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VOL XIII.
Tfnlhall estimates that the civilized
Nations annually pay $13,700,000,000
{or food._
Tlie Midnight Band of Mercy is the
e of a New Y'ork society, organ
naffl of chloroforming
i j ze J for the purpose
cats.
The St. Louie Republic is proud be
!can Missouri has built more miles of
se than
railroad so far this year any
; other State, with the single exception
of Texas.
The S&n Francisco Chronicle avers
that the gr eat majority of the Siberian
convicts are on the moral level of the
brnt-es of the field, and any kindness
shown to them would be regarded as
sign of weakness on the part of their
a
overseers. _
At the auction sale, the other day, of
the personal property ,of the late Gov
ernor Hale, of New Hampshire, stocks
having a par value of $2,700,000, and
promissory notes with a face value of
857,000, were sold to the highest bid
iler for lees than $7.
Mexico’s Government has again re-.
sorted to its old plan of scaling salaries
from five to ten per cent, in order to
keep expenses within its income, but
this time the money taken from the
salaries is to be returned to the em
ployes next year in three per cent.
bonds.________
.{"long- the industries of Mexico is
one which, the New York Independent
feels, does not commend itself to the
average individual, that of collecting
human bones for shipment to the
United States for fertilizing and sugar
refining. Ten carloads were recently
skipped from Southern Mexico.
In education Spain is far behind any
other European country, Russia ex¬
cepted. There are school laws that
would be useful if they were enforced.
Less than one-third of the adult popu¬
lation are able to read and write; but
a considerable number of new schools
have been established within recent
years. ___
Prince Bismarck told a party of stu¬
dents who called upon him recently,
that they should cultivate their mus¬
ical talents. He regretted that he had
, neglected the study of music, “for,”
I lie said, “music is a faithful companion
I in life. I have missed it on many an
[ nceasion. Take warning from me that
! you may not reproach yourselves with
the mistake that I have made. ”
j James Gordon Bennett has estab¬
lished in Harvard, Yale, Princeton and
Columbia colleges, the University of
New York and tlie College of the City
af New York annual prizes intended to
sneourage young men to prepare
themselves for the profession of jour¬
nalism. In each institution the prize
will consist of the interest on $1000.
The competition for the prizes is to be
in the form of essays in English prose
on subjects of contemporaneous inter
est in the foreign or domestic policy
of the Government of the United
States.
Orchid hunting in the tropics leads
to strange adventures, observes the
Atlanta Journal. M. Hamelin, who
has sent the most valuable specimens
ever received in England, while re¬
cently searching in the woods of Mada¬
gascar, had for a guide the brother of
Chief Mayombosa. The guide was
hilled by a lion. Hamelin returned
alone. After his recital the irate chief
gave him the option of marrying the
widow or being greased and burned
a live. He chose the lesser evil, but
coupled with the marriage a contract
hy which the chief undertook to close
his lands to all other orchid seekers.
Among the useful things which Lieu¬
tenant and Mrs. Peary carry to the
Arctic regions with them in the good
ship Falcon 4 a sewing machine. On
ILe first voyage to the frozen north
Mrs. Peary discovered that the Eskimo
®omen used needles made of bone and
Prized them so highly that they were
Lung about the native neck, When
the native women saw her marvelous
steel ones they offered aU sorts of in¬
ducements to get them, one woman
offering her child in exchange for one.
^ hat the sharp-eyed little creatures
"ill say to the sewing machine when
they see it reeling off the seams of the
skins will be interesting to hear about.
HALE'S WEEKLY
CON YERS, GA., WEDNESDAY,' AUGUST 23. 1893.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
MenseH from Our Most Important
Telegraphic Aims
And Presented in Pointed and Reada¬
ble Paragraphs.
The steamship Columbia, left South¬
ampton Friday for New York, has on
board $1,440,000 in gold for American
houses.
Cable dispatches of Sunday from
Buda Pesth state that the cholera has
broken out in Sisonolk, fifty-four
miles cast of the city.
Advices of Thursday from Wash¬
ington state that the improvement in
the condition of Representative Oates,
of Alabama, continues.
The Frost Veneer Seating company,
of Sheboygan, Wis., assigned Thurs¬
day. The assets are $300,000; liabil¬
ities, $100,000. The assignee will con¬
tinue the business.
Gold to the amount of 796,000
pounds was withdrawn from the hank
of England Friday for shipment to the
United States. Sixty thousand pounds
was withdrawn for shipment to To¬
ronto.
The death of Judge Logan J. Chip
man was announced at Washington
Thursday morning. This removes one
of the ablest democrats in the country.
The house adjourned at 2 o’clock as a
mark of respect.
A New York special says: A heavy
storm broke over this region Saturday
night. The rainfall was tremendous,
the culverts in the three cities being
inadequate to carry off the flood,
which caused the streets to be practi¬
cally impassable.
The Standard Wagon Company, at
Cincinnati, one of the largest concerns
of the kind in the west, made an assign¬
ment Thursday morning to Grant
Burroughs for the benefit of creditors.
Tight money market is given as the
cause of the failure.
The Oliver Iron and Steel Company
at Pittsburg, one of the largest steel con¬
cerns in the country, went into the
hands of a receiver Thursday. The
capital stock is $1,800,000, the indebt¬
edness is $700,000. The company em¬
ploys 4,000 men.
A freight engine, oast bound, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
railroad, blew up near Rockahil, 0.,
Friday night, instantly killing Engin¬
eer Basim, Firemen Roberts and
Brakemau Quinn. The track was badly
torn up by the force of the explosion.
A fire at Atlantic City Thursday
morning destroyed the city hall, the
grand opera house and a portion of
the train shed of the Pennsylvania
railroad. The loss is estimated at
$75,000, with not over $5,000 insur
ance. The fire is supposed to be of
incendiary origin.
The steamer Lahu which arrived at
New York Thursday night, brought
672,055 pounds of gold from South
hampton and 1,047,500 francs from
Paris; 57,570 pounds consigned to the
Canadiou Bank of Commerce is in
transit to the Bank of Nova Scotia, of
Chicago.
A dispatch of Friday says: The im¬
ported negro miners at the Central
Coal Company’s shaft near Weir City,
Kan., who recently took the places of
the strikers, have demanded an in¬
crease of wages of six cents per ton
yearly scale, and propose to strike if
their demand is refused.
A heavy hailstorm twelve miles east
of Crookston, Minn., Saturday swept
over a strip three-quarters of a mile
wide and extending from Beltram to
Twin Valley, fifteen miles. Crops
were about one third cut. One-half of
the balance is said to be destroyed.
Hail fell the size of walnuts.
A bill to foreclose a mortgage of
$1,446.68 was filed in Chicago, Friday, John
against the company owing the
Brown fort, which was recently brought
from Harper’s Ferry for exhibition at
the World’s Fair.' The bill alleges
that the exhibition has been a failure,
and a receiver for the company is de¬
manded.
Official advices have just been re
ceived at City ' of Mexico from Guya
mas in the state of Sonora, that a
band of 200 Yaquis Indians, on a cat
tie stealing expedition near Arenas en
countered a company of national
troops under Captain Ayala. In the
fight which followed seven men of the
troops were killed.
At Bonnet Mills, on the Missouri
s,; r "C ts e, ?oS"™28K
“ir STS
the other and most
Bluff, «v4 which was overturned. u ■
An accident occurred at Troy,N. Y ,
Sunday morning on the Lehigh Valiev
road crossing on Lake street in which
«. five pe 1 w»rp i-nstiintlv killed
- f,,-tM-l"
five unfort 4.p K H with a snirit- P
to . , » t , 7
ed team uriv
approached the Eienign v ,, JL,,i
came thundering along at a _pee ot f
nearly fifty miles an hour, and crashed |
into the vehicle. All were mangled
beyond recognition.
i
-SsSJKSTiTSirtS’S
signed to Chicago, was wrecked at
Whiting, Ind., Friday night. The
engine was thrown from the track and
the car which contained the coin was
burst open and the treasury partly
thrown out and scattered in the mid¬
dle of the highway. A posse was .se¬
cured to guard the money, and at
dawn Saturday morning it was taken
to Chicago by another train.
The reports of specie from the port
of New' York for the past week were
$264,600, all silver. Of this amount
$225,000 went to Europe and $9,600
to South America. The imports of
specie at the port of New York for
the week were $11,253,006, of which
$11,249,700 were gold and $4,246 sil¬
ver. The gold consisted of $843,849
American gold coin, $1,662,398 for¬
eign gold coin and $1,152,168 grid
bullion.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Drift of Her Progress and Pros¬
perity Briefly Noted
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
A terrific lightning storm passed
over Denison, Texas, Saturday night.
Many persons were struck by light¬
ning, some of whom may die.
The first car-load of rice, a thousand
bushels from Haihilton Disston’s muck
lands near Kissimmee, Fla., arrived at
Charleston, S. C., Saturday evening.
The crop on theDisston lands is good,
and the quality the best. The rice
will be milled in Charleston.
A Montgomery, Ala., special says:
Although quarantine was raised Mon¬
day against Pensacola, both by tho
state of Alabama and the city of
Montgomery, the governor and mayor
issuing proclamations to that effect,
the quarantine is still in force against
Brunswick and all infected places.
The board of directors of tho North
Carolina railroad in session at Raleigh
Saturday decided to surrender the ex¬
emption from taxes which that road
has enjoyed. A meeting of the stock¬
holders is called to meet October 12th
to ratify the action of the hoard of di¬
rectors. This places the last road in
the state on the tax list. Governor
,
Carr appointed this new board with
this end in view.
A special from Port Tampa, Fla,
says that the German steamship Mark
omania, which arrived there from Vera
Cruz, Tampico and Progresso last
Thursday, was ordered to the United
States quarantine station at Dry Tur
tugas Saturday with a reported case of
yellow fever aboard. The vessel had
been detained and disinfected at Mul
i e t key, the state quarantine station.
The intense newspaper rivalry in
Chattanooga resulted in The. News
sending a special representative the to
Cincinnati to investigate Amick
treatment for consumption. The Times
had reported sensational cures through
jt, which the News assumed to quCs
tion. Thursday The News ncknowl
edges Amick’s discovery is all it is
claimed, and admits the cures he is
daily effecting are indisputable facts.,
It is reported that the miners at
Corburn, Va., are in a starving condi
tion. A few day ago the mines at that
place shut down, throwing a number
of men out of employment and leaving
them without money to buy transpor
tation to some other town or even to
buy bread. Their condition is pitiable
in the extreme. On the very verge of
starvation, they will steal everything
that will serve as as food for them
selves and their suffering families.
Major William Mattison Robinson,
city editor of the New Orleans Pica
yune, died Friday, aged fifty-three
years. He was born in New Hamp
shire, of revolutionary ancestry, set
type and reported in Boston before
the war, rose to the rank of brevet
major of Massachusetts volunteers,
and became a resident of Louisiana
when the war ended. He has been one
of the leaders of local journalism in
New Orleans for twenty-five years.
The creditors of Josiah Morris A
Co., of Montgomery, Ala., held a
meeting Thursday to formulate plans
for re-opening the bank, and the
committee appointed to examine the
condition of the firm’s affairs present
ed a report, which was received with
enthusiasm and unanimously adopted.
Out of 650 creditors more than 300
si 6 ne( * the agreement, provided m the
sswraftssrarsas
Charleston health » «, authorities received b, Satur- a. j
*~y~» «■»" Tr' 1 "!
—Sr; “ Seitzs !
yHh eight u cases of , the disease ,■ ..... aboard. , ,
A* usual, the authorities took imme
<late action m the matter and declared
8 ( l uaran t me a g a mst Tampa. The (
P olice department was notified and j
special officers were immediately de
tailed to watch each incoming train I
and prevent any passenger from Tampa i
— ” in -1- the c ity. ,
In 1874 all London houses were com- J ;
pel led for the first time to he connected
with sewers.
ODR latest dispatches.
The Happenings ol a Day Chronicled in
Brief and Concise Paragraphs
And Containing tie Gist of the News
From All Parts of the World.
Tho extensive’ hardware house of
Wm. Starrs A Son A Marrow, of Hali¬
fax, N. S., was destroyed by fire at an
early hour Monday morning. The
loss is $125,900; insurance $80,000.
Dr. Wyman, of the marine hospital
service, Has been notified that cholera
is present in St. Petersburg in epi¬
demic form. There is no immigration
from St. Petersburg. Tho Russian
authorities do not allow emigrants to
pass out by that way.
A Mobile, Ala., special of .Monday
says: The latest news from the
Meachamito war, in Clarke county,
Alabama, is to the effect that for the
present, at least, all trouble is over.
The gang has been either exterminat¬
ed or driven from the country.
State Health Officer Porter, of Flor¬
ida, issued an official proclamation to
the public Monday in which he states
that there is no yellow fever or quar
antinable disease at the docks in Port
Tampa, in Port Tampa City, in Tam¬
pa or at Ybor City, and that the estab¬
lishment of a quarantine against this
section of the state is entirely unnec¬
essary.
A Knoxville, Tonn., dispatch of
Monday is to tho effect East that Major
Fink, receiver for tho Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad, says
that a cut of the salaries of the em¬
ployes of will his road is a sure thing! All
salaries be reduced to from.lOto
30 per cent. He says the earnings of
the road for the past month have "de¬
creased $100,000. The cut will per¬
haps go into effect September 1st. '''
A Raleigh special says: On Mon¬
day Governor Carr honored the requi¬
sition of Governor Northen for five
noted desperadoes, who have, as a
gang, committed many robberies in
various counties. Their namjes are:"
Henry Seabolt, A. J. Seabolt, Sylya
nus Seabolt, Ray Seabolt and John
Ray. They are all in jail at Murphy,
N. C., having fled to Cherokee county
upon pursuit in Georgia. ,
A strike of printers was inaugurated
at Richmond, Va., Monday, The
compositors in the newspaper offices of
the Dispatch and Times it fused to go
to work. This course was decided at a
meeting of the Typographical Union
held Monday evening. Tho trouble
grows out of a disagreement over the
scale of prices on typesetting Ma¬
chines and shorter hours between the
Newspaper Publishers’ Association and
tho Typographical Union.
A special from the Salt Lake, Utah,
says that, in speaking of the conven¬
tion of the western and southern"
states, which he has been petitioned
to call, Governor Stone said that he
would be glad to do anything that was
essential and proper for the wellbe¬
ing of the south and west. Ho said
that such a convention for the consid¬
eration of questions affecting particu¬
larly toh sc two sections without refer¬
ence to the east, might result benefi
cially.
A Savannah special of Monday says:
The quarantine authorities have sent
two vessels from Tybee roads to The tho
government station at Sapelo.
British steamship Mura had smallpox
abpard. The other, a bark from Cien
fuegos, .an infected port, was sent as a
precautionary measure.. No vessel
from an infected or suspicious port is
permitted to come up to the city,
Steps have been " taken to enforce a
most rigid quarantine against Tampa
and its suburbs and-Brunswick.
Governor, Peter Turney issued a
proclamation Monday addressed to
the people of Tennessee, concerning
the recent assassination j of a soldier
named Laugherty, arid the subsequent
lynching of a miner" named . Drum
mond, at Briceville. He says they
"were cold-blooded murders and out
rages that cannot be passed unnoticed.
He says time, expense and labor will
not be spared, and the perpetrators
who are guilty of murder in the first
degree will be hanged if the law is
enforced.
A Greenville, S. C., dispatch says:
The decision of Judge Simonton in the
United States circuit couit in the
Langford habeas corpus case was filed
Monday. The judge decides the clause
of the 25th section 0 f the dispensary
charged r* from custody. Langford was
f r v v r‘r a r 1 d r
srsliS.lS? 6 ,b '
Orders have been issued , , by the ,
treasury department to all sub-treasur
e rs to pay out gold over the counters,
the same as other classes of Money,
The effect of this is to practically place
the gold reserve among the available
treasury cash assets. As a result, the
„ oJl ] balance has been somewhat re
duced, being slightly below $100,000,
The net treasury balance is 311 -
1 I tinue lusht
’
-
and the" expenditures heavy, so that
before the month of August expires
the treasury balance and the gold bal¬
ance will both be probably lower than
now. ______
MORE FEVER IN BRUNSWICK.
Another Case Officially AnnouceU Mon¬
day Morning.
A Brunswick,- Ota., special says: An¬
other case of yellow fever was officially
announced Monday morning. A
young hardware clerk, E. C. Harris,
who lived adjoining the infected
boundary, is the man. A large num¬
ber of people are leaving. No other
suspicious sickness is reported.
Mayor Lamb, as soon as the case
was announced, issued the following
proclamation:
“To the Public—Whereas, it has
come to my knowledge that ajnew case
of yellow fever has doveloped in our
midst, I, therefore, Urge every one
w'ho can'possibly dovso, to leave the
city.”
Superintendent Haynes * of the
Brunswick and Western failroad, im¬
mediately notified Mayor Lamb that
ho would issue a free, pass to any of
the deserving poor of Brunswick.
Mayor Lamb at ohee started tho, min¬
isters of the city to getting the names
of members of their, congregations
who are unable to pay, And gave all
that wanted them passes. The old
and infirm,' crippled, maimed and poor
gathered in large crowds around the
mayor’s office and were Accommodated
aB fast as possible health with transportation.
The board of issued the fol¬
lowing. . ,
“The health board reports that a
case of yellow fever exists in tlie per¬
son" of S. H. "Harris," who is isolated
at the Branham residence. The Pres
’bytefian manse, where the case Occur¬
red, has been taken charge of by the
rnarino hospital disinfected.' service, $nd Thfife is being lias
thoroughly diTh oase'of %
been duly 1 fbrty-ei^ht yollpw-, fever'
hero in , tl^,,.paet hours
and is the second case .Which we have
had to announce .'Several, cases,’
which have abBiilptely been , aimpjimcod upon, tho,
street are falser .. .
A. V. .Wood, Secretary;”
Te'ft Monday jfight twolye coiches full
over the Brunswick and Western,
and later , the East t^hnessee About train
went away jammed. ' 3,000
.people • will leave‘, and tips alone will
prevent it spreading rapidly if. at all.
RT0T IN ROME.
Attempt of n Mob to ‘Burn the French
Embassy-'Charged by Troops.
A special- cable dispa toh" from Rome,
Italy, states that the trouble growing
out of the fighting between tho French
anjd, Italian workingmen employed at
' tlie salt works in Aignes Mortes,
France, threatens, to- involve gravo
iqtsrnationui complication.' A’ most
serious outbreak "of popular feeling
"against Sunday the French occurred in Romo
late night;, When a - howling
mob attempted to burn tho French
embassy. '■ cafried r.
Some of the rioters cans of
petroleum, and did not hesitate to
openly declare their intention to use
it in destroying the embassy. Not un
' til several charges had been made by
a force of troops did they, ‘begin to re¬
treat, fighting all the time. Forty
five were arrested. Many were wound¬
ed by tho sabres, which the soldiers
used unsparingly. The rioting in
provincial townB is only quieted by
troops, handle the police the beingutterly power¬
less to mob.
"< Headgear for Soldiers
The War Department of the United
States has" had under consideration a
.change in the headgear of the soldiers
and officers to replace the forage cap and
helmet now worn in the servioC. Tho
foigge cap, "intended for all branches of
fhe.army, and is, what it is claimed is kpownas the it- that Gorman
pattern, for the
visor, being turned down instead of
bcirjg straight, gives more protection to
the eyes. The top is soft and pliable
and head has the advantage of keeping tile
cool." Many officers favor its adop¬
tion, while not a few look upon it with
disfavor, owing to the fact that it is al¬
most the exact counterpart in shape, but,
of course, not in material, of those st> fre¬
quently met with-on the heads of emi¬
grants from the Fatherland.
The other design known as the busby,
is to'that for the cavalry and 4 exactly similar
worn by the Eighteenth Hussars
of the English army. It is made of
black astrakhan cloth and will weigh,
complete, about ten ounces. small. It also lias
a listed sloping visor, it will but be very the Minus For en¬
man same tho
pompon or top ornament.— J Detroit Free
Press.
An Knormous Kite.
dSS Greene SEWS, County SSsSf-AS The frame
ham, con
s
75 pounds <•««.h each. All the sticks
were
2x0 inches in dimensions. Over the
framework was strotched a great sheet
G f white duck, 25x18 feet, which
weighed 55 pounds. The. tail of the
kite alone weighed 50 muslin. pounds and con.
tained 155 yards of Twenty
five hundred feet at one half inch rope
served as kite strings. Th<#‘ mounted plaything
cost $100, and when it is into
the air it exerts u lifting power of 500
pounds.- Six men once permitted it to
ascend 1,000 feet.—[Albany Express.
NO. 30.
THE GOOD TIMES COMING.
0, the good times are cornin’, no matter wliftt
they say;
k'ou kin hear ’em hummin', hummin’ fer a
hundred mile away ;
They’re a~9ailin’ through the summer, an
a-flghtin’ through the freeze ;
V-ridin’ down the rivers an’ a-blowin’ in th3
breeze \
Cornin’,
A-hummin’—
Like a regiment a-ilrummin’;
Lane has got a turnin’,
Buttermilk’s a-ehurnin’,
So keep your lamps a-burnin*
Till the good times come!
0, the good times are a-comin’; you kin sea
’em on the run,
A-twinklin’ in the dewdrops an’ a-shinin’ in
the sun!
A-dumpin’ o’er the daisies, an’ babblin' in
> the brook.
An’ lookin’ at a feller like his sweetheart
uster look!
Coinin',
A-hummin'—
Like a regiment a-dru minin’;
Lane has got a-turntn’,
Buttermilk's a-churnin’.
So keep your lamps a-burnin’
Till the good times come !
—F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
PITH AND POINT.
A sea bass—The fog-horn.
Humility when is the uniform worn by ar¬
rogance on dross parade.
Charity which begins at home fre¬
quently finds itself too busy to go out.
The mosquito gives you some music
and thou takes,up a collection for it.—
Galveston News.
Stomachache ami marriago are tho
world’s two greatest means of doubling
people up.—Truth.
“I anticipated as much," said tho
“tourist” as he Htartod ahead of the
bulldog. —Plain Dealer.
"While it is true that tho poor man is
compelled to hump himself to own a
bicyole, it.—Buffalo it isn’t the price alone that
■ does Courier.
Some of the best products of liter¬
ature aro due to absent mindeduess;
the average genius gets his conceits
out of his head. —Boston Courier.
Among tlie vain men whom we moot,
' The vainest one of all
Is he who boasts of his little feet, ‘
when his head is just ns small
Punk.
A man little droutns when making
great efforts for hiiocoss, that he is do¬
ing the very work that will one day
make him conspicuous as a has-been.
—.Puck.
“Poor fellow! Did ho lose his
eyes in the war?” “Oh, no. He tried
to pasB a woman on the street when
she had her umbrella up.”—Detroit
Tribune.
Fred—“What do you think of my
argument?” Will—"Sound—most cer¬
tainly sound.” Fred —“And what
else?!’ Will—“Nothing else—merely
sound. ”—Boston Globe.
“That makes the third woman that
lias fainted at that countfer tliiH morn¬
ing.". “Have they discovered what
the trouble is?” “Yes; a new cash
boy that brings tho change straight
back. ”—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Short-sighted gentleman chooses a
pair of spectacles. “These glasses,"
he says, “are not strong enough for
me.” “But, sir, they are No. 2.”
“What, have you next to No. 2?” “No.
1.” “And after that?” “After No. 1,
sir, you will want a dog!” 1 —Tit-Bits.
Boerum (doing his best to make a
favorable impression, has just finished
his best anecdote)—“Ha! ha! ha!
That’s a pretty good story, now.” Miss
Acres—“Yes, I think so, too. And
they say poor Uncle Phil, who was
killed at Gettysburg, nover tired of
hearing it. ’’—Life’s Calendar.
Young Rorty—“What gentleman do you mean
when you say you are a bo
cahse your are not in business.?.’’ “Old
Horty—“1 mean, sir, that to he a
gentleman I must have no business.”
Young Rorty—“Ah, I understand now 1
You mean that you have no business
to be a gentleman.”—Brooklyn Life.
A Rat and a Cat Close Friends,
It is rather an amusing and at the
same time a peculiar sight to see a
large-sized rat and a oat rolling on the
floor together, and to all appearance
having a jolly good time. This novel
spectacle may be seen in a ship chan¬
dler’s shop in Bridgo street any day.
The porter in the establishment tells
the following story of his pets : ‘ ‘Our
pet rat is known as a Cuban rat, a
breed that grows to the size of a full
grown oat and sometimes even larger.
We have had him about two months.
He is about eight months old, and
measures fifteen inches from tip to tip.
He weighs about six pounds. He and
the cat are intimate friends. They
occasionally have a fight of a couple of
rounds over a question of food, but at
other times are very chummy. What
does he eat? Most everything except
meat. He enjoys tobacco, bananas,
cabbage, crackers, and can be said to
be a.strict vegetarian. He is perfectly
harmless, and is a great favorite with
the men and boys in the neighborhood,
but does not like to be disturbed while
he is enjoying his meals.”—New York
News.