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Show GUMPETTNG WITH CKrCRSS. Morsray Making Arrangements to Snpplj London With Mutton. Londoa will shortly havo tho advantage advan-tage of another meat supply this time from Norway which, according to th London Telegraph, is perfeotiug arrangements ar-rangements for supplying the English metropolis with as much mutton, alive or dead, as it can spare for exportation. Systematic experiments wore mado re. cently under tho supervision of the Stavanger Agricultural society, and the results wero so satisfactory that in the approaching cold season it is to be repeated re-peated on a larger scale. It appears that 80 sheep, each weigh' tng about 100 pounds, wore fattened Cor a week or so until they turned th? ecalo at from 115 pounds to 123 pounds ThGy wero then shipped to London, where they realized an average price, after deducting commission, of abou 7.50, and as the total outlay had only been about 6. 50 per head thore was e aet profit of nearly 1 on each animaL Forty were also sent over with tho skins, hoofs and interior intact, but on these three was an average loss of 10 shillings per head, partly explained by the skins being damaged through bad packing. Nevertheless tho Stavanger society has como to tho conclusion that tha business promises to be remunerative, and tho English people have thus an additional guarantee of on adequate suddIv of xmittoa Mr. James Hyde, once a lawyer ia a small town on Long Island, tells a good story about himself. Ho says: "It was when I used to practice law in a little town near the center of tha Etate. A farmer had one of his neighbors arrested for stealing ducks, and I was employed by tho aconsed to endeavor to conviuco tho court that such was not the case. The plaintiff was positive that his neighbor was guilty because ho hadeeoD the ducks in the defendant's yard. " 'How do you know they are youi ducks?' I asked. " 'Oh, I should know my own ducks fcnywhsreP replied tho farmer, and ho gave a description of their various peculiarities pe-culiarities whereby he could readily distinguish dis-tinguish them from others. " 'Why,' said I, 'those ducks can't be of such rare breed. I have seen some just lire them in my own yard. ' " 'That's not at all unlikely,' replied tho farmer, 'for they are not tho only ducks I havo had stolon lately. ' " Iar lianapolis Sentinel |