The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-01-11

His sons are asking for an inquisition OF
lunscy upon MIR. Thomas Lord, a million
aire of New York, because he, being 80
years of age, has gone before Cardinal Nc
of forty, to be there auted in matrimony's
holy bonds. The petition Of the sons al
leges divers act of eccentricity and forget
funess upon the part of the ancient Lord,
which they would persuade us we're acts of
lunacy but manifestly the crowning ag-
gravation was this marriage of a rich old
man of SO to spendthrift widow of 40 AL
act most likely to seem, in the eyes of his
sons and men, to be one Of most indisp ut
able luuacy. We appreciate the feelings
of the sons. We sympatbize with thom IN
the desire that they feel TO say the flight
of their fathers million from them to
Hicks. Hicks, tits said, had already Sc
cured, before the marriage and when she
dwelt in high style in London, entertaining
princes and poteutates, $500, 0O0 of the
aged Lords money as a loan; and three
weeks ago, coming quietly home for more,
has concluded to take the balance of Mr..
Lords money with Mr.. Lord himself II
that is not cause fof aggravation of mind
to Mr.. Lords children, We know not what
would be.
And still, with all our sympathy for the
sons and daughters, SO suddenly bereft OF a
fathers love and money, we have an abund-
ance left for the ancient man himself, who,
at the advanced age of SO, chooses to fall in
love and is cruelty told that it is an act of
such insanity as to cause the law to step in
! TO rob him of his bride and his cash as, be-
! tween the boys and their dad, 1t would
seem that the sire has the best right to the
| money, and as to his title to his bride there
can be no dispute, since she gave herself or
sold herself 10 him and cardinal blessed
! the union. There may fairly be two Opiu-
! ions as to which was the crazy party TO
such union, if either was. We refuse 10
! believe that Lord was, just because he vas
/ SO. We know men of that age who are
better men physically than those of half
! their years. Several yeaI S ago in the noun
tans of southwest Virginia we came across
a husband of "a and a wife of 40, who had
around them several of their offspring, the
youngest being four or five years old in
| the vicinity dwelt son of the patriarch 6
| first marriage, some seventy years old and
the man of ninety -four years had the ap-
peaTance and vigor of but threescore.-
Lancaster Inte!igencer.
CURIOUS INSTANCE OF ANIMAL SAeACr-
TY.-A New Zealand paper vouches for the
truth OF the following story: There is a
dog at Taupo, aud also a young pig, and
these two afford q curious example of ami
NAL sagacity and confidence in the bona
tdes of each other. These two animals
live at the native pa on the opposite side OF
I Iapuacharuru, and the dog discovered
some happy hunting grounds on the Other
side, and informed the pig. The pig, be
ing only two months old, informed the dog
that he could not swim across the river
which at that spot debouches from the
lake, but that in time he hoped to share
the adventures Of his canine friend. The
dog settled the difficulty. He went into
the river, standing up to his neck in the
water, and crouched down; the pig got OIL
his back, clasping his neck with the fore
legs. The dog then swan across, thus car
rying his chum over. Regularly every
morning the two would in this way %
across and forage around Tapuacharuru,
returning to the pa at night, and IL the dog
was ready to 60 home before the pig, he
would wait till his friend came dow n to be
ferried over. The truth of this story il
Vouched for by several who watched the
movements OF the pair for several weeks.
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