Show A blitte haired hatred pig some forty years or more ago thomas selby was a hotel keeper in columbia much of the travel over 0 er the state was then done on horseback and a stable was a necessary accomplishment to a hostelry in his stable selby had a number of hogs to cat up the grain tb that atwould would otherwise he be wasted adiong aanon the hogs was a white pig that grew sol BO ti biily ily th it tilt in lic determined to see its full till development the shoal shoat grew to the tile dimensions of a large hog very fat and almost 1 el plesa pless such wa its rapid and enormous development that not only mr selby but the citizens generally gi neri ill took an interest in ill the tile burly swine and aud hundreds of curious people went to bt see it during its three years the hog was aa put in a pen and fed all it would eat eaino no small quantity until ane pen became too small niall fc and it was turned out and was cither either driven or wandered into the stable here the porker tooh took possession of a hone home stall and grew till when lying down it comfortably filled the tile stall the 1 he impression is it was weighed A before death and that its weight was ivas about 1213 pounds perhaps bom something ething over tl that I 1 at fulton mo afo gazette |