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Show llono Dhoel tv.lzhln; On- "no. Ji- The smallest horse probably that , Jr' was ever fitted with a set ot shoes by mVi any horsesboer In California occupied ffnl a place In tho shop of Howard & Mil- xMH lorlck ot l'etnlumu a few days ago. It wft was a six-months-old Shetland pony, H ono of a band a Los Angeles man waa Cfifl bringing down from Mendocino coun- MS ty, where they had been pastured dur- VJf Ing tho summer. The rough, rosds bad mm worn Its baro feet and necessitated) 9jl shoeing. Tho shoes, fashioned out of a steel bar, when llttcd to the pony's 11 feet were a trlflo larger than a silver f fl dollar piece and the full set weighed. (fl Just four ounces, an ounce tor each, I'fl shoe. fliH 1 ....igflfl |