The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-07
DRAMATIC ANIMALS.
How q Scared Wildcat and O Fierce
Bull Dog Entertained ON Audience.


How Scared Wildcat and O Fierce
Bull Dog Entertained ON Audience.
[Gold Hill (Nep Ne,os.
There was fight advertised to
como off at the Alhambra Theatre
Sunday afternoon, between an East
ern fighting bulldog named Turk
and q forty-two pound wildcat, n
vicious brute, for $l00 side-that
is, the cat and dog were to fight for
their lives and men bet 500 side
on the result. Tho fight was to be
followed by grand olio on the
stage. It was an immense bill, and
it drew. In due time tho cat was in
troduced upon the stage and was
immediately followed by Turk but
at the first kiss of the dog tho cat
took to tho audience, and tho olio,
instead of being poformcd by the
troupe, was done by tho spectators,
tooth and toe-nail accompaniment
The first bound Of the cat took it
upon the piano Of tho orchestra.
The pawer of ivory left the swelling
strain unfinished, and turned back
handspring over among the audi
ence. The next leap of the "var>'
mint was ut the contrabass. and
both player and instrument went
down instanter with broken heads.
The cat fingered lovingly q moment
among the strings as if to test their
quality, and then sprang out among
the audience. Then began al olio
in dead earnest, but not The ono adver
tised, although the fight was over.
It consisted of ground and lofty
tumbling, leapfrog and such like
feats of dexterity, all having single
object-to amuse tho audience by q
glimpse of sunlight out ofdoors and
under the free light of Heaven once
more. It was perfectly satisfactory
as whole, and each player did his
best. Time-shortest on record
1863. Everything went off well,
especially the audience The cat
was found fow minutes later look
ing out of one of the boxes and
waiting for an encore.
A New USE FOR WARrs.-Dr |
Charles A. Scale, of New York, an
nounces in the Me0icol Record that |
warts of tho hand can be used with
better results than small pieces Of |
normal skin, in skin grating, in
consequence Of being easily separa-
ted, uninjured, into humorous cylin-
drical rods Of great vascularity, and !
containing large proportion of
hypotropied epithelium, which when
planted in healthy granulating
tissue, readily adapt themselves to !
the new soil. receiving direct
nourishment, and quickly growing
as starting points for new and
smooth epithelial covering.
In one case, in which there had
been complete destruction of all the
skin on the dorsum of the foot. in
volving to great extent the deep
cellular tissue, and where for sevo,
ral weeks no healing advanced, !
gratis of freshly removed warts
from the patients hand Immediately
started little islands of new tissue,
which rapidly increased, until they
coalesced and met the margins of !
the border skin, thereby completely !
covering tho foot by firm, protecting g ,
integument.-Scientifc Imerican.
A FRANKLIN RELIC DISCOVERED
A spoon brought home last week by
Captain j. W. Buddington, Of the .
New London whaling schooner,
Simmons, from Repulse Bay, where
an Esquimau guve it 80 him, proves
to be of solid silver md bears O.
faded crest, which has beon ider tiff, !
cd at Watkinson Library as that
of the Franklin family, Of England.
This settles it's genuineness as u relic |
of Sir John Franklin.
ELECTRIC L1aHr PArENrs.-The
revenue of the English Patent
Office is being greatly increased by
the number Of applications for ap-
pliances in connection with tho
electric light. It is said that as
many as two or three applications
are filed every day, and that the
inventive genius of tho Old World
has never been 30 active as at the
present time.
Many physicians are prescribing
DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup because they
know it is a good remedy for chill
dren and is warranted not to con-
tain either opium, morphia, pare
goric or laudanum, the base of tho