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Show ' THE HOME SENTINEL. DEVELOPMENT OF THE, HORSE rrELIiUED I AT UTAH. MANTJ, j i j j -t The priucess of Wales numbers her other attributes of royalty eighty dogs of various I. reeds and sizes. anion-- ' Loops Uezox, the Freneh in his lions cage. his money in a The lion makes a very safe banker. lion-tame- r, lx Drkvmek Tennimiv is d'sturbed an angry bccau-- e capital proof rigltt with poses to inv ulu his tlie iron Uorse and toad. 1 yu-hin- g I-- lo Matthew ArA vrnm.it says that man in nold is the most add.-.un The America and d ho is which with by animity both press and public mu-- t prove starSweettling to him, to say the lea.--t. ness and Light was good for one trip oniy. : to-da- y, over-looke- Wmm Lord, the historian, was exuiuiow for ordination he was by a diseqde of Ur. Emmons: Are you willing to he damned for the glory of --- bn d 11 is answ ei eatrie w it h the fore. Hod? of an unexpected cannon-shot- , No; hut I am willing you should. lie d.d not get ordained. He was a great lig man like Hen. Butler, and weighed oxer three hundred pounds, said a witness in a contest case in New York the other day. The general, who was counsel in I lie case, blushed all over bis shiny hahl head, and quickly cried, Hut 1 do not Weigh over 230 pounds. ed-wi- ll The eminent Georges Ohnet, i3 only years old. lie was a lawyer, then a journalist, last a dramatist. lie was dissatislied w.th Le Mai-Ir- e de Forges and threw it into the lire. Mmo. Ohnet caught the manuscript from the grate. It has made the authors fortune and reputation. play-write- 3-- The war ministry at St. lYterslmrgh has published porno interesting statistics respecting the number of offenses In the Russian army punished by eourt-inarlia- l. During the year 1881 2 per cent, of all the privates w ere punished and about 2 per cent, of the officers. Among the offenses were nearly live thousand robberies, and almost as many eases of desertion and infractions of diseinline. G. W. Ball, of Concord, Mass., is living proof in bis pwn person that the woTU! ho w amt then honors other heroes than soldiers and statesmen. He has had nothing to do w ith grapo and canister, but many years ago nursed the lueious Conord grapo into being, and in view of that good piece of work lie was the guest of honor at a dinner given in Boston by appreciated the other day. far-fame- palate-Ccklin- g, fellow-citize- So far as Paris is concerned, the attempt to lake the census of the Freneh population dues not appear to have been a success. It seems that about 80 percent, of the inhabitants declined to till up the forms left them by the registrars, who will thus have to collect their information from concierges, taxpayers' returns, and other not strictSome of the ly trustworthy sources. answers were jocular. One gentleman returned tho form supplied him with the remark: Ask my mother-in-law- . Others described their professions as expulseurs do princes, or manageurs tie reptiblieains, while many thousands replied merely, "Vo. is eles trap The opening of tho canal, which has been in process of excavation for the past live years, for the purpose of draining Lake Copais, was celebrated recently by' a brilliant inaugural ceremony, in presence of the Freneh minister and numerous distinguished persons from Athens. Lake Copais, which is situated near Thebes, in lioeotia, covers an area of over sixty thousand acres, or nearly a hundred square miles. Tholmn-company which iias beet engaged in carrying out tho enter prise is now so far advanced with its work that of the water of the lake are expected to be drawn off within the next two or three months. Hitherto this inland sea has been chiefly remarkable for the malaria and fevers regularly prevailing on its shores during the hot season. By its drainage, not only will this evil be permanently removed, but Greece will add to her territory many thousands of acres cf arable soil of the greatest fertility-- . The lake is fed by tho rivers coming down from Mount Parnassus, whose waiters are licrafter to be employed, by help of a new system of canals, in irrigating the surrounding country. two-tlurd- s -- great-grandfath- er -- high-collare- dr-ee- -- , nt 1 s. a- a- the hor-- e trill-1- . They had every outline of and the anatomy with the eei ptioii that, the feet were mo-- t perul'ai-ot having one hoof on each leg, - our modern hor-- e ha- t iii- - dior of minutive pony va; the four, making sixteen hoof- - in all. As tiie horse developed tlie-- e hoofs, or, peaking more correctly, the-- e toes, all but one leaving our modern horse to walk upon the end of one toe to each leg. It they had all enntm-ueto remain permanent the blacksmiths would h.ave rejo eed. In order to clearly understand the manner of the gradual d appearance of these toes a litto anatomy may be tolerated. Starting with the hand of man as a, standard, the thumb, which is really a linger, is called the first linger, the index is called second, the next third, fourth, and liflli. It lias been observed that when this order is in any way interfered wdh the first to disappear is the thumb or first linger. This is noticed in dogs. Tho dew claw is the first linger or thumb. So it was with the little horses. No remains can be found the first linger. The earliest has the second, third, fourth, and fifth foes present, all of which reached the ground and were usable. 'These toes all disappeared until none was left except the third, which is the too upon whose end the hors is of the present day walk. The one just preceding our modern horse had three toes, the second, tlurd, and fourth, but the outside ones did not reach the ground, and were accordingly not They were lip a little on the leg like the ttle liocf of a deer, and only remain on our mo lorn horse in what is known as splint bancs. It occasionally happens that horses, as well a3 other animals, will breed back, and a monstrosity, as it appears to us, will be, the result. In England some time ago a horse was Lorn which had two hoofs on each foot, and was carried about the country as a curiosity. Il was a ri ferenee, or index, of what sort of feet the species once had. Just why they were at liist in pos- session of such feet is a matter of conjecture. It may have been because tho ground was soft and marshy and the extra feet gave more surface for resistance, and as the earth grew lirmer no necessity existed for so many toes, so tliat by d suse they began to disappear. With the modification of tho feel the horse increased in height and strength, getting ready to help men bear his burdens and progress in the line of civ and it is true that if all flic horses in a city were to die, and there were no means by which their places could be filled, civilization would retrograde, because men would have to bear their own burdens, and the physical man would increase at the expense of tho intellectual, so that in time we would all go back to as tho students of an athletic college do. Tho horse, as wo have it now, is a vast improvement over the steed of ancient times. It is dependent upon man for its very life, and man is dependent up- ou it. As it increase. I in siz.e, throuinterference and culture, it also plans increased in mental capaeitv, until one of the most intelligent, docile, useful creatures ever given by a Supreme Being to man is the animal almost human hor-e- s, al-- . In-te- -, a- po-.-- e -- d -- pos-e-si- ifis-tan- 1 semi-savage- s, the horse. In very early days horses were not used by all nations, and by none of burden. Asses and mules did the drudgery, and horses were only-useas racers, warriors, hunters, or to carry their owners upon journeys of pleasure or business. Seeing men on horseback, apparently a part and pared of the beast, led some natives to think that the stran-'appearance was but one animal; hence the belief in the centaur, or animal half horse and half mat). In war they w ere a source of great terror to thole who were unfamiliar with them, and often the approach of a troop would strike dismay- to the hearts of the enemy. I he gradual development from the little pocket pony into the n bore has been a prominent factor in - j ds Lng-lan- The well-ground- y, PERSONS AND THINGS. VIRGINIA DUELISTS. marked. or human interfereinv been i bis can be sen m the wonderful va-- I Tacts About a Texv In mo us Fighters in the Old llomlnion. lictv in the hor-- e family. Shetland the racer A Richmond popies. heavy draught horses, and the correspondent says: whose feet spurn the ground, rumor in ciris a There slow plodding, bin powerful horse tlii- city that (apt. Page wbieh draws our iron wagons ar- all culation in the result of care in breeding and hu- McCartv, the most noted duelist ill man improvement of a species at one Virginia, is to le appointed chief of lilts jurgh division in the trea-ur- y department in t.me well-nig- h DlSI'Utrh. few weeks. If this should be true, administration will have at least the COLLECTOR. A DOCTOR'S ELECTRIC -o Hoofs I'Kiin tin Iony xvitli sixteen to Uie tSoOli A n nial of .Modern Times. All hough the mule, as Sunset Cox said, is without the pride of unco-trit is quite a different thing with his relatives on one side of the house, in who i3 outlines, bearing, .z and indiigenee may be seen very plainly Ins nobility and pure lineag- eThe ancestry of the horse can be traced back before the time of monarths, beyond the Cscsars or the Eternal city, beyond the creation of man, and even further than the Very we on which earth of inver and petri- live, into the rocks of the aae be'ow us. taciiou Ancient as is his family tree, the hor-- e peeies is not by any means entitled to lie classed among the first famdies. and yet his lineage is enough to put to Hash those foolish people fortunately, few in our country who pride themselves upon their descent, and feel did good because a omething which is thought to shed luster upon h's degenerated, descendants. Any sharp-toe- d show old cart hor-- e on flu sfreetT-aan older and purer tram of the age of mail .there Far back l.ved upon till' earth a species of the which hor-- e family, long ago extim-ts!mw-l- n a make would at the piv-cday 'This lwr-- e was very in- - fortune. tile larg.-- than a sheep, and s one nut larger li.tn a terrier dog. The-- e l.llle hor-e- far - we know from the In il n mams were the beginning of dvaneciynt of tne hnmnn race, iiptui no oi 111- ii'11 the His Clever YVs, Ilan for Octtins Tees Irom Valient. sir, vhi mar dtp.'ud upon it is the mo-- t laborious of all the professions to follow for a The peakerwho so dogmatically laid down the law was a young physician who had recently cut loose from the protecting apron of the hospital in yyliich he liad been an interne for three years, and was now trying to reconcile the golden glitter of the letters of his new hingin' with the plebeian copper which tenanted his purse. He was clothed in somber, not to say seedy, black, for the profe. ional asmust, pect of the pract ring in many respects, correspond with that ot his natural complement, the undertaker. The guv surgeon. vvlio-- e come they have to, patients not from choice, may be as guv of as the llowers that bloom in the that spring, but let him mu-- abandon liiin-tdbenelicent roof to branch out for and his clothes, like his countenance, mu-- t bear continual decorum. The somto hi- ber gentleman, after giving vent to a sigh over the unpromising state of the medieal market, continued: It's not the lack of patients: they come o ten enough and drag a man away' from a quiet game or out of l ed at midnight to sec a w Inning young-te- r that needs only a local application of sl ppcr to cause immediate convalescence. Oh, we get patients enough; the trouble is they dont pay. Y on newspaper men may crack jokes over tailors bills in your funny columns; I tell you the physician was an abused creditor before men began wearing clothes. The trouble is that a physician can't ask a patient for a fee ately niter the consultation. A doctor don't like to be a dun. It's different in England, where the patient in going out deposits his guinea neatly wrapped up in paper in sonic convenient spot where the physician can bind it later. That saves both the feelings and the cash of the doctor, while hero both arc apt to suffer. But there's one man in New' York who has a beautiful plan for gelling bis fees at once gives his advice C. O. 1). so to speak. He is a specialist who lias just completed a new house in this house his office is so arranged that patients in going away pass "out through an anteroom in which sits a nurse ready to a:d the physician in case of need, but always on duty as a collector. On the walls is an indicator with dials numbered o, 10, Id, and so on. Wires connect dials with a row of keys on the pliy sieians desk and the whole forms an electric circuit. See the scheme? No? Well, you see, after a consultation the physician is not obliged to mmt'oa, with many hums and haws, his little bill to his dcpartuig patient, lie simply touches a key and the departing patient falls a to the nurse, w ho promptly collect-- " Sid or $20 according to the indicator in t lie anteroom. Oh, its a great plan, but it's a sad commentary on a profession that can only be made profitable bribe ass. stance of electricity. By and by I suppose each doctors office will be provided with one of those mysterious machines that by a single turn of a crank (k.play a dial with the amount ot the bill contracted, add this amount to pre-- . to tho ymus receipts, and give a debtor. You may have noticed such affairs in certain establishments where niO'Criptions arc put up for immediate that medicine Lli-hoo- d. -- tog.-ther- t'! -- -- i , ha-oft- en in-te- ad f itter-i:es- tip n. il bo-- j ciiiliK-ren- 1 in" sav-r- I j to ' ll sixty-fiv- e nf-fa- .r, 1 is g-- to tliere-frl!',t- cr jj 3 c ey P A When?' Tother day in tho woods. Well, I want that letter!" But ve can t get it. I'm I lost it, but thats all I can do. sorry Then I'll have you removed from - P- ice! Look Bill Bailey, said the ' began to skin off bis coat. I was appointed to hold this am! I'm bound to do it. Aspostollicc, a private Citizen I have no hard feelings agin you; postmaster I lost a letter writ toyou by your sister in York state; as a rep- of this great and awful gov- ornnmnt, I want to say to you that if 1 hear two more words of sass from throat Ill suppress the insurrectionyour by hanging you to tho nearest tree, so help me God, sir! Mr. Bailey was, however, permitted to make a bunt in the woods for his letter, and be found it and the insurrec-thwas suppressed. Detroit Free as he m Press. , 1 - c( 1 i Luiiko steercra unsuccessfully tried to twin- an old man, aged SO v ears, out of 11,200 at rovidence recently. , l.- , full-grow- n, iii j icial ,! , m j j -- y, bu-ine- n. s -- H d' n The Insurrection Suppressed. In the early days of Michigan, when were carried in many of the postofil-ethe hats of the postmasters, a postmaster in Living-to- n county was out in the woods one day and lost several letters from the hat. A day or two after that a pioneer named Bailey came to the house anil inquired if there was any mail for him. There was a letter for yon, Bill, but I've lost it, -- R d At w York Tribune. 1; ft ;i oar-ma- ny use. ad :u - al due-bi- ll pitcher in Ulif- t )n nui-rhs- f, up-tow- te, ' excrvi-cMV- ra:-nie- nl well-know- pa-tora- ll U V1 ' . an im-me- B.-t,- . ivi, a litilo tough, JUt r ,t- turn mil lune to stand it ter a s h's ''Tdiiur il u ire, as a hasfbud faithful pr one staunch defender a defender, dollars a year, and '?! iors; u too, who can prove the administration's f.imdv, v baseball it tuice doctrines orthodox lw apostolic blows lie felt that it' w'ii.V T or by unerring pistol year, and knock- To tho-- e of Cej t. more effective, gallon who Hud f.iuitl.pwiti.j'1'. shots, w bich arc 1, from (.apt Page McCarty lias been, for ten he '"'iCi-xcars or more, the bright particular litcode. in the .everbt of all siar ace that the coll,..,,. u "J. ;i as the best hot is regarded, and educated, paid n,,,,. at, "' I in the south. Ills record fairly entitles edue.it on of ids ? !u In tho confedJ Tim athletic him to tli s repu!..tion. e " I. a.O erate army he was the hero of his regni champion of wonderful a account iment on hs IK a baseball player of note Only- one man could markmauship. learn all that was v a compare with him, and this was his Minch was good, t n b Lieut. most intimate friend, young letic studies, iu order to , - a Mordeeai. liim-cf,.r the mini., liS These two officers fought throughout fat and ware considered Mt'll tlui war ns m nistt-rs uve as friends of the Damon and Pythias or-n ng to hi;, Vlu'! 'V.s a with Lee at Appo- tro d to do ids 'nyd r. .Surrendering ;ia duly, bm it!, mattox', they returned to Richmond. Mc' work, and when aw h;s A. Mor-i!and Into journaii-Carty going at good ai into the tolacco Their playing lie wa- - compeiled to preach jtll' in as as continued warm upon an marry, and burr, andf'iV friendship battle-helami d both loved in donations of ik.ini tmld met the prodj ICS the same woman. Then they becamj Joo ed c upon as an ohyct 0f cu, such bitter enemies as oniv whilom felt that ho playing ou.i friends can bee ome. The story of the bad, and he been told. very duel between them and m of owing for grot I s of deal After a great preliminary' f see ng Ills f.imii r pourtv s'rc1.j and mr'mlnat'ons Mordeeai walk- lias in the bank, Ids faml money ed into the Westmorland club rooms and he think- - he can Liv one night and slapped MeCartv in the well, u ey enough dining the base ball face. Next day they stood before each so lie can for nothing other with pistols. The aim of both and lie badpreach J, s r do that thin ratio was perfect, but Mordoeui's bullet for li pay, and not gd. it without!)? struck a metal cigar case in McCartys Some d of his congregation tell hi" pocket, and only' intlioteu a wound in it will injure him to associate wt.', the shoulder, while McCartys bullet where betting is a? went through the heart of his opponent. ballplayers, He replies that since' he h The woman ior whom they fought is ill. in the base-baclub there has . now a Richmond matron with six there was than backbiting Another duel, in which McCariy and lias had !o t he church, also brought down his man, lifted him the U to the proud eminence on which he now things said about hnn by his bretiire. he did than by players stands, and, whether the eminence be fore he left the church, lie , good or bad, it is certain that no one has lately attempted to hurl him from it. yet to hear any person say his wife, Another famous duelist of this city, travagant because she madebr or old bonnet into a new one, p who is on the road to political promiof cherry ribbon, an: on a nence, is Capt. Beirne,. editor of The of thepiece sisters in his former coug JUiinnoiul State. lie will probably tion did abuse Ids wife for the, stand for congress this fall, and if he be 1 ft. He said I before, docs he is sure of election, for there is thing off lie left preaching lie carried: not a more popular man in the state. Mr. Beirne has had more than bis share scription paper around for a v raise money to send a poor umof experience on tho Held of honor. finally 8 I!e has had shots at lliddleberger. at ber friends in Illinois, and of themoneu! most to make the up tho late Duff Green and two or three other prominent Mahoneites. He has self, out of his alleged salary, few days ago, on the cars, lustre J, always conic out unscathed, though niw fjl never indicting serious injury on his club encountered a womanto L wanted of out and funds, pt Two opponent. years ago he challongand h fore. ed John S. Wise, late candidate for souri, with her baby, tell her store to had time woman governor of Virginia. The challenge base-bai' boys raised was accepted, and date and place were her to take u wanted and for her, fixed, but the police got wind of the two hox and the duel was declared off for and tended her baby for He her and made happy. miles, the time eing. Soon after Beirne left the on game as as far betting Richmond in the direction of Wash in ; bat her. ton. The same day Wise, started south, cerned, he is opposed to it, bet the' to want it. If people and all Virginia was thrown into ex- help are if citement by the rumor that they were let on anything, and they ?0fn? "to meet it Charlott svilie and they had best wager on asqarcgri horse raced!., had gone in opposite d reetions for the ba-- e bail, or a square church grab to. a on ehafiees take purpose of allaying the suspicions of lottery, where they are Dei the people. Every day for weeks lose their money anyway. telegrams appeared in ister is bar evidently loaded for The Stale to come from the purporting wi, to demonstrate anybody can scene of action, and as a result the cirleaving tueT culation of the paper nearly doubled, t ons his judgment infield, that jc baseball the for Enemies of Beirne began to hint that istry j a as j place to the whole thing was gotten up with a upon the world W old lady i An himself. view of advertising his paper, and that enjoy would be k. jt was he who vv'as staid in" all those she should think it ami that ap' thrilling specials. Whethe? this was ous to play baseball, killed hr the c.i-- e or not Beirne and Wise turned would be liable to be in the e said he had been hit Up in Richmond one morning safe and lie a black eye for two and sound, and expressed that but carried t16' surprise worked be every day was there had been any talk about their ' when he that but his salary, a lighting duel. funeral the benator lliddleberger lias liad the ing lie conducted was a ncp'bcw' wlxo a of gambler, of unique experience having two en- of his deacons, and at the gr gagements for duels in the same day. him At 8 o'clock one morning lie met Beirne caught a cold that gave two mPncC'"( for him laid and up just outside of Richmond, and, after an the dying, and i exchange of shots in which neither was lie came near wante j bier actually hint, lie crossed over into an adjoining the gam month?. held with his seconds to have a bloody his salary for the two as settlement of lii.s quarrel with George laid up. lie says baseball. D be B. Wise. even, prefers The elements interfere?!, an be to suppressed, ter ought however. A heavy rain fell, and after ho it cleared off' the ammunition of the baseball members say hostile forces was found to be so wet regularly', asks blessings a.n't when the club is at a hotel,. as to be unlit for use; so with a .whof glare example as a true Christian, at each other they returned to Richcs a double curve ball, has ixvuj'lftl tj mond by different routes. The police prevented another en- - to make the club respected.counter. George D. Wise is now in It is a queer case, anywaycongress. His reputation for marks- hi0oum-hi- p is second only to that of Pam) Caught in a the l hotels McCarty. Had ho and Riddleborger In some Texas the shots on that wet day the walls are so thin that exthanged s.enator would probably never have in one room can f figured in the senate. The most re- Two friends from v and unusable thing about these hotel ducLsts is their exceedingly Virginias at a Galveston gentle ono room. 1 he man in Pearanc,?. Take, for instance, MeCartv. overheard the following j appearance ho is the typical thoolo- - about next daybreak student. His deep blue eyes are I say Bill, are youawak feminine in expression while been wide awake Tvo manner is that of the mo-- t polished hours. two Beirne resembles him in Lend me $o.' . n'sl!0('t', and the Wises are little Ive dozed off again. different. it is looks lliddleberger, true, I knew you were a a 1ttle warlike sometimes, but lie does said you were wide not seem like a r by any means. SiJ tings, hard work65.! As a rule, the man who has a got corner on oats or the world never talks some people, vet if I ha 0 Vl,n bus'. to ninc'h, but I can pump a fool (jo dry in the matter Ill Ve stldey, regard to himself and all bis wifes ) of life, rather a prim si latives in about thirty minutes after I but sit around in the set m v pump, or twenty-liv- e minutes my stomach for the sa after I get a suction on it. one hundred and one y0 ju-tl- lio-pit- al profc-.-ion- H There D truly good peon!,. fact that a er towns near Kf -- pliy-ici- rn-ai-Ue- - .eriotV ap-a- crsK tiro-eate- n- re-d- le . |