. What did yer
suppose Works?" New York Epoch.
Tiro Flnccs Named JXnkMlIle.
Merchant I wish to transport some
goods to Jinbsville and
Railroad Official (irascibly) Well
why hi thunder don't you go to the
freight department?
Merchant It's a large quantity of
goods and I wish to inquire about
rates.
Official Go to the freight depart-
ment I say. Whatever the rate are
you'll pay 'em or keep your goods at
bonie. No reductions to you or any
one else. Hear that? Clear out now.
Merchant The Jinksville I mean is
not in this state but the Jinksville
over the line. There is a rivnl road
running tbere you know and I can
easily
Official it down my dear sir sit
down and bi's talk it over. James
bring the gentleman a cigar. Henry
bring the gentleman a glass of cham-
pagne. George tell the president one
of our most valued patrons is here
New York Weekly
How the Prolrle Look.
Have you everseen a western prairie?
If not you might enjoy being there for
a month in summer. As on the ocean
to on the urairie there is usually a
breeze- to partly compensate for the lack
of shade. Most prairies are slightly
rolling or hilly having somewhat the
appearance of a sea with heavy waves
and occasionally crowning one of thes
low swells there is a grove of young
trees. Sometimes however not even
a shrub is visible for many miles.
Maurice Thompson in St. Nicholas.
Six Was Known.
a story told of
Here Is a story told of Professoi
Maria Mitchell. After Professor Mitch-
ell resigned from Vassar college she
went to live in Philadelphia. Two of
her old pupils residing in the Quaker
City determined to call upon their for-
mer professor immediately. On the
way to the hotel where Miss Mitchell
was staying the two ladies debated
with themselves in what form it would
be better to put their inquiry. If they
nsked for Professor Mitchell the clerk
aot having had the superlative advan-
tages of Vassar would probably say
that there was no such gentleman in
the house. On the other hand how
could they so lower the dignity of theL
dearly beloved psofessor by inquiring
If Miss Mitchell were at home?
The question was a stupendous one
and alter being argued pro and con it
was finally decided infs.vorof the miss.
The iguorance of the clerk was a fact
and not to be gainsaid. Accordingly
the ladies on reaching the hotel walked
np to the man at the desk and inquired
for Miss Mitchell. Much to their con-
sternation they were told that there was
no such person in the house.
"I am sure she is here" said the
lady.
"Pardon me madame" replied the
urbane clerk "perhaps you have made
a mistake; your friend maybe stop-
ping at some other hotel."
"No she is here" and forthwith was
given a most accurate description o!
the distinguished lady. Light began
to dawn in the mind of the puzzled
young man.
"I beg your pardon; you mean Pro-
fessor Mitchell. Certainly she i? stay-
ing wiih us. Your cards!" New YorS
Advertiser.
Snow That Did Not Reach the Gronntl.
fossioly tne most novel feature of
two balloon voyages near Denver and
the one mostly commented upon was
the experience of the Eagle Eyrie
and its occupants in the snowstorm.
Not a flako of the "beautiful"
dropped in Denver or on the crowds
of people who gazed on the air
ship directly above them. The sun
shone brightly and oppressively hot and
yet in five minutes after the great gas
bag had left the earth it was in a raging
aiowsiorra almost directly over the
point where the balloon was cut from its
moorings.
It was blowing a perfect fury the
great flakes swirling and flying in blind-
ing profusion into the faces of the voy-
agers filling the basket and covering
the top with a sheet fully three inches
thick. No such occurence has ever been
recorded in the history of ballooning.
and the chances are not favorable to its
ever occurring again. But the space of
100 feet and the occupants of the car
vanished from tiJJ-.zlowing sunshine
into the freezingaow. Denver Repub
lican.
Sight Restored at Ninety-five.
The Welsh newspapers report a re-
markable event at the village of Llanon
Cardiganshire where the Rev. William
Herbert late rector of the parish enter-
tained 000 of his parishioners at tea in
commemoration of the restoration of his
eyesight in his ninety-fifth year. The
reverend gentleman who is the oldest
clergyman in the principality had held
the living of Llanon for half a century.
Six years ago however he lost his sight
and resigned the rectorship in conse-
quence. During the last few re onths he
has been under the treatment of an
eminent Manchester oculist and the
cataracts being removed from his eyes
his sight has been completely restored
and he is now enabled to read the serv-
ice in church. London Globe.
Ti. Women Farmers of Kans;
The husband of a Woodlawn widow
died seven years ago. Since then she has
kept house and has done all the farm
work that "her man" did on the 120 acre
farm. Until this year she has even cul-
tivated the sixty acres cf corn planted.
but now the eldest of her three boys is
fourteen years old and strong and
anxious to help her. When her husband
died he left her a $1400 mortgage. She
has paid all but $500 of this and spent
$600 in improving the place. She sold
S00 worth of stock and produce last
year.
Many a farmer's wife or daughter has
had to plough corn tend garden drive a
biader cut and stack hay and cook over
a hot stove wlul- the men took to the
shade ai'd rested. The overworked
farmer is very often the wife or daugh-
ter. Kansas City Star.
A Female Ioconiotie Engineer.
West Virginia boasts of the only reg-
ularly employed woman railroad engi-
neer in the world. She is withal a young
vomau fair to look upon with all the
accomplishments common to genteel
young ladyhood. Her name is Miss Ida
Hewitt and she is a daughter of one of
the chief owuersof the Cairo Short Line
on which she runs. She knows all the
mechanism of the locomotive is fairly
expert with the tools used in its con-
struction and though taking an engi-
neer's place at first only as a supply she
now makes regular runs on her locomo-
tive that is a model of neatness and has
never failed to be on time but once since
she put her small hand on its lever. Her
hair is covered with a cap her gown
with a suit of blue denim and her face
on the lookout is said t' be one of most
piquant charm. Exchange.
Our power of deciving others de-
pends greatly on our power of deceiv
ing ourselves. It U buying this gift
highly developed that makes woman
and some statesmen so Jiiinrumm
yrs
Sr. Co7Itn' Dad aod Gsod-Xnclt
DrJS.ACblHna Connecfieuf1 phy-
sician had an encounter with a wildcat
in the northeastern part of the state
which is rarely equiled in these days.
He was called to attend a patient in
Samel Corners and the road lay through
a wild wood known as the "Devil's Hop
Yard."
When about half way through the can-
yon the doctor's horsa gave a- snort of fear
and refused to go ahead. Wondering ai
the cause of the animal's fright the doc-
tor leaned out of the carriage and peered
into the bnshes. He had hardly done sc
when two wildcats sprang from the
boughs cf a hemlock tree. Ono landed
on the haunches of the horse and the
other dropped into the bottom of tha
carriage and "astened its teeth in the
flesh of the doctor's legs.
A desperate struggle ensned in which
the doctor from loss of blood and
strength became nnconscious. In an
inside pocket of his coat the doctor car-
ried a small medicine case. During ths
struggle this fell out and attracted tha
attention of the cat which began to claw
it and tear it with its teethl In doing
so it broke a bottle "of "chloroform and
the contents seem to have stnpefied it.
A farmer passing over the road some
time late 'jund the doctor unconscious
and the f dcat among a lot of broken
bottles i J. e bottom of the carriage in
a deep stupor.
The cat weighed fifty-two pounds and
was one of the largest ever killed in Con-
necticutCor. Chicago Tribnne
r.
Engineer Seery Strangely Hurt
William H. Seery engineer of the fast
express which leaves New York in the
afternoon at 4 o'clock and is .due here at
6:05 met with a strange and probably
fatal accident the other day near Mon-
mouth Junction. While he was leaning
out of the window of the cab looking
back at the train a loose bolt flew up
from the track striking him in the head
and fracturing his skull. He fell uncon-
scious with his body hanging out of the
cab window.
The fireman W. Harry Bowers was
in the tender at the time attending to
the scoop which takes up water from
the track tank and his attention was at-
tracted by the blood which spurted on
bim from the engineer's head. He ap-
plied the airbrakes and brought the
train to a stop. The nnconscious engi-
neer was lifted into the baggage car
nnd the fireman took the train through.
to Trenton. It is doubtful if Seery re-
covers. Philadelphia Telegraph.
Bullets Went Three 3fen at a Time.
Army and navy officers have been
watching closely the military features
of the insurrection in Chili and the
jrms have been carefully examined by
the authorities in this country. It ap-
pears that it was the JMannlicher gun
loaded with cartridges the size of ciga-
rettes charged with a firgt cousin to gun
cotton and sending a ball nearly two
igches long and three-tenths of an inch
thick against Balmaceda's troops at the
rate of from forty to sixty per mimte
from each gno that did the business foi
the insurgent troops. The long slen-
der hard pointed bullets were of steel
covered with a thin coat of copper the
soft metal being designed to follow the
rifling of the barrel more accurately and
with less wear to the gun than the naked
6teel would make. Single bullets went
through two or three men at a time.
Washington Cor. Boston Journal
A Table with Growing Legs
i bad presented to me on the 3d of
May last a small fancy table as a birth-
day present painted black varnished
and gilded. However it had not been
in the house very long before the leg3
were observed to be growing and they
are continuing to do so. One of the legs
has put out a shoot four inches long
upon which there are ten leaves. Alto-
gether it is a very pretty table with its
black and gold and now the green. I
think they are apple tree leaves. 1 set
it out of doors occasionally so that a
little moisture might be given to it to con-
tinue the growth as I do not know but
it may blossom and bring forth fruit
which would very ranch increase the cu-
riosity. Ontario Cor. Montreal Witness.
He Got the Pan.
An application for an annual pass
was once made to Commodore Vander-
bilt by the president of &- road about
twenty-five miles long. "Your road
doesn't seem to cover a great amount
of territory." suggested the commodore
to the applicant "No" said the ap
plicant "it isn't quite so long as the
New York Central but by gracious
Mr. Vanderbilt. it's just as wide l" The
pas3 was issued. San Francisco Arge-
laut A Calf with Eight Feet.
Uncle Peter Ledsinger colored who
lives in the Fifth district had a calf born
on his place Friday with eight feet two
on each leg. The two surplus ones on
the hind legs were rather small. The
calf lived until Monday when it died
never being able to stand up. Dyers-
burg (Tean.) State Gasotte
endurance or tne uorw.
A gentleman desiring to test the en
durance of a horse drove one 1000
miles to a dogcart the cart passenger
and baggage weighing over 800 pounds.
The journey was done in nineteen con-
secutive days an average of over fifty-
two miles a day. The longest distance
siity-eight miles was covered on the
last day The road was selected at
random and led from London to
York Edinburgh Glasgow Carlisle
Nottingham and London again. The
horse was fifteen hands high what is
called "well bred." and returned home
nccort'ins; to the report of the veterin
nry no worse for the journey -Ei
"lruiife
Professor Mondcleff has succeeded in
distilling petroleum from mineral sub-
stances which cannot be distinguished
from the natural product This re-
vives faith in the belief that petroleum
U ot mineral origin.
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