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Show HORSE IS FASTEST No animal Is known to havo exceeded ex-ceeded tho speed attalitcJ by tho horso. Instanteous photogrnplis of one famous specimen showed tho full length of 0110 complete strido of about twenty-six feet. In the strido ot tho fnstest racers tho hind quarters quar-ters and limbs urq rnised considerably consider-ably higher than the shoulders and trom this relatively great height aro brought downward and forward, wide ly separated from each other, to nvold striking the four logs. Tho hare has in reality the speed ot tho dog. The dog on tho other hand does not nttnln the speed of the horso. Tho giraffe is said to run at tho rate of fifteen yards a second under the most favorable conditions. The elephant, ele-phant, going nt tho rata of two yards a second, carries a weight approximately approxim-ately that as carried by six horses. Exchange. , |