Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-10-22

| CheValler BayarQ, OF WnOm CneSe WOrQS
were first spoken, to stir with Indignation
in his grave.
THE LARGEST LAND ANIMAL IN THE
| WORLD.-Since the death of Jumbo various
statements have been published as to the
exact stature of that giant elephant. The
figures range from eleven feet to eleven feet
and half but whether the height given is
that at the shoulder does not appear. If
Jumbo was eleven feet and six inches high
at the shoulder there is reason to believe
that he was the largest animal in the world.
The size of the elephant is commonly
overestimated. Their stature is almost al
ways exaggerated in those countries where
they are found wild. Even European trav-
elers of scientific training have made nota-
BILE mistakes in this respect. African ele-
plants which Major Denham, one of the
early explorers, supposed to be sixteen feet
high proved to be less than ten feet when
killed. In Ceylon the native elephant,
which was formerly thought to be larger
than the African animal, is rarely taller
than nine feet; and Sir EmmersOn Tennent,
in his celebrated work on the natural his
tory of that island, says that in the district
where the hunters agree that the largest
specimens are to be found, "the tallest of
ordinary herds do not average more than
eight feet"
In India the same tendency to eXagera-
tion prevails. DIR. Falconer was authority
for the statement by Prof Ansted more
than quarter of century ago, that out of
eleven hundred elephants from which the
tallest were selected and measured with
care, on one occasion in India, there was
not one whose height equalled eleven feet.
At the present day probably no one is
| better qualified to speak with reference to
the size of Indian elephants than Mr.. e. ?.
Sanderson, the officer in charge OF the ele.
phant-catching establishment maintained
by the British government at MysOre. lie
does not believe there is an elephant in In
dia ten feet high at the shoulder. He has
measured great many, and the tallest was
nine feet and ten inches. "The next largest
are two tuskers belonging to his highness
the Maharajah of Mysore, each nine feet
eight inches, captured in Mysore some forty
years ago and still alive" Mr.. Sanderson,
in his very interesting work on the wild
beasts of India, says that twice around an
elephants foot is his height within an inch
or two. Generally this measurement will
give the exact stature, but when persons
unfamiliar with elephants are asked to
guess how many times the circumference OF
the foot must be multiplied to ascertain
how tall the animal is, they say from ten to
fifteen times.
Not only may we reasonably conclude
that Jumbo was the largest land animal in
the world, or, at all events, without any su-
periOr in size, but it is safe to say that
much larger walking beast could not be
made out of flesh and bones. This is me-
chanicalIy demonstrable. In order to sup
port heavier creature, the size OF the legs
even with practically solid bones, would
have to be so increased as to render pro-
gressiOn impossible.
These considerations Indicate that we shall
never see larger land animal than Jumbo.
Ne'C IOrk SIN.
THE Boy THAT WAS BURIED.-A Mad
rid (Spain) lettertells this story ofthe cholera
epidemic: In Ulea, Murcia, there was at
| tackled man of over middle age, the father
of family, and also his boy, aged II, called
Jose Gomez. The father died, and a few
| days after, at 6 in the afternoon, the boy died
| also, and was carried Immediately to the
| churchyard, at the same time when the
gravedigger was finishing his days toll.
He viewed the last arrival, but although
| the grave was almost filled up he threw
in the dead body and went away. Upon
the next morning, as he opened the ceme-
terry gate, the first thing he saw was Jose
Gomez, almost naked, just as he was buried,
amusing himself. "Hullo!" exclaimed the
astonished gravedgger, "who took you out
of that?" Nobody" replied the boy Cheer
fully, 81 a came out myself" "BuenO
! (goOd) come here, wish to speak to you"
I'll chico (the little one), believing that he
was to be treated to another burial, began
to run, and did not stop until he reached his
mothers cottage, whom he frightened out
of her wits, as she believed he had come
| from the other world. "Where is your
father?" was the first question put by the
poor woman. "Oh he stayed there; but
give me something to eat, mother, for am
very hungry" The mother broke out into
cries and lamentations, and the neighbors
crowded in and tried to surround the chico,
who fled and endeavored to hide himself,
| believing firmly those attempts were pre-
monitory of another funeral. In the end
! he was caught and put to bed, all the time
protesting that his one malady was hunger.
| So the gave him his breakfast, and now he
is the pride Of the village as he runs about
stoning dogs, which, it seems was his IA
vOrite recreation before he was attacked by
cholera. The final touch in the story is
striking instance Of the truth Of what the
poet sang {: "They change their sky, not
their dispositions, who go across the seas"
THE BETRAYER OF GEN. JOHN NOR
GAN.-The Atlanta Constitution gives the
following account of the recent life of the
woman who betrayed the great Confederate
raider to his death while he was a guest in
her husbands home:
1.-THE death of Gen. John Morgan was
compassed by the treachery and demoniac
daring of a wild, reckless woman. She was
the graceess daughter-in-laW of Mrs. Col.
Williams, who was the cheerful hostess of
the great cavalryman on that ill-starred
night. Lucy Williams rode her horse